Munici-pals & country cousins; Lasting cast-in-stone impressions; Frozen foods and freeze frames; “Egad! Bard gabbed as oboe bebopped” Heeding sage advice from an adage;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Lasting cast-in-stone impressions

Place the second-person form of a verb in front of the third-person form of the same verb.
The result is a synonym of  “fossils.” 
What is this synonym?

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Metronational Appetizer:
Munici-pals & country cousins

Note: This Appetizer was created and contributed to Puzzleria! by Mark Scott of Seattle (screen name: “skydiveboy”). Thank you greatly, Mark.
Think of a major U.S. city. 
Remove two adjacent consonants within to spell a well known country when the remaining letters are pushed together. 
What are this city and country?

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Globe Theater Slice:
“Egad! Bard gabbed as oboe bebopped”

The following seven words share an interesting and unusual property in common — it is something that pertains to all letters in each of the seven words. 
What is this property? 
When you know it, think of a word from the title of a Shakespeare play that shares the unusual property.
PAGODA
BEBOP
DODGE
OBOE
EGAD
ADAGE
GABBED


Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:
Frozen foods and freeze frames

Will Shortz’s March 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Missouri, reads: 
Name something you see when going to the movies, in two words. Change the sixth letter to an R, and you’ll get something you might buy at a grocery, in three words. What things are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name an viewing option, in two words, available to patrons attending movies in swanky theaters with loges and balconies during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. 
Place an R between the fifth and sixth letters. Remove the first two letters from each word and put them together to form the brand name of the sound system with which the theater might have been equipped. 
The remaining letters will form a hyphenated word for a label attached to one Oscar-winning movie, and also to another movie with an Oscar-nominated actor and director. Both movies were shown in theaters during that era. 
What is this movie-viewing option?
What is the brand name of the sound system?
What label was attached to the two movies?
ENTREE #2:
Name concessions you might see patrons carrying into the movies, in one word. Double the fifth letter and remove the first letter, and you’ll get noisy interruptions you might hear during dramatic scenes — interruptions perhaps perpetrated by patrons who may have shaken too much pepper on those concessions. 
What are these concessions and noisy interruptions?
ENTREE #3: 
Take the first name of the mess sergeant in an old-school comic strip followed by a single-syllable catchphrase exclaimed by a newer-school animated sitcom patriarch. The result sounds like the main ingredient in bite-sized morsels you can purchase at many movie theater concessions stands. What ingredient is this? Who are the mess sergeant and patriarch?
ENTREE #4:
Place the fifth word of an American short story title after the word  “Movie” to form a synonym of “cinema.” 
The final word in the title is the title of a flashlight-wielding employee who was once ubiquitous at this synonym of “cinema.”
What is this short story title?
ENTREE #5:
Name a certain preliminary bonus feature you used to sometimes see when going to the movies, in four words. 
If you remove one of the double letters in the fourth word you’ll get a container you might buy at a grocery in December. It is a container that contains  a six-letter beverage with three “g’s” that you might mix with rum and cognac to make a batch of the treat formed by first three words of that “certain preliminary bonus feature.” 
What are these four words?
ENTREE #6:
Name something you see when going to the movies, in two words. 
Rearrange the letters of the first word to get things you buy at the grocery deli. 
Rearrange the letters of the second word to get a homophone of what the Hays Code was created to do. 
What things do you buy at the deli? 
What was the Hays Code created to do?
ENTREE #7:
Name something you see when going to the movies, in one word. Divide the word in two. Place a one-letter abbreviation for a positive response at the end of the first part to form a woman’s name. 
Place a one-letter abbreviation for a negative response at the end of the second part to form a woman’s title. 
Place the title before the name to form the name an ocean liner. 
What is the name of this ocean liner?
ENTREE #8: 
Name a puzzle maker who made a puzzle about going to the movies, in two words. Drop the last letter. Switch the third and fourth letters. Move the fifth and sixth letters to the end. Divide the result in half to form two derogatory terms that do not apply to this puzzle maker. 
Who is the puzzle maker and what terms are these?
ENTREE #9:
Name something you might see (and eat) when going to the movies at a Cobb Theatres franchise, in two words. 
Change the sixth letter to an R (or, if it already is an R, keep it as an R). If you now add a space you’ll get things you might buy at a grocery, in three words (of 3, 4, and 7 letters) as you prepare for a Fourth of July picnic. 
What things are these?
Note: Thanks to “Ben,” a poster on the Blaine’s Puzzle Blog, for inspiring this ninth riff-off puzzle Entree.

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A Penny Earned Dessert:
Heeding sage advice from an adage

A well-known adage offers advice one ought heed when compensated by an employer for services rendered. 
Rearrange the initial letters of the adage’s eight words to form two words: one a synonym of  “heed,” the other a synonym of “compensated.” 
What is this adage?   


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