Games_World_of_Puzzles 2019-12-01

74 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES december 2019

ANSWERS

WILD CARDS

26 HE’S MAKIN’ A LIST

1. Ballistics


2. Listerine


3. Cyclist


4. Listless


5. Alistair


6. Listing


7. Enlist


8. Cellist


9. Philistine
   10. Listening
   11. Glistening
   12. Calisthenics
   13. Blistex
   14. Callisto
   15. Holistic
   16. Realistic
   17. Blacklist
   18. Calista

2 6 MIXED-UP MOVIES

GROUP 1

1. Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island, What’s Eating Gilbert
   Grape, Django Unchained, Catch Me If You Can)


2. Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown, Speed Racer, Into the Wild,
   Milk, The Girl Next Door)


3. Margot Robbie (The Legend of Tarzan, The Big Short, Mary
   Queen of Scots, The Wolf of Wall Street)


4. Brad Pitt (Killing Them Softly, Burn After Reading, The
   Mexican, Interview with the Vampire, Seven Years in Tibet)
   Bonus movie: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

GROUP 2

1. Chris Hemsworth (Thor: The Dark World, Star Trek, In the
   Heart of the Sea, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Cabin
   in the Woods)


2. Tessa Thompson (Annihilation, Avengers: Endgame, Sorry
   to Bother You, Dear White People, Thor: Ragnarok)


3. Emma Thompson (Love Actually, Stranger than Fiction,
   Saving Mr. Banks, Sense and Sensibility)


4. Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace,
   Clash of the Titans, Schindler’s List, A Million Ways to Die in
   the West)
   Bonus movie: Men in Black: International

GROUP 3

1. Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter and the Order of the
   Phoenix, The King’s Speech, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie
   and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish)


2. Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The
   Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the
   Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Blue Jasmine, Robin Hood)


3. Anne Hathaway (Ella Enchanted, The Princess Diaries, The
   Dark Knight Rises, Alice Through the Looking Glass,
   Interstellar, Bride Wars)


4. Sandra Bullock (Practical Magic, Demolition Man, Divine
   Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Miss Congeniality, The Net)
   Bonus movie: Ocean’s Eight

GROUP 4

1. Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Justice League, The Man from
   U.N.C.L.E.)


2. Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Surrogates, Bringing Out the
   Dead, Don King: Only in America, Guardians of the Galaxy
   Vol. 2)


3. Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Star Trek Beyond,
   Run, Fat Boy, Run)


4. Tom Cruise (The Last Samurai, Eyes Wide Shut, Minority
   Report, Risky Business, The Outsiders)
   Bonus movie: Mission Impossible: Fallout

26 GO 4 IT!

A: balaclava, catamaran, maharaja

E: defenseless, effervescent, referee

I: gingivitis, inhibiting, nihilistic

O: cookbook, footstool, voodoo

2 6 STATE OF OPPOSITION

Connecticut (connect/i/cut)

26 GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY

24 (24 × 24 = 576)

26 WHAT’S NEXT?

³¹/ȡ. When the improper fractions in the series are written as

mixed numbers (integers followed by proper fractions), they

all have the property that the sum of the numerator and

denominator add up to the integer:

3 zƔDž, 4 zƔȟ, 5 zƔȠ, 5 sƔȟ

The next such number is 6 zƔȡ, or tzƔȡ.

26 COMMONPLACES

They all have homophones (cypress, louse, soul, deli, air/heir,

gnome, wails/whales, grease, gall, niece, roam, bolder, vale/

veil, eerie).

27 CHRISTMAS MEDLEY

1-k. “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”

2- r. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

3 - c. “Away in a Manger”

4 - x. “White Christmas”

5 - j. “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”

6 - h. “Here Comes Santa Claus”

7 - y. “Winter Wonderland”

8-n. “Let It Snow”

9-s. “Silent Night”

10-t. “Silver Bells”

11-l. “Jingle Bells”

12-a. “(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays”

13-v. “Up on the House Top”

14-m. “Joy to the World”

15-q. “O Holy Night”

16-d. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

17-w. “We Three Kings”

18-f. “Frosty the Snowman”

19-b. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”

20 - u. “The Christmas Song”

21-o. “My Favorite Things”

22 - g. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”

23-i. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”

24-p. “O Christmas Tree”

25-e. “Do You Hear What I Hear”