Jeo 35 - 2
HUMANITIES: THIS SPANISH TITLE OF GOYA'S "THE SNOWSTORM" IS THE NAME OF A WESTERN U.S. STATE?
"(LA) NEVADA"
SHAKESPEARE QUOTE: KING LEAR COMPLAINED, "HOW SHARPER THAN" THIS "IT IS TO HAVE A THANKLESS CHILD"?
"A SERPENT'S TOOTH"
PLAY'S LAST LINES: BY OSCAR WILDE: "NO ONE IN PARTICULAR. A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE"?
"A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE"
HISTORICAL FICTION: A BLIND FRENCH GIRL & A YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIER'S PATHS COLLIDE DURING WORLD WAR II IN THIS RECENT PULITZER PRIZE WINNER?
"ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE"
MONTY PYTHON PHRASES: THIS DITTY FROM THE END OF "LIFE OF BRIAN" IS THE MOST REQUESTED SONG AT BRITISH FUNERALS?
"ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE"
ARTISTS ON FILM" WILLEM DAFOE PLAYED VAN GOGH IN THIS 2018 FILM FROM ARTIST/DIRECTOR JULIAN SCHNABEL?
"AT ETERNITY'S GATE"
SONG LYRICS: Michael Jackson: "The word is out you're doin' wrong, gonna lock you up before too long"?
"BAD"
PLAY: TO KEEP HIS WIFE CORIE, PAUL RISKS FROZEN TOES BY WALKING THIS WAY?
"BAREFOOT IN THE PARK"
STAGE: THE MUSICAL "ANYTHING GOES", SET ON AN OCEAN LINER, HAS A SONG WITH THIS APPROPRIATE FRENCH TITLE?
"BON VOYAGE"
GIFT SHOP" THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM HAS...THE ANIMALS IN CARLE'S FIRST BOOK, THE ONES WHO ASK THIS CREATURE, "WHAT DO YOU SEE?"
"BROWN BEAR (, BROWN BEAR)"
"THUMB": IN "MACBETH" THESE 6 WORDS PRECEDE "SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES"?
"BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS"
Albums: "You go back to her" but Amy Winehouse goes elsewhere on this title track?
"Back To Black"
PINK FLOYD'S WALL: A POPULAR ALBUM TRACK SAYS, "THERE IS NO PAIN, YOU ARE RECEDING... I HAVE BECOME" THIS TITLE?
"COMFORTABLY NUMB"
PLAY TITLE IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: LATIN AMERICAN THRILLER: "LA MUERTE Y LA DONCELLA"?
"DEATH & THE MAIDEN"
NOVELS: IN THIS NOVEL INSURANCE AGENT WALTER HUFF TURNS TO MURDER AFTER FALLING FOR A WOMAN HE LOVES LIKE A RABBIT LOVES A RATTLESNAKE?
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY"
CHILDREN'S LIT: IN A MODERN FAVORITE BY MO WILLEMS, "DON'T LET THE PIGEON" DO THIS, EVEN WHEN HE PROMISES, "I'LL JUST STEER"?
"DRIVE THE BUS"
REALITY TV: NOW DIVORCED, THE COUPLE SEEN HERE WAS BACK TURNING HOUSES FOR A PROFIT ON SEASON 8 OF THIS SHOW?
"FLIP OR FLOP"
"FOR": "I WOULD GIVE THE STARS ABOVE" IN EXCHANGE IN THIS '60s CLASSIC BY THE YARDBIRDS?
"FOR YOUR LOVE"
Movie Quotes: It's the no-nonsense message that comes after the following"We've never lost an American in space; we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch"?
"Failure is not an option."
FILM: Dan Fogler first showed up as Jacob Kowalski, a friend of Newt's, in this magical film from 2016?
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"
"GREEN": IT'S HEMINGWAY'S CHRONICLE OF BIG GAME HUNTING IN WHAT'S NOW TANZANIA?
"GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA"
MUSICALS BASED ON LIT: SHOW YOUR LUCK & NAME THIS MUSICAL BASED ON DAMON RUNYON STORIES INCLUDING "THE IDYLL OF MISS SARAH BROWN"?
"GUYS & DOLLS"
past-iche: Of an error, a gap or a new discovery, what a lacuna in a historical text is?
a gap
NATURAL LANDMARKS: Yellowstone has plenty of these, including one of the world's most famous; Iceland has a valley of them?
a geyser
Seat: Perfect for Hamlet's dad, it's the type of chair seen here?
a ghost chair
23: This type of jury is made up of up to 23 members & determines if someone should be charged with a crime?
a grand jury
CLIMATE: The EPA says in summer, pavement can be 90 degrees warmer than the air, so urban areas are called this type of "island"?
a heat island
ANIMAL DAY: This -hog can come out of the shadow of the groundhog; February 2 honors both animals?
a hedgehog
H.D.: A residential area in which the dwellings have all been planned & built around the same time?
a housing development
"J"-6: A chapter on used cars in "The Grapes of Wrath" uses this word for a rundown auto?
a jalopy
Portmanteau: Small, oblong Chinese citrus fruit plus rhymed verse employed by Omar Khayyam & Nostradamus?
a kumquatrain
JOBS: Nurses can be RNs, registered nurses, or LPNs, this type?
a licensed practical nurse
Abbrev: The "C" in ASCII, used in computing, stands for this?
code
FURNITURE: This word came to be used for both an ornate chest of drawers & a cabinet containing a chamber pot?
commode
TV: The shopping channel QVC stands for "Quality, Value &" this, meaning from the comfort of your couch?
convenience
Shark Week: Many sharks are solitary hunters, but reef sharks are known to hunt in this 11-letter way that also refers to a type of apartment?
cooperative
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: Double-talk way of saying something or someone is insane or beyond understanding?
cray-cray
Portmanteau: Gradual increase in the intensity of a musical piece plus a dental professional who specializes in the pulp of your teeth?
crescendodontist
2nd Letter "y": This jellylike substance that fills the cells of an organism contains mitochondria & ribosomes?
cytoplasm
Life In Ancient Times: The Babylonians controlled rivers by building a barrage of barrages, a term for a small type of this?
dam
LOUD & CLEAR: It's too loud, man--it's this word that begins with a word meaning "unable to hear"?
deafening
DON'T RUSH: This 10-letter verb means to diminish a vehicle's speed, especially with that brick wall ahead?
decelerate
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: On book covers from GOP lawmakers Jason Chaffetz & Mike Lee is this phrase for the bureaucracy said to be working against democracy?
deep state
July 26: Despite objections from the Pentagon, on July 26, 1948 Harry Truman issued an executive order telling the military to do this?
desegregate, or integrate
CLIMATE: Drought worsens the reduction of the land's productivity in arid & dry areas, a process known by this 15-letter word?
desertification
Poetic Words: This pause in the middle of a line of poetry is from caedere, Latin for "to cut"?
caesura
BIG IDEA: Developed by 2 17th century thinkers & rivals, it's used to calculate rates of change & to torment high school students?
calculus
Venice: St. Mark's is famous for this type of bell tower, from the Italian for "bell"?
campanile
Science News: In 2017 scientists developed a faster way to make magnesite, a mineral that can capture & store this greenhouse gas?
carbon dioxide
Words Within Words: You're safe to leave that precious item in my "charge", or in my this?
care
Maze: What's been called the world's largest labyrinth is the 1,500 miles of tunnels under Odessa, Ukraine in this system?
catacombs
Myth Creatures: A Bojack of these horse/men who tried to kidnap Lapith women after getting drunk at a wedding?
centaurs
Lieder: The French followed the Germans' lied with a form called melodie, like Henri Duparc's this French word for song "Triste"?
chanson
"iq": Edward Kingsford first used scrap lumber from carmaking to produce these?
charcoal briquettes
WORDS IN TEACHER: Jasper & agate are 2 of the many minerals classified as this form of quartz?
chert
a la: This American dish is chicken with a mushroom cream sauce; if you want to be fancy, you can call it "poulet royale" in French?
chicken a la king
ELEMENTS: The first 3 halogen or "salt-forming" elements on the periodic table are fluorine, this, bromine?
chlorine
Goats: Goat cheese is commonly called this, the French word for "goat"?
chèvre
Word Origins: This fancy word for a scar is actually just Latin for "scar"?
cicatrix
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Paternalism is restricting freedom in our (supposed) best interests, like state taxes on these, which began in Iowa in 1921?
cigarettes
"C" to "X": It's the diacritical mark seen here over the letter "A"?
circumflex
CROSSWORD: A small case for sewing needles (4)?
etui
Milk: Milk that has had much of its water content removed is usually called this 10-letter type?
evaporated
Plasma: Blood plasma circulates these important current-conducting substances like sodium & magnesium?
electrolytes
SPACE "EX": The speed of expulsion of a rocket's gas or other propellant is this "velocity"?
exhaust
Life In Ancient Times: An ostrakon was a piece of pottery with a name on it; if your name was on enough ostraka, you got this punishment for a 10-year term?
exile (or banishment)
SPACE "EX": (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows TRAPPIST-1 on the monitor.) 39 light-years from our sun, a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 has 7 Earth-size these whose orbits are seen here; JPL says 3 of them are firmly in the habitable zone where liquid water could most likely exist?
exoplanets
5-Syllable Words: It's a synonym for adulterous, as in an affair?
extramarital
S.T.E.A.M.: How far apart your eyes are is one metric of FRS, short for this tech system used by social media & law enforcement?
facial recognition system
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: A 2018 conference on computational linguistics included 4 papers on detection of this untrue stuff you read & hear?
fake news
5-SYLLABLE WORDS: St. Louis is one type of this, inflammation of the brain?
encephalitis
Kareem: As a U.S. cultural ambassador for the State Department I visited several of these Brazilian shanty towns with a Portuguese name & spoke about the importance of education in fighting poverty?
favelas
16-LETTER WORDS: Anything that excludes you from consideration for a job?
disqualification
AROUND THE HOUSE: This word means "designed for work", yet Uncle Joe has that type of recliner in which he does none?
ergonomic
DROP A LETTER: Drop the "T" from intense fear to get this mistake?
error
FURNITURE: This French name for a writing desk with drawers & compartments goes back to Latin for a writing room?
escritoire
Abbrev: Seen on pay stubs, FICA is short for these 2 words "Contributions Act"?
federal insurance
Nonsense Words: In the film "Gone with the Wind", this word comes before "Ashley Wilkes told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite"?
fiddle-dee-dee!
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: 2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape?
force quit
Plasma: Blood plasma contains protective proteins called gamma or immuno- these?
globulin
Philosophers: In the 18th C., Hume opined on morality, "'tis impossible that the distinction betwixt" these 2 4-letter words "can be made by reason"?
good & evil
FOREIGN FAMILY MEMBERS: This older relative is a grosstante in German?
great-aunt
CHINA TEA: Despite its name, you can't use this green tea rolled into pellets to fire a cannon?
gunpowder
2020 ISSUES: The WWF for Nature says this kind of "loss", as of frogs' swamps & monkeys' forests, is "the greatest threat to species"?
habitat
Same First & Last Letter Same: The toast slainte literally means this?
health
Word Origins: Greek for "sacred" & "carving" gives us this word for a writing system?
hieroglyphics
ROBOTS: As a social experiment, in 2014 a bot traveled 6,000 miles through Canada this way, but in the U.S. in 2015, soon met a bad end?
hitchhiking
BIG IDEA: Atomistic is the opposite of this -istic view that an event or condition must be studied in its entirety?
holistic
Milk: From the Greek for "same kind", this process is used to distribute fat evenly through the milk?
homogenization
Goats: Unlike cow milk, goat milk is naturally this, with emulsified fats & non-separated cream?
homogenized
H.D.: Adjective for a carriage pulled by a team?
horse-driven (or horse-drawn)
H.D.: 2-word term meaning to take shelter in a defensive position, perhaps from a storm?
hunker down
CLIMATE: Within these long periods in Earth's history are warmer interglacial cycles & colder glacial cycles?
ice ages
1600s: Hits of the stage included Moliere's "L'Avare", French for this type of greedy, money-obsessed man?
a miser
Million Bucks: With a million bucks you could have seen 20 million movies at one of these early 1900s theaters, as the name told you?
a nickelodeon
Men In Black: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black?
a ninja
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it?
a nothingburger
"P" Science: Among species, there are brood, social & sexual types of this relationship in which someone is usually a loser?
a parasitic relationship
BACKYARD: Latticework structures for the backyard include the gazebo & this Italian-named one, seen here?
a pergola
Triple Rhyme Time: A congenial game bird under glass as a gift?
a pleasant pheasant present
"SARUS": This terror of the seas was up to 15 feet long, much of that being neck?
a plesiosaurus
FLAGS: Swords, rifles, a scroll declaring "libertad" & a resplendent one of these birds are found on Guatemala's flag?
a quetzal
Worth: In 1965 the first insurance policy on one of these was arranged for Intelsat 1?
a satellite
TRANSPORTATION: The Dept. of Transportation says note the stop arm & red light on a stationary one of these vehicles & don't pass it?
a school bus
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: This 4-word phrase can refer to a vaccination or, metaphorically, a stimulus?
a shot in the arm
KITCHEN: Some say a colander is a larger type of this mesh utensil, but I don't think that holds water?
a sieve (or a strainer)
BACKPACKING: Be sure to have a waterproof container for your bedroll, AKA this 2-word portable bed?
a sleeping bag
"IT": "To boldly go" is this grammatical construction?
a split infinitive
SPACE SCIENCE: On Sept. 20, 2016 an amateur astronomer got pictures of the first hour of one of these massive star explosions?
a supernova
ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD: I will not shed this for the beast we just killed--after all, he was a predator?
a teardrop
Shark Week: Shark Week divers encounter a rare sight--a bigeye type of this shark, named for a motion its tail makes as it whips its prey?
a thresher shark
BACKPACKING: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" says to carry one of these everywhere to dry you?
a towel
TRANSPORTATION: Harley-Davidson calls their 3-wheeled motorcycle by this 5-letter name, just like the bicycle version?
a trike
20-Letter Words: This "-tion" is the attribution of human qualities to something that is not human?
anthropomorphization
"it': Synonym for heartburn or anxiety?
agita
"pocket": A sudden updraft or downdraft when flying in a plane is known as this?
air pocket
Second Thoughts: These 2 similar words have similar meanings; the one starting "A" can mean to make any change; the "E" is to change the text?
amend and emend
"iq": One-word term for an expert on old things?
an antiquarian
TERMS FROM SPORTS: It's a 2-word evasive football maneuver that presidents are regularly accused of making around Congress?
an end run, or end around
Poetic Words: It's the word for a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other text?
an epigraph
Phrases: Thomas Carlyle described a leader as "soft of speech...yet with an inflexible rigor of command": this metaphor?
an iron hand in a velvet glove
Literary Term: This metrical foot is 2 short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed one?
anapest
Good Doctor: A vizier to Djoser, this Egyptian was one of the few mortals to be completely deified & was worshipped as the god of medicine?
Imhotep
PARASITIC PLANTS: Colorful flowers called these "paint brushes" steal nutrients from perennial grasses?
Indian paint brushes
DRIVING TEST: To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong?
Insurance
Lake's Land: Lake Como?
Italy
MEERKAT: MEERKATS DON'T EVER WANT TO DEAL WITH A DAY OF THIS WOLFLIKE PREDATOR, WHICH ALSO FEEDS ON CARCASSES?
JACKALS
DOG NAMES: IF YOU WANT A FRENCH NAME FOR YOUR POODLE, CONSIDER THIS FIRST NAME OF COMPOSER OFFENBACH?
JACQUES
AUTHOR: THIS AUTHOR OF THE MICHAEL BENNETT THRILLERS: "IF I'M WORKING WITH A CO-WRITER, THEY'LL USUALLY WRITE THE FIRST DRAFT"?
JAMES PATTERSON
TV MIDDLE CHILD: OF CAROL'S 3 DAUGHTERS ON "THE BRADY BUNCH", SHE WAS THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE?
JAN
CELEBRITIES: THIS INDUCTEE INTO THE VIDEO HALL OF FAME SOLD 17 MILLION COPIES OF A VIDEOCASSETTE SHE RELEASED IN 1982?
JANE FONDA
FILL IN DATES: Martin Luther King: ____ 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968?
JANUARY
CANADIANA: IN 1497 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR WERE CLAIMED FOR ENGLAND BY THIS ITALIAN-BORN EXPLORER?
JOHN CABOT
COUNTRY PATHWAY SHORTCUTS: ISRAEL & SAUDI ARABIA?
JORDAN
WWII: ROUNDS FROM THE KATYUSHA ROCKET LAUNCHER MADE A HOWLING SOUND; GERMAN TROOPS CALLED IT THIS ENEMY LEADER'S "ORGAN"?
JOSEPH STALIN
Celeb: He "Unchained" himself from the name Eric Bishop & went with a gender-neutral name for his stand-up career?
Jamie Foxx
Rhyming Phrases: TUTTI-FRUITTI & VERY CHERRY ARE FLAVORS OF THIS BRAND OF SMALL SWEETS?
Jelly Belly
Greatest: In a 2010 poll this Nobel Peace Prize winner & politician ranked as Ireland's greatest person?
John Hume
Augustus: Last name of banker Augustus, who bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to advance music education?
Juilliard
BOB'S BURGERS: BOB OFFERED A SEAWEED TREAT CALLED THE "NOT IF I CAN ____ IT BURGER"?
KELP
FLAG: The shield on this country's flag is based on one carried by the Maasai people?
KENYA
"L": SING OUT THE NAME OF THIS BRAND USED TO TREAT FIBROMYALGIA & NERVE PAIN?
LYRICA
EASTERN SEABOARD: New Haven is a port on this sound, an arm of the Atlantic?
Long Island Sound
CLASSICS: Aristophanes: "These impossible women...can't live with them, or without them!"?
Lysistrata
IGNORE HISTORY: WWI leaders didn't learn from the terrible effect of these weapons, like the Maxim, in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War?
MACHINE GUNS
BIRTHPLACES: CATE BLANCHETT: THIS CITY ON PORT PHILLIP BAY?
MELBOURNE
"MI": 6-LETTER CLOUD OF UNPLEASANT VAPOR?
MIASMA
CARS: JOHN COOPER MADE THIS LITTLE BRITISH CAR A FORCE IN RACING?
MINI COOPER
"MINUTE": A PIECE OF THIN, QUICKLY COOKED BEEF?
MINUTE STEAK
"PACK": Queen Helene says it uses natural English clay in this facial treatment?
MUD PACK
ASIA: BUILT TO COMMEMORATE A VISIT BY GEORGE V, THE GATEWAY OF INDIA OVERLOOKS THE HARBOR IN THIS INDIAN CITY?
MUMBAI (ACC: BOMBAY)
HUMANITY: IN 1963 DR. MAURICE HILLEMAN'S DAUGHTER GOT THIS DISEASE; HE USED A SWAB FROM HER TO CREATE A VACCINE FOR IT, MEASLES & RUBELLA?
MUMPS
COLLEGE TOWNS: HAVE A BALL AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, LOCATED IN THIS CITY NORTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS?
MUNCIE
MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES: The square root of 4,000,000 to this guy who hit more than 500 career home runs from 1986 to 2001?
Mark McGwire
Lake's Land: Lake Chapala?
Mexico
"MOO": Those aren't hippos, they are these creatures created by Finnish author Tove Jansson?
Moomins
Time Travelers: In Chapter 16 of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", Hank meets this woman whose first name is the same as his surname?
Morgan le Fay
TV Green Thumb: Played by Carolyn Jones in the '60s, she loved to cut the heads off her roses & rejoiced when her thorns came in sharp?
Morticia Addams
National Park: Head up to Washington state to the park created in 1899 & named for this volcano, the state's highest mountain?
Mount Rainier
Knight's Line: "Where is Becket, the traitor to the king?" say the knights in this 1935 verse play?
Murder in the Cathedral
NEW COUNTRY: A 24-YEAR ARMED CONFLICT LED TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF THIS NATION FROM SOUTH AFRICA IN 1990?
NAMIBIA
ESPY: Martin Truex Jr. of this racing circuit sped away with Best Driver?
NASCAR
EMERGENCY GENERATOR: OPPOSITE OF ARTIFICIAL PLUS A STATE OF MATTER PLUS DISCLOSURE OF A SECRET TO THE PRESS?
NATURAL GAS LEAK
ROADS: HEADING NORTH: RHODE ISLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, THIS?
NEW HAMPSHIRE
OSCAR NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family?
NEWMAN
ENTERTAINMENT: TWEETING KUDOS TO MICHAEL PALIN ON HIS KNIGHTHOOD, JOHN CLEESE WROTE, "HE'LL HAVE TO" SAY THIS SOUND "FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE NOW"?
NI
INSIDE THE COUNTRY: LET'S RENT A "CAR" TO DRIVE OVER HONDURAS' SOUTHERN BORDER INTO THIS COUNTRY?
NICARAGUA
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER QUOTE: "I SEE THEIR KNAVERY. THIS IS TO MAKE AN ASS OF ME"?
NICK BOTTOM
IRISH PEOPLE:/ THIS IRISH MUSICIAN TUNED UP JUST LIKE AN OLDTIME JUKEBOX REQUIRING 5 CENTS A PLAY?
NICK O'LODEON
HOOEY: "STUFF AND" THIS IS AN IDIOM TO BE INTERJECTED WHEN YOU HEAR SOMETHING UNTRUE?
NONESENSE
MUSIC: 16-YEAR-OLD EUPHEMIA ALLEN COMPOSED THIS EASY PIANO PIECE WITH THE NAME OF EATING UTENSILS?
"CHOPSTICKS"
20TH CENTURY THEATER: THE FINAL SCENE OF THIS PLAY TAKES PLACE BY A GRAVE & INCLUDES THE LINE "HE HAD THE WRONG DREAMS"?
"DEATH OF A SALESMAN"
BOOKS W/ DEATH: SOMEONE'S DEAD & THERE'S A PARTY & THAT'S ALL WE CAN SAY ABOUT THE PLOT OF THIS LONG JAMES JOYCE NOVEL?
"FINNEGANS WAKE"
SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE: A double double blank, from "Macbeth": "____ is ____, and ____ is ____"?
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
SHORT STORY: COMPLETES THE TITLE OF SUSAN GLASPELL'S 1917 TALE WITH A FEMINIST ANGLE, "A JURY OF..."?
"HER PEERS"
FUNNY TV: AMY SCHUMER & GABRIEL IGLESIAS ARE ALUMNI OF THIS NBC COMPETITION SHOW?
"LAST COMIC STANDING"
"SUPER": THE THIRD ACT OF THIS PLAY BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IS NOT CALLED "THE MAN OF STEEL" BUT "DON JUAN IN HELL"?
"MAN AND SUPERMAN"
PLAY: OUISA REALIZES THERE'S ONLY THIS "BETWEEN US AND EVERYBODY ELSE ON THIS PLANET"?
"SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION"
Bartlett's Quotes: This British mathematician for "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"?
(Alan) Turing
Fictional Language Authors: Mangani, language of the apes?
(Edgar Rice) Burroughs
TARUS: John Paul Stevens was replaced at work by this woman, a fellow Taurus?
(Elena) Kagan
Comics: Jane Pauley was drawn to this "Doonesbury" cartoonist & married him in 1980?
(Garry) Trudeau
YEAR: BATTLE OF WATERLOO?
1815
Decade: Disneyland opens?
1950s
DNA Test: You can learn your ethnicity using DNA in your autosomes, non-sex chromosomes; most people have this many sets of autosomes?
22
TIME FOR TIME: The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been raced back to 1425?
30 days hath September
Road Trip: Forget Route 66! We're going north to south on this numerical highway that turns into the "Blues Highway" down south?
61
SPECIAL LETTERS: THE FIELD OF DIGGING UP HUMAN ARTIFACTS IS OCCASIONALLY SPELLED WITH AN ASH IN THE MIDDLE --THESE 2 LETTERS MUSHED TOGETHER?
A & E
CAPITAL "A": In 1664 the English changed its name from Beverwyck to this to honor James, Duke of it?
ALBANY
WORLD FULL OF IDIOMS: IN A CHINESE IDIOM TO "EMIT SMOKE FROM SEVEN ORIFICES" IS TO BE IN THIS EMOTIONAL STATE?
ANGRY
CAPITAL: Called City of Churches, this capital of South Australia has the country's oldest Catholic cathedral?
Adelaide
VPs: In 1900, 3 years after leaving the vice presidency, he welcomed a grandson given the same name, later a candidate for president?
Adlai Stevenson
State Of The Art: "The Hacienda Horse & Rider" in neon?
Nevada
NOBEL PRIZE: THE PEACE PRIZE HAS OFTEN GONE TO ORGANIZATIONS, AS IN 2013 TO THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THESE?
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
PUP: NEWFOUNDLANDS RESCUED FROM A SHIPWRECK OFF MARYLAND LED TO THE RETRIEVER BREED NAMED FOR THIS BODY OF WATER?
CHESAPEAKE BAY
"C"OMMON WORD: NUBILOUS: LITERALLY, THIS?
CLOUDY
Alphabetically 2ND: Of the reindeer in "A Visit from St. Nicholas"?
COMET
ART "C": He was a master of chiaroscuro, the use of light & shadows to add drama to his canvases, as in "The Denial of St. Peter"?
Caravaggio
AD Slogan: A classic car ad: "See the USA in your..."?
Chevrolet
WORLD FACTS: This African country is known in German as Elfenbeinküste?
Cote d'Ivoire (or the Ivory Coast)
ON THE MISSISSIPPI: SIT DOWN & PUT YOUR FEET UP IN THIS THIRD MOST POPULOUS IOWA CITY?
DAVENPORT
THURBER QUOTES: "EARLY TO RISE AND EARLY TO BED MAKES A MALE HEALTHY & WEALTHY AND" THIS?
DEAD
CAT IDIOMS: A FLEETING RISE IN A STOCK'S PRICE AFTER A FALL IS THIS TYPE OF "BOUNCE"?
DEAD CAT BOUNCE
LOUD & CLEAR: Prospero threatens Caliban with pain so great that beasts will "tremble at thy" this 3-letter racket?
DIN
5-LETTER WORD: A FUNERAL SONG, OR ANY MOURNFUL SOUND?
DIRGE
3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS: TO DISMISS FROM THE ARMY, OR TO SHOOT A FIREARM?
DISCHARGE
MATH: THE EQUATION A(B + C) = AB + AC SHOWS THAT MULTIPLICATION IS THIS WITH RESPECT TO ADDITION?
DISTRIBUTIVE
EURO LEADERS: VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA SINCE 2012 & THIS MAN HAS BEEN PRIME MINISTER ALSO SINCE THEN?
DMITRY MEDVEDEV
VPs: Before Mike Pence, he was the last vice president from the state of Indiana?
Dan Quayle
TV DOCTORS: IN HIS YOUTH THIS ACTOR WHO PLAYED DR. McCOY WANTED TO BE A PHYSICIAN HIMSELF?
DeFOREST KELLEY
Pop Culture People: "Pretty Baby, You Look So Heavenly" is a chapter title in "Face It", the 2019 memoir by this singing star?
Debbie Harry
Living World: California sagebrush & coyote bush are good yard plants in L.A. because they are this kind of period "tolerant"?
Drought
Bachelor: This man was a bachelor during his 3 terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989?
Ed Koch
Edgar: In 1845 he lit into fellow poet Mr. Longfellow with accusations of plagiarism, which did not go over well?
Edgar Allen Poe
History: Francis Drake became Sir Francis in April 1581 in the presence of this monarch?
Elizabeth I
Myth Creatures: A panoply of these goaty guys, the Roman version of satyrs?
Fauns
Celeb: It's no trap, queen, that this rapper was born Willie Maxwell?
Fetty Wap
LIT: The "Kalevala", this European country's national epic, was compiled from oral poetry in the 1800s?
Finland
BALLET: 3 PEOPLE FLIRT ON A TENNIS COURT IN NIJINSKY'S BALLET "JEUX", WHICH MEANS THESE?
GAMES
Great Minds: Destined for greatness, Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of this famed astronomer's death?
Galileo
Living World: The only insect to migrate across an ocean is called the wandering this, like an aircraft type; it covers miles without a wingflap?
Glider
BIT OF LIT: 1832, the year he died, could be called this German author's Dämmerung?
Goethe
Hollywood: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real?
Gower Gulch
"G"eography: Apotgan & Dededo are major towns on this island, an unincorporated territory of the U.S. since 1898?
Guam
HOMOPHONES: LISTENED TO / ASSEMBLE THE FLOCK?
HEARD / HERD
SCIENCE: BRITISH PHYSICIAN DAVID PITCAIRN WAS THE FIRST TO NOTICE A LINK BETWEEN RHEUMATIC FEVER & SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THIS ORGAN?
HEART
7-LETTER WORD: FOR A STANDUP COMIC, IT'S AN OVERLUBRICATED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE WHO KEEPS INTERRUPTING?
HECKLER
AUTHOR: "Narcissus and Goldmund" & "The Glass Bead Game"?
HERMAN HESSE
REALITY TV: A TLC SERIES SUBTITLED "BURIED ALIVE" FOCUSED ON PEOPLE WITH THIS TITLE DISORDER?
HOARDING
WOMEN: IN 2018 SHE BECAME THE NEW PERMANENT CO-ANCHOR OF THE "TODAY" SHOW?
HODA KOTB
7-LETTER WORDS: MANY AN OLD WESTERNER PACKED HIS PISTOL IN THE MEXICAN LOOP STYLE OF THIS?
HOLSTER
CLOTHING: NOW USED ON BALL GOWNS, PANNIERS ARE THESE UNDER SUPPORTS THAT HOLD DRESSES OUT AT THE SIDES?
HOOPS (ACC: FRAMES)
4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK: "____ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul"?
HOPE
TV: Dean Norris played this character who ended up on the wrong end of the gun on "Breaking Bad"?
Hank
Rhyming Phrases: IT PRECEDES "BROWN COW" IN A PHRASE USED TO TEACH ELOCUTION?
How Now
Canada Province Symbols: Of course this province's flag is basically the cross of St. Andrew with reverse colors?
Nova Scotia
SCIENCE: Pt IS THE CHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR THIS ELEMENT?
PLATINUM
NONFICTION: A BOOK ABOUT THIS BODY IS SUBTITLED "THE RISE & FALL OF AMERICA'S FAVORITE PLANET"?
PLUTO
WORLD FACTS: It's the very short name for the longest river in Italy?
PO RIVER
DICTATORS: He ruled Mexico with an iron fist from 1877 to 1880 & again from 1884 to 1911?
Porfirio Díaz
Celeb: Amanda Rogers used a first name from "The Merchant of Venice" & an Italian last name to get this stage name?
Portia de Rossi
JERUSALEM: JERUSALEM'S ENCLOSED OLD CITY IS DIVIDED INTO THESE, INCLUDING THE ARMENIAN ONE?
QUARTERS
Powers: Here's Stefanie Powers showing a lot of heart with this actor in a 1980s TV series?
Robert Wagner
POTENT POTABLES: "LOOK OUT FOR THE BULL" WAS SCHLITZ' LONGTIME SLOGAN FOR THIS BEER WITH A HIGH ALCOHOL CONTENT?
SCHLITZ MALT LIQUOR
"SET": A TYPE OF SOFA WITH ARMS & A BACK?
SETTEE
Tibet: To help create a Tibetan alphabet, around 600 A.D. King Songtsen Gampo sent scholars to India to study this language?
Sanskrit
Lard: One of lard's best uses is as this "concise" ingredient that makes baked goods crisp & flaky?
Shortening
Plant Science: Plane trigonometry employs the law of these ratios between the side of a triangle opposite an angle & its hypotenuse?
Sines
History Books: 1930s interviews with these people have been mined for books including "Life Under the 'Peculiar Institution'"?
Slaves
Body Part Within Response: It's another word for a splinter in your finger?
Sliver
CHINA TEA: A famous smoky tea from the Wuyi Mountains is called Lapsang this?
Souchong
2 Verbs In One: Akin to saute, you do this to veggies in a wok?
Stir=Fry
Edgar Awards: "G" is for grand master as well as this woman who received the 2009 Grand Master Award?
Sue Grafton
LIVER: THE PORTAL VEIN BRINGS VENOUS BLOOD TO THE LIVER, WHILE THIS ARTERY BRINGS OXYGENATED ARTERIAL BLOOD?
THE HEPATIC ARTERY
MIGUEL: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MIGUEL ASTURIAS' "LEGENDS OF GUATEMALA" SPINS TALES OF THESE INDIANS BEFORE SPANISH RULE?
THE MAYA(NS) (ACC: K'ICHE)
Shakespeare Play Quote: Christopher Sly,Act I, scene i:"Yes"?
Taming of the Shrew
Literature: The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle"?
Tartuffe
Supreme Court Clerks: Current senators who were clerks include Richard Blumenthal & this Texan who clerked for Rehnquist in the 1990s?
Ted Cruz
3: The word trident comes from a Latin word meaning "having 3" these body parts?
Teeth
"lim": For much of its 1,100-mile length, it forms South Africa's border with Botswana & Zimbabwe?
The Limpopo
IOWANS: Iowa native Fred Grandy played Gopher on this TV show for 9 years & later was a U.S. rep from the state?
The Love Boat
Audible Books: Ian McKellen narrates this epic that's perfect for a long road trip Old friend--our queen, wise Penelope, summons you, the prince's mother?
The Odyssey
Augustus: Emperor Augustus Caesar was the adopted heir of Julius Caesar & was followed by this emperor, his chosen heir?
Tiberius
Captain Says: When the captain says to do this to the anchor, he wants it raised, not measured?
To Weigh
Words: "Giving aid and comfort" to America's enemies is part of the Constitution's definition of this crime of betrayal?
