Doggerel that just dozen’t die! Filthily lucrative flummoxen; What’s the color of a cataclysm? Lose a letter, win; lose a letter, lose! Great American novel? No... great American nosh!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week: 
Great American novel? No... great American nosh!



Replace the last word in the title of a 20th-Century novel with a synonym. 
The initial letters in this altered title spell a healthy food. 
What are this title and food?

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“PerCASHion” Conundrums
Filthily lucrative flummoxen 

🥁1. Think of a synonym for currency. 
Add an A and rearrange. 
The result will be a type of worker.
🥁2. Name an honorific. 
Remove a letter to name someone who is tight with money. 
Remove a different letter from the honorific to name a term from carpentry.
🥁3. Name a currency. 
Place a letter at the start and end to name a small part of the body. 
Place a different letter in the center to name something even smaller.

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Circular Slice:
Doggerel that just dozen’t die! 

I have x’ed out a dozen words in this circular piece of doggerel that I created about a half-century ago. Unlike fine wine, it has not aged particularly well! 
Still, it has somehow survived.  
In any event, what are these twelve words?
Hint: For each word, the number of x’s is equal to the number of letters.

Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices:
Lose a letter, win; lose a letter, lose!

Will Shortz’s May 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Patrick J. Berry of Jasper, Alabama, reads: 
Think of a well-known European city in seven letters. If you remove the third letter, you’ll get a two-word phrase describing what you must do to win a race. If instead you remove the fourth letter, you’ll get a two-word phrase describing what you can’t do to win a race. What’s the city?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a puzzle-maker, in 13 letters, whose first name rhymes with a two-word stage performance.
Double the third, fifth, sixth and ninth letters in the name, resulting in a total of 17 letters. 
Rearrange these letters to form:
* one of two participants in the stage performance (6 letters)
* what the other participant does to the 6-letter participant during the performance’s finale (4 letters)
* a word associated with the puzzle-maker (7 letters).
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the stage performance? 
What are the performance participant, what the other participant does to that participant, and the word associated with the puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a well-known Asian city in six letters that is associated with a certain enclosure in eight letters. 
If you remove the third and sixth letters of the city, you’ll get another word associated with that enclosure. 
What’s the city?
What are the enclosure and the other word associated with it?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a well-known European city in five letters. 
If you remove the second letter, you’ll get a word spoken by inhabitants of the city that means “taken.” 
If instead you remove the fourth letter, you’ll get such a word meaning “leave.” 
If instead you remove the fifth letter, you’ll get such a word meaning “bet.” 
What’s the city?
What are the three words?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a well-known South American city in eight letters. 
If you remove the first four letters, you’ll get a Shakespearean character. 
If instead you remove the first and sixth letters, then tack a U.S. breadbasket state postal abbreviation onto the end, you’ll get a Sophocles character. 
What’s the city?
Who are the two characters?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a well-known European city in six letters. 
If you get rid of the first and third letters, you’ll get a word describing the climate of the continent south of the city. 
If instead you get rid of the fourth and fifth letters, you’ll get an acronym for a 40-year-old North American non-profit organization.
What’s the city?
What are the climate and non-profit?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a well-known European city in nine letters. 
If you remove the fourth and ninth letters, you’ll get a common noun followed by a proper noun. 
The proper noun is the first name of a person who appears to be striving to raise the technological [common noun]. 
What’s the city?
Who is the person? 
What is the technological [common noun] that this person is trying to raise?
Hint: The person has been in the national news this past week.
ENTREE #7:
Think of a well-known African city in ten letters. If you divide the city into three parts, you’ll get 
* the first name of an NHL star associated with Washington, D.C.; 
* a common conjunction, and
* an anagram of the first name of a past multi-millionaire whose wife was associated with Washington, D.C. 
What’s the city?
Who are the NHL star and the multi-millionaire?

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Phenomenological Dessert:
What’s the color of a cataclysm? 

Name a cataclysmic geological phenomenon, in eight letters. 
Remove half its letters, an equal number from the beginning and end, leaving the color of the phenomenon. 
What is this phenomenon?
Hint: The color of the phenomenon can also serve as a prefix indicating the locus of the phenomenon. 

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