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David Blaine is the poor man's Derren Brown.

#27 - guantes : colgar :: fraises : sucrer.

#28. Answer is insolent, to see why, check the geographic location of the Isle of Wight.

#25. seagull is probably a better answer than Siegel.

#22. From the numbering of Mozart symphonies, answer is 31.

#26: cold irritant : chilblain :: cool irritant : David Blaine.

(Does anyone not find David Blaine irritating?)

burger : 97 :: hot dog : 78

Clear as mud, right? Would it help if I replaced 'hot dog' by 'Frankfurter', and 'burger' by 'Burger'?

seanahan is correct on clue # 12.

Clue # 3 is also related to atomic numbers: see note under the answer 112118

Clue # 15: answer is 1

The logic derives from S.I. units : exa- is the prefix for 10^18 ; deca is the prefix for 10^1 (now reverse the prefixes and the exponents)

12. From the hint, element 63 is europium, and element 95 is americium.

#24. La Cousine Bette (used Wikipedia).

#10. Wilde prison: Reading Gaol

I'm going to give this 24 more hours and then post all the answers. Some fairly heavy-handed hints are given below (though I'm not associating them with specific clues). Remaining answers have to do with:

the periodic table - literature by Honore - literature by Oscar - music by Wolfgang - the Crimean war - the supreme court - death - cows - geography - the Muses - pop culture bozo - units of measurement

Oh no! My sources revealed. Shock! Horror!

Given that hint, I went all out on Google, and ended up finding the source of the question: gaelstat.com/Documents/powerquiz2005answers.doc. The answer is not a word I know, so I'll leave it for others to try to figure out.

Mollusque: no for Polyphemus on #7. Hint - it is a 'sound alike' clue - the answer is acoustically reminiscent of part of the clue; in this case very reminiscent.

7. “It’s De Lovely” : Cole Porter :: bible salesman : Polyphemus?

#4 solved, I think, by the joint efforts of seanahan (who was on the right track) and sarra (who brought it home). The invisible part of the clue was, of course, the word invisible.

Oh gosh, now I understand 4 but my knowledge is lacking! My survey says—Ellison?

4. Marx?

You can always count on me to take the low road, si.

Looking at clue #28, I think perhaps it's not entirely fair. The answer is not a direct analogy; rather it has to do with the geographical location of the Isle of Wight. I will say no more....

Skipvia: I had the same idea, but suppressed it, knowing that someone wouldn't be able to resist. You didn't disappoint! :-)

Sionnach mentioned no overarching theme. In the Spears case, we can probably assume no underarching theme and advise paparazzi accordingly.

Now, that's getting a little personal, isn't it? I mean, just because Britney doesn't wear underwear, I'm not sure you should call her...Oh...wait...annus. Oh. I get it. Never mind...

r_t: Why, yes it is.

Britney fans: before you fire off those e-mails of protest, consider the woman's recent annus horribilis and you will have to acknowledge that the designation 'white trash' is sadly appropriate.

errr... Is #30 curious?

hahaha! 18. crotchety!

A few hints:

literary clues - 4, 10, 24
science clues - 3, 12, 15
musical clues - 18, 22
popular culture clues - 26, 30
'sounds like' clues - 7, 24, 29, 30

Hmmm. I guess the Saturnalian shopping frenzy has choked off the creative juices of assorted wordizens.

For 25 - Siegel, then?

Hey, thanks! I seem to be stumped on the rest, though. Could No. 10 be "zoo"? And No. 18, "quivering"?

Trivet: "harrah" is not right for #25, though you are on the right track.

Rolig rocks on these clues!

Hmmmm....

2-if not what rolig said, Bolero?
5-THRUSH?
19-Marfan
25-harrah????

21. night or Nyx
According to Hesiod, Night (Nyx) was born of Chaos, and Nemesis was born of Night.

10. penitentiary perhaps? - though I don't get the "wild" part.

Would No. 2 be "L'Enfant et les sortilèges" ("The Child and the Spells"), also a "lyric fantasy" in which a child has to deal with objects coming to life.

Very good, rolig: all three are correct.

Think these are right:

9. hajji
16. Le Corbusier
17. psychopomp

mollusque: yes on #8; no on the other three

8. ribit-ribit oink-oink : quack-quack : bre-ke-ke röf-röf-röf : háp-háp
10. safe haven : sanctuary :: wild prison : hellhole
14. astronomy, physics :astrophysics ::history, statistics : psychohistory
28. Isle of Man : masculine :: Isle of Wight : human

hmm!

'genderless" is not the answer to question 28.

6. easy job : sinecure :: guiding light : cynosure

13. haplography. ugh! I had to Google.
23. syllabub
28. genderless! Curiously, etymonline points out the archaic word wight is not to do with the Isle's Wight. Some speculation on the roots of the Manx Man can be found in this book chapter.

Could 5 be "thrush"?

1. Tubman (Harriet is the clue, if that helps with the others, as well as Underground Railroad)

After getting the first, I thought the rest would be easy, but I couldn't get any of them at first glance.

1. author : Beecher Stowe :: subway conductor :
2. Dukas : The Sorcerer’s Apprentice :: Ravel
3. Indy : 4966 :: NASCAR :
4. hand : Smith :: man :
5. Hatfield : McCoy :: uncle :
6. easy job : sinecure :: guiding light :
7. “It’s De Lovely” : Cole Porter :: bible salesman :
8. ribit-ribit oink-oink : quack-quack : bre-ke-ke röf-röf-röf
9. Holy war : jihad :: accomplished pilgrim :
10. safe haven : sanctuary :: wild prison :
11. burger : 97 :: hot dog :
12. Europe : 63 :: America
13. accellerando : dittography :: ralentando :
14. astronomy, physics :astrophysics ::history, statistics :
15. axe : 81 :: aced :
16. creator of high spirits : Courvoisier :: creator of high-rises :
17. Boston strangler : psychopath :: Grim Reaper :
18. tremulous : quavering :: irritable :
19. Arthur : bright :: Lincoln :
20. heavy : Scarlett : light :
21. night : chaos :: nemesis :
22. Prague : 38 :: Paris :
23. course outline : syllabus :: cream-based dessert :
24. baby kitten : fuzzy pet :: poor relation :
25. mirage : win :: flamingo :
26. cold irritant : chilblain :: cool irritant :
27. guantes : colgar :: fraises :
28. Isle of Man : masculine :: Isle of Wight :
29. proper : decorous :: Wisconsin :
30. inauthentic : spurious :: white trash fragrance :