Read, Solve, then Follow the Instructions

This puzzles was originally posted on the NY Times games forum

1. CUPOFCOFFEE
2. CUPCOFFEE (The movies are Seven and Ten respectively)
3. UPCOFFEEC
4. UPCOFFERC (e.e. cummings and Edgar Rice Burroughs, respectively)
5. UPPAFFERC (Coloardo and Pennsylvania)
6. UPPAERFFC (Before ER, there was E/R, another medical drama with George Clooney)
7. UPPAERFFE (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
8. UPPERAFFE (Equal Rights Amendment)
9. UPPERMAEFFE (Mae West, in her second-to-last movie Myra Breckinridge)
10. PERMAEFFEUP
11. PERKMAEFFEUP (K is the Kafka character, M is from James Bond movies)
12. PERKMAEEUP (F is for Fugitive, one of Sue Grafton's alphabetically oriented Kinsey Milhone mysteries)
13. PERKMAEEUPPER (Franklin Pierce is the 14th president, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt served 3 full terms, passing away in his fourth)
14. PERKMEUPPER (Arts & Entertainment, who have recently begun publishing Biography! in magazine format)

Solution

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