# Crossword Clue Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 25, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818 "2020-10-25T07:00:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 44

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/861 "2021-05-08T04:42:45Z")

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1. Continental Navigator?
2. Penny profile
3. Mall overseer

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/862 "2021-05-08T14:33:06Z")

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1. One of two followed by Johnson
2. Patent holder of boat bellows
3. Statue destroyed by Megatron in _Transformers: Dark of the Moon_

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/863 "2021-05-09T05:00:34Z")

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1. Mythical envelope addresser?

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/864 "2021-05-09T12:05:17Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> Mall overseer

I’ll go with this one, but I also want to figure out your #4. I can’t quite make the connection. Is it to do with Gettysburg or is my brain going down the wrong path?

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/865 "2021-05-09T22:28:50Z")

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You were on the right path, and it does have to do with Gettysburg. According to legend, Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on an envelope while riding the train to Gettysburg. But that’s been debunked as a myth. Thus, “mythical envelope addresser.”

Okay, on to the next word:

**RECORD**.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/866 "2021-05-10T12:36:18Z")

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1. Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch”
2. Rap sheet
3. Chronicle
4. Performance history

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/867 "2021-05-10T13:04:35Z")

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1. 33-1/3, e.g.
2. It will eventually be broken
3. We all have a permanent one
4. Kids don’t know what a broken one sounds like

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/868 "2021-05-10T13:32:00Z")

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1. Guinness data
2. Zoom meeting function
3. Columbia’s medium after the graphophone

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/869 "2021-05-10T13:35:05Z")

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1. Sound medium
2. A G.O.A.T. likely owns at least one
3. A school kid may play, with er, this musical instrument

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/870 "2021-05-11T06:28:10Z")

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I think @FastDan1 is going to take it with this–just cryptic enough to not be a cryptic clue:

> [@FastDan1](#):
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> A school kid may play, with er, this musical instrument

All yours, **Dan**!

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/871 "2021-05-11T12:00:07Z")

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Well, that just rocks!

Let’s go with ROCK.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/872 "2021-05-11T13:33:48Z")

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1. Make waves in a boat?
2. Peanuts Halloween treat?
3. The ignorant may live under one
4. Big diamond?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/873 "2021-05-11T14:26:03Z")

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1. Hard place counterpart
2. He says “Know your role”
3. Twisted Sister wanted to do this

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/874 "2021-05-11T14:36:34Z")

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1. Do you smell what he’s cooking?

(Inspired by Knowed\_Out]

1. He says “Know your role”

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/875 "2021-05-11T14:52:58Z")

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1. Roll’s partner
2. Played with Doris
3. What Reunion’s life is
4. Igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/876 "2021-05-11T22:15:06Z")

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1. Word spelled out in a Mellencamp tune
2. Paper covers it
3. Kid musician?
4. Aptly named producer Bob
5. Popular 70s pet?

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/877 "2021-05-11T23:10:26Z")

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1. America, multiplication, or grammar?
2. With “The,” pro wrestler
3. Simon or Garfunkel, in song?

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/878 "2021-05-12T22:14:35Z")

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Some good stuff here, but my favorite is:

> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Paper covers it

@pulykamell wins this round of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/879 "2021-05-12T22:30:32Z")

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Cheers! Let’s go with:

**SEVEN**

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/880 "2021-05-12T23:48:01Z")

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1. Mickey’s prime number
2. Jeri Ryan’s number
3. Magnificent number

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