Author: Thomas Mack
The images have been given grouped by length and then alphabetized. In order:
3 letters | 5 letters | 7 letters |
eve | bacon | chicken |
ham | blues | dollars |
ink | buggy | madness |
law | cents | needles |
oil | chips | quarter |
one | clean | thunder |
pen | click | |
run | death | 8 letters |
ups | dirty | monsters |
downs | potatoes | |
4 letters | error | |
adam | hardy | 9 letters |
dime | honey | brimstone |
draw | horse | cranberry |
eggs | mazes | |
eggs | order | 11 letters |
fire | point | rosencrantz |
fish | quick | |
give | sound | 12 letters |
hide | speak | civilization |
jerk | spell | guildenstern |
kiss | sweet | |
life | tongs | |
meat | tooth | |
milk | trial | |
nail | vodka | |
null | watch | |
ones | water | |
only | write | |
pins | ||
read | 6 letters | |
rice | blazes | |
safe | bricks | |
show | hammer | |
sour | laurel | |
surf | mortar | |
take | nickel | |
tell | rhythm | |
tell | zeroes | |
turf | ||
void | ||
wait |
Combining them into phrases of the form X & Y, then alphabetizing those phrases fills in the grid as follows (with spaces inserted for legibility):
ADAM & EVE |
BACON & EGGS |
BRICKS & MORTAR |
CHICKEN & RICE |
CLEAN & JERK |
DOLLARS & CENTS |
DRAW & QUARTER |
FIRE & BRIMSTONE |
FISH & CHIPS |
GIVE & TAKE |
HAM & EGGS |
HAMMER & TONGS |
HORSE & BUGGY |
KISS & TELL |
LAUREL & HARDY |
LAW & ORDER |
LIFE & DEATH |
MADNESS & CIVILIZATION |
MAZES & MONSTERS |
MEAT & POTATOES |
MILK & HONEY |
NICKEL & DIME |
NULL & VOID |
OIL & WATER |
ONE & ONLY |
ONES & ZEROES |
PEN & INK |
PINS & NEEDLES |
POINT & CLICK |
QUICK & DIRTY |
READ & WRITE |
RHYTHM & BLUES |
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN |
RUN & HIDE |
SAFE & SOUND |
SHOW & TELL |
SPEAK & SPELL |
SURF & TURF |
SWEET & SOUR |
THUNDER & BLAZES |
TOOTH & NAIL |
TRIAL & ERROR |
UPS & DOWNS |
VODKA & CRANBERRY |
WATCH & WAIT |
The shaded letters (bold above) spell out half of each of the eponymous partners from seven cop (or at least people-involved-with-the-legal-system) movies or television shows with titles in the same format:
McMillan & Wife |
Starksy & Hutch |
Rizzoli & Isles |
Dalziel and Pascoe |
Dalziel and Pascoe |
Eisenhower & Lutz |
Turner & Hooch |
The initials of the missing partners spell the answer to the puzzle, WHIPPET.