Each row contains a pair of clues. One of these clues yields a name; the other yields a word that is a transdeletion of another name. (The transdeleted name clue may come either first or second.) Linking these two names in order with a hyphen forms a well-known duo from the world of Math / Science / Business / Politics, such as “Hewlett-Packard.” Reading the transdeleted letters in the given order spells NOT EVEN / CANDID OR OPEN, which clues ODD / FRANK. Applying the same principle used throughout the puzzle leads to the answer DODD-FRANK.
First Clue | Second Clue | One Not There | Missing Letter | Pair | ||
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Capital of Okinawa | Red Italian wine grape | Naha | Barbera | Hanna | N | Hanna-Barbera |
Prion disease that affects cows, for short | Original surname of Albert Brooks | BSE | Einstein | Bose | O | Bose-Einstein |
Obese | Rogers, the late MIT math professor | Fat | Hartley | Taft | T | Taft-Hartley |
Five-season Fox sitcom named after its title character and star | Sound from a dog | Martin | Bark | Baker | E | Martin-Baker |
Cobbler | Ron who played Tarzan | Shoemaker | Ely | Levy | V | Shoemaker-Levy |
Small upright piano | Comedian Roseanne | Spinet | Barr | Epstein | E | Epstein-Barr |
Amber’s Glee role | Lasat who manned the starship Ghost | Mercedes | Zeb | Benz | N | Mercedes-Benz |
Tosses some dice | Partner of terminer | Rolls | Oyer | Royce | C | Rolls-Royce |
Cobb, “the Georgia Peach” | Follower of Goldman in finance | Ty | Sachs | Tay | A | Tay-Sachs |
Namesake of Northwestern’s Business School | Afflicted with hydrophobia | Kellogg | Rabid | Briand | N | Kellogg-Briand |
Hawaiian floral garlands | Tree that comes as speckled, Manchurian or seaside varieties | Leis | Alder | Diels | D | Diels-Alder |
Original or recently picked | The marked cost of something | Fresh | Price | Fisher | I | Fisher-Price |
What R-O-L-A-I-D-S spells? | Partner of arts | Relief | Crafts | Friedel | D | Friedel-Crafts |
More than half | Town bordering Plainfield, Buckland, and Charlemont | Most | Hawley | Smoot | O | Smoot-Hawley |
One who cripples or mutilates | Emmanuel Lewis’s TV series | Maimer | Webster | Merriam | R | Merriam-Webster |
Famed race track, with “Le” | Police constable of Dock Green | Mans | Dixon | Mason | O | Mason-Dixon |
In good health and shape | Style of Jazz often played rapidly | Hale | Bop | Bopp | P | Hale-Bopp |
Barely expandable alloy of iron and nickel | Prods, stirs up, and fuels a fire | Invar | Stokes | Navier | E | Navier-Stokes |
Blatch on Sex and the City | Sink your teeth into | Stanford | Bite | Binet | N | Stanford-Binet |