CLASSICAL MUSIC
NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS
BAD ENGLISH
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
AMERICAN WRITING
200
'In 1802 he wrote that "Anyone standing beside me could hear at a distance a flute that I could not hear"'
Ludwig van Beethoven
200
'Playing against Paul, Jackie Gleason racked up some points in this 1961 film'
The Hustler
200
'The clue I am reading had an example of a shift in this'
tense
200
'You'll find Lake Louise & Great Bear Lake in this large country'
Canada
200
'In Jan. 1851 he had his first known piece published: "A Gallant Fireman", in Hannibal's Western Union'
Mark Twain
400
'This Italian wrote 37 operas, from "Demetrio e Polibio" in 1806 to "William Tell" in 1829'
Gioachino Rossini
400
'This '63 Newman pic won Oscars for Patricia Neal & Melvyn Douglas'
Hud
400
'Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue.'
apostrophe (in "Its")
400
'The longest river in New York state, it's been called the "Rhine of America"'
Hudson
400
'Hello! He wrote "Farewell, My Lovely" & "The Long Goodbye"'
Raymond Chandler
600
'The tension of a string orchestra against a solo violin depicts the chill of winter in this 1725 work'
"The Four Seasons"
600
'1975's "The Drowning Pool" was a sequel to this 1966 film'
Harper
600
'In a sentence, this noun & its verb has -- excuse me, have to agree in number'
subject
600
'You'll find the coastal city of Bekdash in Turkmenistan on this large inland "sea"'
Caspian Sea
600
'"Stupid White Man" is a 2002 rant from this "TV Nation" host'
Michael Moore
800
'In 1896 this "Scheherazade" composer reorchestrated Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov"'
Rimsky-Korsakov
800
'Based on an Elmore Leonard western novel, this 1967 film put Paul in Arizona around 1880'
Hombre
800
'Flout, meaning "to show scorn for", is often confused with this word meaning "to show off"'
flaunt
800
'Due to its excessive flooding, this colorful body of water is known as "China's Sorrow"'
Yellow River
800
'This 1935 novel by Horace McCoy is a tale of murder & marathon dancing'
"They Shoot Horses, Don\'t They?"
1000
'This Austrian's 1910 8th Symphony is also known as "Symphony of a Thousand" for the number needed to perform it'
Gustav Mahler
1000
'In this 1994 Coen Brothers '50s fantasy, Paul was the villain'
The Hudsucker Proxy
1000
'8-letter term for a "sentence" error. Found in the present clue.'
fragment
1000
'The size of Belgium, this deep Russian lake is home to a rare variety of freshwater seal'
Lake Baikal
1000
'Old Ben is this title character of a Faulkner novelette'
"The Bear"
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