October 25 2011
Incognito Titles
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]