Sunday Morning Puzzle # 14

Warning: This puzzle is for anagramming experts only!

This week’s puzzle involves some names of famous people. Below are 10 groups of names. Each group of names has its own common theme. The common theme word in each name has been removed, and the remaining letters have been alphabetically arranged. An extra key theme word has been given to assist the solver.


Example:

Extra key theme word: Texas

EEEFFKO (7, 7)
DEEFINORR (9, 5, 4)
FLOOW (8, 5)
EJO (3, 7)

Answer:

Georgia O’Keeffe
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Virginia Woolf
Joe Montana


Here are the extra key theme words for the groups of names below (they are NOT in the right order): PINE, ORANGE, BEEF, NIPPER, CAN, POND, HORSE, TEN, COMET, APRIL

Can you decipher the names?

EELNST (5, 5)
ENOOST (6, 5)
AADILMMU (8, 3)
ACEHLRS (7, 4)

HJNNOUU (4, 6)
EEGIILLLLW (6, 8)
AAPPZ (4, 5)
AIKTT (6, 4)

DEFILS (1, 1, 6)
CEEEGGNORY (6, 7)
DLNNNOOSY (6, 7)
AAABHKLLLNTU (8, 8)

EGKLLRY (5, 5)
BEELNSY (3, 8)
CEEMSTV (5, 7)
CKLLNOOOPS (7, 7)

ACCEIMS (5, 5)
AAAHMMRS (6, 5)
AAEFLLLNNRY (4, 5, 5)
ACEILMNNO (6, 6)

AEEILNNY (5, 6)
EEHJSSS (5, 5)
EEGGGINNOORTW (6, 10)
AEEEHIORRRSTTW (7, 7, 5)

EIILLSW (6, 4)
ACHKLORT (4, 8)
CDEFIRR (7, 5)
DEEHLRT (6, 7)

AEEGLLNSTV (6, 7)
BILLY (5, 5)
ABIILLMW (7, 5)
AADEGLOR (7, 6)

BDEGHLOOORW (6, 8)
ADDEFFHHILOV (5, 10)
ADELNOR (4, 6)
ADHMOSTY (6, 5)

DEELLNW (7, 5)
AAEEHIIKLLMSSW (7, 11)
CEEHHIMOPRRRST (11, 7)
AACEGHIINRSTT (9, 9)

Anagrams aren’t my strong point but

  1. a) Grace Kelly - Ace
    b) Ben Kingsly - King
    c) Steve Mcqueen - Queen
    d) Don’t know this one but the removed word is almost certainly Jack - That would mean that the clue word for this is Ten, the theme being playing cards.

Also I think 1b) is Oliver stone - Liver

and

2c) is Moon Zappa - Moon

The hint words for 1 + 2 are probably Beef and Comet

1c) Charles Lamb - Lamb

4d is Jackson Pollock. (Jack)

2a - John Sununu (Sun)

Finishing out 2-
b Willie Stargell (Star)
d Eartha Kitt (Earth)

The hint word for 7 is April.
a Willie Mays (May)
b June Lockhart (June)

group 3
a. W. C. Fields (clue word is CAN)
b. George Clooney

3c. Lyndon Johnson

And to finish group 3:

d. Tallulah Bankhead

3d. Tallulah Bankhead

7c. Fredric March

8c - William Blake (Lake), with clue word Pond

group 10 - theme word is ORANGE

a.
b. William Shakespeare
c.
d. Christina Applegate

10c. Christopher Plummer

6b - Jesse Helms (Elm), with clue word Pine

6c - George Washington (Ash)

to finish group 10:

a. Wendell Berry

8a. Steven Seagall

8d - Geraldo Rivera (River)