Disciples surface in Surf City! Lady Bird, French Lick & Lansing; My double-edged silver tongue; Inventive prose and presidents; Two jobs: risky, and risk-related

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Inventive prose and presidents

Take the one-word title of a novel published near the turn of a century. Spell it backward, and add a “c” someplace.

Divide the result in half to spell what a United States presidential candidate, about 90 years later, apparently had. 

What is this novel?

What did the presidential candidate apparently have?

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:

Two jobs: risky, and risk-related

🥁1. Think of an activity (in two words) and plyers of a risky profession (in one word).

The word for the plyers of the profession shares its last letters with the second word in the activity. 

Remove those last letters from the profession and change a vowel to describe a state that helps to do the activity.

What are this activity, profession and helpful state?

🥁2. Think of a nine-letter word for a place
away from risk. 

Remove two letters to name a profession concerned with risk.

What are this non-risky place and risk-related profession?

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Proficient-With-(S)words Slice:

My double-edged silver tongue

A politician may have a polished and confident gift of gab, which might be a plus. 

Some voters, however, may interpret this gift as being shallow, slick or insincere, which might be a minus. 

Characterize this paradoxical gift using a two-word term of five and eight letters. 

This two-word term also describes an eight-letter noun that characterizes the gift more specifically. 

What are this two-word term and noun?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices:

Lady Bird, French Lick & Lansing

Will Shortz’s June 13th National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sandy Weisz of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Name a famous woman in American history with a three-part name. Change one letter in her first name to a double letter. The resulting first and second parts of her name form the first and last names of a famous athlete. And the last part of the woman’s name is a major rival of that athlete. Who are these people?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker with a two-part name. Remove the last letter from his last name. 

The first name is the common first name of a father and son who logged a combined six stints with one particular major league team. 

The truncated last name is the last name of a major leaguer who played six consecutive
seasons with that same team, a team that is based in the puzzle-maker’s hometown.

Who are these four people?

Hint: The letters in the first name of the six-consecutive-season player are the beginning letters of the father-and-son’s surname.

ENTREE #2

Note: Our friend Ecoarchitect, as he has done in the past, has this week contributed an “Econfusing” puzzle – namely Entree #2 – that riffs off the current fine National Public Radio puzzle created by Sandy Weisz. 

We thank Eco profusely!

Ecoarchitect’s puzzles, as you may be aware, appear regularly on Puzzleria! in his recurring “Econfusions” feature. 

Enjoy his following “without-rival” puzzle about rivals:

Name a well-known actor (male or female).

This person’s first name is a famous rival of the person’s last name. 

Who is the actor, and who are the rivals?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous woman in American history with a three-part name. 

The second part of her name is the surname of a past singer, actor, and comedian who was a radio and television personality of Irish descent. 

The last part of the woman’s name is the surname of a past dancer, singer and actor who in 1952 “made ’em laugh.”

Both actors’ first names begin with the same
letter. 

That letter, spelled out, is the surname of an actress famous for playng a character with a name that smacks of the synonyms “widget” and “gadget.” That actress’s first name is the first part of the three-part name of the famous woman in American history.

The surname of the actress’s husband – a singer, songwriter and actor – also begins with the letter spelled by her surname. 

Who are this famous woman, two actors, actress and actress’s husband?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous woman in American history with a three-part name. 

In the second part, remove the last letter and change another letter to its mirror image. This result, placed in front of the first part, forms the first and last names of a famous athlete. 

Take the surname of an athlete, nicknamed “Hammerin’ Hank,” who “followed in the footsteps” of this famous athlete. 

Remove a number of consecutive letters from this surname – namely, the final x letters in the word for the number x. 

Sandwich” the second letter of this result between the two letters of a very common verb. Replace the third-last letter to a “u”. The final result is the third part of the famous woman’s name.

Who are this famous woman and two athletes?

ENTREE #5

Name a famous woman in American history with a two-part name. 

The first part is a nickname of a Hall-of-Fame baseball player who excelled as a designated hitter. 

The second part is a position played by a Hall of Fame baseball player surnamed Ruth, and by other major-leaguers (not enshrined in Cooperstown)
surnamed Viola, Shirley, Grace, Belinda, Gale, Riley, Blake, MacKenzie and Avery.

Who is the famous woman?

Who is the Hall-of-Fame baseball player who excelled as a designated hitter?

What position was played by baseball players surnamed Ruth, Viola, Shirley, Grace, Belinda, Gale, Riley, MacKenzie, Blake and Avery?

ENTREE #6

Name a past writer who had few rivals  – perhaps George Plimpton and Joyce Carol Oates – when it came to writing about the “sport” of pugilism. He did however often metaphorically “spar” (debate-style) with a past fellow writer who was his political and literary rival.

Rearrange the nine letters of the second writer’s name to spell a kind of crimp (in 6 letters) that a reader might put in page 54 or 56 to bookmark an incredibly lengthy foreword of a book, and what would appear at the bottom of either page 54 or 56 (in 3 letters).

In the first writer’s 12-letter name, change an “i”  to a “u”  and rearrange the result to spell, in two words, what you will see at the bottom of page 54 or 56 (or on any page for that matter) of the foreword.

Who are these literary rivals?

What are the 6-letter “page-crimp” and the three letters seem at the bottom of page 54 or 56

What will you see on any page in the foreword?

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World Capital Dessert:

Disciples surface in Surf City!

Name a practitioner of a certain discipline and a surface upon which the discipline may be practiced. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these two
words to name a world capital city and its country. 

What are the country and world capital?

What is the practitioner of the discipline and the surface upon which the discipline may be practiced?

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