| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: Named for its inventor, it's a brand of hot tub with underwater jets Jacuzzi |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: According to Merriam-Webster, a French word for a cauldron influenced this word for a mass of special metal bullion |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: A type of moth larva, or an infectious song or noise like "1-8-7-7 Kars For Kids" an earworm |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: To the Pueblo people, it's an ancestor spirit that may bring rain, or a person or object dressed as one kachina |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for the introduction of a new product is especially fitting for cars & wheelbarrows a rollout |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: This type of pressure is that of the Earth's atmosphere; it can be measured in millibars of mercury barometric |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Simmons, I'll need the document copied this way--one for Larry, one for Moe, one for Curly in triplicate |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Beginning with the Latin adverb meaning "well", this is a person who demonstrates generosity with financial help a benefactor |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to plan & direct a complex & possibly evil scheme; as a noun, it's a British game show testing on a specialized topic mastermind |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: The place where 2 rivers join together, it can also mean a place where 2 forces or ideas come together a confluence |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "blot out", it's what you want the authorities to do to the records of that crime you committed years ago expunge |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A day on which night & day are of the same length equinox |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Add an "E" to a word for a wife or husband & you get this verb you use when you adopt a cause espouse |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: Beginning with an early month abbreviation, it means "feverish" febrile |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word for a hero or upright person is the term for one of Charlemagne's legendary champions a paladin |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Bungee jumping is one activity that will give you this type of "rush" adrenaline |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A November 2024 outbreak of this was linked to cucumbers, causing a recall salmonella |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This synonym for surrender comes from Latin for "little head" capitulate |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: How perfect that this word for a solid figure with 10 faces has 10 letters a decahedron |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: For the title of a memoir, Gore Vidal used this fancy word for a manuscript in which layers of writing are superimposed palimpsest |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: This adjective means complicated & difficult to find your way through, like confronting an ancient Cretan maze labyrinthine |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From Greek for "making of words", this, meaning imitative of sound, might make you hiss onomatopoeia |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: A copy of an ancient Grecian urn, or how a species propagates a reproduction |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: A Northerner in the South during Reconstruction might be labeled this, for the satchel he carried a carpetbagger |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: This 12-letter synonym for sleepwalker sounds a lot fancier somnambulist |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: If you jump on this transport, you might be a musician or maybe just a supporter of a trendy cause a bandwagon |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It can be a finishing touch on an outfit, like a scarf or necklace, or a secondary contributor to a crime accessory |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: A synonym for untrue begins this synonym for a lie or an untruth a falsehood |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: Your car's alternator is one type of this energy-creating device a generator |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: To gallant, meaning to court a woman, got 2 letters inserted & became this verb meaning to wander around pointlessly gallivant |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Even our furry friends can benefit from this ancient Chinese practice acupuncture |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Historically, a man who sewed for a living was a tailor & a woman who sewed was called this, with a feminine suffix a seamstress |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $600: In literature these 2 terms mean the main character & the opposing one protagonist & antagonist |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Containing a root from Latin for "scales", it's a state of balance in physics equilibrium |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: 2 Molière titles that perfectly describe Scrooge are "The Miser" & "The" this, a real hater Misanthrope |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $200: In 2015 CNN reported 30% of teens have broken up or been broken up with this way text |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $400: Passing this No. 4 on I-80 East in Utah, you might want to be aware that No. 41, the upcoming one, is 37 miles away an exit |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $600: Someone who brings nothing but bad luck might be called a this; it's also in the title of a docuseries about Robert Durst jinx |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $800: If you miss the ferry on Fire Island, you can get where you need to go on a "water" this; there's no meter, though (water) taxi |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $1000: Casually mentioning to the deli meat guy at Costco that you made it on "Jeopardy!" might be this, slang for bragging a flex |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TOUGH 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Meaning to sharpen with a whetstone, it also refers to perfecting any craft hone |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TOUGH 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Found in front of many a restaurant's name, it means "at the house of" in French chez |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TOUGH 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: From Latin, it's a beginner or novice in learning something a tyro |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TOUGH 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Alphabetically between pier & slip is this synonym, perhaps at a port a quay |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TOUGH 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This synonym of joke begins & ends with the same letters as joke jape |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: If you've cemented your plans & they are set in stone, they may also be described as this, a hard building material concrete |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Hard container of albumen & yolk eggshell |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): Latinate noun for the world of teachers & educators academia (pedagogy) |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: It pairs with "hunter" to describe a person who forages for food gatherer |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: On a big sailing ship, it's the principal spar located between the fore & mizzen ones the mainmast |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $400: This adjective meaning loathsome is etymologically related to the word horror abhorrent |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means to sear with a hot iron or such in order to close a wound cauterize |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: If you're friendly & agreeable, especially to eating & drinking, you're this, from the Latin for "live together" convivial |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: This term for a volley from multiple rifles begins with "F" a fusillade |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: This Russian word refers to sometimes fabricated material used to discredit an opponent kompromat |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Weather-sounding process to develop creative ideas through free thinking & collaboration brainstorming |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Adjective for the parts of a proposed deal that are not open to discussion or modification nonnegotiable |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Specific profession of filmmaker Errol Morris documentarian |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A prisoner held this way is not allowed any contact with the outside world incommunicado |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Uncapitalized, it can mean "containing coal"; capitalized, it's a geological period of many vast swamps carboniferous |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Once used for someone opposed to the slave trade, it can now mean an opposer of capital punishment an abolitionist |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: To remove the active stimulant from coffee or even tea decaffeinate |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: This noun can mean recognizing & valuing another's actions & qualities, or a rise in something's value over time appreciation |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: The California Highway Patrol says lane splitting by this person is legal a motorcyclist |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Named for colorful hosiery, it's an old-fashioned term for a female writer a bluestocking |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $400: This word means you've either been given lodging or received a grisly punishment of yore quartered |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Old is new again with this word paired with "will"--it's a will that distributes property testament |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: A single letter longer than cavalier is this related Spanish word for a gentleman or horseman a caballero |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: Combining words meaning "conceited" & "fame & honor", it refers to excessive boasting over one's achievements vainglory |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: The prudent person rule requires this type of person in charge of another's money to act in the interest of the beneficiary fiduciary |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: By definition, these "activities" take place outside the scope of regular school instruction extracurricular |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: In this legal situation, a person or institution is designated to take over & protect the interests of one deemed unfit conservatorship |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: This noun means the relegation of someone to an unimportant position within a society or group (or piece of lined paper?) marginalization |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: A synonym for metamorphosis, in religion it refers to an exalting or glorifying change like that of Jesus in Matthew 17 transfiguration |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | 15-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle of the young people's nonfiction book "Eyes of the World" includes this word for reporting news through pictures photojournalism |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES $200: One or some, it matters none any |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES $400: It can mean unfriendly or hostile as well as bitterly cold icy |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES $600: By way of, from the Latin for "road" via |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES $800: For example, the Cenozoic or the Paleozoic an era |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES $1000: Extinct, flightless Down Under creature depicted here a moa |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Scientifically, a prism separates white light into the colors of this the spectrum |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Toxic bacterial poisoning, often from improperly canned foods botulism |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: A storymaker like Aesop, or just a liar a fabulist |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: A rêverie du jour a daydream |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: With the same first 4 letters as a word for a lack of knowledge, it means personal humiliation ignominy |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Fix your female kitty spay |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: That's some nerve; it's also another word for bile gall |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Osculate kiss |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sometimes preceding probandi, this burden is on you onus |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: A street urchin or ragamuffin a waif |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1963 it was said that this phenomenon "sets girls screaming" & "impels boys to cultivate mushroom-style hair" Beatlemania |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "strengthened", it means to back up another person's account of events corroborate |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Carl's Jr. burgers have been this, cooked on a rack at high heat & maybe even burned a little charbroiled (chargrilled) |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: An idealized life story, particularly one of a saint hagiography |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word for a spineless person comes from the last name of Caspar in the comic "The Timid Soul" milquetoast |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | 5-LETTER "X" WORDS $400: A political operative who handles P.R. crises, like Olivia Pope on "Scandal" fixer |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | 5-LETTER "X" WORDS $800: It's the smallest element of an image on your computer monitor a pixel |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | 5-LETTER "X" WORDS $1200: Hoovering is a manipulative tactic that sucks people back into this type of "poisonous" relationship toxic |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | 5-LETTER "X" WORDS $1600: A spiral form; Watson & Crick said make ours a double a helix |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | 5-LETTER "X" WORDS $2000: It transports water & minerals from the roots of a plant up to the leaves xylem |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $400: 18 letters, including the final "S":
AT&T & Verizon are major companies in this sector of the economy telecommunications |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $800: 14 letters:
The framework & installations that a country needs to function such as bridges, dams & roads infrastructure |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1200: 13 letters:
This type of scientist studies pyroclasts & lava flows a volcanologist |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1600: 17 letters:
Protestant churches that are independent & have no organizational affiliation are said to be this nondenominational |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $2000: 15 letters:
It's the strong, often greedy, desire to get & own things acquisitiveness |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This alchemical potion could supposedly turn base metals into gold elixir |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Found in the name of a Washington State dam, it's a deep ravine or valley a coulee |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: It can refer to territory governed by another, a set of values in math or a group of linked computers on a network a domain |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: "D" is for this crown-like adornment, sometimes a cloth headband affixed with jewels a diadem |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): Veal is etymologically related to this word for calfskin used for writing vellum |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $400: An M.D. who specializes in putting you under anesthesiologist |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $800: It's how you're speaking when you talk on the spur of the moment extemporaneously |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: A military attack undertaken in response to a prior attack by a foe counteroffensive |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Stalin-era policy that forced peasants onto big farms collectivization |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the science of charges & their associated fields & forces electromagnetism |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Fountains, Roman candles & ground spinners are types of these fireworks |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Let's take a pregnant pause for this term of 3 months trimester |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: Found in Motrin, it's derived from propionic acid ibuprofen |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: You could "transcend blockchain barriers" at 2023's Icon Hyperbuild, this type of event for computer programmers a hackathon |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): This verb can mean to create through skill, or to construct a lie or forgery fabricate |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect interrogation |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you a daguerreotype |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: In this type of democracy, the political party with the most legislative seats forms a government parliamentary |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This "-ism" describes the ongoing habit of judging foreign groups by the standards of one's own culture ethnocentrism |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to take away secretly", it means secret or sneaky surreptitious |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: You might have to perform with some real dummies if you seek this stage job perfected by Edgar Bergen ventriloquist |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's what you're doing when you're speaking aloud to no one else in particular on stage soliloquizing |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's another name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you register a domain name solely with the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you're this type of intruder a cybersquatter |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The international museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster cryptozoology |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $400: To shorten so that a part stands for the whole abbreviate |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Geometric name for an open square found on many a campus quadrangle |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The artwork seen here is titled this, a weird-looking baby substituted by fairies for a newborn a Changeling |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This 10-letter word for a means for producing copies comes from the Greek for "dry" & "written" xerography |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: "O", it means excessively compliant or servile obsequious |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This division in men's professional boxing has an upper limit of 126 pounds featherweight |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: I went down to this type of public protest to get my fair share of abuse demonstration |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: If you know what a hungry Liz is, thank Jesse Sheidlower & colleagues in this job for the "Historical Dict. of American Slang" lexicographer |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Army it's an officer whose job is to provide clothing & sustenance to a body of troops a quartermaster |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's part of the full name of JFK, but not of LGA International |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Though it's in the Bovidae family, the musk variety of this is grouped with goats & sheep, not cattle the ox |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: An aid to meditation, when spoken as 3 sounds, it can be symbolic of the 3 major Hindu gods om |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: An exclamation, or an actress who has played a doctor & an MI6 agent on TV Oh |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's Latin for "bone" os |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A major river of the Siberian lowlands, it flows more than 2,200 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean the Ob |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Your pain & sadness from past experiences is known as your emotional this, also carried on a journey baggage |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A city in the Czech Republic gives this type of beer its name Pilsner |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a place where skins & hides of animals are treated to make leather a tannery |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Lil Wayne line that caused some linguistic controversy said, "Real Gs move in silence like" this pasta dish lasagna |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It refers to a virtuoso solo toward the end of a movement; Joseph Joachim wrote one for Brahms' violin concerto cadenza |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region the backstretch |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep up! The son of your brother's child is this relationship to you, old-timer great nephew (grandnephew) |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: A college football player normally gets 5 years of it, & can compete in 4 seasons eligibility |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Flammable, but with 2 more letters, & if you even think of saying inflammable, I'm coming over there combustible |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's--sob!--an 11-letter word for weeping, or the secretion of tears lacrimation |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here a jaybird |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects an earmark |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms abiotic |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: This murder tool, a thin wire with handles, allows one to get up close & personal when strangulation is the goal a garrote |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: "U" do this & you howl like a wolf or hoot like an owl ululate |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $400: In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed acceleration |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $800: This layer of the Earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere the stratosphere |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $1200: Sugars & starches are this type of organic compound with a name meaning "watered carbon" a carbohydrate |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $2000: From Latin for "heap" & "rain cloud", this mushroom-shaped cloud brings the thunder cumulonimbus |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $10,400 (Daily Double): Studies have shown that some shrews use this process, emitting high-pitched squeaks as a guide in the dark echolocation |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It means sad or listless; when tripled, it means "and so on" blah |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an ansate cross an ankh |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" to grok |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This rhyming Latin term is used to describe a judgment or decree that is not yet final nisi |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A pig's digs a sty |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 40 winks a nap |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Anonymous John's last name Doe |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A small child, or a form of tater a tot |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Not sew, but you do this to make lace using knots & loops to tat |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: In Spanish ¡felicidades! is one way to say this congratulations |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a movie's director of photography; Conrad Hall was a great one a cinematographer |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Described in 3 of the gospels, it's the term for Jesus' change in appearance to divine form up on a mountain transfiguration |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the phenomenon exhibited here in waves on the California coast, caused by light-emitting organisms bioluminescence |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: From French & Latin for "nimble finger", it's a fancy name for a sleight of hand magician a prestidigitator |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: One who's used as the tool of another, or Moe Howard the stooge |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: In the title of a John le Carré novel, these 2 occupations precede "Soldier, Spy" Tinker & Tailor |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: This wild cat seen here ranges from Argentina to South Texas an ocelot |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Marcel Duchamp famously displayed an autographed one of these bathroom receptacles as an artwork urinal |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): This poetic name for the land of Robert Burns is in the name of a Canadian province Scotia |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a broom's natural partner dustpan |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of lettuce, or a big object produced by a process called calving iceberg |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: A vexing song or melody you can't get out of your head an earworm |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A piece of rope used to tie something to a ship, or a strap for carrying something around the neck a lanyard |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the place where horses are saddled before a race, or an enclosed space where they're exercised a paddock |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a payment given by a feudal vassal to a lord, or a type of band such as Oasish a tribute |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Zeno's "arrow" is an example of this philosophical statement, from the Greek for "contrary to expectation" a paradox |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Czech athlete, Barbora Spotáková holds a world record for throwing this item some 237 feet a javelin |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story" fragile |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's an oxymoronic portmanteau for a good buddy that you also sorta hate frenemy |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Clean & jerk athlete a weightlifter |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Medical professional who studies & treats poisonings toxicologist |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This photographic effect reverses tones & introduces sunny highlights to images solarization |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $200: Aesop knows it's a short narrative often making an edifying point a fable |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $400: It's what someone who buys & resells stolen goods is called a fence |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $600: It's a person with a habit of texting, "OMG! Sorry I can't make it! I forgot I have a thing. We should totally hang out soon though" a flake |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig Ficus |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800: "You give me" this in a song originally recorded by "Little Willie" John fever |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $200: Suit for a formal a tux |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $400: To dishonestly influence something to reach a predetermined outcome fix |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $600: To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this hex |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $800: To disturb with minor irritations vex |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $1000: No war, for a Roman pax |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $200: A sacred oath; in Catholicism, one can be for chastity, poverty or obedience a vow |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The Duke of Sussex is familiar with this verb meaning to pester a military foe with repeated attacks harry |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, it can also mean a very small amount iota |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Meaning to improve or perfect a skill, it comes from the Middle English for whetstone hone |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Like a track athlete, you might "pass" it when turning a responsibility over to another baton |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A sharp turn in a road or river can be called this body part elbow |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The first letter is silent in this verb meaning to grind; your teeth, for example gnash |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a strong beam used in construction from wall to wall to support a ceiling a joist |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: It means an heir, especially to a wealthy or prominent family a scion |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $200: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur pterodactyl |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $400: Lambeth or Staten Island, for example a borough |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song Psalm |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish lacquer |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: General term for the official monetary unit of a nation currency |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Golf is one type of this; parasol is another umbrella |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder a collapse |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Some workplaces have this network of linked