Treason
POP MUSIC: Ka-ching! Post Malone teamed up with him for "Psycho"?
Ty Dolla Sign
FOOD: THIS COMPANY'S ICONIC DEVILED HAM LOGO IS THE USA's OLDEST FOOD TRADEMARK STILL IN USE?
UNDERWOOD
"V" SCIENCE: IN VERTEBRATE ANATOMY, IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF DORSAL & MEANS "ON THE TUMMY SIDE"?
VENTRAL
State Overlaps: A swirling whirlpool in the Lone Star State?
Vortex
PEOPLE IN HISTORY: As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases?
Warren Burger
Jazz: A song called this fruit "Man" became a classic for Herbie Hancock & a movie title for Melvin Van Peebles?
Watermelon Man
WRITERS: Years after this poet wrote "Tintern Abbey", he was made poet laureate?
William Wordsworth
Captain Says: A command to turn this 8-letter way means to head into the breeze?
Windward
"it': To certify a college has met all official standards?
accredit
Body Part Within Response: An event that can be lunar, or it can mean "to outshine"?
an eclipse
past-iche: Insert 3 letters in "antiques" to get this 1906 act that preserved U.S. archaeological sites from looting?
antiquities
Gemstones: This variety of beryl shares its name with a 10-letter color?
aquamarine
Not Wearing Pants: Worn by men & women, the chiton was a long tunic dating back to this ancient Greek period, also a word for "outmoded"?
archaic
New Deal: In the NRA of the 1930s New Deal, the "R" stood for this?
recovery
Foreign Words & Phrases: If God wills, you know this Arabic expression for "if God wills"; T.E. Lawrence was an early adopter?
inshallah
"i" science: A form of an element with a standard number of protons, but a nonstandard number of neutrons?
isotopes
CLOTHES: A city in India gives its name to these riding pants?
jodhpurs
SYNONYMS: This synonym for a news reporter & a person who keeps a diary comes to us partly from the French?
journalist
Cybersecurity: Beware of these types of programs that track every stroke you make while typing in an effort to glean your password?
keylogging programs
EMOJI: A man in a suit defies gravity & is doing this synonym for floating, from the Latin for "light"?
levitating
Ancient Egypt: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three hieroglyphics on the monitor.) Here's an example of an ancient Egyptian blessing written in hieroglyphics--it shows us ankh, wedja, seneb, translated as this, prosperity, health?
life
School Days: High school math! These equations that don't use exponents are so named because of the way they can be graphed?
linear equations
Physics: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows two waves on the monitor.) In transverse waves, each particle moves perpendicular to the wave's direction; in this 12-letter type, reminiscent of lines on a map, each particle moves parallel to the wave?
longitudinal
INTERNAL RHYMING VERBS: To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight?
maintain
CLIMATE: Because a fair-skinned population moved to a sunny climate, Australians guard against this cancer of pigment-producing skin cells?
melanoma
Philosophers: In 1934 A.J. Ayer set out to show "the impossibility of" this, a plural noun for the study of the nature of the universe?
metaphysics
Physics: Per a Richard Feynman lecture, a collision where bodies stick together is an example of conservation of this?
momentum
DIFFERS BY A VOWEL: Make silent & a speck of dust?
mute and mote
Mom & Dad Confuse Me: Dad said a guy he owes big-time is calling in these--but I need them to color my horsey picture!?
my markers
D.C.: Get smart! In 2017 Dan Coats was confirmed by the Senate as the DNI, director of this?
national intelligence
Literary Stupid Answers: Synonyms for this one-word rhyme include lamebrain, dodo, yo-yo & dum-dum?
nitwit
TERMS FROM SPORTS: This 3-word phrase meaning without rules or limits comes from a free-form style of wrestling?
no holds barred
16-LETTER WORDS: Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine?
northeasternmost
ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD: It's time to be quiet & do this & not be so verbose?
observe
What's In Your Brain: Look at me! This "in the back of the head" brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information?
occipital
Phrases: 2 antonyms make up this phrase for a legal case with an obvious verdict?
open and shut
PHYSICS: Snell's Law, or the law of refraction, is a major law of this branch of physics?
optics
LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away"?
over the hills
Second Thoughts: In Hollywood-speak, better take one more of these at that script of yours or you'll get one of these, a "no" from a studio?
pass
APP: Lastpass says "Security starts with strong" these, which it helps users protect?
passwords
Second Thoughts: In a verb meaning to edit or censor, this writing tool follows both "blue" & "red"?
pencil
IN THE ORCHESTRA: This section in the back of the orchestra is sometimes referred to as the battery?
percussion
"P" Science: It's the astronomic term for the point in the Moon's orbit when it's nearest the Earth?
perigee
HONORS: For developing wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi won a Nobel Prize in this field?
physics
Friends: Quite the loner, Nikola Tesla made close friends only with these urban creatures & often fed & nursed them?
pigeons
Plant Science: Light waves with electric fields that vibrate in only a single plane have been this?
polarized
MONKEY: Crab-eating macaques were used in the 1950s to create the Salk vaccine that fought this?
polio
"P" Science: When an egg cell in a flower fertilizes itself, it's called "self-" this?
pollinating
"P" Science: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) School glue is made up of these long molecule chains, whose name is from the Greek for "many"--adding a water & borax solution helps link them, creating gooey kids' slime?
polymers
MATH: Al loves to play with these expressions from a word for "many", like 3x3 + 7y2 - 4z?
polynomials
Beach: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a chemical formula on the monitor) Making up the sand on most beaches is this compound, chemical formula SiO2, in the form of tiny crystals of the mineral quartz?
silicon dioxide (or silica)
Foreign Words & Phrases: This Latin phrase for an essential item is literally "without which not"?
sine qua non
Add A Vowel: A thing's physical magnitude adds a vowel & becomes a verb meaning to snatch?
size & seize
DROP A LETTER: Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign"?
quit
Second Thoughts: There's a diner foodstuff in this verb meaning to go over something again & again &...?
rehash
Mammals: Sharing about 93% of their DNA with humans, these monkeys, native to Asia, have long been used in medical research?
rhesus monkeys
Life In Ancient Times: The Roman valued this art of persuasive speech, a necessary skill for great oratory?
rhetoric
Add A Vowel: A word meaning to move quickly afoot adds a vowel & becomes to wreck or destroy?
run & ruin
Foreign Words & Phrases: From words for "self" & "publishing", it was writing circulated in secret in the Soviet Union?
samizdat
Fashion Don'ts: Business Insider: At work, "Men: don't try to get around the 'keep your feet hidden' rule by sporting socks with your" these?
sandals
Road Trip: We'll stop in Butler, Penn. & Florham Park, N.J. to go back to childhood of yore in attractions called "Little Red" this?
schoolhouses
Multi-Word Sound Alikes: Melted resin used to close envelopes, or a way to tell the people upstairs they are too loud?
sealing wax/ceiling whacks
WORDS FROM THE COMICS: Used to describe secrecy during WWII, this 2-word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles Schulz?
security blanket
BIG IDEA: Chapter 1 of the U.N. Charter mentions self-this, a people's right to form a state & govern itself?
self-determination
Nonsense Words: In "Jabberwocky" "the vorpal blade went" this sibilant sound?
snicker-snack
"bb" in middle: Adjective to describe someone who thinks he's superior to others?
snobbish
EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY: These sudden outbursts of energy on the sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system?
solar flares
"lash": For the Apollo 11 astronauts, this occurred on July 24, 1969 in the Pacific Ocean, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii?
splashdown
Literary Term: Italian for "stopping place" gives us this word for a part of a poem?
stanza
SAY IT: DOS is a programming language; DoS. is short for "denial of" this & is a computer attack?
service
ON MONEY: INDONESIA'S 100,000-RUPIAH NOTE FEATURES PM HATTA & THE FIRST PRESIDENT, HIM; AN AIRPORT IS NAMED FOR THEM TOO?
SUKARNO
FLOATING HOLIDAY: BUILD THE BOOTHS THAT GIVE THIS JEWISH HOLIDAY ITS NAME BEFORE TISHRI 15, THE DATE THE HOLIDAY BEGINS?
SUKKOTH
PRISON: VARNER PRISON IN ARKANSAS HAS A SECTION CALLED THIS 8-LETTER PORTMANTEAU WORD IMPLYING THE ULTIMATE IN SECURITY?
SUPERMAX
AMERICAN HISTORY: IT'S BELIEVED THAT SCANDINAVIANS BUILT THE FIRST LOG CABINS IN AMERICA ON THE DELAWARE RIVER AT NYA SVERIGE, OR NEW THIS COUNTRY?
SWEDEN
ISLAND: Got Gotland? Then you've got an island belonging to this Scandinavian country?
SWEDEN
DINNER: IT'S CHINESE TAKEOUT, OF COURSE-- THIS PORK DISH THAT COMBINES SUGAR & VINEGAR FOR CONTRASTING FLAVORS?
SWEET & SOUR PORK
BAR: THIS WORD CAN MEAN TO GUZZLE BOOZE OR TO STIR A DRINK WITH THE DOUBLE-Z STICK OF THE SAME NAME?
SWIZZLE
DOUBLE L: COUNT 'EM UP! THERE ARE 3 OF THESE IN THE CORRECT RESPONSE, & 24 IN THE ENTIRE CLUE?
SYLLABLES
TONY WINNING PLAY TITLES: 2002: EDWARD ALBEE'S "THE GOAT, OR WHO IS ____?"
SYLVIA
1966: ANTON LaVEY CREATED THIS CONTROVERSIAL CHURCH IN 1966?
THE CHURCH OF SATAN
WAR IN LITERATURE: FAMILY MEMBERS FIGHT ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF WWI IN THIS VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ NOVEL THAT SHARES ITS TITLE WITH A BIBLICAL QUARTET?
THE FOUR HORSEMAN
G.O.T.: GREGORY OF TOURS WROTE A 6th CENTURY HISTORY ABOUT THE MEROVINGIAN KINGDOM OF THESE PEOPLE?
THE FRANKS
JESUS: NEARING THE END, JESUS RECEIVES THE VINEGAR IN JOHN 19, SAYS, "IT IS FINISHED", THEN "BOWED HIS HEAD, AND GAVE UP" THIS?
THE GHOST (ACC: (HIS) SPIRIT)
COIN: THE STARS ALLUDE TO FIREWORKS ON A 2-POUND COIN THE ROYAL MINT ISSUED IN 2005 TO REMEMBER THIS PLOT ON ITS 400th ANNIVERSARY?
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
DOUBLE LETTER PLACES: ITALIANS NOW THIS FAMOUS PEAK AS MONTE CERVINO?
THE MATTERHORN
GEOGRAPHY: IT'S LOOSELY DEFINED AS THE AREA FROM NORTH AFRICA TO ARABIA; GEORGE MITCHELL WAS A U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO TRY TO MAKE PEACE THERE?
THE MIDDLE EAST
HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: ON JUNE 6, 2018 THE CHINESE THEATRE DIMMED ITS LIGHTS TO HONOR JERRY MAREN, WHO LIVED TO THE GREATEST AGE OF ANY OF THIS 1939 GROUP?
THE MUNCHKINS
SCHWARTZ: MELVIN SCHWARTZ SHARED A NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR HIS WORK WITH THIS 8-LETTER CHARGELESS SUBATOMIC PARTICLE?
THE NEUTRINO
MUSCLE: MUSCLES THAT HELP MOVE THIS BODY PART INCLUDE THE FLEXOR POLLICIS LONGUS & THE EXTENSOR POLLICIS BREVIS?
THUMB
ENDS IN "END": TO FUSE OR INTEGRATE?
TO BLEND
APP: "Always wanted a kitten?" asks the ad copy for "My Talking" him?
TOM
LAW: THIS WORD FOR A CIVIL WRONG IS A HOMOPHONE FOR A RICH CAKE?
TORT
"TOUCH": A STANDARD OF JUDGMENT, OR A FINE-GRAINED MINERAL USED TO TEST ALLOYS OF GOLD?
TOUCHSTONE
FROM THE LATIN FOR "QUAKE" COMES THIS WORD FOR SOMETHING OUTSTANDING?
TREMENDOUS
HOUSE: WE'VE GOT CHEX IN OUR PANTRY & THIS RHYMING BRAND FOR THE FLOORS OF OUR DECKS?
TREX
MEN OF SCIENCE: HIS HEADSTONE IN GERMANY READS, "PHYSIKER" WITH THE DATES 1901-1976; IT DOES NOT SAY, "HE LIES HERE... SOMEWHERE"?
WERNER HEISENBERG
SUIT: IN THE 1950s THE U.S. NAVY RESPONSE TO THIS NEW SUIT WAS COLD; THEY FEARED THE NEOPRENE MADE IT A TARGET FOR SONAR?
WET SUIT
SPEED OF SOUND: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SAID OF THIS, FAMILIAR TO ARK RAIDERS, THAT IT WAS THE LOOP, NOT THE TIP, THAT BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER?
WHIP
LOGGER: OF BOILERMAKER, HAYMAKER OR WIDOWMAKER, IT'S THE LOGGING TERM FOR A BROKEN LIMB HANGING FREELY IN THE TREES?
WIDOWMAKER
TELL: THIS FORM OF "WILLIAM" IS IN THE GERMAN TITLE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER'S PLAY ABOUT TELL?
WILHELM
HISTORIC AMERICANS: THIS NEWSPAPER MAGNATE RAN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1904?
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD: Who'd have imagined I'd catch one of these at the seaside?
a disease
Phrases: In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & "perhaps carried off to" this dreadful destiny?
a fate worse than death
RULES: This proposed federal rule would have required all retirement planning advisors to act in their clients' best interests?
a fiduciary rule
Apollo Missions: The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks & showed that the dark, flat lunar areas known as seas are not water but this common volcanic rock that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth?
basalt
"-ish": Estuaries & swamps have this type of water not quite as briny as the ocean?
brackish
Goats: "The Field Guide to Goats" says to be sure to discourage aggression, as a goat doing this to you with his head can break a bone?
butting
Physics: Sheldon Glashow gave this adorable name, C-quark for short, to a particle discovered in 1974?
charm
INTERNAL RHYMING VERBS: Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go?
chug-a-lug
PATENT: 1893: "AUTOMATICALLY ENGAGING OR DISENGAGING AN ENTIRE SERIES OF CLASPS BY A SINGLE CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT"?
ZIPPER
"Z": ON "M*A*S*H", TRAPPER ORDERED THIS STRONG RUM COCKTAIL & SAID, "KEEP MAKING THEM UNTIL I TURN INTO ONE"?
ZOMBIE
SCRABBLE WORDS: THE "Z" GETS YOU OFF TO A GOOD START IN THIS 25-POINT STUDY OF THE CHEMISTRY OF FERMENTATION?
ZYMURGY
Portmanteau: Insidious pandemic culprit of 1918 plus delightfully foamy Italian custard?
influenzabaglione
It Comes Third: At equestrian 3-day events, the first day is for dressage, second for endurance riding & third for "stadium show" this?
jumping
VIRAL CHALLENGES: Police & fire departments across the nation are mouthing along to popular songs in these challenges?
lip synch challenges
EMOJI: For Trekkies, there's this gesture favored by Mr. Spock?
live long and prosper (or the Vulcan salute)
Science News: Called cancer killers, TILs are a new preparation of "tumor-infiltrating" ones of these white blood cells that attack antigens?
lymphocytes
NAME THE GAME: It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games?
mancala
Word Origins: This condition was thought to arise from an excess of black bile, the origin of its name?
melancholia
2nd Book In Series: The second book in the Frank Herbert "Dune" series was titled "Dune" this word for a prophesied savior?
messiah
SOUND ADVICE: Midas says "properly functioning" these "not only sound better, they are better"?
mufflers
VITAMINS: This B-complex vitamin was found in the 1930s to cure a nutrition deficiency in dogs called black tongue?
niacin
Mom & Dad Confuse Me: Mom & Dad want me to let my sister use my toys; so how is this word bad when Grandma tells us too much personal stuff?
oversharing
PUNCTUATION: It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these?
parentheses
Mnemonics: It has atomic number 19, it's essential to life, but how to spell it? Oh yeah, "one tea, 2 sugars"?
potassium
AMERICAN HISTORY: Accused Salem witch Giles Corey was executed with big stones in the method that's called this in "The Crucible"?
pressing
Purple Reign: Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son "born in the purple", while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime?
primogeniture
Gemstones: Don't be deceived by this, a compound of sulfur & iron whose name comes from the Greek for "fire"?
pyrite
CABINET DEPARTMENTS: "Human Trafficking", "Resilience" & "Disasters" are some topics at this department's .gov?
the Department of Homeland Security
NATURAL LANDMARKS: The gorgeous Gorge du Verdon wends its way through the range called the Provence these?
the Provence Alps
SEA: If you take a shortcut south through the Suez Canal, you end up in this sea?
the Red Sea
HONORS: Regeneron has taken over sponsorship from Intel of the STS, short for this, a competition for high school seniors?
the Science Talent Search
Characters On Stage: In "Our Town", this role sounds like part of the crew, but it's the narrator?
the Stage Manager
College Football: Steve Largent went on from this university to a HOF pro career, then returned home to represent the area in Congress?
the University of Tulsa
Friends: Requiring tests for all applicants, 1883's Pendleton Act was meant to end this system in which govt. jobs went to friends & allies?
the spoils system
MATH: Al knows he can make many a tough expression easier to work with by "completing" this?
the square
Lard: Not the healthiest, lard is this type of fat made from 3 fatty acids & glycerol?
triglyceride (or a saturated fat)
IN THE ORCHESTRA: Orchestra these are a lot less dome-y than the church types?
tubular bells
CONVERSE: It's a double-talk French term for a private conversation?
tête-à-tête
PARTS OF SPEECH: YESTERDAY I REALIZED I SHOULD LEARN TO PLAY JAZZ FLUTE: YESTERDAY?
ADVERB
START W/ 2 VOWELS, END WITH 1: TO TREAT A LIQUID WITH A GAS?
AERATE
WATER: SEEN HERE IS A MARKER AT CAPE AGULHAS AT THE TIP OF THIS CONTINENT?
AFRICA
BIBLICAL BADDIES: THE PHOENICIAN PRINCESS JEZEBEL MARRIED THIS KING OF ISRAEL & BECAME HIS PARTNER IN CRIME & BLASPHEMY?
AHAB
CIA WORLD FACTBOOK: SOUTH AFRICA: 7.2 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WITH THIS COMMUNICABLE AFFLICTION?
AIDS (ACC: HIV)
CIA WORLD FACTBOOK: THE UNITED STATES: 13,513 OF THESE, INCLUDING LOGAN & McCARRAN?
AIRPORTS
RIVER: IN THE 2000s A BRIDGE IN KETCHIKAN IN THIS STATE MADE PEOPLE ASK, "WHY?" & WAS DUBBED THE "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE"?
ALASKA
20TH CENTURY AUTHORS: HE ONCE SAID, "IN ALL OF US THERE IS A HUNGER, MARROW-DEEP, TO KNOW OUR HERITAGE...WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE HAVE COME FROM"?
ALEX HALEY
WOMEN IN POLITICS: THIS BRONX NATIVE WITH A HYPHENATED NAME WOWED POLITICOS WITH A BIG APPLE WIN IN 2018?
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ
SCIENCE: A TYPE OF GLASS IS NAMED FOR THIS WHITE-WINE-MAKING FRENCH REGION NEAR GERMANY WHOSE NAME RHYMES WITH "GLASS"?
ALSACE
ANIMAL TALK: THE AXOLOTL IS A MEMBER OF THIS "DOUBLE LIFE" CLASS OF ANIMALS THAT HAS MORE THAN 6,000 SPECIES?
AMPHIBIANS
SCIENCE: RESEMBLING A HEDGEHOG, THE ECHIDNA IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE "SPINY" THIS CREATURE?
ANTEATER
FEELINGS: TIM CURRY SAW "YOU SHIVER WITH" THIS, HOPE OR INTU...ITION?
ANTICIPATION
3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS: A POTION TO AROUSE FEELINGS OF LOVE & DESIRE?
APHRODISIAC
MUSIC LEGENDS: THESE 2 "MONARCHS" OF POPULAR CULTURE BOTH PASSED AWAY ON AUGUST 16, ONE IN 2018, THE OTHER 41 YEARS EARLIER?
ARETHA FRANKLIN & ELVIS PRESLEY
"A" TO "F": It was the customary utterance of Sandy, FROM THE "ANNIE" COMIC?
ARF
COUNTRY PATHWAY SHORTCUTS: THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET FROM CHILE TO URUGUAY IS THROUGH THIS COUNTRY?
ARGENTINA
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER QUOTE: "COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS, & THEN TAKE HANDS"?
ARIEL
PLANT: EAT YOUR VEGGIES! HALF THE SUGAR PRODUCED IN THE U.S. COMES FROM THE SUGAR TYPE OF THIS?
BEET
SOCIAL STUDIES: HE'S A SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA & THE AUTHOR OF "THEM: WHY WE HATE EACH OTHER-- AND HOW TO HEAL"?
BEN SASSE
EUROPEAN CAPITAL: REMOVE 2 LETTERS FROM WITHIN THE 6-LETTER NAME OF THIS CAPITAL & YOU GET THE NAME OF A CAPITAL FROM A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY?
BERLIN
5-LETTER WORD: IT'S A SHALLOW BAY; THERE'S ONE OF BENIN?
BIGHT
"OU": French for "jewel", it was once a popular movie theater name?
BIJOU
MUSICALS BY HIM: "Movin' Out": This keyboard guy?
BILLY JOEL
-OMETERS: THE SPHYGMOMANOMETER WILL MEASURE THIS?
BLOOD PRESSURE
DOCTOR: HELEN TAUSSIG IS REMEMBERED FOR HER WORK TREATING BABIES THAT WERE BORN THIS UNUSUAL COLOR
BLUE
CELEBRITY AUTHOR: "aretha in the blues dunes--Pluto with the high crack laugh" FROM 1971's "TARANTULA" DID NOT FORETELL A NOBEL FOR THIS SINGER?
BOB DYLAN
COIN: THIS COUNTRY'S 1-CENTAVO COIN HAS 5 STARS ON THE BACK & PORTUGUESE EXPLORER PEDRO CABRAL ON THE FRONT?
BRAZIL
FRENCH: ALLONS-Y TO THIS NORTHWEST FRENCH REGION WHOSE NAME SOUNDS SORTA LIKE THE ISLAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL
BRITANNY
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS: TO NEGOTIATE A DEAL AS A MIDDLEMAN, LIKE A REALTOR OR AN INVESTMENT ADVISOR; IRONICALLY, IT ALSO MEANS "HAVING LESS MONEY"?
BROKER
ROCK: PLAYING FOR OVER 160,000 E. GERMANS IN 1988, HE HOPED "ONE DAY ALL THE BARRIERS WILL BE TORN DOWN"; THE BOSS GOT HIS WISH IN 1989?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
HOUSE: A TYPE OF MEAL WHERE GUESTS SERVE THEMSELVES CAN BE LAID OUT ON THIS SIDEBOARD OF THE SAME NAME?
BUFFET
"B.B.": THE DOOR AT THE CASTLE CHURCH OF WITTENBERG ONCE SERVED AS THIS; MARTIN LUTHER MADE USE OF IT?
BULLETIN BOARD
BUSINESS: ANDY WARHOL EATS A FLAME-BROILED HAMBURGER IN A 2019 SUPER BOWL AD FOR THIS CHAIN?
BURGER KING
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS: TO PREPARE A PORK LOIN FOR SALE, OR TO MAKE A MESS OF A PROJECT?
BUTCHER
BIBLICAL MEASUREMENTS: A LOG WAS A BIBLICAL UNIT OF LIQUID MEASURE; 72 LOGS EQUALED ONE OF THESE, SOMETHING RELAXING TO TAKE AFTER WORK?
Bath
COLLEGE: In 1870 a school in this city got a name change & became Louisiana State University?
Baton Rouge
Words Within Words: Some said the debutante "blossomed" at the ball; others used this word?
Bloom
COLOMBIA: THERE ARE GREAT BEACHES AT THE WALLED CITY FOUNDED AS THIS DE INDIAS, MEANING CARTHAGE OF THE INDIES IN ENGLISH?
CARTAGENA
WOMEN AUTHORS: HOW ABOUT THOSE GILBERT SISTERS-- MEMOIRIST ELIZABETH & THIS AUTHOR OF KIDS' BOOKS LIKE "HEAVEN IS PAVED WITH OREOS"?
CATHERINE (GILBERT MURDOCK)
CAPITALIZED: LOWERCASE, THIS ADJECTIVE DESCRIBES UNIVERSAL INTERESTS; CAPITALIZED, IT'S A RELIGION?
CATHOLIC
SCIENCE: THE NUCLEOLUS IS REALLY CENTRAL AS THE MOST PROMINENT STRUCTURE IN THE NUCLEUS OF THIS?
CELL
GEORGE W. BUSH LIBRARY: THE SITUATION ROOM REPLICA HAS THE ACTUAL FURNITURE... START THE IRAQ WAR TO GENERAL FRANKS, HEAD OF CENTCOM, SHORT FOR THIS?
CENTRAL COMMAND
ORDER: LESSER-KNOWN MEMBERS OF THIS ANIMAL ORDER ARE THE NARWHAL & THE DWARF SPERM WHALE?
CETACEANS (ACC: CETACEA)
PARTS OF THE WHOLE: CUTTER LINK, GUIDE BAR, KICKBACK GUARD, STOP BUTTON?
CHAINSAW
ORGANIZATIONS: THE OLDEST OF THESE BUSINESS BOOSTER GROUPS, FORMED IN MARSEILLE IN 1599, USES "DE" INSTEAD OF "OF" IN THE NAME?
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ACC: CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE)
EXPENSIVE: LET THERE BE VERY EXPENSIVE LIGHT FROM 2 GILT-METAL & ROCK CRYSTAL THESE FIXTURES, BOUGHT AT AUCTION IN 2010 FOR $677,000?
CHANDELIERS
WORDS FROM MYTH: THE DARK VOID BEFORE CREATION (BASICALLY A HUGE MESS) WAS CALLED THIS 5-LETTER WORD?
CHAOS
VIRAL CHALLENGES: The setup seen here is used to contact this ghostly boy in a spooky challenge?
CHARLIE
"C"OMMON WORD: PARTURITION: THIS 10-LETTER WORD?
CHILDBIRTH
FAR FROM: BECAUSE OF THE BULGE FROM THE EQUATOR, THE HIGHEST POINT ABOVE THE EARTH'S CENTER IS THE TOP OF THIS MOUNTAIN IN ECUADOR?
CHIMBORAZO
WORDS FROM MYTH: THE GREEK WORD FOR "SHE-GOAT" GAVE US THIS PART-GOAT CREATURE WHOSE NAME ALSO MEANS "A HYBRID"?
CHIMERA
IG NOBLE PRIZE: THE ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD WENT TO A REPORT ON "CROSS-SPECIES IMITATION" BETWEEN THESE APES & HUMANS AT ZOOS?
CHIMPANZEE
VOCAB: THIS SOUTH AMERICAN RODENT HAS VELVETY SOFT FUR & CAN BE KEPT AS A PET?
CHINCHILLA
TEXAS: THE "BRANDING THE BRAZOS" SCULPTURES ...OPENED IN 1870 AS PART OF THIS TRAIL; THERE WAS A NICKEL TOLL FOR EACH HEAD OF CATTLE CROSSING?
CHISHOLM TRAIL
QUEEN VICTORIA: GIVEN THIS NEW ANESTHETIC TO INHALE, QUEEN VICTORIA FELT LITTLE OR NO PAIN IN 1853 WHEN SHE DELIVERED HER EIGHTH CHILD?
CHLOROFORM
TIME & PLACE: LONDON, 1854: DR. JOHN SNOW IDENTIFIES THE BROAD STREET PUMP AS THE CAUSE OF AN EPIDEMIC OF THIS DISEASE?
CHOLERA
"PH": THIS TYPE OF RESTAURANT HAS SPECIALIZED CUTS OF MEAT?
CHOPHOUSE
NONFICTION: THIS MODEL WHO TELLS US HER LAST NAME RHYMES WITH "BYE, THEN!" HAS GIVEN US 2 "CRAVINGS" COOKBOOKS?
CHRISSY TEIGEN
-OMETERS: KEEPING ACCURATE TIME WAS VITAL FOR 18th CENTURY SAILORS; HERE'S A 1760 TYPE OF THIS DEVICE?
CHRONOMETER
BIG IDEA: "We are all Daffy Ducks... and Coyotes inside", wrote this animator in "Chuck Amuck"?
CHUCK JONES
YIDDISH WORDS: ONE DEFINITION OF THIS TRAIT INVOLVES A MAN WHO KILLS HIS PARENTS & THEN BEGS THE MERCY OF THE COURT AS HE'S AN ORPHAN?
CHUTZPAH
COOKING: IT MEANS TO COOK IN WATER THAT'S JUST BELOW THE BOILING POINT, OR TO TREAT SOMEONE IN AN OVERPROTECTIVE WAY?
CODDLE
CIA WORLD FACTBOOK: IT'S BRAZIL'S NO. 1 EXPORT?
COFFEE
BABY: ABOUT 1/5 OF BABIES EXPERIENCE THIS CONDITION OF ABDOMINAL PAIN WITH NO CERTAIN CAUSE?
COLIC
What is the name (in English) for the confederation of sovereign nations established following a momentous 1991 summit in the Belorussian oblast of Brest?
COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
WORDS IN ONOMATOPOETIC: COOK APPLES IN SUGAR UNTIL TENDER TO MAKE THIS CRUSTLESS DESSERT SERVED IN A GLASS DISH?
COMPOTE
FUEL: METHANE IS THE MAIN COMPONENT OF CNG, THIS VEHICLE FUEL?
COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS
PRONOUN LOSS: TAKE "I" FROM A TERM FOR ANY REVERED PERSON IN A PARTICULAR FIELD & YOU GET THIS FLIMFLAM GAME?
CON
MIND TRICKS: ONE EXAMPLE OF THE FREQUENCY ILLUSION IS SEEING PREGNANT BELLIES "EVERYWHERE" FOR A WOMAN WHO'S TTC, TRYING TO DO THIS?
CONCEIVE
PARTS OF SPEECH: SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UNTO THEE: LEST?
CONJUNCTION
13-LETTER TERM FOR THE STATE OF BEING AWARE; THE "HARD PROBLEM" OF IT IS HOW TO EXPLAIN IT USING JUST THE BRAIN'S PHYSIOLOGY?
CONSCIOUSNESS
LAW: A DEFENDANT DOES NOT ADMIT GUILT, BUT DOES ACCEPT PUNISHMENT IN A PLEA OF "NOLO CONTENDERE" OR "NO" THIS?
CONTEST
PLANE: A BIPLANE CALLED THE VIN FIZ LEFT LONG ISLAND IN 1911 & 16 CRASHES LATER, COMPLETED THE FIRST CROSSING BY PLANE OF THIS?
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
MUSCLE: ALL MUSCLES UNDERGO THESE; THE ONES OF THE UTERINE MUSCLES AT THE ONSET OF LABOR ARE AMONG THE BEST KNOWN?
CONTRACTIONS
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS: TO ADMIT TO A MISDEED OR TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA?
COP
"RING": ON A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION TO GET THIS ACT OF TAKING OUT AN APPLE'S SEEDS
CORING
WINE: KATHRYN BOREL'S WINE TRIP MEMOIR IS TITLED THIS, A TERM FOR WINE THAT HAS THE TAINT OF THE STOPPER?
CORKED
HISTORY: IT WAS SAID THAT WHEN THIS MAN MET THE FERRYMAN FOR GOOD IN 1877, HE HAD MORE MONEY THAN THE U.S. TREASURY?
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
COIN: IN THE 1980s ISRAEL'S 5-SHEKEL HAD 2 STARS ON THE REVERSE & A DOUBLE ONE OF THESE HORNS OF PLENTY ON THE OBVERSE?
CORNUCOPIA
JOURNALIST: OFTEN CALLED THE FIRST "WAR" ONE OF THESE, CRIMEAN WAR REPORTER WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL PREFERRED "SPECIAL" ONE?
CORRESPONDENT
CONDITION: THIS UNDERGARMENT "LIVER" IS CAUSED BY THE STAYS OF SAID UNDERGARMENT PRESSING ON A RIB?
CORSET (LIVER)
FOOD: THIS FOOD FOR THE CALORIE-CONSCIOUS IS ALSO CALLED DUTCH CHEESE?
COTTAGE CHEESE
WHEEL: IN A CAR'S ENGINE, THIS "SHAFT" CONVERTS THE UP-&-DOWN MOTION OF THE PISTONS INTO ROTATIONAL POWER FOR THE WHEELS?
CRANKSHAFT
Shakespeare: A FREQUENT TOPIC, IT'S A MAN WITH AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE, AS IN "LIKE AN OLD ____ WITH HORNS ON HIS HEAD"?
CUCKOLD
SILENT "P": THE SILENT "P" COMES THIRD IN THIS WORD FOR THE PLACE YOU MIGHT KEEP PLATES OR SPICES?
CUPBOARD
SPORTS: A BONSPIEL IS A MEET WHERE TEAMS FROM VARIOUS CLUBS COMPETE IN THIS OLYMPIC SPORT; A MOLSON OR 2 MAY GET CONSUMED?
CURLING
Bill: Construction began on Oroville Dam before it was fully funded by the Burns-Porter Act, a ballot initiative in this state?
California
a la: A dish prepared a la Normande likely uses plenty of this famed apple brandy from Normandy?
