Question: 'It's said that the world's largest one of these occurs at the Georgia-Florida football game in Jacksonville'

Answer: a tailgating party


Question: 'lat. & long.'

Answer: latitude & longitude


Question: 'It's a bit of curled lemon peel that Chubby Checker might like added to his drink'

Answer: a twist


Question: '6-foot 11-inch Kresimir Cosic of Croatia is in this U.S. sport's Hall of Fame'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'This Andean vulture is on the coats of arms of 4 South American countries'

Answer: the condor


Question: 'Like Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Jimi Hendrix, he was just 27 when he was found dead in Seattle in 1994'

Answer: Kurt Cobain


Question: 'The Earth is believed to have passed through the tail of this in 1910'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'Bos. and Herz.'

Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina


Question: 'Around the bar this 8-letter word precedes "napkin", "shaker", "stirrer" & "waitress"'

Answer: cocktail


Question: 'In the 1850s the conflict over slavery led to such violence that Kansas earned this title'

Answer: "Bleeding Kansas"


Question: 'According to legend, an argument over who had seen more vultures led to him killing Remus'

Answer: Romulus


Question: 'She died on a "Monday, Monday" in July 1974 during a visit to London'

Answer: Mama Cass Elliot


Question: 'In "Dumbo", Dumbo follows his friend Timothy, this type of animal, by holding his tiny tail in his trunk'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'Yorks.'

Answer: Yorkshire


Question: 'A tiny amount of soda or water added to a drink, or a popular mermaid movie'

Answer: a splash


Question: 'William Marcy Tweed's better known moniker'

Answer: "Boss"


Question: 'DNA evidence suggests American vultures are closely related to these long-legged birds, family Ciconiidae'

Answer: storks


Question: 'This singer of "Cupid" & "Another Saturday Night" died under mysterious circumstances in 1964'

Answer: Sam Cooke


Question: 'In the 1600s the Manchu Dynasty introduced this hairstyle for men as a sign of submission to the emperor'

Answer: the queue (or pigtail)


Question: 'S.S.R.'

Answer: Soviet Socialist Republics


Question: 'During happy hour these inexpensive, house brands of spirits named for the area where they're kept may be even cheaper'

Answer: the well drinks


Question: 'Not a true fly, the firefly is one of these insects, like the scarab'

Answer: a beetle


Question: 'Because he helped mankind, this mythological figure was chained to a rock where a vulture ate his liver daily'

Answer: Prometheus


Question: 'This man, half of the famous duo that had a hit with "Rock And Roll Heaven", passed away in 2003'

Answer: (Bobby) Hatfield


Question: 'The coccyx'

Answer: the tailbone


Question: 'A.F.B.'

Answer: Air Force Base


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stirs a beverage.)  Mix vodka, Kahlua
and light cream to get this drink that might be popular in Moscow'

Answer: a White Russian


Question: 'Several James Bond movies feature this diabolical leader of SPECTRE caressing a white Persian cat'

Answer: Blofeld


Question: 'Meriwether Lewis served as the midwife when her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was born on February 11, 1805'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: 'It rolls for the University of Alabama'

Answer: the Crimson Tide


Question: 'To imitate this saint, pilgrims walk barefoot around Lough Derg in Ireland'

Answer: St. Patrick


Question: 'Ranch style, prairie vu, deer & antelope play in area; sky not cloudy all day'

Answer: "Home On The Range"


Question: 'She says that "Blood Canticle" just may be her last Vampire Chronicle'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'Architect Frank Lloyd Wright created this wall-less shed used to shelter an automobile in the 1930s'

Answer: a carport


Question: 'In 1809 President Madison appointed this future president the first U.S. minister to Russia'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'They crash about for Georgia Tech'

Answer: the Ramblin\' Wrecks


Question: 'The great mosque that encloses the Ka'aba is in this city'

Answer: Mecca


Question: '216.75 sq. in., xlnt access to pitcher's mound'

Answer: home base (or home plate)


Question: 'Sandra Brown titled a recent bestseller this, also the first 2 words of "The Sounds Of Silence"'

Answer: Hello, Darkness


Question: 'Spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail; this is unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system'

Answer: spim


Question: 'On March 1, 1803 it became the first state created out of the Northwest Territory'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Things might be austere for this team from Michigan State University'

Answer: the Spartans


Question: 'Mount Kailas in Tibet & Mount Fuji in Japan are both sacred to this group'

Answer: Buddhists


Question: 'Estd. by govt. January 2003; fine view from ridge--Tom Ridge'

Answer: the Department of Homeland Security


Question: 'After her uncle Salvador was overthrown & died in a military coup, she & her family fled Chile'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'A late arrival to manned space flight, this country's space pilots are called taikonauts'

Answer: China


Question: 'His 1809 work "A History of New York" was a tongue-in-cheek history of New Amsterdam'

Answer: (Washington) Irving


Question: '(I'm Troy Brown.)  In college I was part of Marshall's "Thundering" one'

Answer: (the Thundering) Herd


Question: 'Uluru, also known as this rock, is a sacred site to Aborigines in Australia'

Answer: Ayers Rock


Question: '130 locs. from Springfield, Ma. to Bakersfield, Ca.; lge. kitchen, informal dining rm.  "Great choice"'

Answer: Hometown Buffet


Question: '2003's "Blow Fly" is her twelfth novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now a private forensics consultant'

Answer: Patricia Cornwell


Question: 'In 1958 columnist Herb Caen coined this word; Maynard G. Krebs on "Dobie Gillis" was one'

Answer: a beatnik


Question: 'On April 6, 1808 he obtained a charter for the American Fur Company'

Answer: John Jacob Astor


Question: 'Colorful demons of Duke University'

Answer: the Blue Devils


Question: 'Places Mary has appeared include Tepeyac in Mexico in 1531 & this place in Portugal in 1917'

Answer: Fatima


Question: ''60s Pinter classic w/degenerate family; must-see!'

Answer: The Homecoming


Question: 'In "The October Horse", this "Thorn Birds" author recounts the romance of Caesar & Cleopatra'

Answer: Colleen McCullough


Question: 'Scientists call planets that are neither too hot nor too cold to support life this, after a fairy tale girl'

Answer: Goldilocks


Question: 'In 1901 U.S. Surgeon General Walter Wyman helped establish a hospital in Hawaii for this disease'

Answer: leprosy


Question: 'Born in Springdale in 1907, she would later warn us about the effects of pesticides on the environment'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'Many an actor has browsed through plays at the Drama Book Shop, which moved from this square to W. 40th St. in 2001'

Answer: Times Square


Question: 'A popular merit badge this organization gives is for cartridge, air or muzzle-loading rifle shooting'

Answer: the Boy Scouts


Question: 'This product "gets the red out"'

Answer: Visine


Question: 'Though he died near Louisville in Autumn 1980, this honorary colonel still leaves a good taste in our mouths'

Answer: Colonel Sanders


Question: 'This German dog breed has short legs & a long body'

Answer: a Dachshund


Question: 'In 1903 he began building what is now the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant'

Answer: (Milton) Hershey


Question: 'These distinctive-looking programs have been given out in Broadway theatres since 1884'

Answer: Playbill


Question: 'Wiping off where you've been shot is considered cheating in this sport where you capture the flag'

Answer: paintball


Question: '"Like a rock"'

Answer: Chevy


Question: 'October 1972:<br />This ballplayer leaves the epitaph "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'Some have found "Paradise" by the light of this car instrument panel'

Answer: dashboard


Question: 'As its governor from 1995 to 2001, he kept his home state of Pennsylvania secure'

Answer: Tom Ridge


Question: 'Talk about "Tradition": In 2004 Alfred Molina starred in the fourth Broadway revival of this musical'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question: 'This type of gun is used by police on speeders as well as by baseball coaches on their pitchers'

Answer: a radar gun


Question: '"Always low prices.  Always"'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'October 1964:<br />His death at age 90 leaves Eisenhower & Truman as the only living ex-presidents'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time'

Answer: a dividend


Question: 'If you know that this man with a plan hailed from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, you deserve 5 stars'

Answer: (George) Marshall


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands onstage in the Golden Theatre in New York wearing a motley raiment.)  On a Broadway musical's opening night, the Gypsy Robe is presented to a chorus member by this actor's union'

Answer: Equity


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew gets some help from Jimmy in the mountains of Montana.)  Unlike skeet, where the clays go side to side, I'm doing this type of shooting, which sends the clays straight out--pull!

"Whoa!"'

Answer: trapshooting


Question: '"Expect more, pay less"'

Answer: Target


Question: 'Autumn 1893:<br />This composer's death in St. Petersburg leaves rumors of suicide'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'When Homer Simpson became a heretic, he said, "Don't worry... if I'm wrong, I'll recant on my" this'

Answer: deathbed


Question: 'By the time he became Treasury Secretary in 1921, this financier was one of the richest men in America'

Answer: Andrew Mellon


Question: 'Broadway's lights are dimmed to honor late, great luminaries, such as this lyricist partner of John Kander'

Answer: Fred Ebb


Question: 'This Olympic event, from words meaning "two contests", first began as a sport in the late 1700s'

Answer: the biathlon


Question: '"For styles that defy gravity"'

Answer: Giga Hold


Question: 'November 2001:<br />This musician leaves a son, Dhani'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'A partly divine, partly human mythological being'

Answer: a demigod


Question: 'Inchon, about 20 miles to the southwest, is this capital's seaport'

Answer: Seoul


Question: 'Today she interviews stars; she met many as the daughter of a New York City nightclub owner'

Answer: Barbara Walters


Question: 'Stephen Daedalus is the writer hero of this Joycean "Portrait"'

Answer: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Question: 'In 1891 he devised the kinetoscope, a device you looked into to watch moving pictures'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'Canis lupus is the scientific name for the gray one of these'

Answer: a wolf


Question: 'In courtship:<br />On bended ______'

Answer: knee


Question: 'The name of this capital of Bangladesh may derive from that of a tree once common in the area'

Answer: Dhaka


Question: 'He's the best-selling Limbaugh nemesis seen here'

Answer: Al Franken


Question: 'Philip Jose Farmer wrote a novel under the name of this sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut'

Answer: Kilgore Trout


Question: 'In the 1930s, using fused silica & silicones, J. Franklin Hyde found the first new way to make this in 3,000 years'

Answer: glass


Question: 'This white legume has long been a staple of a branch of the armed forces, hence its name'

Answer: the navy bean


Question: 'On court:<br />______-and-volley'

Answer: serve


Question: 'In 1776, during the reign of Timur Shah, the Durrani rulers moved their capital from Kandahar to this city'

Answer: Kabul


Question: 'He's the hard-hitting news honcho seen here'

Answer: Chris Matthews


Question: 'In this Russian-American's "Pale Fire", John Shade is the late author of a 999-line poem'

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov


Question: 'The home of this inventor in Rochester, N.Y. is now an international museum of film & photography'

Answer: Eastman


Question: 'The reptile family Helodermatidae consists of only 2 members, the Mexican beaded lizard & this poisonous guy'

Answer: the Gila monster


Question: 'At court:<br />Lady-in-______'

