AMERICAN NOVELISTS
TV SHOW SUM-UP
"Y" IS THE ONLY VOWEL
THE 113th CONGRESS
BAD LUCK?
400

He wrote much of "The Great Gatsby" in France & then revised it while he wintered in Rome

(F. Scott) Fitzgerald 

400

Animal Planet counters the Super Bowl with mega-cuteness; it's MVP "outhustled every other Fido on the field"

The Puppy Bowl

400

Workout room

gym

400

The Senate breaks down as: D-53, R-45, I-2,
I for this

independent

400

A superstition says breaking one of these brings on 7 years of bad luck

mirror

800

She wrote a piece of Jane Austen fan fiction called "The Beautiful Cassandra", inspiring her pen name

Cassandra Clare

800

MTV yuks; on hidden camera, Taylor was fooled swiftly

Punk'd 

800

Timid

shy

800

John Dingell, who won a 30th 2-year term, is "America's" this canine who keeps an eye on Govt. & private misdeeds

watchdog

800

Ducks, Canucks & other players of this pro sport know it's bad luck to leave your sticks crossed

hockey

1200

"I never get scared", says this author of the "Fear Street" books

R.L. Stine

1200

Fairy tales can come true... it can happen to you...if you're Emma Swan

Once Upon a Time

1200

An ancient traditional story of a people (DD)

myth

1200

Texas now has its first senator of this ethnicity that makes up about 40% of the state's people

Hispanic

1200

Even if you're doing it "while you work", it's bad luck to do this backstage at a theater

whistling

1600

Ernest Gaines made high school reading lists with this novel about a man awaiting execution

Lesson Before Dying

1600

Queen is not dead, he was just in a shipwreck; the CW says Bullseye; where'd "The Green" go?

Arrow

1600

A burial chamber below ground

crypt

1600

This consumer advocate is the first female senator from Massachusetts

Elizabeth Warren

1600

The Olsen Twins have found fortune despite being born on June 13, 1986, this day of the week

Friday

2000

This author called his 1966 masterpiece "In Cold Blood" a "nonfiction novel"

Truman Capote

2000

Joel McHale E!lucidates clip art

The Soup

2000

A secret appointment between lovers

tryst

2000

Rep. Michele Bachmann says she formed this caucus to get Congress back to obeying the Constitution

the Tea Party

2000

Some have thought his October birthstone bad luck, perhaps because it looks like cats' creepy eyes

opal

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