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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

Twitter

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)

Facebook

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

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