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October 25 2011

Incognito Titles

purse All of us should be warmed up by now. Last week we dabbled in titles that carry two anagram signposts (Breaking Bad, Rolling Stones, Knock-Out), and lately a few of us have been dipping into some turbo Scrabble bouts, seeing how the best shuffle their tiles.

Put those two elements together, and you have this week’s Storm. The game is simple. Pick a film, a song, a TV show, a book – any title that includes an anagram signpost – and disguise your choice by jumbling that title’s remaining fodder. Not with me? Like this:

Frat-Boy Comedy = Purse [Superbad]

Stones standard = A JFK Clash [Jumping Jack Flash]

African comedy = Hug Steed’s Tomb [The Gods Must Be Crazy]

African/Oz drama = Retro Man [Breaker Morant]

Like that last one, the signpost can be embedded (here the indicator is ‘break’). Though bear in mind the signpost can’t be sitting amid the fodder – but rather occupy the title’s opening or closing position.

To spice the Storm, let’s all adopt the name of a notable auteur, to camouflage your true identity. Second to that, we can submit our incognito titles as puzzles to solve, numbering our own submissions. Hence Andy Warhol, on declaring the alias, can submit his/her first three ideas as AW1, AW2 and AW3, Just as Woody Allen would be WA1 and WA 2 for their opening bids.

That way, we can solve the posts, and avoid the muddle of duplicating numbers along the way. Come late Thursday, once we have submitted, solved and saluted the new works, if you can hand-pick your best five for final judgement, then Luis Bunuel would be chuffed.

Comments

Alfred Hitchcock — 25 October at 09:02AM

AH1: Double Jeopardy = Café

Alfred Hitchcock — 25 October at 09:04AM

Not perhaps eligible for this Storm, but entertaining nevertheless:

AH?: Strangers on a Train = The

DA — 25 October at 09:10AM

Alfred, were you truncated? How does Strangers on a Train equal The?

[Yet to solve AH1...]

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 09:12AM

AH1 = Face/Off

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:13AM

IR1: Ray Charles number = Joker had act

HGL — 25 October at 09:16AM

HGL1: Fat Satan's fifty.

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:18AM

Um HGL, shouldn't there be two parts to your clue?

HGL — 25 October at 09:19AM

HGL2: Mad aliens

DA — 25 October at 09:19AM

Aha, of course. Auteurs, if we could submit a clue as well about the disguised work. Give us arthouse snobs a chance.

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 09:22AM

BW1: Back from the dead: Lee bet

HGL — 25 October at 09:24AM

Yes Ivan. My apologies:

HGL1: Prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
HGL2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:25AM

BW1 = Beetlejuice

Holly Go Lightly — 25 October at 09:25AM

C'est moi:

HGL1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
HGL2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

Alfred Hitchcock — 25 October at 09:30AM

AH2: Austrian number = Fears in Venom

AH3: Upstairs/Downstairs debut = Deadly Hoon Shot Rotten Golfer

AH4: ... Mousetrap = Road Film

AH5: More double jeopardy = I Ran At Son

That's my set.

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:30AM

IR2: Prodigious work = Chumpy bit

Holly Golightly — 25 October at 09:33AM

HGL1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
HGL2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

HGL3: Phil Collins ballad: Dandy apiaries

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:34AM

HGL1: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:38AM

HGL2: A damsel in distress

Holly Golightly — 25 October at 09:38AM

HGL1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
HGL2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

HGL3: Phil Collins ballad: Dandy apiaries

HGL4: Gaga standard: Farce

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:43AM

HGL3: Another Day in Paradise

Holly Golightly — 25 October at 09:44AM

HGL1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
HGL2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

HGL3: Phil Collins ballad: Dandy apiaries

HGL4: Gaga standard: Farce

HGL5: Dickens classic: Wiz-cult zenith

That's me done.

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:45AM

HGL4: Poker face

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 09:47AM

HGL5: Martin Chuzzlewit

Alfred Hitchcock — 25 October at 09:55AM

No, DA, I wasn't truncated. But neither is it an anagram clue. Somewhere between a rebus and a deletion.

The Face/Off clue wasn't hard, but I was pleased to find a place in the anagram to put the slash!

