15.875733 kilograms

Q:

A certain Cheshire Lane in California has been a lightning rod for trouble for years.  Now things have flared up again.  You can watch this disaster unfold daily on TV and the internet.  In case you've been living under a rock, use the clues in this puzzle to discover who is at the center of the Cheshire Lane nightmare.

A:

So much for misdirection.  This puzzle was even more obvious than I thought.  Other than civil war in Libya and the Japanese tsunami, there isn't much else in the news besides good old Charlie.  Oh well.

Anyway, 15.875733 kilograms is equal to two and a half stones.  How convenient.

Cheshire Lane    -     Charlie Sheen

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Q:

Andy Pigeon and Dingo Payne are two of my favorite fictional characters. They are arch rivals and have been since childhood ..... yet there is something they have always shared and always will.  When you discover what that is, rearrange the letters to find when they will next meet.

A:

The title is an old children's song and the second line is, "His name is my name too."

Andy Pigeon and Dingo Payne are indeed anagrams of each other (and perhaps will appear in someone's upcoming novel).

The picture is a shadow of the lights in a ballpark.

Rearrange the letters in either name to get -

Opening Day

The Scouting Report

Q:

The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language that has three consecutive pairs of double letters - oo kk ee.

Think of a two word phrase that also contains three consecutive pairs of double letters.  Take one letter from each of the pairs to get a three letter word.

If you practice the phrase throughout your life, you may be the subject of the three letter word.

A:


The title refers to the Girl and Boy Scouts and the above image belongs to the Tennessee Volunteers, all of whom are involved in the solution:

Good Deeds

Ode

If I Only Could

Q:

Take the phrase "Wholesome Hempstead Rodent" from the off Broadway musical remake of Disney's "Ratatouille."  Rearrange the letters to name three fierce competitors.

A:

The title of this puzzle is a reference to Simon and Garfunkel's song "El Condor Pasa" which includes the line "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail."

The three squares approximate the store colors of the correct answer.

Wholesome Hempstead Rodent

Lowes     The Home Depot     Menards

Approval Rating

Q:

Take the phrase "Dire Congress".  Rearrange the letters to name a place you might to like to find its members.

A:

Deer Crossing

HAL 18 15 1 3 8

Q:

Think of a farm animal in five letters.  Add a farm plant in three letters.  Grind the result and fry it to make a seven letter food item for people.  Change one letter and rearrange the result to get a farm plant that is fed to farm animals.  What are these words?

A:  

Chick  -  Pea  -  Falafel  -  Alfalfa

The man depicted is Carl Switzer who played Alfalfa in "The Little Rascals", a series of comedy shorts created by Hal Roach (R=18, O=15, A=1, C=3, H=8) 

Straight Up

Think of two famous men with 4 letter first names and 7 letter last names.

These two cross "town" rivals competed in a race in which the time difference between first and second place was 23 days.  Who are these men?

A:

The race as noted in the comments was the space race (escape car, first in space) and the participants are cleverly hidden in which 'rig sprang ahead'.

Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard