Montreal Meany

It seems book store workers often face this problem. I once read where a man dialed the Strand used book store in NYC to ask if they had a copy of "Bartleby the Scrivener", as his son needed it for school. "Yes". "Would you put it aside for me?" "I would prefer not to". The man was outraged, and demanded to speak to the boss. Less jocularly, I once read how good the librarians at the NYPL are at finding things, for instance, when a student of evolutionary biology needed a seminal work called "Oranges and Peaches".

A recent silly Facebook challenge invited you to change a word from a movie title to a fruit, so I offered "Marjorie Mangosteen".

That's true, and I don't mind in general if they accept "Wizard of Oz" for "Wonderful Wizard of Oz", but if the category name "Novel 'T's" means (as I presume) we are to look for novels that start with "T", then they ought to restrict themselves to proper titles. They only have to come up with five, after all.

Who with a heart would not?

Possibly the contestants were expecting Staten Island to be the bottom-row answer so when it appeared out of position, they figured bottom row must be something they'd never heard of.

"Anxious" for "eager" was a pet peeve of my grandfather's (I was only 3 when he died, so though I do remember a few things about him, this thing I know only through my father). I tend to eschew "wrong" or "right" when talking about word usage, but I think "anxious" for "eager" works better when anxiety is part of the equation. For instance, I might be "anxious" to go somewhere if I am running late, but if I'm talking about my hypothetical upcoming Hawaiian vacation, I'd be eager not anxious. In short, it helps if you understand the words you use.

It was brought to us by the letter D and the number 2, but D was much more strongly featured. 2 in fact would have been justified in asking for its money back. I'll bet those two kids returned to the sidewalk later to do the job properly.

This was one of the few bets of Megan's that I approved of. With her opponents tied for the lead, there was a great chance that both would bet it all, while Megan's 1401 also gave her the chance to pass them if they stood pat.

...Quoth the starling?

My take on that fiasco is that since it affected only 2nd and 3rd place, they didn't want to embarrass Alex, at that time, with an overrule. They may even have quietly paid Betsy (I did have to go look up her name) the $1000 she was done out of.

Almost certainly "Washingtin" would be accepted. There's far more leeway given to incorrect vowels.

Usually in such cases "colorful" appears inside quotation marks. Sometimes, though, it doesn't, as here. I'm often unhappy with their use or non-use of quotation marks.

One might get Irish stewed on Irish cream, though I don't know what happens in the book.

“Today, you remember. I wonder how many Americans remember. Today is Pearl Harbor Day"-George HW Bush, addressing the American Legion, September 7, 1988.

I didn't come here just to plug this page, but I did find it interesting. Anyway, I can see why this may have been a confusing clue even for those who have read the book. I'd have written it as a fill-in-the-blank ("Tiberius ________ Drusus Nero Germanicus"), even though that makes it rather busy for a regular game clue.