Marvelous Monograms

The Game Room
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My puzzle-a-day calendar had a good one yesterday:

These are actually not all that easy to come up with – I’ve only found one worth posting so far, and it’s kind of a fudge:

  1. Jerkish Late-nighter

Surely some of the wordplay regulars can do better … Sternvogel, I’m lookin’ at you.

2
  1. Wrote Music

Yours sounds like Jay Leno.

3

Molested Juniors

4
  1. Assassinated Liberator
  2. Suffrage Advocate
5

  1. Generated Ballets

  2. Created Drood

These are the ones I don’t know.

Is #10 Wolfgang Mozart?

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  1. Painted Pictures
  2. Just Died. Sorry!

Rafe – you got it…

7
  1. Antichrist Crooner
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Pablo Picasso
JD Salinger

9

George Ballanchine; Charles Dickens

10

Alice Cooper?

Jeez, these are hard to create.

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Yeah, but Alice Cooper is a self described born again Christian whose father was a minister, so I don’t really understand the Antichrist part. (Or, for that matter, the crooner, though, the nature of these things must allow for some leeway in meaning.)

12

Michael Jackson?

13

  1. Ravens’ Runner

  2. Atreyu Vocalist

  3. Born Overseas? (:D)

14
  1. is clearly Barack Obama

I should know 17, but don’t off the top o’ my head.

ETA: very challenging coming up with them

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bwaaaahahhahaahahahahhaha!!!

  1. Sleuth Dog
16

Abraham Lincoln
Susan Anthony

  1. Memorable Mime
  2. Wrote Surreal Books
  3. Absurdism Champion
  4. White House Tubby
  5. Darth Portrayer
17
  1. Dude Likes Rock
  2. Also Eccentric
  3. Wildly Zany
  4. Dreadful Toupee
18

Marcel Marceau (spelling is probably way off)

I almost have a headache from thinking so hard! :wink:

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  1. Logical Nonhuman
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  1. Marcel Marceau

  2. William Seward Burroughs

  3. ?

  4. William Howard Taft

  5. Couldn’t remember this without looking it up, so I’ll let someone else have it. I’m getting my geek cards revoked all over the place today…

  6. Beefy Batter

  7. Monkees Drummer

  8. Played Scrooge