computers, sort of the company-wide web an intranet |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here kaleidoscope |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A real humdinger of a word, in 1991 it became a music festival, now held annually in Chicago Lollapalooza |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the formal term for a mapmaker cartographer |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis rheumatology |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This word for any extended break from work gets its name from a day of rest sabbatical |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word hacktivism |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Pooch & pals are sitting pretty on the rock slab with this name familiar to architects & engineers Cantilever (Rock) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): Common in French, this diacritical mark gets its name from the Latin for "bend around" circumflex |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It follows Ice & Stone Age |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the" this "of the party" aid |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: In the early 2000s the Israeli army phased out use of this submachine gun the uzi |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: Wrath or fury packed into 3 letters ire |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: This symbol of Australia ranks as the world's second-tallest bird the emu |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for the gas pedal the accelerator |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 11-letter accessory worn here a neckerchief |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Musical mentor seen in the foreground the choirmaster |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: How far is the hole or the enemy target? This will tell you a rangefinder |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: A legally defined wine-growing area such as Médoc an appellation |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $400: Food groups often left off nutritional guidelines include nougat, meringue & this sweet stuff seen with bread fluff |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800: An aspect or phase of something, it's also any of the small, polished sides on a cut diamond a facet |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1200: Proverbially, this type of "heart" "never won fair lady" faint |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In its simplest form it's a sheet of paper folded in half to make 2 leaves or 4 pages; Shakespeare's had a lot more a folio |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $2000: Pachelbel composed this type of composition "in D minor" & also "in F major" a fugue |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The big one consists of 2 phalanges a toe |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: An expression for close but wrong is "right church, wrong" this pew |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Hey, friend! It's been so long, it's been one of these, the longest division of geologic time an eon |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: The letter "A" in Morse Code is dot-dash, also called "dit" this dah |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just one letter different, these 2 rhyming words both mean to soak up spilled liquid sop & mop |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "rage", it's a surge of violent anger fury |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $800: Horsetail is a relative of this primitive plant a fern |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a channel for conveying away smoke or gas produced by a fire or heater a flue |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1600: A device that "makes time travel possible" is this capacitor flux |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $2000: In fashion, it's an ornamental braided coat fastener a frog |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a book collector or just a lover of books bibliophile |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: To draw the boundaries of an electoral district in a way that gives one political party an advantage gerrymander |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: This system illustrated here gets your blood & lymph going circulatory system |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Any imaginary ideal place, or the location of the Dumbo ride at Disney World fantasyland |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: One of Abraham Lincoln's nicknames was "The Great" this Emancipator |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders arachnophobia |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In geometry this distance has been called a special case of perimeter circumference |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: This kind of doctor treats diseases of the hair & nails as well as skin a dermatologist |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This adjective means having only one color monochromatic |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE-Z WORDS $200: Said of liquid with many gas bubbles in it fizzy |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE-Z WORDS $400: Adjective for DJ Jeff, musical partner of the Fresh Prince Jazzy |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE-Z WORDS $600: The place was all this, filled with anticipation & nervous talk abuzz |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE-Z WORDS $800: To be "in" one of these is to be in a state of nervous excitement or agitation a tizzy |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE-Z WORDS $1000: Female singing voice between soprano & contralto mezzo |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: If you have plenty of freedom, you've been given wide this term from mapmaking latitude |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the feature that populates online forms with your birthdate, phone number etc. when you put in your name autofill |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put an "S" in front of a 3-pronged spear to get this word meaning annoyingly assertive strident |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: A "parental advisory" label created for records in the 1980s warns of this type of lyrics explicit |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: You may think of data as words & numbers, but digital images are also data & this term can mean information about an image metadata |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $200: Data in the form of words text |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $400: The highest part of something, especially one forming a point an apex |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $600: To persuade gently & persistently to coax |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $800: This feline carnivore is found in the northern climes of Eurasia & North America a lynx |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $1000: French word for a mixture of butter & flour used to make sauces a roux |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: There are 2 Vs in this word meaning extreme enthusiasm or spirit verve |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a small, secret group of plotters & can also mean their conspiracy a cabal |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word for the sound a bell makes rhymes with bell a knell |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective meaning "full of substance" is also a punny way to describe the hat seen here pithy |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: A quick look at something, perhaps the goose of the same name a gander |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Long ago important people wore fake hair, which led to this rhyming term for any person of high standing a bigwig |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: Yes, Dan, there are 2 "P"s in the middle of this word for the snazzily attired dapper |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: Named for a French aristocrat, it refers to pleasure felt from inflicting pain sadism |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: It sounds Scandinavian, but this synonym for slender comes from the Latin for "to pluck" svelte |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Professional description of Edgar Degas in one way & Jay Pharoah in another impressionist |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: A place where sweet treats like chocolate are prepared or sold confectionary |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word meaning the male head of a household is borrowed from Latin paterfamilias |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This plural noun is a French word for a set of clothes or accessories accoutrements |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $100: Sauerkraut is fermented this cabbage |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: It can mean both clothes to wash & a place to do it laundry |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $300: In Judaism, observance of this seventh day of the week begins just before sunset on Friday shabbat (or the sabbath) |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $500: This pain reliever went on the market in 1899, long before ibuprofen aspirin |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1,300 (Daily Double): As the song says, life is a this, a restaurant with booze & live entertainment a cabaret |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: One of these "after the fact" helps commit a crime & subsequently may be charged with obstruction of justice accessory |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a "Q" in this word referring to any nickname a sobriquet |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: The Goldilocks Zone refers to planets thought to be this habitable |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: A son of Zeus tormented by fruit beyond his grasp led to this verb meaning "to tease" tantalize |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Latin word for French is in this word that means to make something French in attitude or language gallicize |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Musically, it precedes Wayne & Uzi Vert Lil |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The Havanese & the Brussels Griffon are part of this tiny dog group the toy |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A synonym for a magical creature like a pixie, it can also refer to a mischievous person an imp (elf) |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A brief period, or an item straight from the horse's mouth a bit |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This quick dance move using your arms was popularized by Migos & Cam Newton a dab |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A less serious offense, such as shoplifting, often punished with less than one year in prison misdemeanor |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In 1949 Joseph Sobek created this soon-popular game played within 4 walls racquetball |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Type of criminal seen here & often portrayed in heist movies a safecracker |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: A homeless person may still have a place indoors to sleep; this is the term for someone sleeping on the streets unsheltered |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The original line of this separating 2 territories was the one dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal demarcation |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: Big bovine ox |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: An aboveground railway el |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: "Special" is one type of this short form ed |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter xi |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Paper container for more paper an envelope |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A formal hearing with a big shot, or a group of spectators audience |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died forensic |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Located near a coast, like some oil rigs offshore |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal" adequate |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws legislative |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name the shuttlecock |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military conscription |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin balderdash |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk" a funambulist |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Place to get a knish or a bagel (the whole word, please) delicatessen |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Hen night is Brit speak for this party for a bride prior to her wedding bachelorette |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Here's a puppy of this hybrid type--what a cutie Goldendoodle |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction carpetbagger |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's not an operation on a tiny area, it's one using a magnifying instrument microsurgery |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $400: The mathematical operation of deducting a number subtraction |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $800: If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type a mainframe |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war belligerent |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer a paparazzi |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game kibbitzing |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks a Frappuccino |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon" gives his dragon this name, but soon after gets a better look inside its mouth Toothless |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1200: Slightly different from accounting, it's the work of those that track & record money transactions bookkeeping |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1600: A tenant under contract is considered one of these a lessee |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: Ooh la la, chicken is sautéed & then stewed to make this French-named dish fricassée |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a tooth on a gear or on a rim of a wheel cog |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The flowing back of a tide ebb |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It describes a gradation of color, or color itself hue |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To regret a choice, perhaps not learning it's also French for "street" rue |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To cause a blemish on something that was perfect mar |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to travel completely around the globe circumnavigate |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels cardiovascular |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: By definition this type of speech is given without preparation extemporaneous |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time predestination |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important aggrandizement |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One who puts down in words the story of another's life biographer |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: "Mortal" word describing a jury that can't reach a verdict deadlocked |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's one of these on Wabash Avenue spanning the Chicago River; don't try to cross when it's up drawbridge |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: 10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne" incidental |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective for a defective argument begins with one of the 4 seasons fallacious |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for knowledge is said to be dispensed in pearls wisdom |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the container & specialty sporting good seen here a quiver |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: To light a fire one can enjoy while using the same-named e-reader kindle |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Spanish wine cellar, or a corner grocery store bodega |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: Alphabetically, this fertilized egg is darn near last zygote |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Luxembourg's official name includes the words grand this duchy |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A Scotswoman may speak about her wee this 5-letter word for child bairn |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It can be a poem for the dead, shorter than an elegy, or a musical piece lamenting a passing a dirge |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Alphabetically, it's the first chemical element with a 5-letter name argon |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It can mean the wading bird seen here or take aim at verbally & criticize snipe |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This common building lumber product is made up of an odd number of veneers glued together plywood |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: The name of this, red wine often mixed with fruit, comes from the Spanish for "bleeding" sangria |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Borrowed from Yiddish, it's the helping of food being added here a schmear |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning, leads to a self-contradictory conclusion a paradox |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the punning first name of comic strip reporter Mr. Fillmore Mallard |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Footbridge is a 10-letter word that you use if you're this kind of 10-letter traveler a pedestrian |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions a protractor |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This biology branch that shares a Nobel Prize category deals with the functions of living organisms physiology |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis maleficent |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From Greek for "to show through", it's used to describe a delicate, translucent fabric, perhaps a bridal veil diaphanous |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Us" is the objective case of this pronoun we |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: A snippet of it: ...288419716... pi |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the third note in the major scale of the sol-fa set of singing syllables mi |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the garment being worn here a gi |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A moon in our solar system named for a maiden of myth Io |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: What used to be called the pound sign is now known as this hashtag |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A small hotel, or a payment to a retiree a pension |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver a chalice |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A traditional 15th anniversary gift is this, perhaps from Lalique crystal |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958 a pioneer |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This game whose origins go back to ancient times is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles or points backgammon |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost a poltergeist |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer telemedicine |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective can describe something intricate or involved, like a certain maze from mythology labyrinthine |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to handle something roughly, like an animal would paw |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Portugal's national dish is salted this fish cod |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: The British use this booze to mean "strange" rum |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This term for flax fiber goes before "headed" to describe kids with very light blond hair tow |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Term for a day on Mars--24 hours & nearly 40 minutes, so you can hit snooze a little longer there sol |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can refer to a craving or an Asian currency yen |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course yaw |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto Sic |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South" a Col |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Vamoose! go |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Hamlet's first choice be |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Evil King clown tale It |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 22/7,
approximately pi |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: The farming equivalent of Big Pharma is not Big Farm but big this Ag |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A live performance of this musical genre that showed its "age" in the 1920s often includes improvisation jazz |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds like part of a wheel, but it's a jump in ice skating with one & a half or more turns in the air an axel |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A human-eating giant of folklore, or any terrifying person an ogre |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: This instrument has been in use since the time of the Crusades a fife |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This monarchical title was relinquished for good in 1917 czar |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: In arithmetic this operation yields a product multiplication |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired an understatement |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $600: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose reconnaissance |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting" gentrification |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1000: In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences" irreconcilable |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: It can start a campaign or a football game a kickoff |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Aristotle said about this infliction of pain: "People under its compulsion tell lies" as often as the truth torture |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: This adjective for a mass of ice often describes a slow pace, like of cars in a traffic jam glacial |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The National Federation of the Blind uses this word, not "unblind" sighted |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An airplane's maximum altitude in sustained flight a ceiling |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $200: A dorsal prominence of a finger joint a knuckle |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $400: From Latin for "to climb", it means to rise, as in a dirigible ascend |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $600: The Romans called it dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury Wednesday |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $1000: It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy league |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this currency |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400 (Daily Double): One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot" a cauldron |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A small insect, or someone who reads a lot bookworm |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed dispatch |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This tuna, species Thunnus alalunga, can be used in a nicoise salad albacore |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: If you take someone into your this, you are trusting them not to reveal what's been said confidence |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Laughter spreading in a crowd is often described as this, which, in a clinical sense, means transmitted by contact contagious |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: "A" is for this word meaning "without concealment" , in contrast with gamblers whose hands went under the card table aboveboard |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman compatriot |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Shizuoka is this, a Japanese jurisdiction, partly from the Latin for "before" prefecture |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: An expression peculiar to a language or culture, like "a different kettle of fish" idiom |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: An assumed persona, perhaps when undercover alias |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Quotient is a synonym for this, a proportional relationship between 2 quantities ratio |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: A brown pigment associated with old photos sepia |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The central administration of the Catholic church in Rome a curia |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Once with 20,000 people watching from all around, this type of arena in Pompeii is the oldest surviving one in the Roman world an amphitheater |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: In the 19th c., this lung disease caused by a mycobacterium reached near epidemic proportions in industrialized regions tuberculosis |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a part of speech that expresses emotion & is capable of standing alone, like wow! Or oh! an interjection |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of a mythological youth, this adjective means self-absorbed & egotistical narcissistic |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: Legalization differs from this ac-"tion", by which a drug is still illegal but possession of a limited amount is not prosecuted decriminalization |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $800: Idealistic philosophy of Emerson & Thoreau transcendentalism |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: Reduction of the body's ability to fight infection; it happens with HIV & can be done deliberately before a transplant immunosuppression |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Critic Roger Fry coined this term for the late 19th century art style of Seurat & Gauguin Postimpressionism |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: To speed up quickly, like your car to make that green light to accelerate |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning once every 100 years centennial |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Distracted mental state of being in love, like Cher in an Oscar-winning film; snap out of it! moonstruck |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: You might need a chorus to repeat this interjection, from the Hebrew for "praise ye the Lord" hallelujah |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: This object is formed by the gradual deposit of calcite a stalactite |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the scientific study of language & how it works linguistics |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: This ancient flying reptile had a wing span of up to 35 feet pterodactyl |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Latin for "grow to maturity", it's the period in which a child develops into an adult adolescence |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Attributed to Seneca is the line "Luck is what happens when" this action "meets opportunity" preparation |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective that means esteemed, like some awards, is from the Latin for "full of tricks" prestigious |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Where many of us start our schooling, at age 5 or so kindergarten |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "full trust", this adjective means intended to be kept secret confidential |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Playful & lively, kittens are often described by this 12-letter adjective that begins with the name of another animal rambunctious |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The official act of making someone a saint in the Catholic church canonization |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Often competitive, it's lifting weights & exercising to display one's physique bodybuilding |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $400: As seen here, Uncle Sam is a real stand-up guy, standing tall on these stilts |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $800: A burial cloth, or to conceal shroud |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1200: Depending how it's spelled, it can be a small perfumed pouch or to walk with a strut sachet/sashay |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1600: This member of the Greyhound family seen here is one of the oldest dog breeds saluki |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word borrowed from German means to ski straight downhill at high speed schuss |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Scalene is one of these with 3 unequal sides a triangle |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Treatment involving the cleaning, trimming & polishing of fingernails manicure |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective for something unimportant or something written at the edge of a printed page marginal |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Emotion mentioned 7 times in "Othello" jealousy |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just before landing, it's when the pilot lines up the plane with the runway approach |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: Moving in the opposite direction of the typical hands of a timepiece counterclockwise |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Medical professional specializing in artificially inducing insensitivity to pain for surgery anesthesiologist |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: From optometry, it's the condition of not looking forward in time to anticipate what might happen shortsightedness |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: With a name that spans oceans, this global hotel brand includes London's Park Lane & the Willard in Washington, D.C. Intercontinental |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $3,800 (Daily