Battle of the Network Stars
YOGA ROTH EWES ZEST RINK
you are the weakest link
1. OURS
2. Mortdecai, radiomimetic
3. foaled caul rays
4. OURS
5. ice storm, ecoterrorism
6. underrated flower
7. scream; soar, come
8. considerations incoordinate
9. boogies, bogus, Big Eyes
10. dog, go; scat, cat
11. OURS
12. sirocco, mote, site, Morocco
13. detestable (tele)
14. narcoleptic, Eric Clapton; "Waterfalls", Fats Waller
15. OURS
16. Hackensack; hens, ack-ack
17. trivia (art)
18. ABode GEode
RAin O-Ring Abraham, George
HAMster GEst
19. Brighton, Britain; Brighton, Crichton, frighten
20. able, cane
21. steampunk; sunk, Te, amp
22. lime, sublime
23. OURS
24. OURS
25. pitiable, potable; gross, egress
26. fuel rods, Rules of Order
27. (g)antelope
28. OURS
29. alterposal; aorta spell
30. say ten in (ninety As)
31. peri OD?" "Swit, hon (periods with ON)
32. Socrates, coasters coarsest
33. gear, arrearage
34. OURS
35. equinoctial; in, Oct., I equal
36. stinking, king, gray, sting ray
37. OURS
38. Monet, monotone; Monet, money
39. Wyatt Earp; I, a twerp
40. Lyon, only
41. (t)error
42. over the transom; overt, het ransom
43. fisher, fissure
44. Aphrodite; rod, hit, ape
45. homeowner; honer, meow
46. stripless (S, Triple S, S)
47. pertly, Tyler Perry
48. everlasting, evangelist, elevating, negative, vintage, tagine
49. prime ledning rates; president, malinger
50. OURS
51. genet, jennet; viv(err)id
52. Eva Green's sneer gave
53. detox
54. ubiquitous, bouquets
55. OURS
56. dunce's cap, picosecond
57. OURS
58. Eno, pa, Clara Bow
59. spaces, escape
60. spin doctor; rot, cod, nips
61. Cy(there)an
62. Karate Kid; eek, carotid
63. ailments, sentimental
64. Naples, planes, panels, sleep apnea
65. panaceas, pancreas
66. renew, reef
67. asymmetry; try, as, Emmy
68. obscurant, abstract noun
69. eye, neigh
70. orthotype, you're the top
71. OURS
72. EPs transparent
73. OURS
74. Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original
75. The Interview starring Seth Rogen
76. not-yet-candidate Jeb Bush
F-1. BNNQT
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NSPTF
F-2. S
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F-3. BEMINE
ENAMOR
MAMMON
IMMUNE
NOONES
ERNEST
F-4. OBLATA BHABAR LABILE ABIPON TALOSE ARENES
BHABAR HEBONA ABORAD BORANI ANANAS RADISH
LABILE ABORAD BODICE IRISES LACERS EDESSA
ABIPON BORANI IRISES PASTIS ONEIDA NISSAN
TALOSE ANANAS LACERS ONEIDA SARDAR ESSART
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BORA ODIC RISE ACER
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F-5. OURS
X-1. Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. von Braun
X-2. The quick brown fax psyched secretaries: paper had always been white.
X-3. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
X-4. Well, that's another day that's gone by and I haven't had to use algebra.
X-5. Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by any competent journalist or historian. J. Pulitzer
X-6. It is raining today, the neat kind of rain...soaking, slow and pattery. M. L. Griffis
X-7. It musta been tough on your mother - not having any children! Ann Lowell in 42nd Street
X-8. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is. G. Carlin
X-9. Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. D. Arbus
X-10. The horror of a line that just realized it's been drawn toward infinity. Charles Simic
X-11. MC E T E R E G O I S T I MC
R V U I J A E E A P A C E
E A R N E S T S N O B O E
A D E S T E S T S T O P S
M E E T S T E E T E R S E
E N N E A D S E S I E E G Einstein's replaces
R E G I M E A M E N T E E 'relativity'
S O L N S N M A E S T R O
I N E S T L E D S T O O D THEORY formed by words w/o E
B E E P S A S T A E P U E (18A 35A 40A 47A 7D 8D)
E L M O E C H E W I E S T
A M E E R E O E S N K E I
MC E N T E R E D P S A L MC
Altogether we have
Einstein's THEORY of relativity or E = MC squared
X-12. F A N T A S T I C S U S H I
A A X R H T T N
V E R T I G O A D A M A N T
O R O O S G M E
R E A L M P O S T E R I O R
T E I D N C
S L E N D E R S T O R A G E
T A O D
A P P E N D S P A R A B L E
T R D E A U
I T I N E R A N T S T R A P
S V L W T H R A
T E A T I M E E M O T I O N
I T O E R N T T
C L E A N D A N G E R O U S
C-1. Second-shortest bar joke in the world: "A dyslexic walks into a bra." Shortest: "A man walks into a bar. 'Ouch!'"
C-2. Vindictive reprisal consists of a shallow platter most advantageously proffered in a gelid state.
C-3. Narcolepsy is so unpredictable. Why, often, in the midst of my encoding cryptograms to submit, it can suddenly
C-4. The tribe has spoken, unanimously voting off Survivor host Jeff Probst, who has no immunity idol.
C-5. OURS
C-6. OURS
C-7. Archaic neon-lit arcade arch over arcane machine drew droves toward its mysterious edifice.