Star Search (solution)

by Patrick Blindauer

The blanks under each film title can be filled with the three stars of each movie:

Death Becomes Her

BRUCE WILLIS
GOLDIE HAWN
MERYL STREEP

GoodFellas

JOE PESCI
RAY LIOTTA
ROBERT DE NIRO

Speed

DENNIS HOPPER
KEANU REEVES
SANDRA BULLOCK

The word search grid doesn’t contain their names, though; instead it contains pairs of entries made up of the same letters:

WILBUR/SLICE
NEIGH/WALDO
YERTLE/PERMS
EPIC/JOSE
YALTA/TRIO
ORBITER/DRONE
SNIPPED/HERON
AVENUE/REEKS
DARLA/SUNBLOCK

The leftover letters spell out six more words (A-Z, like everything else we’ve seen):

CHURN CODE FIRM HE-MAN MONEY YELLOWBIRD

which can be recombined to make:

DON AMECHE
HUME CRONYN
WILFORD BRIMLEY

...the three stars of COCOON, which is the answer to this puzzle.