• Geriatric Sensitivity (age at death): Anne Boleyn (29), Daniel Boone (86), Attila the Hun (42), Pocahontas (22), Florence Nightingale (90), George Armstrong Custer (36)
• Bluff: morbidazza
• Anachronisms: Koran, Chapter 13
• Bluff: Affine
• Musical References: Maria, On a Street Where You Live, Dolly, Shall We Dance, Mame, Camelot, dames, getting to know you

• Richard’s Poor Almanac: no pain no gain, actions speak louder than words, lie down with dogs and rise up with fleas, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, heaven help those who help themselves, fish and guests stink after three days
• Bluff: crawk
• Say Cheese: came in bare, rick oughta, provo lone, Monterey jack, as Iago, have Arty, limb burger
• Bluff: shroff
• Derivative nonsense: hocus pocus, assassin, juggernaut, chip on the shoulder, donnybrook, posh

• Common Threads: tallest mountains, first films, wrong way, colorful nicknames, Spartacus, capitals of land-locked countries
• Bluff: truttaceous
• Says Who: Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Casey Stengel, J.P. Morgan, George Bernard Shaw, Joe Kennedy
• Bluff: puggry
• What’s the Difference: further/farther, etymologist / entomologist, cemetery/graveyard, luster/luminescence, ape/monkey, first cousin once removed/second cousin

• Cinematic Aphorisms: Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, African Queen, Gandhi, Wrath of Khan, Rainman
• Bluff: dourine
• Relative History: fork/spoon, Alps/Rockies, Seth/Shem, Hohenzollerns/Hapsburgs, Lone Ranger/Superman, Davis Cup/World Series
• Bluff: pursy
• What Am I Doing: licking a stamp, playing bridge, laying masonry, butterfly stroke, fixing a squeaky door, Tai chi

• Two fers: silent Knight, Manilla folder, fowl ball, good deed, French friar, Pole vault
• Bluff: fantod
• Musical references: diamonds are a girl’s best friend, If I loved You, it’s the merry month of May, wash that man out of my hair, people will say we’re in love, the lady’s a tramp
• Bluff: kelpie
• Derivations: dog days of August, whole nine yards, bandy words with, carpetbaggers, getting down to brass tacks, hold at bay

• Vocabularial muscle: abstemious, neologism, factotum, empirical, exigent, hegemony
• Bluff: guddle
• Historicus interruptus: Benjamin Harrison, Avignon, the Roundheads, the Volstead Act, The Unequal Treaty of Macau, Loma Prieta earthquake
• Bluff: lexan
• American aphorists: Mark Twain, HL Mencken, SJ Perlman, WC Fields, Lenny Bruce, Dan Quayle

• Roman Recall: e pluribus unum, sic simper tyrannis, nolo contendere, ad hoc, quid pro quo, sine qua non
• Bluff: roodle
• People in Places: Jackson Hole Wyoming, Nancy France, Selma Alabama, Cal cutta, Helena Montana, Frederick Maryland
• Bluff: kelk
• Fore and Aft: Captain-, -club, -paint, dry-, Johnny-, -line

• Definitions and derivations: scruples, make the grade, haywire, no great shakes, Cadillac, over a barrel
• Bluff: nuncheon
• Poems with rhododendron, chintz and caboose
• Bluff: flabellate
• Melded Movies: On the Beach Blanket Bingo, Paper Moonraker, Call of the Wild Strawberries, Preadtora tora tora, Take the Money and run silent run deep, wait until dark victory, father of the bride of Frankenstein

• Derivative Nonsense: cold shoulder, mad as a hatter, red herring, face the music, eating humble pie, peter out
• Bluff: swedge
• Odd Man Out: Fallah a Democratic dog, Peanuts a cartoon, Washington not a state capital, emerald isn’t a friend, chicken touches the ground at two places, Pearl Buck didn’t use a nom de plume
• Bluff: wamble
• Verse and Stanza: hurricanes hardly home, old folks at home, she got walrus gumboot, when Johnny comes marching home, a model of a modern major general, Bill Bailey come home

• Literal Slang: dark horse, dead ringer, sitting pretty, cry uncle, swan song, stick in the mud
• Bluff: podzol
• Analogies: Debbie Reynolds, Mercury, Appomattox, two, Styx, Martha Washington
• Bluff: morepork
• Preferred Transportation: dog sled, camel, golf cart, rocket ship, submarine, Staten Island ferry

• Famous Last Words: the rest is silence, Jefferson lives, tomorrow is another day, twas beauty that killed the beast, fetch me my slippers, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight
• Bluff: jimp
• Fleeting Glory: Rosie Ruiz, Clara Peller, Megan Marshack, Mathias Rust, Doctor Stephen Ward, Lennie Scutnik, Frank Bank
• Bluff: sprag
• Constituent Parts: bagpipes, ear bones, dog, shoe/boot, tire, V8 juice

• Derivations: sour grapes, going on strike, your name is Mudd, eavesdropping, white elephant, crocodile tears
• Bluff: fimetarious
• Advertising: where’s the beef?, mother I’d rather do it myself, my wife I think I’ll keep her, kills bugs dead, put a tiger in your tank, reach out and touch someone, I can’t believe I ate the whole thing
• Bluff: trinkle
• That’s about the Size of It: paper, needles, champagne bottles, meat, barrels/casks, degrees of drunkenness

• Definitions and Derivations: bailiwick, imprimatur, aegis, phlegmatic, proscenium, grok
• Bluff: cacafuego
• What Did I Just Say: haste makes waste, a rolling stone gathers no moss, don’t put all your eggs in one basket, loose lips sink ships, you can’t judge a book by its cover, if at first succeed try try again
• Bluff: hoove
• What’s the Difference: continuous/continual, discreet/discrete, dock/pier, pier/wharf, quasi/pseudo, euphemism/euphuism

• Vocabularial Muscle: rodomontade, fillip, opprobrium, horripilation, salubrious, propinquity
• Bluff: tzigane
• Adjacencies: out out damn spot, two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a thing of beauty is a joy forever, she walks in beauty like the night, man’s reach should exceed his grasp, in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to love
• Bluff: zehner
• What’s the Difference: effervescence/evanescence, turbid/turgid, gourmet/gourmand, different/diffident, ethics/morals, epigram/epigraph

• People in Places: Mann delay, Can Berra, Johan’s ice berg, rich man, nude Eli, Know Him Alaska
• Bluff: squit
• Hard Scrabble: pacific/arctic, march/may/august, mercury/earth/mars, turkey/china/japan, grant/carter/ford/bush/pierce, butte/boulder/buffalo
• Bluff: zarf
• Front to Back: para-, -ous, ecto-, -al, syn-, -ine

• Where’s My Line: DEW line, Mason-Dixon line, long grey line, line of demarcation, short line, morning line
• Bluff: dunch
• [Arnie’s round] Common Threads: books with wind, wizards, exiles, all drowned, plays made into musicals, all Newmans, pairs dying on the same day
• Bluff: hewgag
• Little Stinkers: Ishmael’s life preserver, Economy, Geoffrey of Monmouth, T.S. Eliot, Deerslayer/Pathfinder/Hawkeye, Great Gatsby

• Says Who? Sir Walter Scott, Ogden Nash, Aristotle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Luther King, Daniel Webster
• Bluff: dukduk
• What’s the Difference? Assault/battery, ultimate/penultimate, fruit/vegetable, frantic/frenetic, homberg/derby, history/historiography
• Bluff: rotacism
• Personifications: Napoleon, Spoonerism, Zepplin, Silhouette, Macadam, Bowdlerism, Diesel

• Name that Tome (Autobiographies): Timothy Leary, Fred Decorvis, Gilda Radner, Mel Torme, Blackwell, Gordon Liddy
• Bluff: bumf
• Connections: archway/wayward, motorcar/carport, scatterbrain / brainwave, salad dressing/dressing room, warfare/farewell, armpit / pitbull, dustpan/pancake, buttermilk/milkman
• Bluff: lallation
• Connect the Dots: Appian Way, Appalachian Trail, Broadway, Alaska Pipeline, San Andreas Fault, Chisholm Trail

