Pop Culture
RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS | 400 | The goal of this show was to get 3 celebrities in a row across, up & down or diagonally
Hollywood Squares
COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL | 2000 | This oldest Catholic college in New England is located in the wicked excellent city of Worcester
Holy Cross
DAD TV | 1000 | Tim Taylor
Home Improvement
2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS | 800 | Best Premium Cable TV Show went to this Showtime stalwart whose main character split time between Berlin & Beirut
Homeland
THEIR TV ROLES | 1200 | Gemma Teller Morrow & Peg Bundy
Katey Sagal
CLASSIC TOYS | 2000 | The creator of this toy was inspired by watching workers build the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which was designed by his father
Lincoln Logs
SUPPORTING THE TV SHOW | 200 | Travel through time to see Bertram Cooper & Bobby Draper
Mad Men
TELEVISION | 800 | It ended its run with Don Draper meditating on a clifftop
Mad Men
THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION | 800 | Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway
Mad Men
WHAT A TV DRAMA QUEEN! | 800 | Tea Leoni plays a former CIA analyst who joins the president's cabinet on this TV drama
Madam Secretary
BROADWAY SHOWS BY CHARACTER | 1200 | Cockney chimney sweep Bert,Winifred Banks
Mary Poppins
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS | 1600 | The Victoria News
British Columbia
PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Every year, Gino's hosts Match Day, when students at the Feinberg School of Medicine at this nearby Big Ten university find out where their residencies will be
Northwestern
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE | 800 | In addition to numerous shopping deal & its ""Club O"" program, this.com also has a link for pet adoptions
Overstock.com
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM | 800 | This Salt Lake City-based online retailer features Mobile O, Club O Rewards & O.biz
Overstock.com
VIDEO GAMES | 1600 | You'll receive mercy from Mercy in this game, and maybe, just maybe, you'll get the play of the game
Overwatch
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | Rhodes to success lead from this university where William of Ockham brought his razor wit in lectures in 1317
Oxford
WHERE'S THAT STATE SCHOOL? | 800 | Read up on your Faulkner on the main campus of the University of Mississippi in this city
Oxford
HEADLINE NEWS | 2000 | A front-page headline in Le Monde Sept. 13, 2001 read, ""We Are All"" these people
Americans
STARS OF BUSINESS | 800 | This brand of Italian sparkling mineral water has a red star on its cyan label as well as a red star on its blue cap
San Pellegrino
WHO PLAYED THE SNL CHARACTER? | 1600 | Cajun Man & Opera Man
Sandler
BUSINESS | 800 | This ""cutting""-edge Japanese company got its name from a replaceable lead pencil that never dulled
Sharp
SCI-FI TV | 400 | This 1994 Kurt Russell film spawned several TV spinoffs, including ""SG-1"" & ""Atlantis""
Stargate
COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s | 800 | In ""The Jerk"" this comedian treats Bernadette Peters to ""pizza in a cup""
Steve Martin
TV REALITY CHECK | 200 | Palau, Micronesia & Vanuatu have all been exotic settings for this TV show
Survivor
CELEBRITY DATE BOOK | 200 | May 21, 1999:This daytime drama star had lost out on 18 straight Emmys, but it isn't going to be 19
Susan Lucci
CHARACTERS IN BOOKS | 1600 | This name of a hypnotist from the novel ""Trilby"" now means anyone with a sinister ability to sway people
Svengali
COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | 2000 | In 1946 this N.Y. university founded Utica College, which became independent in 1995
Syracuse University
TELEVISION FOR SHORT | 1200 | This celeb-obsessed show got its name from a ""zone"" with a 30-mile radius, used to monitor film shoots
TMZ
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 400 | Per his creator ""he could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest top""
Tarzan
4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES | 800 | All's fare in taking a ride with Alex, Elaine & the gang on this show
Taxi
CROSSWORD CLUES ""V"" | 600 | ""Elle"" competitor(5)
Vogue
TV CHARACTERS | 1600 | Howard Wolowitz deals with his off-screen maaaa! on this brainy sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 600 | Evil Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter books was originally this Hogwarts student
Tom Riddle
ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM | 1200 | He reported on Ken Kesey's travels with the Merry Pranksters in ""The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test""
Tom Wolfe
CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS | 800 | Jaleel White played this annoying neighbor on ""Family Matters""
Urkel
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | 400 | The Cadet (in Virginia)
VMI (Virginia Military Institute)
ANAGRAMMED SCHOOL SUBJECTS | 600 | Expressive math:RAGE LAB
algebra
TV NETWORK NAMES | 400 | An Italian interjection of praise for a male performer
Bravo
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 600 | Wal-Mart
Arkansas
I SAW THAT ON TV | 800 | ""Outback Wrangler"" & ""Swamp Men"" are shows on this channel's ""Wild""
Nat Geo
ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS | 400 | The five model of this Toyota gets about 50 mpg, so the 700 miles between Dallas & Des Moines? only 14 gallons!
a Prius
A TV GUIDE | 800 | B.B. King would be surprised to learn that on ""The Walking Dead"" Lucille wasn't a guitar, but one of these
a bat
TV WEAPON OF CHOICE | 1000 | Daredevil
a baton
BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | A term for a female pageant winner is used in the honorary title for a British barrister
a beauty Queen\'s Counsel
ETIQUETTE | 1000 | To show mourning, a flag that's carried has one of these attached to it
a black crepe (or black ribbon)
THEY SAID IT WITH FLOWERS | 200 | Gertrude Stein:""____ is a ____ is a ____""
a rose is a rose is a rose
COLOR TV | 1000 | ""____ Bloods""
Blue Bloods
DICKENS BOOK BY CHARACTER | 200 | Bob Cratchit
A Christmas Carol
COUNTRIES' NEWSPAPERS | 200 | The Hindustan Times
India
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 200 | Unmanned plane (5)
a drone
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 400 | A song for 2(4)
a duet
NEWSWORDY | 1200 | 2013 brought the first of these powwows of cardinals in 8 years
conclaves
AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS | 200 | Listen up & you can hear a member of this club practicing now
bowling club
BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Pugilist's equipment for storing your maps in the car
boxing glove compartment
AFTER SCHOOL | 1200 | You might learn the exchange variation on the French defense in this club
chess club
BUSINESS ABBEV. | 1600 | COO:This bigwig
chief operating officer
CROSSWORD CLUES ""F"" | 800 | Easily ignited(9)
flammable
THROWN OF GAMES | 200 | Woody Hayes has been credited with saying, ""3 things can happen when you pass"" in this sport ""& 2 of them are bad""
football
CROSSWORD CLUES ""F"" | 1600 | Happening once every 2 weeks(11)
fortnightly
I'M GAME | 400 | 2-word game in which you can't move once ""It"" touches you; it's also a maker of online family-friendly games
freeze tag
POST GAME | 400 | 4-letter word for your clothes
gear (or garb)
OF THE GAME | 800 | A little-known rule in Monopoly is that this ""Chance"" card usually kept until needed may be sold to another player
get-out-of-jail-free card
RADIOASTRONOMY | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) In 2013, Green Bank scientists, using the Byrd telescope, found possible signs of these waves, ripples in space-time that were predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity nearly a century before
gravity waves
""IN"" BUSINESS | 1200 | Governments encourage businesses to expand & hire with an ITC, this type of tax credit
investment
BUSINESS ABBEV. | 400 | ROI:Return on this
investment
SOUNDS LIKE A FLOWER | 400 | It regulates the light entering the eye
iris
BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Dessert made from citrus fruit named for its Florida origin becomes an informative circle divided into sectors
key lime pie chart
CROSSWORD CLUES ""K"" | 400 | Class for kids(12)
kindergarten
6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 2000 | Destiny, Turkish style
kismet
A 5-STAR SCHOOL LUNCH | 600 | The students rave about this type of wagyu steak from Hyogo prefecture, so pale when raw it's almost white
kobe beef
FLOWERS | 400 | The hybrid tea is the most popular class of this flower
the rose
PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM | 1000 | Feature, 2016: The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, making Oregonians quake with a piece on the Cascadia this earth feature
the subduction earthquake fault
THE OLYMPIC GAMES | 400 | The Olympic torch relay begins when this natural source is used to light the flame
the sun
FLOWERS | 800 | Carolus Clusius of the University of Leiden was the chief founder of this flower's bulb culture in the Netherlands
the tulip
STRATEGY GAMES | 800 | You can use the Chinese, Japanese or American rules in this game of tiles with dots, craks & bams
mah-jongg
HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 800 | Classic luau cocktail(3, 3)
mai tai
JOURNALISM CLICHES | 600 | Affluent folks' lawns are described as this, as if they were tended using nail scissors
manicured
6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 1200 | Where to harbor your yacht
marina
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Contact sport that allows striking, kicking, grappling, pottery & needlework
martial arts & crafts
THE TV BUSINESS | 200 | In many markets the broadcast day is broken up into parts including 7-8 P.M., called ""access"", & 8-11 P.M., called this
prime time
THE OLD COLLEGE ""-TRY"" | 600 | Anyone who stands guard
sentry
CROSSWORD CLUES ""S"" | 200 | 1 of 7 womb mates(9)
septuplet
CROSSWORD CLUES ""T"" | 1000 | Type of bicycle built for 2(6)
tandem
CROSSWORD PUNS | 400 | Leaves around 4 P.M. in England:_ _ A
tea
CROSSWORD CLUES ""T"" | 800 | Work from home(11)
telecommute
AMERICANA | 800 | Architect Richard Morris Hunt put this 111' lady on a pedestal (that he designed from 1882 to 1884)
the Statue of Liberty
L.A. TELEVISION | 1000 | 5 decades apart, we spent time on this title road, at ""77"" & in ""Studio 60""
the Sunset Strip
SHARED COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES | 400 | Missouri & Clemson
the Tigers
BAD NEWS | 200 | Late on April 14, 1912, things got bad for this ship roughly 400 miles south of Newfoundland
the Titanic
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Formal agreement ending the Revolutionary War that's a hotel heiress & reality TV star
the Treaty of Paris Hilton
TV THAT COOKS | 2000 | Jennifer Paterson & Clarissa Dickson Wright, this pair, traveled the U.K. by motorcycle in search of foodie fun
the Two Fat Ladies
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 2000 | A sportswriter used the term ""ivy colleges"" in 1933 to describe 9 schools--the 8 current Ivies & this school in New York State
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
STATE SCHOOL ALUMNI | 2000 | Raul Castro (not that one, but a governor of the state), Annika Sorenstam, Barry Goldwater
the University of Arizona
COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows two football helmets on the monitor.) When Fritz Crisler redesigned the black helmets for this Big 10 team so the players could see each other better, the team nearly doubled its yardage from the previous season
the University of Michigan
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1200 | Truman the Tiger has been this school's mascot since 1984
the University of Missouri
MTV | 1200 | In September 1984 we aired our first episode of ""Jeopardy!"" & MTV debuted the awards called these
the Video Music Awards
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS | 800 | Jeff Bezos recently made the news when he purchased this newspaper for $250 million
the Washington Post
TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL | 1600 | Part giant, part jinn, this Narnia antagonist weakens with the thaw; that's when classes get started!
the White Witch
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | A Lexington college hoops squad joins Hans & Fritz in the comics; their goal-- confounding der Captain
the Wild Katzenjammer Kids
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the College Football Hall of Fame.) The belt here had little handles, so other players could lock arms and move down the field in one of these formations, later outlawed by the NCAA due to death and injury
the flying wedge
FOX(X) NEWS | 1200 | First done to ragtime, by the 1920s this dance was performed to any popular music
the foxtrot
A BLOODY BUSINESS | 200 | In 1792 highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person executed by this recent invention
the guillotine
SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | Instead of ending so the ballgame can start, the national anthem leads into a 1932 novel of the future
the home of the Brave New World
TITLE CHARACTERS | 400 | Know it was the title of the supreme ruler of the Tatar tribes during the Middle Ages, or feel my ""wrath""
the khan
FILM SCHOOL | 2000 | The strip at the beginning of a portion of film is called this--Academy is one type
the leader
ETIQUETTE | 1000 | During the wedding ceremony, this person holds the groom's wedding ring & the bride's bouquet
the maid of honor
THE OLYMPIC GAMES | 1200 | In 2000, 2008 & 2012 Africans swept the medals in this longest men's running race
the marathon
GROWNUPS ON TV | 800 | Scott Pelley is the serious-looking dude who anchors the ""CBS Evening"" version of this
the news
FLOWERY PHRASES | 1000 | If you ""cut down"" these ""tall"" flowers, you're criticizing those who stand out
the poppies
TOYS & GAMES | 800 | Applejack & Pinkie Pie are 2 of the teensy equines in this toy line
My Little Pony
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | The woman who gave King Arthur his sword moves to Garrison Keillor's fictitious town
the Lady of the Lake Wobegon
SERIOUS TV | 1200 | This Sunday morning news show now hosted by Bob Schieffer premiered on CBS on Nov. 7, 1954
Face the Nation
FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1200 | Camden College is the setting for ""The Rules of Attraction"" by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth
Bret Easton Ellis
'90s NEWSMAKERS | 400 | Warning that it ""can happen to anybody"", he retired from basketball after announcing he was HIV positive
Magic Johnson
COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES | 1000 | The Terrapins
Maryland
TV MOVIES | 800 | This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in ""Behind the Candelabra""
Michael Douglas
USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL | 800 | Solve for x:5x + 2x = 14
2
COLLEGE MATH | 600 | Number in the name of UCLA's sports conference minus the number in the name of Nebraska's
2 (Pac 12 - Big 10)
2010s TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 600 | Max (a woman), Caroline, Oleg the cook
2 Broke Girls
USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL | 1600 | The stadium holds 4,500 seats;80%, this many, are filled
3600
NEWS ON THE SCREEN | 800 | This groundbreaking TV news magazine has been on CBS since 1968
60 Minutes
TV TIME | 200 | In Seattle network prime time starts at this hour on weekdays
8PM
TV NUMBERS | 600 | Help is on the way:""Nanny ____""
911
COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES | 200 | Crimson Tide
Alabama
A REAL CHARACTER | 2000 | This boy, voiced by John Morris, owns most of the ""Toy Story"" toys
Andy
TV | 1000 | An executive at Bravo, he also hosts ""Watch What Happens Live""
Andy Cohen
TV THEME SONGS | 600 | This cartoon's theme begins with mom Lois singing, ""It seems today that all you see is violence in movies & sex on TV""
Family Guy
TV SHOWS' THEME SONGS | 2000 | ""What would we do, baby, without us""
Family Ties
TV SHOW OPENINGS | 1600 | A plane! A plane! arrives at a vacation resort to the delight of a diminutive employee
Fantasy Island
KILLER TV | 1600 | Lester Nygaard
Fargo
CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS | 1000 | Tyra Collette was more than just the bad girl of Dillon, Texas on this drama
Friday Night Lights
LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! | 400 | Old school: this Roman Catholic university in D.C. was founded in 1789; new school: it opened a Qatar campus in 2005
Georgetown
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 1000 | ""Spooky"" 1881 Ibsen play(6)
Ghosts
VIDEO GAMES | 400 | ""Clueless gamer"" Conan O'Brien hit the streets of Los Santos & died (repeatedly!) at a club in this game's ""V"" edition
Grand Theft Auto
DESCRIBING THE TV CAST | 2000 | A recently emancipated slave,a man thrown off the board of Union Pacific
Hell on Wheels
THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME | 800 | A Union officer & head of the Freedman's Bureau gave his name to this historically black university in Washington, D.C.
Howard
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | 400 | ""The Ricardos Change Apartments""(1953)
I Love Lucy
FOX(X) NEWS | 800 | The bold surprise attacks in North Africa by Nazi general Erwin Rommel earned the man this nickname
""Desert Fox""
TV MOVIES | 800 | Judy Davis won an Emmy in 2001 for her portrayal of this show-biz Judy & her tumultuous life
Judy Garland
CELEBRITY INSURANCE POLICIES | 800 | The legs of this Lord of the Dance have been covered to the tune of $40 million
Michael Flatley
NEWSPAPERS | 400 | Early in their careers, Mark Twain & Bret Harte wrote pieces for this California city's Chronicle
San Francisco
TV HANGOUTS | 1600 | The Mystic Grill in Mystic Falls
The Vampire Diaries
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 2000 | A ""boring"" tool(5)
auger
CROSSWORD CLUES ""B"" | 1600 | B.A. stretched to 13 letters (13)
baccalaureate
RADIOASTRONOMY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) Green Bank's telescopes are so sensitive that even the radiation emitted by a car's spark plugs can cause interference, so the observatory's vehicle fleet, including old pickups and Checker cabs, is powered solely by this type of spark-plug-free engine
diesel
THE NAME OF THE GAME | 1000 | The art of negotiation between nations
diplomacy
BUSINESS ABBEV. | 1200 | EPS:These per share
earnings
SCIENCE NEWS | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some acquatic images on the monitor.) Using a multistep process that isolates dolphins sounds on specific objects, researchers have created a 3-D image that simulates how dolphins see a human using this process
echolocation
VIDEO GAMES | 800 | Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde were 4 of these in a series of classic Namco arcade games
ghosts
SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a soccer field.) Also called a one-two, this play can start with a pass or a throw-in; then the player breaks past the defender into open space for a quick return pass
give and go
TV FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS | 1000 | The Dowager Countess of Grantham to Cora Crawley on ""Downton Abbey""
mother-in-law
JOURNALISM CLICHES | 200 | A recent search on the nexis.com database found 580 uses in a month of ""shrouded in secrecy"" or ""shrouded in"" this
mystery
WORDS IN FLOWERS | 800 | This other word for a country is in bloom
nation (in carnation)
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 400 | Agile, like ""Jack be""(6)
nimble
SCIENCE NEWS | 1200 | The New Horizons probe showed glaciers on Pluto made of this element that's 4/5 of Earth's atmosphere
nitrogen
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 1600 | Nighttime piano piece(8)
nocturne
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 1000 | Not affiliated with a particular religious group(17)
nondenominational
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 1200 | Drivel(8)
nonsense
MOVIE & TV TERMS | 400 | A pan shot, which gives the audience a larger view of the scene, gets its name from this longer word
panorama
JOURNALISM | 800 | A ""nut graf"" gives the essentials of a story; ""graf"" is short for this
paragraph
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 600 | This meter is 5 feet long(10)
pentameter
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME | 200 | Xenopsylla cheopis is a rat flea named for a guy who held this lofty position
pharaoh
THE NAME OF THE GAME | 200 | Also a fireplace implement
poker
THEY SAID IT WITH FLOWERS | 800 | John McCrae:""In Flanders fields"" these ""blow/ between the crosses, row on row""
poppies
PLANTS & FLOWERS | 2000 | The castor bean plant contains this protein, one of the deadliest toxins known
ricin
A GAME OF H-O-R-S-E | 600 | To steal livestock, or to cause soft sounds
rustle
CROSSWORD CLUES ""S"" | 400 | Wise herb (4)
sage
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY | 2000 | The divine number of 3 is present in many aspects of the work, including this rhyme scheme that means ""third rhyme"" in Italian
terza rima
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 1000 | The Ten Commandments(9)
the Decalogue
4-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 400 | The 3 wise men
the Magi
SHARED COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES | 200 | Troy & USC
the Trojans
THE COLLEGE'S ALUMNI | 1600 | Richard E. Byrd,Alan Shepard,John McCain
the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis
TV PETS | 400 | Don Johnson's TV pet seen here used to serve as the mascot of this university
the University of Florida
BUSINESS & FINANCE | 1200 | Toxic & unsalable, they're the TAs in TARP, the ""Relief Program"" implemented in 2008 to stem the financial crisis
troubled assets
FLOWERY PROSE | 800 | In an Alexandre Dumas novel, the town of Haarlem offers a prize to anyone who can grow a black one of these
tulip
FLOWERS | 800 | Every May the city of Holland, Michigan has a weeklong festival devoted to these flowers
tulips
& NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS | 200 | Just before July 4, 2016, Jason Galvin freed one of these American symbols stuck high in a tree
a bald eagle
THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB | 400 | Sam Malone, Nick Miller
a bartender
TV PETS | 2000 | Grandpa on The Munsters had a pet one of these named Igor
a bat
THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB | 1600 | Frank ""Ponch "" Poncherello, Danny Reagan
a cop (police officer)
THE NEWSPAPER TRADE | 600 | A ""comma chaser"" is aka this 2-word person who prepares & corrrects a newspaper's text
a copy editor
POST GAME | 600 | A mature reproductive cell
a gamete
POST GAME | 200 | A long look, or the male bird you're taking a long look at
a gander
POST GAME | 800 | This board helps you get from ship to shore
a gangplank
THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE | 1000 | Our daughter is at Montana State, this type of school established from acreage donated to states
a land grant
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 600 | Bedtime cocktail or head covering(8)
a nightcap
CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 800 | Movie or musical spoof (6)
a parody
ETIQUETTE | 400 | When seeking a job, keep the cover letter to one page & this summary of your skills to one or 2 pages
a résumé
CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS | 600 | Chapters in ""Cookin' with Coolio"" include ""Pasta Like a Rasta"" & ""It's Hard Out Here for"" this seafood
a shrimp
FLOWERY PHRASES | 200 | A shy person, or a purple flower diminishing in size
a shrinking violet
ETIQUETTE | 600 | Emily Post says to think of this ""as an aerosol spray of infection"", so if there's no tissue, use the inside of your elbow
a sneeze
CROSSWORD CLUES ""V"" | 800 | A wine maker(7)
a vintner
CROSSWORD WORDS | 1600 | Main character's foil(10)
antagonist
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 400 | The story of me, by me(13)
autobiography
2-WORD BUSINESS TERMS | 2000 | ""Large"" buzz-phrase for a mass of information, like about shopping habits, used in business decision-making
big data
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? | 200 | Cooking steak since 1964: ____ Angus
black
THE NAME OF THE GAME | 600 | A hand weapon made of leather-covered metal
blackjack
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 400 | (I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) I've written a lot about shareholders trying to get greater accountability for this group of people, including one story headlined ""Daring to Knock on the Boardroom Door""
boards of directors
A GAME OF IDIOMS | 400 | Saved by the bell
boxing
THROWN OF GAMES | 1000 | The pole in this Scottish athletic toss seen herecan weigh 80 to 180 pounds
caber toss
AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES | 600 | This art of decorative handwriting is from the Greek for ""beautiful writing""
calligraphy
SCHOOLING AROUND | 200 | More familiar term for the mortarboard & full-length garment worn at commencement
cap & gown
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN | 800 | Informatik(a thoroughly modern one)
computer
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN | 1000 | Kochen(break out the brats!)
cooking
RUSSIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 1200 | Empress equivalent(7)
czarina
WORDS IN FLOWERS | 400 | Step up to this raised platform
dais (in daisy)
THEY SAID IT WITH FLOWERS | 600 | 1890s songsmith & tandem bicycle enthusiast Harry Dacre:""____, ____, give me your answer, do!""
daisy
SANTA'S REINDEER GAMES | 400 | Profession of Michael Flatley & Martha Graham
dancers
RHYME SCHOOL | 400 | To let saliva come out of the mouth
drool
A GAME OF H-O-R-S-E | 1000 | It means occurring in an abnormal position or place & describes a serious pregnancy complication
ectopic
EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | A fried Asian appetizer that you use for personal grooming like Ban or Dry Idea
egg roll-on deodorant
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | I'll score 3 goals in a game if you don't give me some Halloween candy
hat trick-or-treat
TOYS & GAMES | 400 | This card game named for a suit is also called Black Maria
hearts
SCHOOL'S OUT IN JUNE | 1600 | St. Paul's College in Virginia, 1888-June 2013, is one of many shuttered HBCUs, short for these ""colleges & universities""
historically black colleges and universities
A GAME OF IDIOMS | 1000 | Drop the gloves
hockey
A GAME OF IDIOMS | 600 | Down to the wire
horse racing
THE OLD COLLEGE ""-TRY"" | 800 | A commandment (one of the 10!) in Exodus 20 forbids this religious practice
idolatry
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME | 600 | Rostropria garbo, a wasp named for Greta, was so-named because of this propensity of the insect
it likes to be alone
BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | Heavy-duty tool that can cut through crashed cars & Twain River memoirs
jaws of Life on the Mississippi
CROSSWORD CLUES ""J"" | 1200 | Old, cruddy car (6)
junker
AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES | 200 | Get your kicks (& punches) learning Shotokan, a Japanese system of this martial art
karate
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 800 | Make up artist(4)
liar
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 800 | Type of energy or family(7)
nuclear
CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 800 | Big shrimp(5)
prawn
BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | A type of sports overtime becomes more serious as a document that sets an execution date
sudden death warrant
TITLE CHARACTERS | 600 | In the 11th century the rulers of the Turkish Seljuk Empire had this title
sultan
YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! | 600 | Often remedial, this session is also the title of a Mark Harmon film released in July 1987
summer school
MOVIE & TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 200 | Jeff Bridges abided as the Dude, while the late David Huddleston played this title role
the Big Lebowski
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | ""Indestructible"" airplane recorder that spawned a 1900 Asian revolt vs. foreigners
the Black Boxer Rebellion
SCHOOL'S OUT IN JUNE | 400 | From 1834 to June 1838, Louisa May's dad Bronson Alcott ran the Temple School in a temple of this fraternal order
the Freemasons
ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS | 400 | As this ""Aladdin"" character, Robin Williams did impressions of Groucho Marx, Schwarzenegger & others
the Genie
ARMED FORCES RADIO WITH PAT SAJAK | 600 | Specialist Kristen King became a star among soldiers with her ""Country Convoy"" show from inside this zone in Baghdad
the Green Zone
BUSINESS HISTORY | 200 | This restaurant chain opened in London in 1971; Eric Clapton's guitar became the first piece of memorabilia in 1979
the Hard Rock Cafe
ON TO GRAD SCHOOL | 1000 | The National Endowment for these helped create Marshall's grad program in these, uniting lit, history & culture
the Humanities
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY | 600 | Awarded since 1972 in 2015 the Commander-in-Chief's trophy was won by this Maryland school
the Naval Academy
CROSSWORD CLUES ""T"" | 200 | Native American ax(8)
tomahawk
AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES | 800 | If you're learning to read music, you'll recognize this symbol, a stylized form of the letter ""G""
treble clef
RHYME SCHOOL | 1200 | Silk or nylon netting used to make veils & gowns
tulle
MOVIE & TV TERMS | 800 | Choosing a performer to play a role based on appearance or similar parts he's done before
typecasting
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES | 1200 | This masked man is always at home in Dodger Stadium(6)
umpire
1940s TELEVISION | 2000 | On Aug. 10, 1948 he brought his radio hit ""Candid Microphone"" to television
(Allen) Funt
SEE TV | 2000 | ""Biography"" showed this Microsoft man's ""Life--From Child Prodigy to Harvard Dropout to Billiionaire""
(Bill) Gates
NATIONAL FLOWERS | 1200 | A stylized 3-petaled iris called this is the national fleur of France
(fleur-)de-lis
X GAMES | 400 | This number is represented by the Roman numeral X
10
TV TITLE MATH | 400 | Number of ""Hours"" in a CBS documentary show plus number of ""Minutes"" in a CBS documentary show
108 (48 + 60)
TV MOMS & DADS | 1200 | Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel & movie
About a Boy
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 800 | Athenian high point(9)
Acropolis
FILM SCHOOL | 400 | As ""The Waterboy"", this actor is a tackling machine who leads his college team to the Bourbon Bowl
Adam Sandler
NUMERICAL TV | 2000 | It was Reed & Malloy on patrol in L.A. on this classic cop show
Adam-12
THE BUSINESS OF TECH | 600 | In 2014 The Economist said this company was ""burying the Hachette"" over e-book prices
Amazon
REALITY TV HOSTS | 800 | Nick Cannon
America\'s Got Talent
FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS | 200 | After her affair with Count Vronsky, she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train
Anna Karenina
A BLOODY BUSINESS | 600 | This out-of-favor English queen was executed by the sword in 1536
Anne Boleyn
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS | 1200 | FDR,dog catcher
Annie
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES | 1000 | The ""III"" version of ""A.C."", this game, takes place in part in 1775 Colonial America
Assassin\'s Creed
JOURNALISM | 400 | ""The Journalist's Bible"" is the AP stylebook; AP is short for this oldest news-gathering agency in the United States
Associated Press
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY | 800 | This woman, Dante's guide through Paradise, dazzles him at first sight in the poem, just as she did in real life
Beatrice
BUSINESS & BRAND NAMES | 1000 | Dr. Dre helped found this brand of headphones, sold as part of a deal to Apple in 2014
Beats
DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS | 800 | 1991:Chip the teacup &Mrs. Potts, a teapot
Beauty and the Beast
CROSSWORD CLUES ""B"" | 1200 | Neighbor of a Guatemalan (8)
Belizian
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | 1000 | ""Say My Name""(2012)
Breaking Bad
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 200 | Stuck in a trap, this Brer begged Brer Fox to hang, drown or skin him, but not to fling him into a briar patch
Brer Rabbit
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS | 2000 | 2011, Best Pop Video: ""Till The World Ends"" (the fans didn't leave her alone)
Britney Spears
CAST OF THE TV SHOW | 600 | Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer, navigating New York
Broad City
CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS | 1200 | She's the actress seen here on graduation day from Princeton in 1987
Brooke Shields
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 800 | This Rhode Island school's Van Wickle Gates open twice a year -- inward for incoming freshman and outward for commencement
Brown
ANIMATED CHARACTERS | 400 | Chuck Jones' golden rule for this rascally rabbit was that he must always be provoked
Bugs Bunny
BAD NEWS | 600 | A 7.4 quake in Istanbul in 1999 did lead to better relations with this western border country that gave support
Bulgaria
COUPLING ON TV | 1600 | Michael Westen & Fiona Glenanne were always in on the action
Burn Notice
ODE TO A TV SHOW | 1000 | Michael Westen, Miami spy / Always knows what to do / A phony name, C-4 goes boom / & now our story's through
Burn Notice
NEWS ON THE SCREEN | 400 | In June 2015 this media company known for its entertaining lists launched a news app
BuzzFeed
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE | 400 | 1995:Sony releases PlayStation, which loads games from these instead of cartridges
CDs
1970s TV | 2000 | Officers Ponch & Jon first hit Calif. freeways on this show in 1977, which also shot right here on our Sony stage
CHiPS
TV SHOW PLOT POINTS | 800 | Detective Speedle was killed & Horatio donned his sunglasses... a lot
CSI: Miami
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD | 400 | (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Tuesday we had some hidden Bobs; you'll find Dylan in this ""classic board game with a peppermint forest""
Candy Land
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 400 | Just north of downtown Seattle is this ""Hill"", though the state government is still in Olympia
Capitol Hill
DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS | 200 | 2006:Luigi, a 1959 Fiat 500
Cars
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | The fifth wife of Henry VIII raises eyebrows as a shock jock & the ""King of All Media""
Catherine Howard Stern
REALITY TV | 200 | Trace Adkins defeated Penn Jillette in the finale of the All-Star edition of this Trump-tastic show
Celebrity Apprentice
CELEBRITIES | 600 | It's not just gossip, girl--this actor really is Tony Romo's brother-in-law
Chace Crawford
WHO'S ON TV? | 800 | ""____ in Charge""
Charles
'90s NEWSMAKERS | 200 | After 15 years of marriage, this British royal couple called it quits
Charles & Diana
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 1200 | (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) In 2000 I broke the news of the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by this banking company
Chase
BAD NEWS | 400 | An April 26, 1986 test at this power station ended up producing a radioactive cloud more than 3,000 feet high
Chernobyl
ARE YOU GAME? | 600 | Its game board is seen here
Chinese checkers
TV THAT COOKS | 1600 | The title of this Ted Allen-hosted show about using a mishmash of ingredients is also what losing contestants get
Chopped
OTHER STAR TREK CHARACTERS | 2000 | Going Klingon in ""Star Trek III"", this actor went back to the future to play an evil commander
Christopher Lloyd
CHARTER SCHOOL | 800 | The Atlantic Charter, issued by these 2 men in 1941, expressed hope for a more cooperative postwar world
Churchill & FDR
STRATEGY GAMES | 1000 | Aztecs, Romans & Ottomans are all part of the fifth iteration of this Sid Meier computer game
Civilization
SHORT-LIVED TV SHOWS | 1600 | ""My So-Called Life"" only lasted a year but it did launch the career of this actress who played 15-year-old Angela Chase
Claire Danes
WOMEN ON TV | 800 | This actress defending our ""homeland"" as CIA officer Carrie Mathison
Claire Danes
GALLANTLY STREAMING TV | 200 | In 2015 Yahoo! began streaming this former NBC series about Jeff, Abed & their higher learning gang
Community
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION | 2000 | She was high-school coach's wife Tami Taylor before moving to another down-home show
Connie Britton
DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS | 600 | The Atlanta Journal-...
