Interior linemen mixing it up; Nameth this Broadway Banjo; Rehabs and habits; Pols, police and criminal chemical elements; Then sings my soul...;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Rehabs and habits

Switch the second and fifth letters of a well-known product brand you might see at a in a patient’s room at a hospital. 
Add an “f” somewhere in the interior. 
Divide the result in half to name something you might see, in two words, at the hospital’s physical rehabilitation unit... or perhaps at a house of worship. 
What brand might you see in a patient’s room, and what might you see in the rehab unit or worship house?


Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
Pols, police and criminal chemical elements

Note: Puzzleria! is running a second helping of our new feature, “Mathew Huffman’s Conundrum Set.”

🥁1. Think of a modern day humorist, first and last names, with a total of two T’s in their name. Change these to a B and a D and rearrange to name a film musical of the 1950s.


🥁2. Think of an American politician of the 1980s. Insert an H between their first and last names and the result contains the brand name of a modern invention.

🥁3. Think of a slang term for law enforcement that contains a vowel followed by a doubled consonant. Make the vowel double and the consonant single to name a car maker best known for a particular brand.

🥁4. Think of a current news anchor with a two-word nickname that invokes a chemical element. The anchor’s last name contains a doubled vowel followed by a consonant. Make the vowel single and the consonant double to name another chemical element.

🥁5. Think of the last name of someone influential in the automobile industry. Advance the last letter of the last name one place in the alphabet, and the result spelled backwards is a type of vehicle.

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Lovin’ Spoonerismful:
Then sings my soul... 


Name a vocal group known for its soulful stylings. 

If you spoonerize (switch the beginning letters of) two words in the vocal group’s name, the result will sound like two antonyms. What is the name of this vocal group?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices:
Interior linemen mixing it up

Will Shortz’s September 30th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Henrik Strandskov of Luck, Wisconsin, reads:
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s name specify something that is an anagram of its interior letters. 
What team is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are letters you might see written at the end of a letter. The nickname’s interior letters can be rearranged to spell a word that might be written at the beginning of a letter. 
Those same letters also can be rearranged to spell what the recipient of any letter will likely do with it. 
What team is this?

ENTREE #2:
Name a major professional sports team. The last and first letters of the team’s nickname spell the name of an independent record label with studios both in London and in a state with a postal code that is an anagram of its interior letters. What team is it?

ENTREE #3:
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are the first two letters in the brand name of a lubricant. 
Subtract a Greek letter from an anagram of its interior letters to form the second part of the brand name. 
What team is it?

ENTREE #4:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first letter of the team’s city name and the last letter of the team’s nickname are the first and last letters of an affliction (in 9 letters) that would likely be career-ending for any of the team’s players. An anagram of the remaining interior letters spells a medical procedure, in two words, that would probably make the affliction worse. What team is it?
Hint: The story of a past rookie on the team was made into an Oscar-nominated movie, the title of which contains a word that is the first syllable of the 9-letter affliction.

ENTREE #5:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first and last letters of the team’s two-word name are the first two of the three initials of a U.S. president. An anagram of its interior letters spell two words specifying what, historically, some election officials did in the wake of close presidential outcomes. (The opponent that this president defeated, however, did not ask election officials to do this.) 
What team is this?

ENTREE #6:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. Take the first letter of its city name and first and last letters of its nickname. Take the mirror images of the three letters and sharpen their rounded contours to form acute angles. The result will be a familiar onomatopoeic expression pertaining to sleeping.  
An anagram of all but the first letter of its city name and last letter of its nickname can be rearranged to spell a two-word noun-verb statement about members of the team who, after “sleepwalking” through the first half, come back after a halftime pep talk (by a Knute-Rocknesque head coach, for example) to win the game. What team is it?

ENTREE #7:
Give the last name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange all but the first and final letters of the last name to form two words: a synonym of “boozer” and a verb for what the boozer did before he blacked out. The final and first letters of the puzzle-maker’s last name, in that order, specify two things: 
1. a designation of a blend of booze in which the youngest brandy has been stored for at least two years in a cask; and 
2. briefly, what the boozer may end up in if he continues and intensifies this self-destructive behavior. 
Who is this puzzle-maker?

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Bright Neon Lights Dessert:
Nameth this Broadway Banjo

A man’s first name is also the last name of a Broadway-musical star. 
Drop one letter from a shorter, less formal variant of the man’s first name to form the Broadway star's first name.
Who is the star?

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