Of cabbages and broccoli crowns; Religious fanaticism run a-monk? Quartet of Quirky QWERTY Queries; Sheep outleapers comfort sleepers; Landlocked in a Banana Republic job

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Sheep outleapers comfort sleepers

Name something comforting that one appreciates while counting leaping sheep, in two words. 
Switching the order of the words and saying the result aloud sounds like creatures that leap higher than sheep. 
What creatures are these?

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Conundrums You Just Can’t Beat Appetizer:
Quartet of Quirky QWERTY Queries


Note: This week’s first three Conundrums are open-ended “creative challenges.” Your answers may differ from Mathew’s “intended answers.”


🥁1. The word “ERASER” is comprised of the pairs of letters ER, AS, and ER, which appear next to each other on the QWERTY computer keyboard. 
What is the longest common English word or phrase that can be constructed this way? 
I allow letters to be in reverse order (e.g. “TR” is allowed), to break across lines (PA, LZ, MQ), and for spaces/punctuation to appear anywhere. 
For words longer than six letters, I have only found one common eight letter word.
🥁2. Same as the conditions in Conundrum #1, but using the alphabet rather than QWERTY.
🥁3. Think of a well-known author whose last name satisfies the conditions in Conundrum #1. 
🥁4. Name two things lumberjacks do. Each is a three-letter word.  
Hint: Look “QWERTilY,” then clockwise (assuming the clock has a triangular face).

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Chapter And Verse Slice:
Religious fanaticism run a-monk?

Take the title of a religious leader followed by a first name from scripture that the leader might have. 
Remove one letter and divide the result in two to form synonyms meaning “fanatically enthusiastic.” 
What are these synonyms?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Landlocked in a Banana Republic job 

Will Shortz’s May 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads: 
Name a profession in 13 letters that is associated with a particular 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, although not consecutively, in that profession’s name. What is it?
Hint: The profession is a single word.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a one-word profession in 13 letters, beginning with “o” and ending with “r”, that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country. 
The letters of that country, however, do appear, albeit not in order, in the first seven letters of that profession’s name. (The two of those seven letters that are not in the country are an adjacent “e” and “a”.)
What is the profession?
Vital hint: The profession is not particularly associated with the 5-letter country because only 0.35 percent of the country borders the sea. The country is, for all intents and purposes, landlocked.
ENTREE #2:
Give the familiar name, in 11 letters, of the leader of a 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, although not consecutively, in that leader’s name. 
Who is this leader?
ENTREE #3: 
Name a one-word “job requirement” in 13 letters for the leader of nation that is associated with a second, 5-letter, nation. 
The letters of that 5-letter nation all appear somewhere in the job requirement – and the first and last letters of that 5-letter nation are the same as the first and last letters of of this “job requirement.” What is it?
Hint: The leader’s nation can be called by two different names, both containing two words.
ENTREE #4:
Name a one-word profession in 13 letters of a woman named Bernadette who advocates for the rights of abused women in her 5-letter country. 
The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, the first four consecutively, in that profession’s name. 
What is the profession?

ENTREE #5:
Name a one-word profession in 10 letters that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country, although there are millions of members of that profession in the country. The final eight letters of the profession all appear in the name of the country. 
What profession is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name a country with an even number of letters. Move one of those letters three places later in the country’s name. 
Divide the result in half to form a non-human body part and a human body part. 
What is this country?

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King Of Cabbages Dessert:
Of cabbages and broccoli crowns

Take a 2-word term for a head of cabbage or a broccoli crown. 
Reverse the words and the result will sound like a figurative hyphenated description of a solar panel installer or recycling coordinator. 
What are this two word term and hyphenated description?


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