For Fun
Stephen Sniderman, professor of English at Youngstown State University, contributing editor to Games magazine and Games World of Puzzles, and author of Language Lovers' Word Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2002), created this feature.
Missing Persons

Directions: Each two-word phrase below represents a well-known person with one letter omitted from each name. For example, when the missing letters are added to the first phrase, it reads Brad Pitt. Can you restore the missing letters and find the other people? If you roll your cursor over the line next to the phrase, the name will appear. For a printer-friendly file with more phrases, click on the link below. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.

           
BAD PIT
MOLL ICON
ESTER ROLE
LACE IT
TIN OTHERS
ERA POND
ME WET
TIER WOOD
FOR RICK
BUSY SIEGE
ODD BRIDES
RED WRING
BUT WAR
TO HANS
GORGE ALAS
AVID DOLE
ALE ARRAS
GEE WIDER
PEER FOND
LICE WAKER
GAY BUSY
TAN GET
ANGEL AVIS
LADYS NIGHT
START HITMAN
ED RANGE
ORE VIAL
VINE ILL
BE TILLER
ART CANE
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