Acrostics
AUTHOR: (Bob) Uecker
TITLE: Catcher in the Wry
QUOTATION: People asked me what was the best way to catch a knuckle ball. I told them that what worked for me was to wait for the ball to stop rolling, then just pick it up.
Umps
Ethel
Cajoled
Kowtow
Emphasis
Roth
Cakewalk
Appetite
Tattled
Cuffs
Estop
Rowboat
Inkwell
Nothing
Tarts
Habit
Embattled
Watch
Roll
Youth
Hawk
AUTHOR: S(tephen) King
TITLE: Skeleton Crew
QUOTATION: A short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. That is not the same thing as an affair or a marriage, but kisses can be sweet, and their very brevity forms their own attraction.
Softest
Kentucky Derby
Inherit the Wind
Natasha
Grass skirt
Savoir-faire
Kashmir
Embarrass
Lion tamer
Earthquake
Tacit
Observation
North Star
Creationism
Rotate
Effigy
Washing
AUTHOR: John Crosbie
TITLE: Dictionary (of Puns)
QUOTATION: When Sam Goldwyn was at his height as a motion-picture producer, it is said that he rejected the script for a movie called “The Optimist” because he didn't think that a story about an eye doctor would sell.
Jots
Othello
Hawaii
Nestled
Cow town
Rapped
Omitted
Shatters
Backlash
I Love You to Death
Elicits
Sorghum
Depth charge
Initiated
Chided
Tempestuous
Iberian
Onward
Nastiest
After
Rhythm
Yucca
AUTHOR: C(edric) Belfrage
TITLE: Away from It All
QUOTATION: [Tangier] was the nearest thing to the Glamorous East I had seen outside of the Fox Westwood Hills lot. You wonder whether in such a case the movies were any longer borrowing from life, or it was life now that took its cue from Hollywood.
Cowered
Boohoo
Emory
Loft
Foghorns
Reviewed
Achilles
Gone with the Wind
Emotions
Assortment
White wines
Anguishes
Yellow
Foxholes
Roosts
On the Waterfront
Mariah Carey
It Takes Two
Thoroughfares
Awful
Latitude
Longitude
AUTHOR: Martin M. Goldwyn
TITLE: (How a Fly Walks) Upside Down
QUOTATION: The flapping wings of the hummingbird are so rapid that … only a misty outline can be seen …. Its wings flap forty to fifty times each second, and it has been estimated that its speed in flight reaches about seven hundred miles per hour.
Memorable
Avalanche
Rapport
Thereby
Iterated
Necessary
Metaphors
Go-ahead
Outhit
Lashings
Definite
Whipping
Youngsters
Night table
Unfasten
Pent
Shimmed
Institutes
Deftly
Efficient
Demands
Officious
Withholds
Nibs
AUTHOR: (Carolyn) Wells
TITLE: (A) Nonsense Anthology
QUOTATION: The sense of nonsense will enable us not only to discern pure nonsense, but to consider intelligently nonsense of various degrees of purity. Absence of sense is not necessarily nonsense, any more than absence of justice is injustice.
Winnebago
Enunciation
Lennon
Leanness
Sayers
Nonentity
Opportune
Necessities
Suddenness
Efficiency
Nelson
Seventies
Ebullient
Adjourns
Nocturnes
Troubles
Horse Feathers
Objections
Looseness
Olfactory
Gneiss
Yes-men
AUTHOR: S(arah) Ballard
TITLE: Golf in America
QUOTATION: American women golfers were … hampered by … fashions. Wide-brimmed straw hats, starched leg-of-mutton sleeves, corseted waistlines, and … ankle-length skirts … were enchanting subjects for the illustrators … but … infuriating to their victims.
Swatters
Buckwheat
Arrows
Lubricants
Lowish
Attends
Reassessing
Demented
Grandmother
Outfielders
Lightweight
Favorites
Injunctive
Nightly
Ammunition
Mews
Establishment
Ricochets
Interferes
Coffee breaks
Arnold Palmer
AUTHOR: (Dave) Bryant
TITLE: Reader's Digest
QUOTATION: A woman borrowed a video of “The King and I” from the library. The next day she returned it, huffily slammed it down, and exclaimed, “There's nothing about Elvis in here!”
