| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $400: After Cheryl, voiced by Judy Greer on this spy cartoon series, is reminded she hates babies, she replies, "Just baby people" archer |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $2000: "It was naturally of the essence that the young woman should be herself complex", wrote Henry James of this "Portrait of a Lady" heroine Isabel Archer |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $400: In this Rossini opera, the title character's son, Jemmy is quite the archer himself William Tell |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HEADQUARTERED IN $1000: Archer Daniels Midland;
McDonald's;
Tootsie Roll Chicago |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $800: Added to the title of this animated FX series: "Vice" (2014); "Dreamland" (2017); "Danger Island" (2018); "1999" (2019) Archer |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | WATCHING THE DETECTIVES $1200: Coming off "Hud" & "The Hustler", this actor played Lew Harper in films based on Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novels Paul Newman |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | ANIMATED ENTERTAINMENT $800: H. Jon Benjamin voices Bob of "Bob's Burgers" as well as this animated spy Archer |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | CHAPTER $1000: Chapter 1:
"Spade & Archer" The Maltese Falcon |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | LITERARY PROFESSIONS $800: V.I. Warshawski
&
Lew Archer detectives |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $400: I spy this spy said, "Lana... Lana... Lana... Lanaaaaaaaaa...! Danger zone" (Sterling) Archer |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $800: Malory, mom of this title spy: "Who put out a burn notice on Sterling?... but I would never...! Oh, dear God" Archer |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN MEMORIAM 2021 $600: This actress whose credits included "Arrested Development" & the voice of Malory on "Archer" passed away at 80 Jessica Walter |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Newland Archer arrives fashionably late to the opera as this novel set in 1870s New York begins The Age of Innocence |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $3,000 (Daily Double): The first play by lord, novelist, politician & inmate Jeffrey Archer had a legalistic title, "Beyond" these 2 words Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $400: A super funny archer a hilarious Sagittarius |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: From the capital of Italy, he's an archer & an impresario a Roman bowman showman |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANIMATED TV $1000: "Double Indecency" & "Skytanic" are episodes of the show about this title spy whose codename is "Duchess" Archer |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $400: In one legend this mythological hunter is killed by an arrow from Artemis & later placed in the heavens Orion |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $800: Schiller's play about this Swiss man features a bow, an arrow & an apple William Tell |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $1600: In this Edith Wharton novel, the aptly named May Welland Archer wins an archery contest at the Beaufort House The Age of Innocence |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $2000: She gave Legolas a bow of the Galadhrim, "strung with a string of elf-hair" Galadriel |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 2008 novel she gets angry at the Gamemakers & shoots an arrow into a pig they are about to eat Katniss Everdeen |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Author-run bookstores include Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville & his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas Larry McMurtry |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | NICKNAMES FROM TONY STARK $400: Hawkeye gets this moniker of a "Lord of the Rings" archer Legolas |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | "Q" $400: To shake, or what an archer keeps his arrows in a quiver |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $400: For its ninth season, the title guy of this animated FXX show was a hard-drinking pilot, not a hard-drinking spy Archer |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $2000: To loosen the tension of an archer's bow; in the past tense it means nervous & panicky unstrung |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | ASTRONOMY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows Sagittarius on the monitor.) The constellation Sagittarius represents an archer, but its eight brightest stars are often depicted as one of these, with the Milky Way as the steam rising from the spout a teapot |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | CHRIS P. $600: As Cyril Figgis, Chris Parnell got a "Chekhov" gun from this animated spy: "Careful, it could go off for, like, no reason" Archer |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | LET'S WATCH CARTOONS $800: The yakuza, Kenny Loggins & selling a ton of cocaine were in this spy cartoon that added "Vice" to its title in season 5 Archer |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | BALL $1200: May Welland's engagement to Newland Archer is announced at a ball early in this novel by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: This guy known in myth for his judgment was killed by the archer Philoctetes Paris |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This Edith Wharton novel ends, "Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel" The Age of Innocence |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | TV DINNERS $1000: In "Killing Utne", an episode of this animated show, the title secret agent can't stop a dinner-party assassination Archer |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Writing after WWI, Edith Wharton looked back to 1870s New York in this novel about Newland Archer & Ellen Olenska The Age of Innocence |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | ZODIAC GLYPHS $400: Let's kick it up a notch & say that this sign is our next target Sagittarius |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | ASTRONOMY $800: The Omega Nebula in this "archer" constellation was named for its resemblance to the Greek letter Sagittarius |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | ME & MY LITERARY ARROW $400: In Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", the mysterious archer called Locksley turns out to be this legendary bowman Robin Hood |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | ME & MY LITERARY ARROW $800: The son of King Thranduil, this skilled archer is the elven member of Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring" Legolas |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | ANIMATED TV $1000: This spy said, "I didn't invent the turtleneck, Lana, but I was the first to recognize its potential as a tactical garment" (Sterling) Archer |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $200: This arrow-totin' infant of Roman myth was a gangster of love way before Steve Miller Cupid |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $400: Daryl Dixon makes ample use of his crossbow on this AMC drama The Walking Dead |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $600: In a novel, she tells gs, "The boy from District 1 dies before he can pull out the spear. My arrow drives... into... his neck" Katniss Everdeen |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $800: Merida is on target--repeatedly--as she shoots for her own hand in this Disney/Pixar film Brave |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1730s the "Chronicon Helveticum" expounded on the legend of this archer William Tell |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | THE FIRST CHAPTER $1200: 1930:
"Spade & Archer" The Maltese Falcon |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | DANIEL DAY-LEWIS ON FILM $1600: 19th century high society lawyer Newland Archer The Age of Innocence |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | '80s FICTION $2000: This sci-fi great, PKD for short, published "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer", his last novel out in his lifetime (Philip) Dick |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $1000: "Honor Among Thieves" was a political thriller by this bestselling author & onetime member of the British Parliament (Jeffrey) Archer |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODES $1600: "The Pavlovich Brothers (No. 119-122)" & "The Cyprus Agency (No. 64)" The Blacklist |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | OF THE GALAXY $400: One theory says our sun came from a dwarf galaxy in this constellation of the archer, not the Milky Way Sagittarius |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | ZODIAC CONSTELLATIONS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue next to the monitor.) The brightest star in the constellation of this archer is Kaus Australis, from the Arabic for "bow" & Latin for "southern", respectively Sagittarius |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | SPORTS TALK $1000: Who's there? Oh, it's this notch at the end of an archer's arrow, into which the bowstring fits the nock |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ROBIN HOOD $800: The 2010 film of "Robin Hood" starred him in the title role, as an archer in the army who becomes the legendary hero Russell Crowe |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO $1200: A plaque on Burritt St. marks the spot where in this novel, "Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in" The Maltese Falcon |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | MAD MAX BEYOND PALINDROME $800: Max could teach some combat skills to this actor who played an "Avengers" archer (Jeremy) Renner |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $2000: Jessica Walter, voicing Malory, mom of this spy: "Look at me! Chopping ice for a Tom Collins like a field hand!" Archer |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: At age 37, Rossini wrote his last opera--this one about an archer William Tell |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | LIKE HENRY JAMES? $1000: I'd have liked to meet this "lady" that an 1881 novel is "the portrait" of (Isabel) Archer |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | WHAT'S ON TV? $2000: This animated spy on FX declares, "Lying is like 95% of what I do" Archer |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | NOVELS BY CHARACTER $400: Miles Archer,
Miss Wonderly,
Sam Spade The Maltese Falcon |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: George Archer joined this man's company in 1903; the "Midland" comes from a linseed products company John Daniels |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | RHYME HELL $400: Swiss archer who saved his son by slicing an apple (William) Tell |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this classic is "Spade & Archer" The Maltese Falcon |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 6-LETTER TV SHOWS $2000: The title character from this animated FX show works for the International Secret Intelligence Service Archer |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | ELF-HELP $1600: A "Lord of the Rings" fellowship member, this elf is a good archer Legolas |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL $400: In 1870s New York society, Newland Archer falls in love with Ellen Olenska in this novel The Age of Innocence |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | ALSO A ZODIAC SYMBOL $800: William Tell proved himself an able one of these an archer |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $1200: Lew Archer a private investigator |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | GILT BY ASSOCIATION $400: The Museum of Khartoum loaned The Louvre a gilt archer-king for the 2010 show "Meroe, Empire on" this river the Nile |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | LADY GAGA $800: The title "lady" in this Henry James novel makes the disastrous choice of the egoistical Gilbert Osmond The Portrait