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1. During my day job, I am an Audio Visual Specialist, and videographer. But during the fall, I am a sports official, specifically in American football. But "Football Official" is so many syllables, so I shorten it to one colloquial three-letter word, one syllable. The word is also the noun of a movie title where Denis Leary plays the title character who actually has nothing to do with sports officiating. This word will be our starting point for the quiz.
2. Adding a letter to Answer #1, we get a word I tend to hear frequently on the golf course, especially when I tee off, to warn my fellow duffers. I should just sell my clubs, I'm never going to get any good.
3. Now adding a letter to answer #2, we have a musical term that means "loud" and is represented in sheet music by the first letter of the word. It can also be a noun that is synonymous with "specialty".
4. Adding a letter to Answer #4, we ironically come to a bit of an opposite of Answer #3. The Italian term for it would be "decrescendo", but if he or she sees that direction in the music, your choir director may ask you in English to sing how?
5. Adding a letter to Answer #4, we get an adjective that could be used to describe your Kellogg's cereal, the tips of your hair, or the cupcake you are eating.
6. Adding yet another letter to Answer #5, you get a verb representing something the Northern Spotted Owl won't tolerate, as the consummation of this verb would eliminate its habitat, according to some. It is also a proper noun representing the first name of the actor who played Dr. "Bones" McCoy.
7. If we add a letter to answer #6, we have a plural noun that would describe the characters from the movie "White Nights", played by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. Only Baryshnikov actually had real life experience in what he did in the movie. Many Cubans in the United States could be collectively described as this, too.
8. The last word for this string adds a letter to Answer #7, and is a past-tense verb describing what a meteorologist did. You hear it most often when you see the weathermen got the weather wrong. "Hmmmm, that's not what was ___________."
9. Now we're going back to Answer #1 and starting over by adding a new letter. This time we form a noun that is a term from nobility times that could mean slave or servant, literally the lowest class in a feudal system.
10. Now adding a letter to Answer #9 we get a noun that is a side order offered in many a fast food restaurant. "Want _________ with that?"
11. Adding a letter to Answer #10, we have an abstract noun referring to a bitter conflict. The word is also featured in the title of a religious hymn, "The ______ Is O'er...The Battle Done".
12. Adding a letter to Answer #11, we come up with a superlative adjective used to describe one who is lightest in color, or a word most associated with Snow White.
13. Adding a letter to Answer #12, we have a plural noun describing a 17th and 18th Century warship. It also is a plural noun describing a type of seabird, one whose males has a large red pouch under its beak used during mating season.
14. Adding a letter to Answer #13, we have a noun that is a feature in many automobiles. In the United States, it is the more formal way of referring to this component; most of the people I know informally call this feature the "stick".
15. If we now add a letter to Answer #14, we have an adjective that is used to describe people to are afflicted with Hyperopia.
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