Letter W0rds Part 2

4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $600: Tolstoy was partly inspired to write this novel after a neighbor threw herself under a train

"Anna Karenina"

CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" $1000: New Year's Eve song (4,4,4)

"Auld Lang Syne"

15-LETTER WORDS $1000: From German myth, it means "Twilight of the gods"

"Gotterdammerung"

THAT '70s SONG $1000: This 1971 hit from Bread would fit in a 2-letter words category

"If"

4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's sounded just before the lights go out in your barracks

"Taps"

RUBY $1600: Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar wrote this classic song about "eight little letters which simply mean I love you"

"Three Little Words"

SUFFIXES $1600: 3-letter suffix meaning an incomplete resemblance to the word it's added to, like "human" & "planet"

-oid

NUMERICAL PHRASES $400: Though "heck" & "darn" are examples of these, the phrase usually refers to saltier language

4-letter words

ADD A LETTER $400: It turns the Greek letter lambda into a sexy dance

A (lambada)

2-LETTER ABBREV. $5,000 (Daily Double): This service was formed by 6 NYC newspapers in 1848

AP

2-LETTER ABBREV. $600: It's the room in school where they usually keep equipment like cassette recorders & slide projectors

AV

4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Raymond Massey played the 16th president as a young man in this 1940 film

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

10-LETTER WORDS $500: From the Latin for "growing up", it's another term for a teen

Adolescent

CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" $2000: MTV cartoon "____ Flux" (4)

Aeon

CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" $1200: The first "A" in NASA (11)

Aeronautics

CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" $1600: "Cryin'" & "Crazy" rock group (9)

Aerosmith

CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" $400: Fabulous fabulist (5)

Aesop

TREE-LETTER WORDS $600: Yes, this "action" is a program trying to end discrimination in employment

Affirmative

11-LETTER WORDS $600: The largest ethnic group in this war-torn nation is the Pushtun, making up about 40% of the population

Afghanistan

9-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): A descendant of 17th century Dutch settlers in South Africa

Afrikaner

15-LETTER WORDS $1200: In 1964 James Garner & Julie Andrews starred in "The" this "of Emily"

Americanization

15-LETTER WORDS $800: This process that makes someone more U.S. citizen-like happens to "Emily" in the title of a William Huie novel

Americanization

4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): For its work on behalf of prisoners of conscience, this organization won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize

Amnesty International

HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1600: It should prove to be a most interesting discussion

Amos (in a most)

10-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): The only continent that fits the category

Antarctica

12-LETTER WORDS $600: Margaret Mead & Ruth Fulton Benedict's field

Anthropology

5-LETTER WORDS $300: It's the zodiac sign symbolized by a ram

Aries

12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Greek for "stopping of the pulse", it's another term for suffocation

Asphyxiation

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $2000: An extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa 1 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus

2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what you "get" when you lose your job or your head

Ax

ADD A LETTER $600: When this letter is added to flame it becomes a flaming dessert

B (flambé)

ADD A LETTER $2000: In a raid, add this letter & it may describe the fury & rage that you feel

B (for rabid)

"B" $1,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the stock ticker symbol for Sotheby's is this 3-letter word

BID

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: This religious service for college graduates is usually held on the Sunday before commencement day

Baccalaureate

3-LETTER WORDS $600: This watery term turns up in the names of 2 NFL teams

Bay

HOUND DOG $800: 3-letter word for a wide type of window, or a hound's long, deep howl

Bay

3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Arabic for "son of", it's often used in personal names

Bin (or Ibn)

5, 5 $2,800 (Daily Double): It's the only Dickens novel that fits the category

Bleak House

WITCHCRAFT $100: This 4-letter word for a witch's potion is also a slang term for a beer

Brew

ACCENTS $1600: 11-letter word for the speech associated with locutions like "dese" & "dose"

Brooklynese

2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER $600: Fo--Chinese name for this prince turned religious leader

Buddha

SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Last name of 2 presidents, or a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant

Bush

ADD A LETTER $2000: When a fisherman adds this letter to "reel", he gets a wicker basket for holding his fish

C (for creel)

WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $1000: These 2 letters give you an adjective meaning sordid & unkempt

C-D/seedy

ALPHABET SOUP $800: It's the highest officer of a company, like Michael Eisner for Disney

CEO

WORD TO THE CHEF $400: 5-letter word for a male chicken that's been "fixed"

Capon

8-LETTER WORDS $400: This buttoned sweater & a matching shell usually make up a twin set

Cardigan

10-LETTER WORDS $300: This branch of medicine deals with the diseases & functions of the heart

Cardiology

4-LETTER WORDS $500: This founder of analytical psychology will never get old

Carl Jung

10-LETTER WORDS $100: It can mean lasting 100 years, or a 100th anniversary celebration

Centennial

5-LETTER WORDS $300: It's a danger to a chess player's king, or something you request from a waiter

Check

CIRCLE OF LIFE $400: Enchantress who made Odysseus' men pig-headed

Circe

15-LETTER WORDS $800: One who travels completely around the world

Circumnavigator

8-LETTER WORDS $200: Having no idea, like Alicia Silverstone in a 1995 movie

Clueless

8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This type of chemical bond can be polar, nonpolar, single, double, triple or coordinate

Covalent bond

ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER $200: Add this letter to Earth & you get a scarcity

D (dearth)

ALPHABET SOUP $400: Paul Muller won a 1948 Nobel Prize for developing this now widely banned insecticide

DDT

A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 1916 this movement was founded by a group of artists & poets in Zurich; come to ...

Dada

Q-P $1600: He's the villainous moneylender in "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Daniel Quilp

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $400: The first appearance of daylight, or the dishwashing detergent that's tough on grease

Dawn

SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $200: The little sister of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Tony Orlando's backup singers

Dawn

12-LETTER WORDS $400: Pastrami, corned beef, lox & bagels are common fare at this type of restaurant

Delicatessen

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: The knob on a radio, or the antibacterial soap you'd use on your hands if the knob was dirty

Dial

2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Ut" used to be used for the first or keynote of the musical scale; this has replaced it

Do

FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: David Letterman said the president loves to hear this 6-word McDonald's mantra

Do you want/would you like fries with that?

WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $500: Odd that this is the only one of Disney's 7 Dwarfs whose name is contained in "Jeopardy!"

Dopey

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $200: The bird that found land for Noah, or the soap that's 1/4 moisturizing lotion

Dove

WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $500: This 4-letter word is derived from the phrase "od rot" or "God rot"

Drat

HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: Alexia is word blindness; this is a reading disability in which letters are reversed &/or transposed

Dyslexia

LETTER PERFECT $400: Crossword puzzle competitors save time by using the lower-case version of this most common English letter

E

2-LETTER WORDS $1600: This hesitation word Americans spell U-H is spelled this way in Britain

E-R

ALPHABET SOUP $200: This TV drama is set at Chicago's Cook County General Hospital

ER

TRIOS $2,000 (Daily Double): Planet between Venus and Mars, thing measured by Beaufort & brilliant gem property

Earth, wind & fire

2-LETTER WORDS $400: In TV show titles this name has stood alone & followed "Mister"

Ed

WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $400: Book of Genesis garden

Eden

TREE-LETTER WORDS $400: On "Sesame Street" he's tickled to have his own "World"

Elmo

8-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of anesthesia used during childbirth, or the space around the spinal cord where it is injected

Epidural

HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $2000: Yes there were many reasons to look at him

Esther (in Yes there)

CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" $800: Greek geometry genius (6)

Euclid

15-LETTER WORDS $400: This formal ecclesiastical censure deprives a person of membership in a church

Excommunication

PHONETICS $1000: In the words "fricative" & "spirant", the 2 fricative or spirant letters

F & S

SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $300: "I'm gonna live forever...light up the sky like a flame...baby remember my name" & also this tune

Fame

THE SPORT OF KINGS $400: In the names of thoroughbred stables, this 4-letter word follows Calumet, Claiborne or North Ridge

Farm

SANTA CLAUS $1000: 2-word name that British children use for Santa; J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his kids a series of "Letters" from him

Father Christmas

7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word is German for "violinist"; that makes the late Boston Pops conductor Arthur Violinist

Fiedler

4-LETTER WORDS $200: A perpetual one was tended to by the Vestal Virgins

Fire

4-LETTER WORDS $400: Deep-bodied with flat sides & a small head, a bream is a type of this

Fish

BRAND NAMES $1000: This 5-letter word follows "Marshmallow" in the name of Durkee-Mower's marshmallow creme

Fluff

12-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's your condition if you have great admiration for Paris, Flaubert, Beaujolais, etc.

Francophilia

6-LETTER WORDS $400: In Esperanto this day of the week is Vendredo

Friday

ADD A LETTER $8,700 (Daily Double): It makes Mama really hot stuff

G (magma)

2-LETTER ABBREV. $200: Hey Joe! It's informal for a U.S. soldier

G.I.

BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $600: This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king

Gargantuan

4-LETTER WORDS $300: Middle name of cowboy star Orvon Autry

Gene

3-LETTER WORDS $600: In '60s Top 40 songs it preceded "Back", "Ready" & "Together"

Get

9-LETTER WORDS $800: This British dependency is one of the southernmost points on the Iberian Peninsula

Gibraltar

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $600: How you feel when you're happy, or the joy of putting trash in this product's garbage bags, the first plastic ones sold

Glad

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $800: David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words

Glengarry Glen Ross

2-LETTER WORDS $200: In the name of the children's card game, it precedes "fish"

Go

ONE-WORD IMPERATIVES $1000: On April 20, 1653 Oliver Cromwell told the Rump Parliament, "In the name of God", this 2-letter word

Go!

5-LETTER WORDS $400: As a noun it's a steep-walled canyon; as a verb, to stuff yourself with food

Gorge

5-LETTER WORDS $800: Kasdoop is a Dutch version of fondue, made with this kind of cheese

Gouda

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: The Sorting Hat placed Harry Potter in this House at Hogwarts

Gryffindor

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Manly first name of British plotter Fawkes & "Sesame Street" game-show host Smiley

Guy

LETTER PERFECT $400: Cockneys are known for dropping this letter from the start of words

H

ADD A LETTER $800: Add this letter to cafe & you get a word meaning to irritate by rubbing

H (chafe)

ADD A LETTER $1600: Add this letter to sale & it becomes a type of rock

H (for shale)

ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER $400: Add this letter to Mars & you get a fen

H (marsh)

2-LETTER WORDS $300: Julia Sweeney's experiences with cancer inspired her one-woman show, "God Said" this!

Ha!

2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER $400: Aa--basaltic lava having a rough surface, from this language that brought us the Lanai

Hawaiian

HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: Every morning she brews up a cup of hot tea

Hebrews (in she brews)

4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Sir Francis Drake's ship that circumnavigated the world was the "Golden" this

Hind

NOTORIOUS $200: Lepke Buchalter of Murder, Inc. is credited with first using this 3-letter word for an arranged killing

Hit

HORNS $800: Mystery surrounds the origin of this 11-letter word for "to cheat" or "to swindle"

Hornswaggle

12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the type of party you throw to show off your new home

Housewarming

3-LETTER WORDS $1200: A German soldier during WWI, or a member of Attila's tribe

Hun

4-LETTER WORDS $300: Dash it, it's German for "dog"

Hund

10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the longest side of a right triangle

Hypotenuse

ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER $600: Add this letter to Saturn's moon Titan & you get a Renaissance guy who liked to paint Venus

I (Titian)

ADD A LETTER $1600: Sorry to tell you that adding this letter to "apology" turns it into the study of bees

I (for apiology)

ADD A LETTER $1600: This letter will turn your smile into a figure of speech

I (simile)

WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $800: These 2 letters can often be seen growing on the sides of college buildings

I-V/ivy

TECH TALK $1600: 3-letter (sounding like 3-word) name of an instant messaging program introduced in November 1996

ICQ

2-LETTER ABBREV. $800: It refers to fluids or drugs injected directly into a blood vessel

IV

"I.M." ING $2000: After the death of a friend, Tennyson wrote poems on death, faith & immortality that he linked in this elegy

In Memoriam

"I.M." ING $1600: This administrative region in northeast China was once ruled by Kublai Khan

Inner Mongolia

2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A small hawk, or a moon of Jupiter

Io

4-LETTER WORDS $1000: "Eye" this Greek goddess of the rainbow

Iris

"I.M." ING $1200: This superhero is one of the few who informed the world of his alter ego, Tony Stark

Iron Man

HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: Drivers often got in a jam especially when it was raining

James (in jam especially)

2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER $200: No--yes, no is a classic drama of this country

Japan

2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Someone's sweetheart (or the first name of the tomboyish heroine of "Little Women")

Jo

3-LETTER WORDS $200: This term for coffee is also a man's nickname

Joe

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Oh, happiness! She shares "The View" with Elisabeth & Barbara

Joy

ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER $1000: Add this letter to star & get something harsh or grim

K (stark)

4-LETTER WORDS $500: Besides the rook, the 2 other chess pieces that fit the category

King & pawn

4-LETTER WORDS $200: Miss Te Kanawa should know this means "left" in Java

Kiri

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: This feline word follows "Hello" in the name of a Sanrio character

Kitty

10-LETTER WORDS $400: In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree"

Kookaburra

ADD A LETTER $1000: This letter turns the classic movie "Gigi" into a less than classic 2003 film

L (Gigli)

ITALIAN MUSICAL TERMS $600: 5-letter word for "very slow", even slower than lento

Largo

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Middle name of American architect Frank Wright, born in 1867

Lloyd

HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: As long as Lulu kept singing the crowd would cheer

Luke (in Lulu kept)

ADD A LETTER $1200: Adding this letter to heritage gives you a nice, secluded retreat

M (for hermitage)

WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $200: Jennifer Aniston won one in September 2002; her husband Brad was nominated, but didn't win

M-E/Emmy

NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1985: This 6-letter French word meaning setting or environment

M-I-L-I-E-U

WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $600: In 1978 Jackson Browne was "Running on" these 2 letters

M-T/empty

ALPHABET SOUP $1000: This flavor enhancer used in Asian cooking was first obtained from seaweed

MSG

8-LETTER WORDS $600: This wood, seen here, gives a room a solid feeling

Mahogany

SHAKESPEARE $1200: Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word

Measure for Measure

AWARDS $400: The M in AMS, which gives awards for predicting the weather, stands for this 14-letter word

Meteorological

10-LETTER WORDS $400: Superman knows it's from the Greek for "mother city"

Metropolis

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $1200: It's a good place to get a "TAN" (Okay, not really)

Montana

BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Big, perhaps like the object seen here (in Washington, D.C.)

Monumental

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Africa's closest point to the continent of Europe lies in this country 8 miles away

Morocco

5-LETTER WORDS $2000: The harsh aftertaste of this soft drink helped make it a synonym for feistiness or spunk

Moxie

2-LETTER WORDS $500: Don't have a cow, man, it's just the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet

Mu

HARRY POTTER $200: It's the 6-letter word for a nonmagical human

Muggle

THE TERRIBLE TWOS $200: Toddlers are big users of this 2-letter word; parents should save it for when Cindy reaches for the stove

NO!

10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a 3-flavored ice cream usually consisting of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla

Neapolitan

15-LETTER WORDS $200: Myopia

Nearsightedness

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $2000: Should I wear a "BRA" there? I think not

Nebraska

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $400: This state is powered by one "AMP"

New Hampshire

5-LETTER WORDS $500: An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue

Niche

7-LETTER WORDS $800: When a Buddhist achieves this, no more reincarnations

Nirvana

3-LETTER WORDS $400: Wynken & Blynken's buddy

Nod

2-LETTER WORDS $800: You'd write this in capital letters to express great surprise, or to send a letter to Youngstown

OH

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $1600: This state has a big "EGO"

Oregon

BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A person with a body mass index of 27 is considered to be this

Overweight

2-LETTER WORDS $300: Bunyan's Babe was a blue one

Ox

TAKE A LETTER $600: This letter paired with "H" at the end of a word sometimes results in an "F" sound

P

ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER $800: Add this letter to Jupiter's moon Io & you get an acronym that's a ground-floor stock offer for regular guys

P (IPO)

2-LETTER ABBREV. $400: IBM introduced it in 1981; now more than half of all U.S. homes have one

PC

THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $2000: Last name of the "Saturday Night Live" announcer who was the voice of "Jeopardy!" when Art Fleming hosted

Pardo

4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's any native or resident of the Keystone State

Pennsylvanian

WORDS FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: When this 10-letter word for plague is used, it usually means bubonic

Pestilence

5-LETTER WORDS $600: Trivial or worthless, or singer-guitarist Tom

Petty

2-LETTER WORDS $400: An Italian river, or the red Teletubby

Po

4-LETTER WORDS $100: Spanish for "few" or the '70s group that sang "Crazy Love"

Poco

15-LETTER WORDS $600: A magician who shows his manual dexterity by performing legerdemain or slight of hand

Prestidigitator

4-LETTER WORDS $400: Consisting of 2 4-letter words, this French phrase on a menu means there is a set cost for a meal

Prix fixe

SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Change 1 letter in "protest" to get this word for a protozoan & others in its kingdom

Protist

Q-P $2000: The Populus tremuloides is this 2-word tree

Quaking aspen

9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Italian poet who won 1959 Nobel Prize, or a Victor Hugo character

Quasimodo

Q-P $1200: You can still buy this character's cereal online

Quisp

ADD A LETTER $200: Take this letter, wrap it in towel, & it becomes a masonry tool

R (trowel)

2-LETTER WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Atlantic in this reed boat

Ra

12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Extortion, bribery & bootlegging are all forms of this crime

Racketeering

PHYSICS $600: 5-letter word that precedes "isotope" in a term for isotopes like strontium-90 & cobalt-60

Radio

14-LETTER WORDS $500: It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, & before all the Confederate states were readmitted

Reconstruction

A LITTLE "R" & "R" $4,800 (Daily Double): In China, it's called Yuan Jiang; in Vietnam, Song Hong

Red River

10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the good book's last book

Revelation

ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1978 India stopped exporting this type of monkey to scientific labs around the world

Rhesus

A LITTLE "R" & "R" $2000: This powerful African hound was originally bred to hunt lions

Rhodesian Ridgeback

CIRCLE OF LIFE $800: Last name of the lyricist who worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber

Rice

A LITTLE "R" & "R" $800: This cocktail named for a Scottish outlaw consists of Scotch whisky, sweet vermouth & bitters

Rob Roy

A LITTLE "R" & "R" $400: In 1981 he founded the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah as a training ground for young filmmakers

Robert Redford

4-LETTER WORDS $600: An essay by Virginia Woolf is called "A" this "of One's Own"

Room

2001 U.S. STAMPS $300: On the Love-Letters series, the bud of this flower is the "O" in the word love

Rose

LETTER PERFECT $600: In the word seen here in 17th-century-style printing, the first letter isn't an F, but this

S

ADD A LETTER $400: When this letter is added to comic, it becomes a whole lot bigger

S (takes it to cosmic)

1984 TV DEBUTS $200: Not only "Jeopardy!" but this game show based on a letters-&-words board game debuted in 1984

Scrabble

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $400: Letter tiles, triple word score, double letter score

Scrabble

ECONOMICS $1000: 5-letter word for temporary paper money issued in economic emergencies

Scrip

3-LETTER WORDS $200: Before a race you might hear Ready...this...Go!!!

Set

ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $1000: Last name of the Pointillist artist who died in 1891 at age 31

Seurat

4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the point in a baseball game when fans traditionally stand & sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

Seventh Inning Stretch

5-LETTER WORDS $200: In a song title it precedes "Rattle and Roll"

Shake

2-LETTER WORDS $100: Yes, for a senor or senorita

Si

FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $400: A Spanish senorita's lips may say, "No No No", but her eyes say this this this

Si Si Si

RELIGION $1000: After initiation as a Sikh, males add this 5-letter word meaning lion to their names

Singh

5-LETTER WORDS $200: One of these can toss a stone or hold steady a broken arm

Sling

ADD TWO LETTERS $1200: It's the season to which you add two letters to get this last name of Cincinnati's mayor in 1977

Spring & Springer

BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "stunned", it's a colossal amount or just plain great

Stupendous

ADD A LETTER $800: Add this letter to moral & it becomes fatal

T (for mortal)

WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $400: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters

T-P/tepee

ALPHABET SOUP $600: A cable network, or an explosive

TNT

15-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the biblical event depicted in the painting seen

The Transfiguration

3-LETTER WORDS $400: They performed "Won't Get Fooled Again" when they reunited to play Live Aid in 1985

The Who

5-LETTER WORDS $100: When you want someone to hurry up with a lengthy explanation, have them "cut to" this

The chase

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $800: The rise & fall of the ocean water, or a detergent that has cleaned clothes for more than 50 years

Tide

TOP 100 NEWSPAPERS $200: Only 4 U.S. papers have circulations of over 1 million & this 5-letter word is in 2 of their names

Times

4-LETTER WORDS $100: In 1888 John Dunlop put his new pneumatic type of this on a bicycle

Tire/tube

ADD A LETTER $400: Add this letter to "action" to get a little bidding action going

U (for auction)

"U" SEND ME $400 (Daily Double): Differing by only a letter, the 2 words meaning to make waves & any hoofed mammal

Undulate & ungulate

ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $200: One religion makes up about 65% of this state's population

Utah

BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Big, like an encyclopedia that fills many books

Voluminous

5, 5 $800: In Monopoly, you pay the owner of this property either 4 or 10 times the amount shown on the dice

Water Works

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $800: Have some "GIN" in the middle of these two states

West Virginia & Virginia

10-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): To talk to the Fish-Footman or the Mock Turtle, this is where you have to go

Wonderland

ADD A LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Add this letter to "Boer" to get the name of a rebellion in China that occurred the same time as the Boer War

X (for Boxer)

2-LETTER WORDS $1000: In an expression from Matthew 6:30, it's the word that immediately precedes "of little faith"

Ye

9-LETTER WORDS $400: This noun can precede chair, terrier or pudding

Yorkshire

ADD A LETTER $800: When you add this letter to "quart", instead of a unit of measure, you get a mineral

Z (for quartz)

3-LETTER WORDS $800: 3-letter word for a short trip in a small aircraft

a "hop"

3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the term for an old, worn-out horse; now quit bugging me!

a "nag"