of a Lady |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | NAME THE AUTHOR $2000: "It's all right, Miles," Spade told him. "Come in. Miss Wonderly, this is Mr. Archer, my partner" Dashiell Hammett |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | A HISTORY OF VIOLINS $800: A violinist, not an archer, Giuseppe Tartini helped establish the modern style of using this a bow |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PLAYING JOURNALIST $1600: Coen Brothers movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh as reporter Amy Archer The Hudsucker Proxy |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $2000: Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece Portrait of a Lady |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | STELLAR! $600: Sagittarius is the archer & Sagitta is, appropriately, one of these with its brightest star at the point an arrow |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR $2000: The Los Angeles Olympics of this year had the games' first paraplegic athlete, archer Neroli Fairhall 1984 |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | "BO"s $800: An archer pulls it back to launch an arrow bowstring |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | THIS & THAT $800: From the Old French for "container", it's the container in which an archer carries his arrows a quiver |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $1600: Daniel Day-Lewis is Newland Archer to Michelle's Countess Olenska in this film based on a novel by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $2000: An agriculture company that billed itself as "Supermarket to the world": ADM Archer Daniels Midland |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: He got an Oscar nomination for playing Danny Archer, a smuggler interested in a "Blood Diamond" DiCaprio |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | ASTRONOMY $400: To Northern observers, the most brilliant part of the Milky Way is found in "the Archer", this constellation Sagittarius |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $200: Legend says Austrian autocrat Gessler got the point from this Swiss archer around 1300 William Tell |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $1600: The centaur/archer of this constellation is said to be Chiron Sagittarius |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | THE ZODIAC $600: Impulsive spending (perhaps on bows & arrows) typifies teens born under this sign of the archer Sagittarius |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | ODD JOBS $800 (Daily Double): Pronounced one way, it's an archer; the other, it's the guy with the oar closest to the boat's front bowman |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Henry James' Isabel Archer gets some European culture, so her story can be called "The Portrait of" this a Lady |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | TIME FOR A "PI" $200: We love this winged, unclothed infant archer of mythology, the son of Venus Cupid |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $800: This British Lord’s 1993 novel "Honor Among Thieves" concerns a plot to steal the Declaration Lord Archer |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | CONSTELLATION REPRESENTATION $600: Sagittarius is the archer; Sagitta is this the arrow |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | TURN AROUND, I'M DRESSING $1000: This "colorful" play by William Archer has taken on mythic proportions & salad portions Green Goddess |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | NAME THE AUTHOR $2000: He created Private Eye Lew Archer Ross MacDonald |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | EDITH WHARTON PIECES $600 (Daily Double): Wharton won a Pulitzer Prize for this novel about Newland Archer, who falls in love with his wife's cousin The Age of Innocence |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | INVENTIVE MINDS $2000: Scott Archer came up with the wet collodion process used in the first 20 years of this art photography |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $1200: Known as ADM, this agribusiness was one of the first to sell food to the Cuban government since the 1960 embargo Archer Daniels Midland |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | SIGNS $800: It's the sign of the Zodiac that's represented by an archer Sagittarius |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | ADD A LETTER $1200: ...to an archer's weapon & get this flat, rectangular cart with handles at each end barrow/arrow |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $800: A best seller in 1980, this Jeffrey Archer novel sounds like the saga of biblical siblings Kane and Abel |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | TRAVEL TIDBITS $200: Altdorf, Switzerland boasts a statue of this archer with his son, the "apple" of his eye William Tell |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | MOVIE ROLES $400: Anne Archer received an Oscar nomination for playing Michael Douglas' wife in this thriller Fatal Attraction |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | "WILL" OF THE PEOPLE $200: Swiss archer who broke a few child welfare laws around 1307 William Tell |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: "Melrose Place" actor Grant & legendary Swiss archer William Show & Tell |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 01/01/01 $100: On January 1, 2001 Detroit mayor Dennis Archer opened one of these that had been sealed January 1, 1901 Time capsule |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | THERE'S A "WAY" $1000: Bill Archer was the chairman of this committee in the House of Representatives Ways and Means |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE ARCHER $200: It's William Tell's famous familial feat of archery shooting the apple off his son's head |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE ARCHER $400: This "diminutive" companion of Robin Hood was a skillful archer too Little John |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE ARCHER $600: This Homeric hero shot the suitors of his wife Penelope "till the dead lay in piles" Odysseus |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE ARCHER $800: This rock star says his hero is Michigan bow hunter Claude Pollington Ted Nugent |
