| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Let's take a pregnant pause for this term of 3 months trimester |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $200: 3-letter word meaning to hound with continued fault-finding nag |
| #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 |
| #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 $1200: Described in 3 of the gospels, it's the term for Jesus' change in appearance to divine form up on a mountain transfiguration |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $400: This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper rod |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
| #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 |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $400: This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated lap |
| #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 |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Scalene is one of these with 3 unequal sides a triangle |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | POLYNESIAN WORDS $1000: In Hawaii say this 3-letter word if you want an edible paste; in Tahiti, put "Po" before it poi |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | VILE QUOTES $1200: An 18th c. quote says, "A man who could make so vile" this 3-letter play on words "would not scruple to pick a pocket" a pun |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: A paragram is another word for this 3-letter type of humorous wordplay like "poultry in motion" a pun |
| #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 |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: I lost by 3 votes? I demand this second tabulation! recount |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $400: An old 3-letter word meaning "before" ere |
| #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 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: In humans, this tailbone is made up of 3-5 successively smaller vertebrae the coccyx |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A government led by 3 co-rulers, like Caesar & pals a triumvirate |
| #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 |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Paired with "out", it means to painstakingly make a living eke |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Fen is another word for this damp landscape area bog |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: This sodium hydroxide solution is used to cure olives lye |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: Latin for "light", it's a measure of illumination lux |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A gambling establishment's cut on your losing bet, or excessive interest on what you owe vig |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $200: In cards you can't have a blackjack without it ace |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $400: It's what you need to row, row, row your boat oar |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $600: It's a synonym for color, or a shade of color hue |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $800: This is what it sounds like when doves cry softly coo |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $1000: In sushi speak, it's unagi eel |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This synonym for "everywhere" has 10 letters, 3 of them "U" ubiquitous |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Of the 3 instruments in a standard string quartet, it's intermediate in size a viola |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400: French for "handsome", he's a girl's boyfriend a beau |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800: Arborescens & vera are just two of the hundreds of species in this plant genus aloe |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1200: Shalom in Rome ciao |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Easter Island.) Their lips pursed in silence on Easter Island, the statues that the locals refer to by this four-letter term shed little light on their mysterious origins Moai |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $2000: A 3-pronged tip called a point d'arret was once attached to the tip of its blade to aid in producing touches an épée |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In Scrabble you get at least 12 points for this slang synonym of pimple zit |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A beam of light, or an arm of a starfish ray |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a Vietnamese soup with noodles & thin slices of meat pho |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: In Arabian legend, this bird was so big & strong that it could carry off an elephant roc |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: In this informal session, musicians gather to play improvised music jam |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the egg of a louse; add "wit" to it & you get a stupid person a nit |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This popular music of Jamaica originated in the 1950s & has elements of R&B, jazz & calypso ska |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: As a noun, it's something you chew; as a verb, it means to chew without teeth gum |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a baglike structure in an animal or plant, sometimes filled with fluid a sac |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Exclamation of approval for bullfighters olé |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Containing many frozen water crystals icy |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $600: My Chemical Romance & Panic! at the Disco are this type of touchy-feely pop band emo |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Yes, Maria, it means "farewell" in Latin ave |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Edible sea urchin gonads uni |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A solemn promise; you might take one "of silence" (but not now!) vow |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 237, when talking about 199 + 38 sum |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This British ending to the alphabet ain't dead, baby zed |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A crustacean's eggs, as the coral of the lobster roe |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Term for the dot shown here pip |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: The first 3 letters in this study of animals is a place you'd find a lot of 'em zoology |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To hesitate alliteratively is to hem & this haw |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Your face, or a coffee cup with a handle mug |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's short for a penguin suit tux |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the central part of a wheel, or the center of activity hub |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): Of Chinese origin, in U.S. slang it originally referred to a craving for opium yen |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $200: Height times width area |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400: Continental currency a euro |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $600: Pupu platters aplenty at this party a luau |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800: Individual invisible emanation sensed by psychics an aura |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1000: An orchestra player blows a 3-octave range on this an oboe |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It's a singing twosome duo |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: A mineral deposit from which metal can be extracted ore |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: Hold your horses & give me this synonym for sadness woe |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: In a fairy tale, a princess can feel it through 20 mattresses pea |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: The last class of the day seems to last this long, the longest division of geologic time an eon |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: A leadership of 3 people working jointly; Caesar was in "the first" one a triumvirate |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A gear tooth; you may feel like one in a machine a cog |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's slang for a $5 bill a fin |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A curve joining 2 points in geometry, or anything bow-shaped an arc |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It means to invest with a title, such as a knighthood dub |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know it's a 3-letter word for meadow a lea |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $600: Martin Luther King reached a peak with "Free at last! Free at last!" These 3 words, "we are free at last" Thank God Almighty |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: After good service in a restaurant, make it 15-20% of the pretax total a tip |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "strength" & meaning energy, it's often paired with vigor vim |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: In volleyball it's when you dive to hit the ball just above the ground dig |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Grass-covered soil sod |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Usually powdered, a peruke was a man's one of these in the 18th century a wig |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To choose, be it "in" or "out" opt |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Palindromic protection when eating lobster a bib |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: I don't mean to inquire impertinently, this verb-- oh, wait. I do pry |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Not strict; it's also used as a shorthand term meaning lacrosse lax |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Synonym for a dandy or popinjay a fop |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | "ACK" WORDS $1000: To intentionally put 5/8/13 on a document you're writing 3 months later on 8/5/13 is to do this backdating |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A solemn promise, perhaps to a bride a vow |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A certain dinosaur knows it's Latin for "King" rex |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: You can pick it up at a restaurant or push it down as a keyboard button tab |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: Bored-sounding 3-letter poetic word meaning "over there" yon |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A member of an American Indian people of Colorado Ute |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: This finished border on a garment is made by folding an edge under & stitching it down a hem |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This climbing vine is known to cover the walls of older college buildings ivy |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air, or a small amount of liquor a nip |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A narrow bed made of canvas on a collapsible frame a cot |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the possessive form of thou thy |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A female goat can be referred to as a nanny goat or this, just like a female deer a doe |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Cheers to you if you know that London dry is a common type of this gin |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: In a patriotic song Columbia is the this "of the ocean" "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This Hawaiian dish made from cooked taro root that's pounded to a paste is eaten with the fingers poi |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A unit of energy, it has also been used in slang to mean cool, great, wonderful rad |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): A standard of measurement, especially one 3 feet long a yardstick |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Morning moisture on the ground dew |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Tree "blood" sap |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Captain's book to record events aboard ship log |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A large tub for holding liquids such as dye vat |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A hip-hop greeting, or to eat the evening meal sup |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | CHILDISH WORDS $2000: 3-letter word meaning to jest kid |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A play on words, usually in a humorous way a pun |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 3-letter creature, seen here a doe |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's any of the bench-like seats with a fixed back arranged in rows in churches a pew |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: In tennis, when a serve hits the net & drops into the proper court, it's called this & is replayed a let |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To confer knighthood upon, or to insert new dialogue into a movie dub |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Add a letter to "smile" & you get this figure of speech a simile |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $600: This 3-letter onomatopoetic word can precede gun or top pop |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A pig's digs a sty |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 40 winks nap |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Anonymous John's last name Doe |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A small child, or a form of tater a tot |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Not sew, but you do this to make lace using knots & loops tat |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This mystical word used in mantras contains 3 sounds, but in English it's 2 letters om |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: You'll use up 3 vowels playing this word that means toward the side of a ship that's sheltered from the wind alee |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's short for the room or building where experiments are done a lab |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea ebb |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Sn is the chemical symbol for this tin |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This unit of illumination shares its name with an old brand of soap & detergent lux |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: These 2 similarly spelled words mean a span of time longer than an era & an electrically charged atom an eon & an ion |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | ANGRY WORDS $800: They said I was this 3-letter word meaning angry or insane--I am this! This, I tell you! mad |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SMALL WORDS $800: This 3-letter word can refer to something really small or the early hours of the morning wee |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: You hear this term meaning a term of 3 months a lot regarding pregnancy a trimester |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | NONCE WORDS $200: If the captain says the ship needs some swabification, you'd better find this 3-letter long-handled item a mop |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Steal from "Peter to pay Paul" rob |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A riotous crowd of people mob |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Weep aloud, or cry uncontrollably sob |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: In tennis, a high-arcing shot hit deep into the opponent's court a lob |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A male swan a cob |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: Every 3 years; make it an adverb to fit the category triennially |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It's said there are 3 things that matter in real estate: this. this, this location |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $200: 3-letter British term for a noisy quarrel a row |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Take a small drink sip |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the "stiff upper" projecting rim of a pitcher a lip |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Nada, nothing, or perhaps, to fasten your pants zip |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It can precede cord, tide & -roaring rip |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: After a 1997 golf injury, Evel Knievel got this body part replaced his hip |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | YOU'RE MAKING ME ANGRY $2000: In Scrabble words, "irk" has face value of 7; this 3-letter synonym, 13 vex |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | "LAST" CHANCE $600: The last 3 words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, they also appear in his epitaph "Free at last" |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | WORDS FROM RELIGION $2000: Lao-Tzu referred to this 3-letter word as "the unproduced producer of all that is" Tao |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This word for a buddy or chum is often followed by "around" pal |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Sushi-wise, uni is this from sea urchins roe |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: The name of this pop music style may have originated with Jamaican bassist Cluett Johnson's greeting ska |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: In Russian it means "village" or "peace"; its core module was launched in 1986 Mir |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): These homophones are both 3 letters long; one refers to a grain, while the other means "bitterly amusing" rye/wry |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $200: My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season pitfall |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This 3-letter word means "peace" or "village" in Russian; the space station named for it fell to Earth in 2001 Mir |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $1000: This 3-letter word means to poke abruptly, as with the point of a stick jab |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $400: This 2-letter exclamation can mean "look!" & is often paired with "and behold" lo |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): This 2-letter word can precede "blood" &, "incident"ally, "bow" ox |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $800: When it's in the wrist, this type of enlargement is called a ganglion a cyst |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This axlike tool is a 3- or a 4-letter word, depending on whether you spell it with that final "E" adz(e) |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Former "SNL" co-star Julia Sweeney's memoir of family tragedy & cancer is called "God Said," this Ha |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A large ruminant, or to talk idly a yak |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A solemn promise, or to promise solemnly vow |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: If you're an atom & you lose or gain an electron, you're one of these an ion |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This term meaning "to mark or write quickly" comes from the Greek letter "iota" jot |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the German for "bog", it's a lowland covered wholly or partially with water fen |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200 (Daily Double): Of the chemical elements, it has the shortest name tin |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It means "a male swan"; it's also what you eat corn on a cob |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: In some dictionaries, "cheerful" is now a secondary definition of this gay |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: St. Paul wrote, "by one man" this "entered into the world",--that'd be yours, Adam sin |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue crew stands with a geisha at a geisha house in Kyoto, Japan.) Maiko, or apprentice geisha, traditionally use darari, 1 of over 300 ways to tie the sash called this around a kimono an obi |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Exist/
unwanted "bonnet" intruder be/bee |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Nominative plural of "I"/
"Willie Winkie" preceder we/wee |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Conjunction/
mineral or/ore |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Gardening tool/
interjection following "Westward" or "Land" hoe/ho |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Next to/
automatic advance to second round without having to play by/bye |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the center part of a wheel, or the center of an activity hub |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In Psalms, "thy" this "and thy staff they comfort me" rod |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A sweet potato lookalike yam |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To a criminal, this slang term can mean "diamonds" or "to kill", so be specific when taking out a contract ice |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: One female gamete an egg |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: If that "spring lamb" you bought was really a 3-year-old animal, it should have been labeled this mutton |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Your closest relatives are you "next of" this kin |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: The name of this primate also means to mimic ape |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Ruminate on this--it's what a cow chews the second time around cud |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A male given name, it's also the Latin word for "king" Rex |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The insightful E.B. White said, "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before" one of these a war |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WORDS IN NOVEMBER $1000: 3-letter synonym for caviar roe |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It often comes before "and miss" hit |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Ocular term for a new shoot on a potato eye |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: To place wet hair in position by use of rollers & clips set |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A section of growing grass & roots cut from the ground sod |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Animal used to represent the first sign of the zodiac ram |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "invite", it's to strive in competition, as for a title vie |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a peanut in her hand.) A peanut is more "pea" than "nut": it's actually a legume; the nuts are seeds & the shell is properly called this a pod |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: This 3-letter word can refer to a globe or an eyeball an orb |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A water spirit, or to put the kibosh on something nix |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Arabic for "son of", it's often used in personal names Bin (or Ibn) |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: You can find 3 different words within this word meaning "in spite of" notwithstanding |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Hog home sty |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A card game, or the colorless liquor you might drink while playing it gin |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: To add a soundtrack in a different language dub |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Biblical holder of critters or commandments ark |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Towering timber seen here fir |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: An actor takes one during his curtain call a bow |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Throw away your oven & join Woody Harrelson in the movement for this type of food raw |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Muhammad Ali stung like a bee with this short, straight punch a jab |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A politician taking the low road is said to "sling" this mud |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Manly first name of British plotter Fawkes & "Sesame Street" game-show host Smiley Guy |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Do something intensely & you do it "to the" this, like Planck or Born max |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Oh, happiness! She shares "The View" with Elisabeth & Barbara Joy |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: A German soldier during WWI, or a member of Attila's tribe Hun |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A sealed vase in which to keep a loved one's ashes urn |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A projection on a gearwheel; you may feel like one in a giant machine cog |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a term for any Buddhist Temple in Thailand or Cambodia, like the Angkor one a Wat |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the molded shell on which lugers ride; riding double, you are nestled like 2 peas in it a pod |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: An adz is an axlike tool; this other 3-letter tool is used to punch holes in leather or wood an awl |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: The part of an apron or a pair of overalls that covers the chest the bib |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a vessel or duct, like the deferens one a vas |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Honey-making hive homey bee |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Wynken & Blynken's buddy Nod |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A large, unruly crowd of people, perhaps headed by Lucky Luciano mob |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A beam of light, or Mr. Charles ray |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Top-fermented beer relative ale |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Fishin' stick rod |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Now it's a party! Here's Joe with this "pony" cask of ale keg |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A rounded mass of chewing gum wad |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Over there; often hitched with hither yon |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: When paired with vigor, it signifies exuberance vim |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | ( )-LETTER WORDS $1200: (3)
Self-esteem, or a psychoanalytic term ego |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | REALLY LONG WORDS $800: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is the long form for the insecticide known by this 3-letter abbrev. DDT |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Your Uncle Marty can't believe you bought that sweater this way when he owns 3 garment factories retail |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It comes between ready & fire! aim |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: An old saying or proverb, or a tool you'd find in the garage a saw |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the vestment in the picture seen here an alb |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Often preceding "about", it means to wander restlessly or idly in search of pleasure gad |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To stitchers, it's a bit of leftover thread; to others, a scrap of food left at a meal ort |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | KANGAROO WORDS $800: Cut Brobdingnagian down to size with this little 3-letter synonym big |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | 5 SELLABLE WORDS $1200: 3-letter term for 1 unit of goods sold at Sotheby's a lot |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In English it's an Asian sauce; in Spanish it means "I am" soy |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Latin for "with", it precedes "grano salis" (grain of salt) as well as "laude" (praise or honor) cum |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: If hesitating between guten morgen & guten abend, there's always guten this, "good day" tag |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew clinks drinks with Sarah at an outdoor cafe in Greece.) To the Greeks, having kefi, or joy in the moment, often inspires this three-letter exclamation opa |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's French for "growth" & may follow "premier" to describe a first-rate wine cru |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | 3-LETTER ANATOMY $200: Don't give the principal any of this mouth part that's used to form words lip |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be an experienced soldier or a doctor for your pet vet |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 3-letter word often partnered with neither in a sentence nor |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This watery term turns up in the names of 2 NFL teams Bay |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A wildebeest is also known by this 3-letter name gnu |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the three letter term for the device that shoots out the electrons in a TV picture tube gun |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: In the title of an Aesop fable, this insect shared billing with a grasshopper the ant |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Cows regurgitate this from the first stomach to the mouth & chew it again the cud |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A small demon, or a mischievous child (who might be a little demon!) imp |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: In geologic time one of these, shorter than an eon, is divided into periods & subdivided into epochs era |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A single layer of paper, or to perform one's craft diligently ply |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: "Low" is another term for this Holstein holler moo |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The projecting rim of a cup or pitcher the "lip" |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the term for an old, worn-out horse; now quit bugging me! a "nag" |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 3-letter word for a short trip in a small aircraft a "hop" |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This phrase meaning “a witty remark” is made up of 2 3-letter French words bon mot |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew punches in from Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.) Terms for boxing punches include uppercut, hook & this 3-letter word jab |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the elongated core in which the grains of an ear of corn are embedded cob |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: These 2
3-letter words form the name of a synonym for rap music hip hop |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A confused & noisy clamor din |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "nothing", it's nothing, nada, zip, zero nil |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Before a race you might hear Ready...this...Go!!! Set |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what you do when you put 2 + 2 together, or 1 + 1 for that matter add |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's where people go to "work out" gym |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the main ingredient in a candle wax |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: In tennis, it's a high, arcing shot that ideally lands in play behind your opponent lob |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a horse race for 3-year-olds, or the stiff hat with a rounded crown that you might wear there derby |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | 3-LETTER POETIC WORDS $400: "I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with" him; "I told it not, my wrath did grow" foe |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | 3-LETTER POETIC WORDS $800: Sounding like a type of mineral, it fills in Byron's "Fragrant beads of amber ___ which her fairy fingers ran" o'er |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | 3-LETTER POETIC WORDS $1200: This word meaning "before" is a homophone for what you breathe ere |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | 3-LETTER POETIC WORDS $1600: Keats wrote, "With every morn their love grew tenderer, with every" this "deeper and tenderer still" eve |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | 3-LETTER POETIC WORDS $2000: It's any sphere, or an archaic term for the Earth orb |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $200: Sitting on the ocean floor with the Titanic are 500 cases of Bass this that went down with the ship ale |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $400: It's the truth; this caustic chemical may be sodium hydroxide lye |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $600: In crosswords, you may come across this 3-letter word for a meadow lea |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $800: When said twice, it's a lemur in Madagascar or an affirmative to a captain aye |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $1000: It's a short poem that's sung; Scott wrote one "of the Last Minstrel" lay |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In crosswords a swamp may be a fen or this bog |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a crowlike bird, often blue jay |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a section of pineapple skin, an apple seed, a spot on a die or a Dickens character pip |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A sailor may be a tar or this, also a mass or a lump gob |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: No mistake, according to Confucius, "The cautious seldom" do this err |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a 3-flavored ice cream usually consisting of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla Neapolitan |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Barnum & Bailey worked under a "big" one & we're not talkin' a spinning toy top |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The part of the tongue that holds the names you just can't think of at the moment tip |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): To "spell" this synonym for jinx, you also use an "x" at the end hex |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a division of a Cub Scout pack den |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Hamlet spotting the Bengay at the drug store would exclaim, "Ay, there's" this the rub |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Middle name of American architect Frank Wright, born in 1867 Lloyd |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A cozy cave for a bear, or a cozy room in your house den |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A deer, a female deer a doe |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A deer, a very large deer second in size to the moose an elk |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of machine you can use to send & receive letters or photos over the telephone line a fax |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: In a popular expression it precedes "and vigor" vim |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: An inexperienced person is this 'behind the ears" wet |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 2 bucks to win on Dances-A-Lot in the 7th, for example bet |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: In '60s Top 40 songs it preceded "Back", "Ready" & "Together" Get |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Term for the goal in hockey, soccer or lacrosse net |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: As a verb, it can mean to rent or lease let |
| #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 |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: "A spot of" this beverage is produced by steeping leaves in freshly boiled water tea |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A sweet potato lookalike yam |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: In the names of diseases, it follows small & chicken pox |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A pledge or promise, such as one made during a wedding ceremony vow |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the center part of a wheel, or the center of an activity hub |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | "FOR"-LETTER WORDS $500: This 3-named Confederate cavalry general became a leader of the Ku Klux Klan (Nathan Bedford) Forrest |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: This term for coffee is also a man's nickname Joe |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: They performed "Won't Get Fooled Again" when they reunited to play Live Aid in 1985 The Who |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: 3-letter name for the style of paintbrush seen here a fan |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: In Psalms, "Thy" this "and thy staff, they comfort me" rod |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): One female gamete egg |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To stick a faucet into a keg, or a listening device on a phone tap |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 3-letter word used in the opening line to describe "The Girl From Ipanema" tan |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: The egg of a louse, it's something picky people might pick at nit |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To a criminal, this slang term can mean diamonds or to kill, so be specific when taking out a contract ice |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To move aimlessly from place to place, maybe like a "fly", it's also a euphemism that precedes "zooks" gad |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | GIVING "THANK"S $300: On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s gravestone these 3 words follow "Free at Last, Free at Last..." "Thank God Almighty" |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | 3-LETTER SPANISH WORDS $100: No bull, it's "Bravo!" Ole! |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | 3-LETTER SPANISH WORDS $200: In 1980 Roberto Duran said to Sugar Ray Leonard, "No" this, meaning "no more" Mas |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | 3-LETTER SPANISH WORDS $300: Old Mexican movies & telenovelas end with this 3-letter word Fin |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | 3-LETTER SPANISH WORDS $400: Domingo, Lunes or Martes, for example Dia |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | 3-LETTER SPANISH WORDS $500: In Spanish it means "with"; in English, "against" Con |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: In the '60s it meant trendy or hip, like a member of a TV "Squad" mod |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: For 5 & 7 it's 12 sum |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A criminal charge, it's listed on a "sheet" rap |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: I can't tell either of these 2 3-letter words; I only tell the truth fib & lie |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A gullible person, or the juice in a tree sap |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's approximately equal to 3.14 pi |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: The 2 of journalism's 5 Ws that fit the category Who & Why |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: You do it to "the line" or it may be dipped to test the waters Toe |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: In 1993 Eugene Trivizas wrote the children's book "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad" this Pig |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The sentry will shoot you if you answer this when challenged Foe |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the gaping jaws or mouth of a carnivore, or perhaps, a rural matriarch Maw |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | WORDPLAY $200: Paronomasia, from the Greek for "A play on words", is the rhetorical term for this 3-letter word Pun |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: With this type of ear you "can" not appreciate good music Tin |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A "C" on a faucet in Mexico stands for caliente, which translates as this hot |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Sing with your lips shut hum |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Unnaturally pale... two... three wan |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Nickname of General Henry Arnold, the first commander of the Army Air Force "Hap" |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: This state's Middlesex County is its largest with a population of over 1.3 million Massachusetts |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It can be a female hare as well as a female deer Doe |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin for "I", it's the self, distinct from others; hope you don't have a big one Ego |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A short written version of your life Bio |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be the fluffy fashion accessory seen here or the animal seen here Boa |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It can mean to find fault repeatedly, or an old, worn-out horse Nag |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: For musicians, it's a job Gig |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A junior reporter (& not just of Chicago baseball) Cub |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Ed Ames' "Runneth Over With Love" Cup |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: To udderly intimidate someone Cow |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: If you've been this, you've been cheated Had |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's