| #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 |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $1000: 10-letter job of Mamet or Pinter playwright |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $1200: In France, comptable is this 10-letter occupation accountant |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts a tenderfoot |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON $2,000 (Daily Double): 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" Let freedom ring |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $200: It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts" ifs |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Rudimentary, or a type of school for young students elementary |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Term for a movie based on a novel or another written work an adaptation |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The skill of choosing a path for a ship or aircraft to its destination navigation |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A person with his or her thumb out, once more common on our highways than today a hitchhiker |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping prehensile |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the beach favorite being played here paddleball |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A stern boss or supervisor may be called a "harsh" this taskmaster |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Background info in a novel or movie, or the type of international event seen here exposition |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Skill in navigating a boat on the waves seamanship |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: 10-letter "cardiac" object of passion, maybe even a "teen" one like Shaun Cassidy or Ryan Beatty heartthrob |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $800: With certified mail & this 10-letter type, the postal service provides proof of mailing registered |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Greek for "devil", it adequately describes my plans for world domination diabolical |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Thousands each year undertake this type of sacred expedition to Lourdes a pilgrimage |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This synonym for "everywhere" has 10 letters, 3 of them "U" ubiquitous |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Smuggled or bootlegged goods contraband |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "head", it means "to surrender" capitulate |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SURGICAL TERMS $800: This 10-letter adjective & noun is from words meaning "under the skin" hypodermic |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the process of converting computer data into a code encryption |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the lowest of the 6 Boy Scout ranks Tenderfoot |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The Latin for "master" gives us this name for a minor judicial officer such as a Justice of the Peace a magistrate |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This light thin cotton or rayon fabric has a crinkled surface & usually a striped pattern a seersucker |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: An irresistible crushing force, it was originally an image of Krishna carried on a cart that sometimes ran over devotees a juggernaut |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Random House describes it as "a greenish blue or bluish green" & ooo, sorry... aquamarine has 10 letters turquoise |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A melon with orange flesh cantaloupe |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A cohort of contemporaries; as a time span, it's often given as 30 years a generation |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Something worn by a boxer, or slang for someone who speaks for another mouthpiece |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Inflation erodes this "power" of a given sum of money purchasing |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of decorative glass gets its name from Italian for "thousand flowers" millefiori |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One devoted to one mate at a time monogamist |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A Latin prefix for "good" gives us this term for one apt to give endowments to schools benefactor |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Johnny Mercer said to do this to "the positive" accentuate |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Any medieval lyric poet of France troubadour |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A women's magazine, or the mistress of a castle chatelaine |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: For some reason, though Tennessee became a state in 1796, it held this type of exposition in 1897 centennial |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Michael Corleone commits this when he has Fredo killed fratricide |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Geppetto's job woodcarver |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Astronaut talk for the landing of a space capsule in water a splashdown |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: Derived from the German for "behind", it's the backcountry or the region beyond the urban areas of culture hinterland |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | WORDPLAY GRAB BAG $600: 10-letter words: self-denial of alcohol or sex abstinence |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Steal someone's ideas & pass them off as your own plagiarize |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The one for the movie "Burlesque" features 8 songs by Christina Aguilera & 2 by Cher a soundtrack |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Last name of singer-songwriters Loudon III & Rufus; it's also the term for a wagon maker Wainwright |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a beauty product such as Nair that removes unwanted hair a depilatory |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of zoology studies insects & related bugs like ticks & mites entomology |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Mission: this 10-letter word meaning hopelessly difficult; the clue will self-destruct in one second impossible |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In Olympic gymnastic events, it precedes "all-around men" & "all-around women" individual |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) This invention sped up the flow of news from behind the beyond; in 2001, this one sent the only real-time images of U.S. surveillance personnel being freed from China a videophone |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This "botanical" interchange is where 2 highways meet a cloverleaf |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: The gangster who actually moves his finger to carry out a hit while the guy who planned it might be elsewhere a triggerman |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for a shabbily clothed, dirty child is the name of a demon in the poem "Piers Plowman" ragamuffin |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: This clue has 10 of these segments of speech syllables |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $800: 10-letter word for a person who has an abnormal fear of bacterial or viral infection a germophobe |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: Round 8 served up this 10-letter Japanese word for meat & vegetables cooked tableside on a griddle teppanyaki |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A mat attached to a frame used as a springboard; sorry, gotta bounce! a trampoline |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: I'm going to use my power of this to tell you it's from the Latin for "supplying a hint" suggestion |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Isn't there a song about this variety of tangerine? a clementine |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A rotation, as on an axis, or a violent replacement of an established government a revolution |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the aged geriatrics |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the glass above a car's dashboard windshield |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: To move a kidney