Behind
Rush
Yield
Andromeda
Nibble
Thief
Rewind
Extortion
Avoid
Damn
Everywhere
Retain
South Dakota
Do the
Income tax
Guffaw
Elmer Gantry
Shellfish
Timon
AUTHOR: Woody Allen
TITLE: The UFO Menace
QUOTATION: To us a century seems quite long, particularly if you are holding an IOU, but by astronomical standards it is over in a second. For that reason, it is always best to carry a toothbrush and be ready to leave on a moment's notice.
Warranty
Ornate
Oasis
Day of Atonement
Youngsters
Active
Loquacious
Lumbago
Ethelred the Unready
Nasal
Toady
Honorably
Eras
Unbuttons
Fobbed
Optimistic
Mortars
Early
Noised
Altruistic
Christians
Evocation
AUTHOR: (Judy Jones and William) Wilson
TITLE: (An) Incomplete Education
QUOTATION: The French have them, the Germans have them, even the Russians have them … why shouldn't we? Admittedly, in a country that defines “scholarship” as free tuition for quarterbacks, intellectuals tend to be a marginal lot.
Wombat
Inky
Lufthansa
Shill
Owners
Number
Infirm
Niggardly
Chatters
Other
Mather
Pharaoh
Lithe
Enervate
Thatched
Evacuates
Equivocated
Deems
Unhealthful
Chevy
Anthem
Taft
Insisted
Otters
Nonetheless
AUTHOR: S(cott) Rice
TITLE: (Dark and Stormy:) The Final Conflict
QUOTATION: Neutral sources are overrated. They usually lack the emotional involvement to be interesting. You will get much more colorful data, the kind that sells books, from partisans, those with an ox to grind or whose ax has been gored.
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Revolution
Inge
Camus
Exposure
Toolboxes
Hot Shots
Egged on
Freshest
Isthmuses
No-hitter
Authority
Lawyers
Contaminate
Omaha
Null and void
Foreknowledge
Lowball
Invertebrate
Chromatic
Turkey
AUTHOR: E.M. Forster
TITLE: Howard's End
QUOTATION: Take my word for it, that smile was simply stunning, and it is only you and I who will be fastidious, and complain that true joy begins in the eyes, and that the eyes of Jacky did not accord with her smile, but were anxious and hungry.
Exhausted
Memories of Midnight
Fisk
Outwitting
Rubaiyat
Sidney Sheldon
Three Men and a Baby
Eric Clapton
Raisins
Howdy
Out of harm's way
Willy-nilly
Attitudes
Rejoicing
Dynasty
Saudi
Elephant jokes
Nuthatch
Downtown
AUTHOR: Gloria Buckner
TITLE: Vile Puns
QUOTATION: Due to your excessive consumption of egg and lemon sauces, Mr. Pigout, we must pull all your teeth and replace them with a chrome plate, but you'll soon find there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.
Galleys
Little
Off the Wall
Rommel
Impetuous
Autographed
Box lunch
Unhurried
Couch potato
Knights of Malta
Nuance
Elysium
Rehearse
Vowel
I met a
Leprosy
Edict
Phoneme
Unscorned
Needle
Stoops to
AUTHOR: Richard Lederer
TITLE: (The Miracle of) Language
QUOTATION: Sunday supplement jeremiads tell us of the decline of language …. But whatever you may be hearing about the closing of the American mind, there has never been a more passionate moment in the history of the American love affair with language.