• Mnemonic Memory: Every good boy deserves fudge, Roy G Biv, my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas, divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived, king Philip came over from Germany somehow, hesheityouweithey
• Bluff: matzoon
• Village Idiom: making dew, mincing words, float alone, turning over a new leaf, crying fowl, tripping the light fantastic, cornering the market
• Bluff: haustus
• Sounds Familiar: double entendre, sturm und drang, doppelganger, denouement, weltschmerz, roman a cle

• Bit Parts: Citizen Kane, Godfather I, It’s a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, Apocalypse Now
• Bluff: vrille
• What’s the Difference? Condensed/evaporated milk, warranty / guarantee, intercede/intervene, illusion/delusion, suppress/repress, mawkish/maudlin
• Bluff: whillywha
• Sing You Sinners: Racetrack Polka, Can Can, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstances, Mendelssohn Wedding March, Light Cavalry, Funeral March

• Diacritical Mass: cedilla, macron, umlaut, breve, circumflex, tilde
• Bluff: whiffler
• Euphumismitis: perch on one’s patella, scapular lacrimentation, fasten one’s filtrum, ciliary spasm, pedal portal interjection, mandibular pigmented filament
• Bluff: pensum
• Fear: tachophobia, phasmophobia, cynophobia, onomatophobia, papaphobia, ergophobia

• What I am I Doing: patch with a double cut, drag a knee, swimming strokes, check for hair in the gate, holding the downward dog, execute a Cuban 8
• Bluff: gangava
• Mottos: lux et veritas, think, wohelo, the toughest job you’ll ever love, eureka, he profits most who serves best
• Bluff: fard
• There are no small roles: Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot, Glass Menagerie, Arsenic and Old Lace, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Literal Slang: gypsy moth, busy bee, on the lam, green thumb, bill to pay, drunk as a skunk
• Bluff: milver
• Triple Homonyms: bowl//boll/bole, caret/carrot/caret, vial/vile / viol, burrow/borough/burro, way/weigh/whey, peek/peak/pique, byte/bite/bight
• Bluff: groak
• A Pleasure in Words: trivia, impediment, companion, influenza, rendezvous, peninsula

• Verbatim Vernacular: doozy, Frisbee, guy, toady, backlog, OK
• Bluff: climp
• Incorrect Sentences: subjunctive, dangling participle, number agreement, objective/possessive, subject, objective
• Bluff: gweekgwak
• Tarentella Smarantella: tango, jig, waltz, reel, hornpipe, polka

• Rhyme Time: cook book, real deal, spring fling, bright mite or nit wit, deep sleep, lucky duck, blame game
• Bluff: siffleuse
• Where’s My Line: slug line, fall line, line of mercury, rat line, desire line, plimsoll line
• Bluff: frass
• Common Threads: in the sky, in a bottle, tossed, never seen, Katherine Hepburn roles

• Definitions and Derivations: straight from the horse’s mouth, proud as punch, the third degree, jeep, soap opera, jump on the bandwagon
• Bluff: curglaff
• What Am I Doing? Publishing, plumbing, speeding, golfing, CPR, “back the chalk in the gumbo because he’s a slop eating fool” = play the favorite because he likes a muddy track
• Bluff: nacket
• Two-fors: prima dona, brisquet, profiteering, sacher torte, reese’s pieces, borne Toulouse

• Rerun Amok : My Three Sons, Dick Van Dyke, F Troop, Dobie Gillis, Gunsmoke, Leave It to Beaver, Green Acres, Bob Cummings Show
• Bluff: moop
• Random reference: gubernatorial salaries, prerequisites for naturalization, state songs, outrunning beasts, public holidays in all 50 states, Miss Americas from the same state
• Bluff: pilgarlic
• Pleasure in words: recalcitrant, sarcophagus, crestfallen, dilemma, gregarious, pentecostal

• Origins of Terms: butterscotch, sweepstakes, thespian, funnybone, bigwig, haberdasher
• Bluff: boyg
• Shopping Puns: let us, butt her, yo Gert, catch up, band aids, pine Apple, sham Pooh
• Bluff: tittle
• Who Does What? Boxing Day, Walpurgisnacht, Maundy Thursday, swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, Midnight Madness

• Well Chosen Words: the world will little note or remember what we say here, thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, in war there can be no substitute for victory, I may have had a tough break, let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred, frankly I think you are so far apart (Lloyd Bentsen)
• Bluff: babbing
• All the News That Fits: pyrrhic victory, stygian depths, feckless friend, promethean effort, halcyon days, protean figure
• Bluff: chonk
• Slaves to Fashion: plus fours, capuchin, shearling, cloche, gaiters, djellabah

• Definitions and Derivations: hornswoggle, cockles of the heart, claptrap, four flusher, send up the river, clue
• Bluff: izles
• B-List: John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut jr., Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy
• Bluff: gloze
• Uniqueities: John 11:35, San Francisco cable cars, James Buchanan/Grover Cleaveland/Ronald Reagan, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Rembrandt’s Night Watch, George Spellman

• Literal Latin: sic transit Gloria mundi, incunabula, tabula rasa, ne plus ultra, sub rosa, infra dignitatum
• Bluff: verso
• Why Do I Like Thee?: pattern recognition
• Bluff: probang
• Body Parts of Speech: phalange the perp, clavicle the culpability, tarsus the tariff, pollux solicitation, practice osteo elevation, extra ciliate, practice cranial piedmont vectoring

• Addenda: grand cru, jones, hodad, intrapreneur, rolfing, Oort cloud
• Bluff: quonking
• Who Invented What? Bifocals/Franklin, Hilliard/circuit breaker, pendulum/Galileo, King Gillette/safety razor, Robert Fulton/torpedo, Eiffel/wind tunnel
• Bluff: epact
• Critical Crudite: L’il ABarry Nolaner, Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Peter Pan, I am a Camera

• Sports Terms: play for keeps, to get a rise out of something, to win hands down, put up your dukes, first string, taxi squad
• Bluff: fubsy
• Homophonies: moose mousse, cellar seller, bored board, ceiling sealing, doe dough, cereal serial, heard herd
• Bluff: snurge
• Arboreal terms: glade, glen, grove, copse or coppice, bocage, sward

• Mything the Point: narcissism, echo, tantalize, nemesis, lexander, chaos
• Bluff: chelp
• Homophonies: steal steel, heal heel, days daze, see sea, dual duel, aloud allowed
• Bluff: coomkie
• Says Who: America love it or leave it, good intentions are invariably ungrammatical, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, man’s inhumanity to man, really where does she find them, never look back something may be gaining on you

• Word Derivations: disaster, humility, confident, supercilious, preposterous, dismal
• Bluff: trank
• Pest Picture: Pain Man, Dunces with Wolves, Cod Father, Silence of the Lamps, My Hair Lady, Peer Hunter, All about Ewe
• Bluff: loppy
• Picture in a 1000 words of less: Christina’s World, Goya’s Firing Squad, Grand Jatte, Toulouse-Lautrec Can-can, Nighthawks (Edward Hopper), Winslow Homer’s The Fog Warning

• Addenda: WYSIWYG, nouvelle cuisine, acrolect, Peter Principle, adhocracy, glyph
• Bluff: sish
• A Rag by any other Name: mugging oliver, communist manifesto, inexpensive competent auto repairmen, end of Ms West’s bullring aspirations, fee for excessive egoism, neck knot may not hold, what Topper called his multiuse sun screen
• Bluff: bombo
• What’s the Difference?: rock/stone, quarry/mine, supine / prone/prostrate, yield/merge, flaunt/flout, brass/bronze

