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200

The Latin for "hollow" gives us this kind of shape used to describe spoons & satellite dishes.

What is concave?

200

This massive reef in the Coral Sea was formed on land once part of the continent of Australia.

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

200

A play on SETI, Project CETI looks to the sea instead of the sky & seeks to understand the languages of these creatures.

What are whales?

200

It's a lab vessel, or a drinking cup without handles.

What is a beaker?

200

At 10 minutes, 13 seconds, this Taylor Swift song became the longest No. 1 single ever on Billboard's Hot 100.

What is All Too Well?

400

A street like London's ritzy Egerton, or a lunar shape.

What is crescent?

400

The sands of this giant desert stretch across 360,000 square miles of Southern Africa.

What is the Kalahari?

400

In 2025, Tim Cook introduced this product--a .22 inch thin mobile device.

What is the iPhone Air?

400

If you "make" this, it's the most direct &/or quickest route, which is odd since those insects seem to meander.

What is a "beeline"?

400

His 2022 song "As It Was" went in one direction: straight to the top of the charts.

Who is Harry Styles?

600

A twisty road or river can be described as this word that begins with a word for snake. 

What is serpentine?

600

These provincial islands of Ecuador straddle the equator; Santa Cruz & San Cristóbal are found in the Southern Hemisphere.

What are the Galápagos?

600

Above battlefields, the FPV type of these are attached to fiber optic cables to avoid being disabled via radio frequencies.

What are drones?

600

Some scholars believe this giant beast spoken of in the Book of Job may have been the hippopotamus.

What is the Behemoth?

600

In 2025 people flipped for "Mystical Magical" by this singer who would be happy to return the favor.

Who is Benson Boone?

800

If a leaf is described as sagittiform, it resembles one of these, part of an airborne weapon.

What is an arrowhead?

800

Named for an explorer, it's alphabetically first of the seas surrounding Antarctica.

What is the Amundsen Sea?

800

In May 2026 this Amazon-owned business opened a book-less bookstore.

What is Audible?

800

A legacy, as bestowed in a will.

What is a bequest?

800

Noah Kahan says it's about the time in New England each year when all the leaves are off the trees.

What is Stick Season?

1000

Many churches were appropriately designed this 9-letter way, meaning shaped like a cross.

What is cruciform?

1000

South of Tahiti, Pitcairn Island was settled by this man, formerly a first mate.

Who is Fletcher Christian?

1000

Likened to Jarvis, this A.I. personal assistant that can clear your emails as you sleep was formerly known as Clawdbot & MoltBot.

What is OpenClaw?

1000

One begins, "Blessed are the meek".

What are the Beatitudes?

1000

"Told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could" is from this 4-letter Justin Bieber collab with The Kid LAROI.

What is Stay?

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