Past, Present and Futura; Antisocial cyber-behavior; Colorized cartoon characters; Government, politics and fake news! Stooges, booze and heatwave blues

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Antisocial cyber-behavior

Name a popular means of online social interactivity, in one word. 
Switch two letters and add a space to form a restriction often not heeded on some social media sites, in two words. 
What is this restriction?

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Seven Unbeatable Conundrums:
Government, politics and fake news!

🥁1. Think of an acronym for a government agency, in five letters, that can be rearranged into an element on the periodic table.
🥁2. Name a garment in two words, four and ten letters. Remove the fourth, sixth through tenth, and fourteenth letters. Reverse what’s left to name a seven-letter government acronym.
🥁3. Think of a word for a frequent political issue in six letters. Change a D to an E and rearrange to get a word that means “to go back on”.
🥁4. Think of a television announcer whose last name ends with the same two letters that their first name starts with. Write one after the other, overlapping the shared letters. The result will name a presidential power.
🥁5. Think of a production studio in seven letters. Two different eight-letter animal species begin with the same four letters as the start of the studio name. For one of these animals, drop the first four letters, reverse the remaining letters, and add a political campaign slogan to name an aggressive style of fighting. For the other animal, dropping the first four letters leaves the name of a predatory animal. This animal name can itself be reversed to get a mental state required for many fighting styles.
🥁6. Think of a six-letter compound word that describes what you do to win some contests. Swap the fourth and fifth letters, then move the first three letters to the end, while also leaving in place a copy of the third letter, to get a seven-letter compound word that measures voter participation.
🥁7. Name an error a reporter might make, with four total vowels. Swap the first and third vowels, and change the last vowel to another. The result is an insect that sensationalist reporters might be compared to.

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PG-Rated Nonsense Slice:
Colorized cartoon characters

Name a color and cartoon character that end with the same sequence of letters. (For example, chartreUSE and Mickey MoUSE both end in USE.) 
Replace those common ending letters in the color with a 4-letter word to name a part of a fruit. 
Replace the same common ending letters in the cartoon character with an anagram of that 4-letter word to name a PG-version of a vulgar R-Rated expression for “nonsense.”
What are this color and cartoon character?
Hint: The 4-letter word with which you replaced the end of the color is the name of a fish. 
The anagram of that word (the word with which you replaced the end of the cartoon character), if you add a 3-letter kind of dessert to the end of it, is also the name of a fish.

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Past, Present and Futura


Will Shortz’s June 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads: 
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. The result will name two vehicles. What are they?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms for what some people do/did in a courtroom. 
Drop the first letter of each word. 
The result will name present and past tense forms for what barristers do/did with powdered wigs in a courtroom. 
Now drop the first letter of each of these words. The result will name one of two royal appendages boxed in Wonderland, and what is carted from excavations.
What are these two present and past verb forms? What is boxed and what is carted?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. The result will name two synonymous adjectives. What are they?
ENTREE #3: 
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms that is associated with teeth. Drop the first letter of each word. 
The result will name the “natural packaging” of a food you can  “sink your teeth into,” and what is often the shape of this “packaging.” 
What is this “packaging” and its occasional shape?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. The result will name the playing surface of a sport, and a word that describes the odor emanating from the benches by about the time the third period rolls around. 
What are this playing surface and word describing the odor?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. 
The result will name what people usually do after they crack open something with a spine, and the name of one of the cells that allow them to do this thing. 
What do they do and what allows them to do it?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. The result will name a general term for a religious ceremony, a Bar or Bat mitzvah, for example, and the method of learning the ceremony’s celebrant might employ to memorize the “dvar Torah” — the a speech about the Torah portion read that day. What are this general term for a religious ceremony and this method of learning the celebrant might employ?
ENTREE #7:
Think of a verb in its present and past tense forms. Drop the first letter of each word. The result will name a possible object in a man’s pocket and a singular word for possible place each of his feet is perched as he shouts “I’m here Honey, let’s go!” into an open second-story residential bedroom. 
What is in the man’s pocket and on what support might each of his feet be perched?

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Anagramophone Dessert:
Stooges, booze and heatwave blues

Solve following clues:
1. What you might see in a grocery produce section or at a restaurant patio in cities with oppressive heat
2. The first names of two Stooges
3. Two alcoholic beverages of one syllable each, one preceding “whiskey” and the other following “white,” for short, when one is ordering a sweet pink California wine
Saying the three answers (totaling five words), one after the other, sounds like a famous rock ’n’ roll anagram. What is it?

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