Constitution
19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN | 400 | In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado
Coors
TV COPS | 2000 | Officers Quinn & Campo, known to break into song
Cop Rock
FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS | 1600 | The first part of ""Les Miserables"" is called ""Fantine""; the second part is named for her
Cosette
THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS | 2000 | Rebecca Bunch,Paula Proctor &Darryl Whitefeather...sing out now!
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
CELEBRITIES | 1600 | Jessica Simpson still owns the red cowboy boots she wore bringing this TV character to the big screen
Daisy Duke
TV THEME SONGS | 1000 | This composer of the ""Simpsons"" theme won an Emmy in 2005 for his theme to ""Desperate Housewives""
Danny Elfman
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS | 400 | In ""Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic"", the Sith lord Malak gets this 5-letter title in front of his name
Darth
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE | 400 | You'll have a heck of a Hanover at this Ivy League school founded in 1769
Dartmouth
CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES | 1000 | Mary ____ Winstead
Elizabeth
THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER | 800 | This Austen girl: ""Dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match-making... Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!--Oh! no, no""
Emma
CAST OF THE TV SHOW | 1000 | Noah Wyle & Moon Bloodgood began dealing with aliens in 2011
Falling Skies
COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES | 400 | The Hoyas
Georgetown
CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS | 200 | Debbie Matenopoulos shares her ""Family's Century-Old Recipes"" in ""It's All"" this ""to Me""
Greek
TV SHOWS BY NERD | 800 | Jefferson High School student Potsie Weber
Happy Days
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS | 200 | Its main campus lies along the Charles River
Harvard
DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS | 400 | The Omaha World-...
Herald
ON SIRIUSXM RADIO | 600 | The FCC hasn't been an issue since he & Robin Quivers moved to the Sirius network in 2006
Howard Stern
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS | 1000 | (I'm Chris Wallace.) The influence of the title country house on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes is at the heart of this E.M. Forster book, my favorite novel
Howards End
SONGS ON TV | 1000 | ""True Blood"" said ""Let's boot and rally"" & have Bethany Cosentino team with this Stooges singer
Iggy Pop
CELEBRITIES' KIDS' NAMES | 1000 | Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger named their daughter this, reflecting Alec's heritage
Ireland
NATIONAL FLOWERS | 400 | The shamrock is a national flower of this country
Ireland
TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 1000 | Dr. Steven Kiley on ""Marcus Welby, M.D."" & John on ""Life in Pieces""
James Brolin
COMEDY TEAMS? | 2000 | The Canadian students inside school before their classrooms open
Kids in the Hall
TV CARTOONS | 600 | A Kimmunicator is one tool that helped this Disney Channel girl fight crime
Kim Possible
CELEBRITIES | 2000 | In 2014, he got an honorary degree from Northeastern as his daughter graduated
LL Cool J
SINGLE MOMS ON TV | 1200 | As Lorelei Gilmore, she was the mom half of the ""Gilmore Girls""
Lauren Graham
LINE FROM THE TV SHOW | 800 | Roger Sterling: ""I did everything they told me. Drank the cream, ate the butter. Then I get hit with a coronary""
Mad Men
TV CAMPUS | 1200 | ""The Wonder Years"" & ""Freaks and Geeks"" were set at schools named for this president with Scottish roots
McKinley
TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES | 1600 | Precogs can see murders before they happen in this Tom Cruise film that inspired a Fox TV show
Minority Report
I SAW THAT BOOK ON TV | 800 | Julia McKenzie, born in 1941, began playing this British snoop in 2008's ""A Pocket Full of Rye""
Miss Marple
RECENT TV | 400 | Phil Dunphy, on this sitcom:""I'm the cool dad... I'm hip, I surf the web, I text... LOL... OMG... WTF, why the face?""
Modern Family
COLOR TV | 400 | ""Murphy ____""
Murphy Brown
CITY NEIGHBORHOODS | 800 | Astoria,Bensonhurst
New York City
TV EATERIES | 1000 | The Minuteman Cafe & Gift Shop, next door to the Stratford Inn in Vermont
Newhart
ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES | 2000 | In the 1968 episode ""Plato's Stepchildren"" she went where few women had gone before, one of TV's first interracial kisses
Nichelle Nichols
TV HOSTS BY INITIALS | 600 | ""America's Got Talent"":N.C.
Nick Cannon
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 600 | USA Today called this current University of Alabama coach ""tough, humorless and rich""
Nick Saban
BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES | 400 | 1839: ""Nicholas""
Nickleby
THE CELEBRITY SPOUSE IN COMMON | 400 | Tom Cruise, Keith Urban
Nicole Kidman
NEWSPAPERS | 1200 | Mark Eades is on the Disneyland beat at the Register of this county
Orange County
TV HOSTS BY INITIALS | 400 | ""Top Chef"":P.L.
Padma Lakshmi
TV THROWBACK | 2000 | The Diffy family from the year 2121 had to adjust to living in the present on this Disney series
Phil of the Future
TV SETTINGS | 1000 | ""Cold Case"" & ""thirtysomething"": this city called an elegant but jaded lady
Philadelphia
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 1200 | ""Mouse"" is the species of this character featured in video games, trading cards & TV shows
Pikachu
TOYS & GAMES | 400 | Originally offered in off-white, this product expanded in 1957 to include red, yellow & blue colors all served in airtight cans
Play-Doh
TOYS | 200 | This soft modeling compound was originally offered in off-white; the red, yellow & blue 3-pack came in 1957
Play-Doh
THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE | 800 | Goldie Hawn, having bemoaned the lack of drapes in her barracks in this role, gave way to Lorna Patterson
Private Benjamin
TV ROLES | 600 | Kate Walsh played surgeon Addison Montgomery on this spinoff from ""Grey's Anatomy""
Private Practice
TV TALK | 1000 | The website politifact has a page called thisfact, to check the experts who come on political talk shows
PunditFact
TV SHOW SUM-UP | 800 | MTV yuks; on hidden camera, Taylor was fooled swiftly
Punk\'d
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | 1200 | Clare in ""The Time Traveler's Wife"";Detective Ani Bezzerides on Season 2 of ""True Detective""
Rachel McAdams
MOVIE & TV DOGS | 400 | This TV cartoon chihuahua was always irritated by an idiotic cat named Stimpy
Ren
TV CARTOONS | 800 | ""Big House Blues"" was the first episode featuring this asthmatic Chihuahua & ""eediot"" cat
Ren & Stimpy
TV IN THE YEAR 2000 | 1000 | Before wearing a metal suit, he wore a business one when he played attorney Larry Paul on ""Ally McBeal""
Robert Downey Jr.
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | 400 | A ""Norma Rae"" Oscar winner heads into the corn to play baseball with Kevin Costner & Shoeless Joe
Sally Field of Dreams
CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS | 400 | Dooley Wilson played this piano man in ""Casablanca""
Sam
CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | A ""saintly"" Southern California city becomes a senator who ""fights"" for the entire state
Santa Barbara Boxer
SERIOUS TV | 800 | In 1991 Glenn Close made the Hallmark Hall Of Fame as this woman, ""Plain And Tall""
Sarah
THEIR TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 800 | Dr. Sam Beckett on ""Quantum Leap"" &Dwayne Pride on ""NCIS: New Orleans""
Scott Bakula
NAME THE TV ROLE | 1600 | ""Star Trek"":James Doohan
Scotty
MTV MOVIE AWARDS | 2000 | Breakthrough Performance 2012:Her as a teen in ""The Descendants""
Shailene Woodley
TV TIME | 1200 | Jonny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch both play this sleuth
Sherlock Holmes
CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS | 1000 | ""If It Makes You Healthy"" features recipes from this ""If It Makes You Happy"" singer & chef Chuck White
Sheryl Crow
YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! | 2000 | Characters in this Edna Ferber novel set in the Mississippi include Captain Hawks & Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome gambler
Show Boat
TV NETWORK NAMES | 400 | Nickname for the Magic Johnson/James Worthy-era Lakers
Showtime
TV PHYSICIAN | 600 | Maggie Siff as Dr. Tara Knowles tries to help out Jax & the Samcro Motorcycle Club on this FX show
Sons of Anarchy
UNREAL TV NEWSPEOPLE | 1200 | This anchor on ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"": ""I've just been handed a bulletin: 'you have something on your front tooth!' ""
Ted Baxter
AMERICANA | 600 | Miss U.S.A. began in 1952; 3 decades later this word was inserted to start a new pageant
Teen
THEIR TV ROLES | 1600 | Lois Lane & Susan Mayer
Teri Hatcher
AMERICANA | 600 | O. Henry called this fall holiday ""the one day that is purely American""
Thanksgiving
THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS | 400 | ""Fes"" was a foreign exchange student with a real name too hard to say on this sitcom set in Wisconsin a few decades ago
That 70s Show
NOW THAT'S COMEDY | 1600 | Marlo Thomas played aspiring New York actress Ann Marie on this '60s sitcom
That Girl
NUMERICAL TV | 800 | The Forman family's follies in Wisconsin revived a decade on this sitcom
That \'70s Show
TV SUPPORTING CASTS | 200 | Dirk Benedict as Face, Dwight Schultz as Howling Mad Murdock, some fools to be pitied
The A-Team
TV | 200 | Single dad Juan Pablo was looking for Ms. Right on the latest edition of this reality series
The Bachelor
ON TV NOW | 400 | Jordan Rodgers won Jojo's heart on this reality show in 2016
The Bachelorette
TV MOMS & DADS | 2000 | In the '80s Vicki Lawrence was the matriarch on ""Mama's Family"", based on a skit from this variety show
The Carol Burnett Show
GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV | 2000 | Pre-""Sex And The City"", young(er) Ms. Bradshaw went to 1980s Castlebury High on this show
The Carrie Diaries
MUST ""C"" TV | 600 | This daytime talk show about all aspects of food is hosted by Clinton Kelly & Daphne Oz among others
The Chew
WHAT'S ON TV? | 2000 | Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a mom who works at that kind of massage parlor on this steamy Lifetime series
The Client List
NEWSPAPERS | 2000 | Call 303-893-TIPS to reach an investigative reporter at this Post
The Denver Post
1960s TELEVISION | 2000 | Carl Reiner won 3 Emmys for writing for this sitcom on which he occasionally played TV comedian Alan Brady
The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV FEMMES FATALES | 1600 | With eye shadow & snark, department store co-worker Mimi Bobeck caused grief to the title character on this sitcom
The Drew Carey Show
ODE TO A TV SHOW | 800 | O Boss Hogg! Thy white flannel suits / Must have had quite a cost! / But not as much as all the cars / & dignity you lost
The Dukes of Hazzard
TELEVISION | 2000 | In 1980 Waylon Jennings had a country & pop hit with ""Good Ol' Boys"", the theme from this TV series
The Dukes of Hazzard
TV SHOWS BY FAMILY | 400 | Fred,Wilma,Pebbles
The Flintstones
OLD TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | 1600 | ""Norton Moves In""
The Honeymooners
LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS | 800 | Claude Frollo &Esmeralda
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
KILLER TV | 2000 | Red John
The Mentalist
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 2000 | ""Red John's Friends""
The Mentalist
WHAT A TV DRAMA KING | 1200 | Jeff Daniels shared a few thoughts on America being the greatest country in the world in the very first scene of this HBO show
The Newsroom
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 1200 | ""Dwight's Speech""
The Office
TV SHOWS BY NERD | 1200 | White-collar worker Dwight Schrute
The Office
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 1000 | As this book begins, Santiago had ""gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish""
The Old Man and the Sea
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 800 | This teen classic from the '60s features brothers Darry, Sodapop & Ponyboy
The Outsiders
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS | 1200 | Young Civil War soldier Henry Fleming
The Red Badge of Courage
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 400 | (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) One of my favorites is this 1973 movie in which Paul Newman invests a little time to con a large sum of out evil mobster Doyle Lonnegan
The Sting
FATHERLY TV | 1000 | Corey Stoll plays Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, raising his son & fighting a vampire plague on this FX show
The Strain
TV MOVIES | 1600 | This 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston was turned into a TV movie starring Halle Berry
Their Eyes Were Watching God
TV NETWORK NEWS | 400 | The co-anchors of ABC's ""Good Morning America"" report the news from studios at this square at 44th & Broadway
Times Square
YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! | 800 | In a Dickens tale, Bob Cratchit is this character's father
Tiny Tim
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS | 400 | Boo Radley
To Kill a Mockingbird
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 800 | (Hi. I'm Dr. Oz.) One of my favorite films is this 1967 movie with Sidney Poitier, who takes a teaching job in tough East End London
To Sir, with Love
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS | 1200 | (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My favorite story is this author's ""The Death Of Ivan Ilyich"", about a man who only starts to understand what his life is about as he's dying
Tolstoy
TV CAMPUS | 1600 | On ""King of the Hill"", Bobby was chosen to be the mascot for the school named for this legendary NFL coach
Tom Landry
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 600 | (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) When I really want to laugh, I watch this 1983 film with Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy whose plot has a lot in common with ""The Prince and the Pauper""
Trading Places
KILLER TV | 800 | Leland Palmer, AKA Killer Bob
Twin Peaks
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | 200 | Daily Trojan
USC
THE COLLEGE/ATHLETE | 1000 | Mark McGwire, Reggie Bush & O.J. (We mean Mayo!)
USC
LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE | 400 | This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada
Uncle Tom
COLLEGE TOWNS | 800 | A shortened version of the name of trapper Etienne Provost is on a college town in this Western state
Utah
E.T.'s ON TV | 2000 | The Fifth Column fought the reptilian ""Visitors"" on this drama
V
CROSSWORD CLUES ""1"" | 800 | ""Rock docs"" home(3 squares)
VH1
COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES | 600 | The Commodores
Vanderbilt
PRESIDENTS ON TV | 800 | Selina Meyer took a step up from this show's title
Veep
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 2000 | Selina Meyer,Jonah Ryan
Veep
21st CENTURY NEWS | 1200 | Martin Winterkorn resigned as the CEO of this car company in 2015 amid an EPA cheating scandal
Volkswagen
MY TV TITLE CHARACTER | 200 | Chuck Norris, ranger-ing around
Walker, Texas Ranger
BUSINESS & FINANCE | 400 | On the day after Thanksgiving 2012, this largest U.S. retailer rang up 5,000 items per second
Walmart
BUSINESS | 400 | To become ""more nimble"", this retailer cut 450 jobs from its Bentonville, Ark. headquarters in 2015
Walmart
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 600 | A UCLA fight song begins, ""We are the Sons of"" this L.A. neighborhood
Westwood
THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS | 1600 | A host of ""hosts"" on HBO:Dolores Abernathy,Teddy Flood &Sheriff Reed
Westworld
COLOR TV | 800 | ""____ Collar""
White Collar
INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY | 800 | ""The upper hand"", with Joe McGann in the Tony Danza widower role
Who\'s the Boss?
WOMEN ON TV | 600 | Of ""The View"" co-hosts, she's the only one with an Emmy, a Tony & an Oscar
Whoopi Goldberg
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 800 | This beloved children's character said, ""The only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it""
Winnie-the-Pooh
COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | 200 | ""On"" this school, ""On"" this school, ""fight on for her fame, fight, fellows, fight, fight, fight"", fight to say its name!
Wisconsin
CROSSWORD CLUES ""N"" | 2000 | Mother-of-pearl(5)
nacre
TV TIME | 1000 | Your ""Late Night with David Letterman"" began in 1982 at this time, Eastern
12:30AM
TV TITLE MATH | 800 | Pat Robertson's ""Club"" times ""Broke Girls""
1400 (700 × 2)
TV: A NICE PLACE TO START | 400 | ""Big Daddy"" & ""Little Nicky"" were both in the future when he was playing Theo's friend Smitty on ""The Cosby Show""
Adam Sandler
1960s NEWSMAKERS | 1600 | In 1961 this 2-time Democratic presidential nominee was appointed U.N. Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson
TV GUIDE SAYS | 800 | ""Coulson goes on the attack to save Skye's life""
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
NEWLYWED GAMES | 800 | One hand of poker to decide if we get a chow or this kind of dog named for an area of Northern Honshu
Akita
THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE | 600 | Ellen Burstyn turned over this Oscar-winning waitress role to Linda Lavin
Alice
TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | Julianne Moore's 2014 character had Alzheimer's but was ""Still"" this linguistics professor
Alice
D.C. TV | 1000 | 4 Republican senators live together in this Amazon series created by Garry Trudeau
Alpha House
DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW | 200 | Accidents will happen on camera; hilarity since 1990; Saget lasted 7 years
America\'s Funniest Home Videos
ABBREV. TV | 800 | Miss J. Alexander prepped the beauties: ""ANTM""
America\'s Next Top Model
BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS | 1200 | Philip Spade
Bogart
TV | 1000 | He's been a serious cop on the drama ""Homicide"" & a seriously funny cop on ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine""
Andre Braugher
CELEBRITY ARTISTS | 2000 | This Oscar-winning British star of ""Surviving Picasso"" is something of a Picasso himself & also composes classical music
Anthony Hopkins
THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME | 200 | The university named for this religious leader has campuses in Provo, Utah & in Hawaii
Brigham Young
TV DINNERS | 1000 | In ""Killing Utne"", an episode of this animated show, the title secret agent can't stop a dinner-party assassination
Archer
WHAT'S ON TV? | 2000 | This animated spy on FX declares, ""Lying is like 95% of what I do""
Archer
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 400 | This baking soda brand first sold in 1867 has had great success urging us to dump its product down the drain
Arm & Hammer
MILITARY TV | 1200 | 4 women & 1 man share the common bond of loving someone in the military on this Lifetime series
Army Wives
MOVIE & TV DOGS | 1600 | Skippy, a wire-haired fox terrier, played this dog in the ""Thin Man"" movies
Asta
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 1000 | In January 2011 this SEC team's Tigers defeated the Oregon Ducks to win the BCS championship
Auburn
SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS | 1000 | The name of this Alabama school is also a reddish-brown color, but its official colors are orange & blue
Auburn
HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 600 | Disney digs on Oahu(6)
Aulani
NEWS ANCHORS | 200 | ""The View"" of her career in ""20/20"" hindsight shows she started as a news writer before her historic anchoring job
Barbara Walters
HOW COLLEGES GOT THEIR NAMES | 1200 | This sister college to Columbia was founded in 1889 & named for the then-president of Columbia
Barnard
ANIMATED TV | 200 | Burgers of the Day on this show: ""I know why the Cajun Burger Sings"", ""Beets of the Southern Wild"" & ""To Err is Cumin""
Bob\'s Burgers
TV TEACHERS | 400 | Huffington Post said if you had a science class sub in the '90s, it likely meant watching a VHS of this bow-tied man
Bill Nye the Science Guy
FLOWERY PROSE | 1000 | Yes, the star of this holy city, lovely my dear, yet oh, so deadly--the bulbs are poisonous
Bethlehem
TV IN ALL FORMS | 400 | Bob Odenkirk, in this spinoff:""Lawyers... we're like health insurance. You hope you never need it""
Better Call Saul
TV | 800 | At least your mother-in-law can't curse you the way Endora vexed & hexed Darrin Stephens on this '60s series
Bewitched
'90s NEWSMAKERS | 800 | In 1999 he wrestled his way into the Minnesota governor's office
Jesse Ventura
THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS | 800 | Amazon sells the ""Man With No Name Trilogy"" of '60s movies featuring this actor on the cover
Clint Eastwood
CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES | 600 | Bryce ____ Howard
Dallas
STATE SCHOOL ALUMNI | 400 | Stephen King, Olympia Snowe
Maine
TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 600 | Al Bundy & Jay Pritchett
Ed O\'Neill
TV SHOWS BY BOSS | 1000 | Hollywood super-agent Ari Gold
Entourage
BUSINESS MAGAZINES | 800 | Chase Revel founded this magazine whose name means ""a business starter"", so he's one himself
Entrepreneur
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | 600 | In 2014 ""All Things Considered"" considered the primary loss of this house majority leader from Virginia
Eric Cantor
CLASSIC TOYS | 1600 | The original name of this toy invented by Frenchman Andre Cassagnes was L'Ecran Magique, ""magic screen""
Etch A Sketch
THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER | 1000 | This Edith Wharton title man, ""throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side""
Ethan Frome
THE TV BUSINESS | 200 | That big mansion on ""Dallas"" was paid for by an oil company with this family name on it
Ewing
BUSINESS IS GOOD | 200 | In 2012 this 2-named energy company reported a quarterly profit of nearly $16 bil., the highest ever for a U.S. corp.
Exxon Mobil
RECENT TV | 600 | Ichabod Crane napped for 2 centuries, but at least he awoke with his head still atop his shoulders on this drama
Sleepy Hollow
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 400 | Katrina Crane,the Headless Horseman
Sleepy Hollow
MUSICIANS ON TV | 1600 | Jesse & the Rippers, a fictional band from this sitcom, reunited on Jimmy Fallon
Full House
CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION | 600 | It's Groening as in ""raining"" if you meet Matt, who co-created this show with roots in both 1999 & 2999
Futurama
TV PETS | 800 | Lord Nibber--as well as Leela's pet, he's a Peace Ambassador on this show
Futurama
INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY | 1200 | ""Brighton Belles"", about 4 older gals in a Sussex country house
Golden Girls
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 600 | John Stockton is an alum of this Spokane school
Gonzaga
MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS | 800 | 2006:Jake Gyllenhaal & him
Heath Ledger
OPERA CHARACTERS | 2000 | Despite his wife's pleas not to do so, this prince attacks the Polovtsi, a Tartar tribe, & is promptly captured
Igor
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | 400 | Her trophy case is getting full: Oscars for ""Blue Sky"" & ""Tootsie"" plus 2 Emmys for ""American Horror Story""
Jessica Lange
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | 800 | In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on ""American Horror Story""
Jessica Lange
ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1200 | This sultry bombshell from a 1988 hit claimed, ""I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way""
Jessica Rabbit
SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS | 800 | It's back to Chicago for DePaul, a Catholic university; Depauw is in Greencastle in this Midwestern state
Indiana
CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1600 | In 1989 Sean Connery played a Holy Grail expert & professor who was the father of this title archaeologist
Indiana Jones
DAYTIME TELEVISION | 400 | This daytime TV judge called her book ""Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining""
Judge Judy
CHARACTERS ON STAGE | 1600 | High school science teacher Bertram Cates, defense attorney Henry Drummond, prosecutor Matthew Brady
Inherit the Wind
CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS | 800 | ""A Shot in the Dark"" is one of the movies with Peter Sellers as this bumbling policeman
Inspector Clouseau
LAUGHABLE TELEVISION | 200 | From this Garden State reality show: ""I know I'm not the smartest crayon in the box, but this isn't rocket scientist""
Jersey Shore
BUSINESS IS GOOD | 600 | In 1999 this ""colorful"" airline took delivery of its 1st airbus A320--in 2011 it boasted 100 daily flights at Logan Airport
JetBlue
THEIR TV ROLES | 2000 | Hurley Reyes & Dr. Diego Soto
Jorge Garcia
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Chris Pratt trains velociraptors & makes loans to countries with an organization founded in 1944
Jurassic World Bank
SUPPORTING THE TV SHOW | 1000 | Arlo Givens & Johnny Crowder dealt with law & disorder
Justified
VIDEO GAME VAULT | 600 | Notch, the creator of this megahit block-shaping game, made the surface area of its world larger than the earth's
Minecraft
NO MORE GAMES | 1600 | He played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards April 16, 2003
Michael Jordan
60 YEARS OF THE TV STATION | 800 | Diana Pierce anchors the news on KARE in this city a lot better than Ted Baxter did on fictional WJM
Minneapolis
COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS | 2000 | Fritzi Ritz; Sluggo; Rollo
Nancy
MOVING JOURNALISM | 600 | Latitudes is the magazine of this cruise line, NCL for short
Norwegian Cruise Lines
COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES | 200 | This team plays its home games in ""The House That Rockne Built""
Notre Dame
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 800 | Ordained in 1943, Theodore M. Hesburgh was president of this university from 1952 to 1987
Notre Dame
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS | 2000 | The Inverness Oran
Nova Scotia
TV SHOW SETTINGS | 1600 | On Showtime, the E.R. of New York's All Saints Hospital
Nurse Jackie
ODE TO A TV SHOW | 400 | O, life is sweet, 'tis sure / Look at this lovely meadow / Then bada bing! You're dead / Like Ralphie Cifaretto
The Sopranos
GROWNUPS ON TV | 1600 | This ""American Idol"" judge is the author of ""What's Up, Dawg?""
Randy Jackson
MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES ""R"" | 600 | Brad Pitt spy spoof ""Burn After ____""(7)
Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD | 200 | (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) Monday had a presidential theme; one clue was to this ""supply-side fiscal policy popularized in the 1980s""
Reaganomics
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | 1200 | ""Wolverines!"" shout the American teens who resist an invasion of Soviet primates
Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
TV VILLAINS | 2000 | The wife of ""The Mentalist"" was among the victims of this ""colorful"" serial killer
Red John
MY MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1200 | Elle Woods,Ginormica
Reese Witherspoon
I'LL BE YOUR TV WAITRESS | 2000 | After waitressing at the Lobo Lounge in Lanford, Ill., this '90s title sitcom character came home to her husband Dan
Rosanne
TELEVISION POP QUIZ | 600 | Dan Conner
Roseanne
REALITY TELEVISION | 400 | Episodes of this competition show include ""Glamazonian Airways"" & ""RuPocalypse Now!""