Calvados
ROGUES GALLERY: ROGUE ADAM WORTH STOLE & GOT OBSESSED WITH A PORTRAIT OF GEORGIANA, WHO HELD THE ALLITERATIVE TITLE THIS OF DEVONSHIRE?
DUCHESS
BOOK TITLE: "ACTION FIGURE! THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOONESBURY'S UNCLE ____"?
DUKE
EGYPT QUEEN; PERHAPS THE FIRST RULING QUEEN, MERNEITH WAS PART OF THE FIRST OF THE OVER 20 OF THESE ROYAL HOUSES?
DYNASTIES
AMERICAN AUTHORS: ALFRED HITCHCOCK WROTE, "IT'S BECAUSE I LIKED" HIS "STORIES SO MUCH THAT I BEGAN TO MAKE SUSPENSE FILMS"?
EDGAR ALLAN POE
NORMAN LEAR: ON "ALL IN THE FAMILY", ARCHIE BUNKER WAS BASED IN PART ON MY FATHER & THIS OTHER CHARACTER WAS BASED IN PART ON MY MOTHER?
EDITH (BUNKER)
POETS: THE LINE "MY CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS" COMES FROM HER POEM "FIRST FIG"?
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
TIME & PLACE: 1862, THIS TOKYO CASTLE: IEMOCHI MARRIES PRINCESS KAZU IN A SHOGUN WEDDING?
EDO CASTLE
BUSINESS: GIVE A TOAST TO THIS KELLOGG'S FROZEN BREAKFAST BRAND ORIGINALLY CALLED "FROFFLES"?
EGGO (WAFFLES)
DOUBLE LETTER PLACES: ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF KAMPALA, THIS CITY IS AT THE END OF A PENINSULA THAT JUTS INTO LAKE VICTORIA?
ENTEBEE
NEWSPEAK: TAKING PLACE EVERY DAY AFTER MORNING WAKE-UP, "PHYSICAL JERKS" WERE THESE & WERE MANDATORY?
EXERCISES
LEGAL TERMS: USING POLITICAL OFFICE TO COLLECT UNLAWFUL FEES IS THIS; "FUTURAMA" WAS RIGHT! THE "X" DOES MAKE IT SOUND COOL?
EXTORTION
7-LETTER WORDS: THE HAZELNUT IS ALSO CALLED THIS, FOR A SAINT ON WHOSE FEAST DAY IT IS OFTEN RIPE?
FILBERT
INDIAN OCEAN: IF YOU'RE IN THE MALDIVES COLLECTING GRUNTERS & CROAKERS, YOU'RE HAULING IN THESE?
FISH
MOOLAH: THIS BILL IS SOMETIMES CALLED A FIN, FROM FINF, THE YIDDISH WORD FOR ITS NUMERICAL VALUE?
FIVE (DOLLAR BILL)
TEACHER APP: StudyBlue simulates these little rectangles used by kids to study for tests & by contestants to prep for "Jeopardy!"?
FLASHCARDS
LYRICS WRONG: "THUNDER ONLY HAPPENS WHEN IT'S RAINING" IS SUNG IN "DREAMS" BY THIS BAND-- THAT WEATHER REPORT IS INACCURATE?
FLEETWOOD MAC
TRENDING MERRIAM-WEBSTER: THIS WORD MEANING A FORCED LEAVE OF ABSENCE WAS TRENDING AFTER THE 2019 GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN?
FURLOUGH
Fiction: Near the end of this Ray Bradbury novel, a character talks about the phoenix, a mythical bird reborn from the ashes of fire?
Fahrenheit 451
Knight's Line: "Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?" is this knight's first line of dialogue?
Falstaff
MUSIC: This "Father" was on the Tastemakers chart in 2018 with "God's Favorite Customer"?
Father John Misty
Organization: FA for short, this nationwide network of food banks is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States?
Feeding America
Pop Culture Bookshelf: In "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)", this "queen of the geeks" tells of her rise to stardom (Girl In Dr. Horrible's)?
Felicia Day
WOMEN AUTHORS: BORN IN PARIS IN 1804, SHE'S KNOWN FOR HER NOVELS, HER LOVERS & WRITING UNDER A MASCULINE NAME?
GEORGE SAND (ACC: AMANTINE DUDEVANT OR DUPIN)
CORDIAL: ANY NEUTRAL SPIRIT CAN BE INFUSED WITH BLACKTHORN BERRIES TO MAKE SLOE THIS?
GIN
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: BEETHOVEN & MOZART WROTE FOR THIS INSTRUMENT THAT BEN FRANKLIN... "GREATEST PERSONAL SATISFACTION" OF ALL HIS INVENTIONS?
GLASS HARMONICA
MONEY: IN AN EFFORT TO DIVERSIFY ITS PORTFOLIO, CANADA SOLD MOST OF THIS, BECOMING THE ONLY G7 MEMBER WITH LESS THAN 100 TONS?
GOLD
G.O.: "PRECIOUS METAL" TERM FOR A SONG THAT WAS A HIT DECADES AGO?
GOLDEN OLDIE
SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES: The oldest existing English translation of a tragedy from this language is Jane Lumley's "Iphigenia"?
GREEK
SHARING ISLAND: CYPRUS: A TURKISH ETHNIC MINORITY & THIS ETHNIC MAJORITY?
GREEK (CYPRIOT)
WATER: IT'S THE GULF SEEN HERE; THAT'S PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEAR THE SOUTH END?
GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
CHINESE: AN 11th CENTURY CHINESE MILITARY MANUAL CONTAINED THE EARLIEST KNOWN FORMULA FOR THIS EXPLOSIVE?
GUNPOWDER (ACC: BLACK POWDER)
"G"eography: Rhino tracking at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve is something to try on a visit to this capital city?
Gaborone
Rhyming Phrases: BEGINNING WITH A POCKET SQUARE, IT REFERS TO ILLICIT BEHAVIOR?
HANKY-PANKY
SCIENCE: CHEMISTRY SURE IS; IN FACT, IT'S THIS 4-LETTER KIND OF SCIENCE DEALING WITH THINGS THAT CAN BE OBSERVED & MEASURED?
HARD SCIENCE
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: IN A 1947 COLLECTION HE SOLVED 12 MYSTERIES, INCLUDING "THE CRETAN BULL" & "THE GIRDLE OF HYPPOLITA"?
HERCULE POIROT
HAT: THE PETASOS WAS A WIDE-BRIMMED HAT OF ANCIENT GREECE; THE NAME IS ALSO APPLIED TO THE WINGED HAT OF THIS GOD?
HERMES
ACTORS: IN A 2018 TV MOVIE PETER DINKLAGE PLAYED THIS CO-STAR OF "FANTASY ISLAND"?
HERVE VILLECHAIZE
CLOTHING: SOME MUSLIM WOMEN WEAR THIS HEAD COVERING FROM THE ARABIC FOR "VEIL"?
HIJAB
INSPECTOR: FOR 15 YEARS, JOHN THAW PLAYED THIS ITV INSPECTOR WHO WAS SQUEAMISH AROUND BLOOD?
INSPECTOR MORSE
"TAKE": THIS MANIFOLD SUPPLIES FUEL & AIR TO YOUR CAR'S CYLINDERS?
INTAKE MANIFOLD
BRAND STATE BIRTHPLACE: MAYTAG APPLIANCES?
IOWA
ROADS: GOING EAST ON I-80 OUT OF SALT LAKE CITY, YOU'LL TRAVEL THROUGH WYOMING, NEBRASKA & THEN THIS STATE?
IOWA
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN: ISFAHAN IN THIS COUNTRY IS RENOWNED FOR ITS RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE, LIKE THE SHEIKH LOTFOLLAH MOSQUE?
IRAN
CAT IDIOMS: ACT ASSERTIVELY! "A CAT IN GLOVES" HAS THIS INABILITY?
IT CATCHES NO MICE (ACC: CATCHING MICE)
Shakespeare: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy?
Iago
LAKE PLACE: ABU SIMBEL IS ON THE SHORE OF THIS BODY OF WATER THAT DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE 1970?
LAKE NASSER
GEOGRAPHY: THE NAME OF THIS HAWAIIAN ISLAND IS ALSO THE HAWAIIAN WORD FOR A ROOFED PORCH?
LANAI
WHEEL: THE HIGH ROLLER, THE WORLD'S TALLEST OBSERVATION WHEEL, GOES UP 550 FEET IN THE AIRIN THIS CITY?
LAS VEGAS
INVENTED: JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD WEAVED HIS WAY INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS BY INVENTING ONE OF THESE THAT NOW BEARS HIS NAME?
LOOM
COIN: THIS TYPE OF BIRD SWIMS IN A LAKE UNDER A STAR-FILLED SKY ON A CANADIAN COMMEMORATIVE COIN THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK?
LOON (ACC: DIVER)
19TH CENTURY BRITS: IN A POEM LORD BYRON, A LOVER OF GREECE, CALLS THIS DIPLOMAT & FELLOW LORD A "PLUNDERER"?
LORD ELGIN (ACC: THOMAS BRUCE, 7th EARL OF ELGIN)
READING TALK: I GET IT, I HEAR YOU, "I READ YOU" THESE 2 WAYS?
LOUD & CLEAR
"L": ESZOPICLONE, A SEDATIVE USED TO TREAT INSOMNIA, IS SOLD UNDER THIS BRAND NAME?
LUNESTA
CLOTHING: AMONG THE NDEBELE OF SOUTH AFRICA, A JOCOLO IS AN APRON WORN STARTING WITH THIS OCCASION?
MARRIAGE (ACC: WEDDING)
GLUTEN FREE: In 1948 the first shipment of wheat arrived in Greece as part of this aid program?
MARSHALL PLAN
AVERAGE: THIS 8-LETTER ADJECTIVE FOR MIDDLING EFFORT COMES FROM WORDS MEANING "HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN"?
MEDIOCRE
BIG UNIT OF MEASURE: THIS UNIT OF EXPLOSIVE POWER IS EQUIVALENT TO DETONATING 2 BILLION POUNDS OF TNT?
MEGATON
CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TWITTER ERUPTED WHEN THIS CO-HOST OF "THE VIEW" RESPONDED TO A CRITIC WITH THE TWEET "YOU WERE AT MY WEDDING DENISE"?
MEGHAN MCCAIN
IRISH PEOPLE?: I WAS IN TEARS AFTER WATCHING ANOTHER SENSATIONAL EMOTIONAL WORK BY THIS IMAGINARY IRISH PLAYWRIGHT?
MEL O'DRAMA
UV: THIS DARK PIGMENT IS YOUR BODY'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION?
MELANIN
TASTES: THE NERVES IN THE TRIGEMINAL SYSTEM... CAN DETECT CHEMICAL SENSATIONS--LIKE THIS COOL-TASTING COMPOUND IN PEPPERMINT?
MENTHOL (ACC: (PEPPERMINT) CAMPHOR)
Shark Week: It was white-knuckle time on Shark Week as one of the crew got harassed by a huge one of these 4-letter sharks with a Maori name?
Mako Shark
History Books: A look at great historic clashes, Phlip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks?
Marathon
SILENT "C": THE iA MODEL OF THIS TOYOTA CAR BECAME THE YARIS iA?
SCION
"EE": A SLENDER VERTICAL ROCK OUTCROPPING ON MAUI IS KNOWN AS THE IAO THIS?
NEEDLE
WHO ARE THEY: ANY GUERRILLA FORCE, LIKE TITO'S IN YUGOSLAVIA RESISTING THE NAZIS?
PARTIZANS
SENATOR FROM ILLINOS: AN ILLINOIS SENATOR FROM 1985 TO 1997, HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1988 BUT DID NOT WRITE "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"?
PAUL SIMON
BACKYARD: The distaff counterpart to a man cave is this backyard haven with an alliterative name?
SHE SHED
"PH": THESE DOGS CAN BE GERMAN OR AUSTRALIAN?
SHEPHERDS
BELLS: DEPENDING ON SIZE & COMPOSITION, BELLS MAY TINKLE, CHIME OR MAKE THIS SOUND, FROM THE LATIN FOR "TO SUMMON"?
PEAL
CRAYOLA COLORS: THIS GEM'S NAME PRECEDES "WHITE" IN THE NAME OF A CRAYOLA COLOR?
PEARL
FUEL: IRELAND & FINLAND ARE AMONG THE WORLD'S LEADING PRODUCERS OF THIS SPONGY PLANT FUEL?
PEAT MOSS
HOLE: AL D'AMATO WAS KNOWN AS "SENATOR" THIS OPENING IN THE PAVEMENT BECAUSE HE GOT THEM FIXED FOR CONSTITUENTS?
POTHOLE
"P": YUM! WE'RE "PRO" THESE MINIATURE CREAM PUFFS, SERVED WITH CHOCOLATE SAUCE?
PROFITEROLES
QUEENS: JOAN I WAS A 13th C. QUEEN OF NAVARRE, A LAND THAT CONTROLLED VITAL PASSES IN THESE FRANCO-SPANISH MOUNTAINS?
PYRENEES
Government In Crisis: Last name of the man who dismissed prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953, with some outside help?
Pahlavi (the Shah)
PORTABLES: SANDISK MAKES A 500-GIG EXTERNAL SSD, SHORT FOR THIS KIND OF "DRIVE" THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH STORAGE?
SOLID-STATE
TCM: ONE OF THE INTERVIEWS I MOST ANTICIPATED WAS WITH THIS ITALIAN SCREEN LEGEND...HER FILM "MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE"?
SOPHIA LOREN
LAWN: I PLANT THE SAME TALL FESCUE GRASS USED IN THIS DIRECTIONAL LAWN THAT HOSTS AN ANNUAL EASTER EGG ROLL?
SOUTH LAWN (OF THE WHITE HOUSE)
WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany?
SPAIN
GAME OF THORNS: THE CROWN-OF-THORNS SPECIES OF THIS MARINE CREATURE IS MULTI-ARMED & DANGEROUS TO CORAL REEFS?
STARFISH
OUT OF OFFICE EMAILS: FROM CORDELL HULL, 1944: "OUT OF OFFICE AS LONGEST-SERVING SECRETARY OF THIS; IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, CONTACT FOGGY BOTTOM"?
STATE
WALKIN: YOU'RE "OUT OF" THIS WALKIN' WORD IF YOU'RE NOT IN RHYTHM OR UP ON CURRENT EVENTS?
STEP
COLONEL: 2 COLONELS PROTECT A PLAYER'S FLAG IN THIS CLASSIC HASBRO MILITARY GAME?
STRATEGO
ILLEGAL BABY NAMES: SWEET NAMES NOT ALLOWED IN FRANCE INCLUDE NUTELLA & FRAISE, THIS BERRY?
STRAWBERRY
TRUTH: ALMOST 100 YEARS BEFORE ROSA PARKS, SOJOURNER HELPED INTEGRATE THIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN WASHINGTON D.C.?
STREETCARS (ACC: TROLLEYS, TRAMS)
ROYAL HOUSES: FAMILY NAME OF BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE'S BROTHER HENRY, WHOM HIS SUPPORTERS CALLED HENRY IX OF ENGLAND?
STUART
RIVER: HERODOTUS SAID THIS RIVER ORIGINATED NEAR FENEOS IN GREECE; DANTE PLACED IT IN THE FIFTH CIRCLE?
STYX
3 U'S; A DEMON IN FEMALE FORM; WE'RE THROWING YOU UNDER THE...?
SUCCUBUS
PEOPLE ON THE MAP: BOLIVIA & THIS CITY, ITS CAPITAL, ARE BOTH NAMED FOR MEN KNOWN AS LIBERATORS?
SUCRE
Surprise Me: A surprise attack at these plains in Quebec in 1759 led to the British gaining control of New France?
the Plains of Abraham
Left History: In 1948 Henry Wallace got 2.4% of the vote as the pres. candidate of the party with this forward-looking name?
the Progressive Party
Enclaves: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The tiny village of Büsingen on the Rhine is politically part of Germany, but is separate geographically & uses this currency for the country surrounding it?
the Swiss franc
David Muir Covers The World: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I traveled to Afghanistan to speak with the top U.S. commander General Scott Miller, who said that not just military might but a political settlement with this group might be a necessary part of any endgame in America's longest war?
the Taliban
Horses: One of the USA's largest labor unions, it was originally organized for drivers of horse-drawn vehicles?
the Teamsters
ARCHAEOLOGY: The body of this 2,000-year-old man was discovered in a bog in Denmark in 1950?
the Tollund Man
CABINET DEPARTMENTS: Follow the daily interest rate statistics at this.gov?
the Treasury Department
Art: One of Johan Zoffany's masterpieces is a depiction of the many masterpieces in this former Medici gallery?
the Uffizi
3: The Bill Evans Trio showed the power of jazz piano in albums like "Sunday at" this club named for its Greenwich Village location?
the Village Vanguard
Left History: From 1919 to 1925 moderate socialist Friedrich Ebert led the German government known as this?
the Weimar Republic
War: The Ramadan War of 1973 is also called this, after a holiday of a different religion?
the Yom Kippur War
5-Letter: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along" this large branch?
the bough
Maze: In one modern definition a labyrinth has a fairly clear path to this point & back; it's not a maze that tries to confuse you?
the center
AROUND THE BODY: These arteries that supply blood to the heart itself take their name from the Latin for "crown"?
the coronary arteries
What's In Your Brain: The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input?
the dendrites
Plant Science: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) All the planets orbit the Sun within seven degrees of this plane, whose name comes from an astronomical event?
the ecliptic
Alien Invasion: The Asian tiger type of this insect found throughout the U.S. can transmit diseases like the Zika & West Nile viruses?
the mosquito
Design: Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage?
the organ
Beatitudes: "Blessed are" these people: "for they shall be called the children of God"?
the peacemakers
CROSSWORD: British submachine gun (4)?
sten
METEOROLOGY: The 11-year cycle of these solar areas that are a cool 6,500° has been correlated with temperature changes on Earth?
sunspots
ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD: You consider me this adjective, I presume?
supreme
Anagramed Hobbies: Don't let Fluffy see what you're doing: MY DIRT AXE?
taxidermy
Dance: This "avian" party dance topped a 2017 list of what brides told DJs not to play?
the "Chicken Dance"
Name The Decade: The Black Death starts;the Battle of Crécy?
the 1340s
Seas: In ancient times it was known as Mare Hadriaticum?
the Adriatic Sea
BALLET: In the 1930s, the Baby Ballerinas Baranova, Toumanova & Riabouchinska were the first stars of this company de Monte Carlo?
the Ballet Russe
OUTDOORS: Attend a battle reenactment like in La Porte, Texas, where they reenact this one that led to independence from Mexico?
the Battle of San Jacinto
AROUND EUROPE: The Sea of Marmara connects these 2 important Turkish straits?
the Bosporous and Dardanelles
Science News: In Deuteronomy God says these early -ites of Palestine are to be eradicated, but DNA shows them living in Lebanon?
the Canaanites
POLITICS: You, Edward Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby, were P.M. of Great Britain 3 times & the leader of this political party, 1846-1868?
the Conservative Party
Seas: The "Cradle to the Great Barrier Reef", it's home to some of the most diverse marine life in the world?
the Coral Sea
Seas: The ruins of Qumran, including some notable caves, overlook its northwest shore?
the Dead Sea
Friends: As seen in the film "The Favourite", Sarah, wife of this duke & general, made good use of her friendship with Queen Anne?
the Duke of Marlborough
Mozart: Young Mozart dedicated the work "Dream of Scipio" to his Salzburg patron Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, a strict man guided by this "bright" intellectual movement of the times?
the Enlightenment
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: These 2 acts of 1793 & 1850 removed protections for runaways in the north, making the railroad necessary?
the Fugitive Slave Acts
"G"eography: (Jimmy Kimmel delivers the clue.) One of my hobbies is fly-fishing & I've done some on this Montana river near Bozeman where most of the fishing scenes in "A River Runs Through It" were filmed?
the Gallatin
Historic Transports: 2-word name of the German airship that was the first one to engage in a transatlantic flight?
the Graf Zeppelin
Bill: The 1935 bill authorizing this humongous concrete dam mentions the Columbia Basin Compact?
the Grand Coulee Dam
INTERNATIONAL PARKS: Badaling National Forest Park contains the most visited section of all the miles of this edifice?
the Great Wall of China
New Deal: This 2019 resolution calls for renewable energy, healthy food, high-speed rail & help for the poor, elderly & homeless?
the Green New Deal
Tie The Room Together: Bijar carpets & Sanandaj rugs are products of this countryless people who live in an area ranging from Syria to Iran?
the Kurds
MISC: On Nov. 12, 1833 these meteor showers were seen across all of North America, sparking a serious study of meteor showers?
the Leonids
Alien Invasion: This variety of fruit fly invaded California in the 1980s & led to U.S. quarantine laws?
the Mediterranean fruit fly
Music & Legend: Grieg was displeased with his own "In the Hall of" this monarch from "Peer Gynt", writing, "it reeks of cow-turds & super-Norwegianism"?
the Mountain King
Goats: Since 1900 the mascot of this institute of higher learning has been "Bill the Goat"?
the Naval Academy
TIME FOR TIME: Leap seconds are sometimes added to clocks because this is slowing down?
the rotation
3: Adopted by the U.S. in 1793, it's the 3-word phrase for territorial waters; now most countries claim more?
the three mile limit
Dance: A song that was No. 1 in the summer of 1960 begins, "Come on, baby, let's do" this dance?
the twist
COLORS: New Jersey's state flower?
the violet
CLICHES: This type of message predicting disaster comes from the book of Daniel?
the writing's on the wall
CLICHE: You can do this for exercise, or to "your memory"?
to jog
Spurn: This adjective meaning trivial is also a verb meaning to spurn with pointed indifference?
to slight
British Stuff: You'll find an amphibian in the name of this classic English dish that features sausage & Yorkshire pudding?
toad in the hole
Phrases: 5-word phrase said when turning down fatty food or folding a poker hand?
too rich for my blood
5-Syllable Words: A wondrous change, specifically Jesus' appearance in glory observed each August 6?
transfiguration
3: Putting $1 on Justify-Gronkowski-Hofburg at the 2018 Belmont won $229.74 in this bet as the horses finished in that order?
trifecta
20-Letter Words: This adverb means in a manner not typical of a particular person?
uncharacteristically
"V"OCAB: It's a household appliance, or a space devoid of matter?
vacuum
"V"OCAB: This 8-letter word is a synonym for neighborhood?
vicinity
SLEEP: The National Sleep Foundation says yes, this is occasionally unsafe, but better than letting the person get into a car?
waking up a sleepwalker
Fake Gnu: A gnu is also known as a wilde- this, so harte- ones are fake gnus?
wildebeast
Modern Family: Among 18- to 34-year-olds, 2/3 of Italians live here, as opposed to 1/3 of Germans & Brits?
with their parents
past-iche: For extra quaintness, a London pub opened in 1667 isn't just called Cheshire Cheese but these 2 words "Cheshire Cheese"?
ye olde
CITIES IN THE COUNTRY: AARHUS, AALBORG?
DENMARK
MISC: ON JUNE 17 ICELAND CELEBRATES ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM THIS COUNTRY?
DENMARK
QUEEN: SUCCEEDING HER FATHER, MARGRETHE II TOOK THE THRONE OF THIS COUNTRY IN 1972?
DENMARK
MOOLAH: THE MINT IN THIS WESTERN CITY PRODUCES ABOUT HALF OF U.S. COINAGE & IS THE USA's SECOND-LARGEST GOLD DEPOSITORY?
DENVER
ADD CONSONANTS: A PORTABLE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: AOIO?
ACCORDIAN
BUSINESS: YOU MIGHT CONSIDER CONVERTING YOUR MOM-&-POP HARDWARE STORE TO ONE OF THE 5,000 OUTLETS OF THIS "HELPFUL PLACE"?
ACE
CIRCUS JOBS: THIS JOB TITLE COMES FROM AKROS, GREEK FOR "HIGHEST"?
ACROBAT
BIBLE: In this book Herod binds the apostle Peter in chains, but an angel appears & the chains fall away?
ACTS
GUYS: ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS, IN 2018 HE CAPTURED A MEDAL & ALSO WON "DANCING WITH THE STARS"?
ADAM RIPPON
IN THE CABINET DEPARTMENT: OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?
JUSTICE
CAT IDIOMS: IF A SECRET HAS BEEN EXPOSED, IT'S WHERE" THE CAT" IS?
OUT OF THE BAG
HOUSE IDIOMS: TERTULLIAN'S PROVERB "DE CALCARIA IN CARBONARIUM" IS SAID TO BE THE SOURCE OF THIS PHRASE FOR GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE?
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FRYER
"OUT": THE REALITY SHOW "SURVIVOR" USES THE TAGLINE "OUTWIT, OUTPLAY," THIS?
OUTLAST
START W/ 2 VOWELS, END WITH 1: IT'S A POWERFUL FEELING OF ANGER, MAYBE ABOUT SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
OUTRAGE
"OU": It's the stabilizing float attached to the canoe seen here?
OUTRIGGER
"OUT": THE TERM THIS TYPE OF "ART" BY SELF-TAUGHT NON-MAINSTREAM ARTISTS WAS COINED BY ROGER CARDINAL IN 1972?
OUTSIDER (ART)
SONG DAY: BOOMTOWN RATS SONG IN WHICH "I WANT TO SHOOT THE WHOLE DAY DOWN"?
"I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS"
"AD": YOU'RE ABLE TO ADJUST TO MEET THE MOST CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES; YOU'RE THIS!?
ADAPTABLE
ACCORDING TO THE TITLE OF A BOOK BY GILES ANDREAE, THESE ANIMALS "CAN'T DANCE"?
"GIRAFFES"
PARENTHETICAL SONGS: U2: "(IN THE NAME OF LOVE)"?
"PRIDE"
"GOOD": Sam Smith bemoans his expertise at breakups in this hit song from 2017?
"Too Good at Goodbyes"
REALITY SHOW CATCHPHRASE: "Please pack your knives and go"?
"Top Chef"
SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS: HOW FRERE JACQUES WOULD CUSTOMARILY SAY, "SEE YA!"?
ADIEU
MOROCCO: PER TITLE 1, ARTICLE 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION, MOROCCO IS GOVERNED AS THIS, THE ONLY ONE IN NORTH AFRICA?
(CONSTITUTIONAL) MONARCHY
It Comes Third: "Arrow of God", about a Nigerian priest dealing with missionaries, is the last book he wrote in what's called his "African Trilogy"?
(Chinua) Achebe
ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE: IF THIS SQUEAKS EVERY TIME YOU ENTER OR LEAVE A ROOM, TRY TAKING OUT THE PIN & LUBRICATING IT?
(DOOR) HINGE
Farewell: In November 1852 mourners lined the streets of London to bid farewell to this statesman, Britain's greatest soldier, dead at 83?
(Duke of) Wellington
READING TALK: WE'RE USING EVERYONE OF THESE, MEANING ALL AVAILABLE METHODS?
(EVERY) TRICK IN THE BOOK
"GOOD": She was the voice of Judy Hopps in "Zootopia"?
(Ginnifer) Goodwin
BEFORE & AFTER: PHRASE DESCRIBING HOW RAW OYSTERS ARE SERVED THAT'S AN OLD SYNONYM FOR BATTLE FATIGUE?
(OYSTERS) ON THE HALF SHELL SHOCK
Time Travelers: "Kindred", about an African-American woman transported back to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, is a novel by this author?
(Octavia) Butler
COOKING: BECAUSE THE ROTATION KEEPS THE JUICES MOVING, ROTISSERIE CHICKEN IS SELF-THIS, A PROCESS OF ADDING MOISTURE?
(SELF-) BASTING
Greatest Canadians: After losing part of his right leg to cancer, he embarked on a Marathon of Hope, running across Canada to raise money to fight cancer; he ran almost a marathon a day for 143 days but stopped short of his goal when the cancer spread to his lungs?
(Terry) Fox
UV: UV RAYS DO YOU GOOD WHEN THEY STIMULATE PRODUCTION OF THIS RICKETS-FIGHTING VITAMIN?
(VITAMIN) D
Jazz: When he wasn't scoring TV's "Peanuts" specials, this man recorded favorites like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind"?
(Vince) Guaraldi
MUSICAL STATE SYMBOLS: BOB WILLS PIONEERED THE COUNTRY STYLE CALLED WESTERN THIS & TEXAS MADE IT ITS STATE MUSIC?
(WESTERN) SWING
BAR: IF ASKED FOR A MOJITO, A BARTENDER WILL REACH FOR THIS TYPE OF LIQUOR?
(WHITE) RUM
NATURE STICKS: THIS FISH WHIPS ITS TAIL FORWARD LIKE A SCORPION TO STAB YOU WITH ITS BARBS?
(YELLOW) STINGRAY (MS: RAY)
LAW: WITH A PROMISE TO RETURN TO COURT, R.O.R. IS "RELEASE ON" THIS ALONE WITHOUT PAYING ANY BAIL?
(YOUR OWN) RECOGNIZANCE
PARASITIC PLANTS: With a smell like rotting meat, it's the largest flower in the world but has no other plant parts like roots or leaves.?
(stinking) corpse flower
Name The Decade: The Tudor line begins its 5-monarch rule of England?
1480s
History: Making it tough on the pres. seeking re-election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time low of 41.22 in this year?
1932
FILL IN DATES: William Shakespeare: Traditionally, April ____, 1564 - April ____, 1616?
23rd
What's In Your Brain: Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient?
Alzheimer
Author: "The Kitchen God's Wife" author?
Amy Tan
Infamous Women: A character on "Black Sails", this real-life pirate escaped execution by hanging when ti was discovered that she was pregnant?
Anne Bonny
State Governors: It's the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 & 2015?
Arizona
GRAHAM: This swimsuit model & body-positive activist is a judge on "America's Next Top Model"?
Ashley Graham
Sports Firsts: The first event of tennis' yearly Grand Slam (it used to be the last)?
Australian Open
DOG NAMES: IF YOU HAVE A SMALL BROWN DOG, TRY THIS 4-LETTER NAME, THE SEED OF A LEGUME?
BEAN
YOUNG WRITERS: The humorous comic book series "Axe" this job was co-created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle?
Axe Cop
Men In Black: "Go Away White" is the 2008 reunion album by this Peter Murphy band that wore black & led many gloomy teens to do the same?
Bauhaus
FOUNDING MOTHERS: Julia, nee Stockton, bore 13 children with this best-known physician & second-best-known Benjamin of the Revolution?
Benjamin Rush
SHAKESPEARE: Appropriately, this "Romeo & Juliet" character whose name means "good will" says, "I do but keep the peace"?
Benvolio
Design: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Residenzplats in Salzburg, Austria.) Salzburg's Residenzplats has one of the largest Baroque fountains outside of Italy; the upper section is a replica of this Baroque master's Triton Fountain in Rome?
Bernini
YOUTUBE: In addition to her own videos, you can also see clips of her on "Dancing With the Stars"?
Bethany Mota
American Women: In 1777 the Pennsylvania State Navy Board paid her for making "ship's colours, &c"?
Betsy Ross
College Football: Nickname of the team that was led to an undefeated 1958 season by future brigadier general Pete Dawkins?
Black Knights
Dancing With The Czars: This 1831 work by Pushkin dramatized the fate of the title czar whose reign ended in 1605?
Boris Godunov
MARCH: JOHN McCLOSKEY BECAME THE USA's FIRST OF THESE MARCH 15, 1875, BUT DIDN'T GET HIS RED HAT UNTIL AN 1878 TRIP TO ROME?
CARDINAL
Jazz: Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local "B" streets?
Bourbon & Basin
LIT CHARACTERS: John the Savage is a central character in this classic novel set in the year 632 AF (After Ford)?
Brave New World
AUTO BIOS: CHAPTER 26 IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF THIS MUSCLE CAR BUILDER IS TITLED "THE COBRA IS BORN"?
CARROLL SHELBY
July 26: On July 26, 1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild took his seat as the first Jewish member of this government body?
British Parliament
"bb" in middle: The circle around the words said by people in a cartoon?
Bubble
Design: This Boston-born architect designed the Massachusetts State House & from 1818 to 1829 served as architect of the U.S. Capitol?
Bullfinch
ALPHANUMERICS: This plastic explosive needs a shock to go boom; match-lit, it burns slowly, & was used by Vietnam soldiers as a cooking fire?
C-4
EXPENSIVE: JUST 2 YEARS OLD, IN 2017 A BOTTLE MADE FROM THIS "MOST RENOWNED GRAPE VARIETY" FOR FINE RED WINE SOLD FOR $350,000?
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE: RUTH WARE'S THRILLER SET ON A CRUISE SHIP, "THE WOMAN IN" THIS ROOM?
CABIN 10
BOB'S BURGERS: "I KNOW WHY THE ____ BURGER SINGS"; REFERENCING A SPICY STYLE?
CAJUN
THINGS: IN THE MID-19th CENTURY, THE U.S. ARMY IMPORTED THESE CREATURES FROM AFRICA AS PACK ANIMALS-- IT DIDN'T LAST?
CAMELS
DYNASTIES: THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY IN FRANCE WAS FOLLOWED BY THIS ONE NAMED FOR THE SON OF HUGH THE GREAT?
CAPETIAN
MACAU: 80% of Macau's population speaks this southern Chinese dialect?
Cantonese
Goats: Mountain goats are genus Oreamnos; other goats, this genus, same as a filmmaking genius?
Capra
Million Bucks: In the first sale of a diamond for a mil, in 1969, the parent co. of this French jeweler outbid Richard Burton, then sold it to him?
Cartier
Albums: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" was an appropriate song for this album; soon afterward, Mick Jones left the Clash?
Combat Rock
VPs: Pictured here is Theodore Roosevelt with this veep who gave his name to an Alaska city?
Charles Fairbanks
SKETCHERS: Anne is sketched here by this oldest of the Bronte sisters?