Rhone
In a jiffy
Cash
Helen Hayes
About Last Night
Remove
Deep Space Nine
Laugh-In
Eleanor Rigby
Detente
Emulation
Run the gamut
Empire of the Sun
Ruth
Left off
Abrasive
Nadia Comaneci
Gamma rays
Utmost
Above the Law
Gordie Howe
Elements
AUTHOR: T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence
TITLE: Seven Pillars (of Wisdom)
QUOTATION: All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
Thwarted
Employed
Loathsome
Affray
W.B. Yeats
Rubbery
Edith Head
Nostradamus
Chastity
Equanimity
Sweet tooth
Embody
Venerate
Earth Day
Notwithstanding
Pumice stone
Immensely
Leif Erikson
Laminated
Afterthought
Renders
Sheikh
Connectors
Directional Puzzles
Double Trouble
Dropouts
Fill-ins
Four Corners
Groupies
Hidden Meanings
peruse To
read (4) orexamine (7), esp. withgreat (5)care (4).obfuscate To
make (4)obscure (7); toconfuse (7).peremptory
Imperious (9);dictatorial (11);expressed (9) sodecisively (10) andconclusively (12) as toadmit (5) of nofurther (7)delay (5),discussion (10), orcontradiction (13).nominal In
name (4)only (4); sosmall (5) as to beunimportant (11) orinsignificant (13).propinquity
Nearness (8) intime (4) orplace (5);closeness (9) ofrelationship (12);kinship (7).recidivism
Habitual (8) orchronic (7)relapse (7) into aformer (6)pattern (7) ofbehavior (8), esp.criminal (8).extrapolate To
infer (5) orestimate (8) byprojecting (10)known (5)facts (5) orfigures (7).misprision
Misconduct (10) inpublic (6)office (6);failure (7) toprevent (7) orreport (6) acrime (5).sciamachy A
fighting (8) withshadows (7) orimaginary (9)enemies (7). Shadowboxing?umbrage
Offense (7) orresentment (10).
efficacious Being
capable (7) ofproducing (9) theintended (8)result (6).natter To
talk (4)naggingly (9), mostly tooneself (7), with theintention (9) of beingoverheard (9).gratuitous
Granted (7) withoutcharge (6) orobligation (10);given (5) withoutcause (5) orjustification (13).mitigate To
make (4) orbecome (6)milder (6) orless (4)severe (6).dishabille
State (5) of beingonly (4)partly (6)dressed (7).asperse To
spread (6)false (5) ordamaging (8)charges (7) orinnuendo (8); tobesmirch (8) (one's)reputation (10).expatiate To
discuss (7) atgreat (5)length (6) or indetail (6).heuristic Applied to a
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warning (7)enjoining (9) (someone) fromspecific (8)acts (4) orpractices (9).exigency An
emergency (9) orcritical (8)situation (9)calling (7) forimmediate (9)action (6) orattention (9).
flout To
scoff (5) at orshow (4)contempt (8) for.fastidious
Careful (7) andexacting (9);difficult (9) toplease (6); havinghigh (4) and oftencapricious (10)standards (9);refined (7) in anoversensitive (13)way (3); showingexcessive (9)delicacy (8).perspicacious
Highly (6)perceptive (10); havingkeen (4)judgment (8) orunderstanding (13).didactic
Intended (8) forteaching (8);morally (7)instructive (11);boringly (8)pedantic (8) ormoralistic (10).inexorable
Not (3) to bepersuaded (9) orinfluenced (10) byentreaty (8);adamant (7);relentless (10).maieutic Pertaining to or resembling the
Socratic (8)process (7) ofhelping (7) (a person) tobring (5)forth (5) andbecome (6)aware (5) oflatent (6)ideas (5).discomfit To
frustrate (9) theplans (5) orexpectations (12) of; todisconcert (10) ordistress (8).fatuous
Complacently (12)foolish (7) orstupid (6).distrait
Absent (6) -minded (6);inattentive (11).reify To
think (5) of ortreat (5) anabstraction (11) as if it wereconcrete (8).
expeditious
Done (4)speedily (8) or with greatefficiency (10).florescence A
flowering (9); aperiod (6)marked (6) bysuccess (7) orachievement (11).apocryphal Of
doubtful (8)authorship (10) orauthenticity (12); notgenuine (7).credulity An
inclination (11) tobelieve (7) tooreadily (7);easily (6)persuaded (9).evince
Show (4)plainly (7);demonstrate (11)clearly (7) orconvincingly (12).sciolism
Superficial (11)knowledge (9) orlearning (8).callipygian
Having (6)shapely (7)buttocks (8).exonerate To
free (4) fromblame (5);exculpate (9).propitiate To
cause (5) to befavorably (9)inclined (8); towin (3) orregain (6) thegood (4)will (4) of.extant
Still (5)existing (8);not (3)defunct (7) ordestroyed (9).
