Yearbook archive
Puzzle for October 21, 2026
Replay a past four-clue puzzle. The answer is hidden in a disclosure control to avoid spoilers in normal browsing.
Reveal the year
1950
👶 Famous Birth
A musical arrival: This future Motown star was born in Michigan; blind since infancy, he later recorded “Superstition” and “Isn’t She Lovely.”
🎬 Screen & Sound
Backstage ambitions: A New York City world debut introduced Bette Davis’s aging Broadway star to Anne Baxter’s ambitious young fan, proving admiration can make a crowded dressing room.
🕯️ Famous Death
A lasting vocabulary: The English writer of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four died at 46 after complications of tuberculosis, leaving “Big Brother” and “Newspeak” in political language.
👶 Famous Birth
Keep a straight face: A future deadpan comedy favorite was born in Evanston, Illinois, before Saturday nights and a doctor named Peter Venkman made straight-faced silliness look easy.