A paddler’s prayer for freedom; Loman, London, Nobel Laureate; Unpin the tail from the donkey? University City stumper; Three cons in a fountain (with “nickel”names); Nick-Al-Odie-Ann

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Loman, London, Nobel Laureate

Take the first name of one of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” characters named Loman, the one-word name of a character in Jack London’s “Call of the the Wild,” and the two-word name of a character in “The Bear” by Nobel laureate William Faulkner. 
What do these four words have in common?

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Jeff Zarkin Puzzle Riffs Appetizer:
Three cons in a fountain (with “nickel”names) 

Think of a ten-letter word, describing certain crimes. 
This ten-letter word, phonetically, consists of three nicknames. 
What is the word? 
What are the nicknames?


Heavenward Ho Slice:
A paddler’s prayer for freedom

The poem below (in anapestic dimeter) is missing its final two words.
Using the sound and sense of the poem as your guide, find them.
Hints: 
1. The words you seek are a pair of nouns; the first one is possessive.
2. The second noun rhymes with the second syllable of “farewell.” 
3. The title of the poem (not provided) consists of the two words you seek.
4. The two words, if an apostrophe is removed as well as the space between them, form a word with a double-digit number of letters.
The poem: 
I am paddling toward heaven,
Earth behind me, farewell.
Lord have mercy, release me
From this _________ ____.

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Chaucer’s Monk(ey)’s Tale Slice:
Unpin the tail from the donkey?

Name an creature. Remove its tail. (That is, remove from the name of the creature the four letters that appear in the word “tail.” 
Add a vowel to the end of this result to name a well-known American citizen. 
Who is it?
Note: The “t” and “i” in “tail” each appear only once in the name of the creature. 
The “a” and “l”, however, each appear twice in the creature; remove from the creature only the second instances of their appearance.

Riffing Off Shortz and Hillson Slices:
Nick-Al-Odie-Ann

Will Shortz’s July 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Harry Hillson of Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, reads:
Think of an eight-letter word for something we all crave now. It consists of three consecutive men’s nicknames. What are they?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Hillson Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Replace the sixth letter in the name with a duplicate of the twelfth letter, and replace the ninth letter in the name with a duplicate of the tenth letter. 
The result is the first and last name of a singer-songwriter who John Lennon and Paul McCartney, in a 1967 Beatles interview, said was their “favorite group.”
The singer-songwriter’s middle name consists a shorter version of the nickname that Wally Cleaver called one of  pals followed by the first name of Wally’s father.
Who are this singer-songwriter and puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of an seven-letter English word that is a synonym of a ten-letter English word that begins with a common two-letter French pronoun, followed by the name of a month (in English), followed by Capone’s nemesis.
The seven-letter word begins with the nickname of a man who married into “American royalty,” followed by the nickname of a woman who married into British royalty, followed by the nickname of a man who was American “baseball royalty.”
What are these seven-letter and ten-letter words?
ENTREE #3:
In the wake of the Wars of the Roses, in which rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet (the House of Lancaster and the House of York) fought for control of the throne of England, many Noble Houses emerged. These included the Houses of Lovat, Sheffield, Dorset, Harborough, Baring, Manners, Sidmouth, Thurlow... 
’Tis the Noble House of Thurlow that pertains to this puzzle.
William Thurlow who lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth, died in 1590, leaving two sons. The younger was father to an enterprising traveller. However, it was through the elder son’s great-great grandson and namesake (born in 1732 and a proud possessor of a prized silk gown by age 29) that the Thurlow family was finally ennobled.
But, now back to the Sixteenth Century: William’s elder son’s first name ended in a synonym, if spelled backward, of  “sketch” or  “stalemate.” William’s younger son’s first name ended in an anagram of “also.” 
Around the house, William and his progeny called one another by short, informal names. String together what the sons called their father and what their father called his younger and elder sons to form an eight-letter word that means “affected by acute, extreme anxiety.”
What is this eight-letter word?
ENTREE #4:
A word that a young poet once equated with “truth” consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames. 
Take homophones of both nicknames and place a space between them. 
The result is a kind of cravat that many men crave. 
What word did the poet equate with truth?
What is the craved cravat?
Who is the poet?
ENTREE #5:
Think of an seven-letter word for a popular Halloween party activity that involves apples. 
It consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames that a pair of singing siblings had.
What is this activity?
Who are the brothers? 
ENTREE #6:
Pitchers Young and Blyleven greet pianist Curie and guitarist Cooder at a convention of aficionados of the song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” 
Take the first names of the pitchers, followed by the word of greeting they say, followed by the first names of the pianist and guitarist to form an 13-letter word that means “stealing from others using a computer.” 
What is this 13-letter word?
ENTREE #7:
Think of two-word event of six and seven letters that the whole world celebrates during a a pair of months that roar in like a leonine critter and amble out like an ovine critter. 
The first word in the event consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames. 
The second word consists of an adjective for a horse (but with its final letter bobbed), followed by a bovine critter.
What is the event?

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“You’re Higher-Ed!” Dessert:
University City stumper

Change the second letter of a university city to an “s”, then switch it with the fifth letter. 
These five letters spell a word that is essential to a growth process that is spelled out, in order, by the remaining letters of the city. 
What is the city?

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