Charlotte
Just The Facts: This largest moon of Pluto is about half the dwarf planet's size?
Charon
INSULT: This onetime insult referencing a famous product of Wisconsin is now a word of pride?
Cheesehead
Desert: Dry doesn't mean dull with sites like the rocks of Rainbow Valley in this country's Atacama Desert?
Chile
SAILING IN SONG: "Sailing, takes me away" to this mellow singer who also did the best that he could do with "Arthur's Theme"?
Christopher Cross
SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death?
Christopher Marlowe
AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist?
Clarence Thomas
Enclaves: Cabinda, which is Angolan territory, borders the 2 nations bearing this name?
Congo
Words: The Latin for "to come together" gives us this word for the building where a religious community lives?
Convent
British Stuff: In 2019 the venerable travel firm named for this man suddenly collapsed, stranding 150,000 Brits abroad on holiday?
Cook
POET TEENS: 1760s teen Thomas Chatterton wrote of this astronomer's "System", "Our Earth supreme / rolls with the planets round the solar gleam"?
Copernicus
Poetic Words: A "heroic" one of these is 2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter?
Couplet
MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES: (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee?
Courtney Love
Lard: The crispy remains after pork fat has been rendered are called these, AKA pork rinds?
Cracklings
Canada Province Symbols: You can't sweep the category unless you know that this is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan?
Curling
SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN: A NURSERY RHYME SAYS, "I HAD A LITTLE PONY HIS NAME WAS" THIS, "I LENT HIM TO A LADY TO RIDE A MILE AWAY"?
DAPPLE GRAY
PUNCTUATION: An em one is longer than an en one?
DASH
FUNNY TV: AFTER LEAVING HIS COMEDY CENTRAL SHOW IN 2005, HE MADE NEWS BY HOSTING "SNL" IN 2016?
DAVE CHAPPELLE
WWII: MANY HAVE SEEN GERMANY'S DECISION TO DO THIS ALONG WITH ITALY 4 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR AS A BIG MISTAKE?
DECLARE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES (MS: DECLARE WAR)
5-LETTER WORD: COLLECTIVE TERM FOR THE STYLE OF FURNISHINGS OF A HOME'S INTERIOR?
DECOR
NOBEL PRIZE: THE PRIZES ORIGINALLY CAME IN 5 CATEGORIES; THIS SIXTH, FUNDED BY THE BANK OF SWEDEN, WAS ADDED IN 1969?
ECONOMICS
Road Trip: An "On the Road" trip will take you to Larimer Street in this city where Sal hangs with Dean before heading for the coast?
Denver
Inventors: In 1898 Maria Beasley patented a device for preventing trains from doing this?
Derailing
BIG IDEA: This French "father of modern philosophy" fathered the idea that the mind & body are different kinds of substance?
Descartes
Russian Lit: His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead"?
Dostoevsky
Purple Reign: At its height in the 1920s & 1930s, the Purple Gang reigned over this large Midwestern city's underworld?
Detroit
Worth: The org. Jewelers of America says contrary to popular belief, you can easily chip one of these, even washing dishes--insure it?
Diamond
Family Government: Last name of John, who held a Michigan House seat from 1955 to 2015, & of his wife Debbie, who succeeded him?
Dingell
Computer "D"s: Folder is a synonym for one of these inside a computer's internal filing system?
Directory
HANGOUTS: Nowadays, teen gamers hang using voice & text chat on this app with a name meaning strife or lack of harmony?
Discord
Sports: Spin in an 8-foot, 2-inch throwing circle to throw a 4.4-pound circle in this sport?
Discus
Brit Lit: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician?
Disraeli
Physics: Magnetism is "action at" this; Einstein added "spooky" to dismiss the weird phenomenon quantum entanglement?
Distance
Toy: This animated girl (Black CG Girl Doctor) has a doctor's bag & your kids can have a toy version of it?
Doc McStuffins
Art & Artists: Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint a scene of his house at Auvers?
Dr. Gachet
FOOTWEAR BRANDS: If this doctor's original sandals with the natural wood midsoles give you blisters, try his molefoam padding?
Dr. Scholl's
Computer "D"s: A pair of 4-letter words are in this action that moves a file, like putting a photo of an ex into the recycle bin?
Drag & Drop
Reboot: The reboot of this soapy series about the wealthy Carrington & Colby families changed the setting from Denver to Atlanta?
Dynasty
Epistolary Novels: "The Boy Next Door", a 21st century novel by Meg Cabot, uses this newer form of correspondence?
Medical Terms: Cerumen is the medical name for this substance?
Earwax
It Comes Third: Of the 7 countries that make up Central America, this one is alphabetically third?
El Salvador
SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN: THE BOOK OF DANIEL GIVES US THIS 3-WORD PHRASE FOR A HERO'S UNEXPECTED FLAW?
FEET OF CLAY
JAMES BOND FRIENDS: JACK LORD & JEFFREY WRIGHT ARE 2 OF 8 ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED THIS AMERICAN CIA AGENT & 007 ALLY?
FELIX (LEITER)
65 inches: It was world news when this 5'5" passionate amateur marine biologist died in Tokyo Jan. 7, 1989?
Emperor Hirohito
War: This country's 17th century civil wars are also known as "The Great Rebellion"?
England
BIT OF LIT: A mom & daughter are forced to flee Mexico for a farm labor camp in California in this "hopeful" tale by Pam Muñoz Ryan?
Esperanza Rising
Authors: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living?
Ethiopia
Government In Crisis: In November 2019 Jeanine Áñez Chávez declared herself Bolivia's president, replacing this man who had resigned under pressure?
Evo Morales
NATURE STICK: THE VENOMOUS STONEFISH HAS A BLADE CALLED A LACHRYMAL SABER THAT POPS OUT FROM A BONE UNDER THIS BODY PART?
Eye
LETTER-PERFECT: IT COMES BEFORE "22" IN THE NAME OF A RAPTOR PRODUCED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN?
F
INITIALS: In 1879 he founded his first 5-cent stores in Utica, New York & Lancaster, Penn.; the price ceiling was later raised to a dime?
F.W. Woolworth
THING 1 & THING 2: THIS LIQUID, INGREDIENT NO. 2 IN A HOUSEHOLD TASK, WAS INVENTED BECAUSE OLDER DYES MADE COTTON FABRIC HARSH & STIFF?
FABRIC SOFTENER
TIME: THIS DATE IS AKA BISSEXTILE DAY?
FEBRUARY 29
ACTOR: In "The Deathly Hallows Part 2", Warwick Davis played the goblin Griphook as well as this Charms professor?
Flitwick
Beach: Sanibel Island on this U.S. state's west coast has great beaches to collect shells or just stroll the sand?
Florida
3-Letter "f" word: Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment"?
Fly
Broadway: "The Inheritance" reimagines this novelist's "Howards End" with 3 generations of gay men in 21st century New York City?
Forster
Lieder: This Vienna-born composer was only 17 when he wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" & changed the lieder game in 1814?
Franz Schubert
MEN OF SCIENCE: HE REFERRED TO HIS PUPILS ANTONIO NARDI, RAFFAELLO MAGIOTTI & EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI AS HIS ROMAN TRIUMVIRATE?
GALILEO (GALILEI)
"IZED": IT MEANS "SPURRED A GROUP TO ACTION", OR "LINED WITH ZINC, AS IRON OR STEEL"?
GALVANIZED
ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES: IT'S THE TOP RESOURCE FOR ALL THINGS XBOX, Wii, PLAYSTATION, ETC: GI?
GAME INFORMER
AVERAGE: SOMETHING THAT IS THIS PLACE "VARIETY", SUCH AS A CARROT, IS UNREMARKABLE?
GARDEN VARIETY
PARTS OF THE WHOLE: CARD READER SLOT, HOSE, NOZZLE?
GAS PUMP
"LL" ANIMALS: THE SAUDI & QUEEN OF SHEBA TYPES OF THIS ANTELOPE PROVED NOT SO SWIFT, AS THEY'RE NOW EXTINCT?
GAZELLE
Horses: This term for the person who cares for horses at a stable sounds like someone who's getting married?
Groom
"G"eography: Founded in 1531, this capital of a Mexican state bears the name of a province of Spain?
Guadalajara
CENTRAL AMERICA: The city of Quetzaltenango in this nation is home to a large population of K'iche' people?
Guatemala
ANIMATED TV: Darwin Watterson, an orange goldfish with arms & legs, is part of "The Amazing World of" this cat, also a Watterson?
Gumball
DIET: THIS EMPIRE'S REGENSBURG DIET OF 1663 WAS "THE EVERLASTING DIET"-- OFFICIALLY ENDING WITH THE END OF THE EMPIRE IN 1806?
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
FOOD: REVERSE 2 LETTERS IN WHAT A SOLDIER'S FAMILY IS SUPPOSED TO KEEP BURNING & YOU GET THESE TATERS (DON'T KEEP THEM BURNING)?
HOME FRIES
GREEK FOOD: MADE IN THE VYTINA REGION, THE FIR TYPE OF THIS SWEETENER DOES NOT CRYSTALLIZE?
HONEY
TV: ADORABLE NICKNAME OF YOUNG PAGEANT CONTESTANT ALANA THOMPSON?
HONEY BOO BOO
ANIMAL ROCK: LION ROCK LOOMS OVER THIS SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHINA?
HONG KONG
PRESIDENTIAL TICKET PARTNER: Tim Kaine?
Hillary Clinton
Around The Globe: In 1541 De Soto may have had a soak in what's now this city at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains?
Hot Springs, Arkansas
15-LETTER: IT'S THE PROPENSITY FOR ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS, WHETHER OUT OF CURIOSITY OR NOSINESS?
INQUISITIVENESS
COIN: A YOUNG ABRAHAM LINCOLN APPEARS ON THIS STATE'S QUARTER ALONG WITH 21 STARS, MARKING THE ORDER IT JOINED THE UNION?
ILLINOIS
INSIDE THE COUNTRY: IN THIS COUNTRY YOU CAN "DON" ITS BATIK CLOTH?
INDONESIA
ELEMENT: GREEK ARGOS, "NOT WORKING", LED TO THE NAME OF ARGON, KNOWN CHEMICALLY TO BE THIS 5-LETTER WORD, UNABLE TO REACT?
INERT (ACC: NOBLE)
ERAS & AGES: ALSO TALKING ABOUT A "WIRED PLANET", IN 1971 MARSHALL McLUHAN USED THE PHRASE THIS SYNONYM FOR KNOWLEDGE "AGE"?
INFORMATION AGE
LETTER-PERFECT: 16th C. SCHOLAR GIAN GIORGIO TRISSINO IS "THE FATHER OF" THIS LETTER THAT IS USED TO START THE SAVIOR'S NAME?
J
History: In 1976 a military junta seized power in Argentina not from Eva Peron but from this widow?
Isabel Perón
WORD ORIGINS: MEANING COBBLED TOGETHER, IT ONCE REFERRED TO A TEMPORARY FIX REPLACING A BROKEN MAST ON A SHIP?
JURY-RIG(GED)
AUTHOR: "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT", 1762 ADVICE ON HOW TO RECOVER LIBERTY?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
RELIGION: CITING HEBREWS 11 & 12:1, THIS RELIGIOUS GROUP CONSIDERS ABEL TO BE THE FIRST OF THEIR NAME, YOU SEE?
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS
THE END: OF THIS RACIST SYSTEM NAMED FOR A MINSTREL ROUTINE: THE FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS OF THE 1960s?
JIM CROW
PRESIDENT'S DOG: HE HAD A DOGNAMED GRITS HE LIKED TO SKRITCH?
JIMMY CARTER
IRISH-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME: IN 2013 THIS VICE PRESIDENT WAS INDUCTED?
JOE BIDEN
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A SERIES OF KIDS' BOOKS FEATURES THIS THIRD GRADER WITH A RHYMING NAME; HER LAST NAME ALSO HINTS AT HER MANY EMOTIONS?
JUDY MOODY
NUMERIC PHRASES: "12 GOOD MEN & TRUE" IS AN IDIOM DESCRIBING ONE OF THESE?
JURY
British Stuff: One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"?
James Clerk Maxwell
Not Wearing Pants: Here's this early 17th-century British monarch wearing a trim doublet jacket with matching skirt & hose?
James I
Disputed Territories: A winter capital of its maharajas, this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian union territory?
Jammu
Fiction: She says to Mr. Rochester, "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?"
Jane Eyre
Albums: "Follow God" & "Closed On Sunday" are tracks on this 2019 Kanye West album?
Jesus Is King
CALENDAR: JANUARY 29: FOLKS FROM OLATHE TO OVERLAND PARK CELEBRATE THIS STATE'S DAY?
KANSAS
TRANSPO: THIS SPORTY VOLKSWAGEN COUPE DEBUTED IN 1955?
KARMANN GHIA
MEMOIR: JACQUES PEPIN'S "THE APPRENTICE" IS SUBTITLED "MY LIFE IN" THIS ROOM?
KITCHEN
Silent "K": Machirology is the study of these, perhaps a boning one?
Knife
ARCHAEOLOGY: Before massive digging began, Sir Arthur Evans bought the site of this Minoan city on the island of Crete?
Knossos
Silent "K": The "Marble City" on the Tennessee River?
Knoxville
Songs In Movies: "Origami Birds" & "Monkey's Story" are tunes in this 2016 movie that references a musical instrument?
Kubo and the Two Strings
Music & Legend: Philip Glass wrote an opera to be played as the soundtrack of Jean Cocteau's movie of this girl-&-monster tale?
La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast)
MOVIES: "The Fools Who Dream" is the subtitle to "Audition", an Oscar-nominated song from this 2016 film?
La La Land
National Parks: A great place for boating, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is home to this second-largest manmade lake in the United States?
Lake Powell
Around The Globe: 3-letter name of the language you might study before a visit to Vientiane, where it is spoken?
Lao
Greatest Canadians: A career diplomat, he helped create NATO & the United Nations, won the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Suez Crisis in 1956 & as the prime minister of Canada, ushered in a little thing we call universal medicare?
Lester Pearson
America: In 1880 this was a gleam in the eye of William Sawyer & Albon Man; they filed a patent on it & got into years of struggle with Edison?
Light Bulb
IMPERIALISM: This "small" guy & the Imperials had R&B hits like "Tears On My Pillow" & "Goin' Out Of My Head"?
Little Anthony
Lit: Young Cedric charms his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, in this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett?
Little Lord Fauntleroy
MUSIC: "My Midnight Things" was a 2018 hit for this metal band big on horror stagecraft, but you won't get 40 whacks at its name?
Lizzy Borden
GRAPHIC NOVELS: Timber! This title group of campgirls, including Jo, Molly & Ripley, grapples with Yetis & selkies?
Lumberjanes
Chill: Chillax with your partner & enjoy a couple's one of these, maybe the Swedish type; it's just what you knead?
Massage
Music & Legend: A pas de deux based on music by Samuel Barber premiered in 1975 with Baryshnikov as Jason & Carla Fracci as her?
Medea
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES: "The Cradle of the Confederacy" & "The Birthplace of Civil Rights"?
Montgomery, Alabama
Grammy Song Of The Year: The only Beatles tune ever to win, this song is a woman's first name?
Michelle
Art: Before he hit the big time, El Greco was a painter of these small works often contained in a locket or "portrait box"?
Minature
"I" Writer: "Who Let the Dogs In?" is about the many outrageous politicians encountered by this witty Texas columnist?
Molly Ivins
GEOGRAPHY: In this state, not far from Mount Hood, there's a town that's Boring (that's its name, really)?
OREGON
NORTH: SOUTH BEND IS IN NORTHERN INDIANA; NORTH BEND, NEAR COOS BAY, IS IN THIS COASTAL STATE?
OREGON
Potpourrri: When she said she was leaving "Star Trek", MLK asked her to stay, saying, "through you, we see ourselves and what can be"?
Nichelle Nichols
GEOGRAPHY: MOST OF THIS 4-LETTER RIVER'S 530 MILES LIE IN POLAND?
ODER RIVER
FEMALE SINGER MONOGYMOUS: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CALLED THIS SINGER & ACTIVIST "THE QUEEN OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC"?
ODETTA (HOLMES)
"OFF": IF YOU'RE THIS, YOU MIGHT BE AWOL, MISTAKEN OR A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM FIRST?
OFF BASE
EARTH DAY: SEN. GAYLORD NELSON CREATED THE FIRST EARTH DAY IN 1970 AFTER SEEING A HUGE ONE OF THESE OFF THE COAST OF SANTA BARBARA, CAL.?
OIL SPILL
THEATER: IT WAS IN FACT NEW & CALLED THE ROYAL COBURG WHEN THIS THEATRE OPENED IN LONDON IN 1818?
OLD VIC
Potpourrri: This mother of Alexander the Great was in the cult of Dionysus & liked to sleep with snakes?
Olympias
Sequel: In 1847 Herman Melville published this sequel to "Typee" subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas"?
Omoo
EARTH DAY: IN 2016, OBAMA & XI JINPING MOVED TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE BY SIGNING AN AGREEMENT NAMED FOR THIS CITY?
PARIS
Snap: This singer decided to add the finger snaps to her hit song "Fever"?
Peggy Lee
Captain Says: The navigator factors in the effects of tide & current to answer the captain's request for the EP, estimated this?
Position
LOGGER: ALSO THE SURNAME OF A TWAIN CHARACTER, THIS TERM REFERS TO SOMEONE WHO PROCESSES WOOD?
SAWYER
War: The Great Narragansett War is another name for this king's war?
Phillip
Canada Province Symbols: Alberta picked the lodgepole this as its provincial tree, as it supplied ties for the railroad?
Pine
Stump Town: Poplar Bluff is in Missouri; this tree Bluff is in Arkansas?
Pine
Alps: The Alps are the source of many major rivers including the Rhine, the Rhone & this 405-mile waterway that flows to the Adriatic?
Po River
BORDERS GERMANY: Outdoorsy vacationers enjoy the thinly populated Baltic Lakes region in the northern part of this nation?
Poland
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: This country was partitioned in 1772, with Austria getting Auschwitz; it was back together in 1918?
Poland
Family Government: In 2016, Lech Kaczyński, president of this country, appointed his twin brother Jarosław prime minister?
Poland
Pop Culture People: In 1987, 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall played Harry, who hung with the Hendersons, & this film title guy who was not as friendly with Arnold?
Predator
Farewell: In 1969 the Department of the Treasury announced the end of currency above $100, including the $500 note, featuring this president?
President McKinley
NON-PEOPLE BIOGRAPHY: SUSAN ORLEAN'S BOOK ABOUT HIM TELLS HOW HE BECAME A '20s FILM STAR THOUGH HIS DARK COAT WAS DIFFICULT TO LIGHT?
RIN TIN TIN
WOMEN OLYMPIANS: In 2016 tennis ace Monica Puig beat 3 Grand Slam champions to win this U.S. territory's first-ever gold medal?
Puerto Rico
Nuclear Powers: In 2018 this world leader used videos of nuclear missiles raining on Florida to help his fourth re-election bid?
Putin
ARCHITECTURE TERMS: FROM THE LATIN FOR "FOUR CORNERS", IT'S A RECTANGULAR COURTYARD ENCLOSED BY BUILDINGS?
QUADRANGLE (ACC: QUAD)
PHYSICS: IRONICALLY, IT'S A METAPHOR MEANING A HUGE STEP FORWARD, BUT THIS 2-WORD PROCESS ONLY OCCURS ON A SUBATOMIC SCALE?
QUANTUM LEAP (ACC: QUANTUM JUMP)
PREGNANCY: ALSO KNOWN TO HIGHLANDERS ON FILM, IT'S THE TERM FOR A MOTHER'S FIRST PERCEPTIONS OF FETAL MOVEMENT?
QUICKENING
"Q": MADE FROM THE BARK OF A TREE, IT WAS ONCE THE ONLY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR MALARIA?
QUININE
HIGHEST CAPITAL CITY: BRASILIA, QUITO, SANTIAGO?
QUITO
King James Bible Birds: Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites?
Quail
MATH: MATH-MINDED COWS MIGHT GRAZE OVER THIS, THE SET OF ALL THE POSSIBLE VALUES THAT A FUNCTION CAN TAKE?
RANGE
ELEMENTS: USED TO MAKE LENSES, LUTETIUM IS ONE OF THESE "UNCOMMMON" METALS?
RARE EARTH METALS
LIT: In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this creature?
RAT
HOLE: 19th CENTURY COUNTY SUPERVISOR JULIAN CHAVEZ GOT THIS TYPE OF DEEP VALLEY NAMED FOR HIM IN LOS ANGELES?
RAVINE
ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD: Adjective for the chance of being struck by a meteor?
REMOTE
HEAVY SCIENCE: This planet is less dense than water--but it's still 95 times the mass of the Earth?
SATURN
Dancing With The Czars: 17th century czar Fyodor III of this dynasty was highly educated & reform minded but died young?
Romanov
TRAVEL: TELL NAPOLEON KING'S CROSS JUST SURPASSED THIS AS THE BUSIEST STOP ON LONDON'S TUBE?
WATERLOO STATION
Art: The Antwerp museum of this Flemish artist has a depiction of the collection of his friend Cornelis van der Geest?
Rubens
Germans: Vroom! He showed off his 25-HP, 4-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression engine on the cusp of 40 in 1897?
Rudolf Diesel
3-WORD CITY NAMES: 2 TOWNS NAMED THIS STARE AT EACH OTHER ACROSS THE RAPIDS OF THE ST. MARYS RIVER BETWEEN MICHIGAN & ONTARIO?
SAULT SAINTE MARIE
NOVEL VOCAB: A CUTTING TOOL & SOME BODY PARTS ARE IN THIS WORD FOR A SURGEON COINED BY DICKENS IN "THE PICKWICK PAPERS"?
SAWBONES
Lake's Land: Lake Ladoga, Lake Kubenskoye?
Russia
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES: "The Almond Capital of the World"?
Sacramento
HOTELS: ALBERT CHASE McARTHUR WORKED WITH HIS FORMER TEACHER FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TO DESIGN THIS ARIZONA HOTEL?
THE (ARIZONA) BILTMORE
past-iche: Want to see a passionate history professor? Watch this late comic work himself up to a scream in "Back to School"?
Sam Kinison
"C": He fought under King Henry of Navarre before joining a 1603 expedition to Canada?
Samuel de Champlain
"Sat": It's a kind of mandarin orange?
Satsuma
PRESIDENT: IN 1963 LBJ GAVE OUT THE FIRST OF THESE HONORS TO BE CALLED "PRESIDENTIAL", INCLUDING POSTHUMOUSLY TO HIS PREDECESSOR?
THE (PRESIDENTIAL) MEDAL OF FREEDOM
Augustus: William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, was known for his harsh suppression of the rebellion here in the 1740s?
Scotland
ENERGY: A STANDARD UNIT OF MEASURE OF ELECTRIC POWER, ONE IS EQUAL TO ONE JOULE PER SECOND?
WATT
CABINET JOB: 1975 & back for more in 2001: Donald Rumsfeld?
Secretary of Defense
CABINET JOB: A few names, if one isn't enough: Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell?
Secretary of the Interior
TV Green Thumb: On "The Handmaid's Tale", this wife of Commander Waterford has some pivotal scenes in her greenhouse?
Serena
"oy": About 50 miles north of Milwaukee, this Wisconsin city on Lake Michigan was established as a fur-trading post?
Sheboygan
British Stuff: This historic center for cutlery making is represented by the Blades in Premier League soccer?
Sheffield
Art: Theodore Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" from 1819 depicted the survivors of one of these?
Shipwreck
Sequel: Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977, it's a history of Middle-earth before "Lord of the Rings"?
Silmarillion
School Days: Adam Sandler's song "Lunch Lady Land" says, "yesterday's meatloaf is today's" this?
Sloppy Joes
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: A rugged mountain pass is a gap, & an especially rugged gap is a notch, like this one just east of Burlington?
Smugglers' Notch
Snap: Genus Antirrhinum, these flowers snap closed after they are pried open by bees?
Snap Dragons
Snap: This hyphenated tool company owns brands like Car-O-Liner & Kansas Jack?
Snap-on
Spurn: This adjective for something short, like a cute li'l nose, can also mean to spurn or ignore?
Snub
Apollo Missions: In 1975 an Apollo module was launched from Florida & this other craft from Kazakhstan for an orbital link-up that marked a rare period of detente in the space race?
Soyuz
ANIMATED CHARACTER: This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone"?
SpongeBob SquarePants
Alps: The Alps are often treeless at the tops, but forests below are filled with larch, beech & these conifers related to pines?
Spruce
Comedy: This Brit played a high school director in "Hamlet 2" & got blown to bits as a director in "Tropic Thunder"?
Steve Coogan
GEM: The Crystal Gems on this Cartoon Network show are Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet & Steven, who is half gem & the title character?
Steven Universe
Rhyming Phrases: THE PLANE SEEN HERE IS CALLED ONE OF THESE, DUE TO ITS ABILITY TO COLLECT WATER EFFICIENTLY?
Super Scooper
PACIFIC: ALSO CALLED THE SEA PARROT, THIS DIVING BIRD LIVES IN LARGE COLONIES IN THE NORTH PACIFIC?
THE (ALASKAN HORNED) PUFFIN (ACC: BOTTLE NOSE)
AUTHORS: THIS POET'S MEMORIAL PLAQUE IN SOMERSET, ENGLAND, CARRIES A QUOTATION FROM HIS "FOUR QUARTETS"?
T.S. ELLIOT
COUNTRY'S MUSIC: It's the principal percussion instrument of northern India?
TABLA
BOOKS: HERE AT "JEOPARDY!", A TOC IS A TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS; IN A BOOK, IT'S ONE OF THESE?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-OMETERS: SOME DASHBOARDS HAVE A SPEEDOMETER NEXT TO THIS INSTRUMENT AS ANALOG DIALS
TACHOMETER
RIVER: WE'D GUESS THAT HENRY THE NAVIGATOR SOMETIMES NAVIGATED THIS RIVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH HIS COUNTRY'S CAPITAL?
TAGUS
WHERE: I'M HERE ON THIS SPECTACULAR ISLAND, THE LARGEST IN ALL OF FRENCH POLYNESIA?
TAHITI
"TAKE": SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY GOOD DOES THIS SWEET 3-WORD PHRASE?
TAKES THE CAKE
COUNTER ATTACK: TO REPLY & OFFSET AN ENEMY'S HOSTILE MOVE?
TATTERS
Audible: Frances McDormand introduces us to a beloved character in this first book in a series by Armistead Maupin "Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time"?
Tales of the City
Comic Strips: This comic strip sportscaster has stayed current, covering Anthony Davis & Roger Goodell?
Tank McNamara =
Big Box Store: This superstore's Redcard can be a debit or a credit card?
Target
PHILOSOPHY: 18th C. ETHICS SAID ACTIONS OF VIRTUE ARE VIRTUOUS & ACTIONS OF VICE ARE THIS ADJECTIVE, WHICH TODAY WE USE FOR A SNARLING DOG?
VICIOUS
Europe: It's quite lovely along this river that flows through Porto, Portugal?
The Douro
Before, During, and After: Tootie, Blair, Jo & Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's Guide" book with boiled & baked Jewish rolls with all the fixins?
The Facts of Life, the Universe and Everything bagel
Knight's Line: The Red Cross Knight is "pricking on the plaine" in Book 1 of this long, long 1590 poem ("pricking" meant spurring a horse)?
The Faerie Queene
POPULAR PRODUCTS: THIS PRODUCT THAT BROUGHT VIRTUAL TOURISM INTO HOMES IN 1939 INTRODUCED ITS FIRST VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE IN 2015?
VIEW-MASTER
Literary Groups: In the 1600s the fun-loving Cavalier poets included John Suckling; John Milton was part of the group with this prudish name?
The Puritans
Bill: A 1973 act of Congress approved funding for a replacement dam at American Falls on this river in the Northwest?
The Snake
Worth: This venerable London gallery lost 2 Turners to theft, collected $38 million in insurance, then got the paintings back?
The Tate
CRAYOLA COLORS: FLOWER-NAMED PURPLES INCLUDE LILAC, ORCHID & THIS, THE STATE FLOWER OF ILLINOIS & RHODE ISLAND?
VIOLET
FUJI: MATCHING ITS NAME, WHICH MAY COME FROM ANCIENT AINU FOR "FIRE MOUNTAIN", MOUNT FUJI IS A COMPOSITE OF 3 OF THESE?
VOLCANOES
MEXICAN GEOGRAPHY: ALL TOPPING 17,000', MEXICO'S 3 HIGHEST PEAKS ARE THESE, & IT'S WHAT POPOCATEPETL SIGNIFIES?
VOLCANOES
30s SLANG: THE 1930s WERE A TIME OF POVERTY, & DOG SOUP MEANT A GLASS OF THIS?
WATER
Hot Stuff: This synonym for scorching is in the name of a zone that's also called the tropics?
Torrid
Purple Reign: AKA royal purple, the famed dye named for this Phoenician city was produced during the Bronze Age?
Tyre
In a victory (both legal and spiritual) for the indigenous Anangu people, rules are in place as of October 26, 2019, banning the climbing of what, with violators facing fines of up to A$630?
ULURU (AYERS ROCK)
ENGERY: THIS TYPE OF GASOLINE HAS HAD TETRAETHYL SUBSTANCES REMOVED FROM IT IN CONFORMANCE WITH REGULATIONS?
UNLEADED
15-LETTER: THROWING A PUNCH IS THIS TYPE OF BAD CONDUCT THAT'LL EARN YOU A 15-YARD PENALTY ON A FOOTBALL FIELD?
UNSPORTSMANLIKE
"PH": THIS VERB CAN MEAN TO SUPPORT THE DECISION OF A LOWER COURT IN AN APPEAL?
UPHOLD
REVERSIBLE COMPOUND WORDS: TO MAINTAIN A PRINCIPLE & A BANK ROBBERY USING GUNS?
UPHOLD & HOLDUP
UNIVERSITY: THE MAIN CAMPUS FOR MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE IS LOCATED IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OF THIS STATE?
VERMONT
World: "U" is this nation, "The" is not required; Kuchma was leader, but he's long retired?
Ukraine
TIME: TRUST BROTHER ALEX --IT'S THE PLURAL WORD FOR THE TIME OF EVENSONG PRAYERS, OR FOR THE PRAYERS THEMSELVES?
VESPERS
Newspapers: To the delight of crossword constructors, Eric with this last name founded a reader in 1984?
Utne
GEOGRAPHY: Within a former province of South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge?
VAAL
"V" SCIENCE: THE OUTERMOST REGION OF AN ATOM WHERE ELECTRON TRANSFERS OCCUR IS CALLED THIS "SHELL"?
VALENCE
TRAVEL: FOR A HUGE ANNUAL TOMATO FIGHT, TRAVEL TO THIS SPANISH MEDITERRANEAN PORT ALSO FAMOUS FOR OTHER PRODUCE, SWEET ORANGES?
VALENCIA
"UM": THE ANTI-ANXIETY DRUG DIAZEPAM WAS INTRODUCED IN 1963 UNDER THIS TRADE NAME?
VALIUM
AMERICAN HISTORY: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Museum of the American Revolution.) Figures bring to life some of the war's younger participants, like Joseph Plumb Martin, who first enlisted at 15 & described arriving at this Pennsylvania site in 1777 "to take up our winter quarters with no clothing, no provisions, and disheartened as need be"?
Valley Forge
Pop Culture Bookshelf: (Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man?
Van Allsburg
Toy: In 1939 Sawyer's Inc. introduced this, a slide stereoscope?
View-Master
NATURAL LANDMARKS: Outside Las Cruces you'll find this national monument created by gypsum deposits?
White Sands National Monument
Cybersecurity: This type of hacker referred to by a colorful bit of headwear helpfully tests computer systems for vulnerability?
Whitehat
Docs: Featuring new interviews with Ma Anand Sheela, this Netflix docuseries tells of the rise & fall of a utopian commune in Oregon?
Wild Wild Country
Philosophers: This double-first-name philosopher born in 1842 said that the value of a concept is in its practical consequences?
William James
TIME FOR TIME: As a unit of time, an eon generally lasts for this many years?
a billion
BIT OF LIT: Wallace Stevens titled a poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at" this bird?
a blackbird
Horses: This gait is faster than a trot but slower than a gallop?
a canter
CAREER TRACK: C.P.A. is the abbreviation for this job that can be a very taxing profession in April?
a certified public accountant
"iq": "Invasion of the Boy Snatchers" is a book in a young adult series named for this type of social group?
a clique
"aint": A statement of dissatisfaction; Shakespeare wrote a poem called "A Lover's" one about a wronged woman?
a complaint
Word Origins: This word for any pose in hatha yoga is from the Sanskrit?
asana
GAP: These nerve fibers that carry impulses from neurons have gaps discovered by Ranvier in 1878?
axons
a la: The origin of the phrase a la boulangère, for a dish cooked this way, honors the woman who did the cooking?
baked
Add A Vowel: An eisteddfod winner adds a vowel & becomes a long, flat piece of pine?
bard & board
New Deal: 1935's Wagner Act established the National Labor Relations Board & strengthened collective this?
bargaining
Words: This rhyming term for an important person comes from the high hairpieces men of distinction once wore?
bigwig
Amethyst: Amethysts are traditionally used in the ecclesiastical ring of this head of a Catholic diocese?
bishop
Prison Nicknames: 250 years before it meant an astronomical singularity, this 2-word term was slang for a prison?
black hole
Modern Family: Starbucks uses it to describe a drink such as Frappuccino; in families, it describes one with stepsiblings living together?
blended
80's Hits: It completes Billy Ocean's 1988 title request &/or demand, "Get Outta My Dreams..."?