Answer: waiting


Question: 'On Jan. 6, 2005 an international summit on tsunami relief opened in this city'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: 'Bow ties and bold talk characterize this  newscaster & commentator'

Answer: Tucker Carlson


Question: 'He's Philip Roth's novelist alter ego in books like him "Unbound"'

Answer: Zuckerman


Question: 'On December 12, 1901 he received the letter "S" in Morse code via transatlantic wireless telegraphy'

Answer: Marconi


Question: 'Used in watches, it's the most common piezoelectric crystal'

Answer: quartz


Question: 'To the food court!:<br />______ Caesars'

Answer: Little


Question: 'This capital's famous avenue on the waterfront, Roxas Boulevard, was once known as Dewey Boulevard'

Answer: Manila (in the Philippines)


Question: 'This former deputy director of the Peace Corps has won more than 30 Emmy awards'

Answer: Bill Moyers


Question: 'Writer Philip Quarles in "Point Counter Point" is a self-portrait by this author'

Answer: Aldous Huxley


Question: 'His company began in 1903 with the sale of 51 safety razors & 168 blades'

Answer: (King) Gillette


Question: 'Verona & Treviso are varieties of this bitter, red-leafed salad green'

Answer: radicchio


Question: 'In the courtyard:<br />Pigeon, aka rock ______'

Answer: dove


Question: 'Innuendo is what a plaintiff must demonstrate in order to prove the commission of this'

Answer: slander (or libel or defamation)


Question: 'Before crashing on Feb. 20, 1965, Ranger 8 sent back 7,137 photos of this, the last one, we guess, an extreme close-up'

Answer: the moon


Question: '1989: Christian & Winona Ryder plot to kill their high school classmates'

Answer: Heathers


Question: 'When completed in 1923, this Ann Arbor school's Yost Field House was the first field house on a college campus'

Answer: the University of Michigan


Question: 'Its airport, named  for 2 of its past mayors, is the world's busiest passenger airport'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'It's the classic pansy greeting card from this company that (ahem) now sends actual flowers, too'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'Term used about a baseball team that's hot until the end of May then collapses'

Answer: June swoon


Question: 'It was consecrated in 1065; William the Conqueror was crowned in it in 1066'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: '1988: Christian & Jeff Bridges try to start up an independent automaker'

Answer: Tucker: The Man and His Dream


Question: 'From 1953 to 1991 the University of Leipzig was named for this co-founder of scientific socialism'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, this Michigan city has the highest percentage of African-Americans'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'I sent back "The Cooler" & got "Something's Gotta Give" from this service founded in 1997'

Answer: Netflix


Question: 'If you have a grudge against Clinton, you bear Bill this feeling'

Answer: ill will


Question: 'On April 3, 1865 Union general Godfrey Weitzel accepted the surrender of this city'

Answer: Richmond


Question: '1986: Christian & Sean Connery solve a mysterious murder at a medieval monastery'

Answer: The Name of the Rose


Question: 'The athletic teams of Brown are known by this nickname; the ones at Berkeley are "golden"'

Answer: bears


Question: 'With 126,000 daily copies, this city's La Opinion is the USA's top-selling non-English newspaper'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: 'Hey! In California you're only supposed to get one of these calls to the courthouse every 12 months'

Answer: (a summons for) jury duty


Question: 'A person who dresses & behaves like a member of the opposite sex'

Answer: a gender bender


Question: 'This future college town in New Hampshire was settled in 1765 & probably named for the British Royal House'

Answer: Hanover


Question: '2001: Christian & Kevin Costner dress like Elvis to rob a casino'

Answer: Three Thousand Miles to Graceland


Question: 'Noah Webster was a co-founder of this Mass. college that administers the Folger Shakespeare Library'

Answer: Amherst


Question: 'About 600 miles from the mouth of the river, this Tennessee city of 650,000 is the largest on the Mississippi'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'In the U.S. 4 bil. solicitations go out a year asking customers to acquire these & 99.5% get no response'

Answer: credit cards


Question: 'No one would apply this term for a drab or unattractive woman to actress Seymour'

Answer: plain jane


Question: 'A 1665 work by this Dutch artist shows his common-law wife, Hendrickje, as "Juno"'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: '1996: Christian & Samantha Mathis try to prevent John Travolta from stealing nuclear missiles'

Answer: Broken Arrow


Question: 'In 1893 the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf, Dumb & Blind became this'

Answer: Gallaudet


Question: 'Home to the Air Force Academy, this city has the highest elevation of any city that's home to a U.S. service academy'

Answer: Colorado Springs


Question: 'The letter with the 2-dollar Gollum stamp & 80-cent Frodo stamp must be from my friend in this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Woo her with an expensive Chateau Petrus & a fine gigot d'agneau'

Answer: wine & dine


Question: 'The 1st commission of Andrew Motion, appointed in 1999, was to compose a little ditty for this prince's wedding'

Answer: Edward


Question: '"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!"'

Answer: Ricky Ricardo


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a portrait at the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.)  A Civil War buff who lived in retirement at Gettysburg, Ike painted a portrait of this man'

Answer: (Robert E.) Lee


Question: 'An heir: March 14, 1958 in Monte Carlo'

Answer: Prince Albert (of Monaco)


Question: 'From the Latin for "root", this vegetable is commonly cut into a rose shape for hors d'oeuvres'

Answer: a radish


Question: 'You auto know these 2 letters: a movie rating suitable for all ages & the 1931 Fritz Lang classic film'

Answer: GM


Question: 'Robert Bridges had it "Falling on the city brown... hushing, the latest traffic of the drowsy town"'

Answer: snow


Question: '"Nanu-nanu!"'

Answer: Mork


Question: 'As commander of this alliance, 1950-52, Ike was hampered by the depleted condition of European armies'

Answer: NATO


Question: 'A librettist: Nov. 18, 1836 in London'

Answer: (William S.) Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan)


Question: 'The Rome Beauty type of this keeps well in controlled atmosphere storage'

Answer: an apple


Question: 'It's all right: Cirque du Soleil's show at Vegas' Bellagio since 1998 & the last initial of Kafka's Joseph'

Answer: OK


Question: 'In 1843, 36 years after he "wandered lonely as a cloud", he sauntered into the post'

Answer: Wordsworth


Question: '"I'm not a magician, Spock; just an old country doctor"'

Answer: McCoy


Question: 'Actress seen here, Nov. 30, 1982 in Calgary'

Answer: (Elisha) Cuthbert


Question: 'Because of its crystals, the name of the garnet is related to that of this many-seeded fruit'

Answer: a pomegranate


Question: 'A medical professional: a letter you learn "The 3" of in school & the chess symbol for the knight'

Answer: RN


Question: 'Edward is the actual first name of this poet in the post from 1984 to 1998'

Answer: Ted Hughes


Question: '"Mmmmmmmmmm...  Unprocessed fish sticks"'

Answer: Homer Simpson


Question: 'A warrior ruler: July 11, 1274 in Ayrshire'

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: 'Coir, named from the Tamil for "cord", is a rope fiber made from the husks of these palm fruits'

Answer: coconuts


Question: 'This person can put you away for life: a contraction of should or would & a major blood group'

Answer: DA


Question: 'John Masefield got the job with lines like "All I ask is" one of these "and a star to steer her by"'

Answer: a tall ship


Question: '"Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun... it's too risky... ya get a sense of it and then you look away"'

Answer: Jerry Seinfeld


Question: 'A pharmaceutical magnate: May 15, 1886 in St. Louis'

Answer: (Gerard Barnes) Lambert


Question: 'Sir Robert Peel helped get these grain regulations in England repealed'

Answer: Corn Laws


Question: 'The Roman numeral for 5 & the chemical symbol for tungsten (remember its other name!)'

Answer: VW


Question: 'Differing by one letter, the 2 words that mean job & time away from the job'

Answer: vocation & vacation


Question: 'Like another important biblical figure many years later, David was born in this small city just south of Jerusalem'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'The first volunteer fire department in the U.S. was organized by Ben Franklin in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'In 1983 David Byrne & the Talking Heads were "fighting fire with fire" with this Top 10 song'

Answer: "Burning Down the House"


Question: 'This type of building can be a place to stay while on a hunting trip or a place where Freemasons meet'

Answer: a lodge


Question: 'Popular soul food side dishes are mustard, collard & turnip these, a word for leaves'

Answer: greens


Question: 'The forward section of a missile containing the explosive'

Answer: the warhead


Question: 'David killed the hero of these people at the Valley of Elah'

Answer: the Philistines


Question: 'It's how influential philosopher & priest Giordano Bruno died in 1600'

Answer: burned at the stake


Question: 'John Lennon said that this movie title tune was a plea on his own behalf'

Answer: "Help!"


Question: '"Moistureless" name for the material also known as plasterboard'

Answer: drywall


Question: 'This minced meat-filled Chinese dumpling is simmered & served in the soup named for it'

Answer: wontons


Question: 'There were 5 during the invasion of Normandy, including Utah & Omaha'

Answer: beachheads


Question: 'David succeeded this man as the leader of Israel around 1010 B.C.'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'Stovetop term for where one puts matters of lower priority'

Answer: the back burner


Question: 'In a 1986 anti-war song, Sting hoped that these title people "love their children too"'

Answer: the Russians


Question: 'It's a mixture of lime & cement with other substances used to bond bricks together when building'

Answer: mortar


Question: 'This Italian name for squid is a reference to its ink'

Answer: calamari


Question: 'The general, fixed costs of running a business'

Answer: overheads


Question: 'Ambitious & handsome, this son of David led a rebellion against him that almost succeeded'

Answer: Absolom


Question: 'A popular WWI song urged Americans to keep these "burning" in support of the troops overseas'

Answer: the home fires


Question: 'A Van Morrison tune says "Well it's a marvelous night for" one of these, "with the stars up above in your eyes"'

Answer: a moondance


Question: 'They're the slender towers that are part of a mosque & from which Muslims are called to prayer'

Answer: the minarets


Question: 'Types of this fruit include the French nicoise & the Greek kalamata'

Answer: olives


Question: 'It can be the name of a newspaper at the top of the first page, or a list of its staff'

Answer: a masthead


Question: 'David is anointed king in the second book of this prophet'

Answer: Samuel


Question: 'One of these famously burned in Alexandria in 47 B.C. & also in Los Angeles in 1986'

Answer: a library


Question: 'This Billy Joel song says, "Sinners are much more fun"'

Answer: "Only The Good Die Young"


Question: 'From the French for "to push", it's the type of building support seen here'

Answer: a buttress


Question: 'It's Middle Eastern dip made from chickpeas, often flavored with sesame'

Answer: hummus


Question: '17th century British anti-royalists'

Answer: Roundheads


Question: 'The universe's background radiation is thought to be left over from this primordial event'

Answer: the Big Bang


Question: 'Sitcoms collide when a Debra Messing show spins off into Brett Butler's'

Answer: Will & Grace Under Fire


Question: 'Thoreau wrote this essay in 1849 to inform others how & why to protest against government misdeeds'

Answer: Civil Disobedience


Question: 'Nickname of the Spanish-American War volunteer regiment that included Teddy Roosevelt'

