Logophile: Come What May

The answer to each of the clues below is a word, name, or phrase that contains the word may. They may get more difficult as you go.

1. Elected town leader
2. Makeup brand
3. Tartar sauce base
4. Little Women author
5. Violent chaos
6. Sheriff Taylor’s domain
7. One of the Ms in MGM
8. Undefeated “Pretty Boy” boxer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

1.)  mayor

2.) Maybelline

3.) mayonnaise

4.) Louisa May Alcott

5.) mayhem

6.) Mayberry

7.) Louis B. Mayer

8.) Floyd Mayweather Jr.

 

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