"Get Into My Car"
Movie Quotes: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: "You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks!...so you get nothing! You lose!" this 3-word farewell?
"Good day, sir!"
Purple Reign: It's the 4-letter title of the Deep Purple Top 10 hit with that "na-na-na-na" part?
"Hush"
WWII: IN 1943 MILLIONS OF MATCHBOOKS WERE DISTRIBUTED IN THE PHILIPPINES WITH THIS 3-WORD QUOTE TO BOOST MORALE?
"I SHALL RETURN"
SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE: "Romeo and Juliet": "It is the ____, and Juliet is the ____"?
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
SHOW TUNES: AN EPISODE OF NBC's "SMASH" INCLUDED "ANOTHER OP'NIN' ANOTHER SHOW" FROM THIS MUSICAL BASED ON "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"?
"KISS ME KATE"
THEATER: ACT 1 OF THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EUGENE O'NEILL DRAMA BEGINS AT 8:30 A.M; ACT 4 BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT?
"LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT"
ART FACTS: "The Great Wave" by the Japanese artist Hokusai inspired this 1905 piece of music by Claude Debussy?
"La Mer"
BEATLES SONG LYRICS: "Filling in a ticket in her little white book"?
"Lovely Rita"
STAGE: THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS OPERA LOVES A MAN WHO SERVES IN THE U.S. NAVY ON THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN?
"MADAME BUTTERFLY" (ACC: MADAMA BUTTERFLY)
TV SHOW COUPLE: DETECTIVES DAVID & MADDIE FOUND CLUES & ROMANCE ON THIS SERIES?
"MOONLIGHTING"
DICKENS DEATH: SMIKE SUCCUMBS TO TUBERCULOSIS IN THIS NOVEL?
"NICHOLAS NICKLEBY"
LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: In this novel by Cormac McCarthy, a man finds $2 million in cash?
"No Country for Old Men"
"ok": A 2019 New York Times article says this 2-word phrase "marks the end of friendly generational relations"?
"Ok Boomer"
WOMEN IN SONG: IN 2018 THE WOMAN WHO WAS IMMORTALIZED IN THIS 1958 HIT BY SCHOOLMATE BUDDY HOLLY PASSED AWAY?
"PEGGY SUE"
MUSICAL: WE'LL NEED A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMPANY TO GET A ROUSING PERFORMANCE OF "MASQUERADE" FROM THIS ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER SHOW?
"PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"
DOUBLE TALK: WITH MUSIC & LYRICS BY BURT BACHARACH & HAL DAVID, THIS BROADWAY SHOW FEATURES THE SONG "I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN"?
"PROMISES, PROMISES"
PLAY'S LAST LINES: BY SHAW: "PICKERING! NONSENSE! SHE'S GOING TO MARRY FREDDY! HA HA! FREDDY! FREDDY! HA HA HA HA HA"?
"PYGMALION"
DOUBLE TALK: THIS BOWIE SONG THAT SAYS "YOU'VE TORN YOUR DRESS" & "YOUR FACE IS A MESS" RANKS AS ONE OF THE ALL-TIME BEST GLAM ROCK SONGS?
"REBEL REBEL"
SONG DAY: SAM COOKE FACED "ANOTHER" ONE?
"SATURDAY NIGHT"
TV GOVERNMENT: First Lady Mellie Grant was set to only appear in 3 episodes of season 1 of this drama, but by the end of season 6, was president!?
"SCANDAL"
MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE: IN 1964 BURT LANCASTER PLAYED A GENERAL ATTEMPTING A MILITARY TAKEOVER OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THIS FILM?
"SEVEN DAYS IN MAY"
MOVIES: "A GIRL... LIKES ANOTHER GIRL'S GUY & FEELS NOBODY CARES ABOUT HER BIRTHDAY"?
"SIXTEEN CANDLES"
MUSICAL STATE SYMBOLS: FLORIDA'S STATE SONG IS THIS STEPHEN FOSTER SONG SUBTITLED "OLD FOLKS AT HOME"?
"SWANEE RIVER"
YEAR'S BIG SONG: 1976: You'd think that people would've had enough of this Wings tune?
"Silly Love Songs"
Grammy Song Of The Year: This Bruce Springsteen tune from a Tom Hanks film won Grammy Song of the Year & the Oscar for Best Original Song?
"Streets Of Philadelphia"
JAZZ CLASSICS: IN ONE ACCOUNT, THIS SONG BEGAN AS DIRECTIONS WRITTEN OUT FOR COMPOSER BILLY STRAYHORN TO DUKE ELLINGTON'S HOME IN HARLEM?
"TAKE THE A TRAIN"
DOUBLE TALK: THIS HIT SONG IN SPANISH & ENGLISH BY DJ SNAKE FEATURES OZUNA, CARDI B & SELENA GOMEZ?
"TAKI TAKI"
NONFICTION: ANNIE GLENN & BETTY GRISSOM ARE AMONG THE WOMEN WHO ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS BESTSELLER BY LILY KOPPEL?
"THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB"
"EX": IT'S THE TITLE OF ALEXANDRE DECAMPS' 1837 WORK, WHICH USED MONKEYS TO SATIRIZE THOSE WHO OPINE ON ART?
"THE EXPERTS"
JOURNALIST: EMILE GAUVREAU HID A MURDERER IN HIS OFFICE FOR A SCOOP, LIKE IN THIS PLAY & MOVIE WHOSE TITLE IS THE PLACE WHERE THE HEADLINES GO?
"THE FRONT PAGE"
WORLD FULL OF IDIOMS: THE PORTUGUESE EQUIVALENT OF THIS COLORFUL PROVERB IS "YOUR NEIGHBOR'S CHICKEN IS ALWAYS FATTER"?
"THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER (ON THE OTHER SIDE...)"
MUSIC: THE ROLE OF THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT IN THIS OPERA WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR MOZART'S SISTER-IN-LAW?
"THE MAGIC FLUTE"
VAN GOGH: VAN GOGH CONSIDERED THIS PAINTING OF 5 PEASANTS DINING ON A MEAGER MEAL "THE BEST THING I DID"?
"THE POTATO EATERS"
"OF" TV: IN THIS SHOW THAT LAUNCHED A FRANCHISE, THE TITLE LADIES LIVE IN PLACES LIKE LADERA RANCH & DANA POINT, CALIF.?
"THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY"
WINTER FELL: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1623, THIS PLAY OPENS WITH THE KINGS OF SICILIA & BOHEMIA?
"THE WINTER'S TALE"
"TAKE": "THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, THE WAY YOU SIP YOUR TEA, THE MEM'RY OF ALL THAT--NO, NO!" THIS SONG TITLE?
"THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME"
SONG DAY: IN ITS LYRICS, THIS DAVID BOWIE SONG TITLE FOLLOWS "MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY BORN I WAS"?
"THURSDAY'S CHILD"
CLASSICS: Aesop's moral to this insect fable: "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow"?
"The Ant and the Grasshopper"
Bartlett's Quotes: "Bartlett's" cites this Monty Python song: "I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers"?
"The Lumberjack Song"
Short Story: W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a luck rabbit's foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad?
"The Monkey's Paw"
Emmy: Hugh Laurie's 0 for 10 Emmy score includes noms for "House" & this AMC series about arms dealers?
"The Night Manager"
NONFICTION: IT'S LAURA HILLENBRAND'S BESTSELLER ABOUT "AN OLYMPIAN'S JOURNEY FROM AIRMAN TO CAST-AWAY TO CAPTIVE"?
"UNBROKEN"
HOT 100 SINGLES: THIS HIT BEGINS, "THIS HIT, THAT ICE COLD, MICHELLE PFEIFFER, THAT WHITE GOLD"?
"UPTOWN FUNK!"
SCHWARTZ: LYRICIST & COMPOSER STEPHEN SCHWARTZ WROTE MUSICALS LIKE "PIPPIN", "GODSPELL" & THIS ONE FEATURING THE SONG "THE WIZARD AND I"?
"WICKED"
"home": In 2019 Solange released this album that was full of nostalgia of her native Houston?
"When I Get Home"
Short Story: A Dostoyevsky story is titled these, the daylit evenings of St. Petersburg in summertime?
"White Nights"
Funeral Oration: General Henry Lee's funeral oration for George Washington contains the line "First in war, first in peace, & first" here?
"first in the hearts of his countrymen"
AMERICAN GODS: IN THE VOODOO RELIGION OF HAITI, ONE OF THE BETTER KNOWN DEITIES IS KNOWN AS "BARON" THIS FRENCH WORD FOR SATURDAY?
(BARON) SAMEDI
Science: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) Around 1912 this man then working in Manchester, England was the leading expert on nuclear physics; in fact he was the only expert on it, since he'd discovered the atomic nucleus & established the nuclear model of the atom?
(Ernest) Rutherford
Arts: In 1605 this Brit wrote "Advancement of Learning"; the "Screaming Popes" is a series by a British artist of the same name?
(Francis) Bacon
BIT OF LIT: "Only an Irish Boy" is one of his rags-to-riches novels?
(Horatio) Alger
"Berg": "The Good Earth", released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits?
(Irving) Thalberg
Bachelor: When fiancee Ann Coleman died soon after breaking off their engagement in 1819, this man returned to politics & never married?
(James) Buchanan
Pop Culture People: Feeling regenerated in "Doctor Who", this actress confessed, "Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman"?
(Jodie) Whittaker
Germans: In 1725, 3 years after Book I of the "Well-Tempered Clavier", this 4-decades-old man composed his "Easter Oratorio"?
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
GRAPHIC: A GOLDEN AGE OF POSTER ART WAS IN 1890s FRANCE, THE ERA CALLED THIS, FRENCH FOR "BEAUTIFUL AGE"?
(LA) BELLE EPOQUE
LAKES: THOSE IMAGINATIVE CANADIANS! OKANAGAN LAKE'S OGOPOGO & LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG'S MEMPHRE ARE THESE?
(LAKE) MONSTERS (ACC: SERPENTS, CREATURES)
Supreme Court Clerks: One angle on this Fox News host--she clerked for Clarence Thomas?
(Laura) Ingraham
HEAD: WHILE IT MAY BE IMPORTANT FOR SPEECH, THE TRUE FUNCTION OF THIS DANGLY LOBE AT THE BACK OF THE THROAT IS UNKNOWN?
(PALATINE) UVULA
COURT: THE CATO INSTITUTE HELPED CONVINCE SCOTUS TO RULE AGAINST THESE ORGANIZATIONS IN 2018's JANUS v. AFSCME?
(PUBLIC SECTOR) (LABOR) UNIONS
1980s Fads: I'm so sure I had, like, so many pieces on my wall of the work of this '80s artist, a lot like the one seen here (Moonbeam City Style Art)?
(Patrick) Nagel
NIXON SAID IT: In a 1960 debate Nixon said this man "has asked for my advice... Sometimes my advice has been taken. Sometimes it has not"?
(President) Dwight Eisenhower
Short Story: "Cathedral" is the title story of a 1983 collection by this American realist & onetime janitor?
(Raymond) Carver
FILL IN DATES: Elizabeth I: September 7, 1533 - March 24, ____?
1603
Name The Decade: The Salem witch trials?
1690s
ERAS & AGES: IN A BOOK TITLE BY HISTORIAN ERIC HOBSBAWM, THE AGE OF REVOLUTION BEGAN IN THIS YEAR OF BIG DOINGS IN FRANCE ?
1789
FILL IN DATES: Anne Frank: June 12, 1929 - the early part of this year?
1945
YEAR: SPUTNIK 1 LAUNCHES THE SPACE RACE?
1957
Modern Family: Under the Affordable Care Act, dependent children are covered by mom or dad's health insurance until they reach this age?
26
EMERGENCY GENERATOR: ROMAN I-I-I PLUS WAKEUP CLOCK PLUS CONFLAGRATION?
3 ALARM FIRE
VOWEL: I'LL SELL YOU 2 VOWELS-- THIS NETWORK WITH SHOWS LIKE "BORN THIS WAY" & "INTERVENTION"?
A&E
DNA Test: DNA is composed of nucleotides, which contain 4 nitrogenous bases represented by these 4 letters?
A, C, G & T
ORDER: AN ANTEATER IS IN THE ORDER PILOSA; THIS SIMILAR-LOOKING ANIMAL IS IN THE ORDER TUBULIDENTATA?
AARDVARK
TRUE CRIME: "IN ALL-AMERICAN MURDER", JAMES PATTERSON TURNED TO THE CASE OF THIS CONVICTED NFL PLAYER WHO TOOK HIS OWN LIFE IN PRISON?
AARON HERNANDEZ
Plasma: To make a Red Cross plasma donation, it's great if you have this, the fourth major blood group discovered?
AB
ROCK: "SOS" IS A PALINDROMIC HIT BY THIS PALINDROMIC GROUP INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME?
ABBA
SPANISH CIVIL WAR: SOME 800 AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS DIED FIGHTING FOR THE LOYALISTS, MANY AS PART OF A BATTALION NAMED FOR THIS 19th C. PRESIDENT?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PRISON: THIS INFAMOUS PRISON COMPLEX WAS BUILT IN IRAQ BY A BRITISH COMPANY IN THE 1960s?
ABU GHRAIB
"AD": UNWILLING TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, YOU'RE THIS: BREAK THE WORD IN 2 & YOU'RE ALSO THE NAME OF AN '80s ROCKER?
ADAMANT
"AD": YOUR VOICE IS QUITE THIS SYNONYM FOR "NASAL", REFERRING TO TISSUES IN THE UPPER PART OF THE PHARYNX?
ADENOIDAL
19TH CENTURY NAMES: IN 1854 HE BECAME OFFICIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER TO EMPEROR NAPOLEON III; AN INSTRUMENT HE INVENTED IS NAMED FOR HIM?
ADOLPHE SAX
PREGNANCY: IF YOU WERE HAVING A BABY AT 35 OR OLDER, IT USED TO BE CALLED A GERIATRIC PREGNANCY; NOW THE AMA PREFERS THIS, AMA FOR SHORT?
ADVANCED MATERNAL AGE
SPRING: FLOWERS NEWLY IN BLOOM INCLUDE THIS ONE, AGGIE FOR SHORT?
AGAPANTHUS
ON THE MOVE: IN THE 1930s MAPS & LITTLE WEIGHTS CALLED "SHRIMP BOATS" WERE USED BY THE FIRST EN-ROUTE CENTERS FOR ATC, SHORT FOR THIS?
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
GOLD: IN AN OPERA THIS DWARF MAKES A RING FROM THE GOLD OF THE RHINE & ENSLAVES THE NIBELUNGEN?
ALBERICH
CROSSWORD: Away from the wind (4)?
ALEE
FROM GERMAN: THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN RANGE PLUS A WORD FOR A LONG POLE COMBINE IN THIS WORD FOR A CLIMBER'S STAFF?
ALPENSTOCK
WOMEN OF THE WORLD: THIS HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER & WIFE OF A FAMOUS ACTOR WAS BORN IN BEIRUT WITH THE LAST NAME ALAMUDDIN?
AMAL (CLOONEY OR ALAMUDDIN)
MYTH: PAN GU, IN MYTH THE 1st CHINESE MAN, CRACKS A GIANT ONE OF THESE FROM INSIDE & HOLDS UP THE SKY TO PROTECT THE EARTH?
AN EGG
PALE AIL: MALARIAL & IRON DEFICIENCY ARE 2 TYPES OF THIS CONDITION THAT CAN LEAD TO PALENESS?
ANEMIA
BAR: THIS BRAND OF BITTERS WAS ORIGINALLY MADE IN VENEZUELA AS A MEDICINE?
ANGOSTURA (BITTERS)
BALLET: PART OF THE STRAVINSKY/BALANCHINE "GREEK TRILOGY", THE BALLET ABOUT THIS SON OF ZEUS ALSO FEATURES THE MUSES?
APOLLO
MOROCCO: DARIJA IS THE FORM OF THIS LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN MOROCCO?
ARABIC
PRONOUN LOSS: THIS ADJECTIVE FOR CROP-FRIENDLY SOIL IS WHAT'S LEFT WHEN YOU DROP "WE" FROM THE FRONT OF AN ADJECTIVE ABOUT CLOTHES?
ARABLE
HOLIDAYS: THIS DAY CREATED IN THE U.S. IN 1872 IS OBSERVED IN FLORIDA & LOUISIANA IN JANUARY, BUT MAINE & ALASKA HOLD IT IN MAY?
ARBOR DAY
VOCAB: CHANGE A LETTER IN "ARCADE" TO GET THIS WORD MEANING MYSTERIOUS OR OBSCURE?
ARCANE
ARCHITECTURE TERMS: THE HORSESHOE OR KEYHOLE TYPE OF THIS CURVED SPAN ABOVE AN OPENING IS ASSOCIATED WITH ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE?
ARCH
PARTS OF THE WHOLE: SHAFT, FLETCHING, NOCK?
ARROW
TELL: IN THE TRADITIONAL WILLIAM TELL STORY, THIS IS THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE CRUEL GOVERNOR GESSLER?
ARROW (IN THE HEART)
LESSER KNOWN NAMES: A MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS PEALE FAMILY, SARAH PEALE HAS BEEN CALLED "AMERICA'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL WOMAN" ONE OF THESE?
ARTIST
SHAPE: AS AN ADJECTIVE, THIS WORD MEANS STAR-SHAPED; AS A NOUN, IT'S A SPACE ROCK?
ASTEROID
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The first attempt to break up this communications company was in 1949; it finally happened in the '80s?
AT & T
SHORT BATTLE: LYSANDER'S SURPRISE ATTACK AT AEGOSPOTAMI, DESTROYING THIS CITY-STATE'S FLEET, HELPED DECIDE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR?
ATHENS
"PORTER": THIS TERM FOR A JOCKSTRAP COULD ALSO APPLY TO ANY FAN OF SPORTS?
ATHLETIC SUPPORTER
20TH CENTURY LIT CHARACTERS: HIS FIRST NAME REFERS TO THE ANCIENT DISTRICT IN WHICH YOU'D FIND THE GREEK CAPITAL; HIS SURNAME IS A BIRD?
ATTICUS FINCH
GEOGRAPHY: KINGS CANYON IN THIS COUNTRY'S NORTHERN TERRITORY OFFERS SOME SPECTACULAR VIEWS?
AUSTRALIA
IGNORE HISTORY: In World War I Italy attacked this northeast neighbor in 12--yes, 12--battles of the Isonzo River & got whupped repeatedly?
AUSTRIA
NATIONAL ANTHEMS: Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis?
AUSTRIA
BUSINESS: THIS BEAUTY BRAND KNOWN FOR OATMEAL SKIN TREATMENT GETS ITS NAME FROM THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR OATS?
AVEENO
SPINACH: GET SPINACH BECAUSE IT'S HIGH IN THE BETA-CAROTENE FORM OF THIS VITAMIN AKA RETINOL?
A
30s SLANG: IN THE 1930s A CANARY REFERRED TO A FEMALE ONE OF THESE- MILDRED BAILEY, PERHAPS?
A (JAZZ OR BLUES) SINGER (ACC: VOCALIST)
MEASURE: IF THE EUROPEAN RECIPE TELLS YOU TO ADD 250 MILLILITERS OF MILK, DON'T WORRY--IT'S JUST A BIT MORE THAN A SINGLE ONE OF THESE?
A CUP
BAD SAILOR: You don't need to howl during the naval watches 4-6 & 6-8, named for this animal--it's just a figure of speech?
A DOG
WORLD LEADERS 1919: BILLY HUGHES SPENT WWI ADVOCATING THIS WARTIME PRACTICE, WHICH SPLIT AUSTRALIA AS IT LATER DID THE U.S. IN THE 1960s?
A DRAFT
30s SLANG: THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SLANG WORDS FOR THIS WEAPON, INCLUDING A CONVINCER & A ROSCOE?
A GUN
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: Every 30 seconds 2 guys laid down a 500- to 700-lb. rail; then came men with sledgehammers driving these, 10 to each rail?
A SPIKE
Not Wearing Pants: The name of this ancient garment from a single piece of cloth is related to the Latin word for "to cover"?
A Toga
PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS: This breed takes its name from a valley along the River Aire in Yorkshire, England?
Airedale Terrier
Music & Legend: "Asturias" by this grade-"A" Spanish composer has the subtitle "Leyenda", meaning "legend"?
Albéniz
David Muir Covers The World: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I reported on the hunt for ISIS fighters in the desert of this westernmost province of Iraq on the border with Syria?
Anbar Province
Venice: During one season, the winter o 1678, this Baroque music master was born in Venice?
Antonio Vivaldi
Bible: Luke 6:13: Jesus "called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named" these?
Apostles
Greece: This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it's a setting for Virgil's shepherd poems the "Eclogues"?
Arcadia
Stump Town: A 3-letter tree is in the name of this Oregon city known for a Shakespeare festival?
Ashland
ACTRESS: On "The Handmaid's Tale", Ann Dowd plays this imposing & authoritarian aunt?
Aunt Lydia
ARCHAEOLOGY: UNCOVERED IN 1928 BY A PEASANT'S PLOW, THE CITY OF UGARIT IN SYRIA ONCE THRIVED, WITH A BIG TEMPLE TO THIS FERTILITY GOD?
BAAL (ACC: DAGAN, EL)
"B.B.": STOVE PLACEMENT OF LOWER PRIORITY ITEMS?
BACK BURNER
WORD ORIGINS: THIS 8-LETTER WORD FOR A REACTION AGAINST A TREND COMES FROM AN ENGINEERING TERM FOR A JOLT CAUSED BY A GAP IN MACHINE PARTS?
BACKLASH
VOCAB: AS THE NAME INDICATES, THIS WORD FOR THE TILING BEHIND THE STOVE IS TO PROTECT THE WALL FROM LIQUIDS?
BACKSPLASH
MUSICAL: "KISMET" IS SET IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL, SO WE'LL NEED PEOPLE TO PLAY MOSQUE WORSHIPPERS?
BAGHDAD
PARTS OF THE WHOLE: CHANTER, DRONES, A TARTAN SACK?
BAGPIPES
NOUNS ALSO VERBS: SOMETHING YOU INFLATE, OR TO GAIN WEIGHT AS IF YOU'VE BEEN INFLATED?
BALLOON
FRUIT: GARDENER JOHN PAXTON CULTIVATED THE MOST POPULAR VARIETY OF THIS FRUIT & NAMED IT FOR HIS EMPLOYER, WILLIAM CAVENDISH?
BANANA
MUSEUM: ON CALIFORNIA'S SALTON SEA IS THE "MOST APEELING DESTINATION ON THE PLANET", A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THIS FRUIT?
BANANA
GIRL GROUPS: KEREN WOODWARD, SARA DALLIN & SIOBHAN FAHEY, WHO WERE REALLY SAYIN' SOMETHIN' IN THE 1980s & STILL IN THE 20-TEENS?
BANANARAMA
ISLAND: A street where Rihanna grew up in this island nation was named in her honor?
BARBADOS
MIDDLE: AFTER SOME BACK & FORTH, LET'S STIPULATE THAT IT'S TRADITIONALLY NO. 3 IN KUBLER-ROSS' 5 STAGES OF GRIEF?
BARGAINING
MISC: MERCURY & ANEROID ARE THE 2 MAIN TYPES OF THIS METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT?
BAROMETER
MATH: IT'S THE NUMBER OF DISTINCT DIGITS THAT ARE USED TO REPRESENT NUMBERS IN A PARTICULAR NUMBER SYSTEM; YOU PROBABLY USE 10?
BASE (ACC: RADIX)
BOB'S BURGERS: "JINGLE ____ ____ BURGER"; A "MUSICAL" VEGGIE?
BELL PEPPER
CLOTHES: Clothes will drape softly when cut "on the" this synonym for diagonal or slant?
BIAS
LIVER: EACH DAY YOUR LIVER SECRETES ABOUT A QUART OF THIS LIQUID THAT HELPS YOU DIGEST FATS?
BILE
AUTO BIOS: THE BEGINNINGS OF NASCAR ARE CHRONICLED IN "BIG BILL" ABOUT THIS MAN?
BILL FRANCE
SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY: THE KILLDEER?
BIRD
FLOWERS: CRANE FLOWER IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THIS AVIAN FLOWER POPULAR IN HAWAII, CALIFORNIA & FLORIDA?
BIRD OF PARADISE
Before & After: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" singer who takes up a pen & creates "The Mayor of Casterbridge"?
BJ Thomas Hardy
OAKLAND: THIS 2018 SUPERHERO FILM BEGINS & ENDS IN OAKLAND?
BLACK PANTHER
ARCHAEOLOGY: In 2018 it was announced that the world's oldest intact shipwreck was found off the coast of Bulgaria, at the bottom of this sea?
BLACK SEA
COOKING: TYPE OF FISH DISH MADE BY A CAJUN METHOD INCORPORATING HIGH HEAT, RESULTING IN A CHARRED CRUST?
BLACKENED
"B.B.": THIS VERSATILE ITEM WAS FIRST ON GQ's LIST OF THE "5 RESPECTABLE THINGS EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE IN HIS WARDROBE"?
BLUE BLAZER
JOURNALIST: NYU's J-SCHOOL CHOSE THE 100 OUTSTANDING U.S. JOURNALISTS OF THE LAST 100 YEARS; THIS POST-MAN IS ALPHABETICALLY LAST?
BOB WOODWARD
"B.B.": RECEIVING A MANUSCRIPT FROM A THEN-UNKNOWN JULIA CHILD, EDITOR JUDITH JONES TESTED IT BY COOKING THE RECIPE FOR THIS STEW?
BOEUF BOURGUIGNON (ACC: BEEF BURGUNDY)
WHAT'S MISSPELLED; "STANKONIA" WAS A HIT ALBUM FOR ANDRE 3000 & BIG BOY OF THE GROUP OUTKAST?
BOI
CLOTHES: This cropped jacket gets is name from a Spanish dance & the music for that dance?
BOLERO
BODY LANGUAGE: "____ OF CONTENTION"?
BONE
EUROPEAN CITIES: FOUNDED, ACCORDING TO TRADITION, IN 11 B.C., THIS FORMER CAPITAL LIES ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN PARIS & BERLIN?
BONN
MONKEY: It's not a rhesus; it's the monkey named for this type of headwear women choose for Easter?
BONNET
WATER: BUILT IN THE 1970s, A BRIDGE OVER THIS STRAIT CONNECTS THE ASIAN & EUROPEAN SECTIONS OF ISTANBUL?
BOSPHORUS
TV CITIES: LAW & JUSTICE WITH "THE PRACTICE" & "RIZZOLI & ISLES"?
BOSTON
PARK: BREWER FOUNTAIN, A 22-FOOT-TALL BRONZE MASTERPIECE, STANDS IN THIS OLDEST U.S. PUBLIC PARK?
BOSTON COMMON
HAIRSTYLES: FROM THE FRENCH FOR "TO SWELL", THIS '60s HAIR STYLE USED TEASING TO GIVE A PUFFED-OUT LOOK?
BOUFFANT
COLLEGE TOWNS: THE MAIN CAMPUS FOR MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY IS IN THIS CITY THAT'S NAMED FOR A WAGON MASTER & TRAIL GUIDE?
BOZEMAN
5, 5: IT'S THE SMART-SOUNDING NAME FOR A GROUP OF EXPERTS WHO SERVE UNOFFICIALLY AS ADVISERS; FDR HAD HIS OWN?
BRAIN TRUST
PHILOSOPHY: IN INDIAN THOUGHT PRANA IS VITAL ENERGY; THE WORD IS SANSKRIT FOR THIS BODY FUNCTION, A KEY PART OF YOGA EXERCISES?
BREATH
US CITIES: P.T. BARNUM WAS ONCE THE MAYOR OF THIS MOST POPULOUS CONNECTICUT CITY?
BRIDGEPORT
"B" DOG: FORMERLY CALLED SPANIELS, THE HUNTING DOGS NAMED FOR THIS NORTHWEST FRENCH REGION MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLE SMALL SETTERS?
BRITTANY
BROOKLYN: THE EDIFICE BUILT AS BROOKLYN CITY HALL IS NOW CALLED THIS, REFLECTING BROOKLYN'S STATUS WITHIN NEW YORK CITY?
BROOKLYN) BOROUGH HALL
VOCAB: "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" SAYS THE HUE OF THIS BUILDING MATERIAL "COATED NEW YORK LIKE A COLD CHOCOLATE SAUCE"?
BROWNSTONE
NAME THE GAME: Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name?
Bananagrams
APP: This app: "Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it"?
Bandcamp
Words Within Words: Old Mother Hubbard found that the cupboard was this, not its kangaroo word "barren"?
Bare
BUSINESS PAIRS: This ice cream chain is named for brothers-in-law Burt & Irv?
Baskin-Robbins
FOOTWEAR BRANDS: This company was commissioned to make a Norwegian style shoe, hence its Weejuns?
Bass
TV Green Thumb: The plants on either side of the host & guests on this web series, also a 2019 TV movie, are the Boston, or sword, variety?
Between Two Ferns
History: In 1967 part of Nigeria broke off & declared its independence as this land?
Biafra
Mode Of Transport: "On" one of these "built for 2", as in a song?
Bicycle
Comic Strips: Lincoln Peirce created this character, who's actually just 4 1/2 feet tall?
Big Nate
TEENS ON TV: Madison Hu plays Frankie & Olivia Rodrigo is Paige on this Disney Channel show with a "AA" rating?
Bizaardvark
AMERICAN HISTORY: IN JULY 1812 U.S. GENERAL WILLIAM HULL LAUNCHED AN INVASION OF THIS COUNTRY & WAS IGNOMINIOUSLY REPULSED?
CANADA
THE DARK: SHAKESPEARE'S PORTIA SAYS, "HOW FAR THAT LITTLE" THIS "THROWS HIS BEAMS! SO SHINES A GOOD DEED IN A NAUGHTY WORLD"?
CANDLE
PIN: IT'S A NEAR-CYLINDRICAL BOWLING PIN THAT CAN BE SET UP ON EITHER END, & YEAH, FOLKS SURE CAN GET LIT WHILE PLAYING?
CANDLEPIN
IG NOBEL PRIZE: WORK ON THE CALORIC BENEFITS OF THIS ANTHROPOPHAGIC DIET DURING THE PALEOLITHIC ATE UP THE NUTRITION PRIZE?
CANNIBALISM
EPIC: SHELLEY'S EPIC POEM "QUEEN MAB" IS SO SPRAWLING THAT IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO 9 OF THESE, FROM THE LATIN FOR "SING"?
CANTOS
ELEMENT: THIS ELEMENT GETS ITS NAME FROM THE LATIN FOR "CHARCOAL"?
CARBON
HOLIDAY: THIS PRE-LENTEN FESTIVAL OF MERRYMAKING TYPICALLY ENDS WITH SHROVE TUESDAY OR MARDI GRAS?
CARNIVAL
TALL: THIS 6'5" FRENCH PRESIDENT WAS NICKNAMED "THE BIG ASPARAGUS"?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
KINGS & QUEENS: A 2014 play was titled this, the expected name & number of the current heir to the British throne?
CHARLES III
I YIELD TO...: THIS AUTOMAKER'S SUBURBAN, BECAUSE I'M IN A MINI & WON'T GET INTO A MERGE BATTLE WITH A 5,800-POUND SUV?
CHEVROLET
TOOL WORD: 6-LETTER VERB MEANING TO CHEAT OR SWINDLE SOMEONE OUT OF SOMETHING?
CHISEL
AMERICAN INGENUITY: IN COLONIAL AMERICA PRACTICALLY EVERY HOMESTEAD HAD THIS DEVICE TO TURN APPLES INTO THE NATION'S DRINK OF CHOICE...PER YEAR?
CIDER PRESS
BALLOONS: The U.S. Balloon Corps was established during this war & observed enemy movements in support of the Army of the Potomac?
CIVIL WAR
MOLLUSKS: CHERRYSTONES & LITTLENECKS ARE HARD-SHELL TYPES OF THESE?
CLAMS
HOOEY: JUST LIKE IT SOUNDS, THIS RHYMING WORD REALLY ONCE MEANT "APPLAUSE ENTICEMENT"?
CLAPTRAP
SCI-FI SUBGENRES: THE PLANET'S IN TROUBLE IN "NEW YORK 2140" BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, PART OF THE CLI-FI SUBGENRE, SHORT FOR THIS?
CLIMATE FICTION
MOUNTAINS: THIS "DOME" IS THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS & IN TENNESSEE?
CLINGMANS DOME
SCIENCE: VITAMIN K IS ESSENTIAL FOR BLOOD TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS NORMALLY?
CLOT
TRENDING MERRIAM-WEBSTER: THIS PROCEDURE TO END A DEBATE, AFTER MITCH McCONNELL FILED A MOTION TO END THE DEBATE ON BRETT KAVANAUGH'S NOMINATION?
CLOTURE
PHRASE ORIGINS: ONE THEORY SAYS A PHRASE FOR EUPHORIA COMES FROM PLATE NO. 9 IN AN 1896 METEOROLOGICAL "ATLAS" OF THESE?
CLOUDS
PARASITIC PLANTS: Trifolium is the genus of this plant grown as livestock feed & sometimes damaged by the parasitic plant dodder?
CLOVER
FUEL: KENTUCKY'S FIRST COMMERCIAL MINE FOR THIS FUEL OPENED IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN 1820?
COAL
UNIVERSITY: PHI BETA KAPPA, AMERICA'S OLDEST GREEK-LETTER SOCIETY, WAS FOUNDED IN 1776 AT THIS VIRGINIA COLLEGE?
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
LEGAL TERMS: YOU APPEARED TO BE ADVERSARIES, BUT HAD A SECRET PACT WITH YOUR PAL TO MAKE ILLEGAL GAINS; YOU'RE GUILTY OF THIS 9-LETTER CRIME?