• Inamorati: Tess Trueheart, Nanky Poo, Anna Miller, Richard Blaine, Beauregard Pickett Jackson Burnside, Georges Sand
• Bluff: gork
• Shakespearean Cryptic Clues: El Senor, Jewel-less Caesar, Fall Staff, Dunce Inane, A Gin Court, Guild in Stern, Oath Hello
• Bluff: squdge
• Odd Man Out

• What’s the Difference?: infer/imply, van Dyke/goatee, solipcism/solecism, frog/toad, pony/colt, flammable / inflammable
• Bluff: friggle
• Says Yew: Will owes, Douglas furs, hem lock, copper beech, chest nut, Red would, Red cedar
• Bluff: kreep
• Ins and Outs: Love Story, The Fountainhead, 1984, Little Women, On the Road, Anna Karenina
• PS: Robert Fulton and the torpedo, sub rosa

I-15

2nd season

• Vocabularial Muscle: cynosure, ergonomics, littoral, foment, pusillanimous, syllogism
• Bluff: fample
• Two fers: ballet high, dally ants, a Serb Bic, way fairer, heart beat, Rio stat, BB king
• Bluff: glock
• Crayola colors: mauve, vermillion, puce, chartreuse, ecru, cerulean

• Common Proper Nouns: palooka, milquetoast, jerry-built, Davy Jones’ locker, blarney, checkmate
• Bluff: drook
• Darned Good Lyrics: 42nd Street, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, Plenty of Nothin’, Surrey with the Fringe on Top, The End of the Storm, I’ve Got Rhythm
• Bluff: tartine
• Philosophy Titles: Thoreau, Freud, Rousseau, Machaivelli, Nietsche, Sartre

• What’s the Difference: basement/cellar, buffalo/bison, promenade/esplanade, jam/jelly, dinner/supper, coast/shore
• Bluff: barm
• Mother Goose’s Blotter Entries: TomTom the Piper’s Son, Little Miss Muffet, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Old Woman in a Shoe, GeorgyPorgy, Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Bluff: ylem
• Character Studies: Harry Angstrom, Roy Hobbs, Frank Skeffington, Willie Stark, Homer Simpson, Delores Hayes

• Math Made Sleazy: rhombus/square, rational and irrational numbers, obtuse/acute angles, scalen/isosceles triangle, median/mean, parallelogram/trapezoid
• Bluff: embranglement
• Book ‘em Dano: Tom Joad, Charles Darney, Bertram Kates, Tom Robinson, Stephen Merrick, Jabez Stone
• Bluff: cosher
• Recreational Terms: cesta, googly, masse, telemark, Baltimore chop, veronica

• Odd Man Out: Nashville/Carolina/Baltimore / Pennsylvania Station, Iowa City/Michigan City/ Texas City/NYC, baffy / brassie / mashie / spoon, ants/scorpions/spiders/mites, Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi / Lon Chaney / Claude Rains, Cy Young / Jim Palmer / Catfish Hunter/ Roger Clemons
• Bluff: sillyhow
• Homophonies: thyme time, dear deer, tacks tax, current currant, stationary stationery, prince prints, lessen lesson
• Bluff: fug
• Dressy Derivations: through smoke, prepare for the sun, cosmetics, Milan/millinery, fastened in front, Palestine area

• Addenda: luddite, algorithm, skiffle, circadian, emoticon, pugil stick
• Bluff: winklepicker
• What’s the Difference: hassock/ottoman, vilify/excoriate, compose/comprise, forgery/plagiarism, spurious/specious, pertinent/pertinacious
• Bluff: rollmop
• Type casting: winds, yoyo tricks, anchors, colors of Great Danes, bugle calls, woodpeckers

• Test of Faith: karma, dharma, apochrypha, Asgard, Limbo, hadj
• Bluff: pipple
• Homophonies: peak peek, missed mist, tee tea, waive wave, pax pacts, weather whether, suite sweet
• Bluff: ribe
• Pen pals: penucci, pentatuch, pennon, penumbra, penury, pentimento

• What’s the Difference: everlasting/eternal, unorganized / disorganized, slogan/motto, urban/urbane, stocks/pillory, sewage/sewerage
• Bluff: cloop
• Places Everybody: jib alter, can Kuhn, ark tick, cape Horne, sass cartoon, Cher noble, Saran Yeti plain
• Bluff: nanninose
• There’s No Questions Like Show Questions: ecdysiast, break a leg, annie lexan, top banana, marquee, lex ex machine

• Vocabularial Muscle: jejune, physiognomy, eschatological, sobriquet, piquant, lugubrious
• Bluff: fliffis
• Capitol Idea: car ackers, hell’s inky, brr Lynn, beige inc., car tomb, singer pour, key toe
• Bluff: eustacy
• What’s the Difference? Bouquet/nosegay, dilatory/desultory, less/fewer, peccadillo/idiosyncrasy, boulevard/avenue, coincidence/irony

• Once Upon a Time: La Belle Epoch, Age of Reason, Renaissance, Dark Ages, Industrial Revolution, Crusades
• Bluff: snool
• Odd Man Out: flightless birds, currency, board games, years in movie titles, wooden prostheses
• Bluff: roop
• Pardon My French: faux pas, la mo juste, comme il faut, sans souci, pied a terre, mise-en-scene

• What’s the Difference? Pedagogue/demagogue, flotsam / jetsam, obviate/obfuscate, panegyric/panacea, apostate/ apostle, cardinal/ordinal
• Bluff: pedaliter
• Horrible Chemistry Puns: elect ron, Cal see him, bore on, night rate, cent refuge, cattle list, hi lexan
• Bluff: ramch
• Slinging hash: drag one through Georgia, breath, bossy in a bowl, mother and child reunion, baled hay, George Washington

• Where in the World: Klondike, Silk Road, Barbary Coast, Canyon of Heroes, Spanish Main, doldrums
• Bluff: zugzwang
• Constituent Parts: Chicago Seven, Macbeth witches’ brew, seven liberal arts, Abbott and Costello’s baseball team, seven deadly virtues, seven hills of Rome
• Bluff: oxster
• Picture in 1000 Words: The Creation of Adam, The Syndics of the Clothmakers Guilds, The Persistence of Memory, Roseate Spoonbill, Whaam!, Arrangement in Gray and Black

• Going to the Dogs: mall tease, bee gall, ’s et here, Doberman pincher, bouvier of Flanders, pit bull, Great pair of knees
• Bluff: coggins
• Addenda: gemutlichkeit, background radiation, superfecta, fra Diablo, striking price, additive inverse
• Bluff: gedunk
• Says Who? HL Mencken, Sam Goldwyn, Robert Benchley, Mae West, Art Buchwald, Ogden Nash

• Type Casting: booth, pipe, piano, fishing lures, star, mushroom, typeface
• Bluff: omphaloskepsis
• Old Trades and Occupations: couranteer, aeromancer, bellow farmer, enrober, tazzler, tabularis
• Bluff: conation
• You de Man: Man who Knew too Much, Man who Shot Liberty Valence, Man who would be King, Man who came to dinner, Man in the gray flannel suit, Man who fell to Earth

• Definitions and Deviations: chauffeur, ostracize, dilapidate, bonfire, ouija, salary
• Bluff: mopus
• Shakesperean Cryptic Clues: oath hello, mid Somer Knight’s dream, troyless and Cressida, pair of Klees, cymbal lean, achoo like it, tight as Anne-ron-n-gus
• Bluff: dap
• A Picture in 1000 Words: The Potato Eaters, Dejunier celebre, Snap the Whip, Proportional Study of a Man…, The Daughters of Edward D. Flatt, Where Are WE coming From…

• Unforgettable characters: macropod, phallocrat, dentriloquist, luftmensch, ancilla, lachrymist, internuncio
• Bluff: goonch
• Descriptive passages: On the Waterfront, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, The Producers, My Fair Lady, Philadelphia
• Bluff: dibble
• Analogies: Attucks:Boston::Cox:?, Dallas::LBJ:Buffalo:?, Ruth:Riley::Fats:?, Norgay:Hilary::Titov:?, Droit:gauche::dextrous:?, Alfred Terry:George Custer::Carpathia:?

