A puzzle Rated R for vulgaRity; “Throw it into reverse for a spell” No-time-for-rhyme time; Rodeoactive fallou... um, falloff! Rations for rumination;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Rodeoactive fallou... um, falloff!

Name a tool used by rodeo cowboys, a place rodeo spectators sit, and what cowboys do with the tool. 
The name of a writer who lived during the “cowboy era” rhymes with those three words.
Who is this writer and what are the three words?

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Conundrums You Cannot Beat Appetizer:
Rations for rumination 

🥁1. Name a common food containing a doubled letter. Append a copy of the doubled letters to get a show business term for flair.

🥁2. Name a former baseball player, first and last names. Move a couple of vowels to get three words that describe what a chef might say who prepares the food item from this week’s Conundrum #1.

🥁3. Name a hate group recently in the news in two words. Drop four letters to name a type of sandwich.

🥁4. Think of a five-letter word that describes the way some fruit might be prepared. Shift each letter ten places later in the alphabet. The result will be a type of fruit.

🥁5. Think of a Greek letter and a location in the United States. Placed one after the other, they sound like a type of lettuce.


Where People Often Go Appetizer:
A puzzle Rated R for vulgaRity

Name a food in eight letters. Replace a consecutive consonant and vowel in the word with a different consonant and vowel to form a place where people often go.
Now take a particular variety of that food, also in eight letters. Replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of its fifth letter. Divide the result in half and switch the halves. Move a vowel in the food variety between the two halves (but move just a duplicate of the vowel; keep the original where it is). 
The result, in slang, is what people might do in the place they often go, in three words.
What are the food and the place people often go?
What is the variety of the food?
What might people do in the place they often go?
Hint: The vowel from the food variety that you placed between the two halves does not appear in the eight-letter food but does appear in the place where people often go. 

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Riffing Off Shortz And Matthews Slices:
No-time-for-rhyme time

Will Shortz’s December 2nd  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by James Matthews of Little Rock, Arkansas, reads:
This puzzle involves rhymes. Think of a common 7-letter word. Drop its second letter, and you’ll get a 6-letter word that does not rhyme with the first. Alternatively, you can drop the third letter from the 7-letter word to get a 6-letter word that doesn’t rhyme with either of the first two. Further, you can drop both the second and third letters from the 7-letter word to get a 5-letter word that doesn't rhyme with any of the others. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Matthews Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
This puzzle involves no rhymes at all. 
Solve the following six clues. All answers end with the same four letters in the same order. None of the answers rhyme. All answers, except #2, are words of one-syllable:
1. Word heard whilst glancing askance, perhaps?
2. Minor malfunction or temporary setback
3. Word describing luck or a cookie
4. “Bread,” or pre-baked bread
5. What keeps the cradle from falling
6. Word preceding “the ringer,” “the roof,” “the tulips” or “the grapevine.”

ENTREE #2:
This puzzle involves pronunciation. 
Think of the last name of a puzzle-maker. Pronounce a 2-letter consonant-blend in the name as one would pronounce that same  pair of adjacent consonants in a 7-letter word that rankles motorists after the winter thaw, or in a 10-letter word for a tower with a beacon. 
The result, spoken aloud, sounds like the first and last name of a two-time mixed martial arts welterweight (but, alas, not light heavyweight!) champion who is in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame.
Who are this puzzle-maker and mixed martial arts champion? What are the seven-letter and ten-letter words?

ENTREE #3:
Noah built an ark and loaded it up with two-by-two critters. 
As the rains began pelting the roof of his maritime menagerie, Noah and his family began boarding: his wives – Naamah, Nemzar, Set, Barthenos, Haikel and Emzara (not exactly a two-by-two equivalency there!) – and Noah’s sons Ham, Shem, Japeth and their wives. 
During the course of the “Minoah’s” three-hour-plus tour, Ham tossed a couple of ducks overboard. Their quacking had been getting on his nerves. 
After the waters subsided and the ark had settled on Mount Ararat, the crew of the “Minoah” disembarked. 
As Ham descended the gangplank he heard a familiar but annoying cacophony nearby. It was Ham’s wet jetsam waddling down Ararat’s lush slopes.
Rearrange the letters of three consecutive words in the text of this puzzle to form the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. 
Who is it? 
What are the three consecutive words?

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Casual Clothes Dessert:
“Throw it into reverse for a spell”

Reverse the spelling of an automobile brand, then remove all the interior letters. 
Pronouncing the result aloud sounds like an informal name for a casual article of apparel. 
What is the automobile brand? 
What is the casual article of apparel?
Hint: A poet once versified about the formal name of this article of apparel. 

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