Non-nouns, Indians, Hogs, but no Plowmen; Wringing out the old... Conun-drumming in the new; Silver Shadow, silver spoonerism; Name-callers take back words, harmony and pluralism ensue; Bland-tasting becomes “brand-tasty”

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Name-callers take back words, 
harmony and pluralism ensue

Spell a common first name backward. 
Consecutive letters removed from the interior of this result, in order, spell a plural noun. 
The remaining letters, in order, spell a singular synonym of that noun. 
What is this first name?

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Time Is Slip-Dripping Away Appetizer:
Wringing out the old...

The answer to each of the seven clues below is four letters long. 
Solve for each clue, then shift each of the four letters of your answer a certain number of places later in the circular alphabet; that number of places is indicated in parentheses following each clue. 
Finally, rearrange each result to name one common four-letter answer that is timely. 
For example, the answer to the clue “First word in a Burns poem (11)” would be “AULD.”  
Shifting each of those letters 11 places later in the alphabet results in “LFWO” which, when rearranged, forms “FLOW.”
CLUES:
1. Where someone drops the ball (25)
2. An Ernest nickname (23)
3. Suffix with cigar, pal or Gill (19)
4. Follows the name of a president’s dog in a carol (12)
5. Ex-endangered but now extinct bird (9)
6. Easter candy brand (8)
7. Eyeball modifier, according to Lennon (3)
What is this timely answer?
What are the answers to the seven clues?

Shifting Into Gear & New Year Appetizer:
Conun-drumming in the new

🥁1. Think of a type of health insurance in five letters. 
Shift each letter three places later in the alphabet. The result will be a prominent name in psychiatry.
🥁2. Think of a snack food brand in five letters. ROT13 to name a common business practice that the brand name alludes to.
🥁3. Think of a common human activity in five letters. 
Shift each letter nine places later in the alphabet. The result will be a type of footwear related to the activity.
🥁4. Think of a code word in the NATO phonetic alphabet. 
Shift each letter seven places later. The result will be a class of geometric shapes.
🥁5. Think of a measurement device in five letters. 
Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get an adverb meaning “well placed”.
🥁6. Think of a word for eating quickly in five letters. 
Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to name a hairstyle.

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Blackpool Milk Rolls & Big Ben...tley Slice:
Silver Shadow, silver spoonerism


Name a non-mechanical part of a Rolls-Royce (or Bentley) and its location on the vehicle. 

Spoonerize these two words (that is, switch their first letters) to name what sounds like a beverage. 
What is this beverage?


Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
Non-nouns, Indians, Hogs, but no Plowmen

This week’s challenge, created by Eric Chaikin of Thousand Oaks, California, reads: 
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Change an I in this name to a W and rearrange the result. You’ll get a two-word phrase for where you might see this journalist. Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a noted puzzle-maker – four letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. Change an “i” in this name to a “w” and rearrange the result. 
You’ll get two words: one that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure A of the image shown here, the other that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure B of the image.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what are the two words?    
ENTREE #2
Name a noted past TV journalist who was born on 9/11 and was associated with Meet the Press – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Change an “i” in the name to a “w” and rearrange the result. You’ll get two four-letter nouns and one three-letter non-noun. One noun is a general category; the second noun is a more specific subcategory of the first category; the 3-letter non-noun belongs in both 4-letter categories. 
Who is the journalist?
What are the two nouns and one non-noun?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle there are 13 examples that belong in the second noun’s subcategory, including this hint. 
ENTREE #3
Name a noted past TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result. You’ll get the name of a flower and a word in a nickname for the flower, a nickname based on the etymology of the flower.
Who is this journalist? What are the flower and its nickname?
Hint: It is fitting that this puzzle involves etymology because this journalist has authored two books on the English language.  
ENTREE #4
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result. 
You’ll get a possible two-word crossword puzzle clue for “LEIS”. Who is this journalist? 
What is this two-word clue for “LEIS”?
ENTREE #5
Name a past American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, critic and political activist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Rearrange these letters to get an oxymoronic two-word phrase consisting of a 7-letter plural noun and 4-letter verb. 
Who is this person? What is the oxymoronic phrase?
Hint: The phrase would not be oxymoronic if its first word were “cantatas.”
ENTREE #6 
Name a noted past TV journalist – five letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. 
Rearrange these letters to spell a 5-letter noun for an Indian or “Hog” owner and a 7-letter noun for the “wheels” this owner might well have owned as a youngster.
Who is this journalist? 
What are the two nouns?

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Produce Section Dessert:
Bland-tasting becomes “brand-tasty”

Name an eight-letter plural variety of relatively bland-tasting produce. 
Change the third letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet. 
Rearrange the result to spell a brand name of a tasty food product.
What are this produce and brand name?

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