SSS Puzzle

[macrae1234]

dOES THIS FIT
49. This horror writer’s best known short story concerns a clergyman who is driven mad, and eventually to suicide, by a ghostly, blaspheming monkey that only he can see.
Sheridan le Fanu and the story is Green Tea

[mellytu74]

The only Tom Berenger match I can think of is Margaret Whitten, who played the owner in Major League.

SO, we must need something else for him, since I believe our Margarets are used up.

[mellytu74]

dOES THIS FIT
49. This horror writer’s best known short story concerns a clergyman who is driven mad, and eventually to suicide, by a ghostly, blaspheming monkey that only he can see.
Sheridan le Fanu and the story is Green Tea

My first thought is Sheridan WHITeside, who is the character in The Man Who Came to Dinner based on Alexander Woolcott.

[plasticene]

Picking up low-hanging fruit--nope, make that fruit that fell on the ground.

? + 32. SLIM PICKENS = SLIM WHITMAN

98. ANDY KAUFMAN + 32. SLIM PICKENS = SLIM WHITMAN

The female golfer will go with KATHY WHITWORTH, no?

46. MICKEY WRIGHT + 23. KATHY IRELAND = KATHY WHITWORTH

[plasticene]

Here's a consolidation. I verified Andy Whitfield (who matched with Andy Robustelli, since Andy Kaufman is matched) and Oscar de La Hoya. Pastor Fireball corrected the only guess with a single answer that was wrong in the last consolidation, so the remaining ones have been changed to definites.

71. ALGER HISS + 28. MARILYN CHAMBERS = WHITAKER CHAMBERS
2. MICKEY MANTLE + 66. GERALD FORD = WHITEY FORD
38. OZZIE SMITH + 55. WERNER HERZOG = WHITEY HERZOG
94. ABRAHAM LINCOLN + 57. WALT KELLY = WALT WHITMAN
98. ANDY KAUFMAN + 32. SLIM PICKENS = SLIM WHITMAN
92. ALAN TRAMMELL + 53. LOU HOLTZ = LOU WHITAKER
11. REDD FOXX + 36. VIRGINIA MAYO = WHITMAN MAYO
46. MICKEY WRIGHT + 23. KATHY IRELAND = KATHY WHITWORTH
37. JIM MCGREEVEY + 86. CHRISTINE KEELER = CHRISTINE WHITMAN
96. GEORGE GERSHWIN + 39. PAUL VON HINDENBURG = PAUL WHITEMAN
45. DIONNE WARWICK + 27. SAM HOUSTON = WHITNEY HOUSTON
62. BERTRAND RUSSELL + 22. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON = ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
33. ROBERT MONTGOMERY + 14. MAY ROBSON = DAME MAY WHITTY
95. GENE RODDENBERRY + 31. GRACE METALIOUS = GRACE LEE WHITNEY
25. BRIAN KEITH + 82. JOHNNY CARSON = JOHNNY WHITAKER
70. KURT RUSSELL + 16. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES = CHARLES WHITMAN
50. JOHNNY MERCER + 77. MARGARET MITCHELL = MARGARET WHITING
64. JOSEPHINE BAKER + 44. LYNN SWANN = LYNN WHITFIELD
93. MARTIN SHEEN + 59. BRADLEY MANNING = BRADLEY WHITFORD
19. SPARTACUS + 87. ANDY ROBUSTELLI = ANDY WHITFIELD
90. JERRY BROWN + 69. MEG RYAN = MEG WHITMAN
58. KERMIT THE FROG + 9. STEVE WOZNIAK = STEVE WHITMIRE
56. JIM MCKAY + 3. JACK RUBY = JACK WHITAKER
40. ARMISTEAD MAUPIN + 21. JEFF BEZOS = JEFF WHITTY
1. LINCOLN CHAFEE + 48. SHELDON LEONARD = SHELDON WHITEHOUSE
78. KAT DENNINGS + 63. e.e cummings = WHITNEY CUMMINGS
79. OSCAR DE LA HOYA + 43. PERNELL ROBERTS = PERNELL WHITAKER
91. DICK CHENEY + 74. HARRY REID = HARRY WHITTINGTON
29. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE + 17. EUGENE DEBS = EUGENE WHITNEY
4. JOHN DINGELL + 61. JAMIE OLIVER = JAMIE WHITTEN
84. LORRIE MORGAN + 54. KEITH OLBERMANN = KEITH WHITLEY

Partials
? + 41. ELI LILLY = ELI WHITNEY
97. WILL ROGERS + [76. JAMES LONGSTREET or 35. JAMES COOK] = JAMES WHITMORE
7. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON + [81. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES or 100. JOHN C. CALHOUN] = JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

Unmatched:
5. TOM BERENGER
6. MAJOR GARRET
8. BILLY MARTIN

10. One of his earliest acting roles was as a boy needing a liver transplant on an X-Files episode remarkably similar to the current TV series, Touch.

12. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
13. JIMMY DEAN
15. MICHAEL CAINE
18. ALBERT HOFFMAN
20. MORRISSEY
24. BERRY GORDY
26. JOE PERRY
30. SAMUEL BECKETT
34. GEORGE MASON
35. JAMES COOK
42. DAN GLICKMAN
47. BRAD DEXTER
49. SHERIDAN LE FANU
51. BILLY SOL ESTES
52. ROSIE O'DONNELL
60. JOAN MIRO
65. ALAIN DELON
67. MACK BROWN
68. WILLARD SCOTT
72. LIU YANG
73. TOM SEAVER
75. MAURICE RAVEL
76. JAMES LONGSTREET
80. MOSS HART
81. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
83. WILLIAM SHATNER
85. THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

88. Last year, this reality series host and his film crew were granted access to the Pentagon’s War Room, the first non-reporter to be allowed to film there.

89. ED GEIN
99. PEGGY NOONAN
100. JOHN C. CALHOUN

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Oops, I just realized I made some other changes: I accepted Pastor Fireball's Sheldon Leonard as the right answer to 48 since it made such a nice match. That answer and Dionne Warwick accounted for the two questions with multiple guesses, all of which were wrong; so I made Ravel the definite answer to #75, since I could confidently rule out Khachaturian and Copland.

[mellytu74]

80. MOSS HART + 49. SHERIDAN LE FANU = Sheridan Whiteside (Hart wrote The Man Who Came to Dinner)

[macrae1234]

88. Last year, this reality series host and his film crew were granted access to the Pentagon’s War Room, the first non-reporter to be allowed to film there

Would you believe Daniel Lawrence Whitney AKA Larry the Cable Guy

[mellytu74]

24. BERRY GORDY + 12. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE = Motown producer NORMAN WHITFIELD

[mellytu74]

I think Morrissey's bandmate is named Alain Whyte? Or is it White?

I don't know enough about Morrissey to know.

[Bob Juch]

dOES THIS FIT
49. This horror writer’s best known short story concerns a clergyman who is driven mad, and eventually to suicide, by a ghostly, blaspheming monkey that only he can see.
Sheridan le Fanu and the story is Green Tea

You're right but "Carmilla" is his best known short story.

[silverscreenselect]

dOES THIS FIT
49. This horror writer’s best known short story concerns a clergyman who is driven mad, and eventually to suicide, by a ghostly, blaspheming monkey that only he can see.
Sheridan le Fanu and the story is Green Tea

You're right but "Carmilla" is his best known short story.

Carmilla is generally considered a novella or short novel rather than a short story.

[macrae1234]

88 and 41 now give us Eli Whitney

[macrae1234]

88 and 41 now give us Eli Whitney

[jarnon]

88 and 41 now give us Eli Whitney

Is this the odd pair, where parts of both names are combined to make another name?

[franktangredi]

88 and 41 now give us Eli Whitney

I don't quite see how that works. We derive Eli Whitney from 41. Eli Lilly, so the other half has to be a person associated with Eli Whitney. How is Larry the Cable Guy associated with Eli Whitney?

[franktangredi]

88. Last year, this reality series host and his film crew were granted access to the Pentagon’s War Room, the first non-reporter to be allowed to film there

Would you believe Daniel Lawrence Whitney AKA Larry the Cable Guy

That should link 88 with 42. Dan Glickman, no?

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88. Last year, this reality series host and his film crew were granted access to the Pentagon’s War Room, the first non-reporter to be allowed to film there

Would you believe Daniel Lawrence Whitney AKA Larry the Cable Guy

That should link 88 with 42. Dan Glickman, no?

I think it would be a little odd to connect Larry the Cable Guy with his own birth name, but that still might be the answer. Matching him with Eli Whitney could work if he were famously descended from him or something, but I don't think that's the case.

Kudos to macrae for figuring that one out! I had tried a few times to google it without success.

[macrae1234]

Maybe we can match Larry to Whitney Blake if we can find a Hazel connection or One Day at a Time or Meredith Baxter or as a stretch Perry Mason

[macrae1234]

10. One of his earliest acting roles was as a boy needing a liver transplant on an X-Files episode remarkably similar to the current TV series, Touch.
Is this Shia Laboeuf in the episode the Goldberg Variation with Willie Garson Moz from White Collar

[franktangredi]

Does this work?

54. KEITH OLBERMANN + 67. MACK BROWN = A. WHITNEY BROWN

Disregarding the first initial gives me pause.

[plasticene]

Okay, I was poking around--some might call it cheating--and I noticed a connection of a type we hadn't considered:

67. MACK BROWN + 6. MAJOR GARRET = MAJOR APPLEWHITE

[plasticene]

And that suggests
15. MICHAEL CAINE + 75. MAURICE RAVEL = MAURICE MICKLEWHITE

which validates
88. LARRY THE CABLE GUY + 42. DAN GLICKMAN = DAN WHITNEY

[franktangredi]

Does this work?

54. KEITH OLBERMANN + 67. MACK BROWN = A. WHITNEY BROWN

Disregarding the first initial gives me pause.

Cancel that. I see Keith Olbermann is already used.

[franktangredi]

And now we can link the two great furniture makers of the age:

85. THOMAS CHIPPENDALE + 34. GEORGE MASON = GEORGE HEPPLEWHITE