Games_World_of_Puzzles 2019-12-01

26 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES december 2019

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word LIST, either in the beginning, middle, or end. Word lengths are indicated

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1. The science of projectiles


2. Scope competitor __


3. Tour de France racer __


4. Apathetic


5. Ice Station Zebra author MacLean


6. Leaning, as a ship __


7. Join the military


8. Yo-Yo Ma, for one __


9. Person hostile to arts and culture


10. Sleigh bells ring, are you... __


11. In the lane, snow is...


12. Jumping jacks, e.g.


13. ChapStick alternative __


14. Second-largest moon of Jupiter


15. Kind of medicine


16. Not prone to fantasy __


17. With The, James Spader TV series __


18. Actress Flockhart __
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FOR THE RECORD

MIXED-UP MOVIES

Every mixed-up movie title below is a clue based on real movie titles. To make

a single title, one, two, or three adjacent words have been pulled from several

movies starring the same actor. So the title PARENTHOOD REVOLUTIONS

GOTTA BREAK SPEED would lead you to the answer KEANU REEVES because

he appeared in the movies Parenthood, The Matrix Revolutions, Something’s

Gotta Give, Point Break, and Speed. Furthermore, each group of mixed up

movie titles will generate the cast list of a real movie. Can you fix the mix-up

and get each of the real movies too?

GROUP 1

1. Shutter What’s Unchained If You Can


2. Lords Speed Into the Milk Next Door


3. The Legend of the Big Queen Wolf


4. Softly Reading the Mexican Interview in Tibet

GROUP 2

1. The Dark Star in the Heart of the Huntsman in the Woods


2. Annihilation Avengers Sorry to Bother Dear Thor


3. Actually Stranger than Mr. Sensibility


4. Phantom Titans List Ways to Die

GROUP 3

1. The Order of Speech in Wonderland Factory Fish


2. An Unexpected Button and the Kingdom of the Blue Hood


3. Enchanted Princess Rises Through the Interstellar Wars


4. Practical Demolition Secrets Miss the Net

GROUP 4

1. Steel Justice from U.N.C.L.E.


2. Pulp Surrogates Bringing Out
   the King Guardians


3. Dead Fuzz Beyond Fat Boy


4. Samurai Eyes Report Risky Outsiders

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GO 4 IT!

Each clue below can be answered

by a word that includes four

occurrences of the vowel shown,

and no other vowels. Can you

determine the words? As a hint, the

answers in each group will be in

alphabetical order.

A

Ski mask

Type of boat

Indian prince

E

Totally vulnerable

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Court official

I

Gum disease

Restricting, as growth

Believing the world is meaningless

O

Recipe source

Ottoman

Black magic

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GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY

What is the smallest whole number

to be squared that yields a 7

somewhere in its product?

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WHAT’S NEXT?

What improper fraction logically

comes next in this sequence?

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STATE OF OPPOSITION

The name of which U.S. state

consists of two antonyms separated

by a vowel?

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COMMONPLACES

What property do the names of

these locations from around the

globe share?

CYPRUS

LAOS

SEOUL

DELHI

EIRE

NOME

WALES

GREECE

GAUL

NICE

ROME

BOULDER

VAIL

ERIE

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