• Express Yourself: press the panic button, get the hang of something, sleep tight and don’t let the bedbug bites, riding roughshod over someone, eye teeth, everything is socked in
• Bluff: haimsucken
• Cryptic Cities: Washington, Petaluma, Sheboygan, San Diego, Albuquerque, Cincinnati, Baton Rouge, Chattanooga
• Bluff: aflocht
• Envelope please: Caldicott medal, Hugo award, Patsy award, Juno award, Hugh M. Hefner award, Langley award

• A Pleasure in Words: dicker, hermetic, calculate, engross, parlor, conspiracy
• Bluff: dindle
• Demotions: derailed/derided, described, debated, devoted, debased, destabilized
• Bluff: dimps
• 3-2-1: rumble, pepper, raw, thumb, fool, deposit, hook

• Uniqueities: strength, geographic positioning of Alaska, book of Esther, Fred and Wilma Flintstone’s bedroom, seats 11A and 11F in a 737, 1948 Biffle Poll
• Bluff: Sclaff
• What’s the Dickens: Pick Sick Papers, Christmas Carom, Groat Expectations, Bleat House, Olive or Twist (or Little Dorito), Tale of Two Cuties, Old Curiosity IHOP
• Bluff: bombus
• Constituent parts: dog, loom, window, Swiss Army knife, saddle, castle, glacier

• Play by the Rules: top me for a double, ten point must system, infield fly rule, good lexander makes you squopped, a goofy footer, the Gastineau rule
• Bluff: tiffin
• It Could Be Verse: 4-line poems including Daffodil, browse, forklift
• Bluff: spang
• Melded Movies: The Music Who Shot Liberty Valence, …

• What’s the Difference? Enervate/innervate, amend/emend, insure/ensure, venal/venial, distinguish/differentiate, swamp/marsh
• Bluff: plunther
• False Compound Words: flag-rant, surf-aces, must-ache, carp-entry, peru-sing, mist-rust, stag-nation
• Bluff: wit-wall
• Art on Radio: Sleeping Gypsy, The Gleaners, The Treachery of Images, Las Maninas, La Goulou, Surrounded Islands

• Addenda: sysop, garconiere, fake book, aromatherapy, dagwood, fractal
• Bluff: snoove
• Run-on Names: Al Gore-Vidal-Sassoon, Louise Fletcher-Christian-Dior, Raul-Julia-Child-Hassam, Rube-Paul-Desmond-Tutu, Babe-Ruth-Gordon-Lightfoot, Phyllis-George-Washington-Irving-Berlin, Patrick-Henry-Aaron-Burr-Tilstrom
• Bluff: nobble
• Do-Wop My Baby Ooh: lines from Do-Wop songs

• Etymology Schmtymologist: oy vay, schmooze, tsouris, zaftig, kibbitz, kvetch
• Biofictionary: Peyo
• Odd Man Out: “Boots” Sinatra, hamburger, LBJ, no Red Farm, no black crab, iced tea
• Biofictionary: Tsogzolmaa
• Dumdum Wordplay: papa dodo, tsetse BB, chichi bonbon, poopoo cancan, mahimahi tartare, cocoa chouchou, lulu choochoo

• Definitions: sophistry, phrontistery, effulgent, concupiscence, tabula rossa, plenipotentiary
• Bluff: barff
• What a character! Julia Roberts, Woody Allen, John Lithgow, Humphrey Bogart, Diane Keaton, Kevin Spacey, Angela Bassett
• Bluff: dvandva
• No Man’s Land: hate tea, hayes’ oars, alka trash, Martin eek, Tess mania, surreal Anka, pang go pang go

• What’s the Difference? Huff/snit, galoot/palooka, elevation/altitude, crepe/blintz, eon/era, maze/labyrinth
• Bluff: yannigan
• Homophonies: mussel muscle, reads reeds, discussed disgust, bunt bunt, mustered mustard, phlox flocks, summery summary
• Bluff: skish
• I’m Feeling a Little Disney: Some Day My Prince Will Come, Under the Sea, Beauty and the Beast, ChimChiminey…, We Are Siamese, When You Wish Upon a Star

• I Got Your Father Right Here: Bill Monroe, Alex Osborn, Messenger, Louis Cyr, Antoine Lavoisier, Edward Bernais
• Bluff: jupon
• Reunion Trivia: most Academy Awards, most famous non-American to try out for the Washington Senators, shortest printed title best seller, mismatched socks, plus as a preposition, displacement of water
• Bluff: loof
• Dads in Song: a papa oo mau mau, O Mein Papa, Papa’s got a brand new bag, Ol Man River, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, You’re a Mean Old Daddy

• The Root of All Evil: Fannie Mae, brassage, arbitrage, Dow Jones
• ages, going long/going short, pro forma
• Bluff: cloit
• Op Cit.: Magna Carta, Communist Manifesto, I Ching, Origin of the Species, Theory of the Leisure Class, Future Shock
• Bluff: clavigure
• Adjacencies: In Flanders Field, Ode to Grecian Urn, In Memoriam, Tyger, The Wasteland, The Second Coming

• Math Mischief: co sign, tan gent, logger rhythm, algae bra, hi pot and noose, gee I’m a tree, de-nominator, I saws Elise
• Bluff: skinker
• Diminutives: cello, bus, pub, taxi, pants, mob
• Bluff: furtum
• Summer’s Coming: mint julep, hottest temperature, corn growing, name 5 things worn only in summer, undertow/rip tide, SPF30/SPF15

• Legends of Science: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Copernicus, Newton, Marie Curie, Einstein
• Bluff: leep
• Quick Change: cot/cat, defend/depend, revive/revile, commenced/commented, tillage/village, class/clasp, cleaner/gleaner
• Bluff: fossick
• Sounds Familiar: Mies van der Rohe, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mao Tse-Tung, Sherman, Barry Goldwater, HL Mencken

• Definitions and Derivations: putting on the dog, blowing hot and cold, contretemps, cuckold, devil’s advocate, out of touch
• Bluff: oppidan
• What’s My Middle Name? Elton-John-Wayne-Newton, Jesse-James-Cameron-Diaz, Spike-Lee-Marvin-Hamlisch, Sandy-Dennis-Franz-Liszt, Gene-Arthur-Godfrey-Cambridge, Steve-Martin-Luther-King-Kong, Eva-Marie-Saint-Nicholas-Cage
• Bluff: melch
• Bit of the Bubbly: on the bubble, bubble gum pink, bubble and squeak, bubble bubble toil and trouble, Bub, bubble top Impala

• A Pleasure in Words: mortgage, ferocious, gargoyle, lieutenant, campaigns, googol
• Bluff: ula-ula
• Nature’s Wonders: terriers, butterflies, clouds, whales, turtles, forests, owls
• Bluff: snook
• Odd Man Out: blitzen, Bunker Hill, cupids, amazons, brick, Tahiti

• Natural Surroundings: savannah, arroyo, estuary, butte, steppe, lea
• Bluff: dak
• Initial Misgivings: TS Eliot, JD Salinger, PG Wodehouse, HG Wells, EM Forster, CS Lewis
• Bluff: aporia
• Unsporting Metaphors: in the paint, move the chains, to voit someone, put up a snowman, to bring home a Christmas tree, bacon in the pan

• A Pleasure in Words: jeopardy, zodiac, legend, virtuous, ecology, glitz
• Bluff: rool
• State the Capital: containing “city”, named after a president, letter “u” twice, state and capital beginning with the same letter, two most and least populous, directional extreme
• Bluff: smift
• TV or not TV: Gilligan’s Island, Brady Bunch, Sgt. Bilko, Peyton Place, Mary Tyler Moore, Mission Impossible, Welcome Back Kotter, Flintstones