Stanley Kubrick — 25 October at 09:55AM

Short but sweet:

SK1: BBC SF TV = How

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 10:00AM

OS1: Western Camp = Anatomic Bunk

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 10:05AM

IR3: Wartime drama = Be diehards

Stanley Kubrick — 25 October at 10:11AM

Another brief but cute one:

SK1: BBC SF TV = How
SK2: Bryan Brown TV series = Astle

DA — 25 October at 10:23AM

SK1 - Doctor Who [with a generous clue]

SK2 - Twisted Tales [I had to look that up, also finding another near-possibility: The Last Hit!]

Spike Milligan — 25 October at 10:25AM

SM1: Death in New Mexico = Donated harem
SM2: Arnie bereaved = Tall oracle
SM3: Morgan or John = China
SM4: Eponymous star = Thrill averse
SM5: Joel & Ethan at play = Not reliable
SM6: Lost at sea = Had lethal hippie
SM7: Almost lost at sea = Pointed shoe
SM8: Welsh threesome = Lawn tycoon

DA — 25 October at 10:39AM

SM2 - looks soooo close to one Arnie show, Total Recall, but that would be Cellar (once you total Recall...]

SM5 - Intolerable Cruelty [love the Coens]

SM7 - The Poseidon Adventure [Spike, do you rate Adventure as a seaworthy indicator. I think it has holes in it.]

Spike Milligan — 25 October at 11:09AM

DA: Thought it was worth floating, but happy to sink it. You may also think the SM6 (different) signpost a bit iffy, but still worth a dabble.

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 11:10AM

BW2: All-day sucker: Both grin

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 11:17AM

BW3: Downbeat musical: Tinker hard

Spike Milligan — 25 October at 11:24AM

SM9: $3 spaghetti = Hotheaded ghetto band

DA — 25 October at 11:30AM

Spike, you are the maestro of mangles. That's a dandy anagram:

SM9: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 11:43AM

BW3: Plotting by starlight = Nearby murders

Spike Milligan — 25 October at 11:43AM

Thanks, DA - but I suspect you solved it faster than I created it...

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 11:44AM

opps should have been BW4: Plotting by starlight = Nearby murders

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 12:16PM

OB2: An omen for Nirvana = Death phrase

Luis Bunuel — 25 October at 12:29PM

First couple are probably too short.

LB1: Supernatural bathhouse = Waya
LB2: Cold killers = RAF

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 12:32PM

I see DA already mentioned Bunuel. Renaming:

RWF1: Supernatural bathhouse = Waya
RWF2: Cold killers = RAF

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 12:35PM

RWF3: One wedding and lots of funerals = No-no

DA — 25 October at 12:38PM

Lovely work OS, and good to see some song titles being pulled into play.

OS2: Heart-Shaped Box

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 12:46PM

NE1: Agent hangs ten = Pinot
NE2: Dr Seuss, served with juice? = Dress egg up
NE3: Beyonce's down = Retard Leigh
NE4: He's got rhythm! = Rick broke neck

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 12:59PM

NE5: Springsteen rocks = Think, dear

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 01:04PM

NE6: Kevin Bacon caught on camera = Foto

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 01:07PM

NE7: Doris Day's alter-ego = Jean

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 01:24PM

IR4 Sleeping phenomenon = No gear

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 01:30PM

IR5: Definitely not a B52s bomb = Bolster

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 01:30PM

OS1 = Brokeback Mountain

RWF4: Trainspotting = Poirot's seen her next

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 01:33PM

NE6 = Footloose
NE7 = Calamity Jane

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 01:35PM

IR5 = Rock Lobster

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 01:39PM

IR1: Hit the Road, Jack

DA — 25 October at 02:02PM

IR4: Orange crush [neat clue]

And in reply:

DA1 Nightmare scenario: Regrown Oak

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 02:04PM

IR2 = Smack up my bitch.

Daphne du Maurier — 25 October at 02:18PM

DdM 1: Kiwi rev-head = ale cap
DdM 2: Game = Froze core
DdM 3: Allen autobio?= Cutting, scorned.
DdM 4: Band = Sunk pimp
DdM 5: British Farce = Get Lara

Is IR4 Clockwork Orange?
NE5 =Dancing in the Dark

Daphne du Maurier — 25 October at 02:19PM

No, it isn't.