| #3569, aired 2000-02-24 | GERMAN LITERATURE $200: Friedrich Von Schiller, of "Ode To Joy" fame, is famous for an 1804 tale about this archer William Tell |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | INVENTORS $1000: In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer developed a wet-plate process, the first practical way to produce copies of these Photographs |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: In this Edith Wharton novel, Newland Archer marries May Welland but is tempted by Ellen Olenska "The Age of Innocence" |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | I HAVEN'T READ POE, BUT... $1000: It's a valentine that contains the story of a Swiss archer "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A plaque on Burritt Street in S.F. marks the site where Miles Archer was murdered in this novel The Maltese Falcon |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | REPUBLICANS $400: Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, he succeeded George Bush in Texas' 7th District Bill Archer |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | CELEBRITY ASTROLOGY $100: Little Richard & Rich Little were both born under this sign of the archer Sagittarius |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1000: Abel's daughter becomes VP of the U.S. in "The Prodigal Daughter", this ex-MP's sequel to "Kane And Abel" Jeffrey Archer |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | RHYME TIME $1,500 (Daily Double): An archer for Caesar Roman Bowman |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: Isabel Archer is the heroine of this 1881 novel by Henry James The Portrait of a Lady |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | EVILDOERS $200: Gessler was the despotic governor of Uri, a Swiss canton, until this archer bested him William Tell |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | ASTROLOGY $300: This sign of the archer is ruled by Jupiter, which astrologers believe is a friendly planet Sagittarius |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: Ross MacDonald named this character after Sam Spade's partner Lew Archer |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | LEGENDS $100: Altdorf in the Uri canton is the home of this legendary archer William Tell |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | TELEVISION $100: This actor's TV roles have included the Archer on "Batman", Chief Paul Lanigan & Ed Norton Art Carney |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Man of Steel" by Jules Archer isn't about Superman but about this late Soviet leader Stalin |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | PRIVATE EYES $1000: Ross MacDonald's detective Lew Archer got this new name when Paul Newman played him in the movies Lew Harper |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | THE OLYMPICS $100: In the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Games, one of these athletes ignited the Olympic flame an archer |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Kennedy is the president of the U.S. in Jeffrey Archer's 1977 novel "Shall We Tell the President?" Edward (Teddy) |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He was a member of the House of Commons before he wrote "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less" Jeffrey Archer |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | STARTS WITH "Q" $200: It's where an archer keeps his arrows a quiver |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | RADIO SITCOMS $500: Every week you could "Meet" this teenage girl & her boyfriend Dexter Franklin Corliss Archer |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $500: Paul Newman's "Harper" character was actually this private eye created by Ross MacDonald Lew Archer |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | PEOPLE $800: Anne Archer is the daughter of this actress who played Danny Thomas' wife on TV Marjorie Lord |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | FAMOUS MEN $500: This author of "Kane & Abel" was only 29 when elected to parliament Jeffrey Archer |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | FISH FACTS $300: Not necessarily Sagittarians, these fish can shoot down insects 3' above the water by spitting at them the archer fish |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | FISH $100: The Southeast Asian archer fish shoots down its prey with a jet of this water |
| #761, aired 1987-12-21 | ASTRONOMY $200: "Occupation" of the constellation Sagittarius archer |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $1000: "As evidence of skill, a good archer is not known by his arrows" but by this his aim |
| #709, aired 1987-10-08 | ADVERSARIES $100: The archenemy of this archer was the Sheriff of Nottingham Robin Hood |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1000: While Yvonne means "archer", this male form of the name means "little archer" Yves |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | FAMOUS PARTNERS $800: Detective Sam Spade's partner whose death sent Bogart in pursuit of the Maltese Falcon Miles Archer |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | DETECTIVES $600: People still go to John's Grill in S.F. hoping to catch a glimpse of him, Miles Archer's partner Sam Spade |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | ASTRONOMY $500: It follows that if the constellation Sagittarius is "the archer", the constellation Sagitta is this the Arrow |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | ENDS IN "ID" $200: Amour's archer Cupid |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | SPORTS HISTORY $200: An archer splitting a competitor's arrow embedded in target is called this, after English outlaw a Robin Hood |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $400: Ross McDonald's detective Lew Archer's name was changed to this for '66 Newman film Harper |
