2.6: Grown-up Group (Solution)

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Author: Roger Barkan

In each row, one word is a clue to the name of a famous person, and
the other word is a word that can be formed from that name by deleting
some internal letters. The names are
   Shirley Temple
   Olivia Newton-John
   Eric Clapton
   Oscar Levant
   David Arquette
   Sean Astin
   Chris O'Donnell
   Laurence Olivier
   Nora Ephron
   Loretta Lynn
   Erik Satie
The initials (first and last) of these people, read in order, spell
STONE COLD AS A COLONEL LES.
These form another pair of the above form. The last word is formed from
the name; the rest is the clue. "Stone Cold" is wrestler Steve Austin;
as a colonel, Colonel Steve Austin is the title character of the TV
show "The Six-Million Dollar Man". That character is played by Lee Majors;
the letters deleted from Lee Majors to obtain LES spell the answer,
E MAJOR.