Double): In a 1923 poem Robert Frost described himself as this, now meaning one who advocates for the protection of the natural world an environmentalist |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: An additional airing of a previously broadcast TV show a rerun |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Candy word meaning to falsify numbers fudge |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Literally, sheep-ish ovine |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock a geode |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A block of precious metal of a standard shape & weight an ingot |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $400: Comic Sans MS is a type of one a font |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $800: David Bowie sang that this "makes a man take things over" fame |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $1200: It's an unweaned deer a fawn |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $1600: Any decree, or an automaker that originated in Turin a fiat |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $2000: In feudal times it was property granted to a vassal a fief |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: As an adjective, it means secluded; as a noun, it helps get your TV going remote |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This term for any basic food item also doubles for something that keeps your papers together staple |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds kind of trash-y, but it's a governmental excursion on the public's dime junket |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that means to squirm in pain begins with a silent "W" writhe |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word meaning "scheduled" begins with a type of metamorphic rock slated |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $200: A solemn promise, like one for marriage a vow |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the U.S., it's the anniversary to be celebrated in 2076 a tricentennial |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Really throwing her voice around, Darci Lynne won "America's Got Talent" performing as one of these ventriloquist |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's Latin for "road" or "way" via |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: A Buddhist temple in Cambodia, like Angkor wat |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Varieties of this citrus fruit include Murcott & Dancy tangerine |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a customary code of proper behavior or formalities in society etiquette |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: To take the water out of something dehydrate |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: This chemical that makes chili peppers hot is used in pepper sprays & topical painkillers capsaicin |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $200: A bear abode a den |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $400: Turn down the lights dim |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $600: A failure, like a movie at the box office or a shell that doesn't explode a dud |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $800: A turned-up noise din |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $1000: A cutting or insulting remark a dig |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To pull, or a big clumsy oaf a lug |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: When you disengage mentally, you do this 3-letter verb--no broccoli or cabbage required veg |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money rec |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: There are more than 40 species of this conifer, including the 200-foot-tall noble fir |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To Chaucer it was the belly; now it's the gaping mouth of a hungry creature maw |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $200: On commercial airlines, exit rows & bulkhead seats typically offer extra this legroom |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: At 380 feet, the tallest living tree is a coast this in California redwood |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Vespa is an iconic brand of this a scooter |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Nickname for a person from Muncie a Hoosier |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This term for a habitual object of abuse can also refer to something that invites you into a house a doormat |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective for school activities held outside of class & after regular hours extracurricular |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of a country taking state control of what had been a privately owned industry nationalization |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone who playfully signals romantic interest has this quality flirtatiousness |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: The condition of 2 people so different by nature that they are not able to work or live together harmoniously incompatibility |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adverb means nevertheless or in spite of; it doesn't mean fully seated notwithstanding |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $400: To move a doorknob to & fro with short, quick jerks jiggle |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $800: To bicker over a price haggle |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $1200: This music style blends Calypso & rhythm & blues, mon reggae |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $1600: Is this a short, swordlike weapon used for stabbing which I see before me? a dagger |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $2000: It's a Scottish pudding, laddie, if ye like yer pudding wi' meat! haggis |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: "Farewell" in Spanish, it derives from a term meaning "may (you) be (commended) to God" adios |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the perch you proverbially "rule" when you have total control the roost |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Bike shorts are often made of this 5-letter fabric that DuPont began marketing in 1962 Lycra |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: It means a two-footed creature a biped |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This French word means a feeling of tedium & dissatisfaction ennui |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Set your phone to quiver, or this synonym vibrate |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: To grapple, Greco-Roman style wrestle |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: To put a sword in its case sheathe |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The offspring of a deity & a mortal a demigod |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: Medically this pain is otalgia an earache |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: General term for a person who trains others to obey firm rules & a strict code of behavior disciplinarian |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Something that eludes classification is said to "resist easy" this, a process of identification categorization |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A person in their 70s a septuagenarian |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Authority to act for another, perhaps "by" this when you permit someone to vote in your place on corporate stock proxy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This yellowish brown is an eye color option on California driver's licenses hazel |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the instrument heard here, playing--if we may say so ourselves--a pretty nifty tune a kazoo |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A term for a mischievous fairy, it also precedes "cut" or "dust" pixie |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A musical composition with a repeated theme using multiple voices, or a disturbed state of altered consciousness fugue |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This abbreviated word is sometimes found before art & after photo op |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese calendar, 2021 will be the year of this animal the ox |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the name of the game being played here Go |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know this 2-letter word is a type of 3-toed sloth found in Brazil the ai |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man bachelor |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean reactions to an idea, or distortion caused by a loop in a sound system feedback |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Verb meaning to raise a body in the air & keep it afloat, as if by magic levitate |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: A large army unit made up of brigades & regiments division |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: An orthodontist may fit you with this external component of braces that sometimes comes with a chin strap headgear |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this bird is from Maori for the shrill cry of the male bird kiwi |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's really not that unattractive, but it is the name of the hybrid citrus fruit seen here an Ugli |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the theatrical technique of suggesting emotions without words, using only gesture & movement mime |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's someone who sells hot tips at the racetrack, or a verb meaning "to praise highly" a tout |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: 4-letter name for strong black Indian tea combined with milk, sugar & spices chai |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a state of diminished consciousness, especially under hypnosis trance |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The simple habit of the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth is a brown tunic tied with a cord, from which this string of beads hangs a rosary |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a candy-filled party animal a piñata |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A common character flaw in ancient Greek tragedy was this, meaning excessive pride hubris |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to indicate whether a substance is acidic or basic, this compound is obtained from lichens litmus |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The act of renouncing the throne abdication |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Any substance known to produce cancer, like benzene or coal-tar pitch a carcinogen |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Dive in to this, the tile on the wall behind a kitchen countertop backsplash |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community" expatriate |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Greek for "stomach" gives us this word for the science of good eating gastronomy |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: A synonym for slothful or idle (16 points) lazy |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Similar to a vixen, or attractive (17 points) foxy |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1200: It's a joke, especially a witty or timely one (15 points) a quip |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: An act of deception (14 points) a hoax |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: This humped variety of ox originated in South Asia (15 points) a zebu |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $200: To seep out in a gradual way ooze |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400: Said of a room that's open & well-ventilated airy |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $600: Your invisible glow aura |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800: The itty-bitty ninth letter of the Greek alphabet iota |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1000: A blunted dueling sword for competition an epee |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The nutrient fluid that circulates through a plant; it's also slang for a fool sap |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a large metal pan used in Chinese cooking wok |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: On "Game of Thrones", Peter Dinklage's character was called this word, which means a mischievous child imp |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 18th century men often wore a gooseberry--a large, frizzled one of these a wig |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A family or group of whales is known by this term a pod |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A cup for java, or to forcibly rob someone mug |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: That's right, friend, it's an enemy a foe |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: One of these costs might be luxury or flat a tax |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To put on an article of clothing; it's also a male first name don |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Before it's trimmed, this evergreen tree, popular in landscape gardening, has striking red decor a yew |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $200: If you're "in the red", you're in this, not where you want to be financially debt |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $400: Ships usually "drop" this when they want to stay in place an anchor |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Beating "Shoplifters" & "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category Foreign Film |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: Claymores & scimitars are types of these swords |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "body", the Marines are a formidable one a corps |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: A pioneer in any field, perhaps as a Portland NBA star a trailblazer |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Daniel Webster declared, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and" this word, like lovers who can't be kept apart inseparable |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: The ninth sign of the zodiac, it's represented by a centaur Sagittarius |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of raising someone to the position of a god to be worshipped idolization |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $200: Proverbially, it "is more" less |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $400: You do it as a verb to your eyebrow & have one as a noun as part of your foot arch |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $600: Below the correct pitch, choirboy flat |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $800: Any minor legally placed in the care of a guardian a ward |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $1000: Anything deceitfully false, or a type of cover for a pillow a sham |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $200: A reflection of sound waves back to the listener an echo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $400: Disc of light above a revered figure a halo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $600: A short note sent to someone you work with a