GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
TINSELTOWN TRAGEDIES
COASTING ALONG
SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES
200
'Pres. Harding's interior secretary Albert Fall spent 9 months in prison for his role in this scandal'
Teapot Dome
200
'King Arthur's conjurer
(6)'
Merlin
200
'In 1932 Peg Entwhistle jumped from the first letter of this local landmark'
the Hollywood Sign
200
'This name of a Berber-inhabited region of Africa was applied to a wild & woolly district of San Francisco'
Barbary Coast
200
'The source of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", probably co-written by Shakespeare, was this author's "The Knight's Tale"'
Geoffrey Chaucer
400
'In 1823 he declared that the Americas were no longer "subjects for future colonization" by European powers'
James Monroe
400
'Mother Wolf's human cub
(6)'
Mowgli
400
'This gangster was gunned down in his girlfriend's Beverly Hills home June 20, 1947'
Bugsy Siegel
400
'The USA's coast ranges include the Klamath Mountains of Oregon & the Kenai Mountains of this state'
Alaska
400
'At the beginning of "The Tempest" he tells his daughter Miranda he was once the Duke of Milan'
Prospero
600
'When Congress first met in 1789, the House of Representatives had 65 members; today there are this many'
435
600
'Ashley Wilkes' wife (& cousin)
(7)'
Melanie
600
'He was on his way to compete in a car race when he crashed Sept. 30, 1955'
James Dean
600
'L.A.'s Sunset Boulevard ends at this road known as PCH'
Pacific Coast Highway
600
'A 1958 Three Stooges short changed "All" to "Oil" in this Shakespeare title'
All\'s Well That Ends Well
800
'After a close & bitter contest, this Illinois Democrat lost her Senate seat in 1998'
Carol Moseley Braun
800
'Twain's "Stranger" or Verne's "Island"
(10)'
Mysterious
800
'Her daughter Cheryl's stabbing of Johnny Stompanato was ruled justifiable homicide'
Lana Turner
800
'This region provided the title of a film in which Harrison Ford moves his family to Central America'
The Mosquito Coast
800
'Considered Shakespeare's first comedy, as its title shows he wanted you to know it was one'
The Comedy of Errors
1000
'To encourage the issuance of more paper money, farmers in the 1870s formed this political party'
Greenback Party
1000
'Austen's "Park", or author Katherine
(9)'
Mansfield
1000
'Floral nickname of aspiring actress Betty Short, victim of a still unsolved 1947 murder'
"The Black Dahlia"
1000
'A former British colony now part of Ghana, or a city in Queensland, Australia'
Gold Coast
1000
'The story goes, Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love so Shakespeare quickly wrote this comedy'
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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