Re-pin the retail on the donkey? Quid pro Banquo’s ghost disguise; One-in-a-billion doc, etc. Madcapital comedy; X’s and O’s position shifts

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Madcapital comedy 

Name a comedy character and a comedy group, each in two words. The second words begin with the same first and second letters. 
The first word word of one consists of consecutive interior letters of a capital city. 
The first word of the other consists of the capital city’s remaining letters if they would be pushed together. 
What is this capital city?

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WorldPlay Miscellany:
One-in-a-billion doc, etc.

ABCD
❓1. The words DEFANG and DEFRAG each begin with three consecutive letters of the alphabet and end with the next letter in the alphabet. What other, more common 6-letter word also has this characteristic? 


The boss is in
❓2. Name a religious leader. Remove a letter to obtain a building in which this leader might carry out his or her duties.

A tale of two airlines
❓3. Think of a foreign national airline. Reverse the first two letters. 
The palindromic result sounds like a well-known (sometimes infamous) budget airline. 
What are the two air carriers?

Unique
❓4. Deborah Glupczynski, a doctor practicing in Oakland, CA, is unique both among MDs in the USA and in the US population at large. 
What is her distinction?

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Howard Cosell Memorial Slice:
Re-pin the retail on the donkey?

Take the last name of a businessman who was a major figure in the history of retailing in the United States. 
The first and second syllables of this name are the female and male names of an animal. Replacing the first letter of the first syllable forms a synonym of the female name.
Replace the first letter of the first syllable again to form the first name of a sportscaster whose last name is the second syllable of the businessman’s last name. 
The name of this sportscaster is also the name of a memorable character in a Best Picture Oscar winning movie. 
Who are this businessman, sportscaster and movie character? 
What are the names of the male and female animals?

Riffing Off Shortz And Kutin Slices:
X’s and O’s position shifts

Will Shortz’s October 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sandy Kutin of Princeton, New Jersey, reads:
Think of a 7-letter past tense verb for something good you might have done in a football game. Move each letter one space later in the alphabet (so A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.), and rearrange the result. You’ll get a past tense verb for something bad you might have done in football. What words are these? 
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kutin Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a 4-letter verb for something good you might do in a basketball game. Move each letter one space later in the alphabet (so A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.), and spell the result backward. You’ll get a verb for how the fans might feel about the something good that you did. 
What words are these?
Hint: The verb for how the fans might feel is also a term used while keeping score in another sport that involves a net. 
ENTREE #2:
Think of a 3-letter verb for something good you might do in a tennis match. Move each letter halfway later in the alphabet (so A becomes N, B becomes O, etc.). 
You’ll get an abbreviation familiar to fans of Will Shortz’s Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle. 
What verb and abbreviation are these? 
ENTREE #3:
Think of a 5-letter verb for a subpar (and yet, strangely, not subpar) performance in a sporting event. Move each letter 16 spaces later in the alphabet (so A becomes Q, B becomes R, etc.), and rearrange the result. You’ll get a pair of first person plural pronouns. 
What verb and pronouns are these?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a position in a baseball game. 
Move each letter one space later in the alphabet (so A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.), and rearrange the result. 
You’ll get a two-word phrase describing the following quotations:
“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even ____.” 
– Dean Martin
“I regard (____ing in) golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” – G.K. Chesterton
(Each blank stands for the same missing word – a word that is a part of the answer.) 
What words are these?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a 8-letter surname of a coach associated with the National Football League. Move each letter three spaces later in the alphabet (so A becomes D, B becomes E, etc.), and rearrange the result. 
You’ll get a phrase consisting of an adjective and noun describing the material that a sterling silver trophy honoring this coach should instead be made from.
Rearrange these letters again to name – in a 3-letter verb and 5-letter general noun – what this coach did to deserve this honor.
Hint: What the coach did to deserve this honor, he did for two teams, each with a color in its name. What the coach did is synonymous with the phrase “coached team.”  
Who is this coach?
Out of what should his honorary trophy be made?
What did the coach do?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a 9-letter title of a movie that was the film debut of an actress whose parents were movie stars. Move each letter four spaces later in the alphabet (so A becomes E, B becomes F, etc.), and rearrange the result. You’ll get two words: 
1.) a natural treat that trick-or-treaters might have found in their bags in more innocent times, and
2.) The first name of a movie character that, in these less innocent times, a woman might dress up as while attending a “grown-up” autumn costume party with her date “Travis.” 
What are the nine-letter movie title, the natural treat and the movie character’s name?
ENTREE #7:
Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Move each letter eleven spaces later in the alphabet (so A becomes L, B becomes M, etc.), and rearrange the result. 
You’ll get the movie title of a Ron Howard-directed flop, the first word in one of the best-selling popular song singles of all time, and the last word in the title a Vincent Price movie that was remade a generation later as a Jeff Goldblum movie. 
Who is this puzzle-maker?  
What are the flop movie, the best-selling single, and remade movie?

Hallowe’en Dessert:
Quid pro Banquo’s ghost disguise

Name something certain European bank tellers used to do, in two words. 
Change two consecutive letters to two different letters to spell, in two words, traditional Halloween disguises. What are these disguises?
Hint: What certain European bank tellers used to do does not involve quid, in the sense of “pound sterling.” 


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