| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $800: 8-letter adjective meaning similar to a fake doctor or to a duck's call (26 points) quackish |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: 8-letter adjective describing the science of animals
(20 points) zoologic |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $400: A good manager knows how to do this 8-letter word, transfer responsibility for specific tasks to their employees delegate |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: I sound so much more refined when I use this 8-letter French synonym for "tushy" derrière |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: General term for the official monetary unit of a nation currency |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Golf is one type of this; parasol is another umbrella |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder a collapse |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Some workplaces have this network of linked computers, sort of the company-wide web an intranet |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: If you have plenty of freedom, you've been given wide this term from mapmaking latitude |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the feature that populates online forms with your birthdate, phone number etc. when you put in your name autofill |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put an "S" in front of a 3-pronged spear to get this word meaning annoyingly assertive strident |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: A "parental advisory" label created for records in the 1980s warns of this type of lyrics explicit |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: You may think of data as words & numbers, but digital images are also data & this term can mean information about an image metadata |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Paper container for more paper an envelope |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A formal hearing with a big shot, or a group of spectators audience |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died forensic |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Located near a coast, like some oil rigs offshore |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal" adequate |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence an oxymoron |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this currency |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400 (Daily Double): One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot" a cauldron |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A small insect, or someone who reads a lot bookworm |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed dispatch |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This tuna, species Thunnus alalunga, can be used in a nicoise salad albacore |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Scalene is one of these with 3 unequal sides a triangle |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Treatment involving the cleaning, trimming & polishing of fingernails manicure |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective for something unimportant or something written at the edge of a printed page marginal |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Emotion mentioned 7 times in "Othello" jealousy |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just before landing, it's when the pilot lines up the plane with the runway approach |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man bachelor |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean reactions to an idea, or distortion caused by a loop in a sound system feedback |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Verb meaning to raise a body in the air & keep it afloat, as if by magic levitate |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: A large army unit made up of brigades & regiments division |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: An orthodontist may fit you with this external component of braces that sometimes comes with a chin strap headgear |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | "THAN" WORDS $800: In Greek mythology this 8-letter figure is the personification of death Thanatos |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s $1600: The 8-letter name of this female sex hormone was coined in 1927 estrogen |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | USE YOUR WORDS $400: There's an amphibian in this 8-letter verb that means to jump over leapfrog |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $1200: This 8-letter adjective for middling effort comes from words meaning "halfway up the mountain" mediocre |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog obedient |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper picayune |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison stockade |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | LEXICON VALLEY $2000: This 8-letter name of an L.A. suburb & a Phoenix suburb is made of 2 different words for "valley" Glendale |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A stock of clothes or costumes for a play wardrobe |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: "Annual" term for a horse just shy of 2 yearling |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective preceding "care" given to mothers-to-be prenatal |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It means wary or ever alert; don't take the law into your own hands by adding an E to it vigilant |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a word from the French for a bullet's redirection after an impact a ricochet |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1,200 (Daily Double): It's the 9-letter name of the creature who is said to leave behind footprints measuring 24" long & 8" wide Sasquatch |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: You use it to squeeze into your Guccis; as a verb it means to squeeze into a small space shoehorn |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This type of vinegar is made from white Trebbiano grape juice heated & aged in wooden barrels balsamic |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: This synonym for sophisticated comes from the French for "of good lineage" debonair |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): When a professor has this adjective after his name, it means he's retired but retains an honorary title & often, free parking emeritus |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Latin for "wave" gives us this verb meaning to move in a wavelike motion undulate |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: General term for any line on the globe that runs parallel to the equator latitude |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Based on its diet, an aardvark is sometimes called this other animal an anteater |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the game seen here cribbage |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: This symbol of the medical profession is modeled on a staff that Mercury carried a Caduceus |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: God compared the power of Job to this huge animal, kind of the land version of Leviathan a behemoth |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Type of seat with the best view at the boxing match ringside |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Egg white & sugar pie material meringue |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: A pay-to-drive highway turnpike |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: Scary brain operation that won a neurologist a 1949 Nobel Prize a lobotomy |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Introduced in 1985, Jolt Cola said it had twice as much of this stimulant as other colas caffeine |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates, with Jimmy nearby for support.) I'm literally walking on eggshells; the reason they're not breaking is the curve of the shell distributes this 8-letter term evenly pressure |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: In "Lolita", Humbert Humbert is an unreliable one; "Treasure Island" has a naive one a narrator |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: The name of a Norwegian army officer lives on in this