9 and 19 are fine, but 29 skidoo! The heartbreak of cinemoriasis; Letter-switcherooin’ Suite; Laciport stiurf & mayoral eponymy; Solving for x... wisely

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Letter-switcherooin’ Suite

Note: This week’s Schpuzzle is actually a suite of four puzzles. 
But fret not. If you solve just one puzzle and you’ll likely solve all four.
🎨1.Name an object in a painting by a European surrealist. 
Replace one letter with a different letter to name the color of the object. 
What are the object and color?
🍺🍷2. Name something you might do to beer on a hot summer day. 
Replace one letter with a different letter to name something you might do to wine on a cold winter evening. 
What are these two things?
🗽3. Take just the last word in the title of a colossal sculpture. 
Replace one letter in this word to name the plural artistic heading under which the sculpture might be categorized. 
What are this title and heading?
⛄4. Take a one-word synonym of “breaking away.” 
Replace two adjacent letters in the synonym with two other letters to form a possible two-word newspaper headline for a 2010 weather-related mishap in Minnesota. 
What are this headline and synonym?
Hint: The mishap involved snow. 

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Geofantastic Appetizer:
Laciport stiurf & mayoral eponymy

Puzzling fruits
🍍🍌🍉🍊Think of a tropical fruit. Spell it backwards. Replace the final letter in this result with another letter to form the genus name for a different tropical fruit. This genus name is the name for this second fruit in most Western languages (notably excepting Spanish and English). 
What are the original fruit and the genus of the second fruit?

Never woulda thought it
🤔The name for a convention center in a major American city sounds as if it is named for the city. In reality, the convention center is named for a former mayor of this same city. What is the city and the name of the convention center?

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Neighborly letter Slice:
9 and 19 are fine, but 29 skidoo!

Spell out two consecutive letters of an alphabet. 
Rearrange the letters of the result to form two words that equal 9 or 19 but not 29. 
What are the two letters?
What two words equal 9 or 19 but not 29?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weiss Slices:
Solving for x... wisely

Will Shortz’s May 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Scott Weiss, of Walkersville, Maryland, reads:
Think of a familiar three-word name of something. The first word in that name is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the name are a French translation of the third word. What’s the name? 
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weiss Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of an unfamiliar three-word phrase describing the span of time that certain series of films – like the “Lord of the Rings,” “Back to the Future” or “Godfather” franchises – are shown in theaters. The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the name?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the phrase. 
ENTREE #2:
Think of an unfamiliar three-word phrase for a handful of prosthesis-like props (including two spares) perhaps used by actress Kristin Bauer van Straten in a “Seinfeld” episode. 
The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The “x” letters of the second word of the phrase (if you delete the apostrophe and insert an “i” in the middle, making it x+1 letters) spell a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a very unfamiliar three-word phrase for the Vitamin B2 content in a certain beverage. 
The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase? 
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the phrase.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a very unfamiliar three-word caption for the image of the competition pictured here. The first word in that caption is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the caption are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the caption?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the caption.
ENTREE #5:
Think of a three-word definition for a tricorn. The first word in that name is a number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the definition spell an adjective that pertains to one of the four tricorns in the multiple-choice question pictured here. 
What’s the definition? 
Which of the tricorns in the multiple-choice question should you choose?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the definition.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a somewhat familiar three-word name of a creature. The first word in that name is a number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the name spell the abbreviated title of a revered multi-volumned dictionary. That dictionary’s definition of the third word in the name of the creature reads: “an edendate arboreal mammal of a sluggish nature, inhabiting tropical parts of Central and South America.” 
What’s the name of the creature?
Note: There is a hyphen connecting the first two words in the definition.
Hint: The second word in the three-word-named creature is a homophone of another creature.
ENTREE #7:
There is a familiar three-word idiom for an evening so bitterly cold that one cannot fall asleep. In the arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, however, the first two words in that idiom (which are linked with a hyphen) are sometimes changed. 
In these regions, the first word in the idiom is a different number. 
Let’s call that number “x.” 
The last “x” letters of the second word of the idiom are a French translation of the third word. 
What’s this altered idiom?
Hint: The second word of the idiom is an arctic breed of working creature.
ENTREE #8:
During World War II German-occupied France was bombed by British and U.S.forces. Allied incendiary bombings of Caen in Normandy on July 8 and 9, 1944, necessitated imposition of a succession of evening stay-indoor directives from July 8 through to July 10.
Take a three-word phrase describing these directives. The first word in that phrase is a number. Let’s call that number “x.” The last “x” letters of the second word of the phrase spell a homophone of a French translation of the third word. 
What’s the phrase?

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Lynchpin Dessert:
The heartbreak of cinemoriasis

Name a four-word movie title from the mid-1950s. 
Rearrange the combined letters of its first and third
words to spell a seven-letter proper noun. 
Rearrange the combined letters of its second and fourth words to spell a seven-letter common noun. Those two nouns form a phrase that describes Stan Lynch, who spent 18 years as a Heartbreaker.
What are this movie title and phrase?
Hint: One of the four words in the movie title is really really short.

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