Before and After
"Before" and After
Before and "After"
Hot Stuff
Desolation Row
200

Air Force One star drives OJ's escape vehicle

Harrison Ford Bronco

200

Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the lead singing voice, for this 1993 film, which Roger Ebert wrote "filled with imagination that carries us into a new world"

Nightmare Before Christmas
200

A small earthquake or tremor that occurs following a major one

Aftershock

200

This common pepper ranks at zero Scoville units, meaning it lacks any capsaicin, the chemical that gives most peppers their heat

Bell Pepper

200

"Einstein disguised as" this medieval archer "with his memories in a trunk / Passed this way an hour ago, with his friend a jealous monk"

Robin Hood

400

