Filling a cuplet five-sixths full; “Those amazin’ metatheses!” Simmernonymous fun in the summertime; Does Penny pocket “citrus and sugar” coin?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Simmernonymous fun in the summertime

Remove 5 letters from what someone sometimes does during summer. 
Spell the remaining letters backward to form a synonym of that word. 
Hint: Rearrange the removed letters and add an “s” to the end to name what might be an impediment to this summer pastime. 
What are these two synonyms?
And, for extra credit, what is the impediment?  

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Entrepreneurial Ledger-Domain Appetizer:
Does Penny pocket “citrus and sugar” coin?

Three pennies. 
A nickel and three pennies. 
A dime and a penny.
These three amounts represent three numerals – 3, 8 and 11 – that 7-year-old lemonade stand entrepreneur Penny Nichols recorded one morning in her ledger book, either as a debit in red at the left of the page or a credit in black at the right. 
In no particular order, the amounts represent:
1. an expense, paid to her parents, for three lemons
2. an expense, paid to a neighbor lady, for three-quarters-cup of sugar
3. a profit for selling one cup of lemonade, including a penny tip for Penny's good service
Penny had paid for the lemons and sugar with coins she rattled out from the top slot of her piggy bank. She made her parents and neighbor lady sign homemade receipts, which she promptly tucked away in the back of her ledger book.
At noon, Penny takes a break after a morn’s-worth of “toiling” at these “citrus and sugar mines.” While sipping on a splash of her inventory, she proceeds to pool the morning’s cash and receipts, checking to ensure they jibe with her ledger entries. They do.
What is the price of a cup of lemonade at Penny’s stand?
Of the three numerals Penny entered, which two are “in the red” and which one is “in the black”? 
Did Penny finish the morning in the red, in the black, or did she break even?
Essential Hint: There is one word in the text of this puzzle that is the sole key to solving it. A word in the puzzle’s title – “Penny pockets ‘citrus and sugar’ coin” – hints at this key word.

Blank Verse Appetizer:
Filling a cuplet five-sixths full

If you  ____ someone off they may send you to  ____.
You may pay and get sprung though... until you  ____ ____.

Spoonerize the missing words in the first line of this couplet (in anapestic tetrameter) to produce the missing words in the second line, thereby completing the couplet. 
What are these four words?
Note: For the purposes of this puzzle, to “spoonerize” means to switch the beginning sounds of the two missing words in the first line to produce the two missing words in the second line.)

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Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:
“Those amazin’ metatheses!”

Will Shortz’s July 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase in 8 letters – with 4 letters in each word. The first word starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word, which, amazingly, other than the M, doesn’t share any sounds with the original two-word phrase. What phrase is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read: 
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat familiar 8-letter noun. Move the fifth letter to the end and you’ll get, amazingly, a synonym of the 8-letter noun. What synonyms are these?

ENTREE #2:
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase – with 4 letters in each word – that might characterize an angry mob’s motivation. The first word starts with M, the second with an R. Move the R to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word which, not-so-amazingly, is a noun naming the subtly manipulative role a mob’s ringleader might play in stirring up of the mob’s emotions. 
What phrase is it? What noun is it?

ENTREE #3:
“We ____ ____ make it our personal responsibility.”
“You ____ ____ decide in your heart how much to give.” 
“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love ... that we ____ ____ do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us.”
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase with 4 letters in each word that fills in the two blanks in each of the three quotations above – which were, in no particular order, spoken by Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in a homily, spoken by President Ronald Reagan in a radio address, and written by St. Paul (or perhaps his trusted sidekick Timothy), in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (New Living Translation). 
The first word in the phrase starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter noun, which, not-so-amazingly, was sported by neither Romero nor Reagan but was likely sported by Paul according to iconography (the jury is still out on Timothy).  
What phrase is it? 
What did Reagan and Romero not sport that Paul did and Timothy might have sported?

ENTREE #4:
Think of two 4-letter words: 
1. A feature of a horse that judges consider during showmanship events at horse shows, and 
2. What judges do regarding that feature.  
The first word starts with an M, the second with an R. 
Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter singular noun which, not-at-all-amazingly, does not pertain to horses but does sometimes pertain to “lions and tigers and bears, oh...!” (oh well, you know how it ends... and it doesn’t end well!). 
What 8-letter noun is this?

ENTREE #5:
Take the letters in the first and last names of a puzzlemaker who is an apparent fan of the Tour de France (or perhaps of the ballet or gymkhana) who hails from the Great Northwest. 
(My thanks to ron for the Tour de France insight.)  
Rearrange these letters to form a 2-word phrase that indicates something that largely doesn’t exist (at least where tonsure is practiced – as it was at Erfurt, Germany during the early 16th century). 
Who is this Great Northwesterner?
Hint: I just became aware of this puzzlemaker less than a week ago. 

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