from one body to another transplant |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the round instrument heard here tambourine |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: "V" know it's another term for a respirator; do you? ventilator |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Literary term meaning to show or indicate earlier in the story foreshadow |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A cafeteria on a movie studio lot commissary |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the science lab.) Pyrolytic graphite repels either pole of a magnet, so when you suspend a magnet between 2 plates of the graphite, the magnet does what a magician would call this 10-letter trick levitation |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This liquid that's left after cream is churned can be an ingredient in a delicious biscuit buttermilk |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: In journalism it's more serious than a correction & means "we take the whole story back" a retraction |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): Jay M. Arena, director of the Duke Poison Control Center, devised this type of bottle cap childproof |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the word for what college costs; for 2009-10, Vassar's was $41,335, so start saving tuition |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW $2000: 10-letter word for the owner of a hotel proprietor |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Relatively speaking, it's your mom's husband by a later marriage a stepfather |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: From the late Latin for "word", this book is the last word on words dictionary |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Don't lose your head: this French device shares its name with an instrument for surgically removing tonsils guillotine |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The report's back from the lab; it's the science dealing with the detection of poisons toxicology |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Something that's the first son's due; Esau sold his birthright |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: The wife of one's dad by a later marriage (& she's not necessarily wicked!) stepmother |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This bird of the family Picidae uses its chisel-like bill to hammer into trees for food woodpecker |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: There are 360 members of the famous Mormon this Choir Tabernacle |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Heard here, it's the type of tuba named for a composer sousaphone |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a myth that this amino acid in turkey is the reason you nod off after a Thanksgiving meal tryptophan |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the USS John C. Stennis)
Carrier pilots like to have this to get airborne, by increasing lift if it's 10% of takeoff air speed, it reduces takeoff distance by about 20% a headwind |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's anyone who lives in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin--that part of the U.S. a Midwesterner |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Originally a computer term, it now refers to doing any number of jobs at the same time multitasking |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Almighty or infinite in power, as god is omnipotent |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): It's the more common term for a dactylogram a fingerprint |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It means next to last penultimate |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Horoscope maker an astrologer |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Temperature scale Fahrenheit |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective for one who speaks English & 2 others trilingual |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Not above underneath |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: A figure with 6 plane faces a hexahedron |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | "LETTER"-LETTER WORDS $600: "Dear Alex, mail this to 10 of your pals & make $1 ,000 or your mustache will grow back" is found in this type of communication a chain letter |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: If you don't know this word for a person who works under another in order to learn a trade, "You're fired!" an apprentice |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the oxymoronic longer term for a man on his wedding day bridegroom |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Like many CEOs, it's someone who spends close to every waking minute on the job a workaholic |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: I scream, you scream, we all scream for this vanilla, strawberry & chocolate ice cream flavor Neapolitan |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Greek for "city of the dead", it's the term for a large, ancient cemetery a necropolis |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power figurehead |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king gargantuan |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree" kookaburra |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Slow down, as in a car decelerate |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental saccharine |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Elizabeth II's was held at Westminster Abbey,
June 2, 1953 a coronation |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: On an insurance policy, it's the amount you have to "meet" before the company will make a payment the deductible |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It can mean immature, or pertaining to a second-year college student sophomoric |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you do a little exploring, you'll find that this is the term for the recreational exploring of caves spelunking |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Oddly, this word describing couples who get along & can live together in harmony comes from the Latin for "to suffer" compatible |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Colorful term for a person who forges objects of iron a blacksmith |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Repugnantly hateful, though we have nothing personal against the "Snowman" abominable |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: To go about under false pretenses, or a type of party with historical costumes masquerade |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Jugglers don't focus on any 1 particular ball; they use this type of vision to keep track of the whole area peripheral |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Security pledged for the payment of a loan; in a familiar but unrelated phrase, it precedes "damage" collateral |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Intolerable, as in a Milan Kundera title unbearable |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City tabernacle |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Greek for "together" & "name", it means having the same meaning synonymous |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Graphic representation of surface features on a region of a map topography |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's how the words seen here are presented italicized |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: "The Lord is waiting to take your hand, shout" this, "c'mon get happy, we're going to the promised land" hallelujah |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The Book of Revelation apocalypse |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word that means "to burn to ashes" comes from the Latin for "ashes" incinerate |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Meaning "self-governing", it's used to describe Tibet's official relationship to China autonomous |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of this mineral often used for pipes is from the German for "sea foam" meerschaum |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Often available on CD, it's the music & songs from a movie soundtrack |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The Internet or the online world cyberspace |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for your clavicle collarbone |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: A type of rafting in the rapids, or a real estate scandal involving the Clintons whitewater |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds woodpecker |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A child who shares his date of birth with 4 of his siblings a quintuplet |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Seen here, this building in Ohio's capital was built by 19th-century convicts the Statehouse |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads as she & Jon play cards.) Jon's keeping his cards under the table; I have mine above the table, which gave us this word meaning "without deceit" aboveboard |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: When you write a paper, you don't copy directly, but do this, a verb meaning restate or put into other words paraphrase |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): To talk to the Fish-Footman or the Mock Turtle, this is where you have to go Wonderland |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Superman knows it's from the Greek for "mother city" Metropolis |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: A round missile of war, or a splashy pool entry cannonball |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): The only continent that fits the category Antarctica |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A 1920s dance, or a city in South Carolina the Charleston |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A solid figure having 10 sides a decahedron |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The greatest distance it's possible to see with the naked eye, it's often part of the weather forecast visibility |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A driveway area where cars reverse direction, or the time needed to complete a task turnaround |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the art historical term for sculpture painted in many colors, like the Donatello seen here polychrome |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Travel to Springfield, Mass. & you can make a fast break for the Naismith Hall of Fame for this sport basketball |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the term for a person who abstains from liquor; it sounds like he drinks only Earl Grey a teetotaler |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago's Adler Astronomy Museum.) Built in 1913, the Atwood Sphere is an early one of these, which created a night sky using points of light instead of a projector a planetarium |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: At opposite ends, just outside the visible spectrum are infrared waves & these waves ultraviolet waves |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Next to the last; it's from Latin words meaning "almost last" penultimate |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: These flat, narrow noodles are popularly served "alfredo" fettuccini |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Discovered in 1928, it was the first successful antibiotic penicillin |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Entranced, or a 1945 Hitchcock film spellbound |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward palindrome |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "delay", it's an authorized delay of payment or of a specified activity moratorium |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: 1/10 of a dollar is a dime; 1/10 of a cent is this a mill |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Handwritten or typed, it's the original text of an author's work that's submitted for publication the manuscript |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The name of this transparent blue-green gem comes from the Latin for "sea water" aquamarine |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A person, like Brigham Young, with 2 or more wives at the same time a polygamist |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The proper way to address bishops & foreign ambassadors is his or her this your excellency |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This wormlike creature is a butterfly or moth in the larval stage a caterpillar |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: This small, heavy object, often made of glass, is designed to keep stuff from blowing off your desk a paperweight |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Doctors can look at blood cells under this magnifying instrument a microscope |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ross Powers won the men's superpipe at the 2003 U.S. Open in this sport snowboarding |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a list of the sources you used when writing a research paper a bibliography |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's someone who helps carry the coffin at a funeral pallbearer |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Jiminy Cricket acted as this for Pinocchio his conscience |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Oh my darling, it's a variety of small, sweet tangerine clementine |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Person who'd repair your Timex or Seiko watchmaker |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Remember Chuck Mangione? Remember this instrument that he plays? the flugelhorn |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the good book's last book Revelation |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a 3-flavored ice cream usually consisting of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla Neapolitan |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: In an orchestra, it's the section where you'll find the timpani percussion |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Presented by a grand jury, it's a formal written accusation charging a party with a crime indictment |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the medical branch that deals with antigens & antibodies & the body's ability to fight off disease immunology |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for "friendliness" is what a friendly university gives a student to keep him alive fellowship |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The ridges in this type of heavy carton paper, from the Latin for "wrinkle", are called flutes corrugated |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a 10-letter word that can be used to describe the fractions 3/9 & 9/27 equivalent |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Seattle) Used in "Hamlet", it's the common British term for the vendor I'm buying from fishmonger |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: As an adjective, it means dependent on an uncertain event; as a noun, it's a group that's part of a larger one contingent |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | "OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: This legendary creature of the Pacific Northwest is said to stand from 7 to 10 feet tall Bigfoot |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In August 1999 a 7.4 one of these struck Turkey along the North Anatolian fault an earthquake |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: One who writes another' life story a biographer |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: To shorten, like ND for North Dakota abbreviate |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Slow down, as in a car decelerate |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental saccharine |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | BRIEFLY $800: To a doctor a heart attack is an M.I., which stands for these 2 10-letter words myocardial infarction |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A visual record of earthquake vibrations seismogram |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Botanical name for the type of interchange seen here cloverleaf |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power figurehead |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew on a riverboat.) This title "Man" in a Melville story takes in gullible riverboat passengers on April Fool's Day The Confidence-Man |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): From the Italian, it means someone who organizes events like ballets & concerts impresario |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | WORDS FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: When