Putting positive spin on a proverb; What is worn & where you wear it; Good Hope hunting, Lord willing; Readin’ and writin’ and rev·el·ry; Stump Isle stumper

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Putting positive spin on a proverb

Take a familiar proverb. 
Replace one word with an antonym. 
Replace two words with homophones. 
At the end of this result add a popular one-word newspaper name, like “Journal” or “Tribune,” for example. The result will be a more positive proverb. 
What is the familiar proverb?
What is the more positive proverb?

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Econfusions Appetizer:
Readin’ and writin’ and rev·el·ry

Red read?
?1. Think of a verb in the past tense. 
A homophone of that word can describe a person who has done that same action, but the two words are etymologically unrelated (for example, like “Red read” in the image shown here).  
What are the two words?

Writing in the sand?
?2. Name a famous author predominantly known for works in the first half of the 20th Century.  
Spoonerize the first and last name, and the result will be an observation after a day with the family at the beach.
Who is this author?  
Hint:  The author is not an American.
A brief syllabratory break at the top of the day?
?3.The last name of a well-known celebrity has two syllables. 
Depending on how you separate the syllables, it phonetically breaks into two different short phrases. 
One phrase might be a hope for those tracking Covid-19, the other might be advice from those afflicted with it.
Who is this celebrity?

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Smooth Operator Slice:
Stump Isle stumper

What common English word equals either about 427 or 56 depending on which operation you apply to it?
Hint: The combined letters in your “operation options” can be rearranged to form “Stump Isle.”

Riffing Off Shortz and Weisz Slices:
Good Hope hunting, Lord Willin’ 

Will Shortz’s August 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sandy Weisz, of Chicago, Illinois, reads:
Think of a place on earth with a four-word name. Take the third word. 
Advance three of its letters to the next letter of the alphabet (so A would become B, B would be come C, etc.). You’ll get the fourth word in the name. What place is this?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Weisz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a puzzle-maker with a two-word name. 
Advance the first three letters of the first name four places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become E, B would be come F, etc.). 
Leave the remaining letters in the first name as they are.
The result sounds like an adjective that might describe the puzzle-maker.
In the second name, advance all but the fourth letter four places ahead in the circular alphabet. Move the fourth letter thrice-as-many (that is, twelve) places ahead.
The result is a verb that is missing from the following sentence:
“Puzzle-makers, from the bygone Zeno-of-Elia Era to the present-day Shortz-of-Pleasantville Era, have always  _____ to both baffle and bedazzle puzzle-solvers.” 
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What adjective might describe the puzzle-maker?
What is the missing verb that belongs in the blank?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a place on earth with a compound-word name. The first part is an adjective sometimes associated with gills. The second part is verb for what an angler might do to a fish.
Remove the place’s last and third-last letters. Advance the remaining letters eight places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become I, B would be come J, etc.)
The result is the last word in the title of a musical fantasy film involving the Muppets, followed by the year the film was released, followed by where audiences viewed its May 20 premiere.
What is this place on earth?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a six-letter noun that defines Greenland. Remove the sixth letter. 
Advance four of this truncated noun’s five letters to the next letter of the circular alphabet (so A would become B, B would be come C, etc.). 
Advance the as-yet-unadvanced letter two places ahead in the alphabet (so A would become C, B would be come D, etc.). 
The result of all this “advanced alphabetology” is a five-letter adjective that describes the six-letter noun that Greenland is.  
What are this noun and adjective?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a well-known large body of water on earth with a two-word name. 
Take the second word. Advance all but the second letter 17 places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become R, B would become S, etc.). Advance the second letter 24 places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become Y, B would be come Z, etc.). The result is the surname of a retired pro quarterback who had talent “up the _____.”
Now take the word in the blank that follows “up the ...” 
Advance all but the second letter five places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become R, B would become S, etc.). Advance the second letter 17 places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become R, B would be come S, etc.). The result is the first name of the retired pro quarterback with talent “up the _____.”
Drop the last two letters from the body of water’s first word. Keep the antepenultimate letter (that is, the “new” last letter) as it is, but advance all other letters four places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become E, B would become F, etc.). The result is an adjective that describes the pro quarterback as a passer.
What is the body of water?
Who is the quarterback?
What is the word in the blank?
What adjective describes the quarterback?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a place on earth with a two-word name. 
Take the first word. Advance its second letter eight places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become I, B would be come J, etc.). Advance the remaining letters three places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become D, B would be come E, etc.). You’ll get what vacationers who visit the place might order at a restaurant.
Take the first word a second time. This time leave the first letter as it is. Advance its other letters 14 places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become O, B would be come P, etc.). You’ll get, more specifically, what vacationers who visit the place might order at a restaurant.
What is this place on earth?
Hint: The specific food ordered at the restaurant is not surprising, given the second word in the place’s name.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a place on earth, in a six-letter word, according to a singer with the initials B.C.
Advance the letters 22 places ahead in the circular alphabet (so A would become W, B would be come X, etc.). 
Change the third letter of this result to an N and the fifth letter to an O. 
The sixth, fifth, fourth, first, second and third letters will then spell a river associated with the “place on earth.”
What place is this?
What is the river?

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Changing Clothes Dessert:
What is worn & where you wear it

Name certain things people wear. 
Switch the first and last halves of this word. (For example, the word “casebook” would become “bookcase.”) 
Performing such a “literary switcheroo” will name a place you are likely to see people wearing them. 
What are these wearables and where do people wear them?

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