Testing your metal... acumen; Trains and boats and planes; Making a change of clothes; Beware of Greeks bearing greeting cards; Nickname-calling

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Testing your metal... acumen

Each of the following six phrases begins with the name of a metal.

1. Tin snips
2. Copper currency
3. “Silver Age”
4. Iron fencing
5. Gold autumn leaves
6. “Mercury,” H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast theater site

What else do these six phrases have in common?

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Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Trains and boats and planes

🥁1. Think of a term that describes mass transportation of items. Drop a letter and rearrange to name an adjustment sometimes made to these items.

🥁2. Think of a word that describes a group of ships. Reverse the first two letters to name a hotel chain.

🥁3. Name a country. Reverse the letters to name a two word phrase that describes an airline snafu.

🥁4. Think of a form of public transportation in two words. 
Change the last two letters to a Y to name something that moves very quickly.


Realty Relocation And Reality Appetizer:
Nickname-calling

Two major league baseball franchises played their home games in stadiums about 40 miles apart during the 1960s. One of the franchises has since relocated to a different city and changed its team nickname. 
Using the current team nicknames, give a shortened form of what any player on the unrelocated team is called, followed by an unshortened form of what any player of the relocated team is now called. 
The result is a word that describes a former TV reality show host’s hair and complexion relative to most other people’s hair and complexions. 
What is this descriptive word? 
Who is the former TV reality show host? 

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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Making a change of clothes

Will Shortz’s November 4th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, reads:
Think of an article of apparel in eight letters. Drop the last 2 letters. Move what are the now the last 2 letters to the front. You'll get an article of apparel in 6 letters. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Think of an article of apparel in 8 letters. Move fifth and sixth letters to the front to form an article of apparel in 6 letters (ignoring the eighth and seventh letters). 

Form a common preposition with the original eighth and seventh letters, translate this preposition into Greek, reverse the order of those translated Greek letters and move them to the front. 

Drop the last 2 letters from the resulting 8 letters to form a 6-letter word for a member of an indigenous people who would likely not wear either of the two articles of apparel in 8 and 6 letters. 
What are these two articles of apparel and the member of the indigenous people?

ENTREE #2:
Think of an article of apparel that provides warmth, in 5 letters. Its second letter can be either an O or a U, depending on which spelling variant you choose. Choose the one with the O. 
Move the first 2 letters of the word to the end and change the new middle letter of this result (which is also a vowel) to a different vowel. 
You’ll get a world capital where you would be hard-pressed to find the article of apparel. 
What are the article of apparel and world capital?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a 2-word article of apparel in 6 letters. 
Change the last letter to an E and move the first 2 letters to the end. 
Add an N to the end of this result.
You'll get a sporty open horse-drawn carriage (named after the son of the Greek sun god) that often was driven by people wearing the article of apparel. 
What are the article of apparel and the name of the carriage?

ENTREE #4:
Think of a kind of hat in 6 letters. 
Change the second letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet and switch it with the third letter. 
Move the first letter to the end to form a part of speech. 
What is this kind of hat? What is the part of speech


ENTREE #5:

Name a small two-wheeled means of transportation in eight letters. Drop the first and last letters. 
Move what are the now the last 3 letters to the front. 
You’ll get an article of apparel in 6 letters. 
What is it?


ENTREE #6:
Think of the last name of a puzzle-maker. 
Change the first letter to the letter that is the same distance from the middle of the alphabet. (see chart below) 
Drop the second, third and fourth letters of this altered surname. 
Rearrange the remaining letters to name the puzzle-maker’s hometown. 


Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the hometown?

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Letter Exchange Dessert:
Beware of Greeks bearing greeting cards


Change one letter in a word to the letter following it in the alphabet to form a second word. 


The first word is related to greetings. The second word is related to Greeks. 
What are these words?

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