• Errors of grammar, syntax, …: Rather unique, different than, between the weeks, chomping at the bit, tells it as it is, run the gauntlet
• Bluff: desticate
• Melded movies: Raging Bull Durham, How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls, Great Hope and Glory, His Girl Friday the 13th, Shakespeare in Love and Death, An Officer and a Gentleman’s Agreement, Stalag 17age Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Bluff: mease
• Biblical adjacencies: can leopard change his spots, beating swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, cast not your pearls before swine, consider the lilies of the field, wolves in sheep’s clothing, no man can serve two masters, for the love of money is the root of all evil

• Definitions and derivations: beat the band, at beck and call, through the grapevine, gangbusters, cut of one’s jib, born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth
• Bluff: imbriferous
• Initial Misgivings: WE Brooks, CE Estlin, HL David, HA Edward, BM James, JP Sydney
• Bluff: jirbel
• Odd Man Out: clarinet, pig’s ear, Hundred Years War, forks, Eli Whitney, Knights Templar

• Addenda: red shirt, saltimbuoco, negative option, gorp, brannock device, octothorp
• Bluff: whinnock
• They Also Serve: Maltese Falcon, Ben-Hur, Treasure Island, Ivanhoe, From Here to Eternity, Sun also Rises, Hotel New Hampshire
• Bluff: nosism
• Lyrics: Wooly Booly, Teeny Weeny Bikini, 16 Tons, Tea for Two, Silhouettes, She Loves You

• Pop Quiz: 10000/1000+2, 14/2x9, 39-11/7, 3x6+451, 95-75+8, 600/60-10
• Bluff: aegrotat
• Educational Etymology: curriculum, matriculate, sabbatical, semester, baccalaureate, emeritus
• Bluff: onding
• Be Still My Schoolish Heart: Don’t know much about history, three little maids from school, me and Julio down by the schoolyard, Harper Valley PTA, teacher’s teaching the golden rule, reading writing and ’rithmetic

• Nothing to Fear: spectrophobia, osmophobia, barophobia, doraphobia, hodophobia, scopophobia
• Bluff: jectigation
• Crass Menagerie: kinkajou, newt, gavial, mongoose, dicksissel, coatimundi
• Bluff: catface
• Paired Authors

• What’s the Difference: jealousy/envy, almost/nearly, rhythm/ beat, answer/response, lurid/tawdry, beer/ale
• Bluff: barmecide
• And Baby Makes Three: Great Lakes, The Eagles, Natchez, First 5 Baseball Hall of Famers, Earps and Holliday, pesto, last states admitted
• Bluff: itaiitai
• No but I Saw the Movie: Animal Farm, Catch-22, Postman always Rings Twice, Beloved, Tender Is the Night, Slaughter House Five

• Definitions and Derivations: eternal verities, Old Guard, pillar of the community, big honcho, square meal, touch and go
• Bluff: dunderfunk
• Two-fers: pick nick, feel a mint, miner’s pill, buy for Kate, pump Ken, sell abrasion, ceiling whacks
• Bluff: wanigan
• Auteur Theory: Billy Wilder, Vincent Minelli, John Huston, Barry Levenson, Sydney Lemet, Sidney Pollock

• Tastes Sorta Like Chicken: shad roe, cockaleekie, Long Island iced tea, western and eastern omelets, apple pan dowdie, po’ boys
• Bluff: puggle
• Odd Man Out: bridge/hearts/golf/cross-country running, oak/maple/plum/magnolia, Ford/Williams/spats/tuxedo, George Washington/Earl Hines/Rocky Mountains /Mississippi River, gunpowder/baking powder/talcum powder /curry powder, Harvard/Cornell/Dartmouth/ Princeton
• Bluff: mundungus
• Says Who: Voltaire, Plato, Louis B. Meyer, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde

• Tastes Sorta Like Chicken: moo goo gai pan, haggis, chitlins, sweetbreads, scotch egg, egg creme
• Bluff: pandiculation
• Places Everybody: Punxatawney, Killdevil Hills, Westminster College, Galleria del’Academia, Chomolungmah, Tintagel
• Bluff: ughten
• Definitions and Derivations: matinee, yankee, sabotage, quisling, chauvinism, iconoclast

• What’s the Difference: chasten/chastise, dale/dell, emend / amend, pince-nez/lorgnette, emulate/imitate, centripetal / centrifugal
• Bluff: fido
• Mangled Musicals: Cats/Hats, Fiedler on the Roof, Hair/Haig, Guys and Dills, Arnie Get Your Gun, Mame/Mime, Ringing in the Rain
• Bluff: levirate
• Odd Man Out: coot/kite/knot/kink, jazz/jig/band/coping, palmetto/beehive/nutmeg/mace, Atlantic / Pacific / Baltic / Caspian, Meriweather Lewis/William Clark/Virginia Woolf / Cleopatra, Woodrow Wilson/Henry Wilson/Lyndon Johnson / Aaron Burr

• Parliamentary My Dear Watson: point of order, holding the floor, motion vs. resolution, to table, suspending the rules, pocket veto
• Bluff: lisk
• Repetitive vowels: Mississippi, abracadabra, teepee, inhibiting, voodoo, untruthful, syzygy
• Bluff: dyvour
• Two Word Palindromes: Evil Olive, gnu dung, lonely Tylenol, solo gigolos, tuna nut

• Definitions and Derivations: put a sock in it, carte blanche, get one’s goat, the old one-two, cook’s tour, off color
• Bluff: lexan
• Cryptic Capitals: Dame ask us, Porta Prince, Mann agua, Hamster dam, Rake evict, Yule an Bat tour
• Bluff: bangtail
• Melded Movies: The Man with the Golden Armageddon, The Love Bugsy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Networking Girl, Predatora Tora Tora

• Definitions and Derivations: freelance, bring home the bacon, cloud 9, alive and kicking, flapper, in the dog house
• Bluff: firn
• Cryptic Capitals: caIrO, roMe, maDRid, buENOS aires, santIAGO, san JOSe, L I’m A
• Bluff: huff-duff (HF/DF)
• Famous Last Words: Amadeus, Stalag 17, Zorba the Greek, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Lawrence of Arabia, Grapes of Wrath

• Waxing Philosophic: lexander d , deist, categorical imperative, empiricism, inductive reasoning, epistemology
• Bluff: argle-bargle
• Anna Grammies: Ratso roast, large lager, diaper repaid, padre’s drapes, teach cheat, thread dearth, wakes askew
• Bluff: figgum
• TV or Not TV: Three’s Company, Lost in Space, Perry Mason, Get Smart, Happy Days, Northern Exposure, Sanford and Son

• What’s the Difference: roadster/convertible, burlesque / parody, mercadian/fuller projections, old codger/ old fogey, cynic/skeptic, freedom/liberty
• Bluff: pimola
• Adjacencies: the lark’s on the wing, angel-headed hipsters, drink deep or taste not the empyrean spring, did gyre and gimble in the wave, in which better part I have saved my life, what happens to a dream deferred
• Bluff: colporteur
• Not Good with Names: Carolyn Keene, Sadaharu Oh, James Bond Stockdale, Harry von Zell, Jay Ward, Jean Niditig

• Tenets Anyone? Catch-22, Law of Diminishing Returns, Monroe Doctrine, 5th Amendment, Murphy’s Law, Prime Directive
• Bluff: sned
• Homonym Game: bare bear, slight sleight, hoarse horse, shanty chanty, tacks tax, faint feint, straight strait
• Bluff: sallenders
• Where are the Halls of Montezuma? It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, The Girl from Ipanema, Marrakech Express, Fly Me to the Moon, Old Cape Cod, Trouble in River City

• What’s the Difference: appetizer/hors’ d’ouvre, bisque/chowder, pan fry/sautee, pinch/dash, entrée(US)/entrée(France), spices/herbs
• Bluff: snarge
• First and Last: US president, postmaster general, TIME person of the year, Americas Cup winners, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husbands, Miss Americas, poets laureate
• Bluff: sarkful
• Foreign phrases: mot juste, de gustibus non disputandem est, gemeinschaft, smorgasbord, de rigeur, a priori

