(This Before & After category will make sense if you say the responses out loud, but will look funny in writing. The hinge piece changes spelling, but not pronunciation, for the second half.)
8: Huh? Argus was slain by Hermes, but it was Hera who put his eyes in the peacock’s tail. The only “guide to the underworld” I can think of (other than Dante’s Vergil) might be Charon, the ferryman on the Styx? I’m very confused, so I’ll just clam and hope for a replacement question.
10: Hestia
HOMOPHONIC BEFORE & AFTER
3: John [Deere/Dear] John
6: The Chairman of the [Board/Bored] to Death
sp: Zack Galifianakis, not “Galafinakis”
9: Gluten-free [flour/Flower] Drum Song
12: Fitty [Cent/Scent] of a Woman
15: Man, what in the world are you babbling about?
Respectfully submitted—
—OSC
We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
2. Hephaestus
4. Dionysus
6. Artemis
8.
10. Prudence says I should clam here.
3. John Deere/dear John
6. chairman of the board/bored to death
9. clam um clam
12. 50 cent/Scent of a Woman
15. The first part is divinable if only I had a clue for the last half--clam
I'd mention my weakness in mythology (again) but I really have no excuse by now, and I did no better on the second category, which I would not consider a weakness.
HOMOPHONIC BEFORE & AFTER
(This Before & After category will make sense if you say the responses out loud, but will look funny in writing. The hinge piece changes spelling, but not pronunciation, for the second half.)
3: John Deere / Dear John Kerry
6: CLAM
9: CLAM
12: CLAM
15:Thou shalt not steal / steel magnolias
3: John Dear John
6: CLAM
9: CLAM (though I know the 2nd half of the clue is "Flower Drum Song"; slightly confused about the first half--white flour?)
12: 50 Scent of a Woman
15: Thou shalt not Steel Magnolias
2. Haephestus/vulcan
4. Dionysus/Bacchus
6. Artemis/Diana
8. clam. The only Olympian connected to hades is Hades/Pluto. As I recall, there are only 12 chief gods and goddesses described as Olympians.
10. Hera/Juno - again, if we're referring to actual olympians.
3. Dear John Edwards
6. clam. Only nicknames I know are Ol' Blue Eyues and Frankie; can't figure out the connection to Danson and Zach G.
9. Gluten-free Flower Drum Song (Gluten-free makes more sense than just Gluten)
12. Fifty Cent of a Woman
15. clam. complete mystery to me.
