Puzzle: Movie Inaccuracies

The Game Room
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  1. EA ED FR GG HH IS KS LD LE (5)

L(DHHIS) LE GG ED FR EA KS
Eight Legged Freaks (L + Eight)

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  1. ED NB SB TD TR (10)

(NB TR TD SB DE) = Masquerade

23
  1. AR BM ED KB SZ TH TS (7)

TH ED AR K(B SZ TS BM)
The Dark Crystal

Done 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 22 - halfway there!

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Wow. Well done!

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Remaining unsolved ones:

  1. AN AN DT EE EE GR HE NE NG RZ SS TA (3)

  2. AN CI EL ES HE IM NS OP PR TH (4)

  3. AL DS ER FM MA NA NO NO NT NX OA ON RY SI TE TI TI US YS (5)

  4. AM BB HE LO RP US (5)

  5. BA CR DE HE MI NT OS SI ST ST WI (4)

  6. AD BB BR EM HT IG IM OI ON RS (5)

[del]14. AK ES IL LI LY ME NG RN (4)[/del]

  1. AL CH CI CL DN FZ HE NE SO ST UB (3)

  2. EA IT LE NX OF OR RR TA TE TO WH (4)

  3. AN BE BS DB DK HD LS NO OM RO RU (5)

  4. BH EH ND NG OF RO ST (8)

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  1. AK ES IL LI LY ME NG RN (4)


(A)K IL LI NG ME (RN ES) LY
Killing Me Softly (soft) extra letter A

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  1. BH EH ND NG OF RO ST (8)

ST RO NG (ND EH BH OF)
Strong Medicine

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Let’s see, the 9 letter bonus word is in order using the spare letters. I think we have six so far:

4 G

7 O
8 F

14 A
15 L
16 L

GOOFBALLS?

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  1. AL CH CI CL DN FZ HE NE SO ST UB (3)

spoilerT HE CH (FZ D) N NE SO CI AL CL UB
The Cheyenne Social Club (S + Eye)[/spoiler]
Whew! Hard one.

ETA: Another letter for you, Tom - looks about right.

30

Oh, cool,


I saw “Social” in there, but could only come up with “The Social Network” which totally didn’t work.

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Wow, Gyrate… I didn’t know if anyone would get #22!

Excellent work Tom Scud and points for Munch as well.

Interesting which movies are left. I thought one of them would be among the first discovered…but it is hard to predict. One of the remainder is a different take on a movie that we all know. Then there is a very popular comedy, a pretty bad horror movie, an arty movie, and more. Wonder which one will be last to fall?

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Remaining unsolved ones:

  1. AN AN DT EE EE GR HE NE NG RZ SS TA (3)

  2. AN CI EL ES HE IM NS OP PR TH (4)

  3. AL DS ER FM MA NA NO NO NT NX OA ON RY SI TE TI TI US YS (5)

  4. AM BB HE LO RP US (5)

  5. BA CR DE HE MI NT OS SI ST ST WI (4)

  6. AD BB BR EM HT IG IM OI ON RS (5)

  7. EA IT LE NX OF OR RR TA TE TO WH (4)

  8. AN BE BS DB DK HD LS NO OM RO RU (5)

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  1. EA IT LE NX OF OR RR TA TE TO WH (4)

(TO NX) WH IT EA TA LE OF TE RR OR
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (snow)
Not exactly one of the classics…

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  1. AD BB BR EM HT IG IM OI ON RS (5)

BR IG HT ON (AD BB I)M EM OI RS
Brighton Beach Memoirs (beach)
…which, combined with this:

…means that
The first pair of 5 will be OA or ON and 12 will start with BA. Whittlin’ them down.

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  1. AN EL CI ES HE IM NS OP PR TH (4)

TH E(L NS I)M AN PR OP HE CI ES
The Mothman Prophecies (moth)

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Remaining unsolved ones:

  1. AN AN DT EE EE GR HE NE NG RZ SS TA (3)

  2. AL DS ER FM MA NA NO NO NT NX OA ON RY SI TE TI TI US YS (5)

  3. AM BB HE LO RP US (5)

  4. BA CR DE HE MI NT OS SI ST ST WI (4)

  5. AN BE BS DB DK HD LS NO OM RO RU (5)

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As predicted:

  1. BA CR DE HE MI NT OS SI ST ST WI (4)

spoilerA CR OS ST HE WI DE MI S(T NT S)I

Across the Wide Missouri (sour)[/spoiler]

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  1. AN BE BS DB DK HD LS NO OM RO RU (5)

BE DK NO BS AN DB RO OM (RU HD L)S
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (stick)

3 to go.

39
  1. AN AN DT EE EE GR HE NE NG RZ SS TA (3)

TA RZ AN AN DT HE GR EE NG (NE E)E SS
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (odd)

40
  1. AM BB HE LO RP US (5)

(AM BB L)O RP HE US
Black Orpheus (black)

Just #5 left