Hot fun under summertime sun; “Nemo’s Omen” (A “palindromen”); Performing a “species change” operation; Vienna, “Austrology” Seeking Greek mountaintop shade

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
“Nemo’s Omen” (A “palindromen”)

Your mission in this schpuzzle is to provide a summary of the epic limerical poem below, titled “Nemo’s Omen.” This summary will be in the form of a 66-word, 273-letter palindromic paragraph – a paragraph, that is, whose letters read the same both forward and backward.
To help you do this, clues for each of the words appear below the text of the poem. 
A Punctuation Key is also provided so you will know how the paragraph ought to be punctuated.

NEMO’S OMEN

I once knew a salt, Nemo by name
Who once captained a sloop named “Ol’ Flame,”
   When wrecked  ships were sea-floored
   Nemo winched them aboard...
Reclamation was his claim to fame.

So I called upon Nemo and urged
Him to salvage my sub, long submerged.
   Nemo charged quite a cost
   To retrieve my sub lost.
(I wish now that I hadn’t so splurged.)

Nemo sailed seven seas very vast.
Would he find my lost sub or sail past?
   Then, without a forewarning,
   Up came the rain storming
And down went “Flame’s” worn, rotten mast.

Since his “stalwart tub’s” straits were now dire
Beneath Nemo I lit a small fire
   When I asked him to row.
   To such work he said “No!”
And thus doused my attempts to inspire.

‘Twas a shame that “Ol’ Flame” couldn’t sail.
She was hot, I thought, on my sub’s trail.
   I told Nemo to trawl,
   So he let his nets fall
But his “fishing” was foredoomed to fail.

As we spanned some deep spots in the sea
We espied a “pool spot” floating free.
   From the deck we could spot some
   Torn mesh, “Nemal” flotsam,
Nemo’s dragnets reduced to debris.

Did I say, “Nemo, mend your damn net!”?
No, I couldn’t so scold him quite yet,
   For Ol’ Flame lightning drew
   And she kindled anew,
Into flames she burst, busted and wet.

Nemo boarded life rafts with his crew.
From his vessel aflame red sparks flew.
   From the blazes rafts fled.
   Nemo’s vessels bled red...
Would he row ‘til  his face became blu’?

I suggested that Nemo retire,
But at present he still is for hire.
   With one raft to his name
   Nemo trawls now for Flame,
Self-employed so he’ll not himself fire.

God damned Flame’s far-foreworn rotten mast
Which, although it was worst, still forecast
   As it fell forward down
  That Ol’ Flame would fall, drown...
For Flame’s first downfall forewarned her last.

God had blest Flame’s mast, bulb-lit back then,
But when flaming, fulfilled its omen.
   For when lightning struck Flame
   She was true to her name...
Sacrificially Nemal, Amen.

CLUES
(the numbers in parentheses indicate the letter counts of the answers)
1. Serve drinks at a bar? (4) 
2. Nautilus captain’s (5)
3. Having no awe (10) 
4. Always - a pronoun - disintegrate (4-2-5) 
5. Sylvania product - illuminated (4-3)
6. Most abysmal (5) 
7. Greatly - a non-word homophone of “to give notice” (3-8) 
8. Word describing something in Denmark (6) 
9. Spar (4) 
10. Truncated form of a “ancient” synonym (2) 
11. Moth magnet? (5) 
12. “Possessive” Verne character (5) 
13.  Toy with a tip and sometimes a string (3)
14. Word in the title of a “Pet Sounds” track (5)
15. Plural form of what Aristotle contemplated in a Rembrandt work (5)
16.  A feature story in its premier issue told how Camille and Bill survived their son’s tragic death (1)
17. Word in a Paton novel title (4)
18. Anagram of a faucet maker (4)
19. Doughty and stouthearted (8)
20. Belonging to a big bathroom fixture (4)
21. Anagram of a synonym of either “choose” or “gut” (3)
22. Word preceding “demon,” “bump” or “merchant” (5)
23. Snoozes (4)
24. “Up to the time that,” for short (3)
25. Letter with a three-letter homophone (1)
26. What one ought not do during bell-tolling (3)
27. A lineup of pretty maids or “murderers” (3)
28. Atop (2)
29. Any Emergency Medical Technician, if necessary (7)
30. Uh-uh (2)
31. Boring alternative to “Bang on the drum all day” (4)
32. Jib, for example (4)
33. Word for a particular tagger (2)
34. Bridge (4)
35. Like Jack Handy’s thoughts (4)
36. It seems that leopards are just stuck with these (5)
37.  “There ___ for the grace of God...” (3)
38. Use a fish-catching apparatus (5)
39. Word that connects “A Day” with “the Races” or “A Night” with “the Opera” (2)
40. “____ Enchanted Evening” (4)
41. “Nothing but ___,” like a “swish” (3)
42. Letter associated with the mother of Pearl (1)
43. Like Tootles, Nibs and Curly (4)
44. Hero (3)
45. Similar to snooker, but with fewer balls (4)
46. Dick and Jane’s dog (4)
47. Homophone of a synonym of “total” (4)
48. Adjectival form of Clue # 18’s answer (5)
49. Sea debris (7)
50. An assessment of income truer than the gross, (3)
51. Recently late thespian Rip (4)
52. Sculler (5)
53. Word that rhymes with “glove” (2)
54. Oodles (5)
55. Quarrel (3)
56. “Today I Learned,” in Internet slanguage shorthand (3)
57. Type of ray or brand of eCig (3)
58. Last word in a Beatles’ hit (2)
59. ___ a deer, a misspelled deer... (2)
60. Change a flat? (6)
61. An empty one makes the loudest sound, according to Plato (6)
62. Word preceding “herring” or “Lobster” (3)
63. Word in a Olive Higgins Prouty novel title (3)
64. Word in an Edna Ferber novel title (2)
65. Synonym of a homophone of the answer to Clue # 64 (4)
66. Word preceding “neutrality” (3)

