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Grey_Wolf · 05-09-2007, 01:30 AM

Well done, GW & CC! U may continue.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 05-11-2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

Well done, GW & CC! U may continue.

American writer, a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, frequently called the "father" of modern police procedural novel. = Lawrence Treat

1000 – The transport of Conan's Doyle's cop.
1001 – Distance and speed.
1002 – Second letter screaming spirit. B as in Banshee
1003 – Fourth letter mortal end D as in Death
1004 – Eight letter strung up H as in Hung
1005 – 15th letter scary sign O as in Omen
1006 – Animal skin person The Leather Man?
1007 – 22nd letter the hurt person
1008 – Being pushed too far
1009 – 17th letter gritty trap

not my guy.

Grey_Wolf · 05-11-2007, 01:00 PM

Well done, Sister!

U may continue and if not u any will do!

Grey_Wolf · 05-13-2007, 03:07 AM

American writer, a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, frequently called the "father" of modern police procedural novel. = Lawrence Treat

1000 – The transport of Conan's Doyle's cop. = Bringing Sherlock Home
1001 – Distance and speed. = Run Far, Run Fast
1002 – Second letter screaming spirit. = B as in Banshee
1003 – Fourth letter mortal end = D as in Death
1004 – Eight letter strung up = H as in Hangman
1005 – 15th letter scary sign = O as in Omen
1006 – Animal skin person = The Leather Man
1007 – 22nd letter the hurt person. = V as in Victim
1008 – Being pushed too far = Over the Edge
1009 – 17th letter gritty trap = Q As In Quicksand

Count Comfect · 05-16-2007, 07:35 PM

Ah, if only I knew anything about thrillers.

1007 - V as in Victim?

Grey_Wolf · 05-17-2007, 08:05 AM

Well done, CC!

U may continue!

Grey_Wolf · 05-19-2007, 01:42 PM

Prolific English thriller and mystery writer, who also published plays, juvenile novels, and short stories. His best-known characters are the indestructible British agent Quiller from his novels as Adam Hall, and Hugo Bishop from novels as Simon Rattray. = Elleston Trevor

1010 – Pm on Germany's Capital = The Berlin Memorandum
1011 – Command IX = The 9th Directive
1012 – Folder for main footballer = The Striker Portfolio
1013 – Text on Polen's Capital = The Warsaw Document
1014 – Speech on South American dance = The Tango Briefing
1015 – Snake text = The Kobra Manifesto
1016 – Venomous insect's communication = The Scorpion Signal
1017 – Brother or sister = The Sibling
1018 – Aurora Borealis = Northlight
1019 – Bird reborn's journey = The Flight of the Phoenix

Popular British author, who described realistically Victorian world. His best known stories were set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In his autobiography (1883) he wrote, that the novelist's task is "to make his readers so intimately acquainted with his characters that the creation of his brain should be to them speaking, moving, living, human creatures." He is notable for having developed the chronicle form of fiction. The Barsetshire novels were the first serial fiction in English literature. = Anthony Trollope

1020 – The powerful story depicted a doomed Irish family. = The Mcdermots of Ballycloran
1021 – WWII civilian protector. = The Warden
1022 – Ability to see beyond a mistake made = Can You Forgive Her
1023 – Trio of Admins = The Three Clerks
1024 – Lives at nr 10 Downing Street = The Prime Minister
1025 – One of many at the Capitol = The American Senator
1026 – Country at the lowest end of the Dark Continent = South Africa
1027 – Veangeful revenge = An Eye for An Eye
1028 – Lolita = An Old Man’s Love
1029 – Not being told something = Kept in the Dark

sisterandcousinandaunt · 05-22-2007, 02:22 PM

1026 South Africa

Sorry GW. Not my field.

I could search it, but I can't do any of it from 1st hand experience.

sun-star · 05-22-2007, 02:31 PM

1021 – The Warden
1023 – The Three Clerks
1024 – The Prime Minister
1025 – The American Senator
1027 – An Eye for An Eye
1029 – Kept in the Dark

Grey_Wolf · 05-22-2007, 03:09 PM

Well done, Sister & Sun-star!

U may continue.