one layer of toilet paper or wood Ply |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A young fish, a way to cook it, or a "small" (unimportant) person Fry |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: An eye irritation, or a pigpen Sty |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A large coffee container, or a large vase to stash one's ashes Urn |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It equals 1/1000th of an inch Mil |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: A nervous laugh: 3 of its 6 letters are "G"s Giggle |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: You shouldn't let the tail do this to the dog Wag |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Just 15% of an iceberg left in a restaurant Tip |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: In baseball, it puts you "out"; it's also a game in which you may be "it" Tag |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It describes something radioactive or illegally obtained Hot |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Animal seen here (flightless bird) Emu |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | COLLEGE WORDS $500: 3-letter term for the head of a British college or the head of a Mafia family Don |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Joan Embery's version of Animal House Zoo |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Below par, off one's feed, under the weather, in short -- this Ill |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Splash guard for a baby Bib |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Short job for a musician Gig |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A cackleberry Egg |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the hole you want to get a hole-in-one in Cup |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A male swan, or an ear of corn cob |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It can be a brief swim, a scoop of ice cream, or a pickpocket Dip |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A witty remark, you may hear a "bon" one Mot |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: To protrude, like a jaw or a narrow strip of land out into a bay Jut |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Tongues & tails do it Wag |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Next in sequence:
One, two, six,... ten |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: When it precedes "off", it means to fall asleep Nod |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It describes a bomb that falls down & doesn't go boom Dud |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the only zodiac sign that fits the category Leo |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A baby bear, or a novice reporter Cub |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A cat might take this short sleep Nap |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Mimic, simian style Ape |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A tarboosh resembles this tall, red brimless cap Fez |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a lyric poem usually addressed to a person or thing Ode |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can mean quick to learn, or be short for a rental residence apt (or apt. for "apartment") |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Mantra for a unit of electrical resistance ohm |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Being alliterative, Eve may eye this ostrich relative emu |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Feel sorry for a street in France rue |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A sticky substance itself, doubled up they're amorous glancing eyes goo |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be an edge or border, or a basketball hoop Rim |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Near or toward the rear of a ship Aft |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a dot on a domino Pip |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It describes wine that's dry, not sweet Sec |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Crossword puzzlers know it's a bit or scrap of leftover food Ort |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: 2 of 3 U.S. states that fit the category (2 of) Ohio & Utah (Iowa) |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: This flightless bird of South America has 3 toes on its feet; an ostrich has 2 a rhea |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Cartographer's creation a map |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: In school it's a synonym for P.E. gym |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It's a small, pointed tool for making holes in leather an awl |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In tennis it's a shot hit high and intended to land behind an opponent a lob |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Spelled one way, it's the side of a ship away from the wind; spelled another, it's a meadow lee (lea) |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A brief swim, or something you serve with chips a dip |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Cleopatra's downfall an asp |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Ignited or illuminated lit |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a play on words a pun |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: To insert dialog in a soundtrack, or to bestow a new rank or title dub |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the track made by the passage of a wheel; if you're bored, you may find yourself in one a rut |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A steady trot for exercise, or a nudge a jog |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It's an involuntary muscle movement in the face a tic |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Title for a Perignon Dom |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: To eat one's evening meal to sup |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A British bar pub |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: "Dynamic" twosome duo |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: The in place to work out gym |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A small marsh or swamp bog |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the more common term for sodium hydroxide, which is used in making soap & paper lye |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge precedes "Humbug" with this interjection bah |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's short for facsimile fax |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: This term for a spell or charm comes from a German word for "witch" hex |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean once around the track, or to take in liquid with the tongue lap |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: An eye, or a royal sphere orb |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A small part for a actor bit |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Sometimes it's just this part "of the iceberg" that shows tip |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It precedes dog, rod & pants hot |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a promise to God vow |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's from the Latin for "to choose" opt |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the color that an angry person "sees" red |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: In geometry it's any part of a curve or circle an arc |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It means by way of via |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be the bill of a bird, or the point of a pen nib |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's a nickname for Christopher, or a container for small parts a kit |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: At a restaurant 15% of the bill is standard for this a tip |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: In "Great Expectations", it's Philip Pirrip's nickname Pip |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A synonym for sass, or the open spout on a pitcher lip |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A small pinch, or tuck's partner nip |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the basic monetary unit of Laos, or British for a bed kip |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a