Ghosts
From the German meaning "knocking spirit", it's a mischievous, boisterous ghost.
What is a poltergeist?
How Aretha Franklin spelled what Rodney Dangerfield doesn’t get.
What is R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
First rode with Kid Curry, though his most famous partner was Sundance.
Who is Butch Cassidy?
Crazy like a Christmas loaf.
What is nutty like a fruitcake?
Weapon paired with "cloak" in phrase that today refers to espionage.
What is dagger?
Someone who pinch hits for another's autobiography.
What is a ghostwriter?
A boxer’s battered ear & a vegetable share this spelling.
What is C-A-U-L-I-F-L-O-W-E-R?
Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty played this pair of bank-robbing lovers.
Who are Bonnie & Clyde?
Nocturnal flying mammals enclosed by a church tower.
What are bats in the belfry?
It was the weapon of Zeus; how shocking!
What is a thunderbolt?
These 2 went from "Saturday Night Live" gut-busting to ghost-busting.
Who are Dan Akyroyd & Bill Murray?
(Spelling of the name of the brackets surrounding this answer).
What is P-A-R-E-N-T-H-E-S-E-S?
'20s Chicago crime lord whose business card read "second-hand furniture dealer".
Who is Al Capone?
Enunciation of a Black Forest clock bird.
What is cuckoo, cuckoo?
Slang for a small gun, or a tube through which dried Pisum sativum seeds are blown.
What is a peashooter?
Interested in psychic research while pres., his ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Who is Lincoln?
Spelling for word meaning “beaten mixture of egg whites & sugar used as a pie topping”.
What is M-E-R-I-N-G-U-E?
This bank robber, '30s public enemy No. 1, had his face & fingertips lifted.
Who is John Dillinger?
Hauling 999 baked & molded blocks of clay when you should have 1000.
What is not carrying a full load?
Old style pistol where a piece of fine-grained quartz in the hammer was struck to spark the charge.
What is a flintlock?
'20s football star called "The Galloping Ghost".
Who is Red Grange?
Follows “Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me...”.
What is M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E?
Gangster who could actually write his name in bullets with his rapid-fire weapon.
Who is Machine Gun Kelly?
The penthouse is unserviced by the lift.
What is the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top?
A hatchet, it's said, but not proven, Indians buried it for peace.
What is a tomahawk?