19.678 — Junior Project

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Although our freshman and sophomore years involved a number of
new-fangled puzzles, we decided to shift our attention towards more
classical problems for our Junior Project. Below is a simple set of
clues for fairly short words: they are listed together in eight pairs.
A pretty straight-forward warm-up exercise, if you ask us, but our
professors considered it perfect for our Junior Project.

Moxy Fruvous's second album:  _ _ _ _
Be introduced to:             _ _ _ _

DeVito or Schwarzenegger: _ _ _ _
Shirk work:               _ _ _ _

Sum kind of snake?:     _ _ _ _ _
Complaints at Wendy's?  _ _ _ _ _

Deliver a stoning: _ _ _ _
Third place:       _ _ _ _

Old West deputies:   _ _ _ _ _
Open with a crowbar: _ _ _ _ _

Hypnotist's command:       _ _ _ _ _
Member of Hef's entourage: _ _ _ _ _

When you get one of these...:                 _ _ _ _
...you might get one of these in your throat: _ _ _ _

Like seltzer:         _ _ _ _ _
Having bendable legs: _ _ _ _ _