COLLUSION
SOUTH AMERICA: LATER TO LAY DOWN ITS ARMS, AROUND THE YEAR 2000 THIS COUNTRY'S FARC INSURGENCY HAD 20,000 FIGHTERS?
COLOMBIA
BLACK: IN 1915 KAZIMIR MALEVICH UNVEILED THE ARTWORK SEEN HERE, YET WROTE THAT THIS "AND TEXTURE ARE THE ESSENCE OF PAINTING"?
COLOR
2010s: IN A FIRST, THE ESA's PHILAE SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY LANDED ON ONE OF THESE IN NOVEMBER 2014?
COMET
AVERAGE: AS A RAPPER & ACTOR, LONNIE LYNN JR. IS BETTER KNOWN BY THIS AVERAGE-SOUNDING MONIKER?
COMMON
DAM: IN 1910 WYOMING'S BUFFALO BILL DAM WAS THE WORLD'S TALLEST & THE FIRST ONE MADE OF THIS TO BE TALLER THAN IT IS WIDE?
CONCRETE
TIMBERLAND: The rainforests of the basin of this 2,900 mile river have made Cameroon Africa's leading timber exporter?
CONGO RIVER
MERCURY: WHILE THE PLANET MERCURY DOESN'T HAVE RINGS OR MOONS, IT'S FULL OF THESE WITH NAMES LIKE BACH, BEETHOVEN & TOLSTOY?
CRATERS
ANIMAL TALK: THE AMATEUR ENTOMOLOGISTS' SOC. GLOSSARY ENTRY "STRIDULATION", MAKING NOISE WITH BODY PARTS, MENTIONS THESE CREATURES?
CRICKETS
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: IN 2014 THIS 10,000- SQUARE-MILE REGION MOVED ITS CLOCKS FORWARD 2 HOURS TO MOSCOW STANDARD TIME?
CRIMEA
WARCRAFT: USING WINCHES OR PULLEYS TO DRAW BACK THE BOLT, THE ARBALEST WAS A TYPE OF THIS WEAPON?
CROSSBOW
ON THE MOVE: MANHATTAN SUBWAY LINES THE 7, THE L & THE S TRAVEL EAST-WEST, ALSO CALLED THIS DIRECTION?
CROSSTOWN
2000s WORDS: IN 2008 TIME MAGAZINE DESCRIBED THIS NEW PRACTICE AS "ONE PART SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ONE PART CAPITAL ACCUMULATION"?
CROWDFUNDING
GYM: PROVERBIALLY, YOU DO IT TO "THE NUMBERS"; PHYSICALLY, YOU DO IT TO YOUR ABS, ON YOUR BACK WITH YOUR KNEES BENT & FEET FLAT?
CRUNCH
British Stuff: The Radcliffe this, from a Latin word for a chamber, isn't photo equipment but a reading room at Oxford?
Camera
3 I's: RIPPED AB MUSCLES ARE SAID TO HAVE THIS, THE STATE OF BEING CLEARLY OUTLINED?
DEFINITION
BOMB: WATER PRESSURE CAUSES THESE ANTISUBMARINE WEAPONS TO EXPLODE AT A PRESELECTED DISTANCE BELOW THE SURFACE?
DEPTH CHARGE
THURBER QUOTES: "NOWADAYS MOST MEN LEAD LIVES OF NOISY" THIS?
DESPERATION
BAD-JECTIVES: THIS 10-LETTER WORD FOR EVIL SCHEMES MEANS BELONGING TO OR INVOLVING THE DEVIL?
DIABOLICAL
SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS: YOU GET A "D" IF YOU CAN'T NAME THIS DEMOCRAT WHO'S SERVED ILLINOIS SINCE 1997; YOU GET 2 "D"s IF YOU DO?
DICK DURBIN
"KEY": A FALSE SHIRT FRONT?
DICKEY
GENERAL: IT WAS THE MAKE & MODEL OF THE GENERAL LEE, BO & LUKE'S CAR ON "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD"?
DODGE CHARGER
1966: AUSTRALIA TOOK A STEP AWAY FROM MOTHER BRITAIN IN '66 WHEN IT SWITCHED FROM POUNDS TO THIS CURRENCY?
DOLLAR
ADVERB: WE'RE HEADING THIS WAY, A NON-LY ADVERB MEANING TOWARD THE MOUTH OF A RIVER?
DOWNSTREAM
HOLE: WATER BUILDUP ON YOUR CROPLAND? DIG THIS ALLITERATIVE WATERWAY TO LET IT FLOW ELSEWHERE?
DRAINAGE DITCH
CORDIAL: LEGEND SAYS THIS SCOTTISH HONEY LIQUEUR WAS CREATED FOR BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE?
DRAMBUIE
POETRY: COMPLETES THE LINE BY STEVIE SMITH: "I WAS MUCH FURTHER OUT THAN YOU THOUGHT AND NOT WAVING BUT" THIS?
DROWNING
COUNTRY'S MUSIC: Common at Japanese folk festivals, taiko are barrel-shaped these instruments?
DRUMS
PHRASE ORIGINS: 19th C. EXHIBITIONS SAW FIRE BRIGADES COMPETING EITHER USING WATER, OR IN ONE OF THESE, NOW A TERM FOR A PRACTICE EFFORT?
DRY RUN
ARCHITECTURE TERMS: "DROP" EVERYTHING & GIVE US THIS NAME FOR THE PORTION OF A ROOF THAT EXTENDS OUT OVER A SUPPORTING WALL?
EAVES (ACC: OVERHANG)
"E": HELLO...HELLO... HELLO...IT'S AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE OF THE HEART USED TO DIAGNOSE CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE?
ECHOCARDIOGRAM
RECENT BESTSELLER: Tara Westover wrote of her quest to be this, the 1-word title of her memoir about leaving her survivalist family to go to college?
EDUCATED
COUNTRY TAKING MOST OF EASTERN BORDER: OF LIBYA'S?
EGYPT
WORLD FULL OF IDIOMS: MEANING "WASTED EFFORT", A THAI IDIOM IS "RIDING" ONE OF THESE SOUTH ASIAN BEASTS "TO CATCH A GRASSHOPPER"?
ELEPHANT
NONFICTION: "BAD BLOOD" COVERS THE RISE & FALL OF THIS WOMAN & HER BLOOD-TESTING COMPANY THERANOS, ONCE THE DARLING OF INVESTORS?
ELIZABETH HOLMES
HISTORY: IN 1554 PHILIP II, THE FUTURE KING OF SPAIN, SPOKE UP TO PREVENT THE EXECUTION OF THIS FUTURE ENGLISH QUEEN?
ELIZABETH I
BOOK TITLE: EUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAY "THE ____ JONES"?
EMPEROR
ANAGRAM TV TITLES: SETTING RECORDS ON FOX: MERE PI?
EMPIRE
PHYSICS: The First Law of Thermodynamics is AKA the principle of conservation of this?
ENERGY
MOUNTAIN: AT 3,210 FEET, SCAFELL PIKE IN LAKE DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK IS THE HIGHEST ELEVATION IN THIS U.K. COUNTRY
ENGLAND
MIDDLE "MI": THIS BRANCH OF MEDICINE STUDIES THE CAUSES, DISTRIBUTION & CONTROL OF DISEASE IN POPULATIONS?
EPIDEMIOLOGY
"E": IT'S THE ONE-WORD NAME FOR A RED BLOOD CELL?
ERYTHROCYTE
CASTLE ARCHITECTURE: FROM THE ITALIAN "SCARPA" OR SLOPE, IT WAS A STEEP SLOPE IN FRONT OF A CASTLE TO SLOW AN ATTACKING ENEMY?
ESCARPMENT
BEER: BECAUSE IT CONTAINS THIS NATURAL TYPE OF ALCOHOL, AN ANTIMICROBIAL, BEER CAN BE SAFER TO DRINK THAN SUSPECT WATER?
ETHANOL (ACC: GRAIN ALCOHOL, ETHYL ALCOHOL)
HISTORY: ODDLY, MINING OF THIS RARE EARTH ELEMENT WITH A GEOGRAPHIC NAME, ATOMIC NO. 63, IS MOSTLY IN ASIA & WITH SOME IN S. AMERICA & AUSTRALIA?
EUROPIUM
JUICE: A juice brand is punningly named "Apple &" her?
EVE
SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS: A SENATE OFFICE BUILDING IS NAMED FOR HIM, SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER FROM 1959 TO 1969?
EVERETT (McKINLEY) DIRKSEN
"E": THIS TYPE OF PLANT KEEPS ITS LEAVES ALL YEAR, AS THE NAME IMPLIES?
EVERGREEN
GAME OF THORNS: EBTG IS SHORT FOR THIS BAND FORMED BY BEN WATT & TRACEY THORN IN 1982?
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
SOCIAL STUDIES: A BOOK BY MATTHEW DESMOND LOOKS AT SOME FOLKS WHOSE RENT IS 80% OF THEIR INCOME & END UP GETTING THIS, THE BOOK'S TITLE?
EVICTED
"EX": THE MISSION'S OVER OR ABORTED-- TIME FOR THIS ACTION OF GETTING A MILITARY TEAM OUT OF THERE?
EXTRACTION
3 A'S: GIVENCHY HAD A PERFUME CALLED THIS ADJECTIVE THAT MEANS EXCESSIVELY HIGH?
EXTRAVAGANT
ANIMAL TALK: THE NORM IN MAMMALS & BIRDS IS A NICTITATING MEMBRANE, ALSO CALLED THE THIRD THIS--HUMANS ARE WEIRD IN LACKING IT?
EYELID
POTATO SALAD: IT'S THE ANATOMICAL NAME FOR THE UNDEVELOPED BUDS ON A POTATO'S SKIN?
EYES
TARUS: Born April 25, 1917 this jazz legend known for her sweet voice & her scat singing racked up 14 Grammy Awards?
Ella Fitzgerald
Edgar Awards: This pseudonym of 2 authors got a special Edgar in 1950 for a "Mystery Magazine"?
Ellery Queen
American Idols: (Luke Bryan delivers the clue.) I've been inspired by this idol since I was 4 years old singing "See See Rider", the first song he performed on his "Aloha from Hawaii" TV special?
Elvis Presley
SCIENCE: (Mad?) scientists tried to make a frost-resistant tomato by adding a modified one of these taken from an Arctic flounder?
GENE
GENERAL: IN 1985 PHILIP MORRIS ACQUIRED THIS MAKER OF JELL-O & OSCAR MAYER MEATS FOR ALMOST $6 BILLION?
GENERAL FOODS
PRESIDENT'S DOG: HIS SERVICE DOG SULLY WAS SEEN BY HIS CASKET IN THE U.S. CAPITOL IN DECEMBER 2018?
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1975 N.Y. DAILY NEWS HEADLINE, AFTER THIS MAN OPPOSED A FEDERAL BAILOUT: HIM "TO CITY: DROP DEAD"?
GERALD FORD
CIVIL WAR: HERE'S THE LITTLE ROUND TOP LOCATION OF THE 20th MAINE REGIMENT...CHARGE TO SECURE MEADE'S LEFT FLANK & SAVE THE DAY DURING THIS BATTLE?
GETTYSBURG
MEMOIR: "IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING" WAS THIS LATE FUNNY LADY'S CATCHPHRASE & MEMOIR TITLE?
GILDA RADNER
QUASAI-RELATED PAIRS: A DECLARATION OF VICTORY IN A CARD GAME & A MUSICAL SYNONYM FOR "KEYNOTE"?
GIN & TONIC
G.O.T.: THIS "G.O.T." PHRASE MEANS THE SAME AS "MORE OR LESS", MORE OR LESS?
GIVE OR TAKE
WORD ORIGINS: THIS WORD FOR A BUG OR MALFUNCTION WAS POPULARIZED IN THE 1962 BOOK "INTO ORBIT" BY THE MERCURY ASTRONAUTS?
GLITCH
AUTO-BIOS: "BILLY (DURANT), ALFRED (P. SLOAN) &" THIS BIG 3 CAR COMPANY IS A VERY SPECIFIC BIOGRAPHY?
GM
PARK: AN 1859 VISITOR SAID A COLORADO SITE WAS "A FIT PLACE FOR" THESE BEINGS "TO ASSEMBLE" & IT'S STILL CALLED "GARDEN OF" THEM?
GODS
"GOLD" RECORDS: STRIKING IT RICH IN LOVE, COLBIE CAILLAT SINGS, "FEELS LIKE WE'RE SITTIN' ON TOP OF" THIS "YEAH, OUR LOVE IS" THIS?
GOLDMINE
HEAVY SCIENCE: The heaviest beetle, & maybe the heaviest insect, is this 3-ouncer with a Biblical name?
GOLIATH BEETLE
TEACHER APP: This company's app called Classroom helps you streamline your classes & is included free with its G Suite for Education?
BIG UNIT OF MEASURE: THIS NUMBER IS 10 TO THE POWER OF A GOOGOL?
GOOGOLPLEX
QUARTZ: RICH IN QUARTZ & FELDSPAR, IT'S THE MOST COMMON PLUTONIC ROCK IN EARTH'S CONTINENTAL CRUST --THINK HARD?
GRAINTE
SINGLUAR SPORTS TEAMS: AAC FOOTBALL: THIS COLORFUL TULANE SQUAD?
GREEN WAVE
ADD A VOWEL" A BROAD SMILE WELCOMES A VOWEL & TURNS INTO A SEED OF WHEAT?
GRIN & GRAIN
MIGUEL: NAMED FOR A HERO OF INDEPENDENCE, MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SERVING THIS MEXICAN CITY HAS THE CODE GDL?
GUADALAJARA
Europe: Iceland's 3,000-square-mile Vatnajokull is Europe's largest of these--subject to change, as it's receding fast?
Glacier
Greatest Canadians: With a performing style that was, ah, quirky--he'd hum & sway as he played--this pianist leaped into international acclaim with his 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations"?
Glenn Gould
"GOOD": "Lucid Dreams" is a top 10 hit from this 2018 Juice Wrld album?
Goodbye and Good Riddance
Audible: Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title "But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair""?
Graham Greene
GAS: ASIDE FROM A LOT OF ENERGY, THE MAJOR BYPRODUCT OF NUCLEAR FUSION IS THIS GASEOUS ELEMENT?
HELIUM
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: Towns that sprang up with saloons, gambling & sometimes a murder a day got this nickname, also an AMC TV drama about the railroad
HELL ON WHEELS
COLD PLAY: HIS 1896 PLAY "JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN" TAKES PLACE ON A WINTER EVENING NEAR OSLO?
HENRIK IBSEN
CHINA: THE ICC BUILDING IN THIS FORMER BRITISH COLONY WAS LIMITED TO 118 FLOORS BECAUSE IT MAY NOT BE TALLER THAN THE MOUNTAINS?
HONG KONG
TV: MARTHA PLIMPTON WAS A YOUNG GRANDMA ON "RAISING ____"?
HOPE
BEER: THESE BITTER BUDS ADDED FOR FLAVOR BELONG TO THE CANNABACEAE FAMILY, MAKING THEM A COUSIN OF MARIJUANA?
HOPS (ACC: HEMP)
INSPECTOR: IN 1899 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF INSPECTOR OF ANTIQUITIES OF UPPER EGYPT; HIS GREATEST FAME CAME IN 1922?
HOWARD CARTER
FOOD & DRINK: A TRADITIONAL ACCOMPANIMENT FOR CATFISH, THESE MORSELS OF DEEP-FRIED CORNMEAL ARE FLAVORED WITH CHOPPED SCALLIONS?
HUSHPUPPIES
HOUSE: IN THE DINING ROOM, IT'S A CABINET FOR THE CHINA; OUT IN THE YARD, IT'S A CAGE FOR OUR PET RABBITS?
HUTCH
STOCK SYMBOL: HLT IS HILTON; H BY ITSELF IS THIS HOTELS CORPORATION?
HYATT
BROADWAY MUSICALS: "Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now" & "You Can't Stop The Beat"?
Hairspray
POP MUSIC: Here's a "Sign Of The Times"--he's a real Cheshire cat?
Harry Styles
Ear: Styles of these helpers include BTE, behind the ear, & CIC, completely in the canal?
Hearing Aids
VOWEL: I THINK YOU NEED TABLETS OF THE ELEMENT WITH THIS SYMBOL-- IT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR GOITER?
I (IODINE)
Canada Province Symbols: Quebec's motto is "Je me souviens", "I" do this?
I remember
"ok": The best of the 4 possible positions used in transactional analysis is the title of this 1960s self-help book?
I'm OK - You're OK
AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1921 FEDERAL LAW PUT THE FIRST LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF THESE, FOLLOWED BY 1924's NATIONAL ORIGINS ACT?
IMMIGRANTS
"PORTER": WALMART ISN'T JUST THE USA's LARGEST RETAILER, BUT ALSO THE LARGEST OF THESE COMPANIES THAT BRING GOODS INTO A COUNTRY?
IMPORTER
BABY: ISOLETTE IS A BRAND OF THESE REGULATORS YOUR BABY MAY BE PLACED WITHIN AT THE HOSPITAL?
INCUBATOR
With its 14th season that premiered in September 2019, what television series tied The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action sitcom in American TV history (and extended its lead among such series that include the name of a city in their titles)?
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
"I" Writer: Doctor Stockmann is the crusading title character in this playwright's "An Enemy of the People"?
Ibsen
State: Nez Perce County is on its west side & Teton County, on the east?
Idaho
Europe: Roman baths once highlighted this Paris locale that got its name due to the language spoken there until about 1789?
Latin Quarter
Hollywood: In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra?
Lawrence Welk
65 inches: In a 1962 biopic 6'2" Peter O'Toole portrayed this 5'5" man whose height may have been stunted by mumps in childhood?
Lawrence of Arabia
Around The World: This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included "de Grâce"?
Le Havre
David Muir Covers The World: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I got an exclusive first look at restoration efforts inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral afters its devastating fire; amazingly, the huge 13th century rose windows survived, despite fears that the intense heat might have melted this metal in the frame that supports the stained glass?
Lead
Ancient Times: In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C.?
Leonidas
OTHER NATION'S PRESIDENTS: This nation's 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence?
Liberia
Philosophers: German philosopher Hegel saw history as progression toward this declaration of independence value?
Liberty
Family Government: She succeeded her husband George Wallace as governor of Alabama but died 2 years after winning the office?
Lurleen
LEFTIES: THIS ARTIST FAMED FOR HIS "IMPOSSIBLE CONSTRUCTIONS" LIKE "ASCENDING AND DESCENDING" CONSTRUCTED THEM AS A LEFTY?
M.C. ESCHER
US ISLANDS: THE GRAND HOTEL ON THIS MICHIGAN ISLAND BEGAN WELCOMING VACATIONERS IN 1887?
MACKINAC
I YIELD TO...: THE ELEMENTS; TIME TO PUT ON ONE OF THESE WATERPROOF GARMENTS NAMED AFTER A SCOTSMAN?
MACKINTOSH (ACC: MAC) (MACINTOSH)
US STATES: This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters?
MAINE
SHAKESPEARE QUOTE: HE ENDS "MACBETH" BY SAYING, "SO THANKS TO ALL AT ONCE AND TO EACH ONE, WHOM WE INVITE TO SEE US CROWNED AT SCONE"?
MALCOLM
DOG BREED: A LAP DOG: EEL MAST?
MALTESE
GENERAL: WITH THIS KITCHEN GADGET THAT SOUNDS MORE LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, YOU CAN SLICE UP A POTATO, PAPER THIN, IN SECONDS?
MANDOLINE
WOMEN: DURING WWI SHE SUPPORTED THE FRENCH WAR EFFORT BY FITTING AMBULANCES WITH PORTABLE X-RAY EQUIPMENT?
MARIE CURIE
SPRING: DURING SPRING CLEANING, THIS STAR OF "TIDYING UP" SAYS TO PRIORITIZE PRACTICAL UPDATES, LIKE FIXING A CREAKY DOOR?
MARIE KONDO
RIVER: THE TAPPAN ZEE OVER THE HUDSON IN N.Y. WAS DEEMED UNSAFE, SO IT WAS REPLACED BY A NEW BRIDGE NAMED FOR THIS LATE GOVERNOR?
MARIO CUOMO
TV DOCTORS: ON PUBLIC TV, AN OPINIONATED MEDICO IN A CORNISH VILLAGE ISN'T "DOC ELLINGHAM" BUT "DOC" THIS FIRST NAME?
MARTIN
TRIDENT: THIS ITALIAN CARMAKER KNOWN FOR LUXURY VEHICLES USES A TRIDENT AS ITS LOGO?
MASERATI
POTATO SALAD: HEELS IN, HEELS OUT, REPEAT; THAT'S THE WAY TO DO THIS CRAZE OF A DANCE FROM THE EARLY 1960s?
MASH POTATO
NATIVE AMERICAN COINS: SQUANTO SERVED AS AN INTERPRETER BETWEEN THE PILGRIMS & THIS WAMPANOAG CHIEF WHO IS HONORED ON A 2011 COIN?
MASSASOIT
ADVERB: MOTHERLY SYNONYM?
MATERNALLY
GENERAL: THIS GENERAL SUCCEEDED MacARTHUR WHEN TRUMAN RELIEVED HIM OF HIS COMMAND IN KOREA?
MATTHEW RIDGWAY
FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION: OPERATING FOR ONLY ONE WEEK A YEAR, A TRAIN LINE TO THIS CITY MOVES OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE A DAY?
MECCA
EPONYMS: THIS SYNONYM FOR HYPNOTISM COMES FROM ITS PRACTITIONER, A GERMAN DOCTOR NAMED FRANZ?
MESMERISM
RHYME TIME: A TIN POT FOR COOKING OR BOILING WATER?
METAL KETTLE
STAMPS: A 2-CENT STAMP SHOWS THIS EPONYMOUS FRUIT ACTUALLY THOUGHT TO BE A LEMON-MANDARIN HYBRID?
MEYER LEMON
TRAIN: THIS TRAIN SUNG OF BY BLUES ARTISTS GOT ITS NAME FROM ITS 12:05 A.M. DEPARTURE EN ROUTE TO PARCHMAN PENITENTIARY?
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
CITY ADJECTIVES: OF OR RELATING TO A NORTHERN ITALIAN CITY, LIKE VEAL COATED WITH BREADCRUMBS?
MILANESE
____ OF ____: USED AS AN ANTACID OR LAXATIVE, Mg(OH)~ IS BETTER KNOWN AS THIS?
MILK OF MAGNESIA
AMERICAN COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS: IN 2018 SHE WON 3 AWARDS INCLUDING SONG OF THE YEAR FOR "TIN MAN", FOR A TOTAL OF 32, THE MOST OF ANY ARTIST IN ACM HISTORY?
MIRANDA LAMBERT
DOUBLE TALK: JULIA ROBERTS PLAYED THE EVIL QUEEN TO LILY COLLINS' SNOW WHITE IN THIS 2012 FILM?
MIRROR MIRROR
LAW: JUROR MISCONDUCT IS GROUNDS TO FILE A MOTION FOR ONE OF THESE, A PROCEEDING THAT IS INVALID?
MISTRIAL
HOMOPHONES: TO LAMENT ONE'S FATE / TAKEN CARE OF, AS THE LAWN?
MOAN / MOWN
PUNK: IN 1970 PROTOPUNKS THE MC5 LAMENTED, "TERMINAL STASIS THE AIR'S SO THICK IT'S LIKE DROWNING IN" THIS SWEET STUFF?
MOLASSES
ON THE MISSISSIPPI: JOHN DEERE PLOWED INTO THIS ILLINOIS CITY, SETTING UP SHOP IN 1848 & IT REMAINS THE WORLD HEADQUARTERS?
MOLINE
"M"OUNTAINS: A BRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAIN IS NAMED THIS SYNONYM FOR RULER OR SOVEREIGN?
MONARCH (MOUNTAIN)
SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY: THE MACAQUE?
MONKEY
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN: IN ANDALUSIA ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY REPRESENTS THIS STYLE NAMED FOR MEDIEVAL VISITORS FROM AFRICA?
MOORISH
NEWS SPEAK: IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE OLD CLIPPINGS, NOT DEAD BODIES, ARE KEPT HERE?
MORGUE
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: BECAUSE ITS OVERSEAS EMPIRE WAS DWINDLING, SPAIN DECLARED WAR ON THIS MUCH CLOSER COUNTRY ACROSS THE WATER ON OCT. 22, 1859?
MOROCCO
ROYAL BATTLE: PORTUGAL'S KING SEBASTIAN DROWNED AT THE 1578 BATTLE OF THE 3 KINGS IN THIS COUNTRY ACROSS THE GULF OF CADIZ?
MOROCCO
GRITTY: WHEN A MOLLUSK GETS A BIT OF GRIT INSIDE, IT COVERS THE BIT WITH THIS SUBSTANCE?
MOTHER OF PEARL
US GEOGRAPHY: NAMED FOR A GEOLOGIST, THIS PEAK RISES 14,500 FEET IN THE SIERRA NEVADA?
MOUNT WHITNEY
"M.G.': THESE STOCKY RUMINANTS HAVE MUSCULAR LEGS & BROAD HOOVES, MAKING THEM SUREFOOTED CLIMBERS?
MOUNTAIN GOAT
TASTE: BODY & ASTRINGENCY ARE TYPES OF A TACTILE FACTOR OF FOOD, KNOWN BY THIS TRENDY COMPOUND WORD?
MOUTHFEEL
ROCK: YOU CAN PONDER IF EUTERPE HERSELF INSPIRED THIS BAND TO WRITE, "DIG DOWN... DIG DOWN...DIG DOWN AND FIND FAITH"?
MUSE
BEWARE: AS VIEWERS OF "PHANTOM THREAD" KNOW, SOME VARIETIES OF THESE EDIBLES, LIKE THE DESTROYING ANGEL, ARE HIGHLY TOXIC?
MUSHROOMS
HISTORY: THE ROHINGYA MUSLIMS HAVE SUFFERED PERSECUTION FROM THIS ASIAN COUNTRY AT LEAST SINCE 1977's OPERATION DRAGON KING?
MYANMAR (ACC: BURMA)
Y ONLY VOWEL: AN AROMATIC GUM RESIN OF THE MIDDLE EAST?
MYRRH
TV GOVERNMENT: Ex-CIA analyst Elizabeth McCord practices both international & domestic diplomacy on this CBS show?
Madam Secretary
HITMAKERS: This singer with '80s hits like "Dress You Up" brought in Diplo & Chance the Rapper for her album "Rebel Heart"?
Madonna
AMERICAN WRITERS: "MISS LONELYHEARTS" WAS ONE OF HIS SATIRIC NOVELS OF THE 1930s?
NATHANAEL WEST
HISTORICAL FICTION: "THE INHERITORS" BY WILLIAM GOLDING TELLS OF THESE PREHISTORIC HUMANS WHO BEGIN TO ENCOUNTER HOMO SAPIENS?
NEANDERTHALS (ACC: NEANDERTALS)
PLAYWRIGHTS: BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2018 AT AGE 91, HE RECEIVED 4 TONY AWARDS, A PULITZER PRIZE & WAS NOMINATED FOR 4 OSCARS?
NEIL SIMON
SPACE SCIENCE: This planet has at least 13 moons, including Naiad, Nereid & Proteus?
NEPTUNE
SPEED OF SOUND: DRIVING THE THRUST SSC, ANDY GREEN BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER ON LAND AT BLACK ROCK DESERT IN THIS STATE?
NEVADA
TESTS: BETWEEN 1951 & 1992 THERE WERE 928 NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE TESTS AT THE TEST SITE IN THIS STATE?
NEVADA
STATE: FRANCONIA NOTCH STATE PARK?
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NATIVE AMERICAN COINS: THIS CITY'S SKYLINE IS SEEN ON THE COIN HONORING THE MOHAWK IRONWORKERS WHO WORKED ON SKYSCRAPERS THERE?
NEW YORK CITY
HARBOR: There's a 225-ton lady eternally greeting visitors at the entrance to this harbor?
NEW YORK HARBOR
3-WORD CITY NAMES: THERE'S A 4-LETTER PREPOSITION & A RIVER IN THE NAME OF THIS HISTORIC NORTHERN ENGLAND COAL CENTER?
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
FOREIGN FAMILY MEMBERS: In Swedish a brorsdotter is this?
NIECE
JAIL: "POEMS FROM PRISON" BY WOLE SOYINKA WERE WRITTEN WHEN HE WAS JAILED FOR CRITICIZING THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT?
NIGERIA
BUSINESS NAMES: If photographic memory serves me, this company's name was derived from Nippon Kogaku meaning "Japanese Optical"?
NIKON
THINGS: ALFRED NOBEL WROTE THAT IT WAS "THE IRONY OF FATE" TO BE PRESCRIBED THIS FOR HIS ANGINA LATE IN LIFE?
NITROGLYCERIN
AMERICAN GODS: LONGFELLOW TALKED OF THE "WIGWAM" OF THIS GRANDMOTHER, THE EARTH MOTHER TO THE ALGONQUIN?
NOKOMIS
MONEY: A COMMON SIGHT WAS WALKING-AROUND MONET, WHO WORKED OUTDOORS, AS IN A "CLIFF WALK" IN THIS CHANNELSIDE FRENCH REGION?
NORMANDY
NORTH: GOING NORTH FROM FLORIDA ON I-95, IT'S THE THIRD STATE YOU'LL ENTER & SOON YOU'LL REACH FAYETTEVILLE?
NORTH CAROLINA
RECENT POLITICS: A NEW CONTEST WAS ORDERED IN 2019 DUE TO ELECTION FRAUD IN THE 9th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN THIS SOUTHERN STATE?
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH: EVERY YEAR SINCE THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY, THIS GEOG. FEATURE "OF BALANCE" HAS MOVED 6" TOWARD NORTH AMERICA?
NORTH POLE
RULES: EXPLOSIVE NAME FOR THE STEP THE SENATE TOOK ON NOV. 21, 2013, LIMITING FUTURE DEBATE ON JUDICIAL NOMINEES?
NUCLEAR OPTION
WET TORTUGAS: THE TORTUGAS ARE HOME TO THIS LAID-BACK SHARK SPECIES THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT TEND TO AN INJURED SNORKELER?
NURSE SHARK
19th Century Leaders: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short?
Napoleon & Madison
Alps: Thought to be 5,300 years old, a mummified Neolithic "iceman" given this first name was found in the Alps in 1991?
Otzi
ARCHITECTURE: THE NAME OF THIS MANY-TIERED TOWER SEEN IN EASTERN ASIA IS THOUGHT TO BE DERIVED FROM THE PERSIAN FOR "TEMPLE OF IDOLS"?
PAGODA
DAM: A HUGE DAM WITH NEARLY 140 MILLION CUBIC YARDS OF PACKED ROCK & EARTH, TARBELA DAM IS NEAR RAWALPINDI IN THIS COUNTRY?
PAKISTAN
RHYMES WITH ALL: TO CAST ONE OF THESE OVER THINGS IS TO GIVE THEM A GLOOMY ATMOSPHERE?
PALL
CHINA TEA: A tea fertilized by the droppings of these "bears" has sold fro a reported $200 a cup?
PANDA BEARS
"P": THE NAME OF THIS EGGLESS, ITALIAN DESSERT CUSTARD LITERALLY MEANS "COOKED CREAM"?
PANNA COTTA
SHARING ISLAND: NEW GUINEA: INDONESIA & THIS COUNTRY?
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
"RING"" ON A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION TO GET THIS ACT OF TAKING OFF AN APPLE'S SKIN?
PARING
7-LETTER WORDS: GRAMMATICALLY, THE SONG TITLE "YOU ARE LOVED BY HER, YEAH YEAH YEAH" WOULD BE IN THIS VOICE?
PASSIVE (VOICE)
COMPUTERS: Paul Manafort created a paper trail when he needed help converting this type of 3-letter file to Word?
STATE: BIG POCONO STATE PARK IS IN THIS STATE?
PENNSYLVANIA
MOOLAH: SOMETHING UNIMPORTANT IS SAID TO BE THIS 2-WORD MINISCULE POKER BET?
PENNY ANTE
ADD CONSONANTS: OLD MacDONALD HAD THIS POINT IN A PLANET'S ORBIT WHEN IT'S NEAREST TO THE SUN: EIEIO?
PERIHELION
PUNCTUATION: It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature?
PERIOD
GEOGRAPHY: THIS STRATEGIC BODY OF WATER IS ALSO CALLED THE ARABIAN GULF?
PERSIAN GULF
LITERARY GENRES: TOM BRADY SWEARS BY THE SELF-HELP BOOK "THE FOUR AGREEMENTS"; ONE IS "DON'T TAKE ANYTHING" THIS WAY?
PERSONALLY
MIND TRICKS: IN AN EBBINGHAUS ILLUSION...SIZE OF THE OTHER CIRCLES PLAYS ON OUR SENSE OF THIS, FROM THE LATIN FOR "TO LOOK CLOSELY"?
PERSPECTIVE
GREEK: A SOUTHWESTERN NATIONAL PARK IS NAMED FOR THESE STONE CARVINGS, WHICH IS WHAT THE WORD MEANS?
PETROGLYPHS
LITERARY ALLUSIONS: A COMMUNITY THAT IS A HOTBED OF SEX & DRAMA, LIKE THE TITLE TOWN IN A NOVEL, FILM & TV SOAP OPERA OF THE 1950s & '60s?
PEYTON PLACE
WEATHER: TRAVELING AT 35 MPH, HERE'S A 2,000-FOOT-HIGH DUST STORM OVER THIS SOUTHWESTERN CAPITAL CITY IN 2012?
