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A few of the words
- QUIP
- The lightning-fast exchange of clever quips was the engine of every screwball plot — directors sometimes ran rehearsals like sparring matches to sharpen the rhythm.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HEIRESS
- The runaway heiress was a screwball staple — memorably sent up in 1934's It Happened One Night, which swept all five major Academy Awards that year.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SLAPSTICK
- Physical comedy was never far away: Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn spent much of Bringing Up Baby (1938) tripping over each other and a missing dinosaur bone.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DISGUISE
- Swapped clothes and borrowed identities drove countless plots — a disguise could transform a mild-mannered hero into someone bold enough to finally say what he meant.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Screwball Comedies: a free large-print word search
Screwball comedies word search — free and large-print. Dive into fast talk, comic chaos, mistaken identities, and that inevitable kiss.
About Music & Film
In the 1930s and 1940s, screwball comedy lit up Hollywood with a particular kind of magic: two strong-willed people trading barbs at breakneck speed until, somehow, they fell helplessly in love. The genre thrived on disguise and mix-up — a runaway heiress, a wisecracking reporter, a case of mistaken identity — all hurtling toward a happy ending. It was cinema at its most alive, crackling with wit and warmth in equal measure.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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