RuPaul\'s Drag Race
COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | 400 | In 1825 this state university of New Jersey was renamed to honor a revolutionary war colonel
Rutgers
SCRAMBLED HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS | 800 | A convict, for awhile:A BULK CRISIS
Sirius Black
HALF A TV TITLE PAIR | 400 | ""& Ebert""
Siskel
DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW | 600 | The Fisher family puts the ""fun"" in funeral home
Six Feet Under
THE TV BUSINESS | 400 | LutherCorp was a fictional company on this super TV show
Smallville
CELEBRITY RELATIVES | 800 | One of Nicolas Cage's cousins is this woman who directed ""Lost in Translation"" & ""Marie Antoinette""
Sofia Coppola
TV TALK | 600 | ""La Toti"" is a nickname of this ""Modern Family"" actress
Sofia Vergara
TV VIOLENCE | 800 | Tara is drowned & forked to death by her mother-in-law on the Season 6 finale of this motorcycle club drama
Sons of Anarchy
TV ADJECTIVES | 200 | It's the ""S"" in ""Law & Order: SVU""
Special
TV HOSTS | 400 | Nathan Sawaya created a life-sized, Lego-ized version of this TV pundit, & that's ""The Word""
Stephen Colbert
REALITY TV | 400 | (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) I'm obsessed with the A&E reality series in which Barry & Dave bid on repossessed goods found in lockers or units that's called these ""Wars""
Storage Wars
TV WHO SAID IT? | 1000 | This character on ""Glee"":""It is my strong recommendation that both these students be hobbled""
Sue Sylvester
TV NETWORK NAMES | 200 | Also in the name of a Utah film festival
Sundance
TV ADJECTIVES | 400 | It's a weather forecast & a TV show:""It's Always ____ in Philadelphia""
Sunny
TV SHOWS' THEME SONGS | 800 | ""Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago, expansion started""
The Big Bang Theory
TV SHOWS BY BOSS | 200 | Voiced by Harry Shearer, Mr. Burns
The Simpsons
TV NETWORK NEWS | 800 | This Wolf Blitzer CNN news show shares its name with a White House crisis management center
The Situation Room
FILM SCHOOL | 600 | Status update: met ""The Winklevii"" at Harvard in this 2010 film
The Social Network
TOYS & GAMES | 200 | Percy the Small Engine & James the Red Engine are among this toy's friends on the Island of Sodor
Thomas the Tank Engine
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 400 | This 1901 Chekhov drama features siblings Olga, Masha & Irina
Three Sisters
ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1600 | This funny bunny in ""Bambi"" teaches Bambi how to slide on ice & talk
Thumper
ABBREV. TV | 400 | Fashion rules from Stacy & Clinton: ""WNTW""
What Not To Wear
AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | ""Marathon Man"" novelist/screenwriter & investment bank whose stock symbol is GS
William Goldman Sachs
21st CENTURY NEWS | 400 | In 2010 this 4-year-old website published classified U.S. war documents & diplomatic cables
WikiLeaks
MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION | 1600 | Brothers Chris & Martin Kratt cleverly snuck their name into this show about their animal adventures
Wild Kratts
TV VILLAINS | 400 | Despite his evil intent, it's hard not to feel bad for this Warner Bros. Road Runner pursuer
Wile E. Coyote
TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 1000 | To Elijah Wood, this character looks like a surly Australian guy in a cheap dog suit
Wilfred
A BLOODY BUSINESS | 1000 | Nice head on this Scottish hero. Too bad it ended up, in 1305, adorning London Bridge as a warning
William Wallace
COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES | 1600 | Founded not by Roger but Ephraim, this Massachusetts school boasts alums like George Steinbrenner
Williams College
'90s NEWSMAKERS | 1000 | Ironically, it was during a peace rally that this Israeli prime minister was shot & killed
Yitzhak Rabin
BUFFETT TALKS BUSINESS | 400 | (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) If you understand a particular industry, put more capital into the companies you believe in; don't bother with this strategy of putting eggs in different baskets
diversification
TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | A Macklemore & Ryan Lewis smash is told what ""you better"" do by the Miracles
""Thrift Shop Around""
TELEVISION CITY | 400 | ""Breaking Bad"" was ""In Plain Sight""
Albuquerque
TV FOR THEE & ME | 1600 | On Disney Channel, siblings discover that their pet can talk & write in the rhymingly titled ""Dog with"" one of these
Blog
NEWSMEN | 200 | This longtime Washington Post reporter's book ""The Secret Man"" was about W. Mark Felt, his Watergate source
Bob Woodward
TV THAT COOKS | 800 | On ""Boy Meets Grill"" on the Food Network, he was the boy
Bobby Flay
1960s TELEVISION | 1200 | This NBC western starring Lorne Greene was the No. 1 series for 3 straight seasons in the mid-1960s
Bonanza
TV MAPS | 800 | The map on this Lorne Greene Western displayed Virginia City & Reno before bursting into flame
Bonanza
D.C. TV | 800 | Emily Deschanel plays a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in D.C. on this Fox series
Bones
TV HANGOUTS | 2000 | The Royal Diner & The Founding Fathers Bar
Bones
TV NICKNAMES | 400 | Dr. McCoy on ""Star Trek"" had this nickname, long before Temperance Brennan
Bones
CELEBRITY ARTISTS | 400 | In 2003 paintings by this U2 singer were auctioned off to raise money for the Irish Hospice Foundation
Bono
COLLEGE ACTIVITIES | 800 | The 2013 Easter Conference at this university was held at its Joseph Smith Building auditorium
Brigham Young
TV VIOLENCE | 400 | ""Random Acts of Violence"", a 2003 episode of this William Petersen show, could have been the title of several
CSI
TV TEACHERS | 200 | We don't see how the unintelligible Miss Othmar taught anything to this ""Peanuts"" title boy in animated specials
Charlie Brown
CELEBRITY NAME CHANGES | 400 | Carlos Estevez became this man, man
Charlie Sheen
TV THEME SONG HITS | 600 | 1993:""Bad Boys""
Cops
IT'S SHOWTIME | 2000 | On a documentary series, this comedy legend takes viewers ""Inside Comedy""
David Steinberg
TV CHARACTER ALIASES | 800 | This serial killer of serial killers also goes by Patrick Bateman, a movie character with similar issues
Dexter
TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS | 400 | Author Jeff Lindsay created this serial killer who worked by day as a blood spatter expert; Michael C. Hall played him
Dexter
DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! | 1600 | Death, voiced by Norm MacDonald, told the Griffins, ""I'll be back really, really soon"" on this animated Fox show
Family Guy
TV SHOWS BY DAD | 400 | Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane)
Family Guy
FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS | 400 | As this book begins, Anastasia Steele is getting ready for an interview that will change her (sex) life
Fifty Shades of Grey
NEWSPAPERS | 400 | This newspaper of Paris is named for the barber of Seville
Figaro
BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | James Joyce's last novel goes back to school at a university in Winston-Salem
Finnegans Wake Forest
THAT WAS ON TV | 600 | Episodes of this sitcom included ""The Maris Counselor"" & ""The Late Dr. Crane""
Frasier
POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES | 200 | You could boldly go to PHIL-180, ""Philosophy and Star Trek"", at this Catholic university in D.C.
Georgetown
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 800 | Delta Air Lines
Georgia
I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER | 1600 | ""Avenue Q"" co-creator Jeff Whitty wrote ""The Further Adventures of"" this Ibsen title character
Hedda Gabler
BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Laughing Green Giant exclamation to the first president of Vietnam
Ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh
THAT WAS ON TV | 600 | Last name of the sitcom character who led ""Heroes"" & a reality TV dad who ""knows best""--OK, knew best
Hogan
FUNNY TV | 400 | It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying Vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this show
I Love Lucy
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 400 | He based ""stately, plump Buck Mulligan"" in ""Ulysses"" on his friend Oliver Gogarty
James Joyce
10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS | 400 | Alex Cross, Daniel X
James Patterson
YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! | 1200 | Whenever life gets too mundane, this author's Walter Mitty creates his own fantasy
James Thurber
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 600 | On the day of her wedding, she learns that her groom-to-be, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife
Jane Eyre
LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES | 1600 | 1847:""Attic head case sets fire to house when hubby falls for new governess""
Jane Eyre
TELEVISION | 1200 | This funny lady who played Sue Sylvester on ""Glee"" hosts TV's ""Hollywood Game Night""
Jane Lynch
TV THEN & NOW | 800 | She moonlights from ""Glee"" to host ""Hollywood Game Night""
Jane Lynch
BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | Legendary 19th c. Missouri outlaw who went straight into politics & married Mary Matalin
Jesse James Carville
FUNNY TV | 800 | On ""SCTV"" his characters included Tip O'Neill & Stan Shmenge
John Candy
1960s NEWSMAKERS | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a globe on a monitor.) His February 20, 1962 trip, launching in Florida, orbiting the Earth 3 times at 17,000 miles per hour & splashing down in the Atlantic, made this man from Ohio a national hero
John Glenn
19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN | 1600 | After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC
John Jacob Astor
SCHOOL DAYS | 600 | It's now or never to name this rocker seen here in his high school freshman year in New Jersey
Jon Bon Jovi
FUNNY TV | 200 | This ""Daily Show"" host: ""I heard Dennis Kucinich"", say, 'when I'm president', & I just wanted to stop him & say, 'Dude'""
Jon Stewart
DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS | 1000 | The Louisville Courier- or the Akron Beacon...
Journal
THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER | 600 | Hey, this Thomas Hardy character ""opened the book... which Mr. Phillotson had bestowed on him as a parting gift""
Jude
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 400 | Toy company whose employees are always train-ing(6)
Lionel
TV SHOWS PAST & PRESENT | 800 | OCD ex-SFPD; it's a jungle out there, indeed
Monk
THE NAME OF THE BOARD GAME | 600 | The Sherman Act of 1890 was meant to combat this type of business
Monopoly
TOYS & GAMES | 200 | The total money in a standard version of this real estate board game is $15,140
Monopoly
RADIO, RADIO | 1000 | Jonathan Schwartz spins standards for the Big Apple station ""W"" these 3 letters
NYC
FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS | 600 | Once Mariah Carey's ""Idol"" co-judge, she wanted to speak at her old school, but the principal nixed the cameras
Nicki Minaj
FILM SCHOOL | 800 | In this 2003 movie a somewhat inebriated Will Ferrell yells, ""We're going streaking! Through the quad!""
Old School
CELEBRITIES LOVE TV | 600 | (I'm columnist Clarence Page.) I like to watch this NBC sitcom, which I think is an inspired satire of small-town governance & political ambition
Parks & Recreation
THAT WAS ON TV | 1600 | In a TV movie based on a P.D. James mystery & Jane Austen's characters, ""Death Comes to"" this estate of Mr. Darcy
Pemberley
PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES | 1000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets ready to chow down on a slice at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Nick Offerman, who plays this character on ""Parks and Rec"" (who knows a little something about meat), said that one slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie
Ron Swanson
TV FOR THEE & ME | 1200 | Twitter has helped boost the ratings of this drama starring Kerry Washington as a D.C. crisis manager
Scandal
TV | 800 | (Dan Patrick gives the clue.) When I asked Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to name the best product he ever invested in he mentioned Simple Sugars skin scrubs pitched by an 18-year-old on this reality show
Shark Tank
NEWSPAPERS | 800 | Authorized by the Department of Defense, it's the patriotic paper aimed at U.S. military serving abroad
Stars and Stripes
TV TITLE PAIRS | 800 | Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul
Starsky and Hutch
TV NEWS | 1000 | We're glad this CNN show hosted by Candy Crowley isn't just on once a year in January
State of the Union
TV MAPS | 400 | Map reading is a valuable skill on this CBS show; you can learn it in a book of the same title with an intro by Mark Burnett
Survivor
TV THEMES | 200 | Their theme song from the 1960s said, ""They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky""
The Addams Family
19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS | 1600 | Widow Douglas, the Dauphin
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
THAT WAS ON TV | 800 | In the theme to this '90s sitcom, ""I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 & I yelled to the cabbie, ""Yo, Homes, smell ya later!""
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
CHARACTERS ON STAGE | 2000 | Condemned killer Earl Williams, reporter Hildy Johnson, editor Walter Burns
The Front Page or His Girl Friday
THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD | 800 | Before he was Robert Baratheon, Mark Addy stripped away his troubles as an ex-steelworker in this 1997 movie
The Full Monty
A CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS | 1200 | This group has its version of an ugly Christmas sweater available from Questlove's Okayplayer music site
The Roots
COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE | 2000 | Murder breaks the peace of Hampden College in this novel by Donna Tartt
The Secret History
MOVIE & TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 1000 | Toshiro Mifune & Isao Kimura are 2 of the title septet of this Akira Kurosawa classic
The Seven Samurai
DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! | 2000 | Max von Sydow plays chess against death in this Ingmar Bergman film
The Seventh Seal
TV LOCALES | 1000 | It's set in Mystic Falls, Virginia, home of werewolves & other creatures
The Vampire Diaries
""THE"" TV SHOW | 1600 | Whoopi! & food! The titles of these 2 ABC daytime shows rhyme
The View & The Chew
2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS | 400 | Flip your chair around & tell us that this NBC reality show won for favorite competition TV show
The Voice
MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION | 400 | An app for this NBC competition show makes you the coach & asks, ""Who will you turn your chair for?""
The Voice
THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION | 1200 | The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell
The Wire
TV THROUGH THE YEARS | 600 | Omar, played by Michael K. Williams, relieved Baltimore drug dealers of their profits on this HBO drama debuting in 2002
The Wire
TV MOMS & DADS | 800 | This dad had a rather large extended family but only 2 kids, Meadow & A.J.
Tony Soprano
REALITY TV HOSTS | 600 | Padma Lakshmi
Top Chef
BUSINESS | 1000 | We're bullish on this company founded in 1914 to build motors for the Bull Tractor Company
Toro
ACTING TV MILITARY | 400 | Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! As Gomer Pyle, Jim Nabors joined & served in this military branch
U.S. Marines
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | In 2012 there was controversy Bruin when Justin Combs, son of Diddy, got a fat scholarship to this school
UCLA
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS' SCHOOLS | 800 | Bobby Layne & Earl Campbell
University of Texas
TV LOGOS | 1000 | ""El Gordo y la Flaca"" is one of its shows
Univision
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | 200 | This magazine edited by Anna Wintour is known as ""high fashion's Bible""
Vogue
WE MEAN BUSINESS | 400 | Abbreviated W.M., this company cleans up as the U.S. leader in trash disposal
Waste Management
TV DRAMAS | 200 | On ""Elementary"" Jonny Lee Miller plays Sherlock Holmes & Lucy Liu plays her
Watson
TV HOSTS | 200 | Let's make a deal--name this host of ""Let's Make a Deal""
Wayne Brady
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 800 | Horshack,Epstein,Barbarino
Welcome Back, Kotter
COLLEGE PEOPLE | 800 | In 1967 philanthropist Leonard Case's Institute of Technology united with this Cleveland school
Western Reserve
NEWSMEN | 800 | A onetime reporter for the Jerusalem Post, he joined CNN in 1990 & now serves as its lead political anchor
Wolf Blitzer
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME | 400 | Named for Darth due to its shiny black head & slit eyes, Agathidium vaderi is one of the 300,000+ species of this insect
a beetle
CROSSWORD CLUES ""B"" | 400 | Arm bauble (8)
a bracelet
ETIQUETTE | 200 | Formerly, a servant answering the door would have a silver tray ready to receive this identifier from a visitor
a calling card
TV WEAPON OF CHOICE | 800 | Ash on ""Ash vs. Evil Dead"",; he's literally attached to it
a chainsaw
FLOWERY PROSE | 800 | Accept this central American garden flower in vibrant colors, not the black one associated with a grisly 1947 murder
a dahlia
PLANTS & FLOWERS | 800 | Popular ones of these plants for growing indoors include the maidenhair, button & of course, Boston
a fern
4-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 1200 | Military flute
a fife
YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! | 400 | This term for elementary school sounds like a good place to learn the rules of word usage
a grammar school
TV SHOWS THAT DEBUTED IN 1984 | 800 | In that year a renegade pilot flew dangerous missions in ""Airwolf"", an advanced high-tech one of these
a helicopter
SCHOOLING AROUND | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a rainbow on a monitor.) Used to remember the order of the colors in the visible spectrum, ""Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain"" is one of these devices that aids memory
a mnemonic device
BEASTLY TITLE CHARACTERS | 600 | ""The Tale of Despereaux""
a mouse
TV WEAPON OF CHOICE | 400 | Captain Kirk
a phaser
BEASTLY TITLE CHARACTERS | 400 | ""Babe""
a pig
NEWSPAPER TERMS | 1600 | The ""inverted"" this refers to the structure of a story, revealing facts in decreasing importance
a pyramid
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Q"" | 800 | A real quandary or a real bog(8)
a quagmire
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 400 | Sky blue(5)
azure
THE NEWSPAPER TRADE | 400 | No eulogy required after doing this to a lede, placing it deeper in the story so the reader has to hunt for the main point
burying
AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS | 800 | Future CEOs & entrepreneurs come together for meetings of the FBLA, BL standings for this
business leaders
RADIO | 200 | 2-word name for the identifying designation of a radio station, like KABC
call sign (or call letters)
TV FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS | 600 | Daya Diaz to Aleida Diaz on ""Orange Is the New Black""
daughter
TYPES OF COMEDY | 800 | 7-letter style of comedy mastered by the straight-faced Buster Keaton & the monotone Steven Wright
deadpan
AFTER SCHOOL | 800 | These competitions involve a resolution that each team makes speeches for or against
debate
LIVE TV | 400 | ""The West Wing"" did a 2005 live episode about this one-on-one matchup between Alan Alda & Jimmy Smits
debate
TV TALK | 200 | ""Wide World of Sports"" showed us ""The Thrill of Victory, & the Agony of"" this
defeat
SCHOOLING YOU | 600 | Phys Ed: As Patches said, if you can do it to a wrench, you can do it to a ball, so time to play this game, kids!
dodgeball
AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS | 600 | The pair of masks seen here is symbolic of this club; come try out!
drama club
A GAME OF HORSE | 1200 | The name of this competition is a French word for ""training""
dressage
RADIO | 1000 | Radio term for the rush-hour morning & evening periods when people are likely to listen in their cars
drive time
NEWSPAPERS | 1000 | When this word precedes ""up"", it doesn't mean to make the paper stupider but to lay out a mock page to make adjustments
dummy
I'M GAME | 600 | ACIS, American Collegiate Intramural Sports, sponsors this type of football named for an item in players' belts
flag football
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | 1000 | With the merger of a morning paper & an evening one, Marshall Field III created this Chicago newspaper
the Chicago Sun-Times
STABLE CHARACTERS | 400 | This Waterloo winner rode a horse named Copenhagen
the Duke of Wellington
""ON"" TV | 400 | Title place where Michael Landon & Melissa Gilbert lived
the Little House on the Prairie
THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE | 400 | The youngest got help from this organization, online at uncf.org; it has raised over $4.5 billion to help needy students
the United Negro College Fund
D.C. TV | 600 | Agent 86 & Agent 99 worked for the Washington-based intelligence agency CONTROL on this spy sitcom
Get Smart
IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST | 1200 | The truth is right here! This ""X-Files"" star played Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist
Gillian Anderson
LINE FROM THE TV SHOW | 2000 | Lorelai: ""Cheeseburger, onion rings and a list of people who killed their parents and got away with it""
Gilmore Girls
TV CAMPUS | 800 | Played by Alexis Bledel, Rory on this Netflix show's ""A Year in the Life"" returned to Chilton Academy in 2016
Gilmore Girls
4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES | 400 | Since 2009 dozens of songs from this TV show have made the Top 40
Glee
COUPLING ON TV | 800 | Kurt Hummel & Blaine Anderson; sing out your response
Glee
LINE FROM THE TV SHOW | 1600 | Brittany: ""I've been here since first period... I took all my antibiotics at the same time & now I can't remember how to leave""
Glee
TV-""G"" | 1000 | ""Thank You For Being A Friend"" was the theme song to this sitcom starring Bea Arthur
Golden Girls
WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL | 600 | On trial for jewelry theft, this creature who sometimes goes by Smeagol took a plea agreement
Gollum
MILITARY TV | 2000 | Surprise! surprise! surprise! ""Opie Joins the Marine Corps"" was an episode of this classic sitcom
Gomer Pyle
INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY | 2000 | ""The Fosters"", in which immigrants from Guyana are scratching & surviving in south London, not Chicago
Good Times
ARMED FORCES RADIO WITH PAT SAJAK | 200 | Hosting ""Dawn Buster"" for AFVN during the war, I opened with these 3 words made famous by DJ Adrian Cronauer
Good morning, Vietnam!
THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS | 1600 | Hanry Hill,Tommy DeVito,Frankie Carbone
Goodfellas
NEWS OF THE 20-TWEENS | 400 | On May 11, 2010 this ""colorful"" guy tendered his resignation as British prime minister
Gordon Brown
SINGLE MOMS ON TV | 2000 | Darn tootin', Brett Butler was a single mom to 3 young'uns on this show
Grace Under Fire
COLOR TV | 600 | ""____ Acres""
Green Acres
GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV | 1200 | NBC's ""Community"" college attended by Star-Burns & Fat Neil
Greendale
TV | 600 | ""No Doubt"" you've heard that she's one of the coaches on ""The Voice""
Gwen Stefani
THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK | 2000 | (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book
Harry Blackmun
TV GUIDE SAYS | 200 | ""An abandoned building is rigged to explode with McGarrett and Danny trapped inside""
Hawaii Five-0
TV's GREATEST HITS | 800 | Wax up your boards, dudes! It's everybody's favorite heard here
Hawaii Five-O
UCLA CELEBRITY ALUMNI | 200 | This blonde beauty who reprised her role as Amanda on the new ""Melrose Place"" was a psychology major
Heather Locklear
REALITY TV | 800 | This ""Project Runway"" host joined the judges table for Season 8 of ""America's Got Talent""
Heidi Klum
TV IS REALLY COOKING | 800 | On this Fox show where you best not mess up the risotto, cooks vied to be the new head chef at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant
Hell\'s Kitchen
TV | 200 | Aspiring chefs on this Fox series endure the wrath of Gordon Ramsay for a chance to work at a top restaurant
Hell\'s Kitchen
COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES | 1200 | This pizza magnate & 2012 presidential candidate was a math major at historically black Morehouse College
Herman Cain
FEMALE FANTASY CHARACTERS | 200 | In the first ""Harry Potter"" book she says, ""We could all have been killed--or worse, expelled""
Hermione Granger
TOYS | 1000 | 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of this oil company's toy truck, which has its own Macy's Parade float
Hess
TV ODDS & ENDS | 2000 | Adrian Paul starred as Duncan MacLeod in this TV series that was based on a Christopher Lambert film
Highlander
THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION | 1600 | Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama
Homeland
TV CHARACTER ALIASES | 200 | He impersonated Mr. Burns, but when asked for Mr. Burns' first name, he replied, ""I don't know""
Homer Simpson
TV TIME | 200 | ""Here comes"" this pint-sized beauty pageant sensation aka Alana Thompson
Honey Boo Boo
TV IQ TEST | 400 | Yours truly guest-starred on a live broadcast of this TV Land sitcom with Valerie Bertinelli & Betty White... which you 3 saw, right?!
Hot in Cleveland
TV DRAMAS | 200 | In 2012 after 8 seasons, FOX pulled the plug on this Hugh Laurie series
House
TV SHOWS PAST & PRESENT | 200 | A disabled doctor makes one wrong diagnosis after another, yet is considered a genius; Wilson can be his Watson
House
TV TITLE GUYS & GALS | 800 | Hugh Laurie, making us happy watching him being miserable on Fox
House
TV | 200 | Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative politician on this series from Netflix
House of Cards
IT'S SHOWTIME | 1600 | This series starring Don Cheadle & Kristen Bell is based on a book about management consultants
House of Lies
TELEVISION FOR SHORT | 2000 | ""M.D."" was in the full title of this show that hung up its stethoscope in 2012
House, M.D.
NYC TV | 600 | Part of this sitcom took place in 2030 as an older Ted told his kids a lot of NYC-set stories that defied the show's title
How I Met Your Mother
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 800 | Marshall Eriksen & the suited-up Barney Stinson
How I Met Your Mother
THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS | 1200 | Annalise Keating,Wes Gibbins &Laurel Castillo,navigating the law
How to Get Away with Murder
1940s TELEVISION | 800 | In 1948 this freckle-faced, plaid-shirted puppet had ""plastic"" surgery to improve his looks
Howdy Doody
DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK | 1600 | In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor with 96.14% of the vote
Huey Long
FAIRLY RECENT NEWS | 1000 | After this leader's death in 2013, Citgo facilities across the U.S. flew their flags at half-staff
Hugo Chávez
DAD TV | 200 | Ricky Ricardo
I Love Lucy
TV EATERIES & DRINKERIES | 200 | The Tropicana Club, later renamed Club Babalu
I Love Lucy
MOVIE COMEDY | 1200 | Melissa McCarthy steals Jason Bateman's name to become the title character of this 2013 film
Identity Thief
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 400 | Caterpillar &Sears Holdings
Illinois
COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s | 1200 | During the decade, Peter Sellers played this comedy role in 3 sequels
Inspector Clouseau
TV IS REALLY COOKING | 600 | Chairman Kaga oversaw culinary ""battles"" that were held in Kitchen Stadium on this show
Iron Chef
WRITING FOR TELEVISION | 400 | Don Mankiewicz wrote the pilots of ""Marcus Welby, M.D."" & this show with Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound former cop
Ironside
THE CHARACTER'S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED | 400 | ""Call me Scooter. Some years ago... I thought I would sail about a little""
Ishmael
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | 400 | Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert hitchhike across George Romero's original apocalypse
It Happened One Night of the Living Dead
ALL KINDS OF TV | 1200 | In 2017 Kaitlin Olson of this show set in a Pennsylvania bar got a new sitcom as ""The Mick""
It\'s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Nursery rhyme waterspout crawler who's a Marvel crime fighter
Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man
19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN | 1200 | This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name
J.P. Morgan
CELEBRITY EPITAPHS | 2000 | This actor & sitcom pioneer:""And away we go""
Jackie Gleason
OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES | 800 | In 2007 Merlene Ottey, born in this island nation known for sprinters, ran an 11.64 100 meters... at age 47
Jamaica
AMERICANA | 1600 | Rockaway Inlet is the only outlet of this NYC bay on which JFK Airport is located
Jamaica Bay
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 200 | In 2014 this famous QB threw the pass that earned Florida State the national championship
Jameis Winston
FOX(X) NEWS | 400 | ""Unpredictable"" was a million-selling album for this Oscar-winning actor who is unafraid of multitasking
Jamie Foxx
CELEBRITY ARTISTS | 1600 | Life's a beach for this actress, who creates paintings like the one here, and also has her own ""Open Hearts"" jewelry line
Jane Seymour
SERIOUS TV | 400 | In 2013 PBS' Frontline won an Emmy for coverage ""inside"" this country's ""nuclear meltdown""
Japan
TV TIME | 800 | He's the host of ""Survivor""
Jeff Probst
REALITY TV SHOWS | 800 | The female judge on the last season of ""American Idol"" was this singer & movie star
Jennifer Lopez
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL'S CHARACTERS | 600 | Nick Massi,Mary Delgado,Frankie Valli
Jersey Boys
CELEBRITIES | 800 | Back in school, he was voted the cutest, the sweetest & most likely to succeed
Jesse Eisenberg
TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? | 400 | Bret Maverick &Jim Rockford
Jim Garner
TOUGH TV | 1600 | This ABC late-night talk show got into trouble on its very first telecast when it offered its audience & its guests an open bar
Jimmy Kimmel
SONGS ON TV | 800 | As its theme song ""The Wonder Years"" used the powerful cover of ""With A Little Help From My Friends"" by this English singer
Joe Cocker
READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO | 400 | This tome by David McCullough came to the screen with David Morse as George Washington
John Adams
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 1600 | In 1796 Samuel Miles became the first elector to switch his vote, voting for Thomas Jefferson instead of this man
John Adams
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | British military officer executed as a spy who was half of the music duo OutKast
John André 3000
A CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS | 2000 | Emily Blunt & this hubby associated with pranking pulled one on neighbor Jimmy Kimmel, gift-wrapping his SUV
John Krasinski
THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME | 600 | An arts patron & son of French immigrants gave his name to this school that's located at Lincoln Center in New York
Juilliard
WHAT A TV DRAMA QUEEN! | 200 | ""What a wonderful time for women on television"", she said on accepting her 2014 Emmy for ""The Good Wife""
Julianna Margulies
A TV GUIDE | 2000 | ""All Hail"" this lemur king on Netflix; he likes to move it, move it
Julien
TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS | 1600 | This modern-day Western on FX was based on Elmore Leonard's novels ""Pronto"" & ""Riding the Rap"" as well as on a short story
Justified
CELEBRITIES' KIDS' NAMES | 200 | She has 2 sons: Ryder Russell & Bingham Hawn
Kate Hudson
21st CENTURY NEWS | 400 | (Hi, I'm Kate Bolduan of CNN.) In 2013 I covered the birth of the first baby of this other Kate; in 2014 I had my own little princess, so maybe a playdate sometime
Kate Middleton
COMEDY TONIGHT | 1200 | In standup specials this ""D List"" comic ""Does the Bible Belt"" & was ""50 and not Pregnant""
Kathy Griffin
FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS | 400 | In ""The Hunger Games"" books, Primrose is her younger sister
Katniss Everdeen
THE LITERARY CHARACTER TWEETS | 800 | @effietrinketPrim is out. I'm taking her place. #roughdayindistrict12
Katniss Everdeen
MY MOVIE CHARACTERS | 2000 | Ted ""Theodore"" Logan,Siddhartha
Keanu Reeves
CELEBRITY REALITY TV | 800 | The run-up to Kris' talk show debut & Bruce taking the family on a Nevada trip were part of season 8 of this show
Keeping Up With The Kardashians?
CELEBRITY MARRIAGES | 1000 | This British actress wore a short Chanel dress for her 2013 wedding to indie rocker James Righton
Keira Knightley
BUSINESS HISTORIES | 1000 | In 1926 this guide to auto values was first published in Los Angeles; a 1921 Nash touring car with a clock was worth $50
Kelley Blue Book
TV | 600 | On ""The Americans"" she stars as Elizabeth Jennings, just your KGB spy next door
Keri Russell
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | 400 | Ren in the original ""Footloose"";Ryan Hardy on ""The Following""
Kevin Bacon
TV IN THE YEAR 2000 | 800 | IPS driver Doug Heffernan, played by this comic, was ""The King of Queens""
Kevin James
BREAKING NEWS | 2000 | (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) In 2002 I broke the story of a peace plan--a return to June 1967 lines & a Palestinian state for a full peace between Israel & the Arab world--proposed by this now-king of Saudi Arabia
King Abdullah
QUIRKY NEWS | 200 | On New Year's Eve, Elizabethtown, Penn. drops a giant M&M while the town of Hershey drops a 7-foot tall one of these candies
Kiss
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 2000 | ""A Plush Ride"" & ""Kittnap""
Knight Rider
CELEBRITIES | 600 | This NBA shooting guard was named for expensive Japanese beef
Kobe Bryant
TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? | 600 | Veronica Mars &Jeannie Van Der Hooven
Kristen Bell
LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS | 800 | In a 1902 novella:""The horror! The horror!""