15-LETTER WORDS $400: Madeleine Albright or Martina Navratilova, by birth

a Czechoslovakian

FROM D TO SHINING D $200: This German dog breed has short legs & a long body

a Dachshund

13-LETTER WORDS $400: A person from Harrisburg or Philadelphia

a Pennsylvanian

3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a term for any Buddhist Temple in Thailand or Cambodia, like the Angkor one

a Wat

THE "END" $1200: Many out-of-work actors make ends meet as mixologists, this profession

a bartender

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a list of the sources you used when writing a research paper

a bibliography

"BI"OLOGY $6,000 (Daily Double): 5-letter word for a large area with particular conditions, like tundra or desert

a biome

5, 5 $400: You don't want this venomous spider to sit down beside ya

a black Widow

THE INTERNET $400: This 4-letter word, a shortened version of a 6-letter word, is a popular term for an e-journal

a blog

CHEMISTRY $800: This 4-letter word is the electrostatic attaction between atoms, James

a bond

3-LETTER WORDS $200: An actor takes one during his curtain call

a bow

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $800: Wright's interiors show his aim to eliminate what he called "the room as" this 3-letter word

a box

THE "END" $2000: Keep on schedule with the Hebrew, Muslim, Julian or Gregorian one of these

a calendar

4-LETTER STOCK MARKET WORDS $800: It's an option that lets you purchase a certain stock for a set price until a certain date

a call

6-LETTER WORDS $800: In "My Darling Clementine", the two places where the miner forty-niner excavated for a mine

a canyon & a cavern

4-LETTER WORDS $800: 4-letter Italian term for the boss of a crime syndicate

a capo

9-LETTER WORDS $1600: A flesh-eater

a carnivore

WORDS IN (THE) DICTIONARY $1200: Container for milk

a carton

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This wormlike creature is a butterfly or moth in the larval stage

a caterpillar

DERIVED FROM ETRUSCAN $800: This type of mythological creature is often shown drawing the chariot of Dionysus

a centaur

4-LETTER STOCK MARKET WORDS $200: A stock that's a low risk investment is a blue this

a chip

6-LETTER WORDS $1000: A craven poltroon

a coward

"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Frank Sinatra was often described as this type of smooth-singing balladeer

a crooner

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A solid figure having 10 sides

a decahedron

FROM D TO SHINING D $1000: A partly divine, partly human mythological being

a demigod

WORDS IN (THE) DICTIONARY $400: A personal record of events in someone's life

a diary

FROM D TO SHINING D $600: In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time

a dividend

3-LETTER WORDS $400: A deer, a female deer

a doe

4-LETTER WORDS $400: In "Paper Lion," George Plimpton tries to play pass defense & gets "beat like a" this

a drum

3-LETTER WORDS $600: 3-letter name for the style of paintbrush seen

a fan

CHANGE ONE LETTER $2000: A speedy fair

a fast fest

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of machine you can use to send & receive letters or photos over the telephone line

a fax

THE "END" $800: This is the 2-word rhyming phrase for a minor car crash

a fender bender

A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: Often accompanied by a drum, it's the instrument heard

a fife

TREE-LETTER WORDS $200: A sudden burst of light; some can be "in the pan"

a flash

WORDS TO THE "Y"s $400: The last stage of a robbery, as in the McQueen-MacGraw movie

a getaway

GOLLY "G"! $400: "Colorful" 9-letter word used derisively of an immigrant unfamiliar with American life

a greenhorn

WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE $400: The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery

a hearse

A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $400: The handle of a sword, you can play this term to the ...

a hilt

3-LETTER WORDS $600: Muhammad Ali stung like a bee with this short, straight punch

a jab

WORDS TO THE "Y"s $200: It's the organ seen

a kidney

CHANGE ONE LETTER $1600: A benevolently dispositioned male monarch

a kind king

4-LETTER WORDS $400: This joint is formed by the articulation of the femur & the tibia

a knee

2 "RY"s $200: One's a place for experimentation; the other's a polite word for a bathroom

a laboratory and a lavatory

CHANGE ONE LETTER $1200: A final printed series of names

a last list

VIDEOPOURRI $800: () In Chinese, each symbol represents a word; in Japanese, each symbol a syllable; in Korean, each symbol, this

a letter

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Doctors can look at blood cells under this magnifying instrument

a microscope

4-LETTER WORDS $2000: 1/10 of a dollar is a dime; 1/10 of a cent is this

a mill

5-LETTER WORDS $1200: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's this type of reef-dwelling eel

a moray

O FOR A $800: A vague idea for any country

a notion for a nation

IN THE DICTIONARY $800: This 5-letter word refers to a joyous or triumphant song & is derived from Paia, a title for Apollo

a paean

CONTAINERS $800: It's a 4-letter word for a coffin, especially as it's being carried

a pall

5, 5 $1600: It's documentary evidence left behind

a paper trail

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: This small, heavy object, often made of glass, is designed to keep stuff from blowing off your desk

a paperweight

WORDS TO THE "Y"s $100: A female nickname, or a fall guy

a patsy

13-LETTER WORDS $600: Fancy name for a drummer

a percussionist

"P" AN' "O"s $2000: A time for the media to take pictures of a politician doing something newsworthy

a photo opportunity

15-LETTER WORDS $1600: Before she was a TV star, Candice Bergen was this, meaning she took poignant pictures that told a story

a photojournalist

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $600: () Built in 1913, the Atwood Sphere is an early one of these, which created a night sky using points of light instead of a projector

a planetarium

3-LETTER WORDS $800: () A peanut is more "pea" than "nut": it's actually a legume; the nuts are seeds and the shell is properly called

a pod

3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the molded shell on which lugers ride; riding double, you are nestled like 2 peas in it

a pod

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A person, like Brigham Young, with 2 or more wives at the same time

a polygamist

6-LETTER WORDS $1000: A sulking, petulant child, or a long-legged pigeon

a pouter

"P" AN' "O"s $400: Temporary loss of electricity

a power outage

"P" AN' "O"s $1600: A drink of raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, salt & pepper, taken as a hangover cure

a prairie oyster

5, 5 $1200: To keep a photographer up on developing events, he may look at of

a proof sheet

Q-P $800: It's a significant change for a physicist or for Scott Bakula

a quantum leap

10-LETTER WORDS $400: A child who shares his date of birth with 4 of his siblings

a quintuplet

WORDS OF A FEATHER $1200: A simple structure for transport on water

a raft

A SIDE OF BACON $400: Though it sounds like a more hasty or reckless way to make bacon, this 6-letter word refers to one slice

a rasher

CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: A sodium chloride auction

a salt sale

3-LETTER WORDS $400: An old saying or proverb, or a tool you'd find in the garage

a saw

DERIVED FROM ETRUSCAN $2000: Cicatrix is a synonym for this medical word

a scar

JOURNALISM $400: () This 5-letter word is slang for an exclusive news story acquired before one's competitors

a scoop

WORD LORE $2000: A good film needs a sequel, & the word "sequel" has the same root as this 5-letter word for the transition I just made

a segue

5-LETTER WORDS $800: A big fishing net, maybe in the river of the same name

a seine

WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: A Mexican poncho without the hole

a serape

WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: Basking or bonnethead

a shark

4-LETTER WORDS $600: An Oklahoma fort, or a traditional place to cool a pie

a sill

2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER $1000: Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable

a sloth

CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: A stocking bag

a sock sack

WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE $800: A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge

a sphere

FOUND IN SPACE $2000: 9-letter word for the phenomenon that produced the mass of stellar debris called Cassiopeia A

a supernova

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the term for a person who abstains from liquor; it sounds like he drinks only Earl Grey

a teetotaler

11-LETTER WORDS $1600: () From the Greek for "four faces", it's a solid like the one seen

a tetrahedron

5-LETTER WORDS $400: One who steals by stealth: Thessalonians speaks of one "in the night"

a thief

CAMERA WORK $2000: () To be precise, a pan moves a camera horizontally, while this is four-letter word for a vertical move

a tilt

KISSING UP TO THE BOSS $1000: 5-letter amphibious word for one who engages in excessive deference through motives of self-interest

a toady

3-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a vessel or duct, like the deferens one

a vas

"V" $1600: This 10-letter word is the part you look through on your camera

a viewfinder

4-LETTER WORDS $200: Another term for a conductor's baton, or what a magician waves to perform tricks

a wand

THE W.C. $1000: phase of the moon is known by a 2-word term: one word means "growing", and the other is from the Latin for "to grow"

a waxing crescent

11-LETTER WORDS $400: Evy. Wrd. Invlvd. Hre. Hs. Bn. Ths.

abbreviated

12-LETTER WORDS $400: A cntrctd. form of a wd. or phrs., frm. the Ltn. for "shrtnd."

abbreviation

VOCABULARY TEST $800: Rearrange the letters in adobe to come up with this word for a home

abode

BIG WORDS $400: A person who fought against slavery, like John Brown, was termed this 12-letter word

abolitionist

11-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A shameful or immoral act is said to be one of these before God

abomination

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: () Jon's keeping his cards under the table; I have mine above the table, which gave us this word meaning "without deceit"

aboveboard

A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the highest point or peak, or the notoriously unreliable company of choice for Wile E. Coyote

acme

DERIVED FROM ETRUSCAN $400: If you own Wyoming, your land covers 62.7 million of these

acres

"NYM" DROPPER $600: An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of a series of words

acronym

3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what you do when you put 2 + 2 together, or 1 + 1 for that matter

add

CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" $800: Paint propellant (7)

aerosol

WORDS OF A FEATHER $800: Children's stories, like the Childcraft version of "Rapunzel", often end with this word

after

6-LETTER WORDS $600: It's discrimination against & stereotyping of older people

ageism

FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's Provencal for garlic; in the name of a sauce, it's combined with oli, "oil"

ai (as in aioli)

3-LETTER WORDS $200: It comes between ready & fire!

aim

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Top-fermented beer relative

ale

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a combination of 2 metals; brass is one, combining copper & zinc

alloy

DOUBLE "L" $200: From the Latin for "bind to", this 4-letter word's synonyms are accomplice & friend; antonyms, enemy & foe

ally

WORD ORIGINS $2,000 (Daily Double): () The pair of Greek letters seen here inspired this eight-letter English word that's a cornerstone of the English language

alphabet

14-LETTER WORDS $200: It's how the letters in the sequence "E,F,G,H,I,J" are arranged

alphabetically

WORD UP! $400: Change your attitude, or rather one letter in attitude, to get this word meaning "height"

altitude

2-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the first-person singular present indicative of be

am

WORD LORE $1200: One of the longest words using no letter more than once, this adverb means "equally well with both hands"

ambidextrously

ADVERBS $1200: This 5-letter word meaning to a sufficient or more than sufficient degree often precedes "rewarded"

amply

6-LETTER WORDS $200: This ancient device performs mathematical processes by beads moving along parallel rods

an abacus

3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the vestment in the picture seen

an alb

4-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the French "alier", meaning "to bind", it's a country that binds with another for a common purpose

an ally

THE "END" $400: The first one in the Bill of Rights deals with the freedom of speech

an amendment

6-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's an alternate name for a high school yearbook

an annual

3-LETTER WORDS $1200: An adz is an axlike tool; this other 3-letter tool is used to punch holes in leather or wood

an awl

3-LETTER WORDS $600: A deer, a very large deer second in size to the moose

an elk

13-LETTER WORDS $200: An attention-seeking person prone to taking off his or her clothes in public

an exhibitionist

4-LETTER WORDS $1600: () St. Innocent of Irkutsk is represented here in type of image, traditional in the Eastern Church

an icon

WORDS IN JEOPARDY! $200: Use it to paddle your own canoe

an oar

15-LETTER WORDS $400: This type of doctor will see how you see & see you now

an ophthalmologist

3-LETTER WORDS $1200: This 3-letter word can refer to a globe or an eyeball

an orb

4-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's another name for the killer whale

an orca

2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Creature of the bovine ilk that the Chinese use to symbolize a year

an ox

11-LETTER WORDS $1200: In this operation, a surgeon repairs a blood vessel by inserting a balloon-tipped catheter to unblock it

angioplasty

15-LETTER WORDS $2000: "Ante" up; it's third from the end

antepenultimate

BIG WORDS $5,600 (Daily Double): 28-letter term for opposition to the withdrawal of state support, as for the Anglican church

antidisestablishmentarianism

HEY, 4 As! $2000: This 28-letter word means opposition to the withdrawal of a church's official state status

antidisestablishmentarianism

WORDS IN JEOPARDY! $1000: General term for any primate of the subfamily Hominoidea

ape

10-LETTER WORDS $800: The Book of Revelation

apocalypse

7-LETTER WORDS $400: Biblical term for one of Jesus' original 12 followers

apostle

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The name of this transparent blue-green gem comes from the Latin for "sea water"

aquamarine

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Biblical holder of critters or commandments

ark

2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a key linking word in many similes

as

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Meaning "self-governing", it's used to describe Tibet's official relationship to China

autonomous

6-LETTER WORDS $400: This word describes an anchor that is free of the bottom so that a ship can sail

aweigh

2-LETTER WORDS $200: A person who has a selfish reason for doing something has this tool "to grind"

ax

4X4 $600: Take the opposite of front & add someone who has been legally placed under a court's care to make reverse

backward

AN OCCUPATION, OR... $200: A maker of bread to earn some dough, or a code word used in communications to represent the letter B

baker

4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Usual term for a row of elevator cars

bank

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Travel to Springfield, Mass. & you can make a fast break for the Naismith Hall of Fame for this sport

basketball

HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $600: Barabas soon learned this Western instrument was like nothing he had ever seen before

bassoon (in barabas soon)

NECCO SWEETHEARTS $200: 2-letter word that precedes "mine", "good" & "true" on the hearts

be

BUILDING WOOD $1200: You'll smile big if you know this 4-letter word for a long, thick piece of lumber used to support a roof

beam

5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Because a false one is used as a disguise, it came to mean someone who's a decoy to divert suspicion

beard

3-LETTER WORDS $200: Honey-making hive homey

bee

THE GIDEON BIBLE $600: If you can't sleep, try counting this 5-letter word meaning "fathered" -- we got 39 in Matthew 1

begat

5-LETTER WORDS $800: You give a "wide" one to something you're afraid of, or to a fat man in a sleeping car

berth

3-LETTER WORDS $400: 2 bucks to win on Dances-A-Lot in the 7th, for example

bet

LOSING THE "WAR" $1200: Watch out, it creates quite a buzz after losing a "war"

beware (BEwarE)

12-LETTER WORDS $300: It can be a 200th anniversary, or something lasting 200 years

bicentennial

KANGAROO WORDS $800: Cut Brobdingnagian down to size with this little 3-letter synonym

big

MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $1000: Under "B" you'll find this 9-letter word for a renewable fuel made from vegetable sources like soybean oil

biodiesel

15-LETTER WORDS $1600: From Greek & Latin for "life light", it's the production of light by certain living organisms, like fireflies

bioluminescence

15-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The emission of light by living organisms like fireflies

bioluminescence

11-LETTER WORDS $800: Someone who practices weightlifting to develop his or her muscles & physical form

bodybuilder

3-LETTER WORDS $400: In crosswords a swamp may be a fen or this

bog

O FOR A $1200: Change from a liquid to a gaseous state for a payment to get out of jail

boil for bail

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This phrase meaning "a witty remark" is made up of 2 3-letter French words

bon mot

4-LETTER WORDS $200: In titles of 2 Springsteen hits, it precedes "To Run" & "In The U.S.A."

born

4X4 $800: Take a partly ground husk of wheat & add a serving plate to do this, like waving a sword

brandish

ADD A LETTER $400: Add a "G" to make a prominent member of the wedding into a prominent transportation structure

bride & bridge

FOLK ETYMOLOGY $600: This 10-letter word we use for someone ending his bachelorhood is partly from an alteration of guma, "man"

bridegroom

6-LETTER WORDS $400: A piece of harness, or what the horse may do when it's put on

bridle

"BRIL"-LIANT! $1000: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place & make it look glossy

brilliantine

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $300: To polish or shine a floor or shoe

buff

"FOO" FINDERS $800: From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning & joking

buffoon

CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" $200: Boy cow (4)

bull

LOSING THE "WAR" $2000: A defensive safeguard, like a rampart; after it loses the "war" it still has heft

bulwark (BULwarK)

WORDS TO THE "Y"s $500: It's defined as government by many officials & administrators

bureaucracy

WELL, I'LL BE A '30s WORD $1200: You get more than a pat on the back for identifying this 4-letter word for "belch" that came out in the 1930s

burp

TAKE THIS JOB $800: 6-letter word for a treasurer, especially at a university

bursar

4X4 $400: Take being actively engaged & add the physical structure of a person to make a meddlesome person

busybody

ADD TWO LETTERS $1600: Add two letters to this term for a small house in the woods & you get this piece of woodwork inside it

cabin & cabinet

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: A round missile of war, or a splashy pool entry

cannonball

12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Luggage-based term for a war-profiteering Northerner in the Postbellum South

carpetbagger

12-LETTER WORDS $400: Person to whom you would sing, "Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map"

cartographer

5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A hidden provision in a deal, or an attractive marital partner

catch

2 "RY"s $400: One's the place of the crucifixtion; one's a horse-mounted military force

cavalry and Calvary (sic)

ADD A LETTER $2000: On adding an "R", a word meaning "stop" starts meaning a ridge made by folding

cease & crease

A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Formally surrender your territory & give us this word' from the Latin for "yield"

cede

HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $200: Cancel long periods praciticing with this string instrument or your fingers will get tired

cello (in Cancel long)

POLITICKING $400: () Florida voting machines introduced this 4-letter word to many people's vocabularies in 2000

chad

NURSING $200: Nurses should never use Wite-Out on this, the usual 5-letter word for a record of a patient's care

chart

13-LETTER WORDS $1600: En francais, s'il vous plait! This thick slice of tenderloin is broiled & served with potatoes & a bernaise sauce

chateaubriand

MAD $1200: On each cover you'll find a little "ind" next to the "M" in Mad & this 5-letter word after the price

cheap

13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the arts, it's the profession of Cunningham, Robbins & Tharp

choreographer

5-LETTER WORDS $2000: Your eyelashes, or tiny hairlike structures that help certain protozoans move about

cilia

15-LETTER WORDS $400: Film industry position of the person who oversees the camerawork & the lighting

cinematographer

15-LETTER WORDS $800: A film's director of photography often goes by this title

cinematographer

6-LETTER WORDS $800: It can mean zero, or a coded message

cipher

A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES $600: 14-LETTER WORDS: Secondary or incidental, it often precedes "evidence" in law

circumstantial

WORDS IN (THE) DICTIONARY $1600: French for lemon

citron

FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Mr. Aiken could sing the praises of this earthy material that's used in bricks & pottery

clay

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Oh my darling, it's a variety of small, sweet tangerine

clementine

CIRCLE OF LIFE $2000: In many fantasy role-playing games, it's a healing class

cleric

TREE-LETTER WORDS $600: Dagger's partner in espionage

cloak

IN COLLEGE $400: A heavy wooden shoe, or an obstruction in the pipes of the sink

clog

WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $2000: Genetic duplicate

clone

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1600: To benefit from another's popularity is to use this part of his clothing

coattails

3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the elongated core in which the grains of an ear of corn are embedded

cob

BARTENDING $400: Around the bar this 8-letter word precedes "napkin", "shaker", "stirrer" & "waitress"

cocktail

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1200: A caterpillar emerges from one of these as a butterfly

cocoon

3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A projection on a gearwheel; you may feel like one in a giant machine

cog

12-LETTER WORDS $800: (Dr. Joyce Brothers gives the clue) This 12-letter word, also called shacking up, isn't the same as marriage -- marriage can lead to more intimacy

cohabitation

10-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for your clavicle

collarbone

13-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): is the U.S. Postal Service's most popular ever of this type, honoring an event or a person

commemorative

13-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): On your auto insurance policy this coverage pays for damage caused by fire, theft or vandalism

comprehensive

12-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): It can mean one's physical health or a 1787 document

constitution

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $400: It's interesting (or is it?) that at 12 letters, it's the longest word in the original document's preamble

constitution

YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL! $1600: Simultaneous, or "at the same moment", has the same last 6 letters as this word for events of the same era

contemporaneous

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: As an adjective, it means dependent on an uncertain event; as a noun, it's a group that's part of a larger one

contingent

BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1600: John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word

cornmeal

10-LETTER WORDS $800: The ridges in this type of heavy carton paper, from the Latin for "wrinkle", are called flutes

corrugated

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $800: An attack by an army against an already-attacking enemy force

counteroffensive

MOO-VIN' OUT $400: If cows went surfing, they'd probably yell this 9-letter word that starts with "cow", dude

cowabunga

SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $500: Old English for "to stuff", it's what you might have done late last night before your appearance here

cram

5-LETTER WORDS $400: Samuel Johnson defined it as "the unctuous or oily part of milk"

cream

ROANOKE COLONY $1000: When John White returned to a deserted Roanoke in 1590, he found this famed 8-letter enigmatic word carved into a tree

croatoan

5-LETTER WORDS $100: Headgear for a king, or part of a tooth

crown

FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's French for "growth" & may follow "premier" to describe a first-rate wine

cru

FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Latin for "with", it precedes "grano salis" (grain of salt) as well as "laude" (praise or honor)

cum

7-LETTER WORDS $400: Hostess snack food seen here split in half

cupcake

LOST ART $400: () One skill that's losing ground in the computer age is this type of writing, where the letters run together, from the Latin for "run"

cursive

10-LETTER WORDS $400: The Internet or the online world

cyberspace

2-LETTER WORDS $800: You can call your pop this, used in Italian personal names, originally to indicate place of origin

da

4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a raised platform for a lectern

dais

TREE-LETTER WORDS $1000: A mottled coat for a horse, there was a gray one in a nursery rhyme

dapple (has apple)

FROM D TO SHINING D $400: Some have found "Paradise" by the light of this car instrument panel

dashboard

IT'S IN "DE" DICTIONARY $400: Insert 1 letter in "death" to get this word meaning "an insufficient supply"

dearth

FROM D TO SHINING D $800: When Homer Simpson became a heretic, he said, "Don't worry... if I'm wrong, I'll recant on my" this

deathbed

YOU GET A "D" $800: 6-letter word meaning to expose as being false or ridiculous, like certain wacky theories

debunk

15-LETTER WORDS $1200: The removal from land or a person of unwanted chemical or radioactive impurities

decontamination

15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the removal of harmful substances such as radioactive material or poisonous gas from an area

decontamination

WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $1600: Fake wooden bird used by hunters to attract ducks

decoy

WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $300: Whenever it precedes "vu" I feel like I've seen this word before

deja

3-LETTER WORDS $200: A cozy cave for a bear, or a cozy room in your house

den

3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a division of a Cub Scout pack

den

12-LETTER WORDS $400: A religious grouping, or the monetary value of a bill

denomination

12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone whose task is to reeducate a former cult member

deprogrammer

5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a horse race for 3-year-olds, or the stiff hat with a rounded crown that you might wear there

derby

WORKPLACES $1000: 3-letter word paired with 'tool" in a type of manufacturer of precision products

die

3-LETTER WORDS $800: A confused & noisy clamor

din

FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be cheap, like this type of trail bike

dirt

PUNK'D $600: If you fail to give someone proper deference, you do this 3-letter word to them

dis

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $400: In boxing, do something crazy like, I don't know, biting a guy's ear off & you'll get a DQ, this

disqualification

2-LETTER WORDS $1200: When it's a noun, it can mean a party, or the new haircut you get for it

do

2-LETTER WORDS $400: Oh, deer! It's the first tone of the diatonic musical scale

do

ADD A LETTER $800 (Daily Double): An "E" transforms your puppy into the chief magistrate in the former Republic of Genoa

dog & doge

$800: () In "Star Wars", the term used for robots like C-3PO & myself is this 5-letter shortening of another word

droid

5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"

drown

FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: In German it's the informal "you" used for friends, family & all children

du

3-LETTER WORDS $600: To add a soundtrack in a different language

dub

CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" $600: Pro baseball bench site (6)

