“Apple Synonym Choo-Choos” Perversification; Groupthink, groupspeak, groupsolve; McPuzzling McJobs in the fields of renown; “Music City, USA?”

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
“Music City, USA?”

Take a United States city that is named after a historical figure. 
Delete a letter and rearrange the result to spell a musical instrument. 
The last three letters of the city’s state, if spelled backward, spell a second musical instrument. 
What city is this?

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Puzzle Fun By Bobby Jacobs Debut Appetizer:
“Apple Synonym Choo-Choos”

Note: Puzzleria! is proud to present the following delightfully  appetizing debut installment of “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs.”

➤1. Take two types of transportation and put them together, one after the other. 
Remove the last three letters of this result. 
Change the seventh letter to an “o”. 
You will get a fruit. 
What is it?
➤2. Take a seven-letter word. 
Remove the first two letters. 
Switch the last two letters. 
Add an “se” at the end. 
You will get a synonym of the original word. 
What are these words?

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“All You Need Is Lovely Letters” (15 Of ’Em) Slice:
Groupthink, groupspeak, groupsolve

Alfred Dreyfus, Mark Twain and Georg Simon Ohm were noted figures who lived during the 19th Century. 
Their surnames contain fifteen different letters – all the letters you need to spell all members of a particular group. 
What group is this?
Hint: This group is often designated by using a four-word phrase (noun-preposition-article-noun).

Riffing Off Shortz And Horn Slices:
McPuzzling McJobs in the fields of renown  

Will Shortz’s September 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Horn, of Reading, Massachusetts, reads:
Name a famous person with the initials M. C. The first initial and last name anagram to the person’s field of renown. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Horn Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names to spell the first names of the two men who most recently served exactly eight years as New York City’s mayor.
One of these first names sounds like the surname of a starting outfielder the 1972, 1973 and 1974 World Champion Oakland Athletics. The other first name is the surname of a pitcher with 288 career victories.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Who are these mayors?
Who are the ballplayers?
Hint: These two mayors’ first names also together spell the name of a beautiful beach on Saint Lucia’s southern coast.
ENTREE #2:
Name two people, one living one dead, who share the same name. The initials of the name are M. C. 
Switch the third and fifth letters of the last name and change the fourth and sixth letters to different vowels. 
The result is a field of renown that both people share. What is it? 
ENTREE #3:
Name a pretty famous person with the initials M. C. The first initial and last name anagram to an abbreviation of a three-syllable word meaning a “harmonious interaction between people working together,” an interaction required of this person as a member of a particulal cast of characters.
The first initial and last name of this person also anagram to an abbreviation of a three-syllable word that is an informal term for a fixer of automobiles. 
Who is this pretty famous person?
What are the two abbreviations?
ENTREE #4:
Name a famous creative person. 
The last name – followed by the second, fourth and fifth letters of one kind of literature the person created – spell another kind of literature the person created. 
Who is this person?
What are the two kinds of literature the person created?  
ENTREE #5:
Name a somewhat famous past person with the initials M. C. The first, third and last letters of the surname, followed by the sixth, first and fifth letters of the first name, in order, spell a word for one of the person’s fields of renown.
Replace the last letter of this six-letter word with a 2-letter nickname for guys named Sheeran or Asner followed by a pronoun that is always capitalized. 

Move the last four letters of this 8-letter result to the beginning to spell a different career field the person could have followed (given his doctoral degree from Harvard) but chose not to follow.

Who is this person?

What is one of the person’s fields of renown?
What is the career field the person chose not to follow?
ENTREE #6:
Name a pretty famous past French person with the initials H. M. Take the surname. Remove the initial M, leaving a string of six letters. 
Replace the fifth letter with a duplicate of the second letter. Insert an “r” between the first and second letters. 
The result is the French word for this French person’s profession. 
Who is this person?
What is the person’s profession?

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Drunken Dessert:
Perversification

What is the two-word title of the following verse? 
Explain your answer.
Hint: Although the verse is not a haiku, it does contain seventeen words. Ignore nine of them.

Aping Bing,
Sal did sing:
“In a glass
For a lass
I pour gin...
Gals! Don’t sin!”

Note: Yes, I am aware that a haiku contains 17 syllables, not 17 words... but my 17 words contain only 18 syllables. Close enough!


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