Kurtz
FEMALE TV COPS | 1600 | As the LAPD's leading homicide interrogator, she was ""The Closer"" of the title
Kyra Sedgwick
TV SUPPORTING CASTS | 1000 | Jimmy Smits as Victor Sifuentes; Diana Muldaur as Rosalind Shays, but she got the shaft
L.A. Law
POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | ""Party Rock Anthem"" group that is a renowned toy store on Fifth Avenue in New York City
LMFAO Schwarz
GREAT NAMES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 400 | Ego Ferguson apparently has ample self-esteem for the Bayou Bengals of this state school
LSU
WORLD NEWSPAPERS | 1600 | The name of this 145-year-old Argentine newspaper simply means ""The Press""
La Prensa
FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS | 2000 | This woman mentioned in the title of a controversial novel is the former Constance Reid
Lady Chatterley
NOVEL CHARACTERS | 1200 | Mellors has more than Sir Clifford of what a lady wants
Lady Chatterley\'s Lover
AMERICANA | 1600 | A cruise ship called The Spirit of Ethan Allen III provides narrated tours of this large scenic lake
Lake Champlain
CELEBRITY RELATIVES | 1200 | No, it isn't J.R. & Miss Ellie, but this actor & his mom, Broadway star Mary Martin
Larry Hagman
10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS | 1600 | The evil comanchero named Blue Duck, the colorful Aurora Greenway
Larry McMurtry
MOVIE & TV DOGS | 800 | (I am Cesar Millan.) Today I rehabilitate dogs & train people, but as a kid I wanted to be a trainer after watching these 2 legendary movie dogs, a collie & a German shepherd
Lassie & Rin Tin Tin
ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES | 400 | She had to deal with a cancer diagnosis on the cable dramedy ""The Big C""
Laura Linney
TOUGH TV | 800 | This young woman's death in the first episode led to many strange events in the title town on ""Twin Peaks""
Laura Palmer
TV ROOMMATES | 400 | In 1980 this title duo moved from Milwaukee to Burbank, bringing Lenny & Squiggy along with them
Laverne & Shirley
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 1600 | Police detective Lennie Briscoe,D.A. Adam Schiff
Law & Order
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 2000 | NYPD detectives Olivia Benson & John Munch
Law & Order: SVU
CELEBRITY FILL-INS | 1200 | Jennifer________Swift
Lawrence Taylor
FATHERLY TV | 800 | Ward was the first name of the father portrayed by Hugh Beaumont on this TV show
Leave It to Beaver
BUSINESS & BRAND NAMES | 200 | Lines from this toy brand include Chima, Creator & Mindstorms
Lego
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 1200 | Marius & Fantine are characters in this 2012 movie musical
Les Miserables
CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION | 400 | Amanda Seyfried's last name rhymes with ""my bread"", which is a factor in this 2012 pic with Amanda as Cosette
Les Misérables
TV VILLAINS | 800 | On ""Smallville"", Michael Rosenbaum played this friend but eventual nemesis of Clark Kent
Lex Luthor
COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s | 2000 | Graham Chapman played a reluctant messiah in this 1979 Monty Python spoof
Life of Brian
NOVEL CHARACTERS | 2000 | 2001:An orangutan named Orange Juice,a hyena who kills her
Life of Pi
WHAT A CHARACTER | 1600 | Despite his name, the character Richard Parker in this recent bestseller isn't human--he's a tiger
Life of Pi
""ON"" TV | 1200 | In the title of a long-running Richard Belzer series, it follows ""Homicide""
Life on the Street
TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES | 2000 | A man can use all of his brain due to a drug called NZT in this series based on the Bradley Cooper film of the same name
Limitless
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Luxury auto from the Ford Motor Company that also served as Washington's fighting force
Lincoln Continental Army
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 1200 | Dolores Haze was the real name of this 12-year-old nymphet who stood ""four feet ten in one sock""
Lolita
MOVIE & TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | Bored with hell, this fallen angel, played by Tom Ellis on a Fox series, movies to Los Angeles
Lucifer
TV THROUGH THE YEARS | 200 | The first national issue of TV Guide, April 1953, featured a photo of this zany comedienne's ""$50,000,000 baby""
Lucille Ball
THE FIRST NAME GAME | 1600 | This name given the 1974 discovery seen here was taken from a Beatles song
Lucy
CROSSWORD CLUES ""M"" | 200 | Before Tussaud or Bovary(6)
Madame
TV TITLE GUYS & GALS | 1600 | Tom Selleck, toolin' around paradise in the '80s
Magnum, P.I.
SINGLE MOMS ON TV | 1600 | As Elaine Nardo, this actress hacked her way through single parenting on ""Taxi""
Marilu Henner
TV DRAMAS | 600 | This actor plays Dr. Brenner on ""Stranger Things""
Matthew Modine
CROSSWORD CLUES ""M"" | 1000 | Judas' apostle replacement(8)
Matthias
UCLA CELEBRITY ALUMNI | 1000 | Neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on ""The Big Bang Theory"", in real life she has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA
Mayim Bialik
CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | 1200 | Tennis champs John & Patrick
McEnroe
CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES | 400 | 23 is one of the sporty men's fragrances from this sports legend who wore that number
Michael Jordan
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME | 200 | (Dan Patrick presents the clue.) He retired in '93, then came back to lead the Bulls to 3 straight titles; retirement & comeback no. 2... could've gone better
Michael Jordan
TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | A 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen chart-topper hooks up with a 1977 Wings hit, to everyone's astonishment
""Call Me Maybe I\'m Amazed""
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Gerry & the Pacemakers river song invoked when one team is winning by a huge margin
""Ferry Cross The Mersey"" rule
CANADIANS ON TV | 1200 | In 2014 Cristina Yang fans bid goodbye to the good doctor played by Canadian actress Sandra Oh on this series
""Grey\'s Anatomy""
FICTIONAL MOVIE BUSINESSES | 400 | The day job of ""Iron Man"" is running this ""Industries""
""Stark""
LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS | 2000 | Tessie Hutchinson, in this 1948 short story:""It isn't fair, it isn't right""
""The Lottery""
TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | A 1977 Debby Boone No. 1 revs it up with a 1977 Eagles hit
""You Light Up My Life In The Fast Lane""
THEY INSPIRED THE CHARACTER | 1200 | Her pet rabbit Benjamin Bouncer was the inspiration for her character Benjamin Bunny
(Beatrix) Potter
WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! | 600 | This character ""piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage & hate felt by his whole race""
(Captain) Ahab
WE MEAN BUSINESS | 600 | In 1849, this man founded a company that today brings you products from Advil to Zoloft
(Charles) Pfizer
CROSSWORD CLUES ""X"" | 1200 | Founder of the extra-ability X-Men(6)
(Charles) Xavier
QUOTH THE CELEBRITY | 800 | This ""Baywatch"" main man said, ""I've got taste. It's inbred in me""
(David) Hasselhoff
LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS | 1200 | ""Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another I, Bob Cratchit!""
(Ebenezer) Scrooge
SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS | 200 | In 1896 he paired with Charles Henry Dow to compute a daily industrials average
(Edward) Jones
TV IN ALL FORMS | 800 | Once a ""Desperate Housewife"" , today she stars in ""Telenovela"", a sitcom poking fun at Latin American soap operas
(Eva) Longoria
PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME | 1200 | As Jan Brady on ""The Brady Bunch"", she uttered the line ""Marcia, Marcia, Marcia""
(Eve) Plumb
PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME | 1600 | Her debut album ""Tidal"" went triple platinum & included the hit song ""Criminal""
(Fiona) Apple
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 2000 | This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith
(George) Babbitt
I SAW THAT BOOK ON TV | 1200 | Writer Andrew Davies adapted this novelist for 1994's ""Middlemarch""
(George) Eliot
REALITY TV | 800 | In summer 2012 he stepped out of the kitchen & into a new FOX series called ""Hotel Hell""
(Gordon) Ramsay
FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1600 | Miskatonic University makes its ""initial"" appearance in this author's 1922 serial ""Herbert West--Reanimator""
(H. P.) Lovecraft
DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK | 400 | This man came & went in the highest office in the land
(Herbert) Hoover
CANADIANS ON TV | 400 | A doctor (with hair) on ""St. Elsewhere"", he later offered ""Deal or No Deal""
(Howie) Mandel
I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER | 1200 | With ""Jane Fairfax"", Joan Aiken is just one of the authors building on this woman's early 19th c. works
(Jane) Austen
THE CELEBRITY BOOK AISLE | 600 | His books include ""Dirt on My Shirt"" for kids & the ""Complete Redneck Dictionary""
(Jeff) Foxworthy
CLASSICAL RADIO | 2000 | This composer's 1951 work ""Imaginary Landscape No. 4"" includes 12 randomly tuned radios
(John) Cage
DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK | 2000 | On April 15, 1929 police raided this woman's birth-control clinical research bureau in NYC; charges were later dropped
(Margaret) Sanger
10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS | 1200 | Short-tempered Sonny Corleone, World War II vet Walter Mosca
(Mario) Puzo
BUSINESS | 800 | In 1999, this shark & a pal sold their broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion
(Mark) Cuban
L.A. TELEVISION | 600 | As inner city L.A. cop Vic Mackey on ""The Shield"", this actor wasn't above breaking a few rules
(Michael) Chiklis
TV CV | 600 | ""Family Guy"" (the voice of Meg), ""That '70s Show"" (Jackie)
(Mila) Kunis
A GAME OF HORSE | 800 | Rafalca, a dancing mare owned by the wife of this 2012 presidential candidate, made it to the Olympics
(Mitt) Romney
1960s NEWSMAKERS | 800 | His eye patch became a familiar sight after he was made Israel's Defense Minister 4 days before the 6-Day War
(Moshe) Dayan
FAIRLY RECENT NEWS | 200 | Here's the official portrait of the christening of this little fella
(Prince) George
BUSINESSPEOPLE | 800 | His Virgin Atlantic airlines is one of the largest airlines in Britain
(Richard) Branson
1920s NEWS FLASH! | 1000 | Nov. 28, 1929! This man & his chief pilot Bernt Balchen fly to South Pole! Yowza! You'll be an admirable admiral, sir!
(Richard) Byrd
MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS | 400 | 2009:Kristen Stewart & him
(Robert) Pattinson
OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES | 1000 | In 6 straight world track & field championships 1983 to 1997, this Ukrainian was your winner in the pole vault
(Sergey) Bubka
ANIMATED TV | 1000 | This spy said, ""I didn't invent the turtleneck, Lana, but I was the first to recognize its potential as a tactical garment""
(Sterling) Archer
TV MOVIES | 1200 | In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama
12 Angry Men
TV NUMBERS | 800 | A Syfy original:""Warehouse ____""
13
TV EATERIES | 400 | The Williamsburg Diner in Brooklyn
2 Broke Girls
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEWS? | 200 | In 2015 a Penn. town cited federal law to stop a man from paying a $25 parking ticket with this many pennies
2,500
""2""-SQUARE CROSSWORD CLUES | 600 | Rendered with x-axis & y-axis only
2-D
AS HEARD ON TV | 200 | Angie, to Jack Donaghy: ""As you know, my single, 'My Single Is Dropping', is dropping""
30 Rock
NYC TV | 400 | A line from this Big Apple show is ""There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory""
30 Rock
OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES | 600 | At the '88 worlds, skater Kurt Browning was the first in competition to land a jump with this many revolutions
4
TV NETWORK NEWS | 1600 | ""Murder in Pinyon Pines"" was a 205 episode of this ""timely"" CBS News investigative series
48 Hours Investigates
LONG-RUNNING TV | 1000 | ""Meanwhile, Back in the Nixon Suite"" was one segment when it debuted in 1968 on a Tuesday; it now airs on another night
60 Minutes
TV FOR THEE & ME | 400 | In 2013 the CW returned to sender this ZIP code-titled show, ending a 5-year run
90210
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS | 400 | (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) John Kennedy Toole committed suicide, unable to find a publisher for this satiric novel that later won a Pulitzer Prize
A Confederacy of Dunces
NOVELS BY CHARACTER | 800 | Sir Kay,Hank Morgan,Merlin the Magician
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 400 | (Hi. I'm Cheech Marin, and...) You can't help feeling the exuberance of the Beatles in this, their first movie
A Hard Day\'s Night
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 600 | Lucy Honeychurch, on vacation in Italy, wants this, the title of the E.M. Forster novel, from her hotel
A Room with a View
TV DRAMA SERIES | 600 | Can you handle the truth? This man created ""The Newsroom"" for HBO
Aaron Sorkin
NEWSPAPER MOGULS | 2000 | In 1896 he bought the New York times for 875,000 & created its slogan ""all the news that's fit to print""
Adolph Ochs
I SAW THAT ON TV | 2000 | It's not a stretch to say Jake the Dog plays viola with his girlfriend Lady Rainicorn on this Cartoon Network show
Adventure Time
SEE TV | 1600 | Finn the human lost his arm on this cartoon that's set in the land of Ooo
Adventure Time
LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS | 1600 | In an 1851 novel:""Thus, I give up the spear!""
Ahab
OPERA CHARACTERS | 400 | This slave girl & her mistress Amneris are both in love with Radames, a captain in the Egyptian Army
Aida
BUSINESS | 1600 | In 2013 this news network acquired Current TV & took its spot on U.S. cable; salaam aleikum
Al Jazeera
TV DADS | 400 | Played by Jon Cryer, this single father muddles through on ""Two and a Half Men""
Alan Harper
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 1000 | (Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) He directed, co-wrote & starred in ""Lost in America"", which eviscerated the materialistic culture of the 1980s
Albert Brooks
21st CENTURY NEWS | 1600 | 88,000 people, the entire population of Fort McMurray in this Canadian province, were evacuated in 2016 due to a wildfire
Alberta
THE TV FAMILY'S OLDEST CHILD | 1200 | The Keatons on""Family Ties""
Alex
TV: A NICE PLACE TO START | 1000 | On ""Family Ties"", Michael J. Fox played this politically conservative character
Alex P. Keaton
STABLE CHARACTERS | 200 | This Macedonian founded the city Bucephala, named for his horse Bucephalus
Alexander the Great
FLOWERY PROSE | 1600 | In a Daniel Keyes story, the title bouquet is for this lab mouse
Algernon
TV EATERIES | 800 | Mel's Diner in Phoenix, where you could kiss Flo's grits
Alice
TV SUPPORTING CASTS | 600 | Vic Tayback as Mel, Polly Holliday as Flo (there was a lot of grits-kissing)
Alice
TV CHARACTERS | 1000 | This somewhat hallucinatory 1990s title character lawyered up at Cage & Fish on Fox
Ally McBeal
CELEBRITY FILL-INS | 800 | Gillian________Hewitt Museum
Anderson Cooper
COMEDIC TV PARTNERS | 200 | Conan O'Brien
Andy Richter
AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE | 1000 | In ""Malcolm X"" she was Mrs. X, Betty Shabazz
Angela Bassett
TOUGH TV | 400 | The 1979 ABC sitcom ""Delta House"" was a TV clone of this successful comedy film
Animal House
MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER | 400 | John Belushi & the other Deltas help make Frank Underwood the president
Animal House of Cards
ANIMATED TV | 800 | Trying to be more American, this Kwik-E-Mart man tells Homer, ""The NY Mets are my favorite squadron""
Apu
SONGS ON THE RADIO | 2000 | Nickelodeon's Cat Valentine, in 2013 she had her first Top 10 hit with ""The Way""
Ariana Grande
COMEDY TONIGHT | 1600 | Lucille Bluth, on this show: ""That coat cost more than your house!... Oh, that's how we joke. She doesn't even have a house""
Arrested Development
LAUGHABLE TELEVISION | 400 | ""Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else... noticed?"" asked attorney Bob Loblaw on this Bluth-tastic show
Arrested Development
MOVIE & TV COMPANIES | 1200 | The Bluth Company was seen on network TV & Netflix on this show
Arrested Development
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | 1600 | Helen Hunt was still on ""Mad About You"" when she won an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in this film
As Good As It Gets
NEWS OF THE 20-TWEENS | 800 | In June 2012 she arrived in Oslo 21 years late to pick up her Nobel Peace Prize
Aung San Suu Kyi
CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT | 800 | The first word in ""Tom Sawyer"" is uttered by this woman, his aunt & guardian
Aunt Polly
NEPO-TV-ISM | 1600 | Jemima Kirke of HBO's ""Girls"":Daughter of drummer Simon of this ""Feel Like Makin' Love"" band
Bad Company
OF THE GAME | 1000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a game.) This stacking game, similar to Jenga, uses bidding and odd-shaped pieces, to build increasingly precarious towers
Bandu
TV ADJECTIVES | 800 | Someone's in the kitchen with Ina (Garten):""____ Contessa""
Barefoot
TV SHOWS IN SONG | 2000 | In 1975 he vowed, ""& I'll jump & hey, I may even show 'em my handstand, because I'm on, ...the 'American Bandstand'""
Barry Manilow
THE TV FAMILY'S OLDEST CHILD | 400 | ""The Simpsons""
Bart
TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES | 800 | Norman & his mom Norma run the title establishment in this prequel to ""Psycho""
Bates Motel
BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES | 600 | 1989: ""Billy""
Bathgate
BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | The Caped Crusader gets a ""Blurred Lines"" singer as a new sidekick & they tour as this duo
Batman & Robin Thicke
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK | 600 | Use 3 boosts & detonate as many gems as you can in 60 seconds in this alliterative Popcap app
Bejeweled Blitz
NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER | 400 | Waldorf,Statler,Belleview
Belleview
BUSINESS HISTORIES | 200 | When the founders of this Vermont company found the equipment to make bagels was too costly, they turned to ice cream
Ben & Jerry\'s
CELEBRITY SIBLINGS | 400 | He directed younger brother Casey in ""Gone Baby Gone""
Ben Affleck
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | American general who became a traitor & a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958
Benedict Arnold Palmer
SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS | 1000 | This Boston college of music sounds like a university town just north of Oakland
Berklee
DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! | 800 | The Grim Reaper played Clue & Battleship with this title duo as they took a ""Bogus Journey""
Bill & Ted
HISTORIC TV | 1000 | ""I Spy"" made the TV history books in 1965 when it cast this African American in one of the lead roles
Bill Cosby
A CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS | 1600 | George Clooney & Miley Cyrus showed up for ""A Very"" him ""Christmas"" on Netflix in 2015
Bill Murray
ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM | 400 | This Fox News commentator was the ""Factor"" when Joy Behar & Whoopi Goldberg stormed off the set of ""The View""
Bill O\'Reilly
RADIO, RADIO | 400 | Fayetteville's KXUA boasts that it plays no music that has been on this publication's Top 40 chart ""in the last 50 years""
Billboard
FICTIONAL MOVIE BUSINESSES | 1600 | You can't replicate the Tyrell Corporation's success in this sci-fi classic
Blade Runner
CELEBRITY MARRIAGES | 200 | Miranda Lambert is married to this fellow country star
Blake Shelton
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS | 200 | In 2013 Variety reported ""This is the End"" was the last movie rented from this once-mighty chain
Blockbuster
COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS | 800 | Daughter Cookie; neighbor Herb Woodley; Mr. Beasley, the mailman
Blondie
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? | 800 | Helping home chefs: ____ Apron
Blue Apron
TV DINNERS | 600 | Law enforcement issues come up at the Reagan family Sunday dinners in many episodes of this CBS drama
Blue Bloods
CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION | 200 | Steve Buscemi (yes, ""boo-SEH-mee"") played Atlantic City as Nucky Thompson on this HBO show
Boardwalk Empire
TV | 600 | Al Capone, Lucky Luciano & Arnold Rothstein have all been characters on this HBO series
Boardwalk Empire
ANIMATED CHARACTERS | 800 | On Fox he runs a burger joint that tries to lure customers with grand re-re-re-openings
Bob Belcher
TV CAST OF CHARACTERS | 1000 | Peter Dunlop, Kate Murphy & Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt
Body of Proof
POP MUSIC BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | ""The Crying Game"" &""Got My Mind Set On You""
Boy George Harrison
TV TEACHERS | 800 | Mr. Turner was Cory Matthews' teacher at John Adams High on this '90s sitcom
Boy Meets World
COLLEGE TOWNS | 1000 | Named for a pioneer & trailblazer, it's home to the main campus of Montana State University
Bozeman
CELEBRITIES' KIDS' NAMES | 400 | Their brood includes Pax & Zahara & twins Knox & Vivienne
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
THE MOVIE/TV STAR | 600 | ""Limitless"" (as Eddie Morra), ""Limitless"" (as Senator Eddie Morra)
Bradley Cooper
CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS | 2000 | (I'm Debra Messing.) I graduated summa cum laude from this Massachusetts university that's named for the first Jewish Supreme Court justice
Brandeis
COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL | 1600 | The motto of this university named for a Supreme Court justice is ""Truth, even unto its innermost parts""
Brandeis
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE | 1000 | Named for a Supreme Court justice, it boasts Pulitzer winners Margo Jefferson & Thomas Friedman as alums
Brandeis University
NO MORE GAMES | 800 | His last game with the Packers was Jan. 20, 2008; his last with the Vikings, Jan. 2, 2011; then came his final retirement
Brett Favre
TV | 400 | On a 2013 episode of ""Family Guy"", this dog died but returned a few episodes later in a Christmas miracle
Brian
TV PETS | 1600 | A newspaper obit about this animated dog noted his work with the Quahog P.D. as a bomb sniffer
Brian Griffin
TV ANCHORS AWEIGH! | 200 | A Jimmy Fallon video bit made it look like this NBC anchor ""rapped"" Marky Mark's ""Good Vibrations""
Brian Williams
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 800 | Neil Simon title a play this Brooklyn neighborhood ""Memoirs""
Brighton Beach Memoirs
CELEBRITIES | 600 | In 2012 Demi Lovato & this superstar joined ""The X Factor"" as judges for season 2
Britney Spears
TV SITCOM BY EPISODES | 600 | ""Hostage Situation"" & ""Captain Peralta""
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! | 800 | The main campus of this ""colorful"" university that moved to Providence in 1770 sits on College Hill
Brown
CELEBRITY INSURANCE POLICIES | 200 | This singer was ""Born To Run"" all the way to his agent to insure his voice for $6 million
Bruce Springsteen
A SMALL COLLEGE | 800 | At this women's college west of Philly, May Day festivities wrap up with a showing of ""The Philadelphia Story""
Bryn Mawr
VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS | 400 | This show about a forensics team in the Las Vegas Police Dept.'s Criminalistics Bureau premiered in 2000
CSI
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | 800 | Fresh from her Oscar win for ""Boyhood"", Patricia Arquette began solving crimes for the FBI on this show
CSI: Cyber
GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV | 800 | ""The Big Bang Theory"" hit this campus where it's partially set to shoot an episode that featured Stephen Hawking
Cal Tech
AMERICANA | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Deadwood, SD) Born Martha Cannary, this hard-drinking legendof the old west had a soft side, too, caring for the victims of the 1878 smallpox epidemic in Deadwood. Her dying request? ""Bury me beside Wild Bill""
Calamity Jane
THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY | 400 | This university was formed around 1209 by people fleeing ""town & gown"" riots in Oxford
Cambridge
WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE | 600 | Name of the former park for football's 49ers
Candlestick Park
VIDEO GAMES | 1200 | Peppermint Palace & Gingerbread Glade are regions in this game from King
Candy Crush
VIDEO GAMES | 400 | Spreading the jam is a goal in the ""soda"" version of this sweet game you can play on your smartphone
Candy Crush
LET'S PLAY A GAME | 400 | We hope the Gingerbread People avoid the Molasses Swamp & make it to the Lollipop Woods in this board game
Candy Land
TITLE CHARACTERS | 2000 | Jeannie was a genie & we guess this Larry Hagman character was the one who dreamed of her
Captain Tony Nelson
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | 400 | Let's discuss this show: No. 1429 was ""Click and Clack vs. electric brakes""
Car Talk
AMERICANA | 400 | A former mint in this capital is now the Nevada State Museum
Carson City
MUST ""C"" TV | 400 | NYPD Detective Beckett accepted the title character's proposal on season 6 of this now-departed show
Castle
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 1000 | A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this ""Row"" in the opera ""Porgy & Bess""
Catfish Row
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL'S CHARACTERS | 1000 | Mungojerrie,Mistoffelees,Grizabella
Cats
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS | 800 | Augustus Gloop &Veruca Salt
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS | 200 | Sabrina, Jill & Kelly solved crimes as this title trio of private investigators
Charlie\'s Angels
TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | 2000 | Prue, Piper & Phoebe Halliwell
Charmed
CHARTER SCHOOL | 1200 | Inspired by Czechoslovakia's Charter 77, Charter 08 is a democracy manifesto for this Asian country
China
BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | Current governor of New Jersey who was also the first female governor of New Jersey
Chris Christie Todd Whitman
HOME WATCHING TV | 600 | ""Narcos"" chronicles Pablo Escobar's rise as a drug lord in this South American country
Colombia
4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES | 1200 | Hey, ""Bad boys! Whatcha gonna do when"" these title TV guys come for you?
Cops
I SAW THAT ON TV | 1200 | He caught passes for the Bengals; now he's Al Michaels' partner on ""Sunday Night Football""
Cris Collinsworth
VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS | 800 | ""Mindfreak"" episodes with this magician included ""Car Wreck Vanish"", ""SUV Nail Bed"" & ""Naked Jail Escape""
Criss Angel
EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Boy George's group that's a double-decker creation with bacon, lettuce, tomato & turkey on 3 slices of bread
Culture Club sandwich
A REAL CHARACTER | 1600 | In the cartoon ""Deduce, You Say"", this character plays Dorlock Homes to Porky's Watkins
Daffy Duck
THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE | 600 | We scrimped to send our son to this school, the only ""college"" in the Ivy League among 7 universities
Dartmouth
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS | 2000 | (Hi, I'm Aisha Tyler.) One of my favorites is ""You Shall Know Our Velocity!"" by this novelist who's also the founder of quirky publisher McSweeney's
Dave Eggers
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME | 1000 | This British naturalist & broadcaster has a rat-eating plant, an echidna & a prehistoric reptile named for him
David Attenborough
TV DAVIDS | 800 | He played a DEA agent on ""Twin Peaks"" & later had a good time on ""Californication""
David Duchovny
CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY | 400 | Pay attention to Linda & Biff Loman
Death of a Salesman
CELEBRITY SPOKESPEOPLE | 1000 | Charlize Theron did a striking ad for the perfume ""J'adore"" this brand
Dior
CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | A title cop played by Clint Eastwood, of all people, becomes the democratic Senate majority leader
Dirty Harry Reid
E.T.'s ON TV | 800 | Long-running show about a Time Lord from Gallifrey
Doctor Who
WHAT'S ON TV? | 1200 | In 2013 it was announced Peter Capaldi will be the next title time traveler in this 50-year-old show
Doctor Who
WHAT A TV CHARACTER! | 600 | (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) I said this character I created ""likes winning strangers over. He likes seducing strangers, and that's what advertising is""
Don Draper
TV MOVIES | 1600 | In ""Death of a Centerfold"", Jamie Lee Curtis played this starry-eyed Canadian teenager who became a Playboy Playmate
Dorothy Stratten
THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION | 400 | This period drama had Maggie Smith say, ""Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class""
Downton Abbey
TV FOR THEE & ME | 800 | Just after the birth of his son, Matthew Crawley couldn't have been happier, right until his car fell on him on this PBS drama
Downton Abbey
TV TIME | 400 | On a British series, Highclere Castle plays this title house
Downton Abbey
WHAT A TV DRAMA KING | 800 | Hugh Bonneville's Lord Grantham had a bloody awful supper & a brush with death on this PBS period piece
Downton Abbey
TV TIME | 800 | On ""Phineas and Ferb,"" a lone platypus stands up against the evil plans of this doctor
Dr. Doofenshmirtz
WHAT'S ON TV? | 400 | Christina's got ""The Voice""; Kelly Clarkson is on this singing competition where it takes 2
Duets
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 800 | Elizabeth Dole received the distinguished alumni award from this North Carolina school
Duke
MED SCHOOLS | 600 | The med school at this Durham, N.C. university has more than $600 mil. in sponsored research expenditures
Duke
WHERE'D YOU GO TO COLLEGE? | 200 | Elizabeth Dole & William Styron: this North Carolina university
Duke
COLLEGE RECOMMENDATIONS | 600 | No bull! head to this Durham U. to see Cameron Indoor Stadium, conceived in 1935 on the back of a matchbook cover
Duke (University)
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Billions of federal research & development funding goes to what is known as the research triangle, formed by these three universities all located within about 20 minutes of each other
Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina
MOVIE COMEDY | 2000 | In this 1994 film Jeff Daniels' tongue gets fused to a frozen metal pole
Dumb and Dumber
CLASSIC DISNEY TITLE CHARACTERS | 200 | His mom-- in chains. His ears-- laughable. Tough times for this 1941 character
Dumbo
FLOWER POWER | 1600 | In 1878 Switzerland began protecting this flower, Leontopodium alpinum, in the wild
Edelweiss
TV IQ TEST | 800 | On ""Bewitched"", this actress turned in a magical performance as both Samantha & Serena
Elizabeth Montgomery
MOVIE & TV DOGS | 2000 | Charlotte on ""Sex and the City"" gave her dog the name of this legendary actress, with approval from the lady herself
Elizabeth Taylor
CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | A Massachusetts female senator gets to the bottom of the JFK assassination as a group appointed on Nov. 29, 1963
Elizabeth Warren Commision
GROWNUPS ON TV | 1200 | The voice of Dory in ""Finding Nemo"", she likes to dance on her daytime talk show
Ellen (Degeneres)
TV HOSTS | 800 | For the 11th season of her talk show, the double ""L"" in her first name was changed to the number 11
Ellen DeGeneres
CHICAGO TV | 1600 | The 1950s drama ""The Untouchables"" was based on a memoir of the same name written by this Chicago g-man
Elliot Ness
SCHOOL DAYS | 200 | A member of the high school band, he turned down a music scholarship to pursue another dream... Bam!
