Damn the lochs, darn the socks; Mobile bay beats bobtail neigh; Most peculiar mayo, Mama! Doesn't this story have a moral? They call me Mellow Pillow

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 Schpuzzle Of The Week:
They call me Mellow Pillow

Besides being female, three singers share something much more unusual in common. 
One had a hit with “Fancy Satin Pillows,” a second with “Have You Never Been Mellow,” and a third with “Orinoco Flow.” 
What is the unusual thing they share in common?

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Newsprint In The Mailslot Appetizer: 
Doesn’t this story have a moral?

Name a three-word prepositional phrase that has been recently in the political news, in three, three and five letters. 
Rearrange the letters in the phrase to form a two-word phrase, in six and five letters, that is somewhat synonymous with “less amoral senior administration officials.” 
What are this three-word phrase in the political news and two-word phrase?
Now rearrange the letters in just one word that has been recently in the political news, in eight letters, to form a word that is a synonym of maillots. 
What are this word and this synonym of maillots?


Dopplegang And Gettysburger Appetizer:
Most peculiar mayo, Mama!

“Beth, also Lola, make some most rich mayo, Mama!”
What does the sentence above have to do with the following clues? The clues are in no particular order:
1. A journalist inspired by Nellie Bly 
2. A gal named “Pansy” who was anything but 
3. A Henry Fonda doppelganger
4. A hero arrested by SMERSH and imprisoned in Moscow
5. The Hoosier commander of the Iron Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg
6. The protagonist of an unfinished work
7. A British guy who portrays a Highway
8. A judge’s daughter with braided blond hair
9. Movie character after whom television character Daisy May Moses may have been modeled?
Hint: Six of the people hinted at above are fictional characters.

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Riffing Off Shortz And Campbell Slices:
Mobile bay beats bobtail neigh 

Will Shortz’s September 9th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bruce Campbell of Kansas City, Missouri, reads:
Think of two well-known companies — one in five letters, the other in four letters. Write the names one after the other. The result, when spaced differently, will name a well-known geographical location in the U.S. (in two words). What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Campbell Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of the name of a bank, the brand name of a automotive additive, and the name of a service found online. Switch the third and fifth letters of the bank. 
Write the altered name and two other names one after the other after the other. The result, when spaced differently, will name a well-known geographical location in the U.S. (in two words). What is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of two companies — a well-known competitor of Acer, and a not-so-well-known potential competitor of Uber. Write the names one after the other, then change the very first letter. 
The result, when not spaced at all, will name a well-known geographical location in the U.S. What is it?
Hint: The well-known geographical location in the U.S. is also the name of a relatively new SUV model.
ENTREE #3:
Think of the name of a well-known 5-letter company, and the 6-letter first word in the name of a not-so-well-known 2-word company, the second word of which is “Health.” Write the 5-letter name and the 6-letter word one after the other. 
The result, when spaced differently, will name what a television viewers might see, in two words, after tuning in to the ABC or NBC networks on Sunday afternoons in the 1960s. What would viewers see?
ENTREE #4:
Name a well-known geographical location in the U.S. (in two words). 
Place a duplicate of its fifth letter at the beginning of the second word, remove an apostrophe, and maintain the spacing. The result is the conclusion (in two 5-letter words) that viewers might draw after watching television commercials that were a part of a McDonald’s Lenten ad campaign from about a decade ago. What is the location?
ENTREE #5:
Take the last name, in 5 letters, of the founders of a past yogurt company with a catchy name who successfully sued (for name infringement) an upstart yorgurt company with a quite similar-sounding catchy name. 
Now take the name of a very well-known food product, in 8 letters. 
Write these two names one after the other and change the third letter in the first name. The result, keeping the same spacing, will name a puzzle-maker, in two words. Who is it? 

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After Dinner Mince Dessert:
Damn the lochs, darn the socks

A minced oath is a euphemistic expression, like “darn” for “damn” or “heck” for “hell.” 
Add an “st” sound to the end of a somewhat familiar 3-syllable French expression. 
The result sounds like a minced oath in English. 
What are this French expression and oath?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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