PD James — 25 October at 02:20PM

God I'm hopeless:

PDJ1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty
PDJ2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens

PDJ3: Phil Collins ballad: Dandy apiaries

PDJ4: Gaga standard: Farce

PDJ5: Dickens classic: Wiz-cult zenith

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 02:27PM

DdM4 = Smashing Pumpkins
DdM5 = Doctor At Large

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 02:48PM

YS1 Heist song, in the round = Domino fury
YS2 Carole's song = Jaw racket
YS3 Mel, after the apocalypse = Banned heterodox dummy

PD James — 25 October at 02:56PM

YS3: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 03:01PM

YS3: Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome
(we walked past a house yesterday with the name "Thistledome", which started me on Mad Max/Braveheart mashups...)

DdM2: Is this a game in the F-Zero series I've not heard of?

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 03:04PM

HT1: Circumnavigation: A nightly deed with Rosy

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 03:12PM

HT2: funny mix up = foam decoy

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 03:23PM

HT3: London's howl = The Calf Hotel

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 03:35PM

YS3 couldn't resist it, loved the way the anagram fell to describe him so aptly

Daphne du Maurier — 25 October at 03:45PM

RWF - I don't know what games you've heard of, but maybe this is older than the ones you know of.

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 03:46PM

DA1 Clockwork Orange

YS4 Nursing home movie = Enema grottoes

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 03:58PM

HT3 The Call of the Wild

Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 25 October at 04:05PM

DdM: Unless it's a precursor to chess, I doubt the game is older than the ones I know ;)

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 04:08PM

HT4: Bob Dylan Classic = The Atheism Eatery

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 04:09PM

PDJ1 Breakfast at Tiffany's

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 04:16PM

HT4 The times they are a-changin. Like it Mr Thoreau

Ivan Reitman — 25 October at 04:31PM

IR6: Banjo's rough riders = Gene pool bug

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 04:47PM

IR6 Geebung Polo Club. Good one, IR

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 05:29PM

NE8: Billy Bob's alter-ego = Satan
NE9: ABC program = Arch hid roof

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 05:31PM

HT1: Circumnavigation = A nightly deed with Rosy
HT2: The Bard's funny mix up = Foam decoy
HT3: London's howl = The Calf Hotel
HT4: Bob Dylan Classic = The Atheism Eatery
HT5: Musician overhead = For no other

Michael Bay — 25 October at 05:35PM

MB1: Tokyo drifters = Tonsil

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 05:39PM

OS3: Rowling instalment = Got point, therefore felt bad

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 05:41PM

OS3: Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 05:49PM

NE10: Beloved children's character = Miles tilts
(there are at least six answers to NE10 - possibly more)

Henry Thoreau — 25 October at 06:00PM

NE10: Little Miss... Bad?

Daphne du Maurier — 25 October at 06:06PM

HT2: A Comedy of Errors

Michael Bay — 25 October at 06:20PM

MB2: Christian goes on a killing spree = in camera

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 08:19PM

AH4 – Dial M for Murder
AH5 – Strangers on a Train

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 08:27PM

IR3 – Brideshead Revisited

MB1 – Lost in Translation
MB2 – American Psycho

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 08:45PM

NE8 Bad Santa
NE9 Choir of hard knocks

Yahoo Serious — 25 October at 08:52PM

NE4 Dr Knickerbocker

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 09:10PM

OS4: Classic Purple = went to hear
OS5: Pacino flick = not a fond year
OS6: Sedaka passion = sewing trivia

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 09:15PM

SM2 – Collateral Damage
SM3 – Chain Reaction?
SM8 – Only Two Can Play

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 09:36PM

My 5...

OS1: Camp western = Anatomic bunk
OS2: Omen for Nirvana = Death phrase
OS3: Rowling instalment = Got point, therefore felt bad
OS5: Pacino flick = Not a fond year
OS6: Sedaka passion = Sewing trivia

Nash Edgerton — 25 October at 09:42PM

NE11: Gaga's love story: Cameron
NE12: Eminem can't be found: Rouse fly
NE13: Fergie makes no sense: Womb poo

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 09:48PM

HT1: Around the World in Eighty Days

YS4: Fried Green Tomatoes

DdM1: Smash Palace, not to be confused with Brokedown Palace :)

Spike Milligan — 25 October at 10:11PM

SM10: 15-squared = Rowdy pal
SM11: Dry Wells = Short of lewd

Billy Wilder — 25 October at 10:22PM

BW5: Fields funny = Ken evacuee reversing van
BW6: Coming of age in the Outback: = Involves heart

Oliver Stone — 25 October at 10:53PM

Ok, one more...