Emeril Lagasse
AS THEMSELVES ON TV | 600 | In the 2011 finale of this always celeb-filled series, Mike Ditka turned up to point out Ari was a mess
Entourage
L.A. TELEVISION | 400 | His trusty agent & close circle of friends helped film star Vince Chase navigate L.A. on this show
Entourage
WHAT A TV CHARACTER! | 400 | From 1970 to 2011 ""All My Children"" sizzled with Susan Lucci as this character
Erica Kane
CELEBRITY REALITY TV | 400 | Cast members of ""The Surreal Life"" included Charo, Verne Troyer & this actor known for his role as a cop named Ponch
Erik Estrada
BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH | 800 | A hotel room in 1888,a year at Princeton,some ""Electra""-fying playwriting,a hotel room in 1953
Eugene O\'Neill
AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | ""The Cantos"" poet who is a dessert made with flour, butter, sugar & eggs
Ezra Pound Cake
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | 800 | Salieri in ""Amadeus"";Dar Adal on ""Homeland""
F. Murray Abraham
SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME | 1000 | The international soccer body known by these 4 letters has more members than the U.N.!
FIFA
CELEBRITY ORIGINS | 1000 | (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like many Greek-Americans before them, my parents settled in Massachusetts & I was born in this city, site of an infamous double murder in 1892
Fall River
FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS | 200 | Gene Anthony Ray went to LaGuardia's precursor, the School of Performing Arts, & won renown in this movie about it
Fame
TV IQ TEST | 200 | Oh yah, in 2014 Billy Bob Thornton was in full FX as Lorne Malvo on this drama, based on a movie; hope ya like snow!
Fargo
HORROR TV | 800 | Taking place in the same zombie-killing universe, this TV show adds a word to the title of its predecessor
Fear the Walking Dead
BUSINESS | 600 | This delivery co. says it covers ""more than 220 countries & territories"" & links ""more than 99% of the world's GDP""
FedEx
OTHER BOND FILM CHARACTERS | 800 | First name of American spy Mr. Leiter, who often helped James Bond defeat the bad guys
Felix
KIDDY LIT CHARACTERS | 1200 | He's the peaceable character seen here
Ferdinand The Bull
JOURNALISM | 200 | (James Risen of The New York Times delivers the clue.) Though it's gotten me a couple of subpoenas, my protection of my anonymous sources stems from my faith in this constitutional amendment
First Amendment
CELEBRITY REALITY TV | 600 | This onetime member of Public Enemy sought romance on ""Flavor of Love""
Flavor Flav
COLLEGE COLLAGE | 400 | In 1858 this university went co-ed when it took on the Tallahassee Female Academy
Florida State University
LOONEY TUNE CHARACTERS | 200 | I say, I say, he's a big blowhard who thinks he runs the barnyard
Foghorn Leghorn
BUSINESS MAGAZINES | 1200 | Maybe Steve of this last name should put himself on one of his own magazine's ""Most Powerful"" lists
Forbes
BUSINESS | 200 | This company calls its Mustang ""#1 sports car for over 45 years""
Ford
COMEDIC TV PARTNERS | 400 | Carrie Brownstein
Fred Armisen
PANTSLESS TV | 800 | In the 1960s neither this Bedrock man nor his wife Willlllma! wore the pants in the family
Fred Flintstone
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | 200 | Terry Gross has been a breath of this hosting the same--named show since 1975
Fresh Air
TV HANGOUTS | 1200 | Central Perk
Friends
TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | 400 | Ross & Monica Geller
Friends
TV THEME SONG HITS | 400 | 1995:""I'll Be There For You""
Friends
AFTER SCHOOL | 2000 | The objective of this association, the FEA, is to help students find out if being a teacher is in their ""future""
Future Educators Association
TOYS & GAMES | 400 | Hasbro said this action figure that debuted in 1964 was ""America's movable fighting man""
G.I. Joe
COLLEGE TOWNS | 400 | It's home to the University of Florida, the state's largest & oldest university
Gainesville
CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 1000 | Pygmalion's statuesque bride(7)
Galatea
THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME! | 800 | This D.C. university bears the last name of the man who founded one of the first U.S. schools for deaf students
Gallaudet
TV MAPS | 200 | This HBO show's opening credits feature a mechanized map that shows areas like Pentos & Qarth
Game of Thrones
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | 200 | ""The Prince of Winterfell""(2012)
Game of Thrones
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 800 | ""The Rains of Castamere""
Game of Thrones
TV TITLES IN OTHER LANDS | 800 | Portugal:""A Guerra dos Tronos""
Game of Thrones
WOMEN ON TV | 600 | Lena Headey took a naked walk of shame! shame! shame!... on this drama; someone will eventually pay! pay! pay!
Game of Thrones
NEWSPAPERS | 2000 | This media company owns over 80 newspapers, including USA Today & the Des Moines Register
Gannett
ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM | 1600 | (I'm Chris Matthews.) In 2004 Zell Miller, senator of this southern state, got so angry at me during an interview he said, ""I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel""
Georgia
NEWSPAPERS | 1000 | One of Britain's ""Big 3"" newspapers, in 1959 it dropped Manchester from its name
The Guardian
CHARACTERS ON STAGE | 800 | Art historian Heidi Holland, some guys in her life
The Heidi Chronicles
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS | 2000 | Arthur Dent (his first novel appearance)
The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 200 | In this H.G. Wells novel, Griffin is a scientist obsessed with theories of light refraction & cell transparency
The Invisible Man
1940s TELEVISION | 400 | On a Sept. 22, 1949 episode of this series, a character wonders, ""Who's the masked man?""
The Lone Ranger
TV MAPS | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Allies lost the war, and a buffer zone splits North America, with the Japanese in the west & the Nazis in the east on this Amazon show based on a story by Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
COMEDY TEAMS? | 1600 | Separated at birth: ""Manifesto"" man Karl & ""Right Here Waiting For You"" singer Richard
The Marx Brothers
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS | 1600 | Baseball player Roy Hobbs
The Natural
TV BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Bob Eubanks is beheaded after asking recently married Edmure Tully & Roslin Frey about whoopee preferences
The Newlywed Game of Thrones
TV NEWS | 400 | Aaron Sorkin created Will McAvoy, anchorman with a conscience, for this HBO series
The Newsroom
UNREAL TV NEWSPEOPLE | 1600 | Oldtime newsman Charlie skinner (Sam Waterston) is unafraid of the occasional potent potable on this HBO drama
The Newsroom
LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES | 1200 | 1850:""Minister & married woman exposed after conceiving illegitimate daughter""
The Scarlet Letter
THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE | 400 | Chris Vance sat in Jason Statham's seat behind the Audi's steering wheel when this movie series hit the small screen
The Transporter
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | Milan Kundera's ""Unbearable"" novel turns into a 1999 film about literally getting into a real-life movie star's head
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich
& THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... | 1200 | Toni Collette in 2009 for this Showtime series
The United States of Tara
TV GUIDES | 400 | Patti LaBelle was a guest mentor on this singing competition, teaming up with Christina Aguilera
The Voice
NEWSPAPERS | 1200 | The ""ticker"" was announced in the Feb. 26, 1897 issue of this publication
The Wall Street Journal
NEWSPAPERS | 400 | It grew out of a newsletter first published in 1883 that covered the day's business & financial news
The Wall Street Journal
NEWSPAPERS | 800 | Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart of this paper shared a 1988 Pulitzer for their stories about insider trading
The Wall Street Journal
D.C. TV | 200 | ""Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"" was an episode of this D.C.-set TV series
The West Wing
TV SHOW OPENINGS | 2000 | This 1960s Robert Conrad series opened with a 5-panel cartoon that saw a gunslinger foil a bank robbery
The Wild Wild West
CELEBRITIES LOVE TV | 800 | (I'm CNBC reporter David Faber.) I enjoy getting a look at commerce far from Wall Street on this drama from David Simon about Baltimore's inner city drug trade
The Wire
TV DRAMAS | 400 | In season 2 of this show, agent Scully was abducted, presumably by aliens
The X-Files
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 1200 | ""The Truth"" & ""Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man""
The X-Files
TV HOSTS BY INITIALS | 200 | ""Dancing with the Stars"":T.B.
Tom Bergeron
BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS | 1600 | Ethan Reacher
Tom Cruise
CELEBRITY INSURANCE POLICIES | 1000 | Head & Shoulders took out a $1 million policy on this Steeler's hair
Troy Polamalu
FICTIONAL TV TOWNS | 800 | Bon Temps, Louisiana
True Blood
TV SHOW PLOT POINTS | 200 | Charlie took Alan & Jake into his Malibu home & dated a ballet teacher (&, apparently, much of Malibu)
Two and a Half Men
TV ROLES | 400 | She plays ""Madam Secretary"" of State Elizabeth McCord
Téa Leoni
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS | 1200 | 2000, Best Pop Video: ""Bye Bye Bye"" (a boy band)
\'N Sync
TOYS | 800 | A spring that ""walked"" instead of falling when knocked over inspired this marvelous toy
a Slinky
AMERICANA | 1200 | A Spanish galleon & one of these later transports adorn Florida's state quarter
a Space Shuttle
THE FIRST NAME GAME | 800 | The first name of theatrical set designer Walton, or what he won for his work on ""Pippin""
a Tony
AMERICANA | 400 | In 1930 Jimmy Dewar created this creme-filled sponge cake, which Hostess sold 2 for a nickel
a Twinkie
ENDINGS ON TV | 2000 | Transport that ended the life of Eddie LeBec, Carla's hockey-playing hubby on ""Cheers""
a Zamboni
TV THROWBACK | 400 | On PBS Jay Jay was one of these
a jet plane
RHYME SCHOOL | 1600 | Unit of work or energy equivalent to a newton-meter
a joule
FILM SCHOOL | 800 | Used to speed up the narrative, it's a jarring cut that abruptly transitions out of a scene
a jump cut
FEMALE FANTASY CHARACTERS | 400 | In ""Alanna: The First Adventure"", a young girl takes her twin brother's place & trains to be one of these medieval soldiers
a knight
CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 200 | Sleepyheads' song(7)
a lullaby
CEREAL CHARACTERS | 600 | The silly spokes-creature for Trix cereal is this type of animal
a rabbit
WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE | 200 | If you're at ""the end of"" this, you're out of resources & options
a rope
FLOWERY PROSE | 400 | Ah, the aroma from varieties of this flower, like the pure white Iceberg & the dark red Mr. Lincoln; I bought them in Pasadena
a rose
RADIOASTRONOMY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) The Byrd Telescope has helped astronomers map the remnants of SN 1006, one of these spectacular events; when it was first observed 1,000 years ago, It was so bright, it was visible to the naked eye in daylight
a supernova
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | A stopped flow of automobiles in which jazz musicians play freestyle
a traffic jam session
CROSSWORD CLUES ""V"" | 400 | Poisonous ""pit"" snake(5)
a viper
NEWSPAPER TERMS | 1200 | This 4-letter type of story comes from AP or Reuters rather than being written in-house
a wire
THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE | 800 | One kid is training to be a rabbi at this type of orthodox Jewish college, from the Hebrew for ""sitting""
a yeshiva
2-WORD BUSINESS TERMS | 400 | AP stands for accounts payable, while AR stands for this counterpart
accounts receivable
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 400 | Strike that (6)
delete
WORDS IN FLOWERS | 200 | Have a knish at this type of restaurant
deli (in dandelion)
THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN | 800 | An underling sent me a 10-page report when I asked for 1, so I responded, ""TLDR"", short for ""too long,"" this
didn\'t read
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 600 | Write out of a will(10)
disinherit
VIDEO GAME SLANG | 800 | Some games have LFG, ""looking for group""; in ""Lord of the Rings Online"", it's LFF, ""looking for"" this
fellowship
BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | Piscine term for someone not in his element, that being beneath the Verrazano-Narrows
fish out of water under the bridge
THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN | 800 | Jacksonville
football
CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 200 | Starry system(6)
galaxy
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN | 400 | Erdkunde(know der osten from der westen)
geography
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEWS? | 400 | Glenn Berger estimated he retrieves 1.3 to 1.7 million of these lost sports items a year & sells 'em for $1 each
golf balls
CELEBRITY INSURANCE POLICIES | 400 | Professional coffee taster Gennaro Pelliccia had this insured for millions; rumor has it, so did Gene Simmons
his tongue
CROSSWORD CLUES ""K"" | 1200 | Mardi Gras mob(5)
krewe
THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN | 600 | I don't have time to go to court or even to say this whole word, so it's just patent lit or civil lit
litigation
PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM | 800 | Editorial, 1929: The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for ""An Unspeakable Act of Savagery"", about this form of race-based murder
lynching
GAMES | 600 | In the app called Sushi Monster, kids practice this school subject by feeding the title monster sushi
math
SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME | 400 | If a player gets closer to the opposing goal than both the ball & the second-last defender, this can be called
offside
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 400 | Talk about ""big"" this--Saudi Aramco is sitting on 260 billion barrels of it, 10 times more than Exxon Mobil
oil
NEWLYWED GAMES | 400 | You win Best Cook-- I've had to let out my pants & do this equivalent with my ring
resize
TV TALK | 400 | On the news you hear about PTSD; on ""Downton Abbey"", the WWI soldiers had this similar alliterative condition
shell shock
NEWS TERMINOLOGY | 1200 | In reporting on human foibles, newswriters are careful to avoid this, from Latin for ""source of offense""
slander
CROSSWORD CLUES ""S"" | 400 | Irish water or English springer(7)
spaniel
A CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS | 800 | Eva Longoria returns to her roots cooking these treats traditionally wrapped in corn husks
tamales
CHARACTERS IN BRITISH BOOKS | 1600 | This pickpocket befriends Oliver Twist & brings him to Fagin's house
the Artful Dodger
WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL | 200 | Your honor, this lad aka Jack Dawkins was clearly in cahoots with Fagin
the Artful Dodger
NEWSPAPERS | 600 | This Georgia paper is known as the AJC for short
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CLASSICAL RADIO | 800 | ""Choral Evensong"", first broadcast from London in 1926, is still heard on this service's Radio 3
the BBC
TV NICKNAMES | 2000 | In the 1950s Theodore was the real name of this son of Ward & June
the Beaver
SHARED COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES | 600 | Western Michigan & Boise State
the Broncos
WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! | 800 | By first names, this title group is Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri & Smerdyakov
the Brothers Karamazov
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 2000 | (I'm Eric Lichtblau.) In 2012, as this group celebrated its centennial, I wrote that as the longtime leading business voice in Washington, it was competing to be heard in fiscal debates
the Chamber of Commerce
COLLEGE TEAM NAMES | 1000 | They sail for Vanderbilt University
the Commodores
SCI-FI TV | 2000 | ""Exterminate!"" is the cry of this ""Doctor Who"" race from the planet Skaro
the Daleks
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 800 | Under the 23rd Amendment, it's allocated 3 electoral votes & treated like a state
the District of Columbia
OTHER COLLEGES | 400 | It was proposed during the Constitutional Convention to provide a system to choose the VP & the president
the Electoral College
BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | Collective name for the small group that picks the president, vice president & pope
the Electoral College of Cardinals
QUIRKY NEWS | 1000 | TV viewers were warned of zombies rising from their graves when this warning system, EAS for short, was hacked in 2013
the Emergency Alert System
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS | 400 | These 2 politically active billionaire brothers share the No. 5 spot on the 2015 Forbes 400
the Koch brothers
TV TIME | 400 | SpongeBob & Squidward work at this restaurant
the Krusty Krab
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 2000 | Rhine rock singer(7)
the Lorelei
TOYS & GAMES | 1000 | Will you identify this item, originally called the Syco-Seer? Signs point to yes
the Magic 8 Ball
NEWSPAPERS | 800 | In 1946 this Florida paper launched a ""clipper"" service for Latin America, named for the seaplanes that carried it
the Miami Herald
REAL NAMES OF FAKE CHARACTERS | 800 | ""Bibendum"" doesn't exactly sing, so we know the roly-poly tire mascot better by this alliterative name
the Michelin Man
TV & MOVIE JENNYS | 2000 | In 2012 Jenny Lee learned a lot about life & birthing babies in 1950s London as ""Call"" this person debuted on PBS
the Midwife
FILM & TV VEHICLES | 800 | (I'm Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX.) Several names of the vehicles we are using at SpaceX to supply the International Space Station have pop culture origins; the Dragon spacecraft is named for Puff the Magic Dragon, & the Falcon series of rockets is named for this legendary space freighter
the Millennium Falcon
MILITARY ACADEMIES & COLLEGES | 800 | John Paul Jones has rested in the chapel of this service academy since 1906
the Naval Academy (at Annapolis)
TOYS & GAMES | 600 | It was introduced in 1969 as ""the world's first indoor ball""
the Nerf ball
CELEBRITY ORIGINS | 400 | (I'm Anderson Cooper.) Around 1650 my family began its American adventure when Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt emigrated to America from this country
the Netherlands
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS | 2000 | Shell Oil's parent company is headquartered in this country where it gets the ""royal"" treatment
the Netherlands
CHARACTERS IN BOOKS | 400 | In a 1910 novel a young singer named Christine Daae is the heart's desire of this maniacal title character
the Phantom of the Opera
REAL NAMES OF FAKE CHARACTERS | 600 | Poppin' Fresh, aka this, hung out with 2 kids, Popper & Bun Bun
the Pillsbury Dough Boy
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK | 2000 | This seminal NYC punk band performed the title track for the 1979 cult film ""Rock 'N' Roll High School""
the Ramones
COLLEGE TEAM NAMES | 200 | This team hogs all the glory at the University of Arkansas
the Razorbacks
COLLEGE TEAM NAMES | 600 | This colorful team takes the field for Texas Tech
the Red Raiders
GAME 7 PITCHERS | 2000 | 1986:Bruce Hurst vs. Ron Darling as these 2 teams squared off
the Red Sox & the Mets
TV ODDS & ENDS | 400 | Robin Leach promised ""champagne wishes & caviar dreams"" on the TV show ""Lifestyles of"" these people
the Rich and Famous
BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS | 600 | This heavenly body News in San Jose
the San Jose Mercury News
NEWS OF THE 20-TWEENS | 200 | Reporter Ron Kessler broke the 2012 story of naughty behavior in Colombia by these prez protectors
the Secret Service
ANIMATED CHARACTERS | 200 | A 2017 film subtitled ""The Lost Village"" introduces new characters in this title group, familiar from TV
the Smurfs
OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS | 400 | In ""The Nutcracker "", this fairy rules the kingdom of the sweets
the Sugar Plum Fairy
COLLEGE COLLAGE | 1000 | This U. is home to its state Writers Hall of Fame; honorees include Joel Chandler Harris & Alice Walker
the University of Georgia
STATE SCHOOLS | 400 | This university is home to its state's Writers Hall of Fame, which includes Alice Walker & Margaret Mitchell
the University of Georgia
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1600 | This Ivy League university was founded by the most successful printer of his day
the University of Pennsylvania
A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS | 400 | The jonquil is sometimes confused with this yellow Narcissus to which it's related
the daffodil
ETIQUETTE | 800 | The family of the deceased should make sure that those chosen for this funeral job are physically up to the lifting
the pallbearers
CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 600 | The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa
the yellow hat
FLOWERS | 2000 | In the 1550s the Viennese ambassador to the Ottoman empire introduced these bulb flowers to the Western world
tulips
FLOWERY PROSE | 200 | Shall we tiptoe through these, known for a ""mania"" in Holland in the 1630s?
tulips
AMERICANA | 800 | Mount Spurr & Mount Shishaldin are these, of which Alaska has more than any other state
volcanoes
CROSSWORD CLUES ""W"" | 1600 | Tired(5)
weary
CROSSWORD CLUES ""W"" | 1200 | Wiggle out of doing something, like a ferret relative(6)
weasel
TV & MOVIE SCHOOLS | 400 | The emphasis is on spell-ing for Harry Potter & the gang at Hogwarts school of these 2 things
wizardry & witchcraft
WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE | 800 | If you do this to your ankle, you've given it a heavy strain
wrench
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Y"" | 1600 | Succulent plant type(5)
yucca
GAMES | 200 | Boots of Butt-Kicking & the Staff of Napalm are in this game that shares its name with a ""Wizard of Oz"" folk
Munchkin
TV EATERIES & DRINKERIES | 800 | Phil's, where Candice Bergen & the gang went before or after ""F.Y.I.""
Murphy Brown
AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | George Harrison song that says, ""I really want to see you"" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know
My Sweet Lord Byron
POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | TV show in which Fred MacMurray raises Chip, Robbie & Ernie, who are part of Ron Perlman's biker gang
My Three Sons of Anarchy
COLLEGE RECOMMENDATIONS | 400 | Volunteer as a test subject at this Cornhusker school that created the first undergraduate psychology lab
Nebraska
FICTIONAL SCHOOLS | 2000 | Hold me, baby, & tell me the title of this Kazuo Ishiguro tale of Hailsham & its special students
Never Let Me Go
TV TAGLINES | 200 | This Zooey Deschanel sitcom is billed as ""Simply adorkable""
New Girl
CITY NEIGHBORHOODS | 400 | The Vieux Carre,Treme
New Orleans
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | 400 | You can read the Times-Picayune in print or online at nola.com; NOLA is short for this city
New Orleans
AMERICANA | 2000 | Known for its jazz festival, this Rhode Island city also has a Greek festival & a chowder cook-off
Newport
CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES | 800 | Launched in 2016, this singer & rapper's Trini Girl fragrance is named for her Trinidadian roots
Nicki Minaj
TV THROUGH THE YEARS | 1000 | That's Morty the moose, not star Rob Morrow, in the opening credits of this Alaska-set '90s show
Northern Exposure
THE COLLEGE/ATHLETE | 600 | Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Rudy Ruettiger, Carl Yastrzemski & Bill Laimbeer
Notre Dame
WHERE'D YOU GO TO COLLEGE? | 600 | Regis Philbin & Nicholas Sparks: this Catholic college
Notre Dame
MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER | 1200 | Actress Julia Roberts flirts with Hugh Grant in a Steven Bochco cop series, & let's be careful out there
Notting Hill Street Blues
4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES | 1600 | In 2014 this PBS series covered the topics ""Why Sharks Attack"" & ""Ghosts of Murdered Kings""
Nova
ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS | 800 | (Hi, I'm Josh Gad.) In 2014 I won an Annie award-- excellence in animation-- for my work voicing this adorable character in ""Frozen""
Olaf
IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER | 400 | Its World-Herald:""Huskers Headed to Gator Bowl for Rematch with Georgia""
Omaha
TV SHOW SUM-UP | 1200 | Fairy tales can come true... it can happen to you...if you're Emma Swan
Once Upon A Time
CHARACTERS IN TV SHOWS | 1000 | Peter Pan, Robin Hood & Captain Hook live fairy tale lives on ABC
Once Upon a Time
TV FEMMES FATALES | 1200 | On this show Regina, evil queen & mayor of Storybrooke, destroyed a world
Once Upon a Time
MILITARY ACADEMIES & COLLEGES | 1200 | Founded in 1839 this Lexington, Virginia school is the USA's oldest state-supported military college
VMI
TV DADS | 1600 | On ""The Andy Griffith Show"", solo pa & sheriff Andy Taylor raised this boy
Opie
THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS | 400 | Red Reznikov,Big Boo &Flaca Gonzales,in close quarters
Orange Is the New Black
TV THEMES | 800 | This Netflix series' theme song begins, ""The animals, the animals, trap trap trap till the cage is full""
Orange Is the New Black
TV SHOW SETTINGS | 400 | A federal penitentiary for women in Litchfield
Orange is the New Black
TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | 1200 | Helena & her many ""Sestras"", including Sarah
Orphan Black
CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | 800 | Kelly, Jack & the seldom-seen Aimee
Osbourne
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 200 | (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite movie is this 1985 Meryl Streep film set in Nairobi that won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
Out of Africa
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE | 200 | 1980:This pie-shaped character chomps its way into arcades
Pac-Man
THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY | 600 | Around 1257 the apparently unbashful theologian Robert de Sorbon founded the Sorbonne at the Univ. of this
Paris
TV ODDS & ENDS | 800 | The Facebook page for the Indiana Office of Tourism said they'd miss this retiring sitcom almost as much as Li'l Sebastian
Parks and Recreation
TV SHOWS BY BOSS | 400 | Leslie Knope's superior Ron Swanson
Parks and Recreation
AMERICANA | 2000 | This minister wrote anecdotal bios of Ben Franklin & William Penn as well as the one about George Washington
Parson Weems
CLASSIC GAME SHOWS | 400 | Between 1961 & 1980 Allen Ludden hosted several versions of this game show
Password
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 1000 | One of Natty Bumppo's title vocations(10)
Pathfinder
TV CARTOONS | 400 | Not exactly the brightest starfish in the sea, he's SpongeBob's neighbor & best friend
Patrick
CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS | 600 | ""Joanne's Cereal"" & ""Sundance's Salsa Steak in a Sack"" are among the recipes in his ""Own Cookbook""
Paul Newman
CELEBRITY VETERANS | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Among the men who flew in the Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II was this Cool Hand Luke; color blindness in his famous blue eyes kept him from becoming a pilot, but not from flying in the Pacific as a tail gunner
Paul Newman
THE TV CHESSBOARD | 200 | Desperate sellers come to the Vegas shop run by the Harrisons & ask, ""What's it worth?"" on this History Channel show
Pawn Stars
AMERICANA | 1600 | This cowboy of folklore met his first wife, Slue-Foot Sue, while she was riding a catfish on the Rio Grande
Pecos Bill
COMEDIC TV PARTNERS | 1000 | Cindy Williams, from 1976 to 1982
Penny Marshall
ABBREV. TV | 1000 | Drama starring Jim Caviezel: ""POI""
Person of Interest
THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD | 1000 | This Emmy winner said, ""Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice""
Peter Dinklage
CELEBRITY REALITY TV | 1000 | Check out the hook-- this '90s rapper ""Goes Amish""-- while my DJ revolves it
Vanilla Ice
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | This Astrid Lindgren character is described as having ""hair the color of a carrot""
Pippi Longstocking
TV CAMPUS | 400 | Neptune High is named for a sea god; this title mystery solver who went there has a war god in her name
Veronica Mars
THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER | 400 | This Swedish girl's ""hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out""
Pippi Longstocking
ANIMATED CHARACTERS | 1600 | Last name of auto racer Penelope, who faced ""perils""
Pitstop
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 800 | Well-named ""Magazine of Verse"" dating from 1912(6)
Poetry
ANIMATED CHARACTERS | 2000 | The name of this young scientiston ""Felix the Cat""has become slangfor an egghead or nerd
Poindexter
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES | 200 | Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while
Pong
QUIRKY NEWS | 400 | A game design professor played this classic Atari game on the side of a skyscraper in 2013, setting a world record
Pong
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY | 1600 | Dante is led through hell by this Roman poet, whom he calls ""my master and my author""
Virgil
& NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS | 400 | A boy who survived a tsunami wearing the jersey of this national team was helped by Cristiano Ronaldo & is now a young soccer star
Portugal
WORLD NEWSPAPERS | 400 | In 1993 Boris Yeltsin shut down this newspaper for 30 days for inciting armed rebellion
Pravda
TV LOCALES | 600 | Pretty little Rosewood, Pennsylvania is the home of the girls on this series
Pretty Little Liars
19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS | 400 | Jane, Lydia, Mary & Kitty Bennet
Pride and Prejudice
IN THE NEWS | 600 | Imagine flying from Memphis to Dallas in 2014 & seeing this guy, AKA the Duke of Cambridge, sitting next to you in coach
Prince William
SCI-FI TV | 800 | Sam Beckett, not to be confused with the playwright, was the hero of this 1990s time travel show
Quantum Leap
THE TV CHESSBOARD | 1000 | In 1993 Halle Berry played this title Alex Haley heroine, daughter of a plantation owner & a slave
Queen
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Q"" | 1000 | Serpent Toltec god(12)
Quetzalcoatl
WE MEAN BUSINESS | 1000 | Many families send the mortgage check to this loans company once part of Intuit
Quicken
THE MOVIE'S TITLE CHARACTER | 400 | Savant Raymond Babbitt(1988)
Rain Man
TOYS | 600 | The rubber-band bracelets were produced using this winner of several 2014 Toy of the Year awards
Rainbow Loom
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | 1600 | The Edsels' 1961 doo-wop hit is a song by Dorothy & the Munchkins celebrating a notable demise in ""The Wizard of Oz""
Rama Lama Ding-Dong! The Wicked Witch Is Dead
REALITY TV | 600 | Dawg, in 2013, after 12 seasons, he left the ""American Idol"" judging table
Randy Jackson
D.C. TV | 400 | White House party crasher Michaele Salahi was on the D.C. version of this Bravo reality series
Real Housewives
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 200 | (Hi. I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) Hitchcock's genius is that he makes us voyeurs, like Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly in this 1954 thriller
Rear Window
TV MOVIES | 1200 | The 2000 presidential election was the basis for this HBO TV movie with Kevin Spacey
Recount
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS | 1600 | In 1982 this co. took a big step & introduced a new shoe designed for women, the ""Freestyle"", for aerobics
Reebok
NO MORE GAMES | 2000 | It was the 4th of October, 1987, so of course this A's, Angels & Yankees star went 2 for 3 with a hit in his final at-bat
Reggie Jackson
AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE | 400 | She completes ""Jerry Maguire""
Renee Zellwegger
NUMERICAL TV | 1200 | Among the colorful characters on this ""Cops"" parody was Lt. Jim Dangle in short shorts
Reno 911!