Answer: the Rough Riders


Question:
'Pretoria,
Rabat,
Mogadishu'

Answer: Pretoria


Question: 'This type of doctor will see how you see & see you now'

Answer: an ophthalmologist


Question: 'Electrically speaking, it's the opposite of resistivity'

Answer: conductance


Question: 'The Hank, Peggy, Luanne & Bobby show that took a dramatic turn with Capt. Frank Furillo & friends'

Answer: King of the Hill Street Blues


Question: 'Bank Teller Joseph K. is put on trial in this author's "The Trial"'

Answer: Kafka


Question: 'This fabric is in nicknames for Robert Louis Stevenson & Mel Torme'

Answer: velvet


Question:
'Caracas,
Buenos Aires,
Quito'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: 'It's the removal of harmful substances such as radioactive material or poisonous gas from an area'

Answer: decontamination


Question: 'Ossification, the formation of this, begins in the embryo at the end of the second month'

Answer: bone


Question: 'A sketch show's dead parrot lives to soar through a flaming hoop held by Cathy Lee Crosby on a '70s celeb variety show'

Answer: Monty Python\'s Flying Circus of the Stars


Question: 'It's Edith Wharton's tragic novel of a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife's cousin'

Answer: Ethan Frome


Question: 'Similar to Fannie Mae, it's the popular nickname for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation'

Answer: Freddie Mac


Question:
'Brussels,
Paris,
Madrid'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Though not used technically, it's another term for the upper troposphere'

Answer: substratosphere


Question: 'C2H5, it's found before "alcohol" & is a homophone of a female first name'

Answer: ethyl


Question: 'Show in which Paris Hilton teams up with the developmentally disabled Corky'

Answer: The Simple Life Goes On


Question: 'As well as novels, he wrote rags-to-riches nonfiction like the James Garfield biography "From Canal Boy to President"'

Answer: Horatio Alger


Question: 'With this heavenly nickname, Louis XIV must have brightened up the lives of his subjects'

Answer: the Sun King


Question:
'Guatemala City,
Panama City,
Mexico City'

Answer: Panama City


Question: 'You can find 3 different words within this word meaning "in spite of"'

Answer: notwithstanding


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a formula on a monitor.)  In Newton's law, "F" is the attractive force, "G" is the gravitational constant, "m" is the masses of two bodies, & "d" stands for this'

Answer: distance


Question: 'This show's Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs takes a wrong turn & ends up on a '70s Rod Serling anthology series'

Answer: In the Heat of the Night Gallery


Question: 'She penned both "A Raisin in the Sun" & "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"'

Answer: Lorraine Hansberry


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew stands in Radio City Music Hall, New York.)  The theatrical mind behind Radio City was Samuel Rothafel, better known by this nickname also found on a movie palace he opened'

Answer: Roxie


Question:
'Helsinki,
Oslo,
Riga'

Answer: Riga


Question: '"Ante" up; it's third from the end'

Answer: antepenultimate


Question: 'Erasmus called an English friend of his "omnium horarum homo", which became this title of a play & film'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'At age 82 in 2005 this "Cat's Cradle" author had his first nonfiction bestseller, "A Man Without a Country"'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'On the road you're never far from one of this hotel's more than 840 locations that will "leave the light on for you"'

Answer: Motel 6


Question:
'1989:
stk @ embassy.
u.s. blsting vh @ me.
:(
ttyl'

Answer: (Manuel) Noriega


Question: 'You smell like this fluffy carnival treat in that Pink Sugar cologne'

Answer: cotton candy


Question: 'In the No. 1 spot is this 1942 movie's script'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'In the late 18th c. the Creek Indians asked Spain for help against encroaching frontier settlers'

Answer: roach (in encroaching)


Question: 'Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA"'

Answer: Julia Child


Question: 'An overnight mule ride to the bottom of this landmark may include a stayover at the Phantom Ranch'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question:
'1670s:
dsgnd st. bride's chrch.
englnd 4evr!'

Answer: Christopher Wren


Question: 'Yum!  The Demeter fragrance named for this "heavenly" cake smells a lot better than their "Earthworm" cologne'

Answer: angel cake


Question: '1 of the 2 scripts that got Billy Wilder into the Top 10'

Answer: Some Like It Hot (or Sunset Boulevard)


Question: 'Students starting a new college term itemize what their prospective costs might be'

Answer: termite (in term itemize) (mite accepted)


Question: '"The Year of Magical Thinking", her memoir of life after the death of husband John Gregory Dunne, "is not a downer"'

Answer: Joan Didion


Question: 'Head to this town in the Ozarks & enjoy a show at Andy Willliams' Moon River Theatre or at Yakov Smirnoff's'

Answer: Branson


Question: '323 B.C.:<br />chrgd w/impiety. nt ltng thm sin 2x vs. phlsphy. off 2 chalcis. lyceum ltr'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Ahh!  I think of this "strained pineapple" cocktail when I sniff your Urban Decay body balm named for it'

Answer: a piña colada


Question: 'The highest-ranked comedy was this 1977 film co-written by Marshall Brickman'

Answer: Annie Hall


Question: 'If you are the interviewee, vile language is probably discouraged'

Answer: weevil (in interviewee vile)


Question: 'This late, great actor "had a heap of fun cranking out" "Fan-Tan" "while throwing back a few hundred martinis"'

Answer: Marlon Brando


Question: 'Seen here, this famous ranch in Texas runs the gamut from a 1949 Club Coupe to a 1963 sedan'

Answer: Cadillac Ranch


Question: '1981:<br />am canada's pm. dont no zonker r b.d. u kp txtng me abt. pls stp'

Answer: Pierre Trudeau


Question: 'Oh, baby!  You're wearing this man's Baby Doll perfume; it has a hint of rhubarb, but I don't know "Y"'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'James Agee & John Huston wrote the script for this 1951 film with a continent in its title'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'The graph identified our declining sales sectors'

Answer: aphid (in graph identified)


Question: 'His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist"'

Answer: Tom Wolfe


Question: 'For family fun head to the scenic dells of this state; it's the "Waterpark Capital of the World"'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: '1890:<br />wilhelm ii mkng me quit chnclr gig. off 2 est8s @ friedrichsruh, wch is impsbl 2 abbrv & b undrstd'

Answer: (Otto von) Bismarck


Question: 'Your Burberry Weekend perfume weakens me, with its scent of this fruit named for a Moroccan seaport'

Answer: a tangerine


Question: 'Graham Greene made the list at No. 33 with this ordinal Cold War thriller'

Answer: The Third Man


Question: 'Dear Wiglaf rushed to help the dying Beowulf slay the monster'

Answer: earwig (in Dear Wiglaf)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out some Chinese calligraphy at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.)  The character "xi" represents happiness; this is the celebration that is most associated with the "double xi"'

Answer: a wedding


Question: 'Later Denny Crane, he starred in the episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"'

Answer: (William) Shatner


Question: 'Born in Israel in 1915, he was Minister of Defense during the Six-Day War'

Answer: Moshe Dayan


Question: 'Wedges of this 4-letter Middle Eastern pocket bread can be used as a dipper for hummus'

Answer: pita


Question:
'Cicero,
Cassius,
Cinna &
another Cinna (a bad poet)'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'British prime minister Tony's natural talents'

Answer: Blair\'s flairs (Blair flair accepted)


Question: 'These, kuaizi  in Chinese, should never be stuck upright into your rice bowl'

Answer: chopsticks


Question: 'In one episode, aliens called Kanamits turn out to be connoisseurs of this delicacy'

Answer: man


Question: 'On Dec. 3, 1967 Louis Washkansky received one of these organs in a transplant, a worldwide first'

Answer: a heart


Question: 'The name of this long, cylindrical loaf of French bread comes from a word for "stick"'

Answer: baguette


Question:
'Heathcliff,
Edgar Linton,
Nelly Dean'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'The first Israeli prime minister's Roman commanders'

Answer: Ben-Gurion\'s Centurions


Question: '(A man goes through the motions while Jon of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.)  Tai chi is a soft-flowing Chinese martial art rooted primarily in this philosophy of Lao Tse'

Answer: Taoism


Question: 'In an ironic twist to the "Time Enough at Last" episode, Burgess Meredith breaks these following a nuclear war'

Answer: his eyeglasses


Question: 'Born Garry Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1963, he "checks" in under this name'

Answer: Kasparov


Question: 'An episode of "Seinfeld" concerned a marbled loaf of this type of bread'

Answer: rye


Question:
'Vladimir,
Pozzo,
Lucky'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'The current Aussie prime minister's lily-livered fraidy cats'

Answer: Howard\'s cowards


Question: '3-letter English term for the ethnic group that makes up more than 90% of China's population'

Answer: Han


Question: 'Later to win an Oscar as Bela Lugosi, he played a man trying to defect to the West in 1964's "The Jeopardy Room"'

Answer: (Martin) Landau


Question: 'He fled Iraq in 1959 after his attempt to assassinate Iraqi prime minister Abdul Kassim failed'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'Seen here is the classic form of this bread served on the Sabbath & some Jewish holidays'

Answer: challah


Question:
'Carlo Marx,
Remi Boncoeur,
Dean Moriarty'

Answer: On the Road


Question: 'Disraeli's bogs'

Answer: Ben\'s fens


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew, at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA, shows us more calligraphy.)  North, South, East & West are the four of these, one of the major types of tiles in Mahjong'

Answer: winds


Question: 'In "The After Hours" episode, Anne Francis gets locked in a department store & discovers she is one of these'

Answer: a mannequin


Question: 'This Frenchman was known for his Art Nouveau jewelry designs featuring nude women with butterfly wings'

Answer: René Lalique


Question: 'The German name for this bread tells you that it's twice baked'

Answer: Zwieback


Question:
'Barkis,
Peggotty,
Steerforth'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'The current Canadian prime minister's complainers'

Answer: Harper\'s carpers


Question: 'Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles'

Answer: Greenland & Baffin Island


Question: '"Dying Centaur" artist Antoine Bourdelle spent years as chief assistant to this more famous French sculptor'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'Cathy, Cathy, Cathy!  A 1939 classic... amour on the moors... need we say moor?'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'This term for the haphazard growth of a city also means to sit or lie with your limbs spread out'

Answer: (urban) sprawl


Question: 'This fish seen here is one of the fastest in the ocean, whether Atlantic or Pacific'

Answer: a sailfish


Question: 'Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was injured by this WWI weapon, leading to his death from TB'

Answer: mustard gas


Question: '"...the right of trial by jury..."'