OS7: Chilling Moore doco = Incumber fool

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 12:06AM

OS7: Bowling for Columbine

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 12:09AM

BW6: Love in the Sahel? not sure about the indicator

DA — 26 October at 07:26AM

Hard to keep track of all these covert creations. Perhaps if we re-post our own clues yet to be solved at some stage, with hint + anagram, to give the moshpit a chance to mash.

Some brilliant tangents too. Great stuff.

Daphne du Maurier — 26 October at 08:03AM

DdM 6. Coming of age: Cheery vomit aye!
DdM 7. Same again!: Dog hay.

DA — 26 October at 08:16AM

DdM6: The Year MY Voice Broke [charming]
DdM7: Groundhog Day - did we do that before? ;)

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man — 26 October at 08:18AM

The storyboard so far… solver’s initials in brackets

DA
DA1 Nightmare scenario = Regrown Oak [CLOCKWORK ORANGE – YS]

Michael Bay
MB1: Tokyo drifters = Tonsil [LOST IN TRANSLATION – BW]
MB2: Christian goes on a killing spree = in camera [AMERICAN PSYCHO - BW]

Nash Edgerton
NE1: Agent hangs ten = Pinot
NE2: Dr Seuss, served with juice? = Dress egg up
NE3: Beyonce's down = Retard Leigh
NE4: He's got rhythm! = Rick broke neck [DR KNICKERBOCKER – YS]
NE5: Springsteen rocks = Think, dear [DANCING IN THE DARK? – DdM]
NE6: Kevin Bacon caught on camera = Foto [FOOTLOOSE – RWF]
NE7: Doris Day's alter-ego = Jean [CALAMITY JANE – RWF]
NE8: Billy Bob's alter-ego = Satan [BAD SANTA – YS]
NE9: ABC program = Arch hid roof [CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS – YS]
NE10: Beloved children's character = Miles tilts [LITTLE MISS… BAD – HT]
NE11: Gaga’s love story = Cameron
NE12: Eminem can’t be found = Rouse fly
NE13: Fergie makes no sense = Womb poo

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
RWF1: Supernatural bathhouse = Waya
RWF2: Cold killers = RAF
RWF3: One wedding and lots of funerals = No-no
RWF4: Trainspotting = Poirot's seen her next

Alfred Hitchcock
AH?: Strangers on a Train = The
AH1: Double Jeopardy = Café [FACE/OFF – OS]
AH2: Austrian number = Fears in Venom
AH3: Upstairs/Downstairs debut = Deadly Hoon Shot Rotten Golfer
AH4: ... Mousetrap = Road Film [DIAL M FOR MURDER – BW]
AH5: More double jeopardy = I Ran At Son [STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - BW]

PD James
PDJ1: Filmic prandial excursion = Fat Satan's fifty[BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S – IR]
PDJ2: Wodehousian musical comedy = Mad aliens [A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS – IR]
PDJ3: Phil Collins ballad = Dandy apiaries [ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE – IR]
PDJ4: Gaga standard = Farce [POKER FACE – IR]
PDJ5: Dickens classic = Wiz-cult zenith [MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT – IR]

Stanley Kubrick
SK1: BBC SF TV = How [DOCTOR WHO – DA]
SK2: Bryan Brown TV series = Astle [TWISTED TALES – DA]

Daphne du Maurier
DdM 1: Kiwi rev-head = ale cap [SMASH PALACE – BW]
DdM 2: Game = Froze core
DdM 3: Allen autobio?= Cutting, scorned.
DdM 4: Band = Sunk pimp [SMASHING PUMPKINS - RWF]
DdM 5: British Farce = Get Lara [DOCTOR AT LARGE - RWF]
DdM6: Coming of age: Cheery vomit aye!
DdM7: Same again!: Dog hay

