PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
LEADING MEN
SEATTLE'S SISTER CITIES
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS
FIX THE SIMILE
200
'Ride over a nail & you might need Schwinn's Airdriver, one of these'
a tire pump
200
'The A&E "Biography" show on the man seen here includes his stint as mayor of this city'
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
200
'In 1987 Seattle gave a sea otter to its oldest sister city, Kobe in this country'
Japan
200
'Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city'
Los Angeles
200
'Pit as a piddle'
fit as a fiddle
400
'If you're lucky & this is gushing in your back yard, call for one of Lufkin Industries' pumping units'
oil
400
'He plays Inman, who struggles to get home to Cold Mountain'
Jude Law
400
'With Seattle's coffee & this from sister city Perugia, Italy, they can make mocha'
chocolate
400
'With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964'
an OBIE
400
'Call as a cree'
tall as a tree
600
'Light bulb makers use a special pump to create this inside the bulb'
a vacuum
600
'The first syllable of his last name rhymes with "mood", not "mud"'
Billy Crudup
600
'Seattle can flaunt the fact, or maybe flute the fact, it's a sister to this Irish city'
Galway
600
'This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans'
A Raisin in the Sun
600
'Lad as a larch hare'
mad as a March hare
800
'To lift water, try this basic type of pump, a cylinder with a piston inside'
a suction [or reciprocating] pump
800
'This romantic actor appeared in "Marriage Italian Style", "Divorce Italian Style" & "Ghosts Italian Style"'
Marcello Mastroianni
800
'This Norwegian sister city should be a favorite of Murphy Brown'
Bergen
800
'James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state'
Mississippi
800
'Rod as a boot'
red as a beet
1000
'It's a pit or well where water collects; the pump named for it gets the water out'
sump
1000
'Seen here near the end of his career, his last name is a synonym for "strength"

"I want only the strong, who can row 1500 miles to Africa and walk ashore alive!"'
Tyrone Power
1000
'A port city, Seattle is a sister to this port city of Kenya'
Mombasa
1000
'This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company'
August Wilson
1000
'Gold as grass'
bold as brass