meticulous
Extremely (9) orexcessively (11)careful (7).inveterate
Firmly (6)established (11) over anextended (8)duration (8) as ahabit (5);persisting (10) inhabitual (8)behavior (9) oflong (4)standing (8).inure To
make (4) (one)accustomed (10) tosomething (9)undesirable (11); tohabituate (9).extenuate To
lessen (6) ordownplay (8) theseriousness (11) of anoffense (7),error (5), etc., bygiving (6) anexcuse (6).vitiate To
diminish (8) thevalue (5) of; tocorrupt (7); torender (6)legally (7)ineffective (11).fulsome
Offensively (11)excessive (9) orinsincere (9).Zeitgeist The
spirit (6) of thetime (4); thethinking (8) andfeeling (7)identified (10) with aperiod (6).hebetude The
quality (7) orcondition (9) of beingdull (4) orlethargic (9).mores
Folkways (8) andcustoms (7) that areconsidered (10)conducive (9) to thewelfare (7) ofsociety (7) and throughobservance (10) have becomemorally (7)binding (7).troglodyte
Prehistoric (11)cave (4)dweller (7); aperson (6) whochooses (7) tolive (4) inseclusion (9); (anyone) havingoutmoded (8)habits (6) oropinions (8).
Hidden Names
American Authors
Ernest Hemingway
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Wolfe
John Steinbeck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Rock ‘n’ Roll Stars
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Fats Domino
James Brown
Jackie Wilson
Aretha Franklin
Gloria Estefan
Alanis Morissette
Kurt Cobain
Film Stars
Laurence Olivier
Brad Pitt
Alec Baldwin
Molly Ringwald
Sylvester Stallone
Meryl Streep
Whoopi Goldberg
U.S. Presidents
Rutherford B. Hayes
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Dwight Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Andrew Johnson
U.S. Artists
Winslow Homer
Frederic Remington
Grandma Moses
Norman Rockwell
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
Georgia O'Keefe
Jacob Lawrence
Thinkers
Isaac Newton
René Descartes
Immanuel Kant
Francis Bacon
Albert Einstein
Camille Paglia
Barbara Jordan
TV's Biggest Stars
Milton Berle
Walter Cronkite
Johnny Carson
Captain Kangaroo
Lucille Ball
Roseanne Barr
Ellen Degeneres
Jerry Seinfeld
Hidden Words
Missing Vowels
Missing Words
Lost and Found
Missing Links
Mixers
PEARL, OUTCAST, ADULTERY, MINISTER, THE SCARLET LETTER
PODIUM, STRINGS, CONDUCTOR, WOODWINDS, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SAMBA, LAMBADA, CARIOCA, BOSSA NOVA, BRAZILIAN DANCES
TILDE, GRAVE, MACRON, CIRCUMFLEX, DIACRITICAL MARKS
COURIER, SENTINEL, OBSERVER, SPECTATOR, NEWSPAPER NAMES
MICE, GRAPES, TORTILLA, DEPRESSION, JOHN STEINBECK
RAIN, GHOSTS, INTERFERENCE, ROLLING PICTURE, TELEVISION PROBLEMS
OILER, BRUSH, BROACH, TWEEZERS, WATCHMAKER(')S TOOLS
TULIP, FLUTE, COUPE, SAUCER, CHAMPAGNE GLASSES
MAPLE, LOCUST, POPLAR, CHESTNUT, DECIDUOUS TREES
TUREEN, CHARGER, COMPOTE, DECANTER, SERVING CONTAINERS
PIPE, SOCKET, MONKEY, CROWFOOT, KINDS OF WRENCHES
SABRINA, TIFFANYS, CHARADE, MY FAIR LADY, AUDREY HEPBURN
JUNO, DIANA, VESTA, FORTUNA, ROMAN GODDESSES
SONG, SWAMP, VESPER, LINCOLN, KINDS OF SPARROWS
KEATS, BYRON, SHELLEY, TENNYSON, ENGLISH POETS
Providers
Shape Changers
Shared Pairs
Words Within Words
ABROGATE
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ACRIMONY
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ADUMBRATE
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ALLEVIATE
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ALLOGRAPH
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ANTIPATHY
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ARROGATE
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AUSPICIOUS
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CHRONOLOGY
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CIRCUITOUS
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COMPUNCTION
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CONDUCIVE
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CONGRESS
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CONSPICUOUS
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DIONYSIAN
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EFFICACIOUS
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EGREGIOUS
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EXACERBATE
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FACTIOUS
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FEASIBLE
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HOMOLOGOUS
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IGNOMINIOUS
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LOGOGRIPH
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LOQUACIOUS
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OPPROBRIUM
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PEREMPTORY
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TEMPORIZE
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