dugout

12-LETTER WORDS $500: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at Sea World) To feed, beluga whales use this system where their sounds are reflected back to gauge distances

echolocation

3-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): One female gamete

egg

( )-LETTER WORDS $1200: (3) Self-esteem, or a psychoanalytic term

ego

IN COLLEGE $200: One of the 3 main divisions of the mind in Freudian psychology

ego

10-LETTER WORDS $600: This synonym for "basic" is used to describe a type of school

elementary

12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put out a proclamation! It's the act of setting people free

emancipation

DERIVED FROM ETRUSCAN $1200: To make into law

enact

12-LETTER WORDS $400: World Book, for example

encyclopedia

THE "END" $1600: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lists the spotted owl & the Florida panther as this type of at-risk species

endangered

( )-LETTER WORDS $800: (7) To approve a candidate, or sign the back of a check

endorse

FROM THE FRENCH $800: 12-letter word for one who starts & assumes the risk of a business

entrepreneur

A RANK CATEGORY $2000: From a word meaning "to send", this 5-letter word designates an "extraordinary" diplomat

envoy

VOCABULARY $800: Differing by a letter, the 2 words meaning an electrically charged atom & a very long time

eon & ion

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a 10-letter word that can be used to describe the fractions 3/9 & 9/27

equivalent

3-LETTER WORDS $800: In geologic time one of these, shorter than an eon, is divided into periods & subdivided into epochs

era

A VARIETY OF WORDS $400: A division of geologic time

era

WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: To delete recorded data

erase

3-LETTER WORDS $2000: No mistake, according to Confucius, "The cautious seldom" do this

err

GIVE ME AN "E" $2000: Oui! It's the 10-letter French word Americans sometimes use for a writing desk

escritoire

FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The Latin word for "and", it often precedes al., short for "alia"

et

WORDS OF A FEATHER $2000: This important compound is prepared by mixing a type of alcohol with sulfuric acid

ether

11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The hard protective outer covering of an insect or a crustacean

exoskeleton

"EX" WORDS $2000: The Brits like this 5-letter short form of a word for someone in self-imposed exile

expat

13-LETTER WORDS $2000: () The string of values seen here is increasing this way, from the Latin for "to declare"

exponentially

LONG WORDS $400: This 15-letter word describes social activities like football or drama which aren't part of the required program

extracurricular

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Ocular term for a new shoot on a potato

eye

( )-LETTER WORDS $1600: (9) To make up a story, or to make by art or skill & labor

fabricate

9-LETTER WORDS $600: From the Latin for "make similar", it's an exact duplicate

facsimile

11-LETTER WORDS $200: This slang word is a blend of fantastic & fabulous

fantabulous

WORDS OF A FEATHER $1600: A famous 19th century poem asks this man to "come home with me now"

father

13-LETTER WORDS $800: If you weighed up to 126 pounds, you'd be as light as this class of boxer

featherweight

10-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for "friendliness" is what a friendly university gives a student to keep him alive

fellowship

13-LETTER WORDS $800: The enrichment of soil; Dad uses a spreader on the lawn

fertilization

10-LETTER WORDS $400: These flat, narrow noodles are popularly served "alfredo"

fettuccini

WORD'S WORTH $800: 3 letters, score 15: Wilmer Valderrama knows it "tops" some Moroccans

fez

2 "RY"s $1000: One means showy clothing or ornaments; the other is a place that prepares petroleum

finery and refinery

4-LETTER WORDS $400: In the comic strip "The Wizard of Id", it's what the Lone Haranguer calls the king of Id

fink

3-LETTER WORDS $1000:

fir

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Seattle) Used in "Hamlet", it's the common British term for the vendor I'm buying from

fishmonger

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: Effervescence, in liquid

fizz

GIN $600: It's carbonated water that puts this 4-letter word into the name of a gin, lemon juice & powdered sugar drink

fizz

"F" STOP $200: 8-letter word for knives, forks & spoons when used at the dinner table

flatware

4-LETTER WORDS $800: , for example

font

4-LETTER WORDS $600: James Beard described it as "our common ground, a universal experience"

food

I PITY THE "FOOL" $800: 9-letter word for something designed to be impervious to human incompetence

foolproof

11-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you fail to make your mortgage payments, the bank might place your property in this

foreclosure

7-LETTER WORDS $600: Usually, to do this is to lose a game without playing it

forfeit

6-LETTER WORDS $800: The earlier-in-the-sentence counterpart of latter

former

LOSING THE "WAR" $1600: Offensive position in basketball that becomes a car after losing the "war"

forward (FORwarD)

12-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Term for the fear or hatred of Gallic culture

francophobia

12-LETTER WORDS $100: The Wise Men brought to Jesus gifts of gold, myrrh & this

frankincense

10-LETTER WORDS $200: David Letterman was a real letterman, belonging to Sigma Chi, one of these organizations

fraternity

TEST YOUR SHORT TERM MEMORY $600: The "Legal Thesaurus" lists charlatanism & false representation under this 5-letter word

fraud

WEATHER WORDS $400: This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil

funnel

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To move aimlessly from place to place, maybe like a "fly", it's also a euphemism that precedes "zooks"

gad

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Often preceding "about", it means to wander restlessly or idly in search of pleasure

gad

4X4 $1000: Take a group & add a large wild cat to make a cluster of nerve cells

ganglion

8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the death or decay of body tissue due to injury or failure of the blood supply

gangrene

11-LETTER WORDS $400: One who studies & researches family histories & pedigrees

genealogist

3-LETTER WORDS $400: A card game, or the colorless liquor you might drink while playing it

gin

6-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a spicy nickname for a redhead

ginger

9-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's from a Latin word meaning "sword"; Russell Crowe played one in an Oscar-winning movie

gladiator

THE CONSTANT GARDENER $1,400 (Daily Double): This flower whose name is Latin for "small sword" comes in colors ranging from pure white to deep red

gladiola

12-LETTER WORDS $800: Artful skill exemplified

glassblowing

IN COLLEGE $600: At Yale University, the Whiffenpoofs are this type of "club"

glee

3-LETTER WORDS $800: A wildebeest is also known by this 3-letter name

gnu

2-LETTER WORDS $600: () I'm trouncing Sarah in this classic Japanese game

go

HEY, WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $1000: This 4-letter word means to spur, push or impel

goad

3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A sailor may be a tar or this, also a mass or a lump

gob

11-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, true actors love the roar of the crowd & the smell of this stage makeup

greasepaint

O FOR A $2000: Completely humble yourself for small stones & pebbles

grovel for gravel

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the three letter term for the device that shoots out the electrons in a TV picture tube

gun

3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's where people go to "work out"

gym

11-LETTER WORDS $800: In Britain, he's a dealer in small wares & notions; in the U.S., he sells men's hats, shirts & ties

haberdasher

ADD A LETTER $1000: To cut or chop; add a letter to build this lowly dwelling

hack & shack

FISH $1000: Feeding on other fish's entrails, it gets its name from a 3-letter word for an ugly old woman

hagfish

HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $400: This 4-letter word precedes "Caesar, we who are about to die salute thee"

hail

10-LETTER WORDS $400: "The Lord is waiting to take your hand, shout" this, "c'mon get happy, we're going to the promised land"

hallelujah

5-LETTER WORDS $1200: To reduce 137,618 to 68,809

halve

THEY'RE INDIGENOUS $1000: Indigenous Hawaiians use this 5-letter word for non-indigenous Hawaiians

haole

ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $400: When you "make" this, you go with speed

haste

6-LETTER WORDS $200: William Congreve wrote, "Heaven has no rage, like love to" this opposite "turned"

hatred

4 $1000: In the organizational logo seen , the 4 words that the letters in the clover stand for

head, heart, health & hands

SEXY STUFF $400: "Warm" 4-letter word for a period of sexual receptiveness

heat

10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells

hemoglobin

5-LETTER WORDS $800: (Alex: Let's get the clue from Sarah this time) My temporary tattoo uses this dye that's also used to redden hair

henna

13-LETTER WORDS $1000: The technical term for a scientist who studies snakes & other reptiles

herpetologist

3-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): To "spell" this synonym for jinx, you also use an "x" at the end

hex

DEAF & BLIND $400: () The Silent Warrior deaf football team uses a bass drum in place of this 4-letter word that signals the snap

hike

3-LETTER WORDS $600: These 2 3-letter words form the name of a synonym for rap music

hip hop

10-LETTER WORDS $800: Jiminy Cricket acted as this for Pinocchio

his conscience

4-LETTER WORDS $2000: The dying cowboy in "Streets of Laredo" wants 6 pretty girls to bear this

his pall

3-LETTER WORDS $400: It often comes before "and miss"

hit

2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's used to attract attention to something sighted on a ship, like land or a sail

ho

7-LETTER WORDS $200: It sounds like a bath for your pig, but it means utter nonsense

hogwash

4-LETTER WORDS $400: By any means possible is "by" this "or by crook"

hook

9-LETTER WORDS $400: A children's game, it can also serve as a verb meaning to move around making irregular jumps

hopscotch

OZ $800: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud

humbug

ADD A LETTER $400: To go after wild game; add a letter to get this "ghostly" verb

hunt & haunt

SURVIVAL SKILLS $300: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports) If you're suffering from this 16-letter word, do the following to alleviate it

hyperventilating

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $1200: Breathe into a paper bag to relax the muscles when suffering from this, breathing too fast & too deeply

hyperventilation

13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's someone who worries constantly about his health & often suffers from imaginary illnesses

hypochondriac

3-LETTER WORDS $800: To a criminal, this slang term can mean diamonds or to kill, so be specific when taking out a contract

ice

2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: A part of the psyche

id

14-LETTER WORDS $400: Passports & drivers' licenses are forms of this

identification

I'LL NEED SOME "ID" $2000: This 12-letter word is a habit or characteristic that's peculiar to an individual

idiosyncrasy

2-LETTER WORDS $400: On the condition that

if

FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): The titles of 2 Verdi operas of 1853 begin with these 2 Italian forms of the word "the"

il & la

10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the medical branch that deals with antigens & antibodies & the body's ability to fight off disease

immunology

3-LETTER WORDS $600: A small demon, or a mischievous child (who might be a little demon!)