Answer: the Seventh Amendment


Question: 'This British abstract sculptor of "Madonna and Child" drew Londoners in the Underground during the blitz'

Answer: Henry Moore


Question: 'Eastwood, Garner, Sutherland & Jones proved that they had "the ripe stuff" in this 2000 film'

Answer: Space Cowboys


Question: 'The beginning of this regulation of land & building use dates from a 1916 New York City ordinance'

Answer: zoning


Question: 'Earth's longest mountain range is the mid-oceanic this, over 30,000 miles long'

Answer: the ridge


Question: 'Future U.S. president seen here on his military ID'

Answer: (Harry) Truman


Question: 'The Davidians are a branch of this religion'

Answer: Seventh-day Adventists


Question: 'He was in his prime--or should we say his "Primavera"--when he painted "Fortitude" in 1470'

Answer: Botticelli


Question: 'When you rent this 1970 biopic, watch for Tim Considine as the soldier who gets slapped'

Answer: Patton


Question: 'In the 1980s Yellow Thunder was a well-known one of these providing info to L.A. commuters'

Answer: traffic helicopter


Question: 'As seen here, some jellies have thousands of these tiny hairlike structures similar to flagella'

Answer: cilia


Question: 'This future leader of Yugoslavia was captured by the Russians in WWI & became a Bolshevik'

Answer: Tito


Question: 'One theory is this sports tradition began at Manhattan College in 1882 to control restless students in the stands'

Answer: the seventh inning stretch


Question: 'This "Nude Descending a Staircase" artist also painted "The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes"'

Answer: (Marcel) Duchamp


Question: 'At one point, John Huston wanted Gable & Bogart to star in this film about 2 schemers who want to rule Kafiristan'

Answer: The Man Who Would Be King


Question: 'Berlin, Maryland has a mayor; Berlin, Germany has this equivalent'

Answer: Bürgermeister


Question: 'Proverbially, our contestants soak up facts like this type of creature that can filter 1,100 gallons of water a day'

Answer: a sponge


Question: 'Walt Disney served in World War I with this future McDonald's tycoon'

Answer: Ray Kroc


Question: 'Folklorically, this descendant will have occult powers; it's also an Iron Maiden album'

Answer: seventh son of a seventh son


Question: 'This Romanian known for his "Endless Column" also sculpted the scandalous "Princess X"'

Answer: (Constantin) Brancusi


Question: 'In "Cool Hand Luke", he's the character actor who says "What we've got here is failure to communicate"'

Answer: Strother Martin


Question: 'The rings of parks around Boston and Cleveland are both described as this expensive piece of jewelry'

Answer: the Emerald Necklace


Question:
'It's the North Atlantic inlet seen here

"Tides here are the largest in the world and have a profound effect on marine life."'

Answer: the Bay of Fundy


Question: 'Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings & this "U.S.A." trilogy author all drove ambulances in the war'

Answer: (John) Dos Passos


Question: 'Released in 1957, this film was based on the play "Tramalning" that had also been written by the director'

Answer: The Seventh Seal


Question: 'The date on the first issue of the magazine, Sept. 6, 1896, was this day of the week'

Answer: Sunday


Question: 'William Blake & William Wordsworth were early members of this movement characterized by exaltation of emotion & passion'

Answer: the Romantics


Question: 'In the late 1300s Margaret of this European country took control of Sweden and Norway'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role'

Answer: Porgy


Question: 'The first known report of this Scottish lake dweller dates from 565 A.D.'

Answer: the Loch Ness Monster


Question: 'You might not want to tell your honey if you've got apiphobia, a fear of these'

Answer: bees


Question: 'Regular use of this began in the magazine in 1933, but didn't hit the Times' front page photos until 1997'

Answer: color


Question: 'Flaubert led this movement in French literature, also called naturalism'

Answer: realism


Question: 'His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & his half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland'

Answer: Leif Ericson


Question: 'The works of this novelist & poet inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La Donna del Lago" & "La Jolie Fille de Perth"'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'The Book of Job asks if this sea monster can be drawn out with a hook, or his tongue with a cord'

Answer: the leviathan


Question: 'If you've got ailurophobia, avoid a musical by this composer that won Tony awards in 1983'

Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber


Question: 'This New Jersey-based bra company with a "girlish" name has been one of the magazine's advertising mainstays'

Answer: Maidenform


Question: 'Andre Breton wrote a manifesto of this artistic & literary movement that explored the unconscious mind'

Answer: surrealism


Question: 'This noted theologian was born in the Italian town of Aquino around 1225'

Answer: Thomas Aquinas


Question: 'This composer of "Cavalleria Rusticana" wrote "Il Piccolo Marat", a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror'

Answer: Mascagni


Question: 'This "enemy from hell" in an 8th century epic poem was said to be a descendant of Cain'

Answer: Grendel


Question: 'She could have called her 1973 bestseller "Aviophobia"'

Answer: Erica Jong


Question: 'Nan Robertson won a 1983 Pulitzer for her writing on this "syndrome" abbreviated TSS'

Answer: Toxic Shock (Syndrome)


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, MA.)  In 1842 Emerson gave a lecture called this, a 17-letter adjective for his literary & philosophical movement'

Answer: transcendentalist


Question: 'In 1129 she set up a convent in the building that once housed the monastery of Abelard, her ex'

Answer: Heloise


Question: 'If you dread operas about druids, this 1831 Bellini opus is sure to "Gaul" you'

Answer: Norma


Question: 'In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon'

Answer: the chimera


Question: 'Be prepared to consume a daily Granny Smith if you've got iatrophobia, a fear of these'

Answer: doctors


Question: 'He coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" & now writes the magazine's language column'

Answer: Safire


Question: 'James Weldon Johnson & Zora Neal Hurston were writers associated with this 1920s movement'

Answer: the Harlem Renaissance


Question: 'In addition to being an historian & poet, Snorri Sturluson headed this Icelandic legislative body several times'

Answer: the Althing


Question: 'This Greek tragic heroine is the subject of 2 Gluck operas, one set in Aulis & one in Tauris'

Answer: Iphigénie


Question: 'In "The Time Machine", the gentle Eloi are preyed upon by this monstrous race that lives underground'

Answer: the Morlocks


Question: 'If you suffer from phasmophobia, you might want to rethink attending an 1881 classic play by this Scandinavian'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe's bill calling for the phasing out of these'

Answer: pennies


Question: 'A voltaic cellphone would use a type of this invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800'

Answer: a battery


Question: 'In 2005 the press dubbed this couple "Tomkat"'

Answer: Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes


Question: 'In Europe:<br />Bern'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The Doh-Doh Island Playset comes with kooky tiki characters, a plastic volcano &, of course, cans of this compound'

Answer: Play-Doh


Question: 'The Postal Service says not to mail meat from this animal to soldiers in Iraq'

Answer: pig


Question: 'A single brief appearance by a famous actor in a movie'

Answer: cameo


Question: 'As Chief Justice he wrote the decision in Marbury v. Madison'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'Despite a 24-karat diamond ring, this celebutante called off her engagement to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis'

Answer: Paris Hilton


Question: 'In South America:<br />Montevideo'

Answer: Uruguay


Question: 'In 1987 Mr. Potato Head gave up this accessory & became the spokespud for the Great American Smokeout'

Answer: his pipe


Question: 'Peewee, large or jumbo, they should be refrigerated big end up & away from foods with odors'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'A large Spanish sailing ship of the 17th & 18th centuries'

Answer: galleon


Question: 'He must have had a cow when Parliament gave him a grant of 10,000 pounds for his smallpox vaccination'

Answer: (Edward) Jenner


Question: 'After a whirlwind romance, country star Kenny Chesney wed this actress, who filed for an annulment after 4 months'

Answer: Renée Zellweger


Question: 'In Asia:<br />Colombo'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'This "Toy Story" action figure has a special vehicle that he can drive "on any type of planet" (does NASA know about this?)'

Answer: Buzz Lightyear


Question: 'These seeds are crushed to a paste & mixed with sugar, verjuice & white wine by the people of Dijon'

Answer: mustard seeds


Question: 'A dark underground prison cell in a castle'

Answer: dungeon


Question: 'In 1803 this erotic author was incarcerated for the last time in the Charenton Asylum'

Answer: the Marquis de Sade


Question: 'In July 2005 Sandra Bullock wed this outlaw from "Monster Garage"'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'In Europe:<br />Zagreb'

Answer: Croatia


Question: 'In 2005 collectors of this doll snapped up the Carolina Herrera bride version for a mere $139.95'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'This corn oil brand was first sold in 1911 in a can with a drawing of a corn cob forming the body of an Indian girl'

Answer: Mazola


Question: 'A Louisianan descended from the early French settlers, or the language he speaks'

Answer: Creole


Question: 'The Earl of this began shipping some of the marble work from the Parthenon back to England'

Answer: Elgin


Question: 'This actress won the 2005 Ladies' No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em tourney after tutoring by boyfriend & poker great Phil Laak'

Answer: Jennifer Tilly


Question: 'In Africa:<br />Asmara'

Answer: Eritrea


Question: 'Hey, I'm no dummy!  I've read Edgar Bergen's classic book "How to Become" one of these'

Answer: a ventriloquist


Question: 'When these beans are white, they're often called cannellini beans'

Answer: kidney beans


Question: 'A big blowhard who was the ancient Greek god of winds'

Answer: Aeolus


Question: 'The storming of the Winter Palace in 1917 was immortalized in Eisenstein's film "October", or "Ten Days that" did this'

Answer: Shook the World


Question: 'Glenn Close was dazzling as Norma Desmond in this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'The frequency of -cular endings, as in "circular", may explain how the President & others say this word'

Answer: nuclear


Question: 'He's Huck Finn's African-American raftmate'

Answer: Jim


Question: 'It follows Genesis<br />(6)'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'This computer company chairman gave the keynote address at the "CEO Summit 2004" held in Redmond, Washington'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'The Winter Palace decor features these winged, lionlike mythical beasts found on 1 of the Romanov coats of arms'

Answer: griffins


Question: 'Hey, in 2005 big spenders could see Christina Applegate in the Broadway revival of this show'

Answer: Sweet Charity


Question: 'The word "grammar" somehow evolved into this word used of many starlets'

Answer: glamour


Question: 'Henry James' Isabel Archer gets some European culture, so her story can be called "The Portrait of" this'

Answer: a Lady


Question: 'River that flowed fourth from Eden<br />(9)'

Answer: Euphrates


Question: 'Richard Fairbank has been credited over $50 million a year as the CEO of this financial co.; what's in your wallet?'

Answer: Capital One


Question: 'In 1917 Russia's provisional govt. met in the Winter Palace's Malachite Room after this parliament was dissolved'

Answer: the Duma


Question: 'Mary Cohan revised the music & lyrics for this 1960s musical about her father'

Answer: George M!


Question: 'One of the longest words using no letter more than once, this adverb means "equally well with both hands"'

Answer: ambidextrously


Question: 'This Capote woman is introduced wearing pearls; "It's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty"'

Answer: Holly Golightly


Question: 'Witch place<br />(5)'

Answer: Endor


Question: 'As CEO, Harold S. Geneen led this communications company abbreviated ITT in acquiring 350 companies'

Answer: International Telephone & Telegraph


Question: 'In 1881 the "Czar Liberator", the II czar of this name, asked to be taken to the palace to die after being fatally wounded'

Answer: Alexander II


Question: 'An 1847 play, "The String of Pearls, or the Fiend of Fleet Street" inspired this Broadway smash'

Answer: Sweeney Todd


Question: 'By a roundabout route, this item seen here gave us this word for a place to shop'

Answer: mall


Question: 'Jocasta has 2 sons (or are they grandsons?), Eteocles & Polynices, with this man'

Answer: Oedipus Rex


Question: 'Hadassah<br />(6)'

Answer: Esther


Question: 'Thomas J. Watson led this computer company to great heights as its CEO by telling his employees to "Think"'

Answer: IBM


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.)  Because it was descended to bless the Neva River, the staircase got this name of the river of Jesus' baptism'

Answer: the Jordan (Staircase)


Question: 'With songs like "Tropical Hot Flash" & "My Thighs", this show is a big hit with women from coast to coast'

Answer: Menopause The Musical


Question: 'In legend, the Golem, a sort of robot, was created in this city where the word "robot" was later coined'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'Johann & Gotthold are 2 of the Buddenbrooks, the title family in a novel by this German author'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question: 'John the Baptist's mom<br />(9)'

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: 'After he assumed command of GE in 1981, its stock rose a dizzying 5000% in 20 years'

Answer: (John "Jack") Welch


Question: 'In the 18th century he wrote, "I have only to move my eyes up or down... to see distinctly far or near"'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'A functioning democracy usually has at least 2 of these groups competing freely in elections'

Answer: Political parties


Question: 'He was 40 in 1974 when he broke the all-time career home run record'

Answer: Henry Aaron


Question: 'We liked Sally Field, we really liked her as this textile worker & union organizer'

Answer: Norma Rae


Question: '2 Live Crew's alteration of this Roy Orbison lyric to "Big Hairy Woman" began a copyright battle'

Answer: "Pretty Woman"


Question: 'It's any tissue that contracts & relaxes, causing movement of the limbs & other body parts'

Answer: Muscle


Question: 'This wife of George Burns was so surprised by her birth, she "couldn't talk for a year and a half"'

Answer: Gracie Allen


Question: 'Democracy is often confused with this term referring to any country with a nonhereditary head of state'

Answer: Republic


Question: 'At age 40 in 1781 this American traitor moved to London but was denied military service'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'Young backwoods woman played by Jodie Foster in a 1994 film'

Answer: Nell


Question: 'This pair's 1881 comic opera "Patience" parodies aesthetes like Oscar Wilde'

Answer: Gilbert & Sullivan


Question: 'In 1970 David Baltimore proved that this nucleic acid could transmit information to DNA'

Answer: RNA (Ribonucleic acid)


Question: 'According to this poet, "The snark was a boojum, you see"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'In 1996 the Supreme Court struck down 4 of these areas created to allow black & hispanic representation'

Answer: Congressional districts


Question: 'In 1810 this 40-year-old married the teenager Marie Louise of Austria'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'Tippi Hedren stole the show as this title kleptomaniac in a Hitchcock film'

Answer: Marnie


Question: 'The late Michael O' Donoghue helped start "Saturday Night Live" & this "National" satire magazine'

Answer: National Lampoon


Question: 'In plants & invertebrates, this outermost layer of protection is usually just one cell thick'

Answer: Epidermis


Question: '"I ain't in no slump", asserted this former Yankee, "I just ain't hitting"'

Answer: Yogi Berra


Question: 'Democracies must balance liberty & this concept also found in the motto of the French Revolution'

Answer: Equality


Question: 'This 40-year-old former shipyard electrician won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Lech Walesa


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Title heroine in the film seen here:  "I must own up that I'm not in love with Frank...."'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'It's the process by which an organism or cell takes in oxygen & expels carbon dioxide'

Answer: Respiration


Question: '"Tonstant weader fwowed up", she wrote after finding "The House At Pooh Corner" hard to swallow'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: 'Rhyming term for the 1993 law making states offer voter registration to driver's license applicants'

Answer: "Motor-Voter" law


Question: 'In 1919 this 40-year-old Virginia woman was elected to the British parliament'

Answer: Lady Astor


Question: 'One of Cybill Shepherd's early roles was this Henry James heroine, abroad in Europe'

Answer: Daisy Miller


Question: 'Architectural term for the minimal stimulus that starts a nerve impulse, like pain'

Answer: threshold


Question: 'According to the lyrics he said, "Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, Walla Walla bing-bang"'

Answer: The Witch Doctor


Question: 'It was recently revealed that "Tragedy" from his Blue Period was painted over 2 earlier works of a bullfight'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'This Olympic sport could also be called spear-throwing'

Answer: Javelin


Question: 'This show's "Official Report On Earth" features Dick's film reviews & Sally's guide to dating'

Answer: 3rd Rock From The Sun


Question: 'A person from America is an American, from Mexico, a Mexican & from Iceland, this noun'

Answer: Icelander


Question: 'Modern Persian is also called Farsi from the Fars region in the southwest of this country'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Time magazine dubbed this abstact expressionist "Jack the Dripper"'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'The spear was an emblem of this Greek god of war'

Answer: Ares


Question: 'In "True Blue" David Milch & Bill Clark relate true-life incidents that inspired this cop show'

Answer: NYPD Blue


Question: 'Gozo is one of the islands of this Mediterranean country, once home to a famous group of knights'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'In Greenland, Greenlandic & this language are official ones'

Answer: Danish


Question: 'In 1963, his centennial, a museum honoring this artist opened in Oslo; visitors say it's a scream'

Answer: Edvard Munch


Question: 'A piece of equipment you may use in this underwater sport is the Hawaiian sling'

Answer: Spearfishing


Question: '"The Official Companion Book" of this sitcom names the stars who've called the title radio host for advice'

Answer: Frasier


Question: 'Cross Brunei's southern border & you're still on the island of Borneo but you've entered this country'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'The Latin American form of this language is based on the Andalusian dialect'

Answer: Spanish


Question: 'Javacheff is the last name of this Bulgarian-born "wrap" artist'

Answer: Christo


Question: 'The famous formation of Greek foot soldiers who carried spears up to 20 feet long'

Answer: Phalanx


Question: 'This "Grace Under Fire" actor has written a book about his days on "SCTV"'

Answer: Dave Thomas


Question: 'In area it's the second-largest province of the second-largest country in the world'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'Of the 5 distinct dialects of this country's Coptic language, Bohairic is used in the Coptic Church'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Around 1800 this artist painted the 2 views of the woman seen here:'

Answer: Francisco Goya


Question: 'The British used these cavalry troops in the Sikh & Afghan Wars & to crush the Sepoy Rebellion'

Answer: Bengal Lancers


Question: 'Colin Dexter & Dick Francis contributed to a book about this PBS anthology series'

Answer: Mystery!


Question: 'Its city of Pusan has an average of 54 inches of precipitation a year'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'The Papuan languages, spoken in the area centered on this island, number about 700'

Answer: New Guinea


Question: 'A newcomer not used to lots of walking, or a low-ranking Boy Scout'

Answer: Tenderfoot


Question: 'The Conspiracy Museum opened in this U.S. city in 1995'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'Chaos & crime led John C. Fremont to declare this type of law in Missouri Aug. 30, 1861'

Answer: martial law


Question: '1971:<br />As "Popeye" Doyle'

Answer: Gene Hackman


Question: 'An nytimes.com slide show on this woman's style included the red & black number from Election Night 2008'

Answer: Michelle Obama


Question: 'This curved throwing club of the Aborigines is an excellent souvenir--it'll always come back to you'

Answer: a boomerang


Question: 'This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania'

Answer: P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H


Question: 'To expel from the legal profession'

Answer: disbar


Question: 'Irvin McDowell lost the first battle of this in July 1861 & also fouled up the second battle a year later'

Answer: Bull Run


Question: '1986:<br />As a slower "Fast Eddie" Felson'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'Disco hoops & other styles of extravagant these "suggest you are taking the party with you"'

Answer: earrings


Question: 'A green foam crown with 7 points is a popular souvenir of this national monument'

Answer: the Statue of Liberty


Question: 'The NYC borough that includes Wall Street'

Answer: M-A-N-H-A-T-T-A-N


Question: 'A person who selects, plays & announces music at a club'

Answer: a disc jockey


Question: 'Jeb Stuart led this type of force at Brandy Station, the biggest battle of these forces in the war'

Answer: cavalry


Question: '1987:<br />As Gordon Gekko'

Answer: Michael Douglas


Question: 'A blog post notes that Junya Watanabe's Spring '09 collection continues to rely on this basic type of working pants'

Answer: jeans


Question: 'Many snow globes feature this clock tower of London's Houses of Parliament'

Answer: Big Ben


Question: 'Hopefully the spelling of this Arizona capital will rise from the ashes of your brain'

Answer: P-H-O-E-N-I-X


Question: 'Comet, Lysol & Pine-Sol are popular ones'

Answer: a disinfectant


Question: 'Gaines' Mill, in which he whupped McClellan, was his first major victory despite his 9,000 casualties in one day'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: '1952:<br />As Marshal Will Kane'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'In May 2008 the times reported on a more modest look in this wear, including boy shorts & halter tops'

Answer: swimwear


Question: 'Many souvenirs from Gibraltar feature these "apes" that call the peninsula home'

Answer: the Barbary apes


Question: 'The Rio Grande runs through this largest New Mexico City'

Answer: A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E


Question: 'A viral disease in dogs & cats'

Answer: distemper


Question: 'In 1863 the White House mourned a Confederate general, Benjamin Helm; he'd married into this Kentucky clan'

Answer: the Todds


Question: '2002:<br />As Wladyslaw Szpilman'

Answer: Adrien Brody


Question: 'The times said this "NY" designer became "a Seventh Avenue original" using tights as a foundation for skirts & shirts'

Answer: Donna Karan


Question: 'A cool memento of the Space Needle is a glass paperweight made from the ash of this nearby volcano'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'Pardon me, boy, but this city is on the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River'

Answer: C-H-A-T-T-A-N-O-O-G-A


Question: 'In gymnastics a difficult twist or salto may be done as this move to end a routine'

Answer: a dismount


Question: '(Dr. Oz presents the clue.)  Bones regenerate themselves every seven years, but after age 35, your bones grow slower & become less dense, which can lead to this condition, a thinning of bones'

Answer: osteoporosis


Question: 'Shakespeare:<br />"Good night sweet prince, and flights of ____ sing thee to thy rest"'

Answer: angels


Question: 'If they're from the East Coast, they may be eaten raw; West Coast ones like the Littleneck are usually too tough'

Answer: clams


Question: 'Look, it's 1148--how about if the Second Crusade fails horribly in an attack on this Syrian city, then we all go to bed'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'One working title of this 1936 novel was "Pansy", since the main character was originally called Pansy O'Hara'

Answer: Gone with the Wind


Question: 'An evergreen tree of the genus Taxus, or a female sheep'

Answer: yew/ewe


Question: '(Dr. Oz shows an animation of a throbbing artery in the brain on the monitor.)  The brain is a beautiful place, but triggered by dilation of arteries in the brain, these extremely painful events are sometimes accompanied by nausea'

Answer: migraines


Question: 'Billy Joel:<br />"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the ____; the sinners are much more fun"'

Answer: saints


Question: 'Some McDonald's restaurants in Maine & eastern Canada sell a tasty shellfish roll called this'

