“What's in your Easter basket?” Setting a pugilistic gem in a ring; Instrumental gymnastics; TransPortlandia; Kenny “The Snake” runs a quarterback sneak

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED


Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Setting a pugilistic gem in a ring 

It was billed as “The Fight of the Century.”  More than 20,000 watched it in person, with a worldwide audience of millions more who tuned in to take a gander on closed-circuit broadcast screens. 
Each boxer was a pugilistic dynamo. Muhammad Ali had more charm and a 3-inch height advantage, and had mastered the domains of both promotion and showmanship.  
But, Joe Frazier won the fight.
A trio of words in the recap above are a clue to the the setting of this epic 1971 event. What are the words and what was the three-word setting?  
Note of caution: A pair of words in the recap are red herrings. Do not be fooled!

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Modes Of Movement Appetizer:
TransPortlandia

Note: This appetizing puzzle was created by Mark Scott of Seattle (screen name: skydiveboy). 
Thanks, Mark.
Think of a country and replace its first vowel with a different vowel to name a mode of human transportation. 
What are they?

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Trendy Slice:
Instrumental gymnastics

Remove a vowel from the name of a musical instrument. 
The remaining letters, in order, are the initial letters of the words in a trendy phrase, including those in the two-word hyphenated noun that begins the phrase. 
What is this phrase?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Kenny “The Snake” runs a quarterback sneak

Will Shortz’s April 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads: 
Think of a word for a deceitful person. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get another word for a deceitful person. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a word for a wild beast. 
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for an implement that might precipitate the process of transforming this wild beast into a piled-high feast. 
What words are these? 
ENTREE #2:
Hard labor, fatigue or exhaustion might do something detrimental to your strength. 
Think of a verb for what they might do to your strength and energy. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for a place where you may renew your strength. 
What verb and place are these?
ENTREE #3: 
Take the first five letters of a synonym of genesis. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get another word for a creature from the Book of Genesis. 
Now remove the third through sixth letters from the synonym of genesis. The remaining letters form the same word for a creature from the Book of Genesis.
What is this synonym of genesis? What is the word for a creature from the Book of Genesis? 
ENTREE #4:
Think of a two-letter word you hear in the context of meditation and a three-letter word you hear in the context of medication. 
Put these words side-by-side. Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get the name of a city with a population of about half-a-million. 
What words are these? 
What is the city?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a word for what IQ testing serves as, in five letters, for measuring one’s intelligence level. 
Move the middle letter of this word to the end and you’ll get a society that uses IQ as a criterion for membership.
What words are these?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a word for ancient farmers as they prepared the soil for planting. 
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a word for a beast of burden that less-ancient farmers hitched to a plow to till their fields. 
What words are these?
ENTREE #7:
Think of the first word in the title of a Simon & Garfunkel album. 
Move the middle letter to the end and you’ll get a plural synonym of the last word in the seventh track on the album. 
What words are these?
ENTREE #8:
“Their,” “they’re” and “_____” are pronounced identically but are spelled in _____ different ways. Move the middle of the word that belongs in the first blank to the end to get the word that belongs in the second blank. 
What words are these?
ENTREE #9:
When a group (not pictured here) known for its Gospel music roots recorded a song about a young orphan boy coming of age and being raised by a small-town madam who ran a house of ill repute, did it _______ their fan base? 
No, the _______ Brothers became even more popular!
Move the middle of the word that belongs in the first blank to the end to get the word that belongs in the second blank. 
What words are these? 

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Cloyingly Sweet Dessert:
“What’s in your Easter basket?”

Name something you eat that sometimes is sweet, followed by a word describing an eater who refuses to eat it. 
The result sounds like a palindromic treat that you eat that always is sweet, followed by what the same eater, mentioned above, might (or perhaps should) exclaim after eating it. 
What are these four words?
Hint: The treat that you eat that always is sweet is sometimes found in an Easter basket.


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