A couple of eye-catching colors; Terms of endearment & induction; Nick and Bill’s excellent adventure; Maki, nigiri, sashimi, temaki, temari & urimaki; An ape rocking on a monkey’s tail? Rollmops!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A couple of eye-catching colors

Take the combined letters of two alliterative words from a familiar sports catchphrase. 
Rearrange these letters to form two colors associated with a familiar fantasy movie that caught the imaginations of viewers of all ages. 
What are these two sports catchphrase words? 
What are the two fantasy movie colors? 

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The Wide Worldplay Of Sports, Etcetera Appetizer:
An ape rocking on a monkey’s tail? Rollmops!

Yea or nay?
❓1. A 5-letter verb used in legislative settings can have two diametrically-opposed meanings, depending on where it is used. What is this word?

Sports trivia
❓2. It is well known that soccer (football, futbol) is the most popular spectator sport worldwide. What is the second most popular spectator sport?

What am I?
❓3. In various languages (translated into English), I am often called a rollmops, a dog, an ape’s rocking chair, a duckling, a strudel, or a monkey’s tail. What am I?

It’s all in how you say it
❓4. A two-word phrase, spelled identically but pronounced in two different ways, could describe either the first or the last aircraft in a particular race. What is this phrase?
Hint: the last “aircraft” would probably not even qualify to start the race.

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Multisyllabic Mathematical Slice:
Terms of endearment & induction

Name a mathematical term that is sometimes described by a multi-syllabic adjective. 
Switch two consecutive letters in the mathematical term to form a term of endearment. 
Replace one letter in the multi-syllabic adjective to form a new adjective that describes this term of endearment, as well as similar terms of endearment.
What are these two terms and two adjectives?

Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:
Maki, nigiri, sashimi, temaki, temari & urimaki

This week’s challenge, created by Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Missouri, reads: 
Name something you find in a grocery. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same grocery item again. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name what a stage actor who forgets his lines can do, in seven letters, if a prompter jogs his memory with a three-letter aid. Rearrange these ten letters to name a two-word city.
After the final curtain goes down the actor and rest of the cast might unwind with a backstage “wrap party” at which cheap wines flow and wash down the veggies and chips immersed in salsa, guacamole  and hummus. Take a 5-letter informal synonym of “cheap wines” and a 4-letter synonym of “salsa, guacamole  and hummus.” Move these nine letters four places earlier in the alphabet  and rearrange the result to name a puzzle-maker who hails from the two-word city.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the city?
Hint: The “three-letter aid” is also a piece of game equipment which, if used improperly, could damage the playing surface of the game. 
What the “actor who forgets his lines can do” is also what someone will have to do to repair the playing surface. 
ENTREE #2
Name a description of a certain major league ballplayer during the 1938 season. This description might have served as an alternative nickname to the nickname he already had, “Subway Sam.” It is a two-word description of three and six letters. Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result is the same description. What is it?
Hint: The nickname hints at the ballplayer’s political and professional franchise affiliations. 
ENTREE #3:
Name creatures you find on the ocean floor that trap food with their scores of arms – “Venus flytraps of the deep,” so to speak. 
Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name those same creatures. 
What are they? 
ENTREE #4:
Name something that “those who think young” were encouraged to do in the early 1960’s, perhaps from a straw. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same two-word encouragement. What is it?
ENTREE #5:
Describe youngsters who get away with mischief behind their teacher’s back. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. 
The result will be that same description of such mischief-makers. What is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name something most people can do, and the body parts that help them do it. Three letters in what people do, six letters in the body parts. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name, again, what most people can do and the body parts that help them do it. 
What can people do, and what helps them do it?
ENTREE #7:
Name something you calculate and what may help you calculate it. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. 
The result will name that same something you calculate and what may help you calculate it. 
What is it and what may help you?
ENTREE #8:
Name an abbreviation and proper noun that might be written within parentheses after “Seward’s Icebox” or “Seward’s Folly” – three letters in the abbreviation, six letters in the proper noun. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same abbreviation and proper noun. 
What are this abbreviation and noun?
ENTREE #9:
Name an abbreviation followed by a number, spelled-out, indicating where dietary rules pertaining to non-vegetarians are spelled out. Three letters in the abbreviation, six letters in the number. 
Switch the first and ninth letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same abbreviation and number. 
What are they?
ENTREE #10:
Name, according to Hindu mythology, the incarnation of the deity Vishnu that immediately predated Krishna. Place after this name the word used for any incarnation of a Hindu deity. 
There are three letters in the name of the incarnation of Vishnu, and six letters in the word for any incarnation of a deity. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same incarnation and word for the incarnation. What words are these?
ENTREE #11:
Give the first name of a 1960 TV series character surnamed Tucker, followed by a word describing Tucker and every character in the series. Three letters in the first name, six letters in the description. 
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same first name and the description of Tucker. 
What are these words?
ENTREE #12:
The title of these “Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices” is “Maki, nigiri, sashimi, temaki, temari & irimaki.”
How does that title pertain to the puzzle theme in ENTREES 2 through 11?    

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Folding Money And Nickel-names Dessert:
Nick and Bill’s excellent adventure

Spoonerize a former nickname of any athlete at a certain major East Coast university. The nickname is a compound word formed from one-syllable word and a two-syllable word. For example, the nickname Cornhuskers (Nebraska) would become “Horncuskers.”  
The post-spoonerism result is two new words, each a receptacle for bills:
1. Bills of the capital variety;
2. Bills waiting to be considered at the  U.S. Capitol
What are these two receptacles? What is the former nickname?
Hint: The current nickname of the major East Coast university begins with the same letter as the former nickname. An anagram of the current nickname is a word associated with Alexander Graham Bell.

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