publication date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 (part of Fall 2013)

category: Music

clue: Kurt Cobain's suicide temporarily threw a monkey wrench into this drummer-guitarist-singer's alternative rock career.

explanation: Grohl, of the bands Nirvana and Foo Fighters, scored a hit with "Monkey Wrench." more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Erik Bates, Mike Rothstein, and Elaine Beckland

Tool Time: Dig deep into your tool chest and see if you can find something to hammer out a correct answer to these five wrenching goos. Each of them was inspired by a different hand-operated tool.

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