Spike Milligan
SM1: Death in New Mexico = Donated harem
SM2: Arnie bereaved = Tall oracle [COLLATERAL DAMAGE – BW]
SM3: Morgan or John = China [CHAIN REACTION – BW]
SM4: Eponymous star = Thrill averse
SM5: Joel & Ethan at play = Not reliable [INTOLERABLE CRUELTY – DA]
SM6: Lost at sea = Had lethal hippie
SM7: Almost lost at sea = Pointed shoe [THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE – DA]
SM8: Welsh threesome = Lawn tycoon [ONLY TWO CAN PLAY – BW]
SM9: $3 spaghetti = Hotheaded ghetto band [THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – DA]
SM10: 15-Squared = Rowdy pal
SM11: Dry Wells = Short of lewd

Ivan Reitman
IR1: Ray Charles number = Joker had act [HIT THE ROAD JACK – RWF]
IR2: Prodigious work = Chumpy bit [SMACK UP MY BITCH – RWF]
IR3: Wartime drama = Be diehards [BRIDESHEAD REVISITED – BW]
IR4 Sleeping phenomenon = No gear [ORANGE CRUSH – DA]
IR5: Definitely not a B52s bomb = Bolster [ROCK LOBSTER – RWF]
IR6: Banjo's rough riders = Gene pool bug [GEEBUNG POLO CLUB – YS]

Yahoo Serious
YS1 Heist song, in the round = Domino fury
YS2 Carole's song = Jaw racket
YS3 Mel, after the apocalypse = Banned heterodox dummy [MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME – PDJ]
YS4 Nursing home movie = Enema grottoes [FRIED GREEN TOMATOES – BW]

Oliver Stone
OS1: Camp western = Anatomic Bunk [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – RWF]
OS2: Omen for Nirvana = Death phrase [HEART-SHAPED BOX – DA]
OS3: Rowling instalment = Got point, therefore felt bad [HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE – HT]
OS4: Classic Purple = went to hear
OS5: Pacino flick = not a fond year
OS6: Sedaka passion = sewing trivia
OS7: Chilling Moore doco = Incumber fool [BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE – HT]

Henry Thoreau
HT1: Circumnavigation = A nightly deed with Rosy [AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS – BW]
HT2: The Bard’s funny mix up = foam decoy [A COMEDY OF ERRORS – DdM]
HT3: London's howl = The Calf Hotel [CALL OF THE WILD – YS]
HT4: Bob Dylan Classic = The Atheism Eatery [THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN – YS]
HT5: Musician overhead = For no other

Billy Wilder
BW1: Back from the dead = Lee bet [BEETLEJUICE – IR]
BW2: All-day sucker = Both grin
BW3: Downbeat musical = Tinker hard
BW4: Plotting by starlight = Nearby murders
BW5: Fields funny = Ken evacuee reversing van
BW6: Coming of age in the Outback: = Involves heart [LOVE IN THE SAHEL? – HT]

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 08:39AM

Thankyou, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, for your compilation.

YS1 was the theme from the Thomas Crown Affair, Windmills of your Mind, but if windmills is too 'adventurous' as an anagrind I'll substitute YS1.

Final five:

YS1 Eastwood thriller = Memory fits
YS2 Carole King outlaw ballad = Jaw racket
YS3 Mel, after the apocalypse = Banned heterodox dummy.
Solved: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
YS4 Nursing home movie = Enema grottoes
Solved: Fried Green Tomatoes
YS5 Vietnam War movie = hot, darn edgy

PD James — 26 October at 09:06AM

OS5: Dog Day Afternoon
NE1: Point Break
NE11: Bad Romance

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 09:11AM

YS1: Play Misty For Me
YS2: Smackwater Jack

Daphne du Maurier — 26 October at 09:12AM

OS4 Smoke on the Water
SM10 Crossword Play
BW5 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
NE11 Bad Romance
So much easier to work through now thanks to our local superhero!

PD James — 26 October at 09:15AM

YS2: Smackwater Jack

PD James — 26 October at 09:17AM

OS7: Bowling for Columbine. Good one.

