Letters from Authors
At the Airport
British Actresses
Heads Up! and Off
Ends With "A"
400
Describing a book he was writing in 1881: "it's all about a map, and a treasure, and a mutiny, and a derelict ship"
Robert Louis Stevenson
400
The Tom Bradley International Terminal
LAX
400
She beat the likes of Bette Davis & Katharine Hepburn for the coveted role of southern belle Scarlett O'Hara
Vivien Leigh
400
After being tried for treason, this royal lost her tete on Oct. 16, 1793
Marie Antoinette
400
This word for an inability to eat is from the Greek for "without" & "appetite"
anorexia
800
This author to Marlon Brando: "Dear Marlon, I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it"
Kerouac
800
The Qantas London Lounge
London Heathrow
800
She played Elizabeth Swann in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies
Keira Knightley
800
After this pirate was killed on Nov. 22, 1718, his head, awesome facial hair & all, ended up on the bowsprit of a ship
Blackbeard
800
Mrs., en Espanol
senora
1200
He wrote Orwell both praising & criticizing "1984" & made reference to his own "Brave New World"
(Aldous) Huxley
1200
An interfaith chapel named for the 40th president
Reagan National
1200
Olivia Colman of TV's "Broadchurch" & "The Crown" won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Anne in this 2018 film
The Favourite
1200
On Feb. 12, 1554 she got way too much taken off the top; hope the near-week-&-a-half as queen was worth it
Lady Jane Grey
1200
It's the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet, though you'd think it'd be the last one
zeta
1600
His "The Innocents Abroad" was based on letters he wrote to newspapers as a traveling correspondent
Mark Twain
1600
Cafe Eiffel & Galeries Lafayette Royal Quartz Paris
(Charles) de Gaulle
1600
Character actress Margaret Rutherford was known in later life for playing this sleuth in several films of the 1960s
Miss Marple
1600
On Aug. 23, 1305 both his life & his freedom were taken; getting beheaded was but one of many steps in the process
William Wallace
1600
This 5-letter word is Spanish for beach; it's also the sandy, flat floor of a desert basin
playa
2000
She wrote to husband Leonard before taking her life: "I feel certain that I am going mad again"
Virginia Woolf
2000
Idlewild Wine Bar
JFK
2000
Since the '80s, this funny lady has appeared in movies from "Educating Rita" to the "Harry Potter" and "Mamma Mia" films
Julie Walters
2000
After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did
Cicero
2000
An unwelcome guest is considered this 3-word Latin phrase
persona non grata