Grey_Wolf · 05-23-2007, 06:00 AM

American writer, journalist, and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures of two boys. Sensitive to the sound of language, he introduced colloquial speech into American fiction. = Mark Twain

1030 – Babies in the house = The Innocents At Home
1031 – Living without amenities = Roughing It
1032 – A mischievous redheaded orphan taken in by his Aunt Polly. = The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1033 – A shovenly charachter's on the way = A Tramp Abroad
1034 – Wanderings without purpose = The Idle Excursions
1035 – The royal person and the common one = The Prince and the Pauper
1036 – Daily existence on a watercourse = Life on the Mississippi
1037 – The drifting journey of a couple of oys, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft. = The Adventures of Huck Finn
1038 – A modern man comes to a medieval place. = A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1039 – Story of a canine. = A Dog’s Tale

American novelist and short-story writer, whose keen ear for dialogue and life-like characters have won critical acclaim. Several of her novels have been set in Baltimore and focus on middle-class families, their secrets, ambitions, dreams, and crises. = Ann Tyler

1040 – Travelling person with bad luck = The Accidental Tourist
1041 – La Mahs = Breathing Lessons
1042 – Wonder whether dawn will arrive = If Morning Ever Comes
1043 – Preserve greenery = The Tin Can Tree
1044 – Timepiece caretaker = The Clock Winder
1045 – Steering by the stars = Celestial Navigation
1046 – Estate of a death = Earthly Possessions
1047 – Late supper at Lonely Place = Dinner At Homesick Restaurant
1048 – The death of King Arthur's half-sister = Morgan’s Passing
1049 – Review of reverse position = Back When We Were Grownups

Acalewia · 05-23-2007, 08:40 PM

Mark Twain

1032 – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1035 – The Prince and the Pauper
1036 – Life on the Mississippi
1037 – The Adventures of Huck Finn

Grey_Wolf · 05-24-2007, 01:18 AM

Well done, Acally!

U may continue.

Mercutio · 05-24-2007, 10:43 AM

1038: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Grey_Wolf · 05-24-2007, 11:58 AM

Well done, Merc!

U may continue.

Grey_Wolf · 05-29-2007, 11:14 AM

American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels about Harry Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. His oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. = John Updike

1050 – Man-horse = The Centaur
1051 – An Indian touching another in battle = The Coup
1052 – Square bird = Pingeon Feathers
1053 – Saladeater's sprint = Rabbit run
1054 – Saladeater's wealthy = Rabbit is rich
1055 – Saladeater's taking a break = Rabbit at rest
1056 – Married or bfs/gfs = Couples
1057 – Btwn which calling lines hang = Telephone Poles
1058 – 30 days of sabats = A month of Sundays
1059 – Unability to sleep = Tossing And Turning

...this concludes the Literature-session...

sisterandcousinandaunt · 05-29-2007, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels about Harry Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. His oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. John Updike

1050 – Man-horse The Centaur
1051 – An Indian touching another in battle The Coup
1052 – Square bird
1053 – Saladeater's sprint Rabbit run
1054 – Saladeater's wealthy Rabbit is rich
1055 – Saladeater's taking a break Rabbit at rest
1056 – Married or bfs/gfs Couples
1057 – Btwn which calling lines hang Telephone Poles
1058 – 30 days of sabats A month of Sundays
1059 – Unability to sleep

I object to the clue for 1051, which ought to be "counting coup" for that meaning. And I'm sorry I missed the Twain post...that guy I know.

Grey_Wolf · 05-29-2007, 12:40 PM

I guess i could have written "counting coup" but that would have given away the title.

Well done, Sis!

U may continue.

Grey_Wolf · 06-01-2007, 06:10 AM

...moved downthread...

Grey_Wolf · 10-20-2007, 05:12 PM

...moved downthread...

05-09-2007, 01:30 AM	#41
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, GW & CC! U may continue. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 05-13-2007 at 02:52 AM.

05-13-2007, 03:07 AM	#44
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	American writer, a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, frequently called the "father" of modern police procedural novel. = Lawrence Treat 1000 – The transport of Conan's Doyle's cop. = Bringing Sherlock Home 1001 – Distance and speed. = Run Far, Run Fast 1002 – Second letter screaming spirit. = B as in Banshee 1003 – Fourth letter mortal end = D as in Death 1004 – Eight letter strung up = H as in Hangman 1005 – 15th letter scary sign = O as in Omen 1006 – Animal skin person = The Leather Man 1007 – 22nd letter the hurt person. = V as in Victim 1008 – Being pushed too far = Over the Edge 1009 – 17th letter gritty trap = Q As In Quicksand Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 05-19-2007 at 01:38 PM.

05-16-2007, 07:35 PM	#45
Count Comfect Word Santa Claus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,922	Ah, if only I knew anything about thrillers. 1007 - V as in Victim? __________________ Sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall.

