A tale of two titles at the drive-in; “Enter the trained entertainers!” “When did Dylan go eclectic?” From self-sacrifice to unfettered freedom; No real change in something strange;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A tale of two titles at the drive-in

Name two movie titles, both directed by one well-known movie-maker. Take the first word of each.
Place the first four letters of one word to the left of the other word. 
The result, after inserting a space in the right place, is a two-word term for certain professionals who work outdoors. 
Who are these professionals?
Hint: Take the unused letters of the word from which you took four letters. They form, in order, a prefix indicating a danger these professionals often encounter.
Hint: Both movies are suspenseful and were produced more than sixty years ago.

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Note: The delicious appetizer below, “No real change in something strange,” was cooked up in the cranial kitchen of a very valued contributor to Puzzleria! 
Who is it? 
Well, the puzzle’s author left it up to me whether to reveal the identity or to keep it a secret...
I shall do neither! Solomon-like, I shall “split the difference” by posing the following “mini-puzzle”:
The letters in the screen name of our mystery puzzle contributor appear in the word “Puzzleria!”
But now, on to a puzzle created by this mystery Puzzlerian!, one who actually does have the wisdom of Solomon:

Synonym And Demonym Appetizer:
No real change in something strange

Think of a multi-syllabic word for something strange. 
Remove four letters that may or may not be consecutive. 
The remaining letters, in the same order, spell a synonym of the original word. 
The four letters you removed, in order, spell an informal demonym.  
What are this word, synonym and demonym?

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Liberty Belles Slice:
From self-sacrifice to unfettered freedom

Name a two-syllable intransitive verb meaning to limit one’s own liberty. 
Switch the initial sounds of the syllables to get what sounds like a two-word term for unlimited liberty. 
What is this term?
What is the two-syllable verb? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices:
“Enter the trained entertainers!”

Will Shortz’s March 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Adam Cohen of Brooklyn, New York, reads:
Think of a well-known entertainer, six letters in the first name, four letters in the last. You can change the first letter of the entertainer’s last name to name an animal. And you can change the first letter of the entertainer’s first name to get what kind of animal that is.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Think of a puzzle-maker, four letters in the first name, five letters in the last. 
You can change one letter of the puzzle-maker’s first name to name a kind of cheese. And you can change one letter of the entertainer’s second name to get a word for a group of epicures who gather for monthly cheese tastings.
Who are this actor, cheese and word for a group of epicures?
ENTREE #2
Think of a reasonably well-known actor from the past, four letters in the first name, four letters in the last. 
You can change the first letter of the actor’s last name to name an animal that is neither fish nor fowl. And you can change the first letter of the entertainer’s first name to get either a part of a fish or a part of a fowl – two rhyming words.
Who is this actor?
Name the animal, the part of a fish and the part of a fowl.
ENTREE #3
Think of a not-well-known-at-all-but-ought-to-be-well-known playwright, with seven letters in the first name and with a middle name that is the name of a city. 
The playwright wrote a play with a different city name in its title. 
The nickname of any professional player on a sports team in one of these two cities is a four-letter animal. 
The first name of the playwright, if you change its first letter, spells the kind of animal it is. 
Who is this playwright and what is the play title?
What is the animal, and what kind of animal is it?
ENTREE #4
Name an asinine critter, in six letters. You can change the first letter of that critter to name a second critter. 
Name a six-letter adjective for what kind of critter that second critter is. You can change the third letter of that adjective to form an adjective for the brightest star in the heavens. 
An adjective for a third critter, a critter associated with that bright star, can be formed by removing two consecutive letters from the word “asinine” and placing a new letter at the beginning of the result.
What are these three critters?
What are the adjectives for the second and third critters? 
ENTREE #5
Think of a reasonably-well-known actress/director from the past, three letters in the first name, six letters in the last, who is associated with the film-noir style of cinematography. You can change the last letter of the actress/director’s last name to name an adjective for an animal. 
This animal is the last word in the name of a movie, adapted from a Jack London novel, in which the actress starred. 
Who is this actress/director?
What are the animal and its adjective?
What is the title of the cinematic Jack London adaptation in which the actress starred?
ENTREE #6
The adjective “presidential” modifies a four-letter word for a certain symbol that  appears on the tail side (or reverse side) of a certain coin. A homonym of this four-letter word is modified by the word “phocine.” (“Homonym,” in this instance, means a word that means something different but that is spelled and pronounced the same.)
The head of a president appears on the obverse side of this coin. Take the first name of this president’s spouse. Change its sixth letter to an “i” and delete its first and third letters, to form a word that modifies the critter (with a tail) that appears on the “tail side” of this coin.
What word is modified by the adjective “presidential”?
What is the first name of the spouse of the president whose head appears on the obverse side of this coin?
What word modifies the critter with a tail that appears on the reverse side of this coin? What is this critter?
Entree #7
Consider the image pictured here. 
A noun for something in the image is also an adjective describing something else in the image. 
Remove the sixth, seventh and ninth letters from this “both-noun-and-adjective” word to name a third thing in the image.
What is the noun/adjective word and what does it describe as an adjective?
What is the third thing in the image?
Entree #8
Think of an American-born married couple who were Russian spies. The husband’s first name is also the name of a famous domestic cat. 
Remove the fifth letter of the wife’s first name at birth to get what kind of animal a much bigger cat is.
Who are this couple of spies?
Hint: The surname of the couple is also the surname of a puzzle-maker.
  

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Buying Breakfast Links At The Chain Store Dessert:
“When did Dylan go eclectic?”

Remove the seventh letter of an eclectic guitarist’s full name, then move the last letter of the name into its place. 
The result, in order, spells an international chain store and what a person might make after shopping there. 
Who is this guitarist?
What is the international chain store? 
What might a person make after shopping there?


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