memo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $800: This martial art takes its name from the Japanese for "gentle way" judo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $1000: This computer command at Control-Z or Command-Z can save you from awful mistakes undo |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $400: "Any port in a storm" is a popular one a proverb |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $800: A brewski in Barcelona a cerveza |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $1200: Pickles or ice cream for expectant mothers, for example craving |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $1600: A high-ranking college officer a provost |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $2000: Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard a clavier |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one capitalization |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city infrastructure |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist a paleontologist |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones farsightedness |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example interplanetary |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Bodybuilding includes a fair amount of this activity, using barbells & other resistance training devices weightlifting |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: The formula for this measure of a circle is pi times the diameter circumference |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the term for repetitive echoing reverberation |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13-letter adjective for the fluid that surrounds the brain & other parts of the nervous system cerebrospinal |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective with a meaning similar to "rebellious" refers to one who won't accept the authority of a superior insubordinate |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Stick held by an orchestra conductor a baton |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a group of witches a coven |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The Carabao is a popular variety of this tropical fruit mangoes |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Unit of weight equal to 16 drams or 28.35 grams an ounce |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: To make amends for a past mistake atone |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $200: It can refer to a thin sheet of any metal, not just aluminum foil |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $400: Something in this state is in a condition of continuous change flux |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $600: Pheasant or duck, for example fowl |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $800: A stodgy older gentleman a fogy |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $1000: Before "up", it means to admit to a misdeed fess |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the adjective used to describe a work only partially based on the writer's life semiautobiographical |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $800: EEG for short, it's a record of some of the brain's activity an electroencephalogram |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a gathering of protesters to express opposition to the aims of another group of protesters a counterdemonstration |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $1600: This "-tion" is the attribution of human qualities to something that is not human anthropomorphization |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adverb means in a manner not typical of a particular person uncharacteristically |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means toward the rear & is also a polite word for the part you sit on posterior |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: "S" is for "soft" in the name of this easily carved rock. It's basically talc soapstone |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: Yum-yum; here's this eggy dish that's a specialty of France quiche |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: The Latin for "of whom" gives us this word for the number of members of a group needed to legally transact business a quorum |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: To rot, or the uncle on "The Addams Family" fester |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Oddly, this word, land overgrown with tropical vegetation, is from Sanskrit for dry ground or desert a jungle |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word borrowed from French for "shade of color" means a small difference in many things, including colors a nuance |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Partner of hither, it means farther away yon |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Three-letter name for the offspring seen here a kid |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Water begins to form on plants & cars at this "point", the temperature at which the atmosphere is saturated with water vapor dew |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This 3-letter word can mean "except", especially preceding "none" bar |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A fuzzy surface on leather a nap |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A magician's conjuring rod a wand |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A verb for what you do to make porter, or a noun meaning the resulting drink brew |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: In our heavenly neighborhood, Ganymede is the largest moon |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Business owners often keep their money in this, the cash drawer in a store the till |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: In crossword puzzles, this state bird is often called a "Hawaiian goose" a nene |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A maker of maps & atlases cartographer |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The opening of the "Mission: Impossible" TV show advised that the instructional tape would do this "in 5 seconds" self-destruct |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The skin of this aquatic mammal is about 2 inches thick & secretes a pinkish fluid that acts as a sunblock a hippopotamus |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Value-wise, it begins once you drive your new car off the lot depreciation |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: From words meaning "life" & "difference" , it's the term for the range of species in a given environment biodiversity |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: If one of these, AKA a turkey vulture, is circling overhead, call 911 a buzzard |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: 2 basic types of college courses are the seminar & this, basically the professor speaking to a large group lecture |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: An oubliette was a secret one of these beneath a trapdoor in a castle & a place you did not want to end up a dungeon |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A type of poker game where A-2-3-4-6 is a winning hand, or to underestimate on purpose lowball |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: A place where metal is cast in molds a foundry |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Describing a whole order of mammals, this adjective is from the Latin for "flesh eating" carnivorous |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In 2018 a $10 million Houston mansion made news as the USA's most expensive property in this unfortunate status foreclosure |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: An artificial mannerism, like extending the pinky while drinking tea an affectation |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Someone who dislikes people in general, or the title subject of a 1666 play by Molière misanthrope |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of makeup is a symbol of acting in the theater greasepaint |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $400: Using the ocean itself to describe the crossing from Portugal to Haiti transatlantic |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $800: Mirowski & Mower developed the implantable one of these medical devices--clear! a defibrillator |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1200: Thinking about the past, or an exhibit spanning the career of one artist a retrospective |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ascribe human traits to that cute puppy anthropomorphize |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $2000: "V" aware it's the job of one who makes flags vexillographer |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Mr. Spock was big into this, the science behind being justified by reason logic |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Pertaining to Benedict XVI or Boniface VIII papal |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: This word denoting being simple or guileless is from Old French for "natural"; we hope you're not... naive |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece Doric & Ionic |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: This block wedged under a wheel comes in handy when changing a tire chock |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: A toast of grog to Sir Francis Drake, who completed this type of round-the-world voyage on Sept. 26, 1580 circumnavigation |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Made popular in a 1982 Spielberg film, this word means "originating outside of the Earth" extraterrestrial |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: Type of coordinated activity designed to prevent or thwart groups like ISIS that use violence for political aims counterterrorism |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Regarding a new business, it means having insufficient funds for effective operation undercapitalized |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: This method of cooling your home is pretty simple: open windows on opposite walls crossventilation |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: "Don't touch that" this, the tuning knob on a radio or television dial |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: "Pick up the" this, the rate of speed at which someone walks or runs pace |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a fact that this word means a collection of facts & figures to be processed in some way data |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: This waterfowl breeds by lakes in the northern U.S. & Canada loon |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Atomic number 30, this bluish white metal is a component of brass zinc |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $200: It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts" ifs |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $400: One of Santa's helpers, or a Keebler baker elf |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment" a fly |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $800: Towards the rear of a ship aft |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $1000: A dandy dude a fop |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It can describe a poisonous substance or a poisonous relationship toxic |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Lying flat, or having a tendency prone |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along" this large branch the bough |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: X marks the second spot in this word that means to praise or glorify exalt (or extol) |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $2,600 (Daily Double): In medieval legend, it was the cup or plate used by Jesus at the Last Supper grail |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A funeral song, or any mournful sound a dirge |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Collective term for the style of furnishings of a home's interior decor |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Worn in public by some Muslim women, it's a long, loose garment covering the body from head to feet a burka |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor" thane |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin the bight |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This biblical word is often found before "& behold" lo |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word eh |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: "Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal ox |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade me |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Dutch for "yes" ja |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: Anything that excludes you from consideration for a job disqualification |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Adjective meaning working the opposite way from what instinct suggests counterintuitive |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: The paper bag method is no longer widely recommended if you find yourself doing this--learn controlled breathing hyperventilating |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Adjective for the part of the life & career of George W. Bush that began in January 2009 postpresidential |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine northeasternmost |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: A dangerous storm that can form over tropical waters; a hurricane is one type a typhoon (or cyclone) |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Grammatically, the song title "You Are Loved By Her, Yeah Yeah Yeah" would be in this voice passive |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Many an old westerner packed his pistol in the Mexican loop style of this a holster |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: For a standup comic, it's an overlubricated member of the audience who keeps interrupting a heckler |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: The hazelnut is also called this, for a saint on whose feast day it is often ripe filbert |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't put off naming this, the postponement of a task procrastination |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: Throwing a punch is this type of bad conduct that'll earn you a 15-yard penalty on a football field unsportsmanlike |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: This quality of small cars makes them easy to handle, particularly in small spaces maneuverability |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: Oxfam is this type of international voluntary organization, NGO for short nongovernmental |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the propensity for asking a lot of questions, whether out of curiosity or nosiness inquisitiveness |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a fancy word for rain, snow or sleet precipitation |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: One-word job description of a broadcasting preacher, such as Oral Roberts televangelist |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A place to total up your money; "the king was" there in "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" the countinghouse |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's named for its composition of smaller bits of wood particleboard |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1,700 (Daily Double): Grandstanding verbally & dogmatically, almost as if you were the pope pontification |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: This word meaning to recede often precedes "& flow" ebb |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Time Out New York says Russ & Daughters is one of the best places to get bagels & this lox |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: 1992 is the OED's first citation for this word meaning so-so; it described "Melrose Place" meh |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Doing this type of lively dance is synonymous with elation a jig |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This red, brimless cap is also called a tarboosh fez |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: In the sport of fencing, it's the term for a sudden thrusting attack forward a lunge |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: One breed in this class of hunting dog is trained to pursue foxes a hound |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: It has meant a tantrum since around 1930; decades later, people started adding "fit" a hissy fit |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Kids love to shoot down this 5-letter summertime delight seen here flume |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A masterless samurai often forced to roam from town to town a ronin |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $200: Command to Fido to retrieve a ball fetch |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a story that teaches a moral, like the one about "The Tortoise and the Hare" a fable |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: It's located between your hip & your knee the femur |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are used to refer to the plant & animal life of a particular region flora and fauna |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the official language of Iran; versions of it are spoken in Afghanistan & Tajikistan Farsi |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $800: 13 letters:
