OT: Test #362B

[wire chief]

14..This American(?) is about to receive France's highest civilian award, the Legion of Honor.

15..Speaker & addressee? Many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me...

16..Ava Gardner & Jane Fonda linked by, um, footwear.

17..Stockbrokers are to Wall St. as Brit journalists are to..?

18..Portofino Bay is closest to Napoli, Genoa, Venezia, Roma, Palermo, or San Marino?

19..Fort Jefferson Union prison is in which Nat'l Park?

20..Ludovico ______ was Leonardo's patron.

21..Somali pirate attacks fall from 176 in 2011 to (80, 65, 47, 31, 16, or 3) so far this year?

22..Jekyll and Hyde's first names?

23..FDR pushed a button in '37 to signal traffic could begin on..?

24..A few years back she(?) was featured on PBS' "Voice of an Angel".

25..Independently James printed and Charles composed.

Excuses about the age of your software are not acceptable.

 

[huskyblooz]

22. Dr. & Mr.
24. Jean Stapleton

 

[pinotbear]

17. Fleet St.
19. Dry Tortougas, I think
22. This is a goodie...somewhere back in the dusty recesses of my mind, the answer lies, but, as a first guess, Richard and Edward.

 

[DishNSwish]

23, It's either the George Washington Bridge or Golden Gate Bridge...I think GW was earlier, so I'll say Golden Gate for the win Regis?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

25. Ives - not sure about the first names but a lithographer and a composer named Ives there were.

 

[k9fanatic]

17. Fleet Street
18. Napoli
20 Sforza

 

[ed4ourgirls]

15. Shylock and Portia
18. Genoa
22. Henry Jeckyll and Edward Hyde

 

[wire chief]

15..Ed4 is half right, but Portia never bullied Shylock on the street, only in court.

24..Meyers has the inside track on this one, based on a message from me, but he doesn't realize it yet. Everybody send him a conversation-starter asking him to reveal what he should now know.

21..Oh, guess something.

22,,A Contessa in the Park

1..Well, Paul McCartney already has one, so who's the most likely counterpart?

 

[meyers7]

24..Meyers has the inside track on this one, based on a message from me, but he doesn't realize it yet. Everybody send him a conversation-starter asking him to reveal what he should now know.

Oh, hadn't noticed what program that was from. Ms Charlotte Church. or maybe you mean Josh Groban?

 

[wire chief]

Oh, hadn't noticed what program that was from. Ms Charlotte Church. or maybe you mean Josh Groban?

Actually the performance was years later. She was "Voice of an Angel" at age 13.

 

[VAUConnFan]

17. Fleet St.
21. 3

 

[wire chief]

By the way, you were perfect in Part A.
By the way #2--My apologies to Knightsbridge, Coler, ScarletB et al for
the crackpot that I am and will remain.

14..Bob Dylan (Well, there goes your perfection.)

15..The addressee is Antonio.

16..Further and further from perfection you travel. Ava Gardner was once The
Barefoot Contessa; Jane was Barefoot in the Park.

17..Pinot fleetly grabbed Fleet Street. K9 and VAUC a little slower.

 

[wire chief]

18..Genoa is the best choice; ed4 is the best responder.

19..Silly Ol' Bear shines in the Sunshine State (kind of ironic in that we have been
under cloudy sky and much rain for several days, with a tropical storm making its way
to us later today).

20..K9 is alone in Sforting out Sforza.

21..VAUC offers a minimal(3) pick...and accurate.

 

[wire chief]

22..Henry & Edward, rightly types Ed4.

23..Dish correctly selects the bridge less taken, Golden Gate.

25..James is part of Currier & Ives; Charles Ives is one of Britain's foremost
writers of serious music.

Too soggy for me to play tennis, which gives me the extra time to overcome the blankety-blank gremlin that throws my typing into unfathomable changes.