A baffler you’ll be buoyed by; Heat from the polar regions; Natural landmarks, National Rand parks; Condiments, candy, spices, snacks! Play for Laffs;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A baffler you’ll be buoyed by

Name a two-word resource  “harvested” from a creature whose habitat is salty water. 
The second word and a word that sounds like the first word are synonymous verbs also associated with salty water. 

What are these synonyms?
What is the resource? 

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Conundrums You Just Can’t Beat Appetizer:
Condiments, candy, spices, snacks!

🥁1. Think of a children’s game in three words, where the first two words are the brand name of a candy.
🥁2. Name a garment in two words. Reverse the words and add an S at the end, and the result will sound like a common snack food.
🥁3. Think of a type of condiment, and a word that means a dense amount of something, in five and six letters. Changing one letter in the condiment, these can be rearranged to spell, respectively, the first and last names of a well-known actress.
🥁4. Think of a type of candy in seven letters. Add a stroke to the first letter and insert another letter somewhere inside to name a cartoon villain.
🥁5. Think of a food in seven letters that features a repeating three-letter pattern. Change one letter to an E and rearrange to name another food.
🥁6. This spice is both a fictional doctor and a fictional sergeant.

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Global Warming Slice:
Heat from the polar regions

Take a two-word term for an environment that promotes polarization and more heat than light. Change the last letter of the first word to an “a”. 
Six consecutive letters of the result spell a dance often described as hot. 
The other letters, in order, spell something that is always hot. 
What is this term?


Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices:
Natural landmarks, National Rand parks

Will Shortz’s February 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Roger Barkan of Savage, Maryland, reads:
I’m thinking of a well-known U.S. natural landmark. Take the two-word name of its location. 
Then change the first letter of the second word to the immediately previous letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get another description of the landmark’s location. 
What’s the landmark, and what are the two descriptions of its location?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Barkan Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
I’m thinking of a major U.S. city in “fly-over country.” Replace the fourth letter and spell the result backward to name the second word in a well-known U.S. landmark. What’s the landmark, and what’s the U.S. city?
Hint: The city and the land mark differ in longitude by only about two-and-a-half degrees.

ENTREE #2:
I’m thinking of a well-known U.S. national landmark. The man who oversaw the completion of this landmark was named after a man who is a part of the landmark. 
What is this landmark?
Who is the namesake, and of whom is this person a namesake? 

ENTREE #3:
I’m thinking of a well-known U.S. national landmark. It is the same one that is the intended answer to ENTREE #2, above. Take the two-word name of its location. Replace the first letter of each word. The result are two things that can be cut: one of them in an informal idiom, and the other on a kosher cutting board.    
What’s the landmark, and what are the two things that can be cut?
Hint: Find the sum of the alphanumeric values of the letter and its replacement in the first name of the location; then find the sum of the alphanumeric values of the letter and its replacement in the second name of the location. The two digits in one sum are the same digits in the other sum, only reversed.

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Looney Tooney Dessert:
Play for Laffs

Give a 3-word description of the Laff network and Cartoon Network.
(Note: the first word is an informal plural noun beginning with an A.) 
Switching the first and third words and saying the result aloud sounds like the title of a famous play. 
What play is this?

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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