May This Ember Glow

Stephanie Dalquist, Sam Kendig

HINTS:

• STUCK AT PAIRING PEOPLE: There's a couple parts to this puzzle - the guy, and the girl.
• STUCK AT WHAT TO DO WITH COUPLES: Men and women, as different as May and December.

CLUES IN PUZZLE:

• "May this ember glow" ⇒ sounds like "May December"

SOLUTION:

1. Identify celebrities using pop culture maven
2. Intro text clues love and robbing the cradle - find the couples
3. Find the difference in ages
4. 1-26 A-Z, wrap around at 27 to A, spells "CLASS OF OH EIGHT"
5. Gobbeldy gook image title is initials of one person from each couple, for order

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Letter	Age Diff	Person 1	Person 2
C	3	Melanie Griffith	Antonio Banderas
L	12	Susan Sarandon	Tim Robbins
A	1	Jerry Lee Lewis	Kerrie McCarver
S	19	Cary Grant	Betsy Drake
S	19	Cher	Rob Camilletti
O	15	Demi Moore	Ashton Kutcher
F	6	David Duchovny	Tea Leoni
O	15	John Ritter	Amy Yasbeck
H	8	Maury Povich	Connie Chung
E	5	Goldie Hawn	Kurt Russell
I	9	Woody Allen	Soon-Yi Previn
G	7	Lara Flynn Boyle	Jack Nicholson
H	8	Maria Shriver	Arnold Schwarzenegger
T	20	Liz Taylor	Larry Fortensky

Answer: PREFROSH

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2004 MIT Mystery Hunt