05-19-2007, 01:42 PM	#47
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Prolific English thriller and mystery writer, who also published plays, juvenile novels, and short stories. His best-known characters are the indestructible British agent Quiller from his novels as Adam Hall, and Hugo Bishop from novels as Simon Rattray. = Elleston Trevor 1010 – Pm on Germany's Capital = The Berlin Memorandum 1011 – Command IX = The 9th Directive 1012 – Folder for main footballer = The Striker Portfolio 1013 – Text on Polen's Capital = The Warsaw Document 1014 – Speech on South American dance = The Tango Briefing 1015 – Snake text = The Kobra Manifesto 1016 – Venomous insect's communication = The Scorpion Signal 1017 – Brother or sister = The Sibling 1018 – Aurora Borealis = Northlight 1019 – Bird reborn's journey = The Flight of the Phoenix Popular British author, who described realistically Victorian world. His best known stories were set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In his autobiography (1883) he wrote, that the novelist's task is "to make his readers so intimately acquainted with his characters that the creation of his brain should be to them speaking, moving, living, human creatures." He is notable for having developed the chronicle form of fiction. The Barsetshire novels were the first serial fiction in English literature. = Anthony Trollope 1020 – The powerful story depicted a doomed Irish family. = The Mcdermots of Ballycloran 1021 – WWII civilian protector. = The Warden 1022 – Ability to see beyond a mistake made = Can You Forgive Her 1023 – Trio of Admins = The Three Clerks 1024 – Lives at nr 10 Downing Street = The Prime Minister 1025 – One of many at the Capitol = The American Senator 1026 – Country at the lowest end of the Dark Continent = South Africa 1027 – Veangeful revenge = An Eye for An Eye 1028 – Lolita = An Old Man’s Love 1029 – Not being told something = Kept in the Dark Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 05-23-2007 at 05:52 AM.

05-22-2007, 02:22 PM	#48
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	1026 South Africa Sorry GW. Not my field. I could search it, but I can't do any of it from 1st hand experience. __________________ That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May

05-11-2007, 01:00 PM	#43
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, Sister! U may continue and if not u any will do!

05-17-2007, 08:05 AM	#46
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, CC! U may continue!

05-22-2007, 02:31 PM	#49
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	1021 – The Warden 1023 – The Three Clerks 1024 – The Prime Minister 1025 – The American Senator 1027 – An Eye for An Eye 1029 – Kept in the Dark __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-22-2007, 03:09 PM	#50
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, Sister & Sun-star! U may continue.

05-23-2007, 06:00 AM	#51
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	American writer, journalist, and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures of two boys. Sensitive to the sound of language, he introduced colloquial speech into American fiction. = Mark Twain 1030 – Babies in the house = The Innocents At Home 1031 – Living without amenities = Roughing It 1032 – A mischievous redheaded orphan taken in by his Aunt Polly. = The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1033 – A shovenly charachter's on the way = A Tramp Abroad 1034 – Wanderings without purpose = The Idle Excursions 1035 – The royal person and the common one = The Prince and the Pauper 1036 – Daily existence on a watercourse = Life on the Mississippi 1037 – The drifting journey of a couple of oys, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft. = The Adventures of Huck Finn 1038 – A modern man comes to a medieval place. = A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1039 – Story of a canine. = A Dog’s Tale American novelist and short-story writer, whose keen ear for dialogue and life-like characters have won critical acclaim. Several of her novels have been set in Baltimore and focus on middle-class families, their secrets, ambitions, dreams, and crises. = Ann Tyler 1040 – Travelling person with bad luck = The Accidental Tourist 1041 – La Mahs = Breathing Lessons 1042 – Wonder whether dawn will arrive = If Morning Ever Comes 1043 – Preserve greenery = The Tin Can Tree 1044 – Timepiece caretaker = The Clock Winder 1045 – Steering by the stars = Celestial Navigation 1046 – Estate of a death = Earthly Possessions 1047 – Late supper at Lonely Place = Dinner At Homesick Restaurant 1048 – The death of King Arthur's half-sister = Morgan’s Passing 1049 – Review of reverse position = Back When We Were Grownups Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 05-29-2007 at 11:04 AM.

05-23-2007, 08:40 PM	#52
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Mark Twain 1032 – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1035 – The Prince and the Pauper 1036 – Life on the Mississippi 1037 – The Adventures of Huck Finn __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

05-24-2007, 01:18 AM	#53
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, Acally! U may continue.

05-24-2007, 10:43 AM	#54
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	1038: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

05-24-2007, 11:58 AM	#55
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Well done, Merc! U may continue.

05-29-2007, 11:14 AM	#56
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels about Harry Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. His oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. = John Updike 1050 – Man-horse = The Centaur 1051 – An Indian touching another in battle = The Coup 1052 – Square bird = Pingeon Feathers 1053 – Saladeater's sprint = Rabbit run 1054 – Saladeater's wealthy = Rabbit is rich 1055 – Saladeater's taking a break = Rabbit at rest 1056 – Married or bfs/gfs = Couples 1057 – Btwn which calling lines hang = Telephone Poles 1058 – 30 days of sabats = A month of Sundays 1059 – Unability to sleep = Tossing And Turning ...this concludes the Literature-session... Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-06-2007 at 02:08 PM.

05-29-2007, 12:40 PM	#58
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	I guess i could have written "counting coup" but that would have given away the title. Well done, Sis! U may continue. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 05-29-2007 at 01:01 PM.

06-01-2007, 06:10 AM	#59
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10-20-2007, 05:12 PM	#60
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