Birds and bugs and Hippopotami! Putting on your big boy pants! Framing the lead-painted farmers; Larceny and literacy; Goldberg garb and Moore garmentia;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Framing the lead-painted farmers

Many framers of the U.S. Constitution were farmers. 
If you switch a pair of consecutive letters in “framers” – “r” and “a” – the result is “farmers.” 
Switch two pairs of consecutive letters in a word for something that eliminates impurities – impurities like lead, for example – to get a word for something that might lead to impurity, according to Puritans. 
What are these two words?

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Creepy Crawly Critter Conundrums Appetizer:
Birds and bugs and Hippopotami!

🥁1. Name an insect. Change the last three letters to a vowel. The result is a place of worship.
🥁2. Name a contagious disease in two words. 
Change the last four letters of the phrase to a different four letters to name an endangered bird.
🥁3. Think of a word you might use to describe an action in Hungry Hungry Hippos, in six letters. 
Move its third and fourth letters five places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes F, B becomes G, etc.).
Move its first letter five places earlier in the alphabet (for example, H becomes C, I becomes D, etc.). 
The result is the name of a word game.

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Base-Pathfinder, Or The Infield Steal Slice:
Larceny and literacy

What literary connection does a past novelist from the American Midwest have with the last names of two of Major League Baseball’s all-time leading base stealers?
Hint: The last name of a manager who managed a third all-time leading base stealer also shares this literary connection with the novelist.

Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices:
Putting on your big boy pants!

Will Shortz’s March 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Wilk of Goleta, California, reads:
Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. The first half of the word and a homophone of the second half are synonyms. What kind of pants are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a Spanish word for a beverage associated with mothers. 
Name an Italian pronoun associated with mothers (thanks to a Swedish band’s song that inspired a Broadway musical, a movie and its sequel).
Combine the letters in these two words, removing one of the two letters that occurs twice. Rearrange the result to form a first name.
Now name the English word for the same beverage associated with mothers. Invert its first letter. The result is a surname.
This first name and surname belong to a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
ENTREE #2
Name a type of pants associated with working men and women. 
Replace a vowel with a different vowel and divide the result into two words that together form a synonym for “cow pastures.”
What type of pants are these?
ENTREE #3
Think of a compound (sometimes hyphenated) word that describes certain pants. Switch the initial letters of its two parts. Insert a “y” between the first and second letters of the first part. 
If you pronounce the result aloud, phonetically it will sound like a “politically incorrect” comment one might make to a man or woman clad in such pants.  
What kind of pants are these?
ENTREE #4
Name a 9-letter compound word that is a synonym of “culotte.” Switch the compound parts, separate them with a space, and add an “s” at the end. 
The result is formal or semi-formal menswear, in two words, sometimes worn with a matching suit jacket. (These two words are oxymoronic. The menswear, however, ought not be laundered in Oxydol, but rather drycleaned!)
What is this two-word menswear?  
ENTREE #5
Write a two-word caption for the left-hand side of the image pictured here, and a three-word caption for the right-hand side of the image. 
What are these captions?
ENTREE #6
Think of a hyphenated word (often written as two words) that describes certain pants that taper all the way down to the bottom of the leg. 
These pants are sometimes called “skinny jeans.” 
A person who is described by the second half of the hyphenated word can usually also be described by the first half of the hyphenated word. 
What kind of pants are these?
ENTREE #7
Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. 
The noun form of the adjective that is the first half of the word is a near-synonym of a homophone of the second half of the word. 
What kind of pants are these?
Hint: This puzzle has nothing to do with clothing.
ENTREE #8
Think of a compound word that describes certain pants. 
The first and second parts of the word can function as verbs. 
If you place the word “out” after each, they form synonymous two-word phrases that both mean “prolong.”  
What kind of pants are these?

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Distracting Dessert:
Goldberg garb and Moore garmentia 

Name something thespians named Moore and Goldberg both wore, and what they both had that required them to wear it. 
If you switch the beginning sounds of these two words and say the result aloud it will sound like a trendy two-word idiom for an obsessive distraction. 
What is this idiom?
Hint: The obsessive distraction is “subterranean” and is rooted in children’s literature.

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