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 09:39AM

NE3: Broken-hearted girl
NE13: Boom Boom Pow

Billy Wilder — 26 October at 09:51AM

@HT 12:09 - BW6 isn't Love in the Sahel, it's an Australian film with a young Russell Crowe.

Also might give away this one, as I'm not sure if the indicator is OK - what do you think?

BW4: Plotting by starlight = Nearby murders: ROB/BERY UNDER ARMS

Rob as in quarry or mine?

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 10:03AM

BW6 Hammers over the Anvil. Nice disguise for the anagram.

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 10:04AM

NE1: Agent hangs ten = Pinot (POINT BREAK)
RWF1: Supernatural bathhouse = Waya (SPIRITED AWAY)
And now I go from the succinct to the prolix:

SK3 From my eponym = PR power: In the movies Bogart's blood - orange and yellow. On the TV - red.

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 10:28AM

SK3 is doing my head in. Is it?

Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 11:49AM

YS - Yep, hopefully I haven't slipped in an extra letter or forgotten one.

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 11:56AM

Actually I got the title slightly wrong (stop/stopped) so it'll have to be amended to:

SK3 From my eponym = In the movies Bogart's blood - orange or yellow. On the TV - prawn red.

Spike Milligan — 26 October at 12:05PM

DdM - SM10 is simpler than that; an anag and &lit combined. Think Will Shortz.

SM12: Robert Redford = Acrid oaf

Nash Edgerton — 26 October at 12:13PM

Thank you, Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man!

NE14: Where'd he go? = Gee, he was stole

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 12:24PM

SK3 looks like winning the prize for the longest anagram so far. Nice one!

YS5, a bit more information:
Australian movie about Vietnam War = Hot, darn edgy

Daphne du Maurier — 26 October at 12:32PM

SM10 Word play blog?

Spike Milligan — 26 October at 12:46PM

DdM - Even shorter

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 12:55PM

YS5 THE ODD ANGRY SHOT

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 12:57PM

RWF3: One wedding and lots of funerals = No-no (HIGH NOON)
RWF4: Trainspotting = Poirot's seen her next (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS)

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 01:01PM

SM11: Dry Wells = Short of lewd (WAR OF THE WORLDS)

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 01:02PM

OS4: Classic Purple = went to hear (SMOKE ON THE WATER)

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 01:11PM

Back to brevity:
SK1: UK SF TV = How [DOCTOR WHO – DA]
SK2: Bryan Brown TV series = Astle [TWISTED TALES – DA]
SK3: From my eponym = In the movies Bogart's blood - orange or yellow. On the TV - prawn red.
SK4: 80s 1 hit wonder = Yes, fat

DA — 26 October at 01:17PM

SM10 has me intrigued - Word play blog? Is that a clue, or fodder, or both?

Herculean anagram, SK

This next one (DA2) is famous line, from a famous song, where the fooder serves as its own clue:

MOON CART MOTOR JOLT

Daphne du Maurier — 26 October at 01:22PM

SM10 Word play?

Spike Milligan — 26 October at 01:34PM

DA and DdM - SM10: Wordplay (The movie about Will Shortz). A combination of fodder and signpost.

Stanley Kubrick — 26 October at 01:34PM

DA2 GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 01:40PM

DA2: Ground Control to Major Tom. Well Done DA.

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 01:41PM

Sorry Stanley, you get priority...

DA — 26 October at 01:56PM

What sass. My apolgies. By SK, I meant Stanley Kubrick.

Maybe I should be Diane Arbus.

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 01:58PM

IR7: Mel's 1982 thriller = A filthy roving eye!

Ivan Reitman — 26 October at 02:14PM

Oops, minor correction:

IR7: Mel's 1982 thriller = A roving eye - filth!

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 03:50PM

IR7: The year of living dangerously
YS5: The odd angry shot

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 04:15PM

HT6: Stunned Blimp = Deacon's Fund
HT7: Buddhism for Bikies: Fez noted on motly character

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 04:20PM

NE2: Scrambled Eggs Super!
I love this book!

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 04:23PM

not for this blog but on the theme of NE2

Tatach (3,3,2,3,3,5,4)

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 04:37PM

HT7 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Would be more convenient if it was 'Repair' :)

Nash Edgerton — 26 October at 04:50PM

HT@4.23 - The cat in the hat comes back. Brilliant.