Answer: a McLobster


Question: 'It's 1155 & Pope Adrian IV has issued a bull allowing Henry II of England to conquer this island'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Hitler originally titled it "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"'

Answer: Mein Kampf


Question: 'Sobbed, or having no hair'

Answer: bawled/bald


Question: '(Dr. Oz shows a cardiovascular animation on the monitor.)  I try to be positive, but for just a little aversion therapy, here's what it looks like when the arteries of the heart scar just before they cause a heart attack; this buildup here is called this'

Answer: plaque (atherosclerosis accepted)


Question: 'Jefferson:<br />"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of ____ and tyrants"'

Answer: patriots


Question: 'The striping adds this predator's name to the shrimp seen here'

Answer: a tiger


Question: 'The time is 1057 & the time of troubles has begun for this empire, also called the Eastern Roman Empire'

Answer: the Byzantine Empire


Question: 'John Steinbeck first titled this story of George & Lennie "Something that Happened"'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'To require, or to work dough'

Answer: need/knead


Question: '(Dr. Oz puts a small pitcher to one nostril.)  Just as you practice hygiene in your mouth, I advocate keeping your sinuses healthy with this device used in Asia for centuries'

Answer: a neti pot


Question: 'Plutarch:<br />"The wildest ____ make the best horses"'

Answer: colts


Question: 'The spider type of this is often sold as the snow type--a bit more appetizing'

Answer: a crab


Question: '1152 & all's not well for Louis VII of France, whose marriage to this live wire has been annulled'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: 'Titles considered for this 1925 classic included "Incident at West Egg" & "The High-Bouncing Lover"'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'Having no slack, or imparted knowledge'

Answer: taut/taught


Question: '(Dr. Oz holds a dissected human knee joint.)  While pro athletes often tear the ACL shown here, regular folks often tear this cartilage in the middle of the knee that acts as a shock absorber'

Answer: the meniscus


Question: 'Arthur C. Clarke:<br />"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from ____"'

Answer: magic


Question: 'The West Coast of the U.S. produces the Kumamoto type of these; chase them down your gullet with a crisp sauvignon blanc'

Answer: oysters


Question: 'Wow, 1008 already & Prince Anandpal has lost at Peshawar after this animal of his got scared & fled'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'Grace Metalious first titled this book "The Tree and the Blossom", but her publisher changed the title to its locale'

Answer: Peyton Place


Question: 'Gathered the courage, or a condiment'

Answer: mustered/mustard


Question: 'Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy"'

Answer: jazz


Question: 'In 2004 she co-hosted "The Fashion Police" at the Academy Awards along with her mom'

Answer: Melissa Rivers


Question: 'One of the seven wonders of Barbados, Harrison's Cave is rich in formations of these hanging objects'

Answer: stalactites


Question: 'In honor of Abe Lincoln, P.J. Towle began selling his maple syrup in a container shaped like one of these structures in 1887'

Answer: a log cabin


Question: 'In campaign issues of 1856, this sanguinary adjective preceded "Kansas" & "Sumner"'

Answer: "Bleeding"


Question: 'Though it has curly leaves instead of a dense head, kale is thought to be the original version of this vegetable'

Answer: cabbage


Question: 'A stock index'

Answer: Dow Jones


Question: 'Kim Basinger's "L.A. Confidential" character was supposted to be the spitting image of this '40s blonde bombshell'

Answer: Veronica Lake


Question: 'Africa's Blombos Cave, occupied 90,000 years ago, has some of the earliest known tools of this animal substance'

Answer: bone


Question: 'In 1968 Procter & Gamble introduced these in a can so fewer of them would end up broken'

Answer: potato chips


Question: 'One popular Democratic campaign slogan was "We Polked you in 1844, we shall" do this to "you in 1852"'

Answer: Pierce


Question: 'In 1493 Columbus encountered this, Hawaii's most valuable fruit crop, on the island of Guadeloupe'

Answer: the pineapple


Question: 'Hyde's better half'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll


Question: 'He was nominated for an Oscar in 1989; his brother Joaquin, in 2001'

Answer: River Phoenix


Question: 'In Europe they call some caverns these, like Italy's Blue one & Slovenia's Vast Postojna one'

Answer: a grotto


Question: 'Whitman's was the 1st company to put a guide on the inside lid of this type of package to which Mr. Gump compared life'

Answer: (a box of) chocolates


Question: 'In 1900 a Republican campaign slogan promised a "full" one of these, sort of like today's lunch box'

Answer: a full dinner pail


Question: 'Gravenstein, which is green with red streaks, is a variety of this fruit'

Answer: an apple


Question: 'It's another name for a tuxedo'

Answer: a dinner jacket


Question: 'Outfielder Mickey Rivers claimed, "me", this Yankees owner "& Billy (Martin) are two of a kind)'

Answer: George Steinbrenner


Question: 'A New Haven, Conn. cave was the hideout of the judges who had signed this king's death warrant in 1649'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'A 1924 poster for this candidate featured an electric fan'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'This juice orange accounts for about half of the USA's yearly crop of oranges'

Answer: the valencia orange


Question: 'Legendary seducer'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'More chairs are thrown on "Jerry Springer", but her talk show that debuted in 1993 is still on the air, too'

Answer: Ricki Lake


Question: 'The historic entrance to this US national park is seen here'

Answer: Mammoth Cave


Question: 'He was the "I" on a 1908 button reading "U-N-I-Ted", (you & I, Teddy Roosevelt)'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'This variety of grape is the USA's most important in making preserves & juice'

Answer: the Concord (grape)


Question: 'James Buchanan Brady's gem of a moniker'

Answer: Diamond Jim


Question: 'His opera "Don Giovanni" is subtitled "Il Dissoluto Punito" ("The Rake Punished")'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'The Cup was once left in a photo studio where it was filled with earth & briefly used as this'

Answer: a flowerpot


Question: 'A rural carrier associate is a 1-day-a-week substitute in this agency of the federal government'

Answer: the U.S. Postal Service (post office accepted)


Question: 'This Greek bird who rose from the ashes was probably inspired by a sacred Egyptian bird, the bennu'

Answer: the phoenix


Question: 'Prime Minister Dr. Mammohan Singh'

Answer: India


Question: 'The "World" one claims to be the all-time bestselling American reference book'

Answer: almanac


Question: 'The name of this liver disease is from the Greek for "orange-colored"'

Answer: cirrhosis


Question: 'In 1905 a team from the Klondike in this territory made a 23-day sled, boat & train trip to Ottawa to vie for the Cup'

Answer: the Yukon Territory


Question: 'Tribal accounts managers work for this Interior Department bureau'

Answer: Bureau of Indian Affairs


Question: 'Bellerophon was crippled when he was thrown from this horse as he was flying to Mount Olympus'

Answer: Pegasus


Question: 'Prime Minister Bertie Ahern'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Most of these natural disasters occur on slopes of 30-45 degrees'

Answer: avalanches


Question: '"The Ruthless Rake" is one of the many novels by this "Queen of Romance"'

Answer: Barbara Cartland


Question: '(Alex Trebek presents the clue from the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.) This great goalie has his first name misspelled many times on the Stanley Cup, including as "J-A-C" and "J-A-C-Q"'

Answer: Jacques Plante


Question: 'This many-headed serpent of Greek mythology lived in Lake Lerna in Argolis'

Answer: the hydra


Question: 'President Robert Mugabe'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'The World War II light show seen here comes from these'

Answer: antiaircraft guns


Question: 'The portal vein & this artery supply blood to the liver'

Answer: the hepatic artery


Question: 'This team from the sunny South broke Canadian hearts by beating Calgary for the Cup in 2004'

Answer: the Tampa Bay Lightning


Question: 'These monsters who were half-woman, half-bird tormented Phineus until driven away by the sons of the north wind'

Answer: the harpies


Question: 'Prime Minister John Howard'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'If a crowded shopping mall fills you with terror, you have this'

Answer: agoraphobia


Question: 'William Hogarth began this series of moralizing works around 1735'

Answer: The Rake\'s Progress


Question: '(Alex Trebek presents the clue from the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.)  In 2001, hockey fans everywhere were thrilled for this ex-Boston defenseman when he won his first Stanley Cup in a 22-year career'

Answer: Ray Bourque


Question: 'One story says that Hera used the 100 eyes of this gigantic monster to decorate the tail of her peacock'

Answer: Argus


Question: 'Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This table helps insurance companies set premiums based on how long you're likely to live'

Answer: an actuarial table


Question: 'This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'In 1955, 52-year-old Ray Kroc opened his first burger joint in the chain called not Kroc's but this'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'In 2011 President Obama named general Martin Dempsey chairman of the JCS, this'

Answer: Joint Chiefs of Staff


Question: '...Katie Holmes'

Answer: Nicole Kidman


Question: 'FDR began giving these "chats" in 1933'

Answer: fireside chats


Question: 'This state capital on the Grand River at its junction with the Red Cedar River was once called "Biddle Town"'

Answer: Lansing


Question: 'The moans of these 150-ton animals allow them to communicate with each other 1,000 miles away'

Answer: the blue whale


Question: 'Diocletian was right around 40 when he took this title in 284 A.D.'

Answer: Roman emperor


Question: 'DA is the Department of the Army; DEA is this administration'

Answer: the Drug Enforcement Administration


Question: '...Ashton Kutcher'

Answer: Bruce Willis


Question: 'It precedes "manner" to describe a doctor's deportment with patients'

Answer: bedside


Question: 'Population-wise, in 1950 this was the fourth-largest city in the U.S.; by 2000, it was eighth'

Answer: Detroit


Question: '"Find health insurance options" & "find a doctor or a hospital" are links at bcbs.com, the site for this'

Answer: Blue Cross Blue Shield


Question: 'In 1988 50-year-old Helen Thayer battled bears to become the first woman to travel solo to the magnetic this'

Answer: the North Pole


Question: 'Helping communities to recover after a disaster, FEMA is this agency'

Answer: the Federal Emergency Management Agency


Question: '...Melania Trump'

Answer: Marla Maples


Question: 'Proverbially, if you can't hit this "of a barn", your accuracy is lacking'

Answer: the broad side


Question: 'Michigan touches all the Great Lakes except this one'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'Nickname of Danish king Harald, killed in a 10th c. battle, maybe for lack of a wireless headset'

Answer: Bluetooth


Question: 'He was 48 when he created Charlie Bucket, a poor child who finds a golden ticket'

Answer: Roald Dahl


Question: 'Use your GPS to get to the GPO, this place, where you can get all kinds of publications'

Answer: the Government Printing Office


Question: '...Steffi Graf'

Answer: Brooke Shields


Question: 'Car trouble?  There's a "request" this "assistance" button on the AAA southern Calif. website'

Answer: roadside assistance


Question: 'The wives of the co-founders of the city now home to the University of Michigan both had this first name'

Answer: Ann (Arbor)


Question: 'Sure & the Kerry blue this, 'tis a dog from Ireland'

Answer: a terrier


Question: 'At the 1942 battle of El Alamein, 54-year-old Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery beat this "foxy" 50-year-old'

Answer: (Erwin) Rommel ("the Desert Fox")


