Hall of fame name game; How are a Fife and a Feldman different? Taking time-off from the mystery; Drinks and links in the food chain; Six coefficients of fiction to solve

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Taking time-off from the mystery

Rearrange the letters in the name of a country to form a three-word phrase for a condition that might cause a puzzle fanatic to take a few days off from solving word puzzles, or to perhaps even take an extended furlough from such recreational befuddlement. 
What is this country?
What is the three-word phrase?
Hint: The three words of the phrase appear in alphabetical order.
Note: The second word in the three-word phrase is a compound word sometimes written as two words.

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Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Six coefficients of fiction to solve

🥁1. Think of a fictional character from a fantasy book series in seven letters. Drop one letter and advance the first letter three places in the alphabet to name a fictional creature popular in the fantasy genre.
🥁2. Think of a fictional character in a series of novels and movies, first and last names, who is concerned with discovering his identity. 
Drop four letters and rearrange to name a type of plastic surgery.
🥁3. Think of a novel and movie title in three words where the last word is a measurement device. 
Replace this word with another type of measurement device and drop the last letter to name an ethics principle.
🥁4. Think of a fictional character from an old black and white television show, first and last names, four and seven letters. 
Drop the first letter of the last name, and each name can be rearranged to get two common actions in card games.
🥁5. Think of a radio personality, first and last names. Remove two letters and append a D to name an early 20th century novel.
🥁6. Think of the last name of a fictional pilot from a popular science fiction franchise. Change the vowels to different vowels to name another fictional pilot from a different science fiction franchise.

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Halftime Slice:
Hall of fame name game

What hall-of-fame athlete’s first and last names spell a word that describes the first half of  the sport he or she played?



Riffing Off Shortz And Dunwoody Slices:
Drinks and links in the food chain

Will Shortz’s March 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Alan Hochbaum, of Dunwoody, Georgia, reads:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. Its letters can be rearranged to spell some things to eat and some things to drink. Both are plural words. What things are these, and what’s the chain?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Dunwoody Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. 
Its letters can be rearranged to spell the creature pictured in the image here and what it is using for a “cot”. 
What are the creature and its “cot”?
ENTREE #2:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. Its letters can be rearranged to spell two synonyms of “stories” – one in a literary sense, the other in a journalistic sense. What synonyms are these, and what’s the chain?
ENTREE #3:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. 
Its letters can be rearranged to spell a large cart with four wheels and four letters, and a six-letter word describing the creatures that haul it. 
What are this cart and the word describing its haulers?
ENTREE #4:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. Its letters can be rearranged to spell certain vehicles, in four letters, and the name of a past model of one of these vehicles, in nine letters. What vehicles are these, and what’s the name of the model?
ENTREE #5:
Take the unabridged name of a popular restaurant chain in three words. Its letters can be rearranged to spell something a Boy Scout might wear, in three words of 4, 11 and 5 letters, pictured in the image here. 
What might the Boy Scout wear?
Hint: The first two words of what the Boy Scout might wear begin with the same sound but with different letters. The first word modifies the second word. The third word is a clasp (see the inset in the image) that slides over the apparel to keep it in place. 
ENTREE #6:
Name a popular restaurant chain in two words. Its letters can be rearranged to spell a very large four-letter object that appears to be very small to the naked eye, and a nine-letter word that describes it. 
What object is this, and what word describes it?

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Kosher Mayberry Dessert:
How are a Fife and a Feldman different?

What’s the difference between Deputy  Barney Fife and deli clerk Barry Feldman?



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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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