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 06:00PM

Super Tatach HT!

I'm intrigued by AH? The Missing/Invisible Word/Letters?
AH2 something to do with Vienna?

OS6 Wheeling, West Virginia

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 06:08PM

AH2 could be Waltzes from Vienna (Strauss)
Is waltz a reasonable indicator?

Daphne du Maurier — 26 October at 07:01PM

Some hints for my unsolved couple:
DdM 2 - uses the same anagram indicator as one of the late additions
DdM 3 -(movie) gives a double signpost

Yahoo Serious — 26 October at 07:35PM

DdM3 Deconstructing Harry. Great signposts!

Billy Wilder — 26 October at 07:39PM

DdM3 - Deconstructing Harry - nice one

Billy Wilder — 26 October at 08:21PM

BW7: Alien mind control = Fervid Romans
BW8: Same aliens, on a smaller scale = Cat task

Henry Thoreau — 26 October at 08:46PM

DdM7: Groundhog Day

Nash Edgerton — 26 October at 09:09PM

HT - I think DA's already solved Groundhog Day. No pun intended.

Oliver Stone — 27 October at 07:25AM

Wow, what a storm. My final five-

OS1: Camp Western = Anatomic bunk
OS2: Omen for Nirvana = Death phrase
OS3: Rowling instalment = Got point, therefore felt bad
OS5: Pacino flick = Not a fond year
OS7: Chilling Moore doco = Incumber fool

BTW, my only "unsolved" was-

Sedaka passion = Sewing trivia (WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA) C'mon...he didn't have THAT many hit songs ;)

Yahoo Serious — 27 October at 07:29AM

SK4: Safety Dance - never heard of it, and it's got over 2 million hits on Youtube. 80's :(

HT5: Fiddler on the Roof
DdM2: Ground Force Zero

YS6 Schoolgirls' fear of eating out? = Aching Caning Pit

Yahoo Serious — 27 October at 07:32AM

Oliver, got OS6 yesterday at 6.00pm! Interesting anagrind - have only seen that as a reversal.

Oliver Stone — 27 October at 08:32AM

Fair point YH. Wasn't that wedded to the anagrind so left it out of my five.

Oliver Stone — 27 October at 08:33AM

^sorry, meant YS

DA — 27 October at 08:37AM

Thanks Oliver for your five. (And I'm with Yahoo, re the role of 'wheeling', though I think that's just a solving reflex. The Sedaka title is fair game, and rendered with flair.)

A big fave, but if all auteurs can slim their oeuvre to a 5-pack, that will assist The Academy's admin a great deal.

Any other zingers still to be crack'd? Then feel free to add as a postscript.

All in all, quite the sprocket opera, as the in-crowd call a film festival - with a rollicking soundtrack.

Ivan Reitman — 27 October at 09:10AM

Quite the Storm, indeed. My Final 5 with solutions:

IR1: Ray Charles number = Joker had act = HIT THE ROAD JACK
IR2: Wartime drama = Be diehards = BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
IR3 Sleeping phenomenon = No gear = ORANGE CRUSH
IR4: A bomb for B52s? No! = Bolster = ROCK LOBSTER
IR5: Banjo's rough riders = Gene pool bug = GEEBUNG POLO CLUB

Daphne du Maurier — 27 October at 09:22AM

I'll finish off this storm so I can reclaim my identity.

DdM1: Allen autobio = Cutting, scorned (Deconstructing Harry)
DdM2: Coming of age = Cheery vomit, aye! (The Year My Voice Broke)
DdM3: Game = Froze core (Ground Force Zero)
DdM4: Kiwi rev-head = Ale cap (Smash Palace)
DdM5: British Face = Get Lara (Doctor at Large)

Good fun all around - I'm glad I'm not the one passing judgement.

