This is a an abridged version of Juliet's balcony soliloqy from Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet." Juliet is bemoaning the fact that that Romeo is a Montague, and she is a Capulet, and their families are enemies.

This clue leads to Montague Alley on Telegraph Hill.

In the original, Juliet says "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

We placed the license plate at the base of a plum tree at the end of Montague Alley, so we changed the above words to "a plum by any other name would taste as sweet."

Some teams noticed the change of words and focused on "rose" and "smell" which led them to the Stinking Rose, a garlic restaurant on Columbus Avenue. This interpretation was actually more elegant than the real answer, but unfortunately never occurred to us when we were writing the clue.

The title of the Regular division clue was "A Tale of a Doomed Union" which hinted (very weakly) at the fact that Montague is off Montgomery near Union Street. We don't think this helped the Regular division, so the two clues were probably equally difficult (or easy).

Only 30 of the 41 Regular teams solved the clue; 5 of the 6 Masters teams solved it.