Punctuation Key: 
(Note: Hyphenated words count as one word)
Place a period (.) after words #9, #15, #29, #40, #44 and #63.
Place a comma (,) after words #3, #4 , # 5, #6, #7, #11, #14, #16, #28, #36, #51 and #64.
Place a question mark (?) after words #31, #46, #54 and #58.
Place a exclamation mark (!) after words #33, #49, #60 and #66.
Place a colon (:) after word #26.
Place an ellipsis (...) after word #23.
Enclose words #55 through #63 in parentheses ( ).

The palindromic paragraph will thus appear in a form similar to the template shown immediately below:
____  ___’_  __________,  ____-__-_____,  ____-___,  _____,  ___-_______,  ______  ____.   “__’  _____,”  ____’_  ___  _____,  _____. “_  ____  ____,  ________  ___’_  ___  _____  ____...  ‘___  _  ___:  ‘___  __  _______.   __  ____?   ____  __!   ____  ____  _____,  ___  _____  __  ____.   ___  _  ____  ___.   ____  ____?   ____  _____  _______!   ___  ____,  _____  __  _____? ( ___ ‘___  ___’  __?   __  ______!   ______  ___  ___.)   __,  ____  ___!’ ”   

Appetizer Menu

Heat-Beating, Conundrum-Beating Appetizers:
Hot fun under summertime sun

🥁1. Think of a one-word response a parent might give a child, in seven letters. Drop two letters and rearrange to name a heat-beating summertime activity.
🥁2. Name a kitchen appliance in nine letters. Drop four letters and rearrange to name a gardening appliance.
🥁3. Think of a phrase in six letters that a baby might say. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to name a Hawaiian garment suitable for summertime wear in the lower-48 mainland states.
🥁4. Think of a two word phrase for a symptom of illness. Change the last two letters to a T to get a summertime meteorological phrase.
🥁5. Think of a treatment for sunburn (and other summertime scourges) in eight letters whose name is a concatenation of four US state postal codes.

MENU

A Bird Of Two Different Colors Slice:
Seeking Greek mountaintop shade

1. Add a letter to a word of exclamation and rearrange the letters of the result to form a common implement.
2. Add a letter to this implement and rearrange the letters to form a Greek mountain dweller who fell in love with a true narcissist.
3. Add a letter to this mountain dweller and rearrange the letters to form a color.
4. Add a letter to this color and rearrange the letters to form a synonym of “color” and a bird of mythical proportions.
Now take the four letters you added at each step, in order, to form a second color. The plumage of the bird of mythical proportions displays this second color as well as the first color (the one formed by adding a letter to the Greek mountain dweller and rearranging).
What are these two colors?

Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices:
Vienna, “Austrology”

Will Shortz’s July 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Eric Berlin, reads: 
Take an 11-letter word with two D’s in it. If you drop both D’s, you’ll get a world capital followed by a sign of the zodiac. What’s the 11-letter word?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Change one letter in the name of a nation to form a sign of the zodiac. What is this sign?
ENTREE #2:
Take a world capital followed by a sign of the zodiac. Remove the first two letters of this result to name an important and versatile scientist from the past. 
Who are this scientist, capital and zodiac sign?
ENTREE #3:
Print a U.S. state in capital letters. Rotate a letter in the state 90 degrees to form a new word. 
Replace this word with a synonym. The result, when you place an Italian Isle in front of it, is a sign of the zodiac. 
What are this state, isle and sign.  
ENTREE #4:
Place a nation in Africa and a nation’s capital in South America side-by-side. Remove seven total letters from the ends, leaving a sign of the zodiac. Rearrange the removed letters to form a continent and a year within the five-year reign of pope whose first name was a different sign of the zodiac.
What are this nation and nation’s capital, the sign of the zodiac, the continent and the year in the reign of the zodiac-named pope?  
ENTREE #5:
Remove the fourth, sixth and eighth letters from a world capital, keeping them in order to spell a three-letter article of clothing. 
Reinsert in the fourth letter’s position a new letter that is used to indicate a common size of a part of the 3-letter article of clothing you spelled. 
The result is a sign of the zodiac.
What are the world capital, the three-letter article of clothing, and the sign of the zodiac?
ENTREE #6: 
Take a 14-letter adjective that, when paired with an 11-letter plural noun, forms possible grounds for divorce. Drop from this adjective the letters of a natural resource found in the ground. If you rearrange the remaining letters you can form a world capital and a Texas university... or you can instead rearrange them to form the name of a puzzle-maker. 
What is the 14-letter adjective? 
What are the capital and university?
Who is the puzzle-maker? 

Dessert Menu

Colorful Creatures Dessert:
Performing a “species change” operation

One letter occurs four times in the combined letters in the names of a color and a creature. Replace each with the letter four places later in the alphabet to form two new words that are both names for a second creature. 
What color and creatures are these?

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