FICTIONAL MOVIE BUSINESSES | 2000 | A virus created by the Umbrella Corporation is out of control in this horror series
Resident Evil
TV FEMMES FATALES | 2000 | Madeleine Stowe plays the wealthy Victoria Grayson, evil queen of the Hamptons, on this soapy series
Revenge
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 1200 | Emily Thorne & Victoria Grayson, queen of the Hamptons
Revenge
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 600 | This Houston school that offers ""unconventional wisdom"" features 3 owls on its shield
Rice
BUSINESS | 800 | This British billionaire gave a TED talk entitled ""Life at 30,000 Feet""
Richard Branson
SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS | 800 | In 1986 this Virgin tycoon won a title for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by powerboat
Richard Branson
MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES ""R"" | 1000 | Suave Snape portrayer Alan(7)
Rickman
OPERA CHARACTERS | 1600 | This court jester arranges to have the Duke of Mantua killed, but his own daughter Gilda switches places & is killed instead
Rigoletto
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS | 1200 | You might say this third-largest U.S. drugstore chain is really RAD, or at least its stock symbol is
Rite Aid
CELEBRITIES | 1000 | Before sinking his teeth into a ""Twilight"" role, he played Cedric Diggory in a Harry Potter film
Robert Pattinson
TOYS ""R"" US | 600 | Someone's block will be knocked off when the Blue Bomber takes on the Red Rocker in this 5-word game
Rock \'Em Sock \'Em Robots
TV CARTOONS | 1000 | Hokey smoke! This squirrel from Frostbite Falls was a snare drum major at Juilliard
Rocky
THROWN OF GAMES | 800 | 354 wins did not overcome the controversy as this ex-Red Sox pitcher didn't make the Hall of Fame cut in 2013
Roger Clemens
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS | 800 | ""Life Itself"" by this late film critic
Roger Ebert
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | 600 | Ralph Gleason, a critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, co-founded this music magazine that debuted in 1967
Rolling Stone
LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES | 400 | 1597:""Families vow to end feud after Verona teens' double suicide""
Romeo and Juliet
CELEBRITY SIBLINGS | 1000 | First names of the Mara sisters; one was the girl with the dragon tattoo & the other had a ""House of Cards"" fall on her
Rooney & Kate
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 400 | In 2015 this state U. of N.J. was down 7 & spiked the ball to stop the clock with 3 ticks left; problem was, it was already 4th down
Rutgers
4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES | 2000 | Jump in & hold on! This '70s show's theme song is heard here
S.W.A.T.
OTHER BOND FILM CHARACTERS | 1600 | Supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld shows up in ""Thunderball"" as the head of this criminal organization
SPECTRE
UNREAL TV NEWSPEOPLE | 400 | This title ""Teenage Witch"" interned at the Boston citizen newspaper
Sabrina
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 1600 | ""iCarly"" has ended, but this character played by Jennette McCurdy got her own spin-off
Sam
DR. SEUSS ON THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS | 400 | ""A train! A train! Could you, would you, on a train?"" he screamed about green eggs & ham; today, he gets a restraining order
Sam-I-Am
TV TIME | 2000 | On ""The Crazy Ones"", she plays Robin Williams' daughter & business partner
Sarah Michelle Gellar
CLASSICAL RADIO | 1600 | These call letters of a Boston PBS TV station first hit the airwaves with a 1951 classical radio concert
WGBH
TV | 1200 | In January 2014 Sasheer Zamata joined the cast of this show as its first black female cast member in 6 years
Saturday Night Live
TV NEWS | 800 | In 2012 she succeeded Ann Curry as co-anchor of the ""Today"" show
Savannah Guthrie
D.C. TV | 800 | On this ABC soap the president (Tony Goldwyn) is having an affair & has murdered a Supreme Court justice; what a...
Scandal
TV | 400 | Fans of this soapy series are called Gladiators
Scandal
YOUR TV CHARACTER IS DEAD TO ME | 400 | Winning an Emmy as James turned out to be a nice parting gift for Dan Bucatinsky on this Kerry Washington drama
Scandal
LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS | 400 | ""Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day""
Scarlett O\'Hara
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | Satisfaction over the misfortune that came from someone revealing a truth through a verbal miscue
Schadenfreudian Slip
TV CHARACTER NICKNAMES | 2000 | On ""Saved by the Bell"", Samuel Powers
Screech
IS THERE A TV DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? | 400 | Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid dealt with J.D., Turk & a bit of insecurity on this NBC... scratch that, ABC comedy
Scrubs
TV SHOW SETTINGS | 600 | ""Grey's Anatomy"": this seat of King County
Seattle
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES | 800 | 1993:Something for the show about nothing
Seinfeld
TV EATERIES | 200 | Monk's Cafe, home of ""The Big Salad""
Seinfeld
GROWNUPS ON TV | 400 | On this show, Ricky Gervais sang Elmo a celebrity lullaby
Sesame Street
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD | 1000 | (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Friday there's no theme, so you just have to know this 10-letter ""TV host who followed Jimmy Fallon on late night""
Seth Meyers
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES | 400 | 2001:Carrie on, New York
Sex and the City
NYC TV | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Lincoln Center in New York.) Sarah Jessica Parker actually swoons when Mikhail Baryshnikov tries to dance with her at Lincoln Center on an episode of this TV show
Sex and the City
MUSICIANS ON TV | 2000 | Robert Kelly & John Ales & John Corbett are Heathens, backing up Denis Leary on this triple-ampersand FX show
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
TV SHOWS BY FAMILY | 2000 | On Showtime, Frank Gallagher & his 6 kids
Shameless
REALITY TELEVISION | 600 | After getting $60,000 in capital for her lemonade on this show, an 11-year-old got a bigger deal with Whole Foods
Shark Tank
ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS | 2000 | This electronics firm was named for a certain quality of a mechanical pencil invented by its founder
Sharp
TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS | 800 | ""Baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me"", I became a DJ here
WKRP in Cincinnati
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | 1000 | This is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program, or what you say when the answer's on the tip of your tongue
Wait Wait... Don\'t Tell Me!
SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS | 200 | Lake Forest College is near Chicago; change one letter to get this North Carolina university
Wake Forest
TV DINNERS | 400 | At a ""Big Bang Theory"" dinner, this character complains to Amy that Xbox One was released after Xbox 360
Sheldon Cooper
WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! | 1000 | Because his own life is so boring, this title character in a 1939 story lives a ""Secret Life"" in his imagination
Walter Mitty
TV PHYSICIAN | 200 | In 2013 TV shows on CBS & the BBC respectively, Lucy Liu & Martin Freeman played doctors with this surname
Watson
DAYTIME TELEVISION | 800 | Cedric the Entertainer & Terry Crews both hosted the daytime version of this show
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
GAME SHOW NAMES IN OTHER COUNTRIES | 600 | In Finland this game show is ""Haluatko Miljonaarksi?""
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! | 1200 | In 1749 George Washington got his surveyor's license from the college of this duo
William & Mary
NEWSPAPERS | 1000 | In 1840 Horace Greeley began publishing ""The Log Cabin"", a weekly campaign paper in support of this Whig candidate
William Henry Harrison
TV THEN & NOW | 1600 | The desperation may be permanent on this lane now that ""Desperate Housewives"" has been canceled
Wisteria
TV | 1000 | This nemesis of Steve McGarrett on both the old & current ""Hawaii Five-0"" was named for a Honolulu restaurant
Wo Fat
JOINING THE TV CAST LATER | 800 | It took 3 years, but in 2004 we could report this drama introduced Lois Lane
Smallville
UNREAL TV NEWSPEOPLE | 800 | Michael McKean was newspaper boss Perry White on this drama; Michael's wife Annette O'Toole was Martha Kent
Smallville
COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL | 1200 | This women's college in Northampton opened in 1875 with 14 students
Smith
BUSINESS & THE MARKET | 800 | In 2013 Facebook dangled $3 billion in cash in front of this photo-messaging company, which said no
Snapchat
CLASSIC DISNEY TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | On the run, she moves in with a bunch of dudes
Snow White
PLACES IN THE NEWS | 600 | This leaker of NSA secrets had quite a layover, 5 weeks, in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport
Snowden
LAST NAMES OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 600 | This best friend of Big Bird goes by his last name; Aloysius is his first name
Snuffleupagus
LONG-RUNNING TV | 600 | This TV show traces its origins to 1992, when 2 Univ. of Colorado students made the animated short ""Jesus vs. Frosty""
South Park
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE | 600 | The website of this airline promises ""transfarency"" & ""bags fly free"", no matter which direction you go
Southwest
TV ANCHORS AWEIGH! | 1000 | In 2011 he found himself in the situation of moderating the first-ever CNN/Tea Party Republican debate
Wolf Blitzer
NEWSWORTHY | 600 | This company with ""Space"" in its name made news with the first commercial vehicle to visit the International Space Station
SpaceX
TELEVISION | 1600 | Actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, doesn't need lines to get laughs on this ABC comedy
Speechless
TV DRAMAS | 800 | 1 of 2 series between 1978 & 1988 that starred Robert Urich as a private detective
Spenser for Hire (or Vegas)
OTHER STAR TREK CHARACTERS | 400 | Mark Lenard played the first fully seen Romulan, the first Klingon with the forehead ridges & logically, the dad of this guy
Spock
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | 600 | Slugger Eddie Mathews of the Braves was on the cover of its first issue, August 16, 1954
Sports Illustrated
A HOST OF TV HOSTS | 200 | (I'm NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.) I got a crash course in working with a teleprompter in 2013, when I became the first athlete to co-host this ESPN flagship program
SportsCenter
COLLEGE ACTIVITIES | 600 | Fundraising was a big 2012 activity at this private N. California school, the first to raise a billion dollars in a year
Stanford
COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | 800 | An ex-governor of California hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design the physical plan for this university
Stanford
VIDEO GAME VAULT | 200 | Play this movie series' ""Clone Wars Adventures"" game & get some experience with lightsabers
Star Wars
LAUGHABLE TELEVISION | 800 | This Bill Hader guy:""N.Y.'s hottest club is Push!... (It) has... ghosts... banjos... a stuck-up kitten who won't sign autographs...""
Stefon
AS THEMSELVES ON TV | 400 | This physicist played cards (as a hologram) on ""Star Trek: TNG"" & saw the universe get destroyed on ""Futurama""
Stephen Hawking
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME | 600 | After winning a Super Bowl with N.Y. in 2008, this D.E. hung it up; he soon began co-hosting a morning show
Strahan
SCI-FI TV | 1200 | Winona Ryder hit the small screen in this '80s-set Netflix series
Stranger Things
SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Ding dong! Shakespeare's hometown gets house visits from a cosmetics saleslady using a familiar slogan
Stratford-on-Avon calling
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 200 | It's a surprise to his parents when this E.B. White character is born with a tail & whiskers
Stuart Little
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE | 1000 | ""Fun. It's serious business"", says this ticket-reselling site that opened for biz in 2000
StubHub
TV VIOLENCE | 200 | Titus Welliver's finger being detached was featured on this show, the CW's most ""super""
Supernatural
I SAW THAT ON TV | 400 | Ex-major leaguer Jeff Kent headed to the Philippines & was part of the Kalabaw tribe on this show
Survivor
CHARTER SCHOOL | 1600 | The Pfaffenbrief or Priests' Charter of 1370 made the first mention of a confederation that became this country
Switzerland
THE BUSINESS OF TECH | 1000 | Norton Security Services are part of this company that sounds like it means ""related to meaning""
Symantec
TV MOVIES | 400 | Lifetime's movie with the same title as this feature film had Julie Benz, not Liam Neeson, tracking down a daughter
Taken
MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE | 1600 | We don't think this ""Jackie Brown"" director had ""Freeze, moldy fingers!"" or ""my mutual funded money"" in his script
Tarantino
BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Pro-free market movement that emerged in 2009 as a hit with the line ""The Jay-Z song was on""
Tea Party in the USA
THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE | 200 | We're looking forward to attending Arizona State Sun Devils home games in this city
Tempe
TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS | 2000 | These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, ""You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh""
Workaholics
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES | 200 | Oh, wow, ""W.O.W."" stands for this bestselling multiplayer game
World of Warcraft
CROSSWORD CLUES ""X"" | 1600 | Palindromic pharmaceutical(5)
Xanax
CROSSWORD CLUES ""X"" | 400 | Document management company, formerly Haloid(5)
Xerox
NEWS ON THE SCREEN | 2000 | In 2014 Katie Couric became global anchor of this email, search & news website
Yahoo
THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK | 1200 | (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) I founded DealBook, a Times Financial blog that covers stories like this company's aquisition of Tumblr, which we called ""putting the exclamation point back in the company name""
Yahoo!
NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY | 1600 | Ending a 100-year dispute, in 2011 this univ. returned thousands of artifacts to Peru that were taken from Machu Picchu
Yale
WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL? | 400 | I just finished my studies at this school nicknamed ""Old Eli""
Yale
MOVIE & TV DOGS | 1200 | Uggie, rescued from an animal shelter, won the ""Palm Dog"" at Cannes for his work in this mostly silent 2011 film
The Artist
OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP | 800 | Ad-Rock of this group acts in the movie ""While We're Young"" & says in it, ""We're old men""
The Beastie Boys
TV THEME SONG HITS | 200 | 1962:""The Ballad Of Jed Clampett"" from this show
The Beverly Hillbillies
2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS | 200 | Not just theoretically, this sitcom actually won favorite TV show & favorite network TV comedy
The Big Bang Theory
L.A. TV | 400 | Sheldon & Leonard work at Caltech on this sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | 800 | ""The Separation Oscillation""(2015)
The Big Bang Theory
TV SHOWS BY NERD | 400 | Mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz
The Big Bang Theory
CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE | 1200 | The Dude who abides in this film was based on film producer Jeff Dowd
The Big Lebowski
TV TIME | 1600 | In 2013 Jillian Michaels returned as a trainer to this series
The Biggest Loser
D.C. TV | 200 | In the first episode of this series, Red Reddington, ""the Concierge of Crime"", surrenders at FBI headquarters
The Blacklist
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 1600 | ""The Pavlovich Brothers (No. 119-122)"" & ""The Cyprus Agency (No. 64)""
The Blacklist
BROADWAY SHOWS BY CHARACTER | 800 | Missionaries Elder Cunningham & Elder Price, from Salt Lake City
The Book of Mormon
RUSSIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 2000 | Russian wolfhound(6)
Borzoi
CELEBRITY ORIGINS | 200 | (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My ancestor Robert Sedgwick came to America in 1636 & was an early settler of Charlestown, now part of this New England city
Boston
LOOKING AT COLLEGES | 200 | We can visit Emerson, Simmons & Northeastern in one trip, because all those schools are in this city
Boston
TV SHOW SETTINGS | 200 | ""Rizzoli & Isles"": solving crime in this New England capital
Boston
COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | 800 | This Pennsylvania college opened its doors for women in 1885 but seems to frown upon the use of excessive vowels
Bryn Mawr
COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES | 800 | The name of this one of the Seven Sisters is a Welsh phrase meaning ""high hill""
Bryn Mawr
OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS | 800 | Wotan's favorite daughter in ""Die Walkure"", her battle cry is ""Ho-yo-to-ho""
Brünnhilde
HISTORIC TV | 600 | This Norman Lear sitcom that began in 1971 dealt with controversial topics regularly
All In The Family
AMERICANA | 200 | George ""the Gipper"" Gipp died 2 weeks after being named to this team made up of the best from around college football
All-American
TV ADJECTIVES | 600 | Referring to animated CIA agent Stan Smith:""____ Dad!""
American
A TV GUIDE | 1600 | After season 1 of this ABC show, Regina King, Felicity Huffman & Timothy Hutton switched to different roles
American Crime
HORROR TV | 400 | The Art Deco Oviatt Building was used for exterior shots of this anthology series' ""Hotel"", the Cortez
American Horror Story
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 800 | Robert Frost taught on & off for over 40 years at this Mass. college located in Emily Dickinson's home town
Amherst
A HOST OF TV HOSTS | 400 | In 2014 she not only co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards, she also won for ""Parks and Recreation""
Amy Poehler
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 200 | (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel
Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
FICTIONAL TV TOWNS | 1200 | Starling City
Arrow
MY TV TITLE CHARACTER | 800 | On the CW, Stephen Amell
Arrow
WHAT A TV CHARACTER! | 1000 | This was the full name of Henry Winkler's cool character on ""Happy Days""
Arthur Fonzarelli
LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS | 2000 | Cecilia & Briony Tallis,Robbie Turner
Atonement
FEMALE FANTASY CHARACTERS | 1000 | King Arthur's half-sister Morgaine is the main character in Marion Zimmer Bradley's ""The Mists of"" here
Avalon
VIDEO GAME VAULT | 800 | Hollywood actors & psychological nuance are featured in this 2013 release
Beyond: Two Souls
THE GAME'S A ""FOOT"" | 200 | You'd think this creature said to be 7 to 10 feet tall & 600 to 1,000 lbs. would be pretty easy to find, but no
Bigfoot
GAME 7 PITCHERS | 800 | 1968:Mickey Lolich vs. this Cardinal
Bob Gibson
1970s TV | 1600 | In ""Pulp Fiction"", Jules says he's ""gonna walk the Earth"" like this guy in ""Kung Fu"" who began walking the Earth in 1972
Caine
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 400 | Apple Inc.
California
MOVIE & TV COMPANIES | 2000 | A Quick Stop convenience store was central to this Kevin Smith movie franchise
Clerks
TV: A NICE PLACE TO START | 800 | In the 1960s he was assistant cattle drive boss Rowdy Yates on ""Rawhide""
Clint Eastwood
LET'S PLAY A GAME | 800 | The weapons in this game have included a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a revolver & a candlestick
Clue
I'M GAME | 1000 | In England the board game ""Clue"" goes by this slightly longer name
Cluedo
BUFFETT TALKS BUSINESS | 200 | (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) I believe in productive assets that will keep delivering output in 100 years; people will still buy products from companies like this soft drink maker of which Berkshire Hathaway owns 8.8%
Coca-Cola
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 600 | A 1955 call from Ray Kroc to Waddy Pratt of this Atlanta-based company began a relationship that's still going
Coca-Cola
QUIRKY NEWS | 1000 | Some ATMs in London offer service in this type of slang; you can withdraw ""sausage & mash""
Cockney rhyming slang
THE KING OF COMEDY | 400 | He ""Report""-ed, ""There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good""
Colbert
FEMALE TV COPS | 1200 | On this show Kathryn Morris cracked old unsolved crimes in Philadelphia
Cold Case
AMERICANA | 1600 | (Vice President Biden reads the clue.) While the President has ""Hail To The Chief"" as his official song, the Veep has ""Hail"" this, once a poetic name for the United States; until the 1890s, it also served as de facto national anthem for America
Columbia
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 200 | This university in New York City that was founded as King's College in 1754 uses a crown as its logo
Columbia University
IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER | 600 | Its Dispatch:""Beagle Helps Ohio Zoos Tell If Polar Bear Pregnant""
Columbus
TV CHARACTERS | 1200 | Annie, Britta & Magnitude seek higher education on this NBC comedy
Community
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 1600 | Dean Pelton & student Jeff Winger
Community
ON TO GRAD SCHOOL | 800 | You'll learn how to use ""Big Red"" if you get an MFA at this Ivy League school founded in 1865
Cornell
FAIRLY RECENT NEWS | 600 | When not saving constituents from burning buildings (literally!), this ex-Newark mayor found time to win a Senate seat
Cory Booker
I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER | 2000 | Laura Kalpakian's sequel to ""Les Miserables"" is named after her, Jean Valjean's adopted daughter
Cosette
UNUSUAL TV FIRST NAMES | 1600 | Kramer's on ""Seinfeld""
Cosmo
SUPPORTING THE TV SHOW | 800 | Bobby Cobb & Grayson Ellis enjoyed some wine on this sitcom that truly hated its own name
Cougar Town
AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE | 800 | This singer plays the Mrs. in ""The People vs. Larry Flynt""
Courtney Love
TV HOSTS | 600 | Stay up ""Late Late"" with this funnyman seen here
Craig Ferguson
NEWLYWED GAMES | 1000 | I win best first anniversary gift with stationary from this company started by a man named Stephen, like the author
Crane
ODE TO A TV SHOW | 200 | A civil war of Ewings / In desperate bids for power / But know ye, Bobby was ne'er dead! / He was only in the shower
Dallas
LAST NAMES OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 800 | Here's an ""Omen"": Thorn is the last name of this devilish movie child, the spawn of Satan
Damien
THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS | 1200 | We know this actor best as 007, but in ""Layer Cake"", he's nameless
Daniel Craig
THEIR TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 400 | Then, Louie De Palma;now, Frank Reynolds on ""It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia""
Danny DeVito
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 800 | Charles Dickens' own father was the inspiration for the eternally optimistic Wilkins Micawber in this novel
David Copperfield
TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? | 800 | Michael Knight &Mitch Buchannon
David Hasselhoff
TV DAVIDS | 1600 | He has a lot of practice creating TV shows, like ""Ally McBeal"" & ""The Practice""
David Kelley
TV IN THE YEAR 2000 | 400 | In 2000 the Emmy for Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series went to ""Late Show"" with him, & we miss you, sir
David Letterman
BEFORE & AFTER | 1600 | Alaska fishing TV show that tries to create popular expressions like ""it's not rocket science""
Deadliest Catch Phrase
X GAMES | 1600 | In the 1637 work ""Geometrie"" he introduced the use of X, Y & Z as symbols of unknown quantities
Descartes
TV ADJECTIVES | 1000 | Multiracial '80s comedy:""____ Strokes""
Diff\'rent
AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS | 2000 | 2004:Peter LaFleur,Patches O'Houlihan,Steve the Pirate
DodgeBall
NAME THE TV ROLE | 400 | ""Mad Men"":Jon Hamm
Don Draper
TV CREATORS | 600 | Matthew Weiner said, ""For me"", this ""Mad Man"" ""was a cross between James Garner & William Holden""
Don Draper
ALL KINDS OF TV | 400 | The ""Dr.""-ate of this mustached talk show host is in clinical psychology
Dr. Phil
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS | 400 | Bartholomew Cubbins,the Lorax
Dr. Seuss
CELEBRITY RELATIVES | 1600 | She's the famous granddaughter of the actor nicknamed ""The Great Profile""
Drew Barrymore
FLOWERY PROSE | 1200 | This 1987 play about the friendship between a widow & her chauffeur won Alfred Uhry a Pulitzer Prize
Driving Miss Daisy
VIDEO GAMES | 1600 | This video game featured a dog that laughed when you missed a shot
Duck Hunt
THE COLLEGE/ATHLETE | 800 | The real ""Crash"" Davis, Sonny Jurgensen & Christian Laettner had Carolina in their minds
Duke
VIDEO GAMES | 1200 | Available on PS4, ""Neverwinter"" is a fantasy RPG that takes place within the lore of this tabletop game
Dungeons & Dragons
TV CAST OF CHARACTERS | 800 | Fallon, Alexis, Blake Carrington
Dynasty
CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS | 400 | Drs. Greene, Weaver & Carter saved Windy City lives on this 15-season drama
ER
LIVE TV | 1200 | Set at County General Hospital, this No. 1 drama of 1996-97 did a live show for the East Coast & then the West Coast
ER
TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | My name is Jason Lee & I played this title character, a lottery winner
Earl (Hickey)
& THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... | 1600 | Carol Kane in 1982 for this comedy
Taxi
STARS OF BUSINESS | 1000 | In 1909 this company began using a logo with a green ""T"" superimposed on a red star
Texaco
COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES | 800 | The eyes of this university are upon Mack Brown & have seen him win more than 150 games
Texas
GREAT NAMES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 1000 | Terrance Bullitt & Happiness Osunde get defensive for the Red Raiders of this alliterative Big 12 school
Texas Tech
TV BARS & SALOONS | 800 | The Boars Nest, owned by Boss Hogg, was the local watering hole on this series
The Dukes of Hazzard
TV THEME SONGS | 400 | This title TV family lived on Stone Cave Road
The Flintstones
1970s TV | 1200 | Full name of the show on which Bill Bixby became angry, became too big for his shirt & became Lou Ferrigno
The Incredible Hulk
LINE FROM THE TV SHOW | 1200 | David Banner: ""Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry""
The Incredible Hulk
ANIMATED MOVIES BY CHARACTER | 800 | 2004:Elastigirl
The Incredibles
THAT WAS ON TV | 200 | Rosie was the maid with a heart of gold & a body of other metals on this futuristic '60s cartoon series
The Jetsons
ANIMATED MOVIES BY CHARACTER | 400 | 1967:Shere Kahn, a tiger
The Jungle Book
TV COPS | 1600 | Seattle detective Sarah Linden on AMC
The Killing
ON TV NOW | 1600 | The title of this Will Forte sitcom turns out to be a lie
The Last Man on Earth
CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT | 1600 | Seen here, MGM executive Irving Thalberg was the basis for Monroe Stahr in this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
The Last Tycoon
CAST OF THE TV SHOW | 200 | In a classic '70s sitcom, newsroommates Gavin MacLeod, Edward Asner & Ted Knight
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV SHOW OPENINGS | 800 | A happy woman spins & throws her hat into the air
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV TIME | 400 | Simon Baker is a crime-solving fake psychic on this show
The Mentalist
CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY | 1600 | James & Kate Keller, who need one
The Miracle Worker
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS | 600 | (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite book is this Pat Conroy novel in which Tom Wingo leaves South Carolina to help his troubled twin sister in New York & ends up confronting his own dark past
The Prince of Tides
THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS | 2000 | Viggo Mortensen was simply ""The Man"" in this 2009 Cormac McCarthy post-apocalyptic film adaptation
The Road
BUSINESS MAGAZINES | 1600 | Money mag's 2015 ""Best Places to Live"" was topped by apex, near the Research Triangle in this Southern state
North Carolina
TV SUPPORTING CASTS | 400 | Meghan Ory as Ruby, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood
Once Upon a Time
SINGLE MOMS ON TV | 800 | MacKenzie & Valerie were the kids & Bonnie Franklin played their mom Ann Romano on this show
One Day at a Time
NOVELS BY CHARACTER | 1000 | Billy Bibbit,Candy,The Big Nurse
One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest
CANADIANS ON TV | 1600 | Tatiana Maslany plays Sarah, Cosima, Alison & Rachel, all members of the Clone Club on this BBC America series
Orphan Black
CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | 2000 | Celebrity offspring Kelly & Jack
Osbourne
TV LOGOS | 800 | Three heads are better than one
PBS
SOUNDS LIKE A FLOWER | 800 | The Red Sox' David Ortiz is nicknamed ""Big"" this
Papi
COMEDIC TV PARTNERS | 600 | (Keegan-Michael) Key
Peele
SONGS ON THE RADIO | 1600 | You can't help but feel happy when you hear this Grammy-winning artist""Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof /Because I'm...""
Pharrell
AMERICANA | 1000 | The view from the summit of this mountain inspired the song ""America The Beautiful""
Pikes Peak
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 400 | ""The Birthday Party"" playwright(6)
Pinter
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES | 800 | This game uses ""Because I Could Not Stop For Death"" --but with the ending, ""the cube had food ...and immortality""
Portal
CELEBRITY NAME CHANGES | 2000 | This spouse of a talk show host adopted the name of a character in ""The Merchant of Venice""
Portia de Rossi
U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST OF 2014 | 200 | The best ""elementary particles/fields/string theory"" grad school? This New Jersey Ivy League school
Princeton
THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS | 2000 | Honey Bunny,Butch,The Gimp
Pulp Fiction
BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | A clever cat from ""Shrek"" puts combat troops in the fight overseas
Puss in Boots on the ground
OTHER BOND FILM CHARACTERS | 1200 | Ben Whishaw is the new computer-savvy version of this character
Q
TOYS | 200 | In 2002 she was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame; brother Andy joined her in 2007
Raggedy Ann
L.A. TELEVISION | 800 | As this title fixer for the L.A. rich & famous, Liev Schreiber seems to solve everyone's problems but his own
Ray Donovan
WHO'S ON TV? | 200 | ""Everybody Loves ____""
Raymond
CANADIANS ON TV | 2000 | He's best remembered for playing Perry Mason and TV's original Ironside
Raymond Burr
THE MOVIE'S TITLE CHARACTER | 1600 | Police officer Alex J. Murphy(1987)
RoboCop
1920s NEWS FLASH! | 400 | Aug. 3, 1927! Bay State gov says no to anarchy! Denies clemency to these 2 Italians! It's the chair for the pair!