Adjective for a scream that will make the fluid in your veins coagulate bloodcurdling |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: 14 letters:
This sauce, gluten free & made by Lea & Perrins since 1835 Worcestershire sauce |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Means by which assassin Leon Czolgosz was killed electrocution |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: 15 letters:
One who doesn't eat meat but whose diet includes dairy products a lactovegetarian |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be "de luce" or "de toilette" as well as "de Cologne" eau |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $800: A football position or a sudden demise an end |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $1200: Alexander Pope wrote in 1711 that "to" do this "is human" err |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $1600: Glorfindel was one an elf |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $2000: A unit of work or energy an erg |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: An annual celebration when graduates return to an old school for parties & football homecoming |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of ice cream, or a native of a southern Italian city Neapolitan |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: A tightly encircling bandage used to stop arterial flow a tourniquet |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Christmas may be over, but this plant is still in bloom poinsettia |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This chemical element, symbol Mo, is used to harden steel molybdenum |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: A crease in facial skin, or an unexpected development a wrinkle |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: I lost by 3 votes? I demand this second tabulation! recount |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's also called a seismic sea wave a tsunami |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The "under"lying message in a novel or a conversation the subtext |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An evergreen, such as the spruce a conifer |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog obedient |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper picayune |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison stockade |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Secrecy, or a type of agreement not to disclose details publicly confidentiality |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: The glow of certain protozoans is the result of this natural ability to produce light bioluminescence |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The 1935, 1964 & 2018 State of the Union addresses used this word for the poor & needy underprivileged |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $200: Soup's on! This thick Italian one with vegetables, beans & bits of pasta minestrone |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $400: It's the Naval Academy's equivalent of a West Point cadet a midshipman |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $600: It's a little fancier name for a bartender a mixologist |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $800: Hark back to yesteryear to this old office machine being used here a mimeograph |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $1000: Medically speaking it's another term for a TIA, or transient ischemic attack a ministroke |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $200: Often charging by the pounds, some laundries offer this & fold service fluff |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: The Geiranger, this long, narrow inlet in Norway, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site a fjord |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: One from a palm tree is seen here a frond |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $800: A proverb says this "can move mountains" faith |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: Heard here is a bit of Bach's "Toccata and" this "in D Minor" fugue |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: From French, it can replace the word "place" in "in place of" lieu |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A tamale is usually wrapped in a corn one husk |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 2 vowels front this verb meaning "to remove from power" oust |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Washington, D.C. university honors this policy expert "of the year" wonk |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the simple bouquet seen here a posy |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $200: A hypodermic instrument to inject fluids into the body a syringe |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $400: Use this tube & enjoy a view of the threadfin butterfly & other reef fish a snorkel |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $600: It's a malicious computer program that gathers info about a user & then transmits it to an outside entity spyware |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $800: A long-handled pan used for frying food a skillet |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $1000: A cancerous growth of the soft tissues, usually appearing at first as a painless swelling a sarcoma |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: All toil & no play makes Jack this type of person who's addicted to his job a workaholic |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The opposite of "Oriental", it refers to the West Occidental |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: They create the betting lines for the Super Bowl & other contests oddsmakers |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The leather shorts seen here are perfect for a trip up the Alps lederhosen |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Portmanteau term for the rules that apply to how one communicates online netiquette |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, you do this to one's feathers to provoke anger ruffle |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the provider of nourishment seen here carhop |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: The return of a tennis ball before it hits the court surface a volley |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who is absent from school without permission truant |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A visible spirit, starting with a visible but silent W a wraith |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $200: It's a swimming stroke as well as a type of wrestling, skiing & skating freestyle |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $400: In a fairy tale Jack climbs it to a magic castle in the clouds a beanstalk |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $600: Types of this, which is often unleavened, include tortilla, pita & chapati flatbread |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $800: This type of combatant is seen in the painting "Thumbs Down" a gladiator |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $1000: In math, it's the set of real numbers; in "Star Trek", the space-time one got messed with quite a bit a continuum |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Solo for a soprano an aria |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A single sheet of window glass a pane |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $600: Kilauea output lava |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Venison & rabbit are this kind of meat game |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Lignite, for example coal |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me it means to postpone habitually rather than act procrastinate |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Yummy! This adjective means "saliva-inducing" mouthwatering |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This quality isn't just shown in being a good loser but in being a good (non-gloating) winner sportsmanlike (or sportsmanship) |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for a musician who plays the cymbals, drums or xylophone percussionist |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the large-scale removal of trees from a wooded area, often with detrimental effect deforestation |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The British pronounce this office worker & account keeper to rhyme with "mark" clerk |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Sometimes including insults, to do this other 5-letter "T" word is meaner than just to tease taunt |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: 2-syllable adjective for a comment that sums things up in a few words pithy |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A midwife is a medical worker who's there for the birth; this is a supportive counselor before, during & after it a doula |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Used to create little channels in the wood, it's the tool seen here--keep it away from your eye a gouge |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Today a secretary is often rightly called this 14-letter type of "assistant" administrative |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: To kill the pathogenic microorganisms in milk using this process, it's necessary to heat it to at least 145°F pasteurization |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Can I tell you something this way, just between ourselves? confidentially |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Like layers of rock, it's the hierarchical division of society according to rank, caste or class stratification |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: John Calvin wrote of this belief, "Eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others" predestination |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A stock of clothes or costumes for a play wardrobe |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: "Annual" term for a horse just shy of 2 yearling |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective preceding "care" given to mothers-to-be prenatal |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It means wary or ever alert; don't take the law into your own hands by adding an E to it vigilant |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a word from the French for a bullet's redirection after an impact a ricochet |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: As a preposition it can express location or time; as a symbol it helps define your email address at |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: The unconscious mind, according to Freud the id |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ancient city where Abraham lived Ur |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: This satellite, seen here on the left, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system Io |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Term for an angry crowd in the street a mob |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the deadly species seen here, notorious since ancient times an asp |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A church bench a pew |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This popular Jamaican music stye from the late 1950s predates reggae ska |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This verb means to fit a vessel with sails, Cap'n rig |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: To clip an animal's ears, or to trim a photo crop |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Darn! None of my numbers came up in this game Keno |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a small whirlpool an eddy |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 4-letter name for the mammal seen here orca |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: A popular type of protein powder is made from this watery byproduct of cheesemaking whey |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the job of the player in the foreground placekicker |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: The U.N. has an office for this, getting countries to give up their nukes disarmament |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone who loves computers & thinks the machines are the solution to everything technophile |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Saponaceous means "soapy"; this word means "impulsive" spontaneous |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: In this visual defect of the eye, light is unable to focus clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision astigmatism |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 is the year of this barnyard animal a rooster |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a solarium a sunroom |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's slang for a police informant a stoolie |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A portable rocket launcher, or a brand of bubble gum bazooka |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An incompetent prizefighter, or boxer Joe of comic strip fame who hung up his gloves in 1984 a palooka |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: The mouth of a gun, or the mouth & nose of a dog muzzle |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's