“Peeuw! Clothes that hamper!” Title search and switcheroo; Stumped? I’ll “drop hints” later; Sports and games challenges... give ‘em your all! Businesswomen had a pharma EIEUO;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Stumped? I’ll “drop hints” later

What do the following nine word pairs share in common?
local pharmacy
income gap
zinfandel tasting
riot act
bronze tan
drop hints
flip side
our house
pitch in

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Drumbeat Of Victory Conumdrums:
Sports and games challenges... give ‘em your all!

🥁1. Take the plural form of a sport. Drop one letter and rearrange to name a scenic American mountain range in two words.
🥁2. Name a popular board game where the first two letters are the symbol for a precious metal and the remaining letters are the brand name of a cough drop.
🥁3. Think of a sport. Move the first letter two places forward in the alphabet to name a participant in a different sport.
🥁4. Name a sport in six letters. Change the first letter to a G and rearrange to name a military rank.
🥁5. Name a five-letter word. Change the middle letter to get another word that sounds very similar to the first word but with a different meaning. By choosing a different first letter you can get another pair of words with this same property. What are these four words? 
Hint: Two of these words are used in a common six-word expression related to giving your all, where the two words share neither their first nor middle letters.

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Money Laundering Slice:
“Peeuw! Clothes that hamper!”

Rearrange the letters in a phrase lately in the news to form three containers: 
🍺🍺Two associated with cleanliness, and 
🍺A third holding dirty money perhaps in need of laundering. 
What are these three words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slice:
Businesswomen had a pharma EIEUO

Will Shortz’s September 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by listener Dorothy Baker of Dallas, Texas, reads: 
Think of a word that has five vowels – two E’s, an I, O, and U. Curiously, every vowel except the “I” is pronounced like a short “I.” And the “I” in the word is not pronounced at all. What word is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a one-sentence quotation by a European author regarding the nature of marriage and the sexes. 
Consider two consecutive nouns in this quotation, which together contain only five vowels – an A, E, I, O, and U. Change the first of these nouns to its plural form. 
Curiously, the “I” in this altered two-word result is not pronounced at all, two other vowels are pronounced as like a short “I,” and the other two vowels are pronounced as a word formed by inserting a “C” in the author’s surname and interchanging its final two letters. 
Who is this author? 
What is the quotation? 
What are the two consecutive nouns?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a word for something aviators, navigators and other travelers need to monitor. 
It has four identical vowels and a Y. Curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa (which sounds pretty much the same as the short versions).  
Add all but the last letter of a country to the beginning of this word to form a new word that has six identical vowels and a Y. Again, curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa. This new word allegedly and “allegiantly” describes a quality possessed by the United States of America.
What two words are these?
ENTREE #3:
Rearrange the letters in the phrase “piglet hams” to form the two-word title of one of 150 poems in a songbook. 
The “a” in the first word in pronounced as a short “o” and the “ei” in the second word is pronounced as a long “a.”
What two-word title is this?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a person whose full name has five vowels – but no I or U. Curiously, every vowel is pronounced pretty much they way you would expect them to be pronounced. The surname of the person is a possible profession of a businesswoman. 
Take this person’s full name and combine its letters with the letters in the city from which the person hails. Remove one of the vowels that appears thrice in this result. 
Rearrange these 17 letters to form four words: a “piping Prosciutto product” such a businesswoman might provide, in words of three and five letters, plus two ingredients in this product, in words of four and five letters.
What is this person’s name? 
What is the product and what are two of its ingredients?
Hint: The person is a puzzle-maker.

YouBeMeForAWhileAndI'llBeYouDessert:
Title search and switcheroo

A past television show featured two main characters occasionally called just by their official titles and last names. 
Switch the characters’ titles. The last two letters of one title are now the first and third letters of the new name following it. Four of the final five letters in the other title can be rearranged to form the new name following it.
Who are these characters?

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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