imp

LANGUAGE BARRIERS $2000: In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution

impediment

13-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "mask", it's a single act of mimicking the voice or manners of another

impersonation

2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A special connection; you may have one with a powerful person

in

12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the 12-letter adjective for Edison's practical electric bulb, successfully tested at Menlo Park Oct. 21, 1879

incandescent

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word that means "to burn to ashes" comes from the Latin for "ashes"

incinerate

15-LETTER WORDS $400: The inability to cooperate or coexist, it's grounds for divorce in some states

incompatibility

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $1600: Indisputable, or not open to question, it can precede "evidence" in a courtroom

incontrovertible

12-LETTER WORDS $5 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "to correct", it's an adjective for someone who can't be corrected or reformed

incorrigible

10-LETTER WORDS $800: Presented by a grand jury, it's a formal written accusation charging a party with a crime

indictment

15-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a refusal to obey orders or submit to authority in the military

insubordination

SHORTWAVE $600: One book calls this 12-letter word the "arch-enemy of shortwave listeners"; I just call it annoying

interference

"I.M." ING $800: This specialty deals with the diagnosis & nonsurgical treatment of organ systems

internal medicine

12-LETTER WORDS $1200: General term for an animal without a backbone

invertebrate

WORDS IN (THE) DICTIONARY $2000: A bond, an electrovalent bond

ionic

A VARIETY OF WORDS $1000: Adjective meaning feeling great anger

irate

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's how the words seen here are presented

italicized

3-LETTER WORDS $200: () Terms for boxing punches include uppercut, hook & this 3-letter word

jab

3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a crowlike bird, often blue

jay

WORD ORIGINS $800: The Greek word "iota" gave us this 3-letter word that means to write down hastily

jot

TOURNAMENT $200: Tournament, as well as this 5-letter word, can be used to describe mounted combat between medieval knights

joust

WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $400: When talking about your kids, it pairs with "pride"

joy

13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the science or philosophy of law

jurisprudence

3-LETTER WORDS $400: Now it's a party! Here's Joe with this "pony" cask of ale

keg

5-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a Japanese form of fencing using bamboo swords

kendo

GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $400: 3-letter word for any of the small coral islets off the tip of Florida

key

THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE $400: Trim off "man" from a word for humanity & you get this 4-letter adjective meaning considerate or gentle

kind

TRIOS $400: Farouk, Latifah & Sprat

king, queen & jack

4-LETTER WORDS $800: Buss is a synonym for this

kiss

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: It's a 10-letter word for an ornamental article or trinket

knickknack

7-LETTER WORDS $600: If you can't handle the predominant sugar in milk, you're intolerant of this

lactose

5-LETTER WORDS $400: Soup's on! & we need this long-handled spoon or scoop to serve it

ladle

THAT'S SO "LAME" $400: 6-letter word used to express sorrow or regret

lament

4-LETTER WORDS $400: Living high on the hog you can afford your own tub of this hog fat

lard

WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $800: This type of year happens once every four

leap

BIG WORDS $1200: This 11-letter word for "sleight of hand" is from the French for "light of hand"

legerdemain

11-LETTER WORDS $1200: The act of making or enacting laws

legislation

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: As a verb, it can mean to rent or lease

let

LAW & ORDER $800: 4-letter word for a charge or encumbrance placed on one's property to secure payment of a debt

lien

9-LETTER WORDS $200: Forms of this atmospheric phenomenon include forked, streak & ball

lightning

CHANGE YOUR LIFE $800: An agricultural additive to improve soil with a low calcium content

lime

CHANGE YOUR LIFE $1200: Fill your pockets with money

line

7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This adjective can mean "pertaining to languages" or "pertaining to the tongue"

lingual

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: The strict meaning of a word, not figurative or metaphorical, from the late Latin for "of letters"

literal

2-LETTER WORDS $400: This & behold: it means "see" & is frequently used in Biblical expressions

lo

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: In tennis, it's a high, arcing shot that ideally lands in play behind your opponent

lob

5-LETTER WORDS $7,800 (Daily Double): It means in a particular area; put a hyphen in the middle & it helps you lose weight

local

4-LETTER WORDS $800: The upper floor of a warehouse converted to residential or studio use

loft

IN COLLEGE $1000: In a theater or arena, it's the area at the front of a balcony or upper level

loge

5-LETTER WORDS $2000: Greek for "word", it can mean the word of God

logos

4-LETTER STOCK MARKET WORDS $1000: Being in this "position" indicates an expectation of rising share prices; it's also a hedge in futures

long

"OU" 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the French, it's the small high-powered magnifying glass used by watchmakers & jewelers

loupe

ADD A LETTER $1600: Luminous brightness degenerates into loud, empty protests when "B" gets in front

luster & bluster

HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $800: Carefully replace the strings on this ancient instrument

lyre (in carefully replace)

CAN WE TALK? $800: Add this letter to "utter" to get a word meaning "to utter in low, unclear tones"

m (for "mutter")

6-LETTER WORDS $800: Screwball comedies are either zany or this word that includes an old synonym for "head"

madcap

11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's wrongful conduct by a professional, like a doctor, causing injury

malpractice

4-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): The female of the speces Equus caballus

mare

ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $800: Manducate, like this word that begins with the same 2 letters, means to chew

masticate

3-LETTER WORDS $400: Do something intensely & you do it "to the" this, like Planck or Born

max

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of this mineral often used for pipes is from the German for "sea foam"

meerschaum

6-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Latin mansio, "house", this adjective describes degrading work, perhaps done by a servant

menial

FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Campers & military personnel need this type of kit to eat in the hall with the same name

mess

15-LETTER WORDS $800: This powerful drug, also known as speed, was first used in medicine as a nasal decongestant

methamphetamine

2-LETTER WORDS $100: In song it's "A name I call myself"

mi

12-LETTER WORDS $800: Class of a pro boxer topping out at 160 pounds

middleweight

6-LETTER WORDS $2000: The two main types of this fungus that attacks plants are powdery & downy

mildew

6-LETTER WORDS $1200: "Admire" has the same Latin root as this, a household item commonly used for admiration

mirror

3-LETTER WORDS $600: A large, unruly crowd of people, perhaps headed by Lucky Luciano

mob

HARDBOILED SLANG $800: This 4-letter word can refer to a gangster's mistress whether or not it's preceded by "gun"

moll

O FOR A $400: Shed feathers for germinated grain used in brewing

molt for malt

13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It means having one color

monochromatic

3-LETTER WORDS $200: "Low" is another term for this Holstein holler

moo

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "delay", it's an authorized delay of payment or of a specified activity

moratorium

MILITARY MEN $800: This 4-letter word continues Confederate General Nathan Forrest's maxim, "Get here first with the..."

most

TRIOS $800: Grief for death, Herman's Hermits warbler Peter & Gawain or Bedivere

mourning, Noone & knight

FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Upton Sinclair could have told you how to be this type of raker; he was often described as one

muck

3-LETTER WORDS $800: A politician taking the low road is said to "sling" this

mud

12-LETTER WORDS $600: This curry-flavored soup takes its name from the Tamil for "pepper water"

mulligatawny

14-LETTER WORDS $300: Math process symbolized by an "x"

multiplication

SHHHH! $400: This is the 3-letter word when you're told not to reveal something

mum

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $500: It means "orderly & clean" & is also used to order drinks without ice or water added

neat

4-LETTER WORDS $400: Now used for a bright but socially inept person, this term was popularized by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo"

nerd

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Term for the goal in hockey, soccer or lacrosse

net

7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Not aligned with any side or position in a controversy, like Switzerland

neutral

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "nothing", it's nothing, nada, zip, zero

nil

3-LETTER WORDS $600: The egg of a louse, it's something picky people might pick at

nit

( )-LETTER WORDS $2000: (13) C3H5N3O9, it can yield explosive results

nitroglycerin

3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A water spirit, or to put the kibosh on something

nix

ENDS IN "X" $600: A 3-letter word for "to veto", or a German water sprite

nix

2-LETTER WORDS $600: In hyphenated terms, it comes before -go, -show & -brainer

no

EMILY POST-ER CHILD $600: Post goes on for over a page on the "the validity of" this 2-letter word, a kid's earliest must-learn concept

no

WOULD YOU LIKE A BEVERAGE? $400: This 3-letter word follows "egg" in a drink popular during the winter holidays

nog

15-LETTER WORDS $2000: In the armed forces, it's what the NC stands for in NCO

noncommissioned

A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $1000: 9-letter word for lack of existence, or a person of no importance

nonentity

A SYMPHONY OF NINTHS $200: This 4-letter word for a time of day comes from the Latin for "ninth hour"

noon

3-LETTER WORDS $400: 3-letter word often partnered with neither in a sentence

nor

15-LETTER WORDS $1600: You can find 3 different words within this word meaning "in spite of"

notwithstanding

THE "N" TIMES $1000: 9-letter word for the newbie at the nunnery

novitiate

NOSE WEEK $400: This 6-letter word for the spout at the end of a hose is a diminutive form of "nose"

nozzle

4-LETTER WORDS $8,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin words for "no one" & "empty" come these 2 words that cancel a contract

null & void

11-LETTER WORDS $800: A collector of rupees, pesos & drachmas

numismatist

THE BIG "O" $800: As opposed to oriental, this 10-letter word refers to the West

occidental

6-LETTER WORDS $2000: Relating to the visual organ

ocular

IN COLLEGE $800: To do this is to stare at someone desirously

ogle

2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: Sacred syllable uttered as a mantra during meditation

om

4-LETTER WORDS $2000: The burden's on you to come up with this Latin term for "burden"

onus

ADD TWO LETTERS $400: To seep slowly through a hole; add two letters & you nap through the entire ordeal

ooze & snooze

FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: () To the Greeks, having kefi, or joy in the moment, often inspires this three-letter exclamation

opa

THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $1600: "Lucia di Lammermoor", for example

opera

15-LETTER WORDS $400: I see, oculist is another name for this type of doctor

ophthalmologist

THE MIDDLE AGES $800: One way to judge guilt was "trial by" this 6-letter word, like putting the accused's arm in boiling water

ordeal

8-LETTER WORDS $2000: The military term for weapons & ammunition, it can also describe the tools used to make them

ordnance

HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $1000: Neither Bilbo nor Gandalf knew any cool tunes on this

organ (in nor gandalf)

ADD TWO LETTERS $2000: New or fresh; add two letters & you get this adjective for an early inhabitant of Australia

original & Aboriginal

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To stitchers, it's a bit of leftover thread; to others, a scrap of food left at a meal

ort

15-LETTER WORDS $1200: (.) A goal of the Boy Scouts is to foster this 15-letter word through activities like fishing, hiking & canoeing

outdoorsmanship

IT'S ALL "OVER", BABY $1000: Move your pawns up too far too fast, or lend & spend more money than you should, & you're this 12-letter word

overextended

VOCABULARY $400: Bovine means resembling cattle; this word that's 1 letter shorter means resembling sheep

ovine

2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: It's used to express dismay or pain, especially in Yiddish

oy

THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $400: Spanish for father

padre

WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $600: A Roman hill where the emperors built their homes gives us this 6-letter word for a king's home

palace

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward

palindrome

10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's someone who helps carry the coffin at a funeral

pallbearer

TREE-LETTER WORDS $1000: You gotta hand it to a fortune teller who uses this art to read your hands

palmistry

11-LETTER WORDS $2000: It wasn't Ling-Ling's summer condo, it's riotous uproar or utter chaos

pandemonium

8-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Greek for "to see", it's a wide & unobstructed biew of an extensive area in all directions

panorama

2 "RY"s $800: One's a room where food is kept; one's an adjective for an insultingly small amount

pantry and paltry

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: When you write a paper, you don't copy directly, but do this, a verb meaning restate or put into other words

paraphrase

GRAMMAR SCHOOL $800: This 5-letter word means break down a sentence into subject, object & predicate, or describe a word's grammatical role

parse

GRAMMAR $2000: Insert 2 letters in the word "particle" to get this verb form that can be past or present

participle

13-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin, it literally means "father of the household"

paterfamilias

AVIATION $800: () It's the 7-letter word for materials carried aboard a plane that generate revenue, like passengers & cargo

payload

12-LETTER WORDS $800: This physician specializes in the care of children, from infancy to adolescence

pediatrician

WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $1200: Brown & white are the main U.S. types of this pouch-mouthed bird

pelican

10-LETTER WORDS $800: Discovered in 1928, it was the first successful antibiotic

penicillin

12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The walls at the U.S. one in Leavenworth are 40 feet high & 40 feet below ground

penitentiary

STATE OF MIND $600: This 7-letter word for "thoughtful" comes from the French for "to think"

pensive

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Next to the last; it's from Latin words meaning "almost last"

penultimate

10-LETTER WORDS $600: In an orchestra, it's the section where you'll find the timpani

percussion

SWEET "P" $800: 15-letter word for the attribution of human qualities to objects or abstract notions

personification

2-LETTER WORDS $1600: The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, it's also a math term

pi

RUNNING IN CIRCLES $1200: This 2-letter word is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter

pi

3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a section of pineapple skin, an apple seed, a spot on a die or a Dickens character

pip

5-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): It can mean "brief & forceful" or "resembling the inner core of a stem"

pithy

10-LETTER WORDS $400: To pass off someone else's writing as your own

plagiarism

4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's in dictionaries as the sound a small object makes dropping into water, sometimes without a splash

plop

ON THE OLD QUARTER $200: At 8 letters, it's the longest word (hint: it's Latin)

pluribus

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A single layer of paper, or to perform one's craft diligently

ply

5-LETTER WORDS $1000: To steal game or cook eggs

poach

"P" AN' "O"s $1200: Of the genus Rhus, it'll give you a rash if touched

poison oak

6-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): In slang, they're the 5-0 or the Po-Po's

police

VOCABULARY TEST $1200: Call it a tadpole or call it this 8-letter word, it's still a newly hatched frog

pollywog

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the art historical term for sculpture painted in many colors, like the Donatello

polychrome

SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a still, deep place in a stream; I lost $5 in our office one for the Super Bowl

pool

WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $200: This term for a minute opening in the skin doesn't sound very rich

pore

"P" AN' "O"s $800: Children's game of giving letters & receiving kisses in return

post office

WORDS TO THE "Y"s $300: Collective term for domesticated fowl like turkeys & chickens

poultry

"OU" 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Completes the expression "In for a penny, in for a..."

