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Word Puzzles - Book Titles #1

Guess each short clue. Then combine the answers to create the name of a book.
Combine the answers using SOUNDS, not spelling
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Last updated: August 26, 2015
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First submittedDecember 14, 2014
Times taken24,232
Average score64.4%
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Clue
Answer
Mafia leader
Don
Opens a lock
Key
What Santa says
Ho
Coffee alternative
Tea
(Book title)
Don Quixote
 
 
Short for Cassandra
Cassie
Not yes
No
Singer Orbison
Roy
Paul Simon: You can call me __
Al
(Book title)
Casino Royale
 
 
Touch, taste, sight, etc...
Sense
Certain conjunction
And
Pennies
Cents
Aptitude; skillfullness
Ability
(Book title)
Sense and Sensibility
 
 
Huckleberry's surname
Finn
Common breakfast food
Egg
Firearms
Guns
Waves caused by a boat
Wake
(Book title)
Finnegans Wake
 
 
Noise made by a horse
Neigh
Young goat
Kid
Midday repast
Lunch
(Book title)
Naked Lunch
 
 
Clue
Answer
Harbor
Port
Din
Noise
Domain name ender
Com
Stage production
Play
Contraction considered improper
Ain't
(Book title)
Portnoy's Complaint
 
 
Able to
Can
Contract showing property ownership
Deed
(Book title)
Candide
 
 
Charlemagne or one of his subjects
Frank
Barbie's mate
Ken
Beer mug
Stein
(Book title)
Frankenstein
 
 
Gulf
Bay
To be in arrears
Owe
Canis lupus
Wolf
(Book title)
Beowulf
 
 
Animal that is more equal than others
Pig
XY genetically
Male
Author Fleming
Ian
(Book title)
Pygmalion
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Level 92
Dec 15, 2014
Very entertaining. Only quibble is that Quixote ends in an 'ay' sound, rather than an 'ee'.
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Level 76
Aug 16, 2018
In spanish, it's actually pronounced "Ki-ho-teh".With a hard H in "ho" (like in "José"), and no "ay".
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Level 37
Sep 8, 2019
^ +1
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Level 77
Dec 15, 2014
Got most of the books with just one or two clues. Easy, but it was fun too.
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Level 84
Jan 31, 2015
Excellent idea! Good mix of titles.
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Level 33
Jan 31, 2015
Perhaps changing the clue for 'lunch' to 'midday meal' and not 'midday repast'?
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Level 84
Feb 3, 2015
Nah - make people look it up!
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Level 89
Feb 24, 2020
Yeah, a quiz might make someone learn something.
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Level 55
Feb 3, 2015
I love the high percentage implied by the figures, that got all of Port noise com play aint and simply weren't any the wiser. But you have to be a certain age to have even heard of it (it was published when I was 8), and as far as I know it has never been adapted for the screen.
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Level 58
Mar 5, 2017
It certainly has. Starred Richard Benjamin. 1972.
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Level 86
Aug 16, 2018
After this quiz I will never be able to hear that title and not think about it containing the phrase "noise complaint."

Not that I expect to hear it often, of course . . .

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Level 52
Aug 28, 2018
@cornflakesfu I suppose someone who lives down by the docks might have a port noise complaint.
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Level 75
Aug 16, 2018
Once people heard it was banned for obscenity in several countries, of course everyone wanted to read it. Richard Benjamin also starred in the film adaptation of Goodbye Columbus, another Roth book.
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Level 46
Nov 3, 2015
I loved this one! Ran out of time so I missed one, but it was a great quiz!
+1
Level 58
Mar 5, 2017
Got 'em all with 1:52 left. Three cheers and a tiger for me!
+1
Level 69
Nov 29, 2017
Such a fun quiz! This one really made me smile as it teased the brain
+2
Level 86
Aug 16, 2018
Some of these are pretty clever. I was especially fond of the literary clue, "Animal that is more equal than others." Very fitting!
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Level 45
Aug 16, 2018
Doh - 'Huckleberrys surname' - Hound
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Level 75
Aug 16, 2018
I thought the same thing at first! So sad.
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Level 71
Aug 16, 2018
Maybe add some different spellings for Cassie. I tried every single spelling I could think of except for that one. I have several friends who are named Cassandra and none of them shorten it to Cassie. Maybe accept "Casey" or "Kasey" or "KC"
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Level 66
Sep 10, 2019
Well, I tried sandra, Cas, cass, casey and others before I did finally arrive at at cassie,is that really a thing??
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Level 56
Sep 7, 2022
Those are pronounced differently. Kasey has a long A sound and Cassie has the short a
+1
Level 68
Aug 16, 2018
Fun!
+1
Level 60
Aug 17, 2018
Could not get "cents" at all until the last minute, even though I picked up the book clue immediately.
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Level 48
Aug 17, 2018
Great quiz! More of these please
+1
Level 37
Sep 8, 2019
Great quiz!
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Level 66
Sep 9, 2019
Deed was the hardest, because we call it a title.
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Level 67
Feb 15, 2020
Sense and Sensibility can also work for Cents and Sensibility.
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Level 68
Nov 17, 2020
Clever quiz, enjoyable too. Thanks.
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Level 44
Jan 28, 2022
Somehow got frankenstein but missed stein and got the rest. Very fun quiz!
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Level 64
Aug 4, 2022
Clever quiz!
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Level 63
Aug 5, 2023
To be really pedantic - Pygmalion is a play. (Beowulf is a poem, but there is a book of the Seamus Heaney translation). Good quiz!