Last but not lost in translation; Sweets, meats and other eats; Talking turkey in seven words; Mythematics and mathology; Pilgrim's Peckishness; HucKanyee!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Talking turkey in seven words 

Name four words associated with Turkey Day: its country of origin, in three letters; two things farmers do to put food on the table, in four letters and eight letters; and a word uttered at the table, in six letters. 
Turkey is also associated with three other words – words that can be formed by rearranging those 21 letters. 
What are these seven words?
Hint: The eight-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table goes on throughout the food-growing process. The four-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table happens at the end of the process. 

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Mythematics and mathology


🥁1. Name a medication that can be broken into a common French word and an English number.

🥁2. Think of an ancient god in one word whose name when spoken aloud sounds like a two word phrase meaning “subdued.”

🥁3. Think of a word meaning “insignificant”. Insert a Greek letter somewhere inside to name a creature from Greek mythology.

🥁4. Think of a contemporary musician whose first name can be rearranged into an internal organ and whose last name can be rearranged into a number.


🥁5. Think of two words, five letters each, that are related to both water and music. Taken together, these words can twice be rearranged into mathematics terms: in four and six letters, and again in five and five letters.

Please Pass The Buttered Bunyans Appetizer:
Pilgrim's Peckishness

Name a word associated with Thanksgiving Day's origins.
Change two letters and divide the word in two to name a condition the Wampanoag people and pilgrims would likely no longer have suffered from after sitting down to their delectable meal. 
What is this condition?

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West In The West Wing Slice
HucKanyee!

Let’s pretend that after his visit with President Trump in the  Oval Office, Kanye West was hired to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House Press Secretary.  
About a week ago, West might have held a press conference  in which he name-called a member of the Fourth Estate using a 3-syllable word ending in “r” (but pronounced by West as a hip hop artist might). The new press secretary’s pronunciation is a homophone of the last name of his Fourth Estate target. Who is this target?


Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices:
Last but not lost in translation

Will Shortz’s November 11th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Phil Moffa of Torrance, California, reads:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” Together the first two words are a synonym for the last word. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Name a somewhat obscure three-word phrase that means “be last,” “fail,” or “suffer a defeat,” in four, one and seven letters.
A two-word synonym of “partner with” is “share in.” Place “share” in front of the seven-letter word and “in” in front of the four-letter word to form compound words that belong in the following sentence:
“The in____  of a share_______  is based on his agricultural production.”
What words belong in the blanks, and what is the three-word phrase?
Hint: The three-word phrase is related anagramatically to the image in the above text.

ENTREE #2:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that ends with “finish last.” Rearrange the letters in the first two words to form a two-word description, in three and five letters, of Carpobrotus, Mesembryanthemum,  Conicosia, Delosperma, and the monotypic Disphyma. 
What are this four-word phrase and two-word description?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a two-word phrase that eventually will be synonymous with “the last,” according to a quite quotable book. What phrase is it?

ENTREE #4:
Name a two-word alliterative synonym for “not win.” Reverse the order of the final four letters and add a duplicate of the original final letter to the end. Add to the end of this result the name of a brutish fictional creature encountered by a “Lem”. 
The final result sounds like the nickname and last name of a world leader. 
Who is this leader? What is the two-word alliterative synonym for “not win?”

ENTREE #5:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” 
The first two words of the phrase are a synonym for the last word. 
Rearrange the 14 letters in the phrase to form what an irritated person might do, in five letters, if he has an irritation of the esophagus, in nine letters.
What four-word phrase is it? What might an irritated person might do, and what is the irritation of the esophagus?

ENTREE #6:
Think of a somewhat familiar phrase that means “lose” or “fail to achieve or win something,” in three words of four, two and five letters. Rearrange the letters in this three-word phrase to form a two-word phrase of six and five letters. Some say that American citizens will [three-word-phrase] if they [two-word-phrase] again in 2020.  
What are these two phrases?

ENTREE #7:
It is late July, 1975. Michael Corleone has ordered his chief hit man, Al Niri to book a hotel suite in West Bloomfield, a tony Detroit suburb. 
Corleone is about to grant a favor to his niece Anne Marie, one of the twin daughters of Michael’s late brother Sonny. (Anne Marie had to change her name to Kathy when, as an adult, she was forced underground after kidnapping attempts and threats on her life by the Barzini and Tattaglia families. But her Uncle Michael still calls her by her childhood name, Anne.) 
Anne’s boyfriend is blind and needs a corneal transplant, but donors are scarce so he is thus bringing up the rear on a very lengthy waiting list. Michael, however, has observed while watching TV news broadcasts that Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa never wears glasses...
And so, on Tuesday, July 29, Al Niri is in his hotel suite awaiting word from his boss and godfather Don Michael Corleone. 

Niri is lounging supine on his double bed, watching “Police Story” on Detroit’s NBC affiliate WWD-TV.
Suddenly, at 9:43 PM local time Niri gets a text... oops, we mean telegram, reading:
KILL HOFFA! (STOP) SCORE ANNE’S PAL A CORNEA. (STOP)
The name, home town and home state of what puzzle-maker does that telegram bring to mind?

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Pie Day (But Not In March) Dessert:
Sweets, meats and other eats

Name sweets served after a fancy meal, in five syllables. 
The fifth syllable sounds like a Thanksgiving Day pie that may include meats. 
What are these candies and this pie?  

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