1. The city & state, famous farewell, and two titles below share something that has to do with architecture. Can you determine what it is?

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
ARRIVEDERCI, ROMA
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
ANGELS IN AMERICA

2. The words below share the same vowel sound (oo - as in moon). What change can be made to the vowel sound to create new, completely different words

COUP
FOOL
FOOD
BOOTY
WHOSE

Answers:

1. Each clue begins and ends with the letter A. Thus, they are "framed" by A - leading to A-Frames.

2. Changing the vowel sound to long u (as in cute), leads to new words:

CUE
FUEL
FEUD
BEAUTY
HUES or HEWS

Credits:
#1: LA Times Crossword
October 7, 2009
Lee Glickstein
A-FRAMES

#2: LA Times Crossword
October 11, 2009
Dan Naddor
WHY, YES!