this 10-letter word for plague is used, it usually means bubonic pestilence |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: David Letterman was a real letterman, belonging to Sigma Chi, one of these organizations fraternity |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: To pass off someone else's writing as your own plagiarism |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: This synonym for "basic" is used to describe a type of school elementary |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: This 10-letter adjective means "winding" or "like a snake" serpentine |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells hemoglobin |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A person with a body mass index of 27 is considered to be this overweight |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Big, perhaps like the object seen here monumental |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $600: This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king gargantuan |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Big, like an encyclopedia that fills many books voluminous |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "stunned", it's a colossal amount or just plain great stupendous |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: It can mean lasting 100 years, or a 100th anniversary celebration Centennial |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the longest side of a right triangle Hypotenuse |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: This branch of medicine deals with the diseases & functions of the heart Cardiology |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree" Kookaburra |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: From the Latin for "growing up", it's another term for a teen Adolescent |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A bumpy plane ride is usually caused by this irregular motion of air, sometimes "clear air" Turbulence |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A passionate preacher who holds public services, or any one of the 4 Gospel writers Evangelist |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: This term for a competent but undistinguished craftsman sounds like a person who takes lots of trips Journeyman |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Title adjective for Anne Tyler's "Tourist" Accidental |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to tear", it's a jagged tear or wound, Ouch! Laceration |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $100: Honest, Abe was the first person run by this party to be elected U.S. president Republican |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $200: It's any word that's spelled the same forwards & backwards Palindrome |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $300: In a movie it's the kind of music heard behind a scene background (music) |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $400: In this field of study, scientists have rocks in their heads, or ore mineralogy |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $500: 1 less than a cinquefoil Quadrefoil |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: According to Webster's, it's "a statement of what a thing is" Definition |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: In a criminal trial, it's this lawyer's job to try & prove the defendant guilty Prosecutor |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: It's equal to .0394 inches Millimeter |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the pigment that makes red blood cells red Hemoglobin |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: A creature that eats both animals & plants is described by this adjective Omnivorous |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Ice cream flavor seen here in an astronaut version: Neapolitan |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: James Boswell was Samuel Johnson's biographer |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Derived from Greek, it's another term for pharmacist apothecary |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a room where a scientist carries out his experiments Laboratory |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A group of people with common interests, or a Greek letter society for men Fraternity |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: It describes food such as fruits & vegetables that are subject to spoilage Perishable |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: South Africa first issued this 1-ounce gold coin in 1967 Krugerrand |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "hand written", it's the original text of an author's work manuscript |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's one's partner in crime Accomplice |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It means to set free, as from slavery Emancipate |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Literally meaning "all powerful", it's often used to describe God omnipotent |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Lionel Hampton's instrument Vibraphone |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin word for "tear", it describes someone mournful, who cries easily Lachrymose |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: Overhead strings attached to jointed limbs allow this type of puppet to move marionette |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A Mormon hall, or the portable sanctuary in which the Ark of the Covenant was carried tabernacle |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: From the Latin for "gum", it's an inflammation of the gums characterized by swelling & redness gingivitis |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Using this delaying tactic, Sen. Wayne Morse spoke for 22 1/2 hours against the Tidelands Bill in 1953 filibuster |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: In this ancient board game, each player has 2 dice, a dice cup & 15 counters backgammon |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the act of crowning a king or queen a coronation |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be any tool used in medicine or any device that produces music an instrument |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: Rings & a pommel horse are used in this sport gymnastics |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In grammar the present one ends in -ing, while the past one usually ends in -ed or -en a participle |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the act of taking another's ideas or writings & passing them off as one's own plagiarism |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: This punctuation mark can be used to show possession or the omission of letters in a word an apostrophe |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Carl Perkins & Elvis Presley were exponents of this musical genre combining rock 'n' roll & hillbilly Music Rockabilly |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: This ceremony admits a person to the ministry of a church ordination |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The name of this minor judicial officer, such as a Justice of the Peace, is from the Latin for "master" magistrate |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the collective term for the first 5 books of the Bible the Pentateuch |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the enforced isolation of a person or pet, to keep a disease from spreading quarantine |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It can describe a hateful, loathsome person, or a certain snowman abominable |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: It's a person who has an uncontrollable desire to start fires a pyromaniac |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a formal declaration of guilt, or of sins a confession |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the jellylike substance that makes up all plant & animal cells protoplasm |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: From the French for "present yourself", it can be a meeting of spacecraft or lovers a rendezvous |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Term for an author of a gospel. or one who zealously preaches the gospel an evangelist |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: A tribe or society where the dominant authority is held by women a matriarchy |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Boldly creative, like the titan who gave fire to man Promethean |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a mound of earth or stone built to hold water back; London has 1 named for Victoria an embankment |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be any large city or the specific city in which Superman lives metropolis |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: From the Latin for "shopkeeper", this word is a synonym for druggist or pharmacist apothecary |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $650 (Daily Double): Occupation in the title of the following song:
"25 dollar 30 now 30 dollar 30 dollar 30 dollar 30 dollar give me a holler 30 dollar who will bid it at a 35 dollar bid?" auctioneer |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A test for determining an item's quality or a film division of Walt Disney Studios touchstone |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a tattered, dirty child is from the name of a demon in "Piers Plowman" ragamuffin |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: Made by man rather than occurring in nature, it can refer to intelligence or respiration artificial |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: The legislative governing body of the United Kingdom Parliament |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: Stealing the writings of others & passing them off as your own plagiarism |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A ten letter body part you can file, buff & paint a fingernail |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It refers to all the stuff you need to write a letter, not just the paper stationery |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: In a fixed position, unmoving, like some weather fronts stationary |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The science that studies prenatal growth & development obstetrics (embryology) |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: Roots of this plant, "deadly nightshade", are made into med!cine to treat asthma & colic the belladonna |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: Look in this book to find all the words, not just the 10-letter ones a dictionary |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: After their freshman year, all students at the U.S. Naval Academy all hold this rank midshipman |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: Boring monotonous |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The activity that serves as your regular source of income, or the conquest & control of a country occupation |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: In 1978 this group had their first No. 1 hit with "Three Times A Lady" The Commodores |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A German response to a forced expulsion of air from the mouth & nose gesundheit |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: From Latin for "brother", it means to mix with others in a brotherly way fraternize |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: It describes words that express similar meanings, such as teeny & weeny synonymous |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In titles, it precedes ridge, kid & hotel heartbreak |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: The mistress of a castle or chateau chatelaine |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Its not in this clue & it should be an apostrophe |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A preacher like Jerry Falwell or Oral Roberts an evangelist |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: A person who starts the trouble & urges everyone else on an instigator |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Pronounced one way it's an Army fort in New Jersey, the other, it's French for 10 Dix |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $100: It's any fitting fabric for furniture upholstery |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Instead of being hospitalized, many who are sick can be treated on this basis outpatient |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: When a paper has erroneously reported a statement or story, it may print one of these retraction (correction accepted) |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: 10-letter word usually spoken when standing with hand over heart before a U.S. flag allegiance |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: From the Greek for "single tone", it means tediously uniform or unvarying monotonous |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A secret document you're not allowed to look at, or ad section in the newspaper that you are classified |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: 1981 hit for Kool & the Gang, or what they probably had after they found out it went to #1 "Celebration" |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: From French "not warm", it's to be cool or casually unconerned nonchalant |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: When you come to this Italian word on a musical score, you should play very loudly fortissimo |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent is also this, which means "all-knowing" omniscient |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The relationship of 16 ounces to 1 pound equivalent |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Productivity with a minimum of waste, it can precede apartment or engineer efficiency |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: In the formula for the Pythagorean theorem, A2 plus B2 equals C2, it's the C the hypotenuse |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: A branch of medicine dealing with problems & diseases of old age geriatrics |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 forms of "flying" transport that start with "H" & are able to take off & land in water (1 of) a hydroplane (hovercraft or helicopter) |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: My dear Watson, it's the type of school one attends before junior high or middle school elementary |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A device useful to biology students who want to sneak a peek at a paramecium microscope |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Many consider this varietal white wine to be America's finest Chardonnay |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: Indefinitely frozen subsoil underlying polar regions permafrost |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Fattening food, or just one member of the quintet heard here:
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day..." temptation |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Lighting fixture from which they say you swing when drunk or rowdy chandelier |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Your brother's daughter's daughter grandniece |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: To risk peril or invite loss, or what you do to your winnings every time you buzz in during this show jeopardize |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Sounding like a guy on the go, he's a tradesman working for another person journeyman |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin for "forward slope", it's having a natural inclination or propensity for something proclivity |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Wrinkled or furrowed, as cardboard or iron corrugated |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Mercy killing euthanasia |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: At record companies, it's what the “R” in “A & R” stands for repertoire |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example declension |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): From German for “rear”, it's the region behind a coast or remote from other cities hinterland |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: What you are on this show a contestant |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The opposite of myopic farsighted |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: What 2 opposite magnetic poles might feel for one another attraction |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): Two far west states with 10-letter names Washington & California |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin word for "health", it's the opening of a letter salutation |