PHOENIX
SCIENCE: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLUORESCENCE & THIS TYPE OF GLOW NAMED FOR ELEMENT NO. 15 IS-- COMPLICATED?
PHOSPHORESCENCE
3 O'S: A XEROX, OR THIS GENERIC TERM FOR ONE?
PHOTOCOPY
NOBEL PRIZE: ALFRED NOBEL WROTE THAT ONE OF THE PRIZES SHOULD REWARD DISCOVERY "IN THE DOMAIN OF" THIS "OR MEDICINE"?
PHYSIOLOGY
AMERICAN POETRY: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS WON A PULITZER FOR "PICTURES FROM" THIS FLEMISH ARTIST; HERE'S ONE OF HIS PICTURES?
PIETER BRUEGHEL (THE ELDER) (DNA: ...THE YOUNGER)
EATING VERB: A South Carolina BBQ joint is named for this phrase meaning to make a hog of yourself?
PIG OUT
WILDLIFE REFUGE: THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN VIRGINIA'S JAMES RIVER REFUGE ARE COVERED BY THE LOBLOLLY SPECIES OF THIS TYPE OF EVERGREEN TREE?
PINE
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: THIS 1883 CLASSIC ENDS WITH THE WORDS "A WELL-BEHAVED LITTLE BOY!"?
PINOCCHIO
MUSIC FESTIVALS: TAME IMPALA & LAURYN HILL HEADLINED THE 2018 EDITION OF THIS "POINTED" ONLINE MUSIC MAGAZINE'S CHICAGO FESTIVAL?
PITCHFORK
ELEMENTS: BEARING THE NAME OF A GREEK GOD, THIS RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT WAS THE SECOND TRANSURANIUM ELEMENT DISCOVERED?
PLUTONIUM
SILENT "P": THE 3 MAIN FORMS OF PLAGUE IN HUMANS ARE BUBONIC, SEPTICEMIC & THIS ONE THAT STRIKES THE LUNGS?
PNEUMONIC (PLAGUE)
"OC": THIS KIND OF DOOR SLIDES IN & OUT OF A WALL?
EARTH DAY: AN AD THAT DEBUTED ON EARTH DAY 1971 SHOWED A CRYING INDIAN & THE SLOGAN "PEOPLE START" THIS WORD; "PEOPLE CAN STOP IT"?
POLLUTION
MAMA: THIS EVER-OPTIMISTIC "GLAD GIRL" IN BOOKS BY ELEANOR H. PORTER IS SENT TO LIVE WITH HER ALOOF AUNT?
POLLYANNA
ON THE MAP: 9-LETTER NAME FOR AN AREA OF 10 MILLION SQUARE MILES--4/5 THE SIZE OF AFRICA-- BUT ONLY ABOUT 120,000 SQUARE MILES OF IT IS DRY LAND?
POLYNESIA
JOURNALIST: WILLIAM COBBETT, WHO WIELDED A POISON QUILL IN ENGLAND & AMERICA FROM 1794 TO 1835, TOOK HIS PSEUDONYM FROM THIS RODENT?
PORCUPINE
HAT: "PIG" OUT & NAME THIS MEN'S HAT, FLAT ON TOP WITH A CREASE AROUND THE CROWN'S EDGE?
PORK-PIE
GENERAL: THE SOAP OPERA "GENERAL HOSPITAL" IS SET IN THIS FICTIONAL CITY IN NEW YORK STATE?
PORT CHARLES
CANADIANA: SOME SAY THE NAME OF THIS BELOVED DISH IS FROM QUEBECOIS SLANG FOR A MESS?
POUTINE
BALLOONS: An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year?
POWER OUTAGES
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Add a letter to "raise" to get this, sure to raise your spirit?
PRAISE
JESUS: MATTHEW 6 SAYS DO NOT DO THIS IN PUBLIC, BUT "TO THY FATHER...IN SECRET; AND THY FATHER WHICH SEETH IN SECRET SHALL REWARD THEE"?
PRAY
WORDS 1 LETTER DIFFERENT: TO PROCLAIM VIA SERMON, & TO VIOLATE A CONTRACT?
PREACH & BREACH
TEST: A DETECTABLE INCREASE IN HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN IS THE KEY INDICATOR IN THIS TEST WITH 2 POSSIBLE RESULTS?
PREGNANCY TEST
15-LETTER: CHURCHES OF THIS "ISM" FIRST INTRODUCED IN 1541 BY JOHN CALVIN ARE OFTEN CALLED REFORMED CHURCHES?
PRESBYTERIANISM
BALLET: AT 19 ALESSANDRA FERRI WAS THE ROYAL BALLET'S YOUNGEST WITH THIS ITALIAN TITLE; AT 54, SHE WAS ITS OLDEST SINCE MARGOT FONTEYN?
PRIMA BALLERINA
PRINCE: YOU COULD CALL CYRUS THE YOUNGER, SON OF DARIUS II, BY THIS TITLE, ALSO THE NAME OF A POPULAR VIDEO GAME SERIES?
PRINCE OF PERSIA
MOOLAH: THIS 5-LETTER WORD REFERS TO A SPECIAL NONCIRCULATING COIN THAT COLLECTORS PRIZE FOR ITS FINE DETAIL & MIRRORLIKE FINISH?
PROOF
COMMUNICATION: THE CHINESE COMM. PARTY'S PUBLICITY DEPT. WAS ONCE CALLED THIS DEPT., A MORE NEGATIVE WORD FOR GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT?
PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT
AVERAGE: THIS "P" WORD THAT CAN MEAN "DULL" IS ALSO A LITERARY TERM, THE OPPOSITE OF POETIC?
PROSAIC
KING JAMES BIBLE: ISAIAH PROPHESIED PEACE, WHEN "THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES & THEIR SPEARS INTO" THESE?
PRUNINGHOOKS
NEW SCRABBLE WORDS: THIS CUTE CANINE, A CROSS OF A TOY BREED & A HOUND DOG?
PUGGLE
HOLIDAY: IT IS CUSTOMARY TO TWIRL GRAGGERS, SPECIAL NOISEMAKERS, EVERY TIME HAMAN'S NAME IS MENTIONED DURING THE STORY OF THIS JEWISH FESTIVAL?
PURIM
Stump Town: This Florida coastal town incorporated in 1911 says its name comes from coconuts retrieved from the wreck of the Providencia?
Palm Beach
Audible: Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo"?
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Around The Globe: A computer algorithm concluded the longest distance you can walk in a straight line on land is nearly 7,000 miles, from Fujin in China to a point near Sagres in this country?
Portugal
AMERICAN WRITERS: IN A STORY BY THIS SCI-FI MASTER, "I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!" IS THE TITLE OF A PAMPHLET FOR A ROBOT GRANDMOTHER?
RAY BRADBURY
CALENDAR: THE FIRST FRIDAY IN FEBRUARY: NATIONAL WEAR THIS COLOR DAY RAISES AWARENESS OF HEART DISEASE IN WOMEN?
RED
EGYPT QUEEN: LATER RULING ALONE, TAUSRET BEGAN IN THIS ROLE, OVERSEEING THE RULE OF HER YOUNG PHARAOH STEPSON?
REGENT
ACTORS: SHE WON A SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR FOR HER ROLE IN "IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK"?
REGINA KING
"PORTER": FOURTH ESTATE OCCUPATION OF FOLKS LIKE SEYMOUR HERSH?
REPORTER
SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES: Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" started a trend in plays about this need to get even; a character in it is even named that?
REVENGE
HISTORIC STRUCTURES: "SCHOLARS" KNOW THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER HAD A PALACE FOR THE GRAND MASTER ON THIS LARGE GREEK ISLAND?
RHODES
BACTERIA: IN BACTERIAL CELLS TETRACYCLINE MESSES WITH THIS, THE MAIN SITE OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN CELLS?
RIBOSOME
ONG: NICK LOWE RHYMED, "DO YOU REMEMBER" THIS '80s SINGER? "HE HAD A BIG FAT HIT, IT WAS GHASTLY"?
RICK ASTLEY
PRONOUN LOSS: TAKE "SHE" AWAY FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT JOB & YOU GET THIS SNAPPY SEQUENCE ON A GUITAR?
RIFF
MEXICAN GEOGRAPHY: IT'S THE MEXICAN NAME FOR THE RIO GRANDE?
RIO BRAVO
RIVER: IT'S THE NAME OF THE RIO GRANDE IN MEXICO?
RIO BRAVO
3-LETTER SCIENCE: TYPES OF THIS INCLUDE MESSENGER, TRANSFER & RIBOSOMAL?
RNA
HISTORIC AMERICANS: A MEMORIAL AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY TO THIS NORTH POLE EXPLORER BEARS A LATIN MOTTO THAT MEANS "I SHALL FIND A WAY OR MAKE ONE"?
ROBERT E. PEARY
AMERICAN POETRY: DESPITE HIS NAME, HE HOLDS "WITH THOSE WHO FAVOR FIRE" FOR HOW "THE WORLD WILL END"?
ROBERT FROST
LIT FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: "FOE" BY J.M. COETZEE DEPICTS THE FINAL DAYS OF THESE 2 MEN AS SEEN BY A WOMAN SHIPWRECKED WITH THE PAIR?
ROBINSON CRUSOE & FRIDAY
2020 ISSUES: "No!" to fully autonomous weapons, says a group called the "Campaign to Stop Killer" these humanlike devices?
ROBOTS
SCIENCE: 2 THINGS DESCRIBED AS "NOT" THIS SCIENCE: GIVE THE BALL TO KEVIN DURANT & TO LOSE WEIGHT, BURN MORE CALORIES THAN YOU EAT?
ROCKET SCIENCE
EARTH DAY: JOHN DENVER WROTE A SONG CALLED "EARTH DAY EVERY DAY" BUT A CONCERT FOR EARTH DAY 2011 WAS NAMED FOR THIS BIGGER HIT OF HIS?
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
PINK FLOYD'S WALL: "THE WALL" IS BASED ON THE TRIBULATIONS OF THIS BASS PLAYER & SOMETIME VOCALIST, THE ALBUM'S PRIMARY WRITER?
ROGER WATERS
BOOKS: TO MAKE IT EASY TO ADD PAGES LATE IN THE PROCESS, THE INTRO PAGES OF A BOOK USUALLY GET THESE, NOT ARABIC ONES LIKE THE TEXT?
ROMAN NUMERALS
LODGEPODGE: THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE'S DEFINITION OF A LODGER MENTIONS THIS PROVERBIAL PAIR, A PLACE TO SLEEP & SOME FOOD TO EAT?
ROOM & BOARD
FOOD: THIS CUBAN DISH OF SHREDDED BEEF, ONIONS & PEPPERS IN A SPICY TOMATO SAUCE HAS A NAME THAT MEANS "OLD CLOTHES"?
ROPA VIEJA
HOOEY: THIS 3-LETTER WORD FOR DECAY OR DECOMPOSITION IS ALSO A VERY BRITISH WAY TO SAY "HOOEY"?
ROT
MONET: IT'S NOT JUST CANVAS --THERE'S PAPER MONET, LIKE A DRAWING OF THIS CITY KNOWN FOR ITS CATHEDRAL & FOR THE DEATH OF JOAN OF ARC?
ROUEN
EMERGENCY GENERATOR: AWOL TEENAGER PLUS SYNONYM FOR CARGO PLUS WEDDING DRESS "TAIL"?
RUNAWAY FREIGHT TRAIN
SPECIAL LETTERS: PRONOUNCED "TH", THE ICELANDIC THORN IS ONE OF THESE 24 OLD VIKING LETTERS, AKA FUTHARK?
RUNES
ARCHAEOLOGY: INCURRING A CURSE, TAMERLANE'S TOMB WAS OPENED IN JUNE 1941; ON JUNE 22 HITLER INVADED THIS HOMELAND OF THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS?
RUSSIA (ACC: USSR, SOVIET UNION)
LAWN: I KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR INFECTIONS LIKE THIS FUNGAL ONE THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'D FIND IT ON IRON, NOT GRASS?
RUST
LOUD & CLEAR: You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis?
Raising Cain
POLITICS: FROM THE LATIN FOR "BRING BACK", IT'S A DIRECT VOTE BY THE PEOPLE; IN 2019 BRITONS CONTEMPLATED A SECOND BREXIT ONE?
Referendum
BOOK TITLES: The French title of this epic 7-part novel literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time"?
Remembrance of Things Past
American Idols: (Ryan Seacrest delivers the clue.) I admired Frank Sinatra's spirit & style, especially how he broke with tradition to create his own label, called this, with records people would "play & play again"?
Reprise
Knight's Line: This knight "blew upon the war-horn in dolor and in pain/ and all the Frenchmen hearkened and the Emperor Charlemagne"?
Roland
POET TEENS: John Keats, part of this passionate early 19th century movement, wrote his 1st known poem at about 18 & didn't live to see 26?
Romanticism
LETTER-PERFECT: UNTIL THE 1780s ENGLISH PRINTERS USED A LETTER THAT LOOKED LIKE A LOWERCASE "f" FOR THIS LETTER?
S
SPECIAL LETTER: THE GERMAN ESZETT CHARACTER, SEEN HERE, IS OFTEN REPRESENTED BY 2 OF THESE LETTERS IN A ROW?
S
BIBLICAL MEASUREMENTS: A DAY'S JOURNEY WAS AROUND 20 MILES, WHILE THE JOURNEY NAMED FOR THIS DAY WAS LESS THAN A MILE?
SABBATH
2018 BOOKS: "THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND" IS DUBIOUS ABOUT THESE "SPACES" THAT MAKE COLLEGE STUDENTS FEEL SHELTERED?
SAFE SPACES
NEEDLE: A GUARD COVERS THE POINT OF THIS PIN, BENT BACK ON ITSELF TO FORM A SPRING... GET THE POINT? ACTUALLY, NO, & THAT'S THE POINT!?
SAFETY PIN
NONFICTION: MARK KURLANSKY WROTE A WHOLE BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THIS, "THE ONLY ROCK WE EAT"?
SALT
PUP: THIS LEGGY BREED KNOWN AS THE "ROYAL DOG OF EGYPT" WAS ONCE USED TO TRACK & HUNT GAZELLES?
SALUKI
"AGE": TO SAVE SOMETHING FROM THE TRASH PILE & PUT IT TO USE?
SALVAGE
BIBLICAL PAINTINGS: REMBRANDT SHOWED A WORLD OF VIOLENCE IN "THE BLINDING OF" THIS BIBLICAL STRONGMAN?
SAMSON
WORLD CITIES: LESSER-KNOWN CONQUISTADOR PEDRO DE ALVARADO FOUNDED THIS CAPITAL THAT'S NAMED FOR JESUS?
SAN SALVADOR
QUARTS: QUARTZITE IS QUARTZ THAT WAS ONCE THIS ROCK MADE UP OF TINY GRAINS?
SANDSTONE
UNIVERSITY: NICKNAMED "SADIE LOU", THIS NEW YORK COLLEGE DROPPED THE WORDS "FOR WOMEN" FROM ITS NAME IN 1947?
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
ROMAN LIT: THE TITLE OF PETRONIUS' WORK PORTRAYING ROMAN HEDONISM ADDS "-ICON" TO THIS HALF-MAN MYTHICAL CREATURE?
SATYR
"LL" ANIMALS: UNLIKE THE STREAMLINED HEADS OF MOST SHARKS, THE HAMMERHEAD SHARK'S ...A TYPE OF MOLLUSK SHELL, SO IT GETS THIS ADJECTIVE?
SCALLOPED
YIDDISH WORDS: TO DO THIS IS TO MINGLE & MAKE CHIT-CHAT; TO DO IT (TO) SOMEONE IS TO SWEET-TALK HIM?
SCHMOOZE
ON THE MOVE: A SLOOP HAS...ALSO WITH A DOUBLE "O" IN ITS NAME, THIS BOAT HAS AT LEAST 2 MASTS, THE AFTMOST TYPICALLY TALLER THAN THE FOREMAST?
SCHOONER
YIDDISH WORDS: SPRITZ, "TO SPRAY", RHYMES WITH THIS SIMILAR WORD FOR TO SWEAT, LIKE ONE DOES IN A STEAM BATH?
SCHVITZ
QUARTZ: SMOKY QUARTZ IS A PRIZED PRODUCT OF THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS OF THIS U.K. COUNTRY?
SCOTLAND
STAMPS: ISSUED IN 2018, FROZEN TREATS STAMPS SMELL LIKE SUMMER BECAUSE YOU CAN DO THIS ALLITERATIVE PAIR OF ACTIONS TO THEM?
SCRATCH & SNIFF
1 VOWEL: Cursive writing?
SCRIPT
SAILOR WORDS: AS A VERB IT MEANS TO SINK YOUR OWN VESSEL DELIBERATELY; AS A NOUN, IT'S A SMALL HATCHWAY FITTED WITH A LID?
SCUTTLE
ORDER: THE ORDER PINNIPEDIA CONSISTS OF FIN-FOOTED MAMMALS LIKE THE HARBOR & HARP TYPES OF THIS?
SEAL
MEERKAT: A MEERKAT SCANS FOR PREDATORS IN THIS POSTURE, A TERM FOR A GUARD AGAINST SURPRISE ATTACK & ALSO A TYPE OF BIG ROBOT X-MEN FOE?
SENTINEL
ANGELIC: THESE 6-WINGED ANGELS OF THE BIBLE ARE THE HIGHEST RANKED, ABOVE CHERUBIM?
SERAPHIM
NUMBER: THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS DICTATE THAT PRISONERS OF WAR GIVE THEIR NAME, RANK & THIS NUMBER?
SERIAL NUMBER (ACC: PERSONAL NUMBER)
SHAPE: IT'S THE SNAKY 10-LETTER WORD FOR A ZIG-ZAG PATTERN?
SERPENTINE
KING JAMES BIBLE: "NO MAN CAN" THESE 3 WORDS; "EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE, & LOVE THE OTHER; OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE, & DESPISE THE OTHER"?
SERVE TWO MASTERS
"SET": A DEFEAT, OR THE DISTANCE OF A STRUCTURE FROM A PROPERTY LINE?
SETBACK
APP: Snapchat says it's "The fastest way to" do this with "a moment!"?
SHARE
GREEK FOOD: ACCORDING TO GREEK LAW, FETA CHEESE MUST BE AT LEAST 70% DERIVED FROM THE MILK OF THIS ANIMAL?
SHEEP
LAWN: MY LAWN IS A BIT SMALLER THAN THE 15-ACRE GREEN SPACE IN NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK KNOWN AS THIS GRAZING ANIMAL'S "MEADOW"?
SHEEP MEADOW
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS: THIS RURAL JOB MEANS TO GUIDE CAREFULLY, AS IN "THE SPEAKER WILL NEED TO ____ THE BILL THROUGH CONGRESS"?
SHEPHERD
CHINESE: THIS LAPDOG BREED'S NAME COMES FROM THE CHINESE FOR "LION"?
SHIH TZU
IDIOM: GONE INTO BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF? YOU'VE HUNG OUT THIS SIGNBOARD, ALSO A WORD FOR A ROOFING ITEM?
SHINGLE
DRY TORGUGAS: THIS 5-LETTER TYPE OF SUBMERGED SANDBAR IS PLENTIFUL & DANGEROUS IN THE TORTUGAS?
SHOAL
WORD: STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS: ASK ATLAS-- THIS TYPE OF MOTION CONVEYS INDIFFERENCE?
SHRUG
QUEENS: BORN IN CATANIA IN THE 14th CENTURY, QUEEN MARIA OF THIS ISLAND LOST HER KINGDOM BUT RETURNED WITH A FLEET & TOOK IT BACK?
SICILY
STRAIT: THIS LARGEST ISLAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IS SEPARATED FROM THE MAINLAND OF ITALY BY THE STRAIT OF MESSINA?
SICILY
HIP-HOP: IT'S THE "MODE" TRAVIS SCOTT WAS IN TO GO TO NO. 1 ON THE POP CHARTS IN 2018?
SICKO MODE
BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS: IN 2015, THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF "THE BREAKFAST CLUB", THIS SCOTTISH BAND TOOK TO THE STAGE SINGING THEIR BIGGEST HIT?
SIMPLE MINDS
"SINGLE": THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE FROWNS ON THIS IN MANUSCRIPTS BECAUSE IT LEAVES NO ROOM FOR NOTES?
SINGLE SPACING
"SINGLE": THE LONE SPADE IN YOUR BRIDGE HAND IS CALLED THIS WORD?
SINGLETON
POTATO SALAD: IT'S BELIEVED THIS EXPLORER INTRODUCED POTATOES INTO IRELAND AROUND 1585, THE YEAR HE WAS KNIGHTED?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
BALLET: ACT I OF THIS TCHAIKOVSKY FAIRY TALE BALLET IS CALLED "THE SPELL"; LATER COMES "THE AWAKENING"?
SLEEPING BEAUTY
PGA: HERE'S BUBBA WATSON CUTTING LOOSE WITH THIS TYPE OF 5-LETTER SHOT THAT VEERS TO THE SIDE OF THE DOMINANT HAND OF THE PLAYER?
SLICE
MOLLUSKS: ANOTHER TERM FOR A BULLET, OR A MOLLUSK THAT SECRETES MUCUS AROUND ITSELF AS A FORM OF PROTECTION?
SLUG
1 VOWEL: You contestants from northerly latitudes will recognize this, partially melted snow & ice?
SLUSH
SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY: THE HOGNOSE?
SNAKE
NATURE STICK: THE STILETTO TYPE OF THIS REPTILE HAS HORIZONTAL FANGS & IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT CAN BITE YOU WITH ITS MOUTH CLOSED?
SNAKE (ACC: VIPER, ASP, ADDER)
PUNK: IN 2018 THIS BAND'S FRONTMAN MIKE NESS WAS ACCUSED OF ANTI-SOCIALLY PUNCHING OUT A HECKLER AT A SACRAMENTO SHOW?
SOCIAL DISTORTION (ACC: SOCIAL D)
TEACHER ACCESSORIES: SAY YOU LOVE LEARNING WITH A PAIR OF THESE SHOWING BOOKS; GEORGE H.W. BUSH WORE SOME TO HONOR HIS WIFE'S LITERACY ACTIVISM?
SOCKS
PORTABLES: iBOSE MAKES A PORTABLE CHARGER WITH 4 OF THESE THAT UNFOLD TO SOAK UP SOME RAYS & POWER YOUR ELECTRONICS?
SOLAR PANELS
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS: IN A 1999 SPEECH NELSON MANDELA SAID HIS GOVERNMENT WOULD DO THIS "ON" TOWARD NATIONAL RECONCILIATION?
SOLDIER (ON)
BC VIP: ONE OF THE 7 WISE MEN OF GREECE, HIS CODE OF LAWS FORMED THE FOUNDATION OF ATHENS' DEMOCRACY?
SOLON
HAT: THE NAME OF THIS WIDE-BRIMMED HAT COMES FROM THE SPANISH FOR "SHADE"?
SOMBRERO
MUSIC: IF PLAYING THIS 6-LETTER KIND OF PIECE, CHOOSE AN EASY ONE LIKE MOZART'S FACILE, MEANING "EASY"?
SONATA
BUSINESS NAMES: In 1956 Chuck Williams opened his first cookware store in this California city, hence the name of the chain?
SONOMA
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS: MANY TRANSLATIONS USE THIS 4-LETTER WORD, AS IN SEEK GOD "WITH ALL THY HEART AND ALL THY" THIS; ROBERT ALTER USES "BEING"?
SOUL
TRANSPORTATION: The Tupolev Tu-144 plane of the 1970s was famous for going faster than this, which moves in waves?
SOUND
MONTY PYTHON PHRASES: IN A SKIT SET IN A CAFE, THIS "GLORIOUS" FOOD PRODUCT APPEARS ABUNDANTLY ON THE MENU & IN THE DIALOGUE?
SPAM
OLD TIMES: LYSANDER WAS AN ADMIRAL OF THIS GREEK CITY & IN 405 B.C. HIS VICTORY OVER THE ATHENIAN NAVY ENDED THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR?
SPARTA
WARCRAFT: THE ROMAN PILUM, A TYPE OF THIS THROWN WEAPON, WOULD BEND OR BREAK ON LANDING SO IT COULD NOT BE RE-USED BY ENEMIES?
SPEAR (ACC: JAVELIN, PIKE)
ACRONYMS: THE SWAT TEAM HAS ARRIVED BEARING THESE, THE S-W IN ITS NAME?
SPECIAL WEAPONS
-OMETERS: A MASS THIS "OMETER" CAN IDENTIFY THE COMPONENT PARTS OF A SUBSTANCE?
SPECTROMETER
BUSINESS: APPAREL FROM PVH CORP. INCLUDES TOMMY HILFIGER JEANS & THIS 90-YEAR-OLD SWIMSUIT BRAND?
SPEEDO
1 VOWEL: 6-letter immobilizer for a fractured bone?
SPLINT
GRAMMER: SWAPPING THE STARTS OF 2 WORDS, LIKE SAYING "CHALK BOY" FOR "BOK CHOY", IS NAMED FOR THIS REVEREND PRONE TO DOING IT?
SPOONERISM
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: THESE 2 FILMS, RECENT BACK-TO-BACK WINNERS, BOTH HAVE 9 LETTER TITLES THAT END WITH THE SAME 5 LETTERS?
SPOTLIGHT & MOONLIGHT
SALAD: COMPOSED OF SEVERAL TYPES OF YOUNG GREENS, MESCLUN IS AKA THIS SEASONAL MIX?
SPRING MIX
Y ONLY VOWEL: AGILE, AS IN "HE'S 106 BUT HE'S REALLY..."?
SPRY
MOLLUSKS: SPERM WHALES OFTEN PREY ON THE 40-FOOT-PLUS GIANT SPECIES OF THIS, ONE OF THE LARGEST MOLLUSKS?
SQUID
WHEEL: MARTYRED BY THE ROMANS IN THE 4th CENTURY, THIS FEMALE CATHOLIC SAINT IS THE PATRON SAINT OF WHEELWRIGHTS?
ST. CATHERINE
FERGUSON: IN A 2018 VOTE A COUNCILMAN IN FERGUSON, MO. UNSEATED THE 27-YEAR INCUMBENT PROSECUTOR FOR THIS COUNTY?
ST. LOUIS
ROGUES GALLERY: THE FIRST ROGUES' GALLERY IN THE U.S. WAS CREATED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THIS MISSOURI CITY ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER?
ST. LOUIS
MIDDLE: IN THE NAME OF A METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA, IT'S BETWEEN TAMPA & CLEARWATER?
ST. PETERSBURG
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: A type of iron, or to fill oneself with determination?
STEEL
BUSINESS: THE WALLENBERG FAMILY ONCE CONTROLLED 40% OF THE VALUE OF THIS CITY'S STOCK MARKET?
STOCKHOLM
ARCHITECTURE TERMS: THIS TEXTURED PLASTER USED IN ANCIENT GREECE & AZTEC MEXICO MAY NOT PROVIDE MUCH INSULATION BUT IS A GREAT FIRE RESISTER?
STUCCO
WORDS 1 LETTER DIFFERENT: A TREE REMNANT, & AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN?
STUMP & SLUMP
SINGLE T, DOUBLE T: THIS WORD CAN PRECEDE "STEP" TO MEAN A HESITATION THAT FAKES OUT A DEFENDER?
STUTTER
COMMUNITIES: LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "100" OF THESE COMMUNITIES "IN SEARCH OF A CITY"?
SUBURBS
TV ROLE, MOVIE ROLE: BETTE DAVIS ON "FEUD"; ONE OF "THE BANGER SISTERS"?
SUSAN SARANDON
LODGEPODGE: IN LAKOTA CULTURE INIPI IS THIS STRUCTURE SEEN HERE WHERE STEAM IS USED FOR PURIFICATION?
SWEATLODGE
WINE: YOU SAY SHIRAZ, I SAY THIS FRENCH NAME FOR A RED WINE & A RED WINE GRAPE FROM THE RHONE REGION OF FRANCE?
SYRAH
2010s: THE ARREST & TORTURE OF YOUTHS WHO HAD SCRAWLED GRAFFITI IN DARAA IN THIS NATION TRIGGERED CIVIL WAR THERE IN MARCH 2011?
SYRIA
TIME ZONES: France has the most time zones, 12, if you count Pacific possessions & this saintly island off Newfoundland near Miquelon?
Saint-Pierre
"Sat": Zen Buddhists hope to reach this state of sudden enlightenment?
Satori
Living World: Hawaii's white sand beaches like Anaehoomalu Bay are mainly a composition of coral & these broken-up items?
Shells
Great Minds: A rationalist, this Dutch philosopher answered to the first names Bento, Benedictus & the Hebrew Baruch?
Spinoza
Shape: Connect two semicircles with parallel lines & you have this shape, named for a type of arena?
Stadium
Historic Transports: France's first nuclear one of these, Le Redoubtable, was ready to go in 1971?
Submarine
FOOL: ONE OF 78, THE FOOL IN ONE OF THESE IS SOMETIMES SEEN WITH A DOG AT HIS FEET, SEEMINGLY TRYING TO WARN HIM NOT TO WALK OFF A CLIFF?
TAROT DECK
HOTEL: BROWN'S HOTEL IN LONDON FEATURES THIS TYPE OF ROOM IDEAL FOR & NAMED FOR A HOT BEVERAGE?
TEA ROOM
TRUE CRIME: ANN RULE FIRST MADE A NAME FOR HERSELF WITH "THE STRANGER BESIDE ME", ABOUT THIS SERIAL KILLER WHO TURNED OUT TO BE SOMEONE SHE KNEW?
TED BUNDY
INVENTED: BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN DENTIST GEORGE GRANT, A WOODEN ONE OF THESE THAT "ELEVATED" THE GAME OF GOLF?
TEE
ASIAN CITIES: THIS ISRAELI CITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1909 AS A SUBURB OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN PORT OF JAFFA?
TEL AVIV
GREEK: APPROPRIATELY, THIS OPTICAL INSTRUMENT GETS ITS NAME FROM THE GREEK FOR "FAR-SEEING"?
TELESCOPE
PHRASE ORIGINS: THIS SCORNFUL RESPONSE TO AN UNLIKELY STORY COMES FROM BRITISH SAILORS' CONTEMPT FOR OTHER MILITARY MEN?
TELL IT TO THE MARINES
VOCAB: IN BOY SCOUTING, IT'S NOW THE NEXT RANK EARNED AFTER SCOUT?
TENDERFOOT
SPANISH CIVIL WAR: THIS AMERICAN COMPANY WITH A RED & WHITE STAR LOGO WAS FINED FOR SELLING THE NATIONALISTS DISCOUNT OIL?
TEXACO
CLASSIC MUSIC PRODIGIES: IN 1929 13 YEAR-OLD YEHUDI MENUHIN FIDDLED IN THIS ROYAL LONDON VENUE & THE LIGHTS HAD TO BE TURNED OFF TO STOP THE CHEERING?
THE (ROYAL) ALBERT HALL
LAST TIME I SAW ENGLAND: IN FORD MADOX BROWN'S "THE LAST OF ENGLAND", 19th CENTURY EMIGRANTS LEAVE THIS LANDMARK RECEDING BEHIND THEM?
THE (WHITE) CLIFFS OF DOVER
HOLE: AUSABLE CHASM BILLS ITSELF AS "THE GRAND CANYON OF" THESE NEW YORK STATE MOUNTAINS UP BY LAKE CHAMPLAIN?
THE ADIRONDACKS
BOOKS: THE FIRST WOMAN TO WIN THE PULITZER FOR FICTION, EDITH WHARTON WON FOR THIS 1920 NOVEL ABOUT 1870s NEW YORK CITY?
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
BALLPARK: SOME OF THE BEST THINGS TO EAT AT CHASE FIELD, HOME OF THIS TEAM, ARE GREEN TAMALES & THE SONORAN DOG?
THE ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
POTPOURRI: A PAINTING THAT SPENT 60 YEARS STORED IN THIS ROOM AT THE TOP OF A HOUSE WAS AUTHENTICATED AS A VAN GOGH IN 2013?
THE ATTIC (ACC: LOFT, GARRET)
BEHIND THE SCENES: THE CRY OF THE RED-TAILED HAWK, HEARD HERE, IS OFTEN DUBBED IN BY MOVIE SOUND DESIGNERS FOR THAT OF THIS MAJESTIC BIRD?
THE BALD EAGLE
HEAD: THIS PART OF THE EYE AKA THE OPTIC DISK IS INCAPABLE OF IMAGE DETECTION BECAUSE IT HAS NO PHOTORECEPTORS?
THE BLIND SPOT
FIRST WINNER: J.J. McDERMOTT BARELY BROKE 3 HOURS GETTING FROM ASHLAND TO THE BACK BAY AS ITS FIRST WINNER IN 1897?
THE BOSTON MARATHON
AMERICAN GOS: MAKUNAIMA & HIS BROTHER CREATED THE WORLD, ACCORDING TO THESE WEST INDIES PEOPLE WHO LENT THEIR NAME TO A BIG SEA?
THE CARIB
THURBER QUOTES: A CARTOON CAPTION: FROM A SHORT STORY, "ARE YOU SCRAPING AROUND THE BOTTOM OF THE PICKLE BARREL? ARE YOU SITTING IN" THIS "SEAT?"
THE CATBIRD SEAT
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: Other workers drank ditch water & got ill; Chinese workers drank tea & became 90% of the workforce of this co. heading east from California?
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
BREAKS: ONE OF THE MOST COMMONLY BROKEN BONES IS THIS ONE THAT SERVES AS A STRUT TO SUPPORT THE SHOULDER?