synonym for traitor quisling |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: A song from "South Pacific" is about "A Cockeyed" one of this type an optimist |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It indicates an omission, as in "The Case of Lady M*" an asterisk |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It indicates an omission, as in "Life... and the pursuit of happiness" an ellipsis |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: An unnaturally high-pitched singing voice a falsetto |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who makes empty boasts a braggart |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: Be of good "humor" & say this word that means pertaining to glass vitreous |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS $600: This 8-letter word meaning friendly & agreeable often precedes "divorce" amicable |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for "insolvent" comes partly from a Latin word for "broken" bankrupt |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: In this type of composition, like Brahms' Opus 79, the "H" is silent a rhapsody |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: Flecks of fat in a steak marbling |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: A light-giving celestial body, or someone eminent in his or her field a luminary |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): If you grasp all the symbols seen here at a glance, this field must be your hobby heraldry |
| #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 |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: 8-letter adjective describing the science of animals (20 points) zoologic |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: To leave one's country of origin in order to live in another emigrate |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: On a college campus, Delta Sigma Theta or Alpha Kappa Alpha, for example sorority |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a video of a pool table.) The ability to give a cue ball this particular type of english reverses its forward momentum to set it up for the next shot backspin |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Greek for "beloved of all", it's a small paper booklet handed out at meetings & rallies a pamphlet |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: A babushka is this kind of headwear that sounds like it's followed by "Bless you!" a kerchief |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A first-year high school student a freshman |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: In business, an extra working period, or in sports, an extra playing period overtime |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Some choices come down to "quality versus" this "Q" word quantity |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: Type or print using thick, heavy lines for emphasis like this boldface |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: A brand of blue jeans, or a cowboy in charge of saddle horses wrangler |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: Rustic (6 letters) & pastoral (8) are synonyms for this adjective bucolic |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Spray-painted markings or initials on a building graffiti |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective for a stain that won't come out or a person who won't change his mind stubborn |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Don't fuhgedaboudit! Bensonhurst is one neighborhood in this NYC borough Brooklyn |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $800: To begin an activity to commence |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: In 1900 the LZ-1, the first airship of this type, topped out at about 17 miles per hour a zeppelin |
| #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 |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: You can drink from the "water" one at your school, but probably not the one at the mall with the coins at the bottom a fountain |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: More overcast than yesterday's weather cloudier |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: The person to whom apartment dwellers pay rent a landlord |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: A popular military motto is "death before" this, loss of respect or reputation dishonor |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for someone hired to do small jobs around the house contains a body part a handyman |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor" hematoma |
| #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 |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a synonym for speed velocity |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Prohibited, German style verboten |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Word for word verbatim |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Revenge, Italian style, especially between families vendetta |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: When you make an active decision, you do it of your own this volition |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: "Wise fool" is an example of this 8-letter figure of speech oxymoron |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 4-LETTER "S" WORDS $200: At 6'8" & 740 lbs. Emanuel Yarbrough was one of the heaviest men in the amateur division of this sport sumo |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | THE JOY OF 6-LETTER WORDS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew bangs on his bongos.) Bongos are generally tuned this 8-toned diatonic interval apart an octave |
| #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 |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $800: There once was a clue in our place/ about this type of poem, not mace/ short & quick/ a niffy old trick/ but then we ran out of a limerick |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: One honored for achieving distinction in a certain field; poet is one type laureate |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: The this & Lymphoma Society is a charity fighting blood cancers Leukemia |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: To contest in court or to carry on a lawsuit litigate |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | OTHER 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In 2010 American Humane celebrates "Be" this "to Animals Week" from May 2 to 8 Kind |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this arboreal rodent can also mean to hide something away, like money squirrel |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Relating to ships, as in a type of mile nautical |
| #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 |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A French term for the skipping of a stone on water gave us this word meaning "Rebound", often used of bullets ricochet |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Mica minerals are known for their excellence in this property; see how this one breaks cleanly along planes cleavage |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The earlier-in-the-sentence counterpart of latter former |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1600: John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word cornmeal |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Greek for "to see", it's a wide & unobstructed view of an extensive area in all directions panorama |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: A flag, a pedestal or a song often used in repertories standard |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: The scientific name of this whale is Megaptera novaeangliae, or "Big-winged New Englander" the humpback |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the death or decay of body tissue due to injury or failure of the blood supply gangrene |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: The military term for weapons & ammunition, it can also describe the tools used to make them ordnance |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $8,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin words for "no one" & "empty" come these 2 words that cancel a contract null & void |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Hostess