Billy Wilder — 27 October at 09:29AM

One last one - could be improved as the answer and anagram share an 'and':

BW9:Celebratory 5 stars apiece = Homage artiste and T.V. ad vied

And a tweak:

BW8: Same aliens on a smaller scale = Cat's task

Stanley Kubrick — 27 October at 09:51AM

BW8: Same aliens on a smaller scale = Cat's task (MARS ATTACKS)

Billy Wilder — 27 October at 01:19PM

Here are my five:
BW2: All-day sucker = Both grin/BRIGHTON ROCK
BW3: Downbeat musical = Tinker hard/DANCER IN THE DARK
BW6: Coming of age in the outback: = Involves heart/HAMMERS OVER THE ANVIL
BW8: Bellicose little green men = Cat’s task/MARS ATTACKS!
BW9: Celebratory 5 stars apiece = Homage artiste and T.V. ad vied/MARGARET AND DAVID AT THE MOVIES

Last unsolved:
BW7: Alien mind control = Fervid Romans/INVADERS FROM MARS

And any thoughts on ‘rob’ as an indicator? Robocop, Robin Hood, Robbery Under Arms…

Alfred Hitchcock — 27 October at 02:00PM

AH?: Strangers on a Train = The
AH1: Double Jeopardy = Café [FACE/OFF – OS]
AH2: Austrian number = Fears in Venom [WALTZES FROM VIENNA - H/T to HT
AH3: Upstairs/Downstairs debut = Deadly Hoon Shot Rotten Golfer
AH4: ... Mousetrap = Road Film [DIAL M FOR MURDER – BW]
AH5: More double jeopardy = I Ran At Son [STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - BW]

The AH? entry is also a Hitchcockian entry, of an unorthodox variety: ie, not an anagram. AH3 is a longer form of a known title, I'd guess.

Nash Edgerton — 27 October at 02:18PM

Final five:

NE2: Dr Seuss, served with juice? = Dress up egg! [SCRAMBLED EGGS SUPER!]
NE4: He's got the rhythm! = Rick broke neck [DR KNICKERBOCKER]
NE8: Billy Bob's alter-ego = Satan [BAD SANTA]
NE9: ABC program = Arch hid roof [CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS]
NE14: Where'd he go? = Gee! He was stole [POP! GOES THE WEASEL] Note: stole as PP via Kelly Rowland

Some other solutions for this one:
NE10: Beloved children's character = Miles tilts
Little Miss Bad, Naughty, Trouble, Scatterbrain, Dotty, Fickle, Contrary, Busy, Busybody, Curious, Somersault, Scary... it appears that six was an understatement!

Billy Wilder — 27 October at 02:24PM

AH? - The Lady Vanishes, very nice!

Yahoo Serious — 27 October at 04:40PM

Fun storm. My final five:

YS1: Eastwood thriller = Memory Fits [PLAY MISTY FOR ME]
YS2: Carole King outlaw ballad = Jaw Racket [SMACKWATER JACK]
YS3: Mel, after the apocalypse = Banned heterodox dummy. [MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME]
YS4: Nursing home movie = Enema Grottoes [FRIED GREEN TOMATOES]
YS5: Australian movie about Vietnam War = hot, darn edgy [THE ODD ANGRY SHOT]

Henry Thoreau — 27 October at 04:54PM

My five:

HT1: Circumnavigation = A nightly deed with Rosy [AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS – BW]
HT2: The Bard’s funny mix up = foam decoy [A COMEDY OF ERRORS – DdM]
HT3: London's howl = The Calf Hotel [CALL OF THE WILD – YS]
HT4: Bob Dylan Classic = The Atheism Eatery [THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN – YS]
HT5: Musician overhead = For no other [FIDDLER ON THE ROOF - YS]

and my final unsolved is a Led Zepplin song:
HT6: Stunned Blimp = Deacon's Fund

Yahoo Serious — 27 October at 05:10PM

HT6 Dazed and confused! Good one Mr Thoreau. Another double. Indicators abound in the song lists of Neil Sedaka and Led Zepplin - enough to do a whole crossword. Enjoyed this week's Storm. Thankyou DA and players. Breaking up is so hard to do.

Spike Milligan — 27 October at 10:47PM

Sorry, my final five, delayed by powerfail and absence:

SM2: Arnie bereaved = Tall oracle [COLLATERAL DAMAGE]
SM5: Joel & Ethan at play = Not reliable [INTOLERABLE CRUELTY]
SM9: $3 spaghetti = Hotheaded ghetto band [THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY]
SM10: 15-Squared = Rowdy pal [WORDPLAY]
SM12: Robert Redford = Acrid oaf [OUT OF AFRICA]

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