Question: 'NASA is the National Aeronautics & Space Administration; JSC is this NASA facility'

Answer: the Johnson Space Center


Question: '...Nancy Reagan'

Answer: Jane Wyman


Question: 'This 7-letter word means to abate'

Answer: subside


Question: 'Seen here is a shot from an annual festival in this city'

Answer: Holland, Michigan


Question: 'My "mood"?  This deep blue dye, used to color cotton & wool; a synthetic one is made from aniline, a coal-tar product'

Answer: indigo


Question: 'Folks never seem to remember, but my masterwork is actually titled "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this'

Answer: The Wealth of Nations


Question: 'Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Werner Herzog's documentary about the late activist & bear lover Timothy Treadwell is titled this "man"'

Answer: Grizzly Man


Question: 'In books, Orwell's title year minus Peter Gent's "North Dallas"'

Answer: 1944


Question: 'The returned portion of a movie ticket'

Answer: the stub


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.)  Raw acorns can be poisonous but Native Americans found that, once cracked & cleaned, they could use the ground-up meal in breads and in soups for this purpose, like cornstarch'

Answer: a thickener


Question: 'I spent most of the final years of my life in this Scottish capital, where I died & am buried'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City"'

Answer: New York


Question: '"The Smartest Guys in the Room" was the subtitle of a 2005 doc about this corrupt title corporation'

Answer: Enron


Question: 'Number of hulls on a catamaran times the number of days in April'

Answer: 60


Question: 'A protective frock worn by a scientist'

Answer: a labcoat


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.)  The three sisters are a familiar trio in Native American cuisine; the first is corn, which grows up into the air; then come beans that climb stalks, & this last sister, like the calabaza, gives shade to the other two'

Answer: squash


Question: 'At 40, I quit my professor gig to act as this private teacher, from Latin for "watcher", for a young duke (I got a big raise)'

Answer: a tutor


Question: 'William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"'

Answer: Verona


Question: 'This actor narrated "March of the Penguins"'

Answer: Morgan Freeman


Question: 'A baker's dozen plus the numerical gun salute for the arrival of the vice president (it's 2 fewer than the prez)'

Answer: 32 (19 and 13)


Question: 'To change allegiance from one country to another; the figure skating Protopopovs did it in 1979'

Answer: defect


Question: 'In 1814 a war named for this dried meat & berry staple was fought between rival fur companies'

Answer: pemmican


Question: 'I once wrote that without seeing it, men are led to "advance the interest of the society" by this anatomical agent'

Answer: an invisible hand


Question: 'Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely"'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: '2010's "Exit Through the Gift Shop" examined the guerrilla street artist known by this 6-letter name'

Answer: Banksy


Question: '4 score & 7 minus the syllables in a haiku'

Answer: 70


Question: 'Marja in this country was in the news in 2010'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.)  Native Americans traditionally prepared salmon by splitting them & placing them on planks of this evergreen conifer'

Answer: cedar


Question: 'The 20 pound note shows me & my great idea of the stages of work getting split among specialists; it's this 3-word concept'

Answer: division of labor


Question: 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment"'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: '(I'm Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.)  From Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth", comes this deeply personal exploration of the state of public education in the U.S., a 2010 clarion call of our times'

Answer: Waiting for "Superman"


Question: '"Men on the dead man's chest" in "Treasure Island" divided by books in the Pentateuch'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Boisterous merrymaking involving pranks; don't go low!'

Answer: hijinx


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.)  This seed was originally grown in the Andes & is used like couscous or rice & is high in protein'

Answer: quinoa


Question: 'In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral'

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus


Question: '"You won't have" this man "to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'When he returned to Venice from the Far East, he introduced the idea of fruit flavored ices'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'She didn't start writing her "Little House" novels until she was in her 60s'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'A Tibetan ox, or to talk persistently'

Answer: yak


Question: 'Carl Jung coined this term to describe an introspective person'

Answer: introvert


Question: 'His remains lie in the main entrance of the original Smithsonian building'

Answer: (James) Smithson


Question: 'On July 14, 1789 this French king wrote in his diary "Nothing"'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'Consisting of puff pastry layered with custard or cream, this pastry's fit for a French emperor'

Answer: a Napoleon


Question: 'This pampered "Little Lord" had beautiful curls & wore a lace collar'

Answer: Little Lord Fauntleroy


Question: 'A dog with a short, flattened nose, or the short, flattened nose itself'

Answer: pug


Question: 'The name Rorschach is indelibly associated with tests using these irregular shapes'

Answer: inkblots


Question: 'Jakob Roggeveen discovered this South Pacific island 2 days after Good Friday, 1722'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: '1 day before his assassination he remarked, "I've looked over, & I've seen the promised land"'

Answer: Martin Luther King (Jr.)


Question: 'The USDA made Wolfgang Puck add tomato in order to sell his frozen pies as these'

Answer: pizzas


Question: 'Of Nancy Drew's chums Ned, Bess & George, the one who isn't a girl'

Answer: Ned


Question: 'It can mean the daily record of a ship's progress or the act of recording that progress'

Answer: log


Question: 'Psychological state that superficially resembles sleep, it was first used scientifically by Franz Mesmer'

Answer: hypnotism (or hypnotic state)


Question: 'You place your hands & feet on colored circles to play this game; it's perfect for contortionists'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'Completes "If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for 1,000 years, men will still say..."'

Answer: this was their finest hour


Question: 'They're immature pigeons sometimes raised for food'

Answer: squabs


Question: 'It can precede brow, down or life'

Answer: low


Question: 'Machine that's commonly called a lie detector'

Answer: a polygraph


Question: 'Picasso's daughter, her signature is on tubes of her signature lipstick, Mon Rouge'

Answer: Paloma Picasso


Question: 'In 1690 this English philosopher wrote, "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."'

Answer: John Locke


Question: 'These edible fungi thrive in chalky soil, & the best are the perigord variety'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'Although roosters crow, crows emit this sound'

Answer: caw


Question: 'An inactive drug given in place of a real one; it might work on the power of suggestion'

Answer: a placebo


Question: 'Houdon's most famous mythological statue is of this Roman goddess holding a bow'

Answer: Diana


Question: 'Capt. John Smith wrote about this Indian weapon & compared it to a poleax'

Answer: a tomahawk


Question: '"1984" was a 1949 book by Eric Blair written under this pen name'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'To go from Philadelphia to New Jersey, you cross this river that shares its name with another state'

Answer: the Delaware


Question: 'This Nazi minister of propaganda & his wife killed themselves & their children on May 1,1945'

Answer: Goebbels


Question: 'The hypoglossal nerve controls its many movements, including wagging'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'This "divine" French actress was the illegitimate daughter of a Dutch courtesan'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'Slaves bought in Africa were sold in the West Indies for molasses used to make this liquor'

Answer: rum


Question: '"Where Have I Been?" was the 1982 autobiography of this "Your Show of Shows" comedian'

Answer: Sid Caesar


Question: 'The Cubans call it Bahia de Cochinos; we call it this'

Answer: the Bay of Pigs


Question: 'This infamous French nobleman died at the asylum of Charenton in 1814 -- it "pains" us to tell you'

Answer: the Marquis de Sade


Question: 'On land this class of vertebrates can absorb oxygen through the skin, provided it's moist'

Answer: amphibians


Question: ''40s film star whose family, the Lupinos, performed in Europe in the 17th century'

Answer: Ida Lupino


Question: 'Colorful name of Edward Teach, the pirate who hid out on Ocracoke Island off the N.C. coast'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: '1 of 2 Arthur Hailey novels to become the top-selling fiction book of the year'

Answer: Airport (or Wheels)


Question: 'Incan ruins have been found on islands in this lake on the border of Bolivia & Peru'

Answer: Lake Titicaca


Question: 'Etta Place, who rode with this outlaw pair, was probably a lady of the evening, not a schoolteacher'

Answer: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid


Question: 'It mitosis 1 cell becomes 2; in meiosis a single cell produce this many daughter cells'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Italian actress Eleonora Duse was famous for her roles in this Norwegian's plays'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'He followed his novel "Monsieur Beaucaire" with a term in the Indiana state legislature'

Answer: Booth Tarkington


Question: 'Odessa is the largest Soviet port on this sea'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'After a serious illness in 37 A.D., this Roman emperor became cruel & mentally unbalanced'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'Protozoans living in a termite's gut break down this substance in the wood the termite eats'

Answer: cellulose


Question: 'This "Jersey Lily" was the daughter of the Very Reverend Wm. C. Le Breton, Dean of Jersey'

Answer: Lillie Langtry


Question: 'Shawmut was the Indian name for the peninsula on which this city was founded in 1630'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'An incident from his book "My Life in Court" inspired the stage play "A Case of Libel"'

Answer: Louis Nizer


Question: 'In sailing from the English Channel to the North Sea, one would pass through this strait'

Answer: the Strait of Dover


Question: '6 of "Bugs" Moran's henchmen & an optometrist were the victims of this 1929 slaughter'

Answer: the St. Valentine\'s Day Massacre


Question: 'A healthy red blood cell in your body has about 300 mil. of these oxygen-carrying molecules'

Answer: hemoglobin


Question: 'This bass-voiced Alabama actress starred in the original 1939 production of "The Little Foxes", darling'

Answer: Tallulah Bankhead


Question: 'It was the first nonprecious metal man made into tools & decorative items'

Answer: copper


Question: 'The message "Some pig", spun by a spider, convinces a farmer to save Wilbur in this book'

Answer: Charlotte\'s Web


Question: 'Donna Karan,<br />Mossimo'

Answer: a fashion designer


Question: 'Celebrated on November 11, it honors those who served in our Armed Forces'

Answer: Veterans Day


Question: 'Because of its hue, Mars is known as this "colorful" planet'

Answer: red


Question: 'Pat Sajak's was one of the stars temporarily removed from this street during its subway construction'

Answer: Hollywood Boulevard


Question: 'Go north, young person & spell...'

Answer: Q-U-E-B-E-C


Question: 'Meg Murry finds out that this title phenomenon, also called a tesseract, exists in a Madeleine L'Engle novel'

Answer: A Wrinkle in Time


Question: 'Julia Child,<br />Emeril Lagasse'

Answer: a chef


Question: 'Holiday celebrated in the parade seen here'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day


Question: 'In the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds", invading Martians attack this capital city of England'

Answer: London


Question: 'You can check out the Nixon library in Yorba Linda or this '80s president's library in Simi Valley'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'Get onboard & cruise to the spelling of...'

Answer: Y-A-C-H-T


Question: 'The subtitle of this J.R.R. Tolkien novel is "There and Back Again"'

Answer: The Hobbit


Question: 'David Blaine,<br />David Copperfield'

Answer: a magician


Question: 'In 1621 Pilgrims celebrated the first traditional Thanksgiving in this Massachusetts colony'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'Phobos & Deimos are the names of these 2 objects that orbit Mars'

Answer: moons


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Page Museum.) The big tooth seen here is from this ancient relative of the elephant whose name means "big"'

Answer: a mammoth


Question: 'Brace yourself & spell...'

