Consider the opera by Guiseppe Verdi entitled:
IL TRAVATORE.
Erase precisely one letter from the title.
Rearrange the remaining 10 letters to spell two words that are synonyms of each other.
What are the two words?
*** Adapted from a problem appearing in NPR's Sunday Puzzle in 2007.

Using Ady's spelling - and removing the single "a", one can find revolt/riot.  My heads hurts too much from looking at the huge number of possibilities - there could be more/better solutions than this, but I leave it to someone else.

Posted by Kenny M on 2023-04-18 14:52:37