long bench for seating the congregation in a church a pew |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Meaning "to write down hastily", this word comes from the Greek Iota jot |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Often paired with to, it means "away" or "back" fro |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the term for food regurgitated from the first stomach of a ruminant & chewed again cud |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A symbol of the power of a monarch, it's a globe surmounted by a cross an orb |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a synonym for sob cry |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A glass container, or a sudden jolt a jar |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Keats wrote an "Ode on a Grecian" one an urn |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Yang's counterpart yin |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the egg or young of a louse a nit |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: To turn the light down dim |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A quonset is a type of this hut |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: You only have one when you're seated lap |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the downy surface of a woven fabric nap |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Each of its 6 faces contains at least 1 pip die |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It follows Q—or precedes "of the iceberg" tip |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A long, fixed bench with a back that holds church ladies, men & kids pew |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: This animal's name is also slang for a jazz musician cat |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: When Rip van Winkle woke up, his dog was gone & oh, shoot, this was rusted gun |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Kipling wrote, "Till the devil whispered behind the leaves, 'it's pretty, but is it'" this art |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: An evil spell or curse hex |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane & Kool Moe Dee received 1991 Grammys for this type of music rap |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It can be slang for a boxer, or a Chinese dog with a snub nose & a wrinkled face pug |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1961 Sue Thompson sang that these "movies make me cry" sad |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A Spanish gentleman, or to put on clothing don |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: This term usually refers to a domesticated pig weighing over 120 pounds a hog |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can mean to snoop, or to force open with a lever to pry |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: In computerese it's a word for a tiny piece of information a bit |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be a practical joke, something put over the mouth, or an obstacle to free speech a gag |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: In tennis this high- arcing shot is designed to land behind an opponent a lob |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A style of dance, or something you do with a pencil on a table tap |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Apply paint with short, poking strokes; just "a little" one "will do ya" dab |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: In boxing, it's a short, straight blow a jab |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A type of pop music, or to have an informal talk rap |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A light stroke with the open hand, or a way to "stand" pat |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It can be a deep hole in the ground, or the kernel of a cherry the pit |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To strike someone, or a successful song or show a hit |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Physically sound & healthy, or what a temperamental child might "throw" a fit |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can refer to a humorist, or to one's intellect & reason a wit |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: The metal mouthpiece on a bridle, or 12 1/2 cents a bit |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: 3 of the 4 Greek letters that are 2-letter words (3 of) xi, nu & pi (or mu) |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A restaurant or tavern, or a small country hotel inn |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: An old racehorse, or a constant pest nag |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It's the type of machine that sends & receives copies of printed material over telephone lines fax |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what the British call the letter "Z" zed |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A water sprite in Germanic myth, or to cancel or veto nix |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Divide into 3 equal parts trisect |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | 2—LETTER WORDS $200: 3.14159265... pi |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It can be a spigot, or the beer drawn through the spigot tap |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: An inexperienced newspaper reporter working the press box at Wrigley Field a cub |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: One of Santa's diminutive assistants an elf |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A scepter or crown is sometimes topped with this sphere that bears a cross an orb |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: The white-tailed species of this antelope is now confined to fenced farms & reserves in South Africa a gnu |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A little, white lie a fib |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: To confer knighthood by tapping one on the shoulder, or to insert new dialogue into a film to dub |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the sound a dove or pigeon makes coo |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To seize & pinch, or to drink liquor in small sips nip |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the passive, female principle in Chinese philosophy yin |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A sacred sister Nun |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: As a verb, you do it with your hands to get a drink; as a noun, it's something you drink from Cup |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: In the title of an Aesop fable, this insect shared billing with a grasshopper Ant |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean to crowd about & annoy, or the crowd itself Mob |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: When preceding "out", it means "to just barely make a living" Eke |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: According to Emily Post, the standard one for a waiter is fifteen percent tip |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The rim of a cup, or what you might bite to hold back your anger lip |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: "Cool", "gone", "far-out"; or where the pelvis meets the thighbone hip |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the seed of an apple, or a domino's dot pip |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: To move quickly; to fasten something; or just plain nothing zip |
| #1434, aired 1990-11-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Some 9 million people in Japan practice this form of Buddhism Zen |
| #1434, aired 1990-11-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In tennis, a serve that hits the net & drops into the proper court is called this let |