Answer: O-R-T-H-O-D-O-N-T-I-A


Question: 'This Philip Pullman series includes "The Golden Compass", "The Subtle Knife" & "The Amber Spyglass"'

Answer: His Dark Materials


Question: 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg,<br />William Rehnquist'

Answer: a justice of the Supreme Court


Question: 'Also known as Shrove Tuesday, this lively celebration is held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday'

Answer: Fat Tuesday (or Mardi Gras)


Question: 'Meteorites from Mars have been found on this cold continent at the bottom of the world'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'This "Eye" network's "Television City" is next to the Farmer's Market'

Answer: CBS


Question: 'Everyone agrees you can spell...'

Answer: U-N-A-N-I-M-O-U-S


Question: 'Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books chronicle the lives of these 3 orphans'

Answer: the Baudelaires


Question: 'Jeb Bush,<br />Gray Davis'

Answer: governors


Question: 'In 1915 President Wilson proclaimed that the second Sunday in May would be this annual holiday'

Answer: Mother\'s Day


Question: 'Olympus Mons, one of these lava-spewing openings in Mars' surface, is over 16 miles high'

Answer: volcano


Question: 'Tiffany's, Versace & Chanel are among the names on stores on this famous Beverly Hills street'

Answer: Rodeo Drive


Question: 'Get nosy & spell...'

Answer: A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K


Question: 'This animal heard here is also called the king of the beasts'

Answer: a lion


Question: 'This team sport is known as football in most of the world, but we call it this'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'In a famous kite experiment, this Statesman proved that lightning is a form of electricity'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'It's the state featured on the quarter here'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Bummer, dude! Getting otitis media before a rock concert totally messes up this all-important sense'

Answer: hearing


Question: 'Dad's "Other half"'

Answer: mom


Question: '"Big bad" beast heard here'

Answer: a wolf


Question: 'The Indianapolis 500 is one of the major events in this sport'

Answer: car racing


Question: 'One of the first Europeans to reach North America was this son of Eric the Red'

Answer: Leif Ericson


Question: 'A yellow jessamine, a palmetto tree & a Carolina Wren show off this state's nature'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'Your tactile sense; it can proverbially be this "& go"'

Answer: touch


Question: 'When the shadow on your sundial is pointing due north, it's this time'

Answer: noon


Question: 'This big fella of northern North America is named for its grizzled fur'

Answer: a grizzly bear


Question: 'This sport involves using a long shaft to swing yourself up & over a crossbar'

Answer: pole vaulting


Question: 'Winning a military victory in 47 B.C., this Roman general said, "I came, I saw, I conquered"'

Answer: (Julius) Caesar


Question: 'Seen here this state's quarter features Narragansett Bay'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'If you have the "Second" type of this sense, you already knew you'd answer this clue correctly'

Answer: sight


Question: 'Craft illustrated here'

Answer: kayak


Question: 'The African animal heard here, it comes in Mountain & Lowland types'

Answer: a gorilla


Question: 'Derek Jeter & Pedro Martinez play this professional sport'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'In 1804 this man crowned himself Emperor of France'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'The quarter for this state features a race horse; we can't tell if it's standing on bluegrass'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'You can have a lack of it in fashion, or use chemoreceptor cells to aid it at Chuck E. Cheese's'

Answer: taste


Question: 'Air traffic controllers keep their eyes glued to this screen, following the blips on it'

Answer: radar


Question: 'This type of "Dog" heard here doesn't sound much like rover'

Answer: a prairie dog


Question: '(Cheryl of the clue crew swings a club on a golf course)  On my way to the green I've ended up in this turbulent part of a golf course'

Answer: the rough


Question: 'This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait'

Answer: (Henry) Hudson


Question: 'This state's Governor Zell Miller selected a peach of a quarter'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Use your septum & posterior nares to help get this sense of your surroundings'

Answer: smell


Question: 'Piece of paper that says you own the property'

Answer: deed


Question: 'Selling over 12 million copies, this singer's 1999 album is the bestselling album by a teenage solo artist'

Answer: Britney Spears


Question: 'You'll find the eye-catching formation known as the Phallic Rock on the island of Molokai in this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'The body has over 600 of these, including extensors & flexors'

Answer: Muscles


Question: 'In April this U.S. figure dropped to a 28-year low of 4.3%, leaving the devil without many idle hands'

Answer: Unemployment rate


Question: 'Something that's appropriate might "suit you to" this letter'

Answer: a T


Question: 'A spell to get rid of illness consists of this familiar magical word, written in an inverted triangle'

Answer: Abracadabra


Question:
'Tori Spelling,
Shannen Doherty,
Jason Priestley'

Answer: Beverly Hills, 90210


Question: 'Escape from Pompeii is a volcanic thrill ride at this Anheuser-Busch theme park in Williamsburg, VA.'

Answer: Busch Gardens


Question: 'They can take 6 months to grow from base to tip, or from cuticle to what you chew'

Answer: Fingernails


Question: 'This goofy comedy with Cameron Diaz in the title role was a big summertime hit'

Answer: There\'s Something About Mary


Question: 'Dorothy Parker snidely wrote that Katharine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to this'

Answer: B


Question: 'Incantations & amulets ward off misfortune caused by this lingering look of a stranger'

Answer: Evil eye


Question:
'Andrew Shue,
Thomas Calabro,
Heather Locklear'

Answer: Melrose Place


Question: 'The Enchanted Circle is a scenic drive in this state, the "Land of Enchantment"'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Of a natural blonde, brunette or redhead, the one who has the most hair per square inch'

Answer: Blonde


Question: 'With over $500 million in perks, the Big Apple kept this "Big Board" from moving to Jersey'

Answer: New York Stock Exchange


Question: 'Letter that's also the name of the mass transit system seen here<br />(in Chicago)'

Answer: L


Question: 'William Peter Blatty based this 1971 novel partly on a reported case of a child's demonic possession'

Answer: "The Exorcist"


Question:
'Catherine Hicks,
Jessica Biel,
Stephen Collins'

Answer: 7th Heaven


Question: 'You may see bats & woodrats in the Lewis & Clark Caverns near Bozeman in this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'The smallest human cell is this cell originating only in the male'

Answer: Sperm cell


Question: 'In 1998 it became a landing "strip" when the Palestinians opened their first airport there'

Answer: Gaza Strip


Question: 'In chess notation K stands for the king, so the knight has this symbol'

Answer: N


Question: 'In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this imp turns Bottom's head into that of an ass'

Answer: Puck


Question:
'John Forsythe,
Heather Locklear,
Joan Collins'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'The Hotter 'N Hell Hundred Bicycle Ride is a summer event in this state's Wichita Falls'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'The talus bone meets these 2 leg bones at the ankle joint'

Answer: Tibia & fibula


Question: 'Bill Clinton's private secretary, she testified before a grand jury January 27'

Answer: Betty Currie


Question: 'It's a Burmese title of respect, seen in the name of a 1960s U.N. secretary-general'

Answer: U (as in U Thant)


Question: 'The solar wheels seen here are examples of these signs on Pennsylvania Dutch barns to insure abundance'

Answer: Hex signs


Question:
'John Forsythe,
David Doyle,
Kate Jackson'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'In this 1954 case the court declared that "The doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place"'

Answer: Brown v. Board of Education


Question: 'She choreographed the Jacksons' "Torture" video before becoming a singing star herself'

Answer: Paula Abdul


Question: 'Pavel Cherenkov & Christian Doppler have these named after them; we don't know if they're "special"'

Answer: Effects


Question: '"On top of" this "all covered in snow, I lost my true lover"'

Answer: Old Smoky


Question: 'Tamar, whose name means the date type of this tree, "dated" 2 of Judah's sons & then Judah himself'

Answer: Palm tree


Question: 'It's any secluded road sought out by the amorously inclined -- perhaps for amorous reclining'

Answer: Lover\'s Lane


Question: 'He's the only justice appointed by Nixon now on the court'

Answer: William Rehnquist


Question: 'It's a "canine" antonym of front-runner, as well as a cartoon canine'

Answer: Underdog


Question: 'This measurement is the mass of a substance per unit volume, or the number of people per unit of area'

Answer: Density


Question: 'He composed "Old Dog Tray" as well as "My Old Kentucky Home"'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: '"There was not found an help meet" for him until God played Jim Lange & provided one'

Answer: Adam


Question: 'These small parrots of the genus Agapornis are known for their affection for each other'

Answer: Lovebirds


Question: 'This 20th C. Democrat is the only full term president to make no appointments to the Supreme Court'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'This 7-letter adjective that means crassly obvious may come from blatire, Latin for "to babble"'

Answer: Blatant


Question: 'An object lying on a table has this type of energy that it can "live up to" if pushed off'

Answer: Potential energy


Question: '"She ain't what she used to be many long years ago"'

Answer: "The Old Gray Mare"


Question: 'Abigail married this great king of Israel after pleading with him not to harm her husband'

Answer: David


Question: 'The tomato was once known as this -- how romantic!'

Answer: Love apple


Question: 'His middle initial O. stood for Orville'

Answer: William O. Douglas


Question: 'This great Flemish artist painted his young wife Helene in a fur cloak around 1639'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: 'Newton laid the basis of this, the study of objects influenced by forces; the "thermo" type came later'

Answer: Dynamics


Question: '"Give me" this, because "it's good enough for me"'

Answer: "That Old Time Religion"


Question: 'Fearing he'd be killed by jealous men, Abraham falsely said he was this woman's brother'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'In "My Fair Lady" Eliza Doolittle sings the plaintive tune "Wouldn't It Be" this'

Answer: Loverly


Question: 'This future Supreme Court justice wrote 5 of the essays of "The Federalist"'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'Walter M. Miller's sci-fi novel "A Canticle for" this person has been called his masterpiece'

Answer: Leibowitz


Question: 'Collisions demonstrate the law of conservation of this, the product of mass & velocity'

Answer: Momentum


Question: '"Go tell" this woman that "the old gray goose is dead"'

Answer: Aunt Rhody


Question: 'Jacob served 7 years to win the 'beautiful" Rachel, but had to take this "tender-eyed" sister first'

Answer: Leah


Question: 'Choice that is the title of the 1955 Doris Day film about singer Ruth Etting'

Answer: Love Me or Leave Me


Question: 'The young John Webster, who grew up to write "The Duchess of Malfi", is a character in this 1998 film'

Answer: Shakespeare in Love


Question: 'In population Albuquerque ranks in this position among New Mexico cities'

Answer: First


Question: 'It can be an underground refuge from nuclear attack or a place for the homeless to sleep'

Answer: Shelter


Question: 'These morning cupcakes come in bran, blueberry & lemon flavors'

Answer: Muffins


Question: '128 Americans died when the Germans sank this liner May 7, 1915'

Answer: Lusitania


Question: 'Bird name that completes the simile "Crazy as a ...."'

Answer: Loon


Question: 'Joanne Woodward'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'In 1926 this famous highway passed through the city's central business district'

Answer: U.S. Route 66


Question: 'By definition a "DINK" has double income, but doesn't have these'

Answer: Kids


Question: 'This breakfast fruit lends its name to a serrated spoon'

Answer: Grapefruit