pound

VOCABULARY $1200: This 13-letter word can mean sudden haste, or the falling of rain, snow or hail

precipitation

THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $1200: Quarry, like mice for owls

prey

SOFT "CEL" $400: Credit card ad: Cost of books to help study for tournament, $412... beating Ken Jennings, this 9-letter word

priceless

5-LETTER WORDS $200: It "goes before a fall" & before "Prejudice" in a Jane Austen title

pride

13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Don't delay; it's from the Latin for "to put off til the morrow"

procrastinate

WORDS IN JEOPARDY! $600: To poke or jab with something pointed; it's done to cattle, for example

prod

7-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "prophetic sign", it's a child having extraordinary talent

prodigy

5-LETTER WORDS $1600: () This five-letter word can mean "disposed", or "liable", or "biathlon position"

prone

2 "RY"s $600: One meas to inquire impertinently into someone's affairs; the other means brisk or nimble

pry and spry

4-LETTER WORDS $600: The core of your tooth; we hope the school bully doesn't beat you to a bloody one

pulp

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Meaning free from dirt or taint, it's used in describing food & drug laws

pure

Q-P $400: It's a 4-channel sound system; double stereo

quadraphonic

13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A polygon with 4 sides

quadrilateral

WORD'S WORTH $2000: 6 letters, score 24: Composed of silicon dioxide, it's the most abundant mineral on Earth's surface

quartz

5-LETTER WORDS $800: A large wing or tail feather, or one of the spines of a porcupine

quill

WORD'S WORTH $1600: 8 letters, score 26: Eponymous adjective describing Sancho Panza's boss

quixotic

WORD'S WORTH $400: 4 letters, score 22: Type of show you're on

quiz

9-LETTER WORDS $800: From the French for "to relate", it's one who tells stories & anecdotes with wit & skill

raconteur

ADD A LETTER $600: Logs fastened together for floating on water; add a letter to conjure up this current of air

raft & draft

PIANO PIECES $400: 3-letter word for the type of piece for which Scott Joplin is best known

rag

KANGAROO WORDS $400: Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this

rain

3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Animal used to represent the first sign of the zodiac

ram

4-LETTER WORDS $1200: This type of grade in a hierarchy "has its privileges"

rank

6-LETTER WORDS $1600: Later versions of this light, sharp-pointed sword are used only for thrusting & have no cutting edges

rapier

3-LETTER WORDS $400: Throw away your oven & join Woody Harrelson in the movement for this type of food

raw

3-LETTER WORDS $800: A beam of light, or Mr. Charles

ray

THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $800: Prepared & available for use

ready

WORDS IN JEOPARDY! $800: To gather a harvest with a sickle or scythe

reap

GIVE ME SOME ROOM $2000: In a monastery and in some colleges, the dining room is often referred to by this 9-letter word

refectory

12-LETTER WORDS $400: To prepare a patient to return to normal life

rehabilitate

ADD A LETTER $1200: Without an "S", it's royal rule; with an "S", it means to quit

reign & resign

5-LETTER WORDS $500: It can be an object from the past, or a personal item associated with a saint

relic

CIRCLE OF LIFE $2,700 (Daily Double): Its name is from the Middle English for "an object of religious veneration"

relic

SCIENCE $1000: This 5-letter word is the opposite of attract

repel

14-LETTER WORDS $100: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this

representation

AT THE ART OPENING $1600: () As you see, sometimes an artist ventures to this traditional type of art, a sixteen-letter word meaning it looks like something real

representational

6-LETTER WORDS $400: Your Uncle Marty can't believe you bought that sweater this way when he owns 3 garment factories

retail

7-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): A place of seclusion, or an army's forced withdrawal before an enemy

retreat

ADD A LETTER $800: To go over a subject again; add a letter & get this advance movie screening

review & preview

LOSING THE "WAR" $800: When losing a "war", this earned prize becomes a badge of courage color

reward (REwarD)

CHANGE YOUR LIFE $1600: Widespread

rife

5-LETTER WORDS $400: A state of stiffness in tissue; it can precede "mortis"

rigor

CIRCLE OF LIFE $1600: To cause annoyance or ire

rile

SOUNDS LIKE A GAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "bordering on impropriety", this 6-letter French word ends with an accent aigu

risqué

A VARIETY OF WORDS $800: A short metal fastener often used to join 2 sheets of metal together

rivet

4-LETTER WORDS $1000: 4-letter term for a horse with a reddish coat sprinkled with white

roan

3-LETTER WORDS $200: Fishin' stick

rod

3-LETTER WORDS $800: In Psalms, "Thy" this "and thy staff, they comfort me"

rod

4-LETTER WORDS $800: In "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", I do this, this, this "for the home team"

root

WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $100: Give someone enough of this & he'll hang himself with it

rope

WORDS IN JEOPARDY! $400: Cordage of braided strands of hemp

rope

KANGAROO WORDS $200: It's just 1 letter shorter than rotund

round

A LITTLE "R" & "R" $1200: In sports, it's a tournament in which every team or contestant plays every other team or contestant

round robin

5-LETTER WORDS $400: Charles Dickens' Mr. Creakle likes to whack pupils on the hand with this measuring device

ruler

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: To look through your attic for a particular item, maybe just before the sale of the same name

rummage

6-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Arabic for "journey", it's an overland journey in Eastern Africa for hunting or exploring

safari

"S"PAÑOL $1000: If you see this word on a door, you've found the exit

salida

6-LETTER WORDS $200: Fishy name for light pink with a yellowish tinge

salmon

"S"PAÑOL $200: Celia Cruz, who passed away in 2003, was long hailed as the "Queen of" this style of music

salsa

"S"PAÑOL $1,000 (Daily Double): At a fiesta, you might raise a glass of sangria & make a toast using this word that means "health"

salud

KANGAROO WORDS $1000: If you salvage something, you also do this

save

10-LETTER WORDS $800: This 10-letter adjective means "winding" or "like a snake"

serpentine

3-LETTER WORDS $1200: To place wet hair in position by use of rollers & clips

set

12-LETTER WORDS $200: Specific term for a person from 60 to 69 years old

sexagenarian

"S"PAÑOL $400: Better not miss this one--it's Spanish for "miss", as in an unmarried woman

señorita

"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $200: Head & Shoulders or Prell

shampoo

LITERARY LINGO $600: This 3-letter term is inserted after a correctly quoted word or phrase that's misspelled or inaccurate

sic

"S"PAÑOL $600: Referring to mountains with a saw-toothed appearance, it precedes Madre & Nevada

sierra

SIMILES $400: You can be "guilty as" this, or guilty of this 3-letter word

sin

5-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight

skein

4-LETTER WORDS $800: A homophone of Santa's mode of transportation, it means to kill violently

slay

WORD ORIGINS $2000: Over 800 years old, this 6-letter Middle English word meaning "track" was first used for a detective in 1872

sleuth

4-LETTER WORDS $200: To hit hard, or a snail cousin

slug

"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: In this billiards game, players have 15 red balls to shoot as well as 6 balls of other colors

snooker

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ross Powers won the men's superpipe at the 2003 U.S. Open in this sport

snowboarding

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Dial & Zest are 4-letter brands of this

soap

3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A section of growing grass & roots cut from the ground

sod

FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: Chimney sweeps can show you this carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion

soot

THE THINGS YOU SAY! $1200: It's a 5-letter archaic word for "the truth"; a "sayer" of it speaks truth about the future

sooth

13-LETTER WORDS $800: Worldly & refined, like Duke Ellington's "Lady"

sophisticated

10-LETTER WORDS $200: Often available on CD, it's the music & songs from a movie

soundtrack

FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In English it's an Asian sauce; in Spanish it means "I am"

soy

4-LETTER WORDS $800: For a phrase that means "spotless", it pairs with "spick"

span

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Entranced, or a 1945 Hitchcock film

spellbound

CHEMISTRY $1600: 4-letter word for the intrinsic angular momentum of an elementary particle

spin

TREE-LETTER WORDS $800: Show us some backbone by giving us this synonym of the backbone

spine

ADD TWO LETTERS $800: The wood used to immobilize a fractured bone & two letters later, the less painful result of part of it in your skin

splint & splinter

11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a work page containing a multicolumn analysis of related entries, such as in Microsoft Excel

spreadsheet

TECHWORD MASH-UP $800: The product "McAfee Anti-" this 7-letter mashed-up word keeps prying eyes out of your computer

spyware

7-LETTER WORDS $800: To apply pressure to extract juice, or to give someone a hug

squeeze

SPECIAL EFFECTS $1600: 5-letter word for an explosive used to lend realism to cinematic gunplay

squib

8-LETTER WORDS $800: A flag, a pedestal or a song often used in repertories

standard

5-LETTER WORDS $400: This term for a high-spirited horse comes from an Old English word that means "stallion"

steed

5-LETTER WORDS $600: This metallic word can precede "blue", "drum" or "-faced"

steel

5-LETTER WORDS $200: As an adjective, this 5-letter word can mean "exorbitant"; as a verb, "to soak in water", like tea

steep

HOCKEY $1000: () It's the 13 letter word for the skill I was just demonstrating (Mario Lemieux doesn't have to worry)

stickhandling

3-LETTER WORDS $200: Hog home

sty

15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Though not used technically, it's another term for the upper troposphere

substratosphere

( )-LETTER WORDS $400: (34) Disney song title

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

JOBS IN THE ARTS $1000: 13-letter word for the "super" job of nonspeaking actor onstage in an opera

supernumerary

TREE-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): You're in this position if you've been knocked flat on your back

supine

NEWS QUIZ $1600: It's the 5-letter word usually applied to the increase in Iraq troop levels announced Jan. 10, 2007

surge

ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $800: A joining of the edges of a wound by a stitch

suture

IN THE DICTIONARY $800: Add 1 letter to a timepiece to get this word for a sample piece of cloth (it's also a brand of timepiece)

swatch

JUNG AT HEART $2000: It was Jung, not Sting, who first applied this 13-letter word to the coincidence of events that seem related

synchronicity

15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The process of making 2 or more things work together in unison

synchronization

10-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Greek for "together" & "name", it means having the same meaning

synonymous

10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City

tabernacle

FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: If hesitating between guten morgen & guten abend, there's always guten this, "good day"

tag

3-LETTER WORDS $400: 3-letter word used in the opening line to describe "The Girl From Ipanema"

tan

3-LETTER WORDS $200: To stick a faucet into a keg, or a listening device on a phone

tap

4-LETTER STOCK MARKET WORDS $600: The flow of prices that appear on the boards of brokerage firms can be the "ticker" or this, or both together

tape

WORDS IN (THE) DICTIONARY $800: Late to school or work

tardy

DERIVED FROM ETRUSCAN $1600: Tennyson wrote of these, "idle" these, "from the depth of some divine despair"

tears

5-LETTER WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): From the Latin word for "time", it's the speed at which a musical piece is played

tempo

2 FOR T $2,500 (Daily Double): Any Boy Scout could tell you it's a 10-letter word for "novice"

tenderfoot

PHYSICS $600: () Seven letter word for the type of strength, based on the cohesion of molecules, that varies in different materials

tensile

11-LETTER WORDS $1000: A pyramid is an example of this type of solid in which all 4 sides are the same size

tetrahedron

3-LETTER WORDS $400: The projecting rim of a cup or pitcher

the "lip"