Sacco & Vanzetti
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1200 | The southernmost University of California campus bears the name of this city
San Diego
HOW COLLEGES GOT THEIR NAMES | 400 | Formerly YMCA Evening College, this city's Golden Gate University got its name at the suggestion of a student
San Francisco
THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE | 1000 | After Linda Hamilton got done trying to save the world from the future, Lena Headey took over as her
Sarah Connor
THE LITERARY CHARACTER TWEETS | 1200 | @brotherjem Gonna be late, Dill N me R hangin out#alabamaslammin
Scout
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES | 600 | ""S.L."" is this game where you can virtually build a whole other existence
Second Life
NOVEL CHARACTERS | 400 | 1844:Lady De Winter,Athos
The Three Musketeers
2010s TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 800 | Thomas Boleyn, Edward Seymour, Anne Parr
The Tudors
THEIR TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 200 | Tim Taylor on ""Home Improvement"" &Mike Baxter on ""Last Man Standing""
Tim Allen
CELEBRITY MARRIAGES | 600 | He met Rita Wilson on the set of ""Bosom Buddies""; the pair reconnected making the 1985 movie ""Volunteers""
Tom Hanks
TV: A NICE PLACE TO START | 600 | This future ""Men in Black"" agent spent much of the '70s emoting as Dr. Mark Toland on ""One Life to Live""
Tommy Lee Jones
COLLEGE ABROAD | 1600 | 3 facts on this school: Samuel Beckett went there; it was founded in 1592; it's Ireland's oldest university
Trinity College
READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO | 800 | A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits
True Blood
TV TITLES IN OTHER LANDS | 2000 | Spain:""Sangre Fresca""
True Blood
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | The fight song of this New Orleans school begins, ""Green wave green wave, hats off to thee""
Tulane
AMERICANA | 200 | In 1948 this brand held its first home party to sell its plastic containers with airtight seals
Tupperware
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 800 | Sam Grobart said that this app from Intuit was better than his accountant & got him $2,000 in refunds
TurboTax
THE NAME OF THE BOARD GAME | 800 | Slang for a tornado
Twister
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS | 2000 | In 2015 Jack Dorsey became ""permanent CEO"" of this online co. & immediately posted about slashing 8% of its work force
TV CHARACTERS | 400 | Charlie Harper--uh, make that Walden Schmidt--accounts for 40% of this show's title total
Two and a Half Men
REALITY TV SHOWS | 2000 | This supermodel is the creator of ""America's Next Top Model""
Tyra Banks
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS | 1600 | Its website says, ""Since 1945"" this company ""has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households""
U-Haul
STATE SCHOOL ALUMNI | 1600 | Ashley Judd, Mitch McConnell
University of Kentucky
STATE SCHOOLS | 1000 | This u. boasts ""mesas to the west... the banks of the historic Rio Grande (&) the Sandia Mountains to the east""
University of New Mexico
LOOKING AT COLLEGES | 800 | Sure, we'll look at this Midwestern university founded in 1842 & known for the landmark here
University of Notre Dame
COLLEGE RECOMMENDATIONS | 1000 | Be impressed that the $1 million given in 1873 to endow this U. was the Commodores only major philanthropy
Vanderbilt
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1000 | Bishop Holland McTyeire, a cousin of the founder's wife, chose the site in Nashville for the campus of this private university
Vanderbilt
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 800 | If you want to plan your individual course of study, head for Bennington College in this state
Vermont
CHARACTERS IN BRITISH BOOKS | 2000 | The letters of Walton, an English explorer in the Arctic, tell the story of this Swiss student of natural sciences
Victor Frankenstein
CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT | 2000 | In ""The Good Earth"", O-lan is married to this peasant farmer
Wang Lung
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | 1000 | The Daily Evergreen (for its Cougars)
Washington State
THE HEALTH BUSINESS | 2000 | This insurance behemoth scored ""point""s when it made a deal for commercial use of our old pal, IBM's Watson
Wellpoint
BIG BUSINESS | 1200 | With assets of more than $1.6 trillion, there's no more traveling by coach for this U.S. banking leader
Wells Fargo
BUSINESS IS GOOD | 800 | O-ho, this bank's wagon is a-comin' down the street & it's filled with money; it's No. 26 on the 2012 Fortune 500
Wells Fargo
IN THE NEWS | 200 | John Stumpf quit as CEO of this bank with more accounts than customers but fret not; John had $100 mil. in stock
Wells Fargo
KIDDY LIT CHARACTERS | 800 | Chapter 17 of ""Peter Pan"" is ""When"" this girl ""Grew Up""
Wendy
LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! | 1600 | In 1831 Methodists founded this Connecticut school whose name means a follower of Methodism
Wesleyan
BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Site of the U.S. Military Academy from which a shot is fired at very close range
West Point blank
BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | Pat Sajak's show joins an after-Chinese dinner treat
Wheel of Fortune cookie
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM | 1600 | Nick Swinmurn founded this .com in '99 after an unsuccessful trip to the mall for some shoes
Zappos
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 2000 | Irk is the home planet of this title ""invader""
Zim
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Z"" | 1000 | Dreyfus defender(4)
Zola
GAMES | 400 | In the app called Plants vs. these, you have an army of vegetables at your disposal to defeat the undead
Zombies
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 1000 | In a 1946 novel an unnamed narrator heads to Crete & hires him, ""the Greek"", as a foreman & cook
Zorba (the Greek)
NEWS TERMINOLOGY | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads while text scrolls at the bottom of the screen.) As its name implies, the feature seen here at the bottom of the screen has to go slowly enough to be readable
a crawl
QUIRKY NEWS | 800 | Just like our ""yule log"", Norwegian public TV aired 12 hours of this--but with commentary!
a fireplace
BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Emergency medical bundle containing a crispy Hershey's product
a first aid Kit Kat
THE GAME'S A ""FOOT"" | 800 | It's been slang for a sailor as well as a policeman
a flatfoot
THE GAME'S A ""FOOT"" | 1000 | You're said to ""gain"" this when you establish a firm basis for further progress
a foothold
FLOWERS | 1200 | Also called a sword lily, this garden flower grows from bulb-like stems called corms
a gladiola
""GR""AD SCHOOL | 1000 | In New England it's another name for a hero sandwich
a grinder
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 1600 | Gunpowder or grenades(10)
ammunition
THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB | 800 | Ally McBeal, Denny Crane
an attorney
SOUNDS LIKE A CLASSIC ARCADE GAME | 200 | They can be near-earth, Trojan, or main-belt
asteroid
STRATEGY GAMES | 400 | A Canadian computer scientist showed that, with best play, this game also called draughts will end in a draw
checkers
CROSSWORD CLUES ""F"" | 2000 | One who hawks(8)
falconer
A 5-STAR SCHOOL LUNCH | 800 | Why, Lunchlady Doris, your version of this 2-word pricey boneless cut of beef from the tenderloin...mwah!
filet mignon
THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK | 400 | (I'm Frank Bruni.) My 2013 blog post titles ""'I Do' & the ACLU"" points out that the number of states allowing this doubled from 6 to 12 in about a year
gay marriage
THE OLD COLLEGE ""-TRY"" | 1000 | The well-bred people
gentry
""IN"" BUSINESS | 800 | For Amalgamated Button, it means all their buttons or the buttons' value
inventory
WHERE'D YOU GO TO COLLEGE? | 800 | Colleagues William Rehnquist & Sandra Day O'Connor: this private school in California
Stanford
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE | 600 | It's the only Pac-12 school that does not contain the name of a state
Stanford University
ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS | 1200 | Founded in 1986, this supplies chain has a ""center"" of attention in Los Angeles
Staples
INTERNATIONAL TV TITLES | 400 | In Argentina this 1960s show became ""Viaje a las Estrellas""
Star Trek
SUPERHERO TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS | 400 | J'onn J'onzz & James Olsen
Supergirl
TV, SELF-HELP ME! | 800 | One tagline for this Mary Popp--er, Jo Frost show was ""saving the world one family at a time""
Supernanny
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS | 800 | In 1991 this ""directional"" airline flew off into the sunset after 64 years
Eastern
PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM | 400 | Intl. Reporting, 2015: The New York Times staff, for ""courageous front-line reporting"" on this African epidemic
Ebola
NEWSMEN | 1000 | His eyewitness reports of WWII's Battle of Britain marked the coming of age of radio journalism; good night, & good luck
Edward R. Murrow
FLOWERS | 2000 | The white lotus is this African country's national flower
Egypt
TV GUIDE SAYS | 600 | On CBS, ""Holmes and Watson track a lethal toxin's origin when a pickpocket dies of anthrax poison""
Elementary
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS | 400 | It's estimated that more than 40% of Americans visit this website on any given day; how very social! (& good for business)
BEFORE & AFTER | 600 | The atom bomb partner of Little Boy become a fabric-related term for a clergyman
Fat Man of the cloth
BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS | 2000 | Bonnie Mulwray
Faye Dunaway
ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM | 2000 | An assignment for Sports Illustrated to cover a motorcycle race in Nevada led Hunter S. Thompson to write this book
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
ANIMATED MOVIES BY CHARACTER | 1000 | 2003:Dory
Finding Nemo
TV NETWORK NAMES | 200 | Idiomatically, you might be ""as cunning as"" one
Fox
NEWSMEN | 600 | Once ABC's chief White House correspondent, Brit Hume now serves as senior political analyst for this channel
Fox News
THE CELEBRITY BOOK AISLE | 200 | In 1986 he was the subject of Kitty Kelley's ""His Way""
Frank Sinatra
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN | 200 | Französisch(the neighbors will be talking)
French
MY MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1600 | Ludwig van Beethoven,Lee Harvey Oswald
Gary Oldman
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME | 400 | On May 2, 1939 Babe Dahlgren (not Ruth) took over for this man who sat down for the first time in 2,130 games
Gehrig
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 600 | Hamlet's mom(8)
Gertrude
CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 400 | Bless you!, German style(10)
Gesundheit
TV TAGLINES | 1000 | Jennifer Love Hewitt was the ""she"" in the slogan ""The dead are talking... and she is listening""
Ghost Whisperer
SUPPORTING THE TV SHOW | 600 | Marnie Michaels & Shoshanna Shapiro give alliterative & emotional support to Hannah Horvath
Girls
TV TIME | 2000 | Lena Dunham stars in this HBO series about 4 females in their 20s
Girls
AS HEARD ON TV | 600 | Sue, on Fox: ""You think this is hard?! I'm passing a gallstone as we speak! That's hard!""
Glee
ODE TO A TV SHOW | 600 | Sing the praises of Artie Abrams / Sing out to the sky! / For Lord knows you shan't be alone / Singing in McKinley High
Glee
TV-""G"" | 200 | After graduating from high school on this series, Rachel & Kurt headed to New York
Glee
CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS | 1200 | The original name of this title character comes from a blend of the Japanese words for ""gorilla"" & ""whale""
Godzilla
SUPERHERO TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS | 800 | Alfred Pennyworth & Oswald Cobblepot (AKA the Penguin)
Gotham
ARE YOU GAME? | 400 | Steal, shoot, drive recklessly---Vice is nice in this video game series abbreviated ""GTA""
Grand Theft Auto
AMERICANA | 1000 | Here's a piece of Americana, ""Summer Party"", by this folk painter
Grandma Moses
THE TV FAMILY'S OLDEST CHILD | 800 | ""The Brady Bunch""
Greg
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""G"" | 800 | Beowulf's monster(7)
Grendel
TV NETWORK NEWS | 2000 | Until 2016 she was ""On the Record"" covering headlines on Fox News
Greta Van Susteren
COUPLING ON TV | 400 | Owen Hunt & Christina Yang, playing doctor
Grey\'s Anatomy
TV BARS & SALOONS | 600 | The bar where the Seattle Grace Hospital doctors hang out on this series is really 72 North in Pasadena, Calif.
Grey\'s Anatomy
TV DETECTIVES | 1600 | Portland detective Nick Burkhardt
Grimm
TV GUIDE SAYS | 1000 | ""A deadly foe attacks Wesen in Portland""
Grimm
CLASSIC GAME SHOWS | 200 | He's the one, the only--the funnyman seen here hosting ""You Bet Your Life""
Groucho Marx
CHARACTERS IN BRITISH BOOKS | 400 | Don Pedro de Mendez rescues this title character after he's left the country of the Houyhnhnms
Gulliver
NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER | 200 | Beaker,Fozzie,Gumbo
Gumbo
LONG-RUNNING TV | 800 | Set in post-Civil War Kansas, it ran from 1955 to 1975
Gunsmoke
BUSINESS LETTERS | 200 | In names of printers, these 2 letters precede officejet & photosmart
HP
BROADWAY SHOWS BY CHARACTER | 1600 | Hefty teen Tracy Turnblad,the conniving Velma Von Tussle
Hairspray
LIVE TV | 2000 | With no pro theater experience, Maddie Baillio went live as Tracy Turnblad in a 2016 version of this musical
Hairspray
CHARACTER REFERENCES | 200 | Thomas Harris revealed that this character was inspired by a murderous Mexican surgeon, elegant & insane
Hannibal Lecter
OPERA CHARACTERS | 800 | 14 guardian angels descend a ladder to protect this brother & sister in the woods
Hansel & Gretel
RADIO, RADIO | 200 | The kids choose all the music on 88.9 KOPO, run by the Pa'ia Youth and Cultural Center in this state
Hawaii
AS SEEN ON TV | 400 | ""Ohana"" & ""Aloha, Malama Pono"" are episodes of this procedural
Hawaii Five-0
""ON"" TV | 1600 | This AMC Western is about railroads & revenge
Hell on Wheels
LINE FROM THE TV SHOW | 400 | The title medico, knocking on Dr. Wilson's door: ""I know you're in there. I can hear you caring""
House
AS SEEN ON TV | 1000 | Don Cheadle plays management guru Marty Kaan on this Showtime series
House of Lies
TV TAGLINES | 400 | This CBS comedy that ran from 2005 to 2014 had the tagline ""A love story in reverse""
How I Met Your Mother
BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | CBS sitcom about Ted Mosby's search for the nun who founded the order of the Missionaries of Charity in India
How I Met Your Mother Teresa
CELEBRITY REALITY TV | 200 | We aren't sure this pro wrestler ""Knows Best"" in his 2005 show, but his legions of ""-amaniacs"" do
Hulk Hogan
THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD | 600 | Not exactly Westeros' Dad of the Year, Charles dance also played this spy novelist in the 1989 TV bio ""GoldenEye""
Ian Fleming
IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER | 1000 | Its Star:""Ball State Freshman Sinks Half-Court Shot to Win Free Tuition""
Indianapolis
TV ROOMMATES | 1000 | After a going-away party for their last roommate, Chrissy & Janet find this next roomie sleeping in their bathtub
Jack
TV THROUGH THE YEARS | 800 | ""I kid you not"" was the catchphrase of this ""Tonight Show"" host before Johnny Carson
Jack Paar
THIS CELEBRITY... | 400 | ended his ""Tonight Show"" run (again) on Feb. 6, 2014
Jay Leno
CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS | 800 | This rapper sold his stake in the Brooklyn Nets after opening his own sports agency, Roc Nation Sports
Jay-Z
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | 400 | For stealing a loaf of bread during the French Revolution, he ended up serving 19 years
Jean Valjean
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 1200 | P.G. Wodehouse introduced this valet in a Saturday Evening Post story, ""Extricating Young Gussie""
Jeeves
CELEBRITY DATE BOOK | 800 | Aug. 5, 2015:She & Justin Theroux have a wedding so secret, some guests arrive thinking it's just a house party
Jennifer Aniston
CHARACTERS ON STAGE | 400 | Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi
Jersey Boys
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE | 400 | ""Favorites"" from this Maine-based retailer include women's hiking boots & flannel sheets
L.L.Bean
TV TITLE PARTNERS | 400 | ""Cagney & ____""
Lacey
MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER | 2000 | Hubert Selby Jr. novel adaptation about comical cop Andy Samberg
Last Exit to Brooklyn 9-9
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | 1600 | Ike Turner in ""What's Love Got to Do with It"";Pops on ""Black-ish""
Laurence Fishburne
DAD TV | 600 | Charles Ingalls
Little House on the Prairie
FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS | 400 | We wonder how many times this ""Cabaret"" star had to tell teachers at roll call, ""Yes, it's spelled with a 'Z'""
Liza Minnelli
TITLE CHARACTERS | 1600 | The Coen brothers took us ""Inside"" this uncompromising early 1960s folk singer
Llewyn Davis
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 600 | Charlotte Haze is a middle-aged widow & mother to 12-year-old Dolores, better known by this title name
Lolita
TV | 1000 | ""24: Live Another Day"" was shot in & is set in this city
London
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | Undergraduate education was an option, but this Baltimore school started mostly as a graduate school for men in 1876
Johns Hopkins
TELEVISION FOR SHORT | 1600 | On CBS ""JAG"" stood for this military investigation arm
Judge Advocate General
CELEBRITY DATE BOOK | 400 | March 28, 2013:This pop star won't try again to bring a monkey to Germany without immunization papers
Justin Bieber
TV PETS | 1200 | A pet robotic dog on ""Doctor Who"" was , of course given this alphanumeric name
K-9
RUSSIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 400 | Former spy org.(3)
KGB
CELEBRITIES | 200 | According to this rapper, Yeezus is his ""God name""
Kanye West
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS | 800 | 2005, Best Male Video: ""Jesus Walks"" (No one interrupted his speech)
Kanye West
QUOTH THE CELEBRITY | 1000 | This hip-hopper, he of memorable award show appearances: ""If I don't win, the award show loses credibility""
Kanye West
TV TITLE PARTNERS | 800 | ""____ & Allie""
Kate
COMEDY TONIGHT | 2000 | Luther was President Obama's ""anger translator"" on this Comedy Central show
Key & Peele
AFTER SCHOOL | 1600 | This student club is an extension of the Kiwanis club & provides community service
Key Club
MOVIE & TV COMPANIES | 800 | Strickland Propane was Hank's employer on this show
King of the Hill
TV ODDS & ENDS | 1200 | After ""Cheers"", she went on to star in ""Veronica's Closet""
Kirstie Alley
BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES | 1000 | 2008: ""Olive""
Kitteridge
GAME 7 PITCHERS | 1200 | 1965:This Dodger lefty vs. the Twins' Jim Kaat
Koufax
TV REALITY CHECK | 400 | If you've been ""Keeping Up with the Kardashians"", you'll know she's the oldest of the 3 sisters
Kourtney
LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES | 800 | 1954:""Marooned & unsupervised schoolboys divide up & wage war""
Lord of the Flies
ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES | 1600 | Post-Xena, she's played Izzy on ""Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."" & Ruby on ""Ash vs. Evil Dead""
Lucy Lawless
DAYTIME TELEVISION | 1200 | One of the highest ratings ever in daytime TV came in 1981 when this ""General Hospital"" pair got married
Luke & Laura
TV | 400 | On the finale of this show, ironically, Klinger stayed in Korea, having married Soon-Lee
M*A*S*H
CROSSWORD CLUES ""1"" | 2000 | Standard WWII U.S. Army rifle(2 squares)
M1
ON TO GRAD SCHOOL | 400 | Initially, the 2017 U.S. News grad school rankings put this ""Bay State"" school at the top for engineering
MIT
THE COLLEGE'S ALUMNI | 800 | Khan Academy's Salman Khan,sports stat master Jeff Sagarin,optical character recognition maven Ray Kurzweil
MIT
A LITTLE TV | 800 | Angus is the first name of this resourceful Phoenix Foundation member
MacGyver
CELEBRITIES LOVE TV | 200 | (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Just like a lot of people, I'm watching this AMC show created by Matthew Weiner, who writes great characters like Betty Draper & Roger Sterling
Mad Men
POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES | 800 | Northwestern took on ""Consumerism and Social Change in"" this AMC drama ""America, 1960-1965""
Mad Men
'90s NEWSMAKERS | 600 | This daughter of a Czech diplomat made the news on becoming our first female Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1200 | The campus of the University of this state is in Orono, named for a Penobscot chief
Maine
MY TV TITLE CHARACTER | 400 | On a sitcom, Frankie Muniz
Malcolm in the Middle
TV THEMES | 400 | ""You're not the boss of me now"", went the theme of this sitcom with Frankie Muniz as the title kid
Malcolm in the Middle
TV DRAMAS | 800 | On the premiere episode of ""This Is Us"", she & Milo Ventimiglia were expecting triplets
Mandy Moore
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS | 1200 | The Winnipeg Sun
Manitoba
TV VIOLENCE | 1000 | This P.I. show was violent for its time--1967-1975--with Mike Connors, by one count, being knocked cold 55 times
Mannix
FEMALE TV COPS | 800 | Her experience as Det. Olivia Benson on ""Law & Order: SVU"" led her to start a nonprofit group to help victims of assault
Mariska Hargitay
BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS | 800 | Jor-El Kowalski
Marlon Brando
SITCOMEDY | 600 | This sitcom's Al Bundy got new glasses, looked at his family & around his house, then stomped the glasses
Married... with Children
CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | 400 | Producer/director Garry & comic actress/ director Penny
Marshall
AS THEMSELVES ON TV | 200 | On the 2012 season finale of ""Two Broke Girls"", the girls managed to pitch their cupcakes to this lifestyle maven
Martha Stewart
PRESIDENTS ON TV | 200 | He presided over ""The West Wing"" as President Jed Bartlet
Martin Sheen
LOONEY TUNE CHARACTERS | 1000 | Where's the kaboom? He tried to destroy Earth because it was blocking his view of Venus
Marvin the Martian
CROSSWORD CLUES ""M"" | 600 | GranTurismo maker(8)
Maserati
IN THE NEWS | 800 | Curt Schilling made a pitch to voters-- before talking with his wife-- for a 2018 Senate run from this state
Massachusetts
MED SCHOOLS | 200 | U.S. News said the University of this at Worcester was wicked excellent in 2015, ranking it No. 5 in primary care
Massachusetts
1960s TELEVISION | 1600 | On Nov. 16, 1968 this Control agent married 99 in an episode titled ""With Love and Twitches""
Maxwell Smart
BUSINESSES | 800 | In 1915 Thomas Lyle Williams began selling mascara under this brand name that honored his sister
Maybelline
AS SEEN ON TV | 200 | This long-running Sunday morning news show originally aired on radio in 1945
Meet the Press
TV | 400 | The hosts of the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015 were Bret Baier, Chris Wallace & her
Megyn Kelly
BEFORE & AFTER | 1000 | A ""Little House"" actress & sister of Sara gets operatic merging with a 19th century show-writing duo
Melissa Gilbert and Sullivan
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | 600 | Maggie in ""St. Vincent"";Molly Flynn on ""Mike & Molly""
Melissa McCarthy
FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | Bracton College in ""That Hideous Strength"" by C.S. Lewis is home to the tomb of this magician
Merlin the magician
CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS | 200 | He took a gamble & invested in hotels, casinos, & resorts; he also created a game show or two
Merv Griffin
CELEBRITY EPITAPHS | 800 | This talk show host & game show creator:""I will not be right back after this message""
Merv Griffin
COUNTRIES' NEWSPAPERS | 400 | The Guadalajara Reporter
Mexico
CITY NEIGHBORHOODS | 600 | Little Havana,Coconut Grove
Miami
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 200 | There's this University in Oxford, Ohio as well as the University of this in Coral Gables, Florida
Miami
A SMALL COLLEGE | 1000 | In the 19th century this university in Oxford, Ohio was dubbed the ""Yale of the West""
Miami University of Ohio
COLLEGE RECOMMENDATIONS | 200 | Don't walk on the brass ""M"" on the diag before your first test at this Ann Arbor school; legend says you'll flunk it if you do
Michigan
COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES | 2000 | This school in the ""central"" part of Vermont was the first American college to grant a bachelor's degree to a black student
Middlebury
TV SETTINGS | 800 | ""Little House on the Prairie"" & ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"": this state
Minnesota
WHAT A CHARACTER | 400 | Revenge against this creature is Captain Ahab's obsession
Moby Dick
TV SITCOM BY EPISODES | 400 | ""A Hard Jay's Night"" & ""Phil on Wire""
Modern Family
COMEDY TEAMS? | 400 | Game show dealmaker Mr. Hall plus a reticulated slitherer
Monty Python
OTHER BOND FILM CHARACTERS | 2000 | The giant metal-mouthed assassin ""Jaws"" chews up the scenery in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" & this film in space
Moonraker
E.T.'s ON TV | 400 | He's an observer from Ork who travels in a pod & meets up with Mindy
Mork
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | 800 | Steve Inskeep and David Greene host this show in the A.M. in D.C.; Renee Montagne, not far from us here in Culver City
Morning Edition
WHERE'S THAT STATE SCHOOL? | 600 | They're Russian around & having a capital time at the University of Idaho in this city
Moscow
TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS | 2000 | Oboist Blair Tindall's memoir of sex, drugs & classical music inspired this Amazon series of the same name
Mozart in the Jungle
TOYS & GAMES | 200 | The first toy advertised on national TV was this spud
Mr. Potato Head
THE TV BUSINESS | 1000 | To the intrepid hackers of this TV show, the ""E"" of E-Corp stands for evil
Mr. Robot
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER | 600 | Darlene, a malware coder & Elliot's sister
Mr. Robot
TV TEACHERS | 600 | Trying to cram for this teacher's test, Bart Simpson is told the Pilgrims came over on the Spirit of St. Louis, escaping giant rats
Mrs. Krabappel
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES | 400 | Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor
Ms. Pac-Man
NEWSPAPER MOGULS | 400 | In 2012 he said it was ""a big move"" to split News Corp. into entertainment (cha-ching) & print (not so much)
Murdoch
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | 600 | Washington Square News
NYU
REALITY TELEVISION | 1000 | In an ""SNL"" parody of this survival show, Leslie Jones was only the first part of the title; Peter Dinklage took care of both
Naked and Afraid
SERIOUS TV | 1600 | In 2014 this astrophysicist showed that science is cool as he led us into ""Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey""
Neil deGrasse Tyson
THIS CELEBRITY... | 2000 | In 2014 got an alternative-album Grammy nomination & graced the stages of ""Conan"" & Coachella [audio clip]
Neko Case
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | 1000 | (I'm columnist Clarence Page.) As real-life TV has proven the movie prophetic to me, my favorite film is this 1976 drama about newscaster Howard Beale
Network
60 YEARS OF THE TV STATION | 1000 | In 1953, KLAS became the first TV station in this Western state
Nevada
4-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 800 | To practice boxing with light blows
spar
GAME 7 PITCHERS | 1600 | 1985:The Cards' John Tudor vs. Bret Saberhagen of this club
the (Kansas City) Royals
ON SIRIUSXM RADIO | 400 | Original MTV VJs including Martha Quinn host shows on the channel devoted to music from this decade
the 1980s
TV LOGOS | 400 | Things can get rather animated here
the Cartoon Network
SOUNDS LIKE A STAR WARS CHARACTER | 800 | ""Village Voice"" off-Broadway awards for the pale?
the Obie-wan
THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME | 800 | 2015 members of the Hall include Jim Tressel, longtime coach of this team that won it all with a new guy this year
the Ohio State Buckeyes
CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS | 400 | These twins' billion-dollar business empire includes a high-end fashion line called The Row
the Olsens
CHARTER SCHOOL | 2000 | In May 1963 Tanganyika was among the charter members of the OAU, short for this
the Organization of African Unity
ARMED FORCES RADIO WITH PAT SAJAK | 400 | In 1940 regularly scheduled military broadcasting began in Central America's PCZ, or this zone
the Panama Canal Zone
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY | 200 | Doubtful we'll see a rematch of the 1919 version of this ""Granddaddy of Them All"" bowl game: Great Lakes 17, Mare Island 0
the Rose Bowl
TV THROWBACK | 800 | In 2003 Chuckie & this gang of kids found themselves ""All Grown Up!""
the Rugrats
COLLEGE FIRSTS | 200 | Morehead Planetarium, which opened in 1949 at this school in Chapel Hill, was the 1st planetarium owned by a college
the University of North Carolina
STATE SCHOOL ALUMNI | 800 | John Edwards, Michael Jordan
the University of North Carolina
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 600 | Friendly Hall was the first dorm at this West Coast school, UO for short
the University of Oregon
MED SCHOOLS | 400 | Rainier & Columbia River are 2 of the 6 colleges that make up the med school at this Pac-12 university
the University of Washington
""2""-SQUARE CROSSWORD CLUES | 400 | Liquid-fueled war rocket that fell on the United Kingdom
the V-2
PLANTS & FLOWERS | 400 | Here's this plant of the Carolinas in action
the Venus flytrap
THROWN OF GAMES | 600 | In craps, you need a pair of 4s to throw 8 this ""way""
the hard way
NEWSWORDY | 2000 | Change the last syllable in ""thunderstorm"" to get this weather event that hit the Great Plains in winter 2013
thundersnow
THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN | 400 | Who wastes breath saying this startup-funding person? Just call him a V.C.