THE COLLARBONE (ACC: CLAVICLE)
SCIENCE: A 2017 STUDY BY ASTRONOMERS SHOWS THAT THIS PART OF OUR SUN ROTATES 4 TIMES AS FAST AS THE SURFACE?
THE CORE
THE DARK: PRESERVED IN JERUSALEM, "THE WAR OF THE SONS OF LIGHT AGAINST THE SONS OF DARKNESS" IS ONE OF THE 7 ORIGINAL THESE?
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
NY TV: IN MANHATTAN IN THE '70s, A STRETCH OF 42nd STREET...WAS KNOWN AS THIS, THE TITLE & SETTING OF ...HBO SHOW...THE "2" IN 42nd STREET?
THE DEUCE
SOCIAL STUDIES: THIS BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT ENFORCES LAWS TO PROTECT INDIVIDUALS' RIGHTS & PROMOTE THE COMMON GOOD?
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
SAILOR WORDS: THIS TERM FOR THE FORWARD SECTION OF THE UPPER DECK CAN BE SHORTENED & SPELLED WITH 3 APOSTROPHES?
THE FORECASTLE (ACC: FO'C'S'LE)
AMERICAN PRESIDENCY PROJECT: THERE ARE MESSAGES, ADDRESSES & REMARKS, LIKE BENJAMIN HARRISON'S TO HIS OLD WAR BUDDIES IN THIS ASSOCIATION OF UNION VETERANS?
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
MIND TRICKS: WHEN YOU APPLY A POSITIVE FIRST IMPRESSION TO EVERYTHING ABOUT A PERSON, IT'S THIS EFFECT--ANGEL, SAINT OR NOT?
THE HALO EFFECT
CALENDAR: THE 27th OF NISAN: YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATES THE VICTIMS OF THIS TRAGEDY?
THE HOLOCAUST
CASTLE ARCHITECTURE: 4-LETTER NAME FOR THE INNERMOST & STRONGEST BUILDING NEAR THE CENTER OF A CASTLE?
THE KEEP
"EE": THEY MAKE UP THE NORTHERN PART OF THE LESSER ANTILLES?
THE LEEWARD ISLANDS
GIFT SHOP: GUITAR PICKS & TOTE BAGS AT PAISLEY PARK FEATURE THIS SYMBOL ...& WAS PRINCE'S NAME FOR A PERIOD OF TIME DURING A CONTRACT DISPUTE?
THE LOVE SYMBOL
20TH CENTURY HISTORY: CONSTRUCTED IN THE 1930s, IT EXTENDED FROM LA FERTE TO THE RHINE RIVER, THOUGH IT ALSO HAD SECTIONS ALONG THE ITALIAN FRONTIER?
THE MAGINOT LINE
GAS: SCIENTISTS HAVE PROPOSED THAT ETHYLENE GAS...THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO WAS THE MYSTERIOUS VAPOR SAID TO TRIGGER THIS SEER'S TRANCES?
THE ORACLE (AT DELPHI) (ACC: PYTHIA)
EURO HISTORY: 6th CENTURY BYZANTINE EMPEROR JUSTINIAN DEFEATED THESE EASTERN GOTHS IN ITALY?
THE OSTROGOTHS
HEAD: THIS "MASTER GLAND" PRODUCES HORMONES LIKE ACTH & PROLACTIN?
THE PITUITARY GLAND (ACC: HYPOPHYSIS)
GIRL GROUPS: ANITA, JUNE & RUTH, SO EXCITED TO BE THESE EPONYMIC SIBLINGS?
THE POINTER SISTERS (ACC: THE POINTERS)
READING TALK: AN EVENT THAT WILL BE LONG REMEMBERED IS "ONE FOR" THESE, LIKE THE ONES PUBLISHED BY ELIAS?
THE RECORD BOOKS
WHAT HAPPENED?: IN 1918 A BRITISH AIRCRAFT DROPPED A NOTE ABOUT THIS PILOT'S FUNERAL ONTO A GERMAN-HELD AIRFIELD?
THE RED BARON
UV: UV RAYS FROM THE SUN CAN INJURE THIS PART OF THE EYE THAT CONTAINS RODS & CONES?
THE RETINA
EX-CREATURES: THE ELEPHANT BIRD, WHICH STOOD 11 FEET HIGH, MAY HAVE GIVEN RISE TO THE LEGEND OF THIS GIANT BIRD OF THE SINBAD STORIES?
THE ROC (ACC: RUKH)
MUSCLE: A GROUP OF MUSCLES THAT HELPS ROTATE THE NECK...GIVES THE MUSCLES THIS NAME ALSO USED FOR THAT TYPE OF TRIANGLE IN GEOMETRY (3-DIFFERENT SIZE SIDES)?
THE SCALENE MUSCLES (ACC: SCALENUS)
"PACK": Melting from one of these in the Sierra Nevada provides about 1/3 of California's water need?
THE SNOWPACK
NEEDLE: IT'S THE 6-LETTER TERM FOR THE "NEEDLE" THAT FOLLOWS THE GROOVE IN A VINYL RECORD?
THE STYLUS
BEER: THE 1st BREWERS MAY HAVE BEEN THIS MESOPOTAMIAN PEOPLE c. 6000 B.C.; THEY EVEN HAD A GODDESS OF BEER, NINKASI?
THE SUMERIANS
BACKYARD: Get cushions for Adirondack chairs in an outdoor fabric, like this brand that began in the 1960s as an awning canvas?
THE SUNBRELLA
SPRING: IN A POEM TITLED THIS SPRING WARMING PERIOD, THOREAU COMPARES MELTING SNOW TO EARTH'S TEARS?
THE THAW
NATIONAL: FROM THE 19th CENTURY UNTIL THEY UNITED IN 1971, MEMBERS OF THIS NATL. FEDERATION WERE KNOWN AS THE TRUCIAL STATES?
THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
U: A BOOM IN OIL PRICES HELPED THIS UNIVERSITY'S ENDOWMENT REACH $31 BILLION IN 2018?
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
"TAKE": IN A SAYING, SOMEONE WHO CATCHES ON EASILY IS SAID TO BE "QUICK ON" THIS?
THE UPTAKE
ANAGRAM TV TITLES: SHUFFLING SLOWLY ON AMC: ADD ANKLE WEIGHT?
THE WALKING DEAD
NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS: IN 2019, AFTER MORE THAN 6 YEARS IN THE POST, JIM YONG KIM WITHDREW AS PRESIDENT OF THIS INTERNATIONAL LENDING ORGANIZATION?
THE WORLD BANK
PAIRS: KILL DEVIL HILLS IN NORTH CAROLINA IS THE SITE OF A LARGE MONUMENT DEDICATED TO THIS PAIR?
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS (ACC: ORVILLE & WILBUR WRIGHT)
THURBER QUOTES: A CARTOON CAPTION: "WELL, IF I CALLED" THIS, "WHY DID YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?"
THE WRONG NUMBER
EGYPT QUEEN: AHMOSE-NEFERTARI WAS THE PATRON OF THIS VAST CAPITAL THAT INCLUDED LUXOR & KARNAK; HER STATUETTE WAS FOUND THERE?
THEBES
SHOPPING ABBREV.: "CELEBRATE LIFE'S MOMENTS" IS A TRADEMARK OF THIS PERSONALIZED GIFT STORE WITH THE INITIALS T.R.?
THINGS REMEMBERED
FIRST WINNER: IN 1903 MAURICE GARIN WAS ITS FIRST WINNER IN 94 HOURS, 33 MINUTES, 14 SECONDS?
TOUR DE FRANCE
ARCHITECTURE TERMS: A CAMPANILE IS A USUALLY FREESTANDING ONE OF THESE HOUSING A BELL?
TOWER (ACC: BELFRY)
ENDS IN "END": TO EXCEED OR ECLIPSE?
TRANSCEND
ENDS IN "X": TO ENTHRALL OR TO PARALYZE WITH TERROR?
TRANSFIX
9: 9-VOLT BATTERIES WERE INTRODUCED TO POWER THESE RADIOS PRESSED TO 1950s TEENAGERS' EARS?
TRANSISTOR RADIOS (MS: HANDHELD, PORTABLE)
HOOEY: WORTHLESS OPINIONS, OR THE EDIBLE STOMACH LINING OF RUMINANTS?
TRIPE
CORDIAL: COINTREAU IS CONSIDERED THIS 2-WORD TYPE OF ORANGE LIQUEUR, BUT YOU WONT FIND IT ON THE LABEL (I CHECKED 3 TIMES!)?
TRIPLE SEC
MOVEABLE FEASTS: THE FOOD CARTS THAT ALWAYS SEEM TO BUMP YOUR ELBOWS ON AIRPLANE AISLES ARE ALSO CALLED THESE, LIKE STREETCARS?
TROLLEYS
DICE GAME: HASBRO SELLS A RETRO 1986 EDITION OF THIS GAME WITH ITS ICONIC DOME-SHAPED POP-O-MATIC DIE ROLLER?
TROUBLE
PACIFIC: THE NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION RUNS THE PTWC-- "PACIFIC" THIS "WARNING CENTER"?
TSUNAMI
SCIENCE: THE LARGEST ONE OF THESE EVER RECORDED WAS 1,720 FEET HIGH & SLAMMED INTO THE ALASKAN PANHANDLE IN 1958 FOLLOWING AN EARTHQUAKE?
TSUNAMI
ELEMENT: BECAUSE IT HAS THE HIGHEST MELTING POINT OF ALL METALS, THIS ELEMENT WAS ...A FILAMENT IN INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS?
TUNGSTEN
ROCK: IN NOVEMBER 2018 THIS BAND FLEW HIGH WITH 12 OF 50 SONGS ON THE HOT ROCK SONGS CHART, INCLUDING "BANDITO", "MORPH" & "MY BLOOD"?
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
Family Government: This family included a secretary of war under Grant, a president & a senator (from Ohio) nicknamed "Mr. Republican"?
Taft
POP MUSIC: "I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It" was a No. 1 Album for this "Yearly" band?
The 1975
Captain Says: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bit on the monitor.) A bit is a sturdy post in a deck for fastening cables & ropes, so when the captain says, "Hold on to" this, it means to grab the last part of a line, not to hang on until no hope remains?
The Bitter End
SINGERS: "Lonely Boy" was one of the songs on this duo's 2011 album "El Camino"?
The Black Keys
HITMAKERS: "Something Just Like This" teamed Coldplay & this EDM duo whose name sounds like a very bad habit?
The Chainsmokers
Songs In Movies: Also in the 1967 movie, "I Wan'na Be Like You" made the cut for Jon Favreau's recent version of this movie?
The Jungle Book
Albums: From 1968, the "Village Green Preservation Society" album is often considered this British band's masterpiece?
The Kinks
"V" SCIENCE: ECLIPSING BINARIES ARE THESE TYPES OF STARS THAT FLUCTUATE IN BRIGHTNESS?
VARIABLE STARS
MONET: DEALERS OFTEN APPLIED THIS GLOSSY MATERIAL, ALSO A FLOOR COVERING, SO NOW CONSERVATORS DO SOME MONET LAUNDERING?
VARNISH
OPERA: Naturally, there's dance music in this Italian's 1859 opera "Un Ballo in Maschera", "A Masked Ball"?
VERDI
DISCOVERY: IN THE 1890s DMITRI IVANOVSKY DISCOVERED THESE INFECTIOUS LITTLE ORGANISMS, FROM THE LATIN FOR "POISON"?
VIRUSES
"Berg": Missile launches are part of the mission of the California Air Force base named for this general?
Vandenberg
National Parks: The name of this waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite means "occurring in spring", also the time to see it at its peak?
Vernal
Shark Week: The subcutaneous lateral line on this tiger shark senses these quivering motions in the water, perhaps from a struggling fish?
Vibrations
SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV: YOU CAN START YOUR MORNING WITH "DESPIERTA AMERICA", WHOSE TITLE COMMANDS AMERICA TO DO THIS?
WAKE UP (ACC: AWAKEN)
"LL" ANIMALS: PRIOR TO THE LYRICAL DIRECTION TO "TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN", YOU'RE ASKED TO WATCH THIS BREED FEED, MATE?
WALLABY
SENATOR & PRESIDENT: THIS OHIOAN FOUND THE SENATE "FAR MORE TO MY LIKING THAN" BEING PRES. COULD BE; SCANDAL & DEATH IN OFFICE FOLLOWED?
WARREN G. HARDING
PARASITIC PLANTS: In a chain of parasitism, the love vine feeds on galls, the tissue swellings made by these bee relatives, which feed on oak trees?
WASPS
PLAY'S LAST LINES: A MUSICAL: "HOW MANY CAN I KILL...& STILL HAVE ONE BULLET LEFT FOR ME? DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM! TE ADORO, ANTON"?
WEST SIDE STORY
MOUNTAIN: SNOWSHOE MOUNTAIN IS A NEARLY 5,000-FOOT SKI SITE IN THIS U.S. "MOUNTAIN STATE"?
WEST VIRGINIA
5-LETTER "W": A SHORE AREA LIKE THE PRINCES ONE, AN ATTRACTION IN AUCKLAND?
WHARF
"OC": IN MATH, THIS OF x IS 1/x, & THE FEELING IS MUTUAL?
WHAT IS RECIPROCAL
KINGS: IN APRIL 1191 PHILIP IIKE OF FRANCE LANDED IN ACRE ON THIS SEA; IN JULY, HIS CRUSADING DONE, HE SAILED FOR HOME?
WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
POLITICS: HE BECAME U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL IN 2019, 27 YEARS AFTER TAKING THE JOB FOR THE FIRST TIME?
WILLIAM BARR
AUTHOR: "CAST A COLD EYE ON LIFE, ON DEATH. HORSEMAN, PASS BY!" SAYS THIS POET'S TOMBSTONE IN IRELAND'S COUNTY SLIGO?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
LESSER KNOWN NAMES: RUTH BRYAN OWEN, U.S. MINISTER TO DENMARK FROM 1933 TO 1936, WAS THE OLDEST DAUGHTER OF THIS STATESMAN?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
TIME CAPSULE: A 1913 "CENTURY CHEST" OPENED IN 2013 INCLUDED A PEN USED BY THIS PRESIDENT TO SIGN THE 1900 OKLAHOMA FREE HOMES BILL?
WILLIAM McKINLEY
BOTANICAL GARDEN: LONGWOOD GARDENS NEAR PHILADELPHIA ORIGINATED WITH LAND PURCHASED FROM THIS QUAKER IN 1700?
WILLIAM PENN
RECENT POLITICS: IN FEB. 2019 THIS GOP EX-MASSACHUSETTS GOV. ANNOUNCED FOR PRES. & URGED "PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL TO TAKE A STAND & PLANT A FLAG"?
WILLIAM WELD
WESTERN U.S.: IF YOU'RE "STANDIN' ON A CORNER IN" THIS CITY IN ARIZONA, HEAD 20 MILES WEST TO SEE A 550'-DEEP METEOR CRATER?
WINSLOW
AVERAGE: ADD AN "A" TO THE MIDDLE OF A NON-HOLIDAY TO GET THIS WORD MEANING "ORDINARY"?
WORKADAY
BEGINS AND ENDS WITH "W": IT'S SOMEONE'S GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OR PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE?
WORLDVIEW
"OFF": ANYTHING GIVEN UP AS POINTLESS, OR SPECIFICALLY, AN ACCOUNT GIVEN UP AS A LOSS?
WRITE-OFF
MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES: 102 minus 10 to this Latin bandleader, "The Rumba King"?
Xavier Cugat
DICE GAME: IN THIS CLASSIC GAME A LARGE STRAIGHT GETS YOU 40 POINTS & 5 OF A KIND GETS YOU THIS, 50 POINTS & THE NAME OF THE GAME?
YAHTZEE (ACC: YACHT)
COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE: IN SONNET 17, SHAKESPEARE FEARS THAT HIS WRITINGS MIGHT TURN TO THIS COLOR WITH AGE & "BE SCORN'D LIKE OLD MEN OF LESS TRUTH"?
YELLOW
FLOATING HOLIDAY: HINDUS PERFORM THIS 4-LETTER PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE ON THE GREAT NIGHT OF SHIVA, WHICH IS IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH?
YOGA
HONORS: This fashion designer & "Project Runway" judge won a Scholastic Art & Writing Award in 1999?
Zac Posen
"ista": This type of soldier works out of Chiapas?
Zapatista
Rhyme Time: Calamitous sleight of hand?
Tragic Magic
Wall: A book about Frank Calvert & Heinrich Schliemann is called "Finding the Walls of" this city?
Troy
SHORT STORY: SURPRISINGLY, A RICHARD RUSSO TALE ABOUT A DISMAL ROAD TRIP IS TITLED THIS HAPPY "RIDE"?
JOY (RIDE)
Maze: Some scholars believe medieval labyrinths like Chartres Cathedral's were meant to simulate pilgrimage to this city?
Jerusalem
SCIENCE: AN EXPERIMENT IN WHICH ANIMALS ARE REARED IN ISOLATION TO SEE WHAT FEATURES ARE INNATE IS NAMED FOR THIS FOUNDLING OF 19th C. GERMANY?
KASPAR HAUSER
ASIA: 4 BIG COUNTRIES ALMOST MEET IN THE HEART OF ASIA; CHINA & RUSSIA SHARE... BORDER THAT ALSO SEPARATES MONGOLIA & THIS COUNTRY?
KAZAKHSTAN
COUNTRY PATHWAY SHORTCUTS: SOMALIA & UGANDA?
KENYA
SCIENCE: IN 1916 THE GREAT CHEMIST GILBERT LEWIS CALLED THE CENTRAL PART OF AN ATOM THIS, A WORD WE USE FOR THE SEED IN AN APRICOT PIT?
KERNEL
CORRUPTION: A BRIBE CAN BE PAID UPFRONT; IF AN OFFICIAL HELPS ME FIRST & I PAY HIM LATER, IT'S THIS 8-LETTER WORD?
KICKBACK
KINGS: IN 2017 DUTCH KING WILLEM-ALEXANDER REVEALED THAT HE'D SPENT 21 YEARS AS A CO-PILOT FOR THIS AIRLINE?
KLM (ACC: ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES)
BELLS: MACBETH RHYMES, "THE BELL INVITES ME. HEAR IT NOT, DUNCAN, FOR IT IS A" THIS "THAT SUMMONS THEE TO HEAVEN, OR TO HELL"?
KNELL
TOOL WORD: A FAST SWIMMER CAN DO THIS "SHARPLY" THROUGH THE WATER?
KNIFE
NEW COUNTRY: RUSSIA & CHINA DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THIS MUSLIM MAJORITY NATION THAT BROKE AWAY FROM SERBIA IN 2008?
KOSOVO
FOOD: TAKE HOME A TAPIOCA PUDDING FROM KOZY THIS DWELLING?
KOZY SHACK
THE HERO...: ...OF THE GAME "GOD OF WAR" WHO DEFIES DEITIES?
KRATOS
DUMPLINGS: KNAIDLACH ARE MATZO BALLS & THESE SIMILARLY NAMED ITEMS ARE JEWISH NOODLE DUMPLINGS?
KREPLACH (ACC: KREPLECH)
ASIAN CITIES: BISHKEK, WHICH BEGAN AS A FORTRESS IN 1825, IS TODAY THE LEADING CITY OF THIS "STAN"?
KYRGYZSTAN
HITMAKERS: Known for tunes like "Don't Happen Twice", this country singer hit the album sales chart with "Live in No Shoes Nation"?
Kenny Chesney
Lieder: Discovered in 2017, "Lied vom Weissen Käse", or "Song of the White Cheese", is by this composer who often worked with Bertolt Brecht?
Kurt Weill
2 DIFFERENT PLACES: "WE ARE HERE" IN THIS CITY—BUT THE ONE WITH A U. OF LOUISIANA CAMPUS, OR THE SEAT OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA??
LAFAYETTE
SCIENCE: THIS STRUCTURE IN THE RESPIRATORY TRACT FORMS THE ADAM'S APPLE IN MALES & IS USED IN MAKING SOUNDS?
LARYNX (ACC: "LARNYX", VOICE BOX)
ALLITERATIVE PHRASE: SNICKERING & SMILING CAUSE THESE LASTING WRINKLES TO FORM ON YOUR FACE?
LAUGH LINES
PALE AIL: WOMEN OF CENTURIES AGO WERE PALE & AILING DUE TO THIS-BASED PAINT THEY USED TO WHITEN THEIR SKIN?
LEAD
CIRCUS: DESULTOR IS AN OLD TERM FOR SOMEONE WHO DOES THIS WHILE 2 HORSES ARE RUNNING?
LEAP OR JUMP FROM ONE TO THE OTHER
LIT: ALCOHOLIC BEN SANDERSON DECIDES TO DRINK HIMSELF TO DEATH IN SIN CITY IN THIS JOHN O'BRIEN NOVEL?
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
ELF: THE GHOSTS OF MEN ARE NO BIGGIE FOR THIS TOLKIEN ELF, BUT A BALROG?! THE ANCIENT FIRE MONSTER FREAKS HIM OUT?
LEGOLAS
AUTHOR'S RHYME TIME: LATE NOVELIST DORIS' BENEDICTIONS?
LESSING'S BLESSINGS
GREEK: THIS SYNONYM FOR DICTIONARY COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "WORD"?
LEXICON
"-GRAM": A FEW APES HAVE... COMMUNICATE WHILE KANZI THE BONOBO BECAME A WHIZ WITH THESE GRAPHIC SYMBOLS THAT REPRESENT WORDS?
LEXIGRAMS
3 I's: A LATIN TERM USED BY FREUD GIVES US THIS ADJECTIVE MEANING "LUSTFUL"?
LIBIDINOUS
"L": THIS TOPICAL ANESTHETIC APPLIED IN ADHESIVE PATCHES HAS ALSO BEEN MARKETED AS BURN-O-JEL?
LIDOCAINE
GAS: EUROPE'S FIRST USE OF GAS FOR THIS PURPOSE WAS WITH COAL GAS IN WILLIAM MURDOCK'S COTTAGE IN 1792?
LIGHTING
CAT IDIOMS: TO APPEAR BEDRAGGLED IS TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING THAT ARRIVED THIS WAY?
LIKE THE CAT DRAGGED IN (ACC: BROUGHT IN, DRUG IN)
LIL RAPPER: SKIPPA DA FLIPPA MENTIONS VIKINGS ON "MINNESOTA" BY THIS LIL ATLANTA RAPPER?
LIL YACHTY
COLOFRUL LIT: BY MARTHA HALL KELLY ABOUT 3 WOMEN WHOSE LIVES INTERSECT DURING WORLD WAR II & THE HOLOCAUST: "____ GIRLS"?
LILAC
CORDIAL: SOAK LEMON ZEST IN ALCOHOL & SUGAR TO MAKE THIS ITALIAN DELIGHT?
LIMONCELLO
EMMY WINNER: CUE THE SLO-MO, SHE WAS THE TITLE BIONIC WOMAN JAIME SOMMERS & THE 1977 WINNER?
LINDSAY WAGNER
MEMOIR: FIRST NAME OF STEVE JOBS' DAUGHTER WHOSE 2018 BOOK "SMALL FRY" SHOWS DAD'S GOOD & BAD SIDES?
LISA (BRENNAN-JOBS)
"L": THE CARBONATE FORM OF THIS IS USED TO TREAT BIPOLAR DISORDERS?
LITHIUM
BODY PART: PRODUCES BILE & STORES ENERGY FROM FOOD?
LIVER
RULES: SALT STANDS FOR "STATE AND" THESE "TAXES" & THERE'S NOW A $10,000 LIMIT ON DEDUCTING THEM ON YOUR IRS 1040?
LOCAL
LOGGER: IN THE 1800s LUMBERJACKS DEVELOPED THIS FAST-FOOTED SPORT AKA BIRLING?
LOGROLLING
NONFICTION: THE ACTUAL 1948 KIDNAPPING OF 11-YEAR-OLD SALLY HORNER IS THE SUBJECT OF "THE REAL" THIS FICTIONAL GIRL?
LOLITA
RISE TO THE OCCASION: A champagne reception & amazing views greeted those who did this city's Gherkin Challenge, climbing 1,038 stairs for charity?
LONDON
BAD-JECTIVES: THIS 5-LETTER WORD FOR ANYTHING BAD ALSO MEANS TO BE INFESTED WITH PARASITIC INSECTS?
LOUSY
TRAVEL: THE LAST LOCALE OF ANTHONY BOURDAIN'S "PARTS UNKNOWN" TO AIR WAS THIS HISTORICALLY IMMIGRANT-FILLED "SIDE" OF MANHATTAN?
LOWER EAST SIDE
MOVEABLE FEASTS: IN 1935 MICKEY MOUSE WAS THE FIRST CARTOON CHARACTER TO APPEAR ON THESE MEAL CONTAINERS FOR KIDS?
LUNCH BOXES
Y ONLY VOWEL: CLEAR BODY FLUID CONTAINING WHITE BLOOD CELLS?
LYMPH
MARCH: ON MARCH 15, 1965 HE TOLD CONGRESS, "WE SHALL OVERCOME"?
LYNDON JOHNSON
WILDLIFE REGUGE: NEW YORK'S SEATUCK REFUGE IS HOME TO THESE BIRDS OF PREY ALSO KNOWN AS FISH EAGLES?
OSPREYS
RHYMES WITH ALL: TO EXAMINE EXTENSIVELY & THEN MAKE ANY NEEDED REPAIRS?
OVERHAUL
"O"PERA: OPERA COMPOSER CHRISTOPH GLUCK WROTE THAT THIS INSTRUMENTAL SEGMENT SHOULD PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE PLAY'S PLOT?
OVERTURE
ELEMENT: THIS ELEMENT IS USUALLY FOUND AS A DIATOMIC MOLECULE MAKING UP ABOUT 21% OF EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE?
OXYGEN
METEOROLOGY: This triatomic allotrope of oxygen leaves that peculiar smell in the air after thunderstorms?
OZONE
Shape: The shape created by two interlocking circles is called a vesica piscis, Latin for this bladder?
Fish
PEOPLE IN HISTORY: A biography told of "The Prophet Outcast:" this October Revolution man & eventual Russian exile, "1929-1940"?
(Leon) Trotsky
ALLITERATIVE PHRASE: SHIPS OF YORE MASKED THEIR NATIONALITY WITH THESE, NOW A TERM FOR ANY COVERT ACT DESIGNED TO MAKE ANOTHER ENTITY LOOK GUILTY?
FALSE FLAG
VIDEO GAMES: THIS "DISTANT" UBISOFT FRANCHISE HAS HAD YOU GO PREHISTORIC, FUTURISTIC &, MOST RECENTLY, FACING A DOOMSDAY CULT?
FAR CRY
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS: THE MESSAGE BIBLE BRINGS "A PRIZE-WINNING HEIFER" TO THE PRODIGAL SON'S FEAST INSTEAD OF THIS FAMILIAR PHRASE?
FATTED CALF
LIGHT: MITCH IN "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" KNOWS HIS CLASSIC SIMILES, TELLING BLANCHE SHE'S "LIGHT AS" THIS BIRD PART?
FEATHER
DIET: 1809's DIET OF PORVOO BROUGHT THIS NORTHERN COUNTRY UNDER THE CONTROL OF RUSSIA?
FINLAND
SCI-FI SUBGENRES: AN ALIEN SOCIETY'S INITIAL TRIP TO EARTH IS A HALLMARK OF THIS GENRE, ALSO A SUBTITLE OF THE 1996 "STAR TREK" MOVIE?
FIRST CONTACT
QUARTZ: A FORM OF QUARTZ GAVE ITS NAME TO THIS FIRING MECHANISM USED IN OLD-TIMEY PISTOLS?
FLINTLOCK
UV: GLASS-LINING SUBSTANCES CALLED PHOSPHORS ABSORB UV RADIATION TO MAKE THESE ENERGY-EFFICIENT LAMPS GLOW?
FLUORESCENT (LAMPS)
BACTERIA: SULFA DRUGS KILL BACTERIA BY PREVENTING THE PRODUCTION OF THIS B VITAMIN ACID THAT'S CRUCIAL TO LIFE?
FOLIC ACID
"GOLD" RECORDS: ONE DIRECTION, FITZ & THE TANTRUMS & GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR HAVE ALL RECORDED SONGS TITLED THIS?
FOOL'S GOLD
POLITICS: KEEPING SILENT IS ONE WAY TO AVOID THIS POLITICAL SPEAKING "DISEASE", A PUN ON A REAL DISEASE OF CATTLE?
FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE? (ACC: HOOF...)
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER: "NE M'OUBLIEZ PAS" FLOWERS BLOOM AS A "DALLAS" TV SPINOFF?
FORGET ME KNOT'S LANDING? (FORGET ME NOT)
POP CULTURE PAIR: THIS COMIC STRIP PAIR SOUNDS LIKE THEY WOULD BE VERY DIRECT & SINCERE?
FRANK & ERNEST
CLASSICAL MUSIC: IN THE 1840s HENRYK SZOPOWICZ WROTE A COLLECTION OF MAZURKAS "A LA" THIS COMPOSER?
FREDERIC CHOPIN
BOOKS: IT'S THE TERM FOR AN ILLUSTRATION FACING A BOOK'S TITLE PAGE?
FRONTISPIECE
TASTES: BIG, FULL-BODIED, JAMMY &, DARE WE SAY, UNSUBTLE RED WINES ARE CALLED THESE "BOMBS"?
FRUIT (BOMBS)
1966: MODERN AUTO SAFETY TOOK A BIG STEP IN '66 AS LBJ SIGNED BILLS MANDATING SEATBELTS & RUPTURE-RESISTANT THESE?
FUEL (OR GAS) TANKS
Fashion Don'ts: Some call 'em bum bags & while PopSugar called this "the It bag in the '80s", it was "What To Give Up" in 2018?
Fanny Pack
WOMEN SOLDIERS: In 2015 the first women completed a grueling course at this Georgia fort & became Army rangers?
Fort Benning
Disputed Territories: Russia recognizes Abkhazia's independence, declared in 1999, but this country, in which Abkhazia lies, does not?
Georgia
DICTATORS: This czar had the nickname "grozny", which meant "awesome" as well as "threatening"?
Ivan the Terrible
MEMORIALS: The circles in the five pillars of the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona are designed to line up on this fall date?
November 11th
Government In Crisis: This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law?
Nullification
2018 BOOKS: "BOOM TOWN: THE FANTASTICAL SAGA OF" THIS MIDWEST CAPITAL CITY INCLUDES "ITS CHAOTIC FOUNDING" ON APRIL 22, 1889 & MUCH MORE?
OKLAHOMA CITY
ALTAR: MIKHAIL GUTSERIEV, ON A TREASURY DEPT. LIST AS THIS "O" WORD, PUT ON A 2016 "BILLION DOLLAR WEDDING" FOR HIS SON?
OLIGARCH
ARCHITECTURE: LUKOVITSA IS THE RUSSIAN NAME FOR THIS VEGETABLE-SHAPED STYLE OF TOWER DOME?
ONION (DOME)
"UM": IT'S NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND WHEN THIS MARSUPIAL MOM IS ON THE MOVE?
OPOSSUM (ACC: POSSUM, VIRGINIA OPOSSUM)
COMICS: Berkeley Breathed was inspired to bring this penguin back to 2-D life by a fan letter from Harper Lee, a childhood hero?
OPUS
"O"PERA: RICHARD STRAUSS' "ELEKTRA" HAS A BIG RECOGNITION SCENE BETWEEN THE TITLE CHARACTER & HIM?
ORESTES
Hot Stuff: The hottest part of the flame of this lab device actually designed by Peter Desaga reaches 2,700 degrees?
a Bunsen burner
Horses: This horse breed traces its origins to a stallion named for its owner, Justin?
a Morgan
PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS: This structure takes its name from a military base in Rhode Island, where it was first built during World War II?
a Quonset hut
Seat: A Jason Aldean country song is called "Ask Any Ol'" this backless seat at a drinking establishment?
a barstool
METEOROLOGY: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows storms on a map.) In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle"?
a cyclone
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique?
a dad bod
Triple Rhyme Time: Sacred place for your most exceptional bottle of Bordeaux?
a fine wine shrine
"-ish": This, another word for a fanfare, means the king has arrived?
a flourish
"A" TO "F": This striped hyena relative of Africa feeds chiefly on insects?
an aardwolf
Medical Terms: A kid with a skinned knee can impress his friends by telling him he has this, from the Latin meaning "scrape off"?
an abrasion
Body Part Within Response: We'll go out on a limb & say it's another term for a parable?
an allegory
"SARUS": File under "A" this giant carnivore of the late Jurassic?
an allosaurus
"A" TO "F": Today chiefly used in viola music, it's the music score symbol with a 2-word name seen here?
an alto clef
Poetic Words: Consonance is repetition of consonant; this other "nance" is repetition of vowels?
assonance
"i" science: Fiberglass & cork act as these when retarding thermal currents?
insulators
5-Syllable Words: At the University of Washington, Spanish 101 is elementary, 201 is this & 301 is advanced?
intermediate
Inventors: In a movie Greg Kinnear played Robert Kearns, who fought Detroit over this drizzly day innovation of his?
intermittent windshield wipers
JPL: In 2017 JPL was able to restart long-dormant thrusters on Voyager 1; that helped reorient the spacecraft, so it can maintain communication from 13 billion miles away in this 12-letter space between solar systems?
interstellar
ARTIFACTS: What's called the this of Ashurbanipal in what was Nineveh has yielded thousands of clay tablets written in cuneiform?
the library
What's In Your Brain: From a Latin word for "edge", this primitive "system" of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding, fighting & fleeing?
the limbic system
VIRAL CHALLENGES: Everyone was standing still to "Black Beatles" by Rae Sremmurd in the challenge named for these dummies?
the mannequin challenge