piazza |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: Profession of George Woolf, sadly killed in a fall at Santa Anita a jockey |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The vicuña is closely related to this South American animal, prized for its fleece an alpaca |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: In humans, this tailbone is made up of 3-5 successively smaller vertebrae the coccyx |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's observing a potential military opponent to assess his position & strengths reconnaissance |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: You can win an Oscar for this specialty, the art & science of filming a motion picture cinematography |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced impressionable |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: This restoration to health is the specialty of the V.A.'s polytrauma centers rehabilitation |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great Depression gave rise to this, the study of income & output on a national scale macroeconomics |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the old-timey mustache seen here a handlebar |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Got milk? One of Wisconsin's nicknames is "America's" this Dairyland |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: A crime similar to kidnapping, or, medically, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body abduction |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of astronomy that studies the origin & structure of the universe cosmology |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: According to Genesis, on the second day God created this, which he called heaven the firmament |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: Fear of water hydrophobia |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A government led by 3 co-rulers, like Caesar & pals a triumvirate |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: Adverb meaning once every 2 weeks fortnightly |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In German Schmerz is "pain" & this is "world pain", denoting sentimental pessimism Weltschmerz |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's grape science, especially with regard to winemaking viniculture |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $200: In one version of the story, King Arthur obtains this from the Lady of the Lake Excalibur |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $400: It's an adjective describing the shape seen here hexagonal |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It means to place side by side for comparison juxtapose |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Any limb of the body an extremity |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Put 2 letters before a word for nasty fumes to get this word for nasty behavior obnoxious |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: To overeat, or a deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides gorge |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: An acronym for a confusing situation, its first 2 letters stand for "situation normal" snafu |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a slang synonym for zero, or a brand of lighter zippo |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: It can mean nifty or foppish dandy |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the French name for the type of shoe seen here, carved from a single block of wood sabot |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This type of training is for the specific skills needed for a particular job vocational |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: I demand the withdrawal of your opinion, or this word that means the same thing retraction |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the compound word for the garment seen here--note the buttons a shirtdress |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" laments the underuse of this 10-letter word for a ludicrous scheme or idea cockamamie |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The positioning of a horn player's lips & tongue on the mouthpiece, it's from the French for "mouth" embouchure |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A vase bearing the ashes of the cremated urn |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 3-letter name for the action seen here dap |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Here it is, your moment of this Buddhist movement introduced in China in the 6th century Zen |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: The point or tip on a calligraphic pen is called this nib |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: We have great expectations you'll know it's a spot on dice pip |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It was once a Westinghouse washing machine trademark; now it's a place where quarters are like gold laundromat |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Bob Marley was buried in a wig of these, his own having been lost to cancer treatment dreadlocks |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: To summarize another person's statement in new words, shorter & clearer paraphrase |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the veal preparation seen here--mangia scaloppine |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A type of fever that's a complication of malaria, or a security firm founded by Erik Prince blackwater |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning concerning the heart & blood vessels, collectively cardiovascular |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: The period of a film's creation after all the footage is shot & it's being readied for release postproduction |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a large increase in a species' numbers leading to a depletion of available resources overpopulation |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Similar to hallucinations, it's a phantastic sequence of haphazard imagery as seen in dreams or fever phantasmagoria |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A quality of only judging something by the way it looks & not by what it's made of superficiality |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: A kid learning to walk, or the size of clothing that the child may wear a toddler |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can precede proof, stripping or bureau weather |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: As a noun, it can be a heroic act or deed; as a verb, it means to take unfair advantage of someone exploit |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "split", it's a long narrow crevice made by the splitting of a rock or the Earth a fissure |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the 7-letter word for the underground reservoir seen here a cistern |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This job is also called dockworker or stevedore, but it contains more letters than either longshoreman |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Jesse Owens & Richard Wright were sons of this kind of rent-paying farmer a sharecropper |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Celebs open to contact from fans are called "very" this approachable |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for the use of agents like smallpox or Ebola to kill others bioterrorism |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $9,801 (Daily Double): The Latin for "cross" gives us this term for extreme pain excruciating |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Those wacky Brits use this 4-letter word to mean "apartment" flat |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Sherpas gave this 4-letter name to the creature that Tibetans called Metoh Kangmi Yeti |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 16th & 17th century chamber music often featured this bowed instrument a viol |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: "Come live with me and be my love" is an example of this 2-syllable foot an iamb |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This Japanese noodle is thicker than soba & usually made of wheat udon |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't be this type of person who sounds like a type of pest and is a litterbug |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Impossible to erase or wash away, such as certain inks indelible |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: While eating barbecued ribs, it helps to have this small piece of cloth that often follows "moist" a towelette |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Teddy Roosevelt took this term from "Pilgrim's Progress" to refer to one who digs up scandal about famous people muckraker |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: A herbicide is used to kill weeds & this similar-sounding pesticide is specifically used to kill worms vermicide |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A 300th anniversary a tricentennial |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This person maintains the field of a ballpark the groundskeeper |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This Latin word means "father of the family" paterfamilias |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: The equipment used in a particular activity; the "drug" type, such as pipes, are illegal as are the drugs paraphernalia |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of medicine deals with diseases of such glands as the thyroid & pancreas endocrinology |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Sodom was destroyed by fire & it brimstone |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Fiefs were part of this social system that was a big hit in the Middle Ages feudalism |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: A city in Iowa, or a type of sofa a davenport |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: For normal depth perception, the eyes work together in this type of vision binocular |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of belt worn by gunmen has little slots to hold extra ammunition a bandolier |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Closely connected words commencing with same sounds or like letters alliteration |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This condition affecting millions worldwide is the result of a poor or insufficient diet malnutrition |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective refers to moving things around, or the devious quality of controlling people manipulative |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: You get an "A" if you know it's the "A" in F=MA acceleration |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: A civilian in wartime, or an army member like a chaplain who doesn't actually fight noncombatant |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: The objective case of I me |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's Down Under slang for Australia itself Oz |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: A wise movie character told us this, or this not; there is no try do |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 2-piece martial arts garment a gi |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A woman loved by Zeus turned into a heifer Io |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the bottom of a sleeve a cuff |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Unemployed Brits are said to be "on" it the dole |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: The sound when a bell or laughter rings out a peal |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: A pillowcase with a tricky flap a sham |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: A magical charm, or skill or flair you don't want to lose your mojo |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A bloodsucking worm or friend a leech |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The baker's one is actually 13 dozen |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Domino's Pizza ads once wanted you to rhymingly do this to the noid avoid |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 1948 the Catholic Church published its last this "of Forbidden Books" index |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A grouping of something; there's a "very large" one watching the skies in New Mexico an array |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One's partner in crime an accomplice |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Name shared by the decorative device & the bird seen here a nutcracker |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It describes the circles seen here concentric |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Background music for a movie, or a line drawn beneath a word underscore |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Madam, I'm Adam" is a famous one a palindrome |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Airships also find shelter in this type of building; the one seen here is at Wingfoot Lake in Ohio a hangar |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a meeting of political party leaders prior to a general election; Iowa held one February 1, 2016 a caucus |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: This part of speech tells place, time, manner & degree an adverb |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: This 6-letter verb means to persuade a customer to buy something more expensive upsell |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A syrup of this Brazilian plant has been used since ancient times to induce vomiting ipecac |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: On Sept. 12, 2001 Norman Mineta, secretary of this govt. department, announced the deployment of sky marshals Transportation |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Someone in his or her seventies a septuagenarian |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Adjective for a speech given with no preparation or forethought extemporaneous |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York" knickerbockers |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature existentialism |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1965 astronaut Ed White became the first American this when he stepped out of his Gemini capsule for a 23-minute stroll spacewalker |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: The office of a pope or, pronounced differently, to express an opinion in a dogmatic way pontificate |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a presentation of the complete set of inflected forms of a verb conjugation |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: Peter Lely's 17-century portraits from the English court were noted for daring in this part of the ladies' costume décolletage |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): A dinner in appreciation & remembrance of one's past service or achievements a testimonial |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: It introduces a conditional clause if |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In math it's a synonym for "times" by |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: When I say, "We'll be right back", it's the next thing viewers see an ad |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The archaic plural form of thou ye |