| #1434, aired 1990-11-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It often precedes a married woman's maiden name née |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A Tibetan ox, or to talk persistently yak |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A dog with a short, flattened nose, or the short, flattened nose itself pug |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It can mean the daily record of a ship's progress or the act of recording that progress log |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can precede brow, down or life low |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Although roosters crow, crows emit this sound caw |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the old kids' riddle, 1 of the 3 people present when you're alone in a room myself |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: An achievement is signified by a feather in this a cap |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: When you get mad you might "flip your lid" or "blow" this your top |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Henry Fielding wrote, "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of" this beverage tea |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Nautically speaking, if you don't like the look of someone, you don't like "the cut of his" one of these jib |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: The 2 horses bet on in "Camptown Races" the nag & the bay |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: It's Latin for 1 ring, not 3 circus |
| #1280, aired 1990-03-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This unit of the Roman army consisted of 3,000-6,000 infantry & up to 200 cavalry men the legion |
| #1263, aired 1990-02-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $300: 3 miles, or a group of bowling teams league |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: One could hold coal or a loony a bin |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A cold sting in the air or a small drink of liquor a nip |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A person who is insensitive to music is said to have this type of "ear" tin |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It can precede ball, curl, point, up & wheel pin |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A pen point that's inserted into a penholder, or the bill of a bird a nib |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | 5-LETTER WORDS $500: Musical instrument whose name is Hindi for "3-stringed", tho it actually has more sitar |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: Said 3 times, this sea bird's name sounds like a hit song sung by The Byrds tern |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: According to the cliche, "That's just" this part "of the iceberg" tip |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It can precede cord, current, off & saw rip |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: It can be a sting from the cold or a small drink some might take to warm up nip |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A dot on a die pip |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Slang for impudent talk, your parents didn't want you to give them any lip |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's twice the radius of a circle times 3.1415926 circumference |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: From Latin for "3-headed", it's a muscle that has 3 points of origin a triceps |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: Say it once & it's a puppet; say it 3 times & it's a bad Cary Grant imitation Judy |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Meaning "backtalk", this 4-letter word has 3 "S"s sass |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 U.S. states which fit this category (2 of) Maine, Idaho & Texas |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: 5/3 is an improper one a fraction |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: If the decision's been made, one might say this "has been cast" a die |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A slow plunge into a coloring agent for an Easter egg, or a quick plunge in the water for you a dip |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Deafening noises; a racket a din |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Performed did |
| #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 |
| #829, aired 1988-03-24 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: A 3-beat gait slower than a gallop canter |
| #829, aired 1988-03-24 | 6-LETTER WORDS $700 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 dwarfs in Disney's "Snow White..." who fit this category Sneezy & Grumpy (and Sleepy) |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: It completes the quote from "Animal Farm", "4 legs good, 2 legs..." this bad |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: From Latin for "feather", many a feather was used as one pen |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: This word can mean a dog or a boxer, the human kind, not the dog pug |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Archaic possessive pronoun replaced by "your" thy |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: In German mythology, it's a water sprite, but in American slang, it's "no" nix |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: If you're eager, you might be "champing at" this the bit |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Similar to a tarboosh, it's that odd red hat that a Shriner wears fez |
| #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) |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Proper title of the "Sound of Music" song which begins "Do a deer", it's 3 2-letter words "Do-Re-Mi" |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Slang for money, in I Timothy 3:3, King James Bible, it completed "not greedy of filthy..." lucre |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | 11-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): Part of historic Germany in title of the following composition, 1 of 6 so titled: Brandenburg |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: For a Catholic after confession, it may consist of 3 Hail Marys & 4 Our Fathers penance |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The 1st ordinal number with 5 letters first |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Latin for "two", Batman & Robin are a dynamic one duo |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Word cried by the last "little pig" "all the way home" wee |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: As an acronym it's a tombstone title; as a word it means "tear" r.i.p. |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A paronomasia, it's a play on similar sounding words pun |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Abbreviated "Sn", it's the only 3-letter element tin |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Lair of lions, thieves, or suburban husbands a den |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: From Latin for "wagon", it's an automobile car |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Nickname of famous football coach Glenn Warner Pop |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Taylor which might attract lightning Rod |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: A slightly incurved stick of pernambuco about 30 inches long, with a band of horsehair end to end a bow |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | 6-LETTER WORDS $100: 3 miles, or the one for women voters league |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A baby tailor might throw a perfect one a fit |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Follows drag & hair, precedes work & worth net |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: Some people have one "up their sleeve" or "in the hole" an ace |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Radiators, felt-tipped pens & toothpaste tubes all have one of these a cap |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A chapter of a play an act |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A baby tailor might throw a perfect one a fit |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Marcel Marceau's silent alter ego Bip |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's where flowers "sleep" a bed |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A flipper or a fiver a fin |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A grown-up acorn an oak |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To question ask |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Bathroom the British skip to the loo |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A fedora, homburg or derby a hat |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Quixote or Drysdale a Don |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Opposite of flow, tides do it ebb |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Where things are nipped in, or Lou's partner bud |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: Some people have a quick one, which beats a ½ one wit |
