"PUN" JAB
WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
OSCARDS WILD
ART
SEEING EYE DOGS
200
'Colons & commas & hyphens, oh my!'
punctuation
200
'Around 46 B.C, Julius Caesar offended his countrymen by dedicating a statue to her'
Cleopatra
200
'We liked her, we really liked her when this actress won for "Places in the Heart" in 1985'
Sally Field
200
'Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them'
clowns
200
'(A trainer and dog stop at a curb behind Cheryl of the Clue Crew at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.) A dog is trained to stop at curbs for two reasons, safety & orientation, as people who are visually impaired determine location by counting these'
the blocks
400
'Furry Phil's Pennsylvania place for fanciful February forecasting'
Punxsutawney
400
'As an example to her Russian subjects, she & her son Paul had themselves inoculated against smallpox in 1768'
Catherine (the Great)
400
'In 1992, proving he could keep up with the younger crowd, he did one-armed pushups accepting his "City Slickers" Oscar'
Jack Palance
400
'A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden'
Rembrandt
400
'(Jon of the Clue Crew pets a German shepherd puppy at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.) The Seeing Eye puppy-raising program aims to have dogs learn the ABCs: affection, this & courtesy'
behavior
600
'Pugilistic pair pictured here'
Punch & Judy
600
'In 1616 she & her husband John Rolfe traveled to England to help raise funds for the Virginia colonists'
Pocahontas
600
'He's the "SNL" guy (& you're not) who opened the 1988 show with, "Good evening Hollywood phonies"; he never hosted again'
Chevy Chase
600
'19th c. painter Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. on this river, whose "School" he helped found'
the Hudson River
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew crosses the street with a trainer & her dog at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.) A Seeing Eye dog owner listens to traffic to know when to say "forward"; the dog doesn't know when to go because dogs have this visual deficiency of their own'
colorblindness
800
'William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers'
cyberpunk
800
'In November 1988 she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Islamic nation'
(Benazir) Bhutto
800
'Disney sued the Academy for "unflattering" use of this character after a 1989 duet with her & Rob Lowe'
Snow White
800
'A note formerly on the back of "Figure de fantasie" by this Rococo painter says it was done in one hour'
Fragonard
800
'(Jon of the Clue Crew watches as a dog refuses to cross a street despite its trainer's urging.) Thoreau talked of "civil" this, but dogs must learn "intelligent" this, like stopping instead of obeying an order to go forward'
disobedience
1000
'From the Latin for "mark for deletion", it's to erase something from official records'
expunge
1000
'To further the ambitions of her brother, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her'
Lucrezia Borgia
1000
'This "American Beauty" nominee nearly had a pregnant pause at the 2000 show; she was due with her 4th at any moment'
Annette Bening
1000
'This Venetian, said his pupil Palma Giovane, "used his fingers more than his brush" to finish his lush works'
Titian
1000
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew leads Jon on at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.) In the matching process for a dog, people with visual impairments are evaluated on pace & pull using this harness named for the Roman queen of heaven'
Juno
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