The players got all the clues in the COLORFUL ORIGINS category on 7-20-2018, except the last two (*):

($400) “Album” & “blanket” come from words meaning this color

($800) Swimmers dread this irritating element derived from a Greek word for “green”

($1200) Scottish words for “Red Robert” led to this famous nickname for Robert MacGregor

*($1600) This purplish color gets its name from a word for the mallow plant, which is often that hue

*($2000) Around 1860 a purplish-red dye was given this name of an Italian battle site

The players got all the clues in the “C” YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS category:

($400) Schulz alter ego
($800) First name of 1940s ESP-gifted heroine Ms. Voyant
($1200) 6-year old boy created by Bill Watterson
($1600) “Thin Thighs in Thirty Years” is a collection about her from Ms. Guisewite
($2000) It’s about a grumpy bus driver

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