The phrases below should sound familiar. Each has been changed in the same way form its original form. Can you determine the originals and identify the way in which they have been changed?

1. Birth of a customer
2. Laddie get lost
3. North Atlantic
4. Nothing comes
5. Dinner at Cartier's

Answers:

Each clue is (more or less) the opposite of the name of a well-known play, movie, musical, etc.

1. Death of a Salesman
2. Lassie Come Home
3. South Pacific
4. Anything Goes  
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's 

Credit: NY Times Crossword - Oct. 19, 1986
Nancy Scandrett Ross
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