| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | COMPLIMENTS TO THE WRITER $400: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" from this Mass. man was a "Leaves of Grass" blurb; so much for self-reliance, Walt Emerson |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | COMPLIMENTS TO THE WRITER $1200: "You are the best author in human history"--in a kid's fan letter for "Watchmen"--became a blurb for his novel "Jerusalem" Alan Moore |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ENDS WITH "B" $400: Don't let your book go out without one of these publicity notices on its jacket a blurb |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $800: American music fans best know the band Blur for their song that starts with this shriek of triumph woo-hoo! |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $2000: Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Almost Famous", this critic wrote a book about Blondie & "Let It Blurt" is a book about him Lester Bangs |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $300: A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book a blurb |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | I WANT 2 B $400: This word for brief praise on a book cover like "Jillian Turbo-Smythe is a master of suspense!" dates back to 1907 a blurb |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | STARTS & ENDS WITH B $800: A short promotional statement found on a book cover blurb |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $400: To speak something out impulsively scares off the T & turns into this word, to obscure by smearing blur |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | IN VULNERABLE $400: A smear, or last night after a few too many cocktails a blur |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | RHYME TIME $1000: Any action word used in a short publicity statement a verb blurb |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | MULTI-BAND MUSICIANS $800: Damon Albarn fronted Blur & this animated "animal" band that sang, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag" Gorillaz |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | GUILTY $2,500 (Daily Double): His 1982 "not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict led states to pass laws that allowed "guilty but mentally ill" John Hinckley |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | YOU'RE SO VAGUE $1000: Woo hoo! Damon Albarn's '90s band Blur |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | FROM B TO SHINING B $800: A brief advertisement, perhaps for your buddy's novel a blurb |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | SCRAMBLED FRUITS $800: EERY BLURB blueberry |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $1200: No. 4:
"Hey Ya!" by this group; "a genre-humping blur of acoustic guitars... and Andre 3000's funktastic charm" OutKast |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $800: Slang for a short, written promotional statement a blurb |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $600: We saw your show with this man /
But some of it's a blur /
Loved that duet on "Your Song" /
Hey, do you call him "Sir"? Elton John |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | RHYME TIME $2000: A note on a book jacket about parsley, sage or rosemary herb blurb |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | "MEA" CULPA $600: To blur by rubbing or to vilify by negative depiction smear |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | "TRUTH" OR CONSEQUENCES $400: The 5 words that follow "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!" in the first verse of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" "His truth is marching on" |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $1000: It's "a brief blur of colors between the pate and the brie" for fans attending the major event in this sport the Tour de France |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | BANDS OF THE '90s $500: Let's clear things up: that "Whoo-Hoo" song by this band became an anthem of the National Hockey League Blur |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $400: Of "hurt", "spurt" or "blurt", the one that stays the same in the past tense Hurt |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $600: A tell-all book might have this kind of short publicity notice on its cover Blurb |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $800: In 1907 humorist Gelett Burgess coined this word for the praising quotes on book jackets blurb |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | THE BODY HUMAN $400: Melanin in this colorful part of the eye absorbs strong light that might blur the vision iris |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Philip Carey is the central character in this Somerset Maugham novel Of Human Bondage |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | WORD ORIGINS $800: Humorist Gelett Burgess coined this 5-letter term for a brief laudatory phrase on a book jacket a blurb |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | TV BLONDES $500: She's gone from Partridge to prosecutor Susan Dey |
| #855, aired 1988-04-29 | "B" THERE $500: In 1907, Gelett Burgess coined this word for a brief commendatory notice like on a book jacket blurb |
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