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Song casts a spell, runs through your head, plants a “synonymphony!”

Replace the second word in the title of a jazz standard with a homophone of that word. Delete letters from the first word that spell a spelling contest and a running contest, leaving letters that spell a synonym of the homophone. 

What are this song title, two contests, homophone and synonym?

ANSWER: "Embraceable You"  (Embraceable "Ewe"); bee, race; ewe, lamb 

(embraceable – lamb = erceabe; "erceabe" = bee + race)

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“CapCity Country Consonants... Carne Asada!”; “Benjaminian Wisdom”; A Guy, gal & young’un  with “AsparagusSpears” Aspirations?; “Touchstone?” “Touchback?” “Pooh Office?”; Legal (Philadelphia) Eagles?

“CapCity Country Consonants... Carne Asada!”

1. Name a capital city and its country. Interchange two consonants in the city. Place a space within the country. 

The result is a three-word order you might
place at a Latin-themed restaurant.

What are this capital city, country and three-word order?

“Benjaminian Wisdom”

2. “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” is a famous proverb popularized by Benjamin Franklin in his 1736 publication of Poor Richard’s Almanack. It has since become part of the Puritan work ethic lexicon, according to Plantsmith, author of the following puzzle about the proverb:

Rearrange the 16 different letters in the proverb: – A B D E H I K L M N O R S T W Y – to spell the missing words in the image pictured here.

A Guy, gal & young’un  with “AsparagusSpears” Aspirations?

3. Name a popular athlete who has been in the news of late.

Replace an “i” in his name with either the first or final letter in a homophone of “i”. Replace a “K” in his name with a letter adjacent to “K” in the alphabet.

Rearrange the letters of the result to spell the name of a popular actor associated with an anagram of “coffee hit.”

Who are this athlete, actor and anagram of “coffee hit?”

“Touchstone?” “Touchback?” “Pooh Office?”

4.Take a word that forms the first part of compound words ending “stone” or “back,” or that follows, after a space, the word “Pooh.” Place a vowel to the middle of this word to get an occupation.

Finally, just gently mix the occupation to get a genre of musical performer. What are this compound word part, occupation and musical performer?

Legal (Philadelphia) Eagles?

5. Take a legal term, double a consonant, add an A and place three spaces within the word to
get what sounds like something certain NFL players have done after scoring touchdowns.  

Hint: Tim Tebow

Answers:

1. Lomé (the capital city of) Togo; "Mole to go!" ("Mole" is a famous Latin sauce of chocolate and chili seasonings, usually served with meat.)

2. THIRD SKYLAB WOMEN

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”

3. Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chief/Brittney Spears hubby), Steve Carell, star of "The Office" sitcom; "The Office")

4. Corner; Coroner; Crooner

5. "Fell on a knee"

FELONY =>FELLONY => FELLONANY => FELL ON A NY ("fell on a knee")

Hint: Tim Tebow (who spent much of his NFL career on a knee!)