snack food seen here split in half cupcake |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Africa's closest point to the continent of Europe lies in this country 8 miles away Morocco |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | UP WORDS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew performs with Gaetano the Illusionist.) This 8-letter word means to rise up into the air, to defy gravity to levitate |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Having no idea, like Alicia Silverstone in a 1995 movie clueless |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: This buttoned sweater & a matching shell usually make up a twin set a cardigan |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: This wood, seen here, gives a room a solid feeling mahogany |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of anesthesia used during childbirth, or the space around the spinal cord where it is injected epidural |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This type of chemical bond can be polar, nonpolar, single, double, triple or coordinate a covalent bond |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: The one thrown by men in track & field is metal-tipped & over 8 feet in length Javelin |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | ODD WORDS $600: The name of an exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair gave us this 8-letter word for a futuristic display-o-rama Futurama |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: The name of this marsupial can precede court or vine kangaroo |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A musical medley of familiar themes, or a 1940 animated Disney film featuring 8 musical sequences Fantasia |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: It's a framework of parallel bars used to broil meat, or a football field a gridiron |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Programs such as WordPerfect used to direct the operation of a computer software |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): This word for an occurrence of widespread destruction comes from the Latin for "star" disaster |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Eastern, or pertaining to the countries of the East Oriental |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: To mix or throw together objects, such as eggs scramble |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: The name of this gambling game is from the Latin for "wheel" roulette |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Used in lamp filaments & high-temperature materials, it has the highest melting point of any metal tungsten |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Also called a pick, it's a small, flexible piece of material used to pluck guitar strings a plectrum |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: In this game one player bends over at the waist while another jumps over him leapfrog |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A continuous track on which luggage is placed at the airport, or a merry-go-round carousel |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: To drain cooked spaghetti, use this metal or plastic bowl with a perforated bottom colander |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: The head of a state, or a mechanical device for maintaining uniform speed governor |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500: An animal embodying a supernatural spirit that aids a witch familiar |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin meaning "to serve", it's the rank above corporal in the Army & Marine Corps sergeant |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A memento, from the French for a recollection or memory of something a souvenir |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: A nonchalant attitude, or a supporter of Charles I of England cavalier |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This Greek stringed instrument resembles a mandolin a bouzouki |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Treelike, or a term which describes animals who live in trees arboreal |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: Crude writing or drawing on a wall; "Kilroy was here", for example graffiti |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A cowboy who tends saddle horses, or the brand of jeans he might wear doing it wrangler |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: A list of specialized words & their meanings, often found at the end of a book glossary |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin "frangere", to break, it's a broken or detached part fragment |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500: Iced rum & lime juice cocktail named for a place in Cuba daiquiri |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: A temporary elevated platform for workmen or hangmen a scaffold |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: This jug for holding & pouring wine didn't have a specific name until the 18th century a decanter |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: In photography it's the relative difference between areas of light & dark on a print contrast |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: This word that's sometimes confused with "energize" means to deprive of energy enervate |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500: Philosophy opposed to the hedonism of epicureanism, its followers probably had less fun stoicism |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: It can precede blanket, eel or Light Orchestra Electric |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A clergyman of any denomination attached to a hospital, ship or university Chaplain |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: Term for a barrier that impedes progress or a course made up of such barriers Obstacle |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: The large rounded part of the brain that occupies most of the cranial cavity Cerebrum |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500: The name of this flatfish can mean to move about clumsily Flounder |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: 1 of 8 flexible arms on an octopus Tentacle |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a male singing voice producing tones in an upper register beyond its normal range Falsetto |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: From the Latin for "boxer", it's another name for a prizefighter Pugilist |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This gas is the most abundant element in the universe Hydrogen |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This plant with a bulbous root is also known as a "Swedish Turnip" Rutabaga |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $100: 5/3 is an improper one a fraction |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A must for a European vacation, Chevy Chase could apply for 1 at a designated post office a passport |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: Named for a 19th century English artillery officer, it's a term for mine or shell fragments shrapnel |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: According to a Eugene O'Neill play title, this "Becomes Electra" Mourning |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $500: From Spanish for "courtroom", it's slang for jail hoosegow |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: You can find this part of your body between your neck & arm your shoulder |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: From Latin for "grandson" or "nephew", it's hiring your grandson or nephew nepotism |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: If you're a criminal, this type of platform can be fatal a scaffold |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This describes thin, not uncommon, air rarefied |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): A galosh an overshoe |
| #542, aired 1987-01-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In printing, type with thickened lines to give a very black look is called this bold |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The 1st ordinal number with 5 letters first |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | "SEA" WORDS $500: 8-letter synonym for mariner seafarer |
