“Mississippi Pippi, perhaps?” Adventhures in great litherature; All the business world’s a stage; Bard becomes a board-trodder; Mappy mouse and pony show

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Mappy mouse and pony show

The word “boycott” is eponymous – that is, it is named after a real person, Charles Boycott. 
Spell another such eponymous word backward. Place to the right of this word, without a space, the first name of the word’s namesake, spelled forward. 
The result is a word on the map of the United States. 
What is this word on the map?
What is the eponymous word? After whom is it named?  
Hint: Whereas “boycott” functions as either a noun or verb, the eponymous word you seek functions only as a verb. Its noun form is formed  by appending an “-ing” to the end.

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Note: Puzzleria! is proud to present another skillfully crafted “skydiversion” puzzle this week. It is the creation, of course, of Mark Scott of Seattle, known better to many in the cyberworld by his screen name, skydiveboy.
Enjoy Mark’s mastery! 

Theraprynunciation Appetizer:
Adventhures in great litherature

Name a world-famous novelist whose surname, when properly pronounced, begins with the  “th” sound, as in “therapy,” but does not begin with either a T or an H. 
Who is it?

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Entertwainment Slice:
All the business world’s a stage

The stage name of an entertainer is also a word for an employee of a business, an employee who deals with customers. 
Remove the last letter of the stage name of the entertainer’s partner. 
The result is something a customer might ask the business employee for. Replace one letter in this thing to name something the employee might ask the customer for. 
What stage duo is this? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Newman Slices:
“Mississippi Pippi, perhaps?”

Will Shortz’s March 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Will’s colleague Stan Newman, who’s the crossword editor for Newsday, reads:
Many famous people’s names contain three pairs of double letters, like Johnny Appleseed and the actress Jennifer Connelly. But there are two famous fiction writers – one male, one female  – whose names have four pairs of double letters. The male writer is Tennessee Williams. Who is the popular female writer?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Newman Slices read:
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Many crossword puzzle editors’ full names contain letters that appear more than one time. “Will Shortz,” for example, contains two “l’s”. If you remove them the result is “Wish Ortz,” which sounds like someone who covets a Gaming Controller for Nintendo. 
Remove all letters that appear more than once from another puzzle editor’s full name. The first four remaining letters spell word for a brothel or meaty broth. The first three remaining letters plus the fifth letter spell an antonym of “stern.”
Who is this crossword puzzle editor?
ENTREE #2
In October 1941, a female playwright and a male novelist co-hosted at the Hotel Biltmore in New York a dinner and forum to raise money for anti-Nazi activists imprisoned in France. The New York governor had agreed to participate but later balked, citing the “Communist activities” of some of the forum’s sponsors. 
The surnames of the playwright and novelist begin with the same two-letter pronoun. The first 43% of the playwright’s first name consists an “i” and of three of the same consonant. In her surname, replace two consecutive instances of that consonant with a hyphen. The result is the hyphenated word in the headline 
“America’s No 1 __-___,” which referred to the novelist and appeared (along with a photo of Marilyn Monroe) on the cover of a mid 1950s men’s pulp magazine.
Who are this female playwright and a male novelist?  
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Name a past popular female essayist who is also novelist, from New York City, first and last names.
Insert the fourth letter of her first name into the fourth position in her last name, then delete the last letter of her last name, to spell any instrumental musical composition that includes movements.
Again, take her last name. Remove two consecutive letters (and the space that results) to spell any short musical composition with words and music.
Rearrange the letters of her surname at birth to spell to two onomatopoeic words you would hear in a pasture filled with bulls and sheep.
Who is this essayist/novelist?
ENTREE #4
Name a past British playwright and novelist with two spaces in her name (like Joyce Carol Oates, for instance). Remove the spaces and the first four and last five letters of the name. 
Divide what remains in half, forming the first name of an actor surnamed Beatty and and the first name of an actress with the surname that is the first name of a Yankee catcher who died in the middle of a promising career. 
Who is this British playwright and novelist?
Who are the actor and actress?
ENTREE #5
An amateur poet with three words in his name (like Edgar Allan Poe, for instance) once composed lyrics to a song that many people now know by heart. 
The title he gave to his composition includes two consecutive “f’s”. The amateur poet’s name includes two consecutive “esses”.
Who is this amateur poet?
What title did he give to his composition?
ENTREE #6
Name a country-pop singer whose name contains four consecutive consonants that are the same consonant.
Remove the four consonants and an “i” to spell a masculine first name that is an anagram of a synonym of  the word “trunk.”
Who is this singer?

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Penning An Ultimate Dessert:
Bard becomes a board-trodder 

Take the first and last names of a poet. Remove the first letter of the last name and replace its antepenultimate and penultimate letters with its second and third letters. 
The result is the birth name of an actor. 
Who are this poet and actor? 

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