venture capitalist
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD | 600 | (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Wednesday you had to know compound words where each half could also have ""dead"" before it--there was airline, seahorse & this response to ""top on official stationery""
letterhead
ENDINGS ON TV | 800 | George Costanza's fiancée Susan was fatally poisoned doing this
licking envelopes
FLOWER POWER | 400 | Come to my pad & see my varieties of this flower, candidum & longiflorum, AKA Madonna & Easter
lilies
FLOWERS | 800 | The ""calla"" this is popular for wedding bouquets
lily
CROSSWORD PUNS | 1600 | A long way to travel:_ IM _ _ SIN _
limousine
WORDS IN FLOWERS | 600 | Don't give me any of your this body part
lip (in tulip)
CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 1000 | Sliced & packaged turkey, salami or pastrami(9)
lunchmeat
JOURNALISM | 600 | (New York Times legal columnist Linda Greenhouse delivers the clue.) I don't often interview Supreme Court justices; to write my articles I usually read these formal statements containing the reasoning & principles of law behind judicial decisions
opinions
BUSINESS ABBEV. | 2000 | OC:The amount you gave up on the option you didn't take
opportunity cost
SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME | 600 | The 10 players other than the goalie are said to play here; in baseball, only 3 do
outfield
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Chicken & noodle dish from L.A.'s Chao Krung restaurant served when a tennis set goes to 6-all
pad Thai-breaker
CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 200 | It beats ""rock"" but not ""scissors"" (5)
paper
FLOWER POWER | 2000 | This flower has clusters of star-shaped blossoms, not clusters of sheep, as you may think
phlox
AMERICANA | 400 | These kitschy front yard birds have their own ""scientific"" name, Phoenicopteris ruber plasticus
pink flamingos
RADIO | 400 | It's a schedule of songs to be played at a station; in a 2008 movie title, it was ""Infinite""
playlist
NEWS TERMINOLOGY | 2000 | A broadcaster who hasn't seen the wire copy until he speaks it aloud is said to do this ""and read""
rip
TOYS ""R"" US | 1000 | I got a brand new pair of Riedell 911 Jammer Jams, these
roller skates
MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES ""R"" | 800 | For bike messengers it's ""premium""(4)
rush
CROSSWORD CLUES ""S"" | 1000 | Dear sir or madam (10)
salutation
AMERICANA | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Scholars have mapped the U.S. based on what people in each region call soft drinks like Coke & ginger ale; In the highlighted areas here, they use the word ""pop""; in these areas here, they use this word
soda
A LITTLE TV | 1600 | Ricky Ricardo's signature song on ""I Love Lucy""
""Babalú""
TV CV | 800 | ""Arrested Development"" (Michael Bluth), ""Valerie's Family"" (David Hogan)
(Jason) Bateman
NEPO-TV-ISM | 1200 | This one of the ""Friends"":Daughter of John, a cast regular on ""Days of Our Lives"" since 1985
(Jennifer) Aniston
WHAT A TV DRAMA KING | 400 | It seemed like Jack Bauer, played by him, always had the absolute worst day at work
(Kiefer) Sutherland
MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS | 1200 | 2003:Tobey Maguire & her
(Kirsten) Dunst
FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS | 1000 | Whether you take the red pill or the blue one, this alum opened Neo's eyes to reality in ""The Matrix""
(Laurence) Fishburne
THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME! | 2000 | The Florida school she founded in 1904 later merged with the Cookman Institute & today, the school has university status
(Mary McLeod) Bethune
TV CREATORS | 400 | He went through the nightmare of combat in the Philippines before creating ""The Twilight Zone""
(Rod) Serling
THEY INSPIRED THE CHARACTER | 800 | A short-tempered, long-haired chemistry teacher named John Nettleship inspired this J. K. Rowling character
(Severus) Snape
COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES | 1000 | Tom Osborne won 255 games at this univ. & 3 elections to Congress from the state (you win 255 games & you'll get elected, too)
(University of) Nebraska
1940s NEWSMAKERS | 1600 | Convicted of high treason, he was shot by a firing squad at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on October 24, 1945
(Vidkun) Quisling
COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE | 800 | This author of ""Lolita"" also wrote ""Pnin"", about a Russian prof at a U.S. college, like himself
(Vladimir) Nabokov
DESCRIBING THE TV CAST | 800 | A waitress with a knack for making cupcakes,a trust fund princess forced to become a waitress
2 Broke Girls
TV NUMBERS | 200 | On ABC with Elizabeth Vargas & David Muir:""____/____""
20/20
19th C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS | 1600 | After his editorial writer killed an opponent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he left for NYC & bought the World
(Joseph) Pulitzer
THE MOVIE/TV STAR | 800 | ""Knocked Up"", ""Grey's Anatomy""
(Katherine) Heigl
NEWSPAPERS | 800 | In April 2013 the Chicago Sun-Times announced the death of this man who reviewed movies for the paper for 46 years
(Roger) Ebert
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | 200 | This Oscar winner for ""Ordinary People"" leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's ""Leverage""
(Timothy) Hutton
1960s NEWSMAKERS | 2000 | This Harvard teacher described his 1961 LSD trip as the ""most shattering experience"" of his life
(Timothy) Leary
COLLEGE MATH | 400 | Number of ""Sisters"" you'd have if Mount Holyoke left the group
6
REALITY TV SHOWS | 1200 | On ""Undercover Boss"", a CEO worked at this convenience store & learned firsthand about customer service
7-Eleven
CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 800 | The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper
A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted)
SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER | 2000 | Will combines one of his comedy classics with what Mr. Blandings is trying to put up in a Cary Grant film
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream House
TV WHO SAID IT? | 600 | This ""Last Week Tonight"" man:""Cranberries taste like cherries who hate you""
(John) Oliver
TV HANGOUTS | 800 | Los Pollos Hermanos
Breaking Bad
LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! | 2000 | U.S. News & World Report ranks this 137-year-old Jesuit school in Omaha the No. 1 regional university in the Midwest
Creighton
ALL KINDS OF TV | 1600 | This CBS series about FBI profilers rolls on, Hotch or no Hotch
Criminal Minds
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 1600 | A tale of the Soviet labor camps tells of ""one day in the life"" of him, patronymic Denisovich, last name Shukhov
Ivan
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 1200 | This character who debuted in 1926 is also called Edward Bear
Winnie-the-Pooh
ON TV 10 YEARS AGO | 200 | This show featured Jack Bauer, on-screen clocks & dialogue like ""Where's the bomb?! Don't make me ask you again!""
24
PRESIDENTS ON TV | 600 | David Palmer was assassinated on this fast-paced show--guess he wasn't in good hands
24
YOUR TV CHARACTER IS DEAD TO ME | 800 | In 2014 the clock stopped ticking for Audrey on this Fox drama
24
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 800 | Steve Carell is thick as Brick (Tamland) in this movie
Anchorman
COLLEGE PEOPLE | 2000 | This school was named for the Muncie, Indiana jar company founders who donated the land
Ball State
1960s TELEVISION | 800 | ""Hi Diddle Riddle"", the debut episode of this series, featured Frank Gorshin as the Riddler
Batman
THE NAME OF THE BOARD GAME | 400 | The USS Missouri is an Iowa-class one
Battleship
PRESIDENTS ON TV | 1000 | This show featured Laura Roslin, a politician unafraid to come out strongly against Cylon attacks
Battlestar Galactica
TV SHOWS PAST & PRESENT | 1000 | Starbuck & Apollo were pilots, not a coffee shop & a god; a tip of the Caprica--Earth is thataway
Battlestar Galactica
TV TIME | 1600 | ""Caprica"" was a spin-off from this sci-fi reboot
Battlestar Galactica
L.A. TELEVISION | 200 | Throughout the '90s, David Hasselhoff & company kept L.A. County beaches safe on this TV series
Baywatch
TV THEME SONGS | 200 | When this lifeguard series premiered, it used the appropriate theme ""Save Me""
Baywatch
CELEBRITY VETERANS | 1000 | This star of ""Maude"" & ""The Golden Girls"" was one of the Marine Corps' first female recruits of WWII
Bea Arthur
KIDDY LIT CHARACTERS | 2000 | In 2011's ""I Want My Hat Back"", he questions his fellow forest dwellers as to the whereabouts of his ""red pointy hat""
Bear
TV TITLE PAIRS | 400 | 2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge
Beavis and Butthead
WHAT A TV CHARACTER! | 200 | These 2 title MTV cartoon guys thought the band Kiss was ""pretty cool for a bunch of mimes""
Beavis and Butthead
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 200 | In ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", she is described as ""a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair""
Becky Thatcher
TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLASSICAL MUSIC GAME | 200 | ...& we'll head to the middle of the Fifth... this composer's Fifth, actually
Beethoven
TV EATERIES | 600 | The Peach Pit, where Brandon worked
Beverly Hills, 90210
FAIRLY RECENT NEWS | 800 | In offstage drama, a member of this Russian cultural institution was convicted for an acid attack on the artistic director
Bolshoi
COUPLING ON TV | 1200 | Agent Booth & Dr. Brennan, who finally got married on a 2013 episode
Bones
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 1200 | Capote's tale of jewelry window shopping starring a ""Beverly Hills 90210"" actress
Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen
IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST | 400 | Okay, we can see it. A resemblance led some to call Todd, played by Jesse Plemons on this show, Meth Damon
Breaking Bad
AMERICANA | 1000 | This boy & his dog Tige were major cartoon characters before becoming mascots for kids' shoes
Buster Brown
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK | 200 | Help fight the Cold War in the third title in this series; ""Black Ops"" is rated M, so you'll have to wait for that... right?
Call of Duty
SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS | 400 | This nickname for Stanford refers to one of the school's official colors (not a bird) & is therefore singular
Cardinal
I'LL BE YOUR TV WAITRESS | 800 | Cliff, on ""Cheers"": ""I'm ashamed God made me a man""; her: ""I don't think God's doing a lot of bragging about it, either""
Carla
THE FIRST NAME GAME | 2000 | This Italian male first name also means a vivid red
Carmine
PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME | 400 | This redheaded prop comedian has a long-term gig at the Luxor in Las Vegas
Carrot Top
HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | The Indians play sports for Central High in this Wyoming city
Cheyenne
MUST ""C"" TV | 200 | The Windy City has a Major League Soccer team & a Dick Wolf series both called this
Chicago Fire
CHICAGO TV | 400 | In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the ""Chicago P.D."" & ""Chicago Fire"" franchise
Chicago Med
SITCOMEDY | 1000 | As Rev. Jim on ""Taxi"", this actor plays piano flawlessly, stops & says, ""I must have had music lessons""
Christopher Lloyd
BREAKING NEWS | 800 | (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) In April 2009 I broke the story that this youngest of the ""Big 3"" car companies was entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Chrysler
1940s NEWSMAKERS | 400 | In a July 1941 speech in London, he told the Nazis, ""You do your worst and we will do our best""
Churchill
NEVER BORED OF BOARD GAMES | 600 | Good deeds allow you to climb up, but watch out for the slides in this game where you try to reach the 100 square
Chutes and Ladders
TV TITLE PARTNERS | 600 | 2016 brought us ""Rob & ____""
Chyna
DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS | 1000 | 1950:Gus & Jaq, mice
Cinderella
NEWSPAPERS | 800 | Publishers watch sales figures via AAM, the Alliance for Audited Media, formerly ABC, the Audit Bureau of these
Circulations
COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""Death Valley"" is the home of the Tigers, this ACC team in South Carolina
Clemson
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 800 | Hey, y'all, let's put on our Tajh Boyd jerseys & hit Death Valley to see the Tigers, this ACC team
Clemson
TV CHARACTER NICKNAMES | 800 | On ""Cheers"", bartender Ernie Pantusso
Coach
TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS | 1200 | ""I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away"" (it should be the Greendale fight song)
Community
TV TEACHERS | 1000 | You could say hola to Senor Chang, a Spanish teacher on this NBC sitcom that has since moved its campus to Yahoo!
Community
THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD | 200 | Oh, my sun & stars! In 2011 Jason Momoa took over this title film role from Arnold & got all barbaric
Conan
TV | 800 | In 2010 this talk show host said, ""I never thought I'd be jealous of the long, illustrious run that NBC gave ""Joey""'
Conan O\'Brien
CLASSIC GAME SHOWS | 600 | That's yours truly back when I was hosting the ""Classic"" version of this show
Concentration
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 800 | The pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her sister Lizaveta are murdered with an ax in this novel
Crime and Punishment
INTERNATIONAL TV TITLES | 2000 | If you miss the strong female characters of this U.S. show, maybe you can catch it in Norway as ""Frustrerte Fruer""
Desperate Housewives
THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? | 600 | Scavo Pizzeria was opened by Tom & Lynette on this Sunday night series
Desperate Housewives
TV SHOW PLOT POINTS | 600 | Susan burning Edie's house & Gabby's affair with a hunky gardener were among the many wacky times on a certain lane
Desperate Housewives
ARE YOU GAME? | 800 | If you want to be a Guardian of the last city on Earth, you have ""a date with"" this game from the creators of Halo
Destiny
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 200 | Fictional folks turn up in Tennessee Williams' play ""Camino Real""--this Spanish windmill tilter, for one
Don Quixote
NOVELS BY CHARACTER | 200 | Countess Trifaldi,Dona Rodriguez,Dulcinea
Don Quixote
QUIRKY NEWS | 400 | Bill Maher said if this real estate tycoon could prove his dad isn't an orangutan, Maher would give him $5 million
Donald Trump
QUOTH THE CELEBRITY | 400 | This self-aware ""Celebrity Apprentice"" host revealed, ""Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich""
Donald Trump
BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES | 800 | 1869: ""Lorna""
Doone
ANIMATED TV | 600 | This title girl gets around with her backpack & an item that isn't afraid to repeat ""I'm the map. I'm the map, I'm the map""
Dora (the Explorer)
OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP | 400 | In 2015 AARP magazine tweeted a cover showing this rapper & mogul who helped launch Snoop Dogg
Dr. Dre
LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | 600 | This James Bond adversary was a German Chinese who had ""two pairs of steel pincers"" for hands
Dr. No
CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS | 1600 | This TV personality earned a master's degree & a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas
Dr. Phil
DAYTIME TELEVISION | 2000 | This daytime doc wrote the self-help book ""Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters""
Dr. Phil
1990s TV SHOWS | 400 | A young physician makes a new life for herself in the Old West
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
MED SCHOOLS | 800 | Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is named for this author who despite his pen name did not practice
Dr. Seuss
19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS | 1200 | Lucy Westenra, Renfield
Dracula
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 400 | Seen here is the logo of this university, whose hoopsters won their fifth national title in 2015
Duke
ON SIRIUSXM RADIO | 800 | Hats off to this country star who ""ain't going down 'til the sun comes up"" now that he got his own channel in 2016
Garth Brooks
OTHER STAR TREK CHARACTERS | 800 | Majel Barrett, Nurse Christine Chapel on the original series, was wed to this ""Trek"" creator
Gene Roddenberry
THE KING OF COMEDY | 800 | ""Lunacy packaged in pathos"" was one description used of this late ""Willy Wonka"" comic actor
Gene Wilder
NEPO-TV-ISM | 400 | Campbell Scott of ""Royal Pains"":Son of Colleen Dewhurst & this Oscar winner
George C. Scott
THE KING OF COMEDY | 1600 | This standup who passed away in 2008: ""No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like""
George Carlin
COLLEGE BASKETBALL | 400 | In one of college basketball's biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men's title
Georgetown
COLLEGE FIRSTS | 400 | America's first Catholic college was this one founded in 1789 in Washington, D.C.
Georgetown
THE TV ""A"" | 1600 | On ""The ""Simpsons"" he makes himself heard as Moe, Apu, Duffman, Disco Stu, Wiggum, Dr. Nick...
Hank Azaria
TV TITLE CHARACTERS | 200 | The doctor will see you now... Mads Mikkelsen had a bone to pick with you as this cannibal on NBC
Hannibal
TV | 1000 | Rachel Bilson plays Dr. Zoe Hart on this Southern-fried show
Hart of Dixie
COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE | 400 | ""Cambridge was a desert"", begins Chapter 1 of Andre Aciman's this ""Square""
Harvard
THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY | 200 | In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college ""yahd""
Harvard
WHERE'D YOU GO TO COLLEGE? | 400 | Ralph Waldo Emerson & Tommy Lee Jones: this Ivy League school
Harvard
CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 400 | Rent collector(8)
a landlord
USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL | 1200 | Solve for x in the math problem seen here
3-Jan
TV IN ALL FORMS | 2000 | The 101st Airborne's Easy Company didn't have it so easy in this 2001 miniseries set during World War II
Band of Brothers
COUNTRIES' NEWSPAPERS | 600 | The Hamilton Spectator
Canada
COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS | 1200 | Fiercely feminist friend Andrea seen here
Cathy
SCHOOL'S OUT IN JUNE | 1200 | St. Mary's College closed in June 1931, the same year this alumnus who founded the Chicago White Sox passed away
Charles Comiskey
KIDDY LIT CHARACTERS | 400 | This Roald Dahl boy gets 1 chocolate bar a year on his birthday but makes it last a month
Charlie
TV ADJECTIVES | 1000 | Mike Rowe tried all kinds of these ""Jobs"", including roadkill collector
Dirty
TV NETWORK NAMES | 800 | In law it's the duty of the prosecution to share pretrial statements
Discovery
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1976, America was split straight down the middle; Jimmy Carter dominated the blue East, but the red West was solid for this man
Ford
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK | 400 | In February 2014 this addictive game about a little winged creature was taken down by its developer
Flappy Bird
SITCOMEDY | 800 | When this sitcom psychiatrist said he was dating a supermodel, no one believed him & everyone thought he was going nuts
Frasier
ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Fromage-topped potage served at the NFL's championship game
French Onion Super Bowl
MOVING JOURNALISM | 1000 | United Airlines has both the Eastern & Western halves of the globe covered with this on-board magazine that has a plural title
Hemispheres
2010s TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | 400 | Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Dr. Derek Shepherd
Grey\'s Anatomy
NOVEL CHARACTERS | 800 | 1726:The Yahoos,The King of Brobdingnag
Gulliver\'s Travels
THE TV FAMILY'S OLDEST CHILD | 2000 | The Smiths on ""American Dad""
Hayley
MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN | 800 | Playing the Joker in ""The Dark Knight"" won him an Oscar too
Heath Ledger
FICTIONAL MOVIE BUSINESSES | 800 | In a slightly future world, Joaquin Phoenix writes for beautifulhandwrittenletters.com in this 2013 film
Her
BUSINESS | 1000 | This casual clothing company debuted its ""initial"" catalog in 1983
J. Crew
TV IN ALL FORMS | 1200 | Craig Ferguson handed off his late-night hosting job to this more jovial Brit
James Corden
TV HOSTS | 1000 | This star of ""Community"" hosts ""The Soup""
Joel McHale
WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL | 400 | It's no surprise that this Thomas Hardy title stonemason gives unclear responses on the witness stand
Jude the Obscure
TV IS REALLY COOKING | 1000 | Adam Richman hit New Orleans to eat 180 oysters in under an hour in a challenge on this Travel Channel show
Man v. Food
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 200 | General Motors
Michigan
QUOTH THE CELEBRITY | 200 | He once said, ""I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45""; he turned 70 in 2013
Mick Jagger
CELEBRITY VETERANS | 200 | This director based ""Platoon"" on his own experiences in Vietnam, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star & a Purple Heart
Oliver Stone
DICKENS BOOK BY CHARACTER | 400 | Bill Sikes
Oliver Twist
THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY | 1000 | I come to wive it wealthily at the University of this, founded in 1222 by about 1,000 ex-University of Bologna students
Padua
VIDEO GAMES | 1600 | Tom Clancy lent his name to this shooter series that might leave your finger smarting
Splinter Cell
VIDEO GAMES | 2000 | The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher
Splinter Cell
TV SHOWS BY EPISODES | 400 | ""Two Tonys"" & ""A Hit is a Hit""
The Sopranos
TV DRAMA SERIES | 1000 | ""Trust-no1 "" is a fitting email address that was used in this drama
The X-Files
VIDEO GAMES | 2000 | In games called this ""Defense"", like ""Unstoppable Gorg"", players protect outposts from waves of baddies
Tower
TV NICKNAMES | 800 | In season 5 of ""Entourage"", it was revealed that Sal was the actual first name of this character
Turtle
FOX(X) NEWS | 2000 | In 2016 this ex-president of Mexico had a few choice words about a certain candidate for U.S. president
Vicente Fox
MILITARY ACADEMIES & COLLEGES | 400 | Upon graduation from the academy at this location on the Hudson River, students are commissioned as second lieutenants
West Point
ON TO GRAD SCHOOL | 600 | The MBA, it's fantastic! In 1970 this biz school at Penn offered the first MBA program in health care management
Wharton
GREAT NAMES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 200 | Hugs Etienne wraps up ballcarriers for the Badgers of this Big 10 university
Wisconsin
RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS | 2000 | Say the not-so-secret title of this quiz show, hosted by Groucho Marx on both radio & television
You Bet Your Life
6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | 800 | Croatia's capital
Zagreb
AMERICANA | 800 | Carroll Shelby had a dream that told him to use the name of this snake on the front of his roadster
a cobra
YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! | 800 | John Gray got his Ph.D. with help from the USPS via this type of course
a correspondence course
TV REALITY CHECK | 600 | On ""Deadliest Catch"", crews risk life & limb to catch these, like the snow or the king
a crab
SOUNDS LIKE A FLOWER | 1000 | 2 words:A foppish king of the beasts
a dandy lion
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 1600 | The usually wealthy widow of a king(7)
a dowager
SCIENCE NEWS | 1200 | The X-ray type of this beam is advancing medical imaging, like modeling an enzyme that counteracts sleeping sickness
a laser beam
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES ""L"" | 1200 | Book that settles accounts(6)
a ledger
HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES | 400 | Outdoor bash (4)
a luau
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES | 1600 | A touching scene at airport security(7)
a patdown
FLOWERS | 400 | April's birth month flower is this ""sweet"" climbing one, a member of the legume family
a pea
CROSSWORD CLUES ""P"" | 600 | A legal drug dealer (10)
a pharmacist
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES | 400 | Stuffed animal attacked by bats at a party(6)
a piñata
RADIO | 600 | 2-word term for a brief recording of a person giving a quote, used as part of a news story
a sound bite
BEASTLY TITLE CHARACTERS | 1000 | ""The Complete Calvin and Hobbes""
a tiger
NEWSPAPERS | 400 | R.O.P., or ""run of paper"", refers to these running within the body of a paper, not as inserts or supplements
ads
TOYS | 600 | Kid chefs in 1963 had their choice of turquoise or pale yellow for this toy that made use of a light bulb
an Easy-Bake Oven
CROSSWORD CLUES ""E"" | 800 | A crude representation made for hanging (6)
an effigy
ETIQUETTE | 600 | Business Mag Inc. says to limit this punctuation mark to 1 per email or you appear childish & unprofessional
an exclamation point
OTHER COLLEGES | 800 | The official heraldic authority for England is the college of these, which also grants coats of these
arms
CROSSWORD CLUES ""A"" | 600 | Bicentennial or jubilee(11)
anniversary
ANAGRAMMED SCHOOL SUBJECTS | 1000 | The study of you & me:POLYGON TORAH
anthropology
TITLE CHARACTERS | 800 | It's the 8-letter title of a prince of the ex-ruling house of Austria who did not duck well enough
archduke
SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME | 200 | Soccer is also called this type of ""football"", hence the short form ""soccer""
association
BRING YOUR ""B"" GAME | 800 | In the book ""Casino Royale"", 007's mission is to ruin a Russian operative at this royal casino game
baccarat
A GAME OF IDIOMS | 200 | Step up to the plate
baseball
THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN | 600 | Oklahoma City
basketball
NEWLYWED GAMES | 200 | One game is to guess the wedding guest who picked the cheapest item off this list of stuff we need from Macy's
bridal registry
OF THE GAME | 400 | The only move in chess in which 2 pieces can move on the same turn, it moves the prize out of danger
castling
COLLEGE MAJORS IN OTHER WORDS | 1000 | Great books, like a series published by Penguin
classics
THE NEWSPAPER TRADE | 1000 | These ""inches"" are a traditional measure of a article's length; about 30 words to each is one approximation
columns
SANTA'S REINDEER GAMES | 600 | Kohoutek or Shoemaker-Levy 9
comets
EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Dairy-filled pastry that frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
cream Puff the Magic dragon
CROSSWORD WORDS | 2000 | Crossword puzzle enthusiast(14)
cruciverbalist
CROSSWORD CLUES ""D"" | 800 | Wine weed(9)
dandelion
CROSSWORD CLUES ""E"" | 2000 | White species of heron (5)
egret
CROSSWORD CLUES ""E"" | 1600 | To make abnormally thin (8)
emaciate
WOMEN ON TELEVISION | 1000 | Working in the coroner's office gives Liv Moore access to fresh brains on this CW series
iZombie
AS SEEN ON TV | 600 | Add 2 words to the title ""Once Upon a Time"" & you get this show, its spin-off
in Wonderland
WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE | 1000 | When preceding ""cinch"", it means a virtual certainty
lead pipe
STATE FLOWERS | 400 | This ""kissing"" shrub became a state symbol of Oklahoma in 1893, 14 years before statehood
mistletoe
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows atomic diagrams of neon, argon & krypton on the monitor.) Because they have complete outer shells, the gases in this group are largely unreactive
noble gases
CROSSWORD CLUES ""O"" | 800 | A long, strange trip(7)
odyssey
TITLE CHARACTERS | 200 | Egyptians did not call their ruler by this title until the 18th Dynasty, roughly 1500 to 1300 B.C.
pharaoh
ETIQUETTE | 200 | English speakers have been using this ""magic word"" since the 1300s, & when you ask for something, you should, too
please
SHELL GAME | 200 | The crab seen here gets its name from the two stinging anemones in its claws, resembling these items that a cheerleader holds
pom-poms
ON TO GRAD SCHOOL | 200 | Probe the mind with a UCLA Ph.D. after getting trained in clinical, cognitive or social this field
psychology
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Q"" | 400 | Those uneasy feelings(6)
qualms (or queasy)
SCHOOLING AROUND | 600 | Meaning to hold back a college athlete, it's now used to mean keeping kids out of kindergarten until age 6 or after
redshirt
SCHOOL'S OUT IN JUNE | 800 | A sometimes brutal school for boys opened in 1900 as the Florida State this type of school & closed in June 2011
reform school
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | 800 | The 2 most abundant elements in Earth's crust are oxygen & this one used in making electronic circuits
silicon
MOVIE & TV TERMS | 1600 | As opposed to traditional live-audience sitcoms, shows like ""30 Rock"" are this-camera, more like movies
single-camera
THE NEWS | 2000 | Also what a comic does in a club, it's the term for a reporter's report straight to camera from the scene of breaking news
stand-up
CROSSWORD CLUES ""S"" | 600 | Surgeon's stitch (6)
suture
CLASSICAL RADIO | 1200 | Sirius XM 76 calls itself this type of classical work ""Hall""
symphony
CROSSWORD CLUES ""V"" | 1000 | ""Tender"" eats for felines(7)
vittles
USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL | 2000 | 3x - y = 82x + y = 7;solve forx & y
x = 3; y = 1
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Y"" | 2000 | Circular, domed tent(4)
yurt
CROSSWORD CLUES ""Z"" | 200 | Dead man walking(6)
zombie
POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES | 400 | Columbia College Chicago dealt with these creatures ""in Popular Media""; some say they're the new vampires
zombies
UNUSUAL TV FIRST NAMES | 1200 | First name of Mrs. Walter White (Anna Gunn) on ""Breaking Bad""
Skyler
WHAT A CHARACTER! | 400 | ""Monsters, Inc."" is about Sulley & this buddy, last name Wazowski
Mike
TV GUIDE SAYS | 400 | ""Molly makes a career decision""
Mike & Molly
TV | 600 | The title couple met at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting on this CBS sitcom
Mike & Molly
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 600 | In ""I, the Jury"" this tough detective said, ""I don't want to arrest anybody. I just want to shoot somebody""
Mike Hammer
TV TITLE PAIRS | 600 | Cop Billy Gardell & teacher Melissa McCarthy
Mike and Molly
CELEBRITIES | 1600 | In 2014 this actress & Ashton Kutcher announced their engagement
Mila Kunis
STATE YOUR BUSINESS | 1000 | Land O'Lakes
Minnesota
STABLE CHARACTERS | 600 | Naturally, a pure white horse with this name was cast as Armie Hammer's steed in the 2013 film ""The Lone Ranger""
Silver
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 400 | In ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", he's ""that brutal man, familiar with every form of cruelty""
Simon Legree
INTERNATIONAL TV TITLES | 1600 | HBO show that, in Spain, became ""A Dos Metros Bajo Tierra""
Six Feet Under
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER | 200 | Funeral director David Fisher
Six Feet Under
THE TV ""A"" | 2000 | On '70s late-night TV, he brought Beldar Conehead to life
(Dan) Aykroyd
NEVER BORED OF BOARD GAMES | 800 | Use your skull in all of the activities of this game whose name is a synonym for ""skull""
Cranium
THEIR TV ROLES THEN & NOW | 1000 | Grace Adler &working mom/homicide detective Laura Diamond
Debra Messing
PANTSLESS TV | 1200 | In the '90s Dennis Franz used colorful language on this colorful ABC cop show (& also flashed his bare tush)
NYPD Blue
COLLEGE TOWNS | 600 | From 1936 until his death, Albert Einstein lived in a house on Mercer Street in this college town
Princeton
FOX(X) NEWS | 1600 | In the '70s this comedian played the Sanford part of ""Sanford and Son""
Redd Foxx
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | 2000 | Patrick Swayze gets a job as a bouncer at Vincent Price's unique museum
Road House of Wax
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 600 | In 2011 this man III ran & passed for nearly 5,000 yards for Baylor
Robert Griffin III
SCRAMBLED HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS | 600 | A secret ally:NEVER PASS USE
Severus Snape
NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY | 2000 | (ABC News anchor David Muir gives the clue.) As the Arab Spring made its way into Egypt in January of 2011, I reported from this pivotal public gathering place where protests eventually brought down 2 Egyptian leaders
Tahrir Square
GAME SHOW NAMES IN OTHER COUNTRIES | 1000 | In Spain you can play along with this, ""La Ruleta de la Suerte""
Wheel of Fortune
SCHOOLING YOU | 800 | English:In the sentence ""Writing is difficult"", ""writing"" is this 6-letter type of noun
a gerund
LITERARY CHARACTERS | 1000 | Seen here is the symbol of Simon Templar, also known as this modern-day Robin Hood
the Saint
GREAT NAMES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL | 600 | Perhaps the most appropriate name ever: Wave Ryder, of this service academy
the U.S. Naval Academy
STATE SCHOOLS | 200 | Introduced in 1964, the Sooner Schooner of this university resembles those used in the 1889 land run
the University of Oklahoma
TITLE CHARACTERS | 1000 | From 1349 to 1830 it was the official title of the king of France's oldest son
the dauphin