Bakers love this idiom about something foolish or remarkable; "Doesn't that just" this
Take the cake
Term for a volcano that hasn't erupted in many, many years but still might
Dormant
Snoopy's owner who's a large forest-dwelling ursine creature
Charlie brown bear
Elm
Fear
Jump
Sesame
Streets
This word once meant "to count on one's fingers" before it ever meant to figure something out
Calculate
If everyone is pointing the finger at each other after a horrible outcome, they're "playing" this, and it's rarely fun
The blame game
If your lab has a tile counter, don't use it to place solid carbon dioxide, aka this; the adhesive will be destroyed
Dry ice
A celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf
Black hole-in-one
Butterfly
Media
Security
Worker
Social _____
This word originally described someone who was physically unable to speak before it came to mean foolish
Dumb
This fraudulent investing scheme involves boosting a stock price with fake hype and selling before a drop
Pumping and dumping
Knowing what the D in DNA stands for should tell you this noun, the sugar found in DNA
Deoxyribose
Horse racing's biggest trio of events that the queen only wears on special occasions
Triple crown jewels
Pump
Steam
Tire
Waffle
____ iron
This word once described the physical act of weighing something carefully
Consider
This sanguine phrase refers to running violent, salacious material at the beginning of certain newscasts
If it bleeds it leads
Still mysterious but described as a "repulsive force", it makes up 70% of the universe, way more than the same-named "matter"
Dark energy
Night sack for a snoozing Boy Scout, that's the set of skills available to someone like a magician
Sleeping back of tricks
Mime
Prisoner
Referee
Sailor
Dressed in stripes
From a root meaning "to sit beside", this word now implies offering advice
Counsel
Meaning by any means necessary, this 5-word phrase ends with a shepherd's tool
By hook or by crook
Embryonic stem cells divide and give rise to more specialized cells, like neurons for the brain, in this process
Differentiation
Movie in which Morgan Freeman chauffeurs Catherine Bach in her short shorts, perhaps in the General Lee
Driving Miss Daisy Duke
Popcorn
Rapture
Rocketry
Soulmate
Words starting with music genres
Originally meaning "a cutting into flesh", this word now refers to agreement
Contract