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A 1920s dance, or a city in South Carolina

the Charleston

THE LAND OF OZ $200: () If you watched "Survivor", you know that this sparsely settled interior is known by this 7-letter word

the Outback

10-LETTER WORDS $800: Seen , this building in Ohio's capital was built by 19th-century convicts

the Statehouse

3-LETTER WORDS $200: In the title of an Aesop fable, this insect shared billing with a grasshopper

the ant

5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Teddy Roosevelt said "The credit belongs to the man" in this, "whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood"

the arena

4-LETTER STOCK MARKET WORDS $400: You can get mauled when it's this market that features a lengthy period of price drops

the bear

3-LETTER WORDS $1600: The part of an apron or a pair of overalls that covers the chest

the bib

12-LETTER WORDS $1600: In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the USA's Megan Quann swam the 100m in this event in 1:07.05 to win gold

the breaststroke

4-LETTER WORDS $400: To deal with a problem head on is "to take" it "by the horns"

the bull

TERM ME LOOSE $1200: This 4-letter word is the Aussie term for the wild, wooded & little-populated part of Australia

the bush

6-LETTER WORDS $2000: () When hanging a flag in a window, this rectangular corner section should be to the left of the viewer

the canton

4-LETTER WORDS $200: To escape, a chicken might "fly" it

the coop

O FOR A $1600: The price for the group of actors in a play

the cost for the cast

3-LETTER WORDS $400: Cows regurgitate this from the first stomach to the mouth & chew it again

the cud

4-LETTER WORDS $400: If your birthday is on September 24, you're on this of the sign of Libra

the cusp

SHOW SOME PRIDE $400: This 3-letter word for excess pride is a psychoanalytic term for the conscious self

the ego

CHANGE YOUR LIFE $2000: It often has 6 holes in it

the fife

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Remember Chuck Mangione? Remember this instrument that he plays?

the flugelhorn

12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the German for "bell play", it's the metallic percussion instrument heard

the glockenspiel

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1200: This animal's 3-letter name is derived from an African word for "black", referring to the black wildebeest

the gnu

12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Job of the man who oversees the movement of vessels in a port

the harbormaster

8-LETTER WORDS $1200: The scientific name of this whale is Megaptera novaeangliae, or "Big-winged New Englander"

the humpback

THE "I"s HAVE IT $800: This 14-letter word for a society's intellectual elite comes from the Russian

the intelligentsia

"I.M." ING $400: H.G. Wells & Ralph Ellison both wrote about characters called this

the invisible man

6-LETTER WORDS $600: A jail's temporary detention area where suspects are fingerprinted

the lockup

FOR THE "MAIN" COURSE $400: 9-letter word for a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users

the mainframe

10-LETTER WORDS $800: Handwritten or typed, it's the original text of an author's work that's submitted for publication

the manuscript

A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: The Semites called an early version of the letter Q "qoph", their word for this tailed animal

the monkey

15-LETTER WORDS $1600: Specifically, the person in an organization who enforces Robert's Rules of Order

the parliamentarian

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Hamlet spotting the Bengay at the drug store would exclaim, "Ay, there's" this

the rub

6-LETTER WORDS $800: Salesmen have long known that you "don't sell the steak", you "sell" this

the sizzle

12-LETTER WORDS $800: A part of the mind just under the surface from which feelings or thoughts can influence behavior

the subconscious

CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Everything "will come out in" this

the wash

THE W.C. $200: Office workers are said to gather around this dispenser to talk about riveting TV shows

the water cooler

THE W.C. $400: Newlyweds are supposed to freeze the top of this & eat it on their first anniversary

the wedding cake

5-LETTER WORDS $1600: The Temptations said it's a "ball of confusion"; Wittgenstein said it's "everything that is the case"

the world

4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This problem that sounds like what a coyote does at night could threaten a golfer's career

the yips

4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This old pronoun is sung as the last word of the English version of "O Canada"

thee

7-LETTER WORDS $200: People "thick as" these are close or tight & you may want to hold on to your wallet

thieves

12-LETTER WORDS $200: Man O' War was a famous one

thoroughbred

4X4 $200: Take an archaic version of a second person pronoun & add beach grains to make this number

thousand

WORDS OF A FEATHER $400: Proverbially, it's a crowd

three

6-LETTER WORDS $400: Thou knowest, in baseball, swing & miss this many times & thou art out

thrice

FINANCIAL MATTERS $1000: This 6-letter word can mean frugality, or a savings & loan association

thrift

5-LETTER WORDS $400: Hitch a ride, or an opposable digit

thumb

5-LETTER WORDS $800: 5-letter body part that's a synonym for hitchhike

thumb

ADD A LETTER $200: The slip of paper needed for entry into an event; add a letter & it's this dense growth of bushes

ticket & thicket

HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $400: When told he'd be playing these drums with the band, Tim panicked

timpani (in Tim panicked)

TRIOS $1200: To experiment with, activist Medgar & Peter Sellers' "Being There" role

tinker, Evers & Chance

3-LETTER WORDS $400: The part of the tongue that holds the names you just can't think of at the moment

tip

A VARIETY OF WORDS $200: Bridgestone product

tire

2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER $800: Ti--a tropical plant in the agave family, or the symbol for this element

titanium

SOUNDS $600: A 5-letter verb meaning to edit a bad word from a broadcast, it originally meant the sound used in the edit

to bleep

YOU'RE SUCH AN "IMP" $800: 5-letter word: to groom oneself in a fussy way

to primp

4-LETTER WORDS $600: This protein rich food is coagulated from an extract of soybeans & used in salads & cooked foods

tofu

3-LETTER WORDS $200: Barnum & Bailey worked under a "big" one & we're not talkin' a spinning toy

top

5-LETTER WORDS $800: Each paragraph of an essay should include this type of "sentence" that states the main thought

topic

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Graphic representation of surface features on a region of a map

topography

MOIST THINGS $200: This 9-letter word for a small piece of paper used for cleansing often follows "moist"

towelette

PUNK'D $400: This 4-letter word for a journey or to stumble now means to overreact

trip

CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" $400: One may be vacuum or inner (4)

tube

10-LETTER WORDS $800: A driveway area where cars reverse direction, or the time needed to complete a task

turnaround

KANGAROO WORDS $600: Within instructor you'll find this private instructor

tutor

SOCIAL STUDIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Insert a letter in "teen" to get this newer word for a preadolescent

tween

7-LETTER WORDS $400: To shine with a flickering gleam of light, as a "little star" might

twinkle

10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: At opposite ends, just outside the visible spectrum are infrared waves & these waves

ultraviolet waves

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1000: After all the states ratified it, Congress added this 9-letter word to the title

unanimous

10-LETTER WORDS $400: Intolerable, as in a Milan Kundera title

unbearable

13-LETTER WORDS $400: Term for a college student who hasn't yet earned a degree

undergraduate

12-LETTER WORDS $400: If you get fired, you may be able to file for this

unemployment

MATHEMATICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) In set theory, it's the 5-letter word that this symbol stands for (U)

union

15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the illegal conduct being identified

unsportsmanlike conduct

2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Against, as the wind

up

2-LETTER WORDS $200: It precedes -hold, -keep & -heaval

up

2-LETTER WORDS $800: It can mean awake, cheerful, or at bat

up

2-LETTER WORDS $800: The Random House Dictionary gives one definition of it as "at bat"

up

3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A sealed vase in which to keep a loved one's ashes

urn

2-LETTER WORDS $800: According to lyrics in "West Side Story", it's whom "There's a place for"

us

"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This slang word meaning "scat!" or "leave quickly" comes from the Spanish for "let us go"

vamoose

"V" WORDS $100: It's the 6-letter "V" word for what Lance's bird, seen here, is about to do

vanish

A VARIETY OF WORDS $600: A large, deep vessel for holding liquids such as dye

vat

6-LETTER WORDS $1600: () In the angle ABC the line segments that form the sides of the angle have a common end point, B, called this

vertex

3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be an experienced soldier or a doctor for your pet

vet

VOCABULARY TEST $600: It's the 4-letter word for the president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress

veto

13-LETTER WORDS $400: In TV, it's the VC in VCR (you do remember those, don't you?)

videocassette

3-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "invite", it's to strive in competition, as for a title

vie

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: In a popular expression it precedes "and vigor"

vim

3-LETTER WORDS $1000: When paired with vigor, it signifies exuberance

vim

10-LETTER WORDS $400: The greatest distance it's possible to see with the naked eye, it's often part of the weather forecast

visibility

13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A rubber-treatment process, or turning into Mr. Spock's kin

vulcanization

3-LETTER WORDS $600: A rounded mass of chewing gum

wad

6-LETTER WORDS $600: To speak evasively, or a light crisp battercake baked in a specific appliance

waffle

4-LETTER WORDS $1600: The four 4-letter words in the title of the Beatles' first U.S. No. 1 hit

want hold your hand

THE W.C. $600: Henry Wirz, the commandant of Andersonville Prison, was executed for these

war crimes

LOSING THE "WAR" $400: After losing the "war" running a prison, he goes home to his study

warden (warDEN)

10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Person who'd repair your Timex or Seiko

watchmaker

3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the main ingredient in a candle

wax

THERE'S A "WAY" $400: 7-letter word for one who turns away from what's right or proper; a son can be described this way

wayward

3-LETTER WORDS $200: An inexperienced person is this 'behind the ears"

wet

IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $200: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it

when

10-LETTER WORDS $1000: A type of rafting in the rapids, or a real estate scandal involving the Clintons

whitewater

THE W.C. $800: This respiratory disease is caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria

whooping cough

CHANGE YOUR LIFE $400: George Bush's is Laura

wife

4-LETTER WORDS $200: This type of "goose chase" is fruitless

wild

PHILOSOPHY $2000: This was a real 4-letter word for Schopenhauer, as it urges us on to pointless desires & death

will

SPORTS PAGE CLICHÉS $2000: Told, "There is no 'I' in 'team", Michael Jordan supposedly responded that there is one in this 3-letter word

win

10-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds

woodpecker

QUOTATIONS $2,200 (Daily Double): Oscar Wilde called this 4-letter word "the curse of the drinking classes"

work

2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: Even without playing it on a special square, this Greek letter will get you 9 points

xi

AVIATION $6,600 (Daily Double): 3-letter word for the side-to-side movement of the aircraft's nose, controlled in part by the rudder

yaw

4-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a deep, involuntary intake of breath through a wide-open mouth when you're sleepy

yawn

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Over there; often hitched with hither

yon

10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The proper way to address bishops & foreign ambassadors is his or her this

your excellency

7-LETTER WORDS $800: The strip of material around your fedora

your hatband

WORD'S WORTH $1200: 6 letters, score 23: Named for a Greek God, it's a gentle breeze from the west

zephyr

6-LETTER WORDS $1000: Used on citrus fruits, it's the item seen here

zester

"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the scientific study of animals

zoology