• Almanac: US TV 1971-1976, Whipple/Walcott / Witherspoon/White, Secretary of Commerce became President, Kilimanjaro:Cairo::Kosciuosko:?, 10 most frequently cited grounds for divorce, 10 items deducted on Schedule A of US Income Tax
• Bluff: bonnyclabber
• Cryptic Cities: PI err E, ro CHE ster, char LOTTE, L as vegas, Lu BBO ck, po CATEL lo, de NV er
• Bluff: foaf
• Common Character-istics: D’Artagnan, Devil, Robin Hood, Anne Boleyn, Al Capone, Jesus, Billy the Kid

• What’s the Difference: legend/myth, reel/stagger, bloom/blossom, cheap/underpriced, thesis/ dissertation, acronym/initialism
• Bluff: castrametation
• Triple homophonies: ewes use yews, rue roo roux, quay cay key, mete meat meet, we wee whee, he’ll heal heel
• Bluff: rizzar
• It’s Sarong: enormity, my (gerund), anxious, further, (else), aggravate

• What’s in a Name? Transylvania Effect, gray market, Van Buren Jinx, brinkmanship, maguffan, Gresham’s Law
• Bluff: kookaloris
• Triple Homophones: rein rain reign, sees seas seize, burro burrow borough, peek pique peak, Morey’s moray’s mores, two ton Teuton tootin’
• Bluff: yatch
• Hail Alma Mater: Sooners, Tarheel, Terrapins, Razorbacks, Hoya, Boilermaker

• Definitions and Derivations: slip shod, joyriding, yellow journalism, mad money, gold brick, soft pedal
• Bluff: foozle
• Cryptic Capital Cities: Hoss slow, doublin’, Ma’s scow, Trip Ollie, Wayne know Aries, book caressed, Doris salaam
• Bluff: pulk
• Encyclopedia: Montessori system, Grand jette, Harriet Tubman, Beaufort scale, Elijah Graves Otis, Fertile Crescent

• Common Legal Terms: attractive nuisance, frolic and detour, reckless endangerment, vicarious liability, negligence, doctrine of stale demand
• Bluff: propaedeutic
• State the Obvious: MIN, IDA, WYO, AWA, ONT, SHI, AHO
• Bluff: querken
• Presidential Anagrams: Calvin Coolidge, William H. Taft, William Clinton, Ross Perot, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan

• Addenda: kluge/kludge, blind trust, Munchausen syndrome, rubber chicken circuit, ombudsman, fourth wall
• Bluff: sarpler
• Op Erratic: Deflate a mouse, Madame better flee, magic ftute, mice are singing, William tell, barber of Seville, Sam’s son Andy Lila
• Bluff: slurb
• Common Thread: forest/hills/beauty/humor, George VI/ Suzette Charles/Gerald Ford, Leonard/Julius/Adolf/ Herbert /Milton, Red Grant/Largo/Scaramanca/Rosa Klebb, Prohibition/Shinneoccoc Hills/Rosemary Wood, Rickey/ Hornby/Ericson/Elihu

• Derivations from the Deep: all at sea, above board, pipe down, taken aback, scuttle butt, slush fund
• Bluff: clyte
• There Are No Small Roles: Waiting for Godot, Pygmalion, Maltese Falcon, Mister Roberts, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan, Of Mice and Men
• Bluff: lagan
• Building Blocks: finial, flashing, bullnose, ogee, fascia, soffit

• What’s the Difference?: ectomy/otomy, ephemeral/ephemeris, Uranium-235/-238, perfume/cologne, heading/bearing, sarcastic/sardonic
• Bluff: gryposis
• Food for Thought: cocoa van, briss kit, T-bone stake, chicken catch a Tory, boola base, veel pick Otto
• Bluff: emptins
• For Better or Worse: Gable/Monroe, Nicholson/Turner, Burton/Taylor, Lemmon/MacLaine, Grant/K.Hepburn, Beatty/Christie, Connery/A.Hepburn

• Popular Misconceptions: German chocolate cake, lemmings, death of Harry Houdini, white chocolate, Mister Ed, posh
• Bluff: therblig
• Colorful Titles: Anne of Green Gables, Green Eggs and Ham, Picture of Dorian Gray, Scarlet Pimpernel, Black Beauty, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Topaz
• Bluff: fesnynge
• Roget’s Revenge: eccentric, lawyer, thief, flattery, color, fool, opaque

• Odd Man Out: laser/microwave/sonar/scuba, Murray/Don /Ralph/Fraser, Paul McCartney/Eric Clapton/John McEnroe /Babe Ruth, Siegfried/Roy/Power/Clothes, Ted Danson/Jack Benny/George Burn/Percy Shelley, p-r-n-d-t
• Bluff: delope
• Composers’ Names: high-den, bait-oven, pooch-eeny, barely-owes, debut-C, divorce-shock, Rock-man-enough
• Bluff: tapetum
• Poetic Terms: sonnet, haiku, dactyl, blank verse, scansion, pathetic fallacy

• What’s the Difference? Equity/parity, inchoate/chaotic, dead end/no outlet, nautical mile/statute mile, antique/collectible, motor/engine
• Bluff: jillpoke
• Shakespearean Cryptic clues: mac duff, many leis, calla ban, cap Hugh let, Beau’s worth field, Love’s labor lost, much ado about nothing
• Bluff: gribble
• Adjacent song lines: Tears on my Pillow, Surfin’ USA, Put on a Happy Face, Sunny Side of the Street, Sentimental Journey, Shine on Harvest Moon

• Science Faction: nuclear fusion, fungus, acquired characteristics, horsepower, carbon dating, coefficient of restitution
• Bluff: nipcheese
• Adjacencies (lines from literature): Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, Alexander Pope, George Bernard Shaw, AE Housman, Moody Blues
• Bluff: ploat
• Going to the Dogs: borzoi, bichon lexan, basset hound, sharpé, schnauzer, poodle

• What’s the Difference: jargon/slang, homo sapiens/homo sapiens sapiens, porpoise/dolphin, sect/cult, fashion/style, decorum/propriety
• Bluff: praiss
• Off the Rack: Gore Mae, Mick Calls, Gee queue, S choir, Ad Week, good housekeeping, RKO ology
• Bluff: balbriggan
• Credit Where Credit is Due: Cabaret, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Howard’s End, Gigi, The Birds, Guys and Dolls

• Definitions and Derivations: go to pot, two bits, mind one’s p’s and q’s, get the sack, apple of one’s eye, pass the buck
• Bluff: kerf, qualtagh
• Elementary dear panelists: sell fur, silly con, biz myth, mere Curie, Saudi em, ear idiom
• Bluff: kreng
• Unnatural Causes: Charles I, Gandhi, Trotsky, Nathan Hale, Joan of Arc, Huey Long

• Bluffs Revisited: whoove, pilgarlic, cachou, truttaceous, rotacism, mizzle, willywha
• Bluff: blickey
• Mind your Manors: Wolf House, The Hermitage, Sunnyside, Triple H Ranch, Home Plate, Hatchet Hall
• Bluff: tib
• Great White Wailing: Put on a Happy Face, Anything You Can Do, June is Busting All Over, Hello Young Lovers, If My Friends Could Me Now, We’re In the Money

• Define and Spell: escritoire, sciatica, nonpareil, lederhosen, boutonniere, quodlibet
• Bluff: griggles
• Op erratic: Low in grin, deflate a mouse, Bohr is good enough, Tales of Hoffman, Car Men, e-Pal Itchy, devalue Carrie
• Bluff: nuzzer
• Great White Wailing: New York New York, Send in the Clowns, You’re Getting to be a Habit with Me, Won’t Grow Up, They Call the Wind Maria, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

• Odd Man Out: cities (gibbous), pseudonyms (Clark Gable), survivor movie (Man in Grey Flannel Suit), Elvis Presley movies (Les Girls), symphony in title (Beatles), movies of 1939 (Citizen Kane)
• Bluff: broose
• Chronological Order (20th century inventions and events)
• Bluff: oidium
• Translations: hors d’oeuvres, gesundheit, hoi polloi, cul-de-sac, potpourri, alma mater

• Addenda: magic bullet, OEM, de-accession, wadlen, approach avoidance conflict, galvanic skin response
• Bluff: mondegreen
• Cryptic Capitals: Al-BAN-y, T-rent-ON, PI-err-E, CHAR-lest-ON, PROV-id-ENCE, INDIA-napolis, R-ale-igh
• Bluff: snaste
• Great White Wailing: Bewitched Bothered Bewildered, Til There Was You, My Best Girl, No Business Like Show Business, Stranger in Paradise, Fugue for Tinhorns

• What’s the Difference? Aid/abet, emergency/disaster, hale / hearty, pale/wan, desperation/despair, schlemiel/schlemozel
• Bluff: batfowl
• Middle Name: Phyllis George Harrison Ford, Johnnie Ray Charles de Gaulle, Harry James Stewart Little Eva, Jesse James Dean Martin Mull, Bruce Lee Deforest Kelly Clarkson, Johnnie Ray Charles Nelson Riley
• Bluff: bozetto
• Blues Tips: train/mule , Memphis / Kansas City/New Orleans, getting shot, my baby left me, smoky bar/down on delta, whiskey/tears

• Odd Man Out: Chrysler Building, retro-, thoroughfare, goats, 1499, Room Service
• Bluff: crambo
• Bluff: dorper
• Shape of Things: square dance, oval office, cone of silence, pyramid scheme, rectangle, spiral staircase

• Hard Scrabble: car scar, adios radios, layoff playoff, boer oboer, vies ivies, slander islander, neaten uneaten
• Bluff: sedens
• What’s the Difference: horn/antler, contagious/infectious, obsolescent/obsolete, Siena/sienna, troll/trawl, among/amid
• Bluff: milter
• No Relation: Green, White, Burke, Blake, Parker, Clark

• Moments in Sports: rope-a-dope, immaculate reception, miracle at Coogan’s Bluff, battle of the sexes, Fosbury Flop, fists of freedom
• Bluff: muffineer
• Voyagers: puns dally on, bowel boa, vere is Anna, Cham plain, pizzaro, leave her Huck’s son
• Bluff: esplees
• Dance Fever: Charleston, tarantella, fox trot, bunny hop, Mexican hat dance, mazurka, bossa nova

• Traffic Questions: white and yellow lines, HOVs/SOVs, a truck, highway/parkway, semaphore, weave section
• Bluff: espantoon
• Street Lingo: props, benjamins, 5-oh, diss, wheels of steel, turntable, tag
• Bluff: dafla
• Where in the World: germ-many, cue-bah, sue-Dan, e-gypped, Mel-borne, Elsa-Vidor, ma-shoos-pete’s-shoes

• Addenda: moldy fig, nerf, autogestion, transdermal, prevent defense, tachyon
• Bluff: ye-ye
• Words Dropped from the Dictionary: snollygoster, vitamin G, frutescent, poke-bonnet, sheep-dip, wool stapler
• Bluff: telestic

• Foreign phrasing: lingua franca, in flagrante delicto, fatwa, karaoke, schmaltz, lexander d m g
• Bluff: pulicous
• Instrumentality: trump pet, harhar monica, ban joe, cast a net, bass soon, pick a low, sues a phone
• Bluff: fenks
• Name that Dame: Suzanne, Little Suzie, Lovely Rita Meter Maid, Mona Lisa, Mustang Sally, Sweet Georgia Brown

• Taking a Ribbing: cRIB, tRIButary, horRIBle, dRIBble, moRIBund, tRIBoro Bridge
• Bluff: pucelage
• Playing Doctor: adenoids, appendix, gall bladder, spleen, lymph nodes, pituitary gland
• Bluff: pulvile
• Instructions from Song: the time warp, balling the jack, the hustle, the locomotion, the Hucklebuck, mashed potato

• Definitions and Derivations: peanut gallery, hunky dory, rule of thumb, milling around, nose to the grindstone, dirt poor
• Bluff: libeccio
• AKA: The Children’s Crusade, The Parish Boy’s Progress, The New Pilgrim’s Progress, The Modern Prometheus, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation, Life among the Lowly
• Bluff: bream
• Advertising Term: tetrahydrozoline, gardol, cruiser line ventaports, retsyn, mirole, dextromothorfam

• What’s the Difference: reindeer/caribou, spruce/fir, manger / stable, elf/fairy, present/gift, St. Nicholas/Santa Claus
• Bluff: mimp
• Yule Be Sorry: wrEath, CarolS, pLUM Pudding, Silver BELLs, canDLes, MInce meAt, nutcracker
• Bluff: leeftail
• Seasonal Songs: We wish you a merry Christmas, Let it snow, walking in a winter wonderland, 12 days of Christmas, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, Have yourself a Merry little Christmas

• You Oughta Have Your Head Examined: gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, Forer Effect, Orgone Box, codependency, post hoc fallacy
• Bluff: lurgulary
• Musical Milieu: My Fair Lady, Carousel, How to Succeed in Business…, Grease, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Bluff: treen

• Pasta Perfect: spa Getty, Fermi celli, turtle ini, nyuck I, fetter Jeannie, rig a Tony, less on ya
• Bluff: guy trash
• You Think You’re So Smart: pattywhack, higglety-pigglety, lozenge, degree-day, iotacism, linsey-woolsey
• Bluff: creem
• Melodies: Happy Birthday to You, Lohengrin Wedding March, Mouret’s Fanfare, Liberty Bell March, Dixie, Gaudeamus Igitur

• Odd Man Out: cauliflower, Pony Express, Jamaica, Richard Penniman, Elizabeth Taylor, peace on all three rows of keyboard
• Bluff: algor
• Fear of Palindromes: Dali Lad, Liar Trail, Amoral aroma, Nate bit a Tibetan, pupil’s slipup, too hot to hoot, tube debut
• Bluff: jowter
• Name Chains: Al Gore Vidal Sassoon, Lenny Bruce Lee Majors, William Jennings Bryan Wilson Pickett, Hal David Bowie Kuhn, Calamity Jane Wyatt Earp, George Harrison Ford Maddox Ford, Lloyd George Michael Jackson Pollack

• Wintry Mix: snow pudding, hoarfrost, winterbourne, ice needle, chilblain, baked Alaska
• Bluff: saleps
• Type casting: tests, locks, hammers, crosses, Village People, leaf shapes
• Bluff: brank
• Presidents of the United States: pork/Polk, Hades/Hayes, Mad(i)son, fork/Ford, film more, grunt/Grant, tush/Bush

• Measurements: fathom, cubit, digit, furlong, span, acre
• Bluff: nocha
• Tip o’ the Tongue: Susan Butcher, Antonio Romeo Monge/ Rafael Ruiz, He/She, Richard Hatch, Casey Martin, Riana Scurry
• Bluff: glunch
• Titles and Twosomes: Tale of Two Cities of the Plain, Telltale Heart of Darkness, 20000 Leagues under the Seagull, Yes I Candide, Tender Is the Night of the Iguana, Lady Windemere’s Fantastic Voyage, Naked and the Dead Souls

• Measurements: fathom, cubit, digit, furlong, span, acre
• Bluff: nocha
• Tip o’ the Tongue: Susan Butcher, Antonio Romeo Monge/ Rafael Ruiz, He/She, Richard Hatch, Casey Martin, Riana Scurry
• Bluff: glunch
• Titles and Twosomes: Tale of Two Cities of the Plain, Telltale Heart of Darkness, 20000 Leagues under the Seagull, Yes I Candide, Tender Is the Night of the Iguana, Lady Windemere’s Fantastic Voyage, Naked and the Dead Souls

• Definitions and Derivations: dyed in the wool, behind the 8-ball, feet of clay, high on the hog, may day, toe the line
• Bluff: katsu
• Cryptic Capitals: ma DR id, li SB on, sof I a, p RAGU e, p ARI s, a THE ns, ra BA t
• Bluff: moskeneer
• Opening Lines: Metamorphosis, Aeneid, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Lord of the Flies, Wuthering Heights, Candide

• Philosophic Terms: Epicureanism, deist, categorical imperative, empiricism, inductive reasoning, epistemology
• Bluff: argle-bargle
• Anagrammies: Ratso Roast, large lager, diaper repaid, padres drapes, teach cheat, thread dearth, wakes askew
• Bluff: figgum
• TV or not TV: Two’s Company, Lost in Space, Perry Mason, Get Smart, Happy Days, Northern Exposure, Sanford and Son

• Odd Man Out: David, Hudson, Ernie, H.O., garden, panda
• Bluff: nisus
• Bluff: propine
• Hibernal Hollywood: Snow White, Lion in Winter, Big Chill, Ice Age, In Cold Blood, Snow Falling on Cedars, Snows of Kilimanjaro

• Mind Your Manners: six prerequisites for successful dinner party, terminating a telephone solicitation, tips, give money as a wedding gift, resign, titles
• Bluff: ticdouloureux
• World Leaders: Henry the ate, ganges con, moe sez, tooth uncommon, Charlie maine, highly sell Lassie, Ethelred tea unready
• Bluff: nard
• Famous Last Names: Roget, Roberts, Fodor, Gray, Bartlett, Bulfinch

• Fit to be Tied: S.O.S., between Scylla and Charybdis, Hatteras Jack, crows nest, we’re heavier at low tide, the world’s most profitable pirate ship
• Bluff: harnpan
• Summerisms: rip tide, serf’s sup, fire flies, ferris squeals, pop sickle, bic ini, “Max’s brother Simon Paul Frederick”
• Bluff: corbeau
• Songs of Summer: when I was seventeen, those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, God didn’t make little green apples…, hot town summer in the city, Oh Danny boy, we’re having a heat wave

• Colors: maroon, chartreuse, buff, titian, cochineal, ochre
• Bluff: stumour
• Cryptic critters: ferret, salmon, cobra, will debeast, lexan, newt, condo-r
• Bluff: balgus
• If You Thank It Sounds Bad This Way: let sleeping dogs lie, nice guys finish last, any port in a storm, 3 sheets to the wind, laugh and the world laughs with you cry and you cry alone, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

• Addenda: Chinese restaurant syndrome, biomass, auteur theory, pull date, trunk show, peloton, ecotage
• Bluff: yakka
• My Distinguished Cowriter: Mark Twain/James Joyce, George Orwell/Ernest Hemingway, Lewis Carroll/Tennessee Williams, Theodore Geisel/Edward Albee, F. Scott Fitzgerald/John Milton, Dashiel Hammett/Alexandre Dumas, Sinclair Lewis/Larry McMurtry
• Bluff: epilimnion
• Titonic Queries: only animal whose evidence is admissible, domesticated animal not in Bible, only US city where all sports teams have the same color, six words that include “uu”, Sergei Korolev and Hugh Beaumont, next year upside down (6009)

• The Geeks Have a Word for It: peripherals, hot swapping, spamming, to boot up, modem, http
• Bluff: pandy
• Artistic License: mown hay, beer stat, gains burro, REM brandt, men dig Leoni, sink hearse argent, my clan Jello
• Bluff: buzznack
• Take Your Best Shot: 1927-Lone Eagle, 1969-Buzz, 1869-Completion, 1945-The Big Three, 1952-Stealing Home, 1963-Salute

• What’s the Difference: ecstasy/euphoria, monopoly/ monopsony, jibe/gibe, pupil/student, wallflower/shrinking violet, dalliance/hanky panky
• Bluff: pampootie
• What’s My (Subway) Line: Forest Hills (Boston), VDNH (Moscow), Franklin D. Roosevelt (Paris), King’s Cross (Sydney), Gloria (Rio de Janeiro), Sainte Teresa (Cairo), Admiralty (Hong Kong)
• Bluff: dzo
• Fabric Origins: denim, Madras, cordovan, angora, limerick, suede

• Instrumentality: flugel horn, concertina, glockenspiel, balalaika, didgeridoo, zither
• Bluff: defluxion
• Decomposed composers: tavern scuttlebutt, jointly strategized, temporarily employ Jerry’s ex, endure those born in early August, loafer lover, classifier’s offspring
• Bluff: fulham
• Shabop-shabop: In the jungle…, blue moon, get a job, tutti frutti, breakin’ up is hard to do, I told the witch doctor

• Everything’s Relative: prodigal son, grandfather clause, sob sister, mother of pearl, farmer’s daughter, bob’s your uncle
• Bluff: waywiser
• Football Foolishness (Mascots): picaresque jalopy, cerulean satanics, tipperary tanglers, lucky lackeys, o’hara chivalrous champions, stag’s lexander come-on perhaps, parsimonious with detergent
• Bluff: ganosis
• Musical Mileaux: Catfish Row, Sweetapple Ohio, New England town and Heaven, Beekman Place and Peckerwood, a street in St. Tropez, foul fetid Philadelphia

• Alternate Definitions: free, shadow, draw, flash, tooth, game, call
• Bluff: lexan
• What’s Ailing You?: water on the knee, tennis elbow, heartburn, black eye, shin splints, stitch in the side
• Bluff: nacket
• Role Play: Henry Fonda, Groucho Marx, Orson Wells, Kathryn Hepburn, Walter Matthau, John Wayne

• Definitions and Derivations: constable, rocks in his head, through thick and thin, whistle stop, back to square one, play fast and loose
• Bluff: bolly
• Odd Man Out: balloon/parachute/glove/handshake, Panama City/Mexico City/Oklahoma City/NYC, gold / aluminum / oxygen / boron, bath/brother/file/type, $2/$5/$10/$20, wiener/frankfurter/salami/bologna
• Bluff: farctate

• Addenda: plugola, running dog, skunk works, boomerang baby, dead drop, dark matter
• Bluff: calenture
• Middle Ground: Otto von Bismark Antony, Geronimonet, Napoleon Spinks, Lewis Carrollie Fingers, Chopandora’s box, Marshall McLuhan Solo, Peggy Fleming the Merciless
• Bluff: wowser
• TV or not TV: Car 54 Where Are You?, All in the Family, 77 Sunset Strip, Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Monkees, Laverne and Shirley

• Tables and Contents: credenza, high boy, commode, drum table, Governor Winthrop desk, secretary
• Bluff: braxy
• Heteronyms: desert, shower, conduct, intimate, frequent, extract, appropriate
• Bluff: winklehawk
• For the Birds: Canada goose, cardin’-al, baba-link, King fissure, whipper-will, Hoss prey, E-gal

• Cross Words: aver, attar, aerie, tarn, olio, stele
• Errata: definition of circumflex
• Bluff: keld
• A Capital Idea: Carac kers, Al jeers, Lon don, War saw, bag dad, lexan pest, ed in burrow
• Bluff: tholobate
• Them’s fighting words: Bunker Hill, John Paul Jones, Farragut in Mobile Bay, McAuliffe in Bastogne, Julius Caesar in Pontus, Dewey in Manilla Bay, Oliver Hazard Perry

• Odd Man Out: Don Quixote, 1600, Zangara, cairn, baseball or moons?, log
• Bluff: doggo
• Taking Sides: Dardanelles, Khyber Pass, Rubicon, La Manche, Pillars of Hercules, Deadly Desert
• Bluff: chavish
• Couldn’t Be Verse: Sidewalks of New York, Meet Me in St. Louis, Camp Granada, Astor Bar, Battle of New Orleans, In My Room