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A glib Punner's bright scheme.


Match the description with the name

1. Falstaff                           A. Undernourished lion
2. Mistress Quickly                   B. Frappe or malted milk
3. King Lear                          C. The clumsy Mr. Kazan
4. Goneril                            D. Brand of thynthetic
thponge
5. Regan                              E. Dr. "J" spots his wife
6. Shylock                            F. Masquerade as Paul
7. Portia                             G. In-law of Jackie
8. Othello                            H. Pooh's friend, in first draft
9. Desdemona                          I. Restart the clock
10. Iago                              J. Harmless bacteria
11. Troilus                           K. Error on 1997 marquee
12. Romeo                             L. Elemental relationship
13. Juliet                            M. Spokesperson for Nestle
product
14. Cymbeline                         N. Light-rail transit
15. Titania                           O. Designing Ferdinand
16. Hamlet                            P. Site of Rlus. Plus. Ilus.
17. Ophelia                           Q. West African brook
18. Horatio                           R. Football play (Latin)
19. Julius Caesar                     S. Colombian anti-drug
campaign
20. Katharina                         T. Full first name of da Vinci
subject
21. Bianca                            U. Resident of Latvian capital
22. Titus Andronicus                  V. How Ms. Child ended her
program
23. Timon                             W. Royal expression
24. Ariel                             X. "My kind of town"
pronounced by tot
25. Caliban                           Y. Withdrawn bolt
26. Shakespeare                       Z. Sports center sponsored
by Cathay Pacific Airways


Answers to A Glib Punner's Bright Scheme:

1. J. false staph staph
n.
Staphylococcus.



staph adj.
 2. M. Mistress Mistress, the feminine counterpart of master, may mean:
  • Mistress (lover)
  • Mistress (form of address)
  • An old-fashioned term for the lady of the house, especially one who is head of the household
  • A dominatrix in BDSM
  • A woman who owns a slave
 Quick(ly) 3. W. king leer 4. Q. Ghana Ghana, country, Africa
Ghana, officially Republic of Ghana, republic (2005 est. pop. 21,030,000), 92,099 sq mi (238,536 sq km), W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Accra.
 rill 5. U. Rigan 6. Y. shy lock 7. O. Porsche
This article is about the auto company. For its design consultancy subsidiary, see Porsche Design Group


Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, often shortened to Porsche AG, or just Porsche, is a German manufacturer of automobiles.
 8. D. O-Cel-O (with lisp LISP: see programming language.
LISP

Powerful computer programming language designed for manipulating lists of data or symbols rather than processing numerical data, used extensively in artificial-intelligence applications.
) 9. T. Desdemona (Lisa) 10. X. (Ch)ic(c)ago 11. P. Troy(lus) 12. G. Rome(y) O. 13. V. Julie e 14. A. Simba lean 15. K. Titani(c)a 16. H. Ham Ham, in the Bible
Ham, in the Bible, son of Noah. In biblical ethnography, Ham is the father of the nations Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. In a story separate from the flood narrative, the legend related in the Book of Genesis and in the Qur'an suggests
(Pig)let 14. C. oaf Elia 18. L. H-O ration ration

a fixed allowance of total feed for an animal for one day. Usually specifies the individual ingredients and their amounts and the amounts of the specific nutriments such as carbohydrate, fiber, individual minerals and vitamins.
 19. E. Julius sees her 20. Z. Cath Arena 21. F. be Anka 22. R. tight(us) end run(icus) 23. I. time in 24. N. airy air·y  
adj. air·i·er, air·i·est
1. Of, relating to, or having the constitution of air.

2. High in the air; lofty.

3. Open to the air: airy chambers.

4.
 el 25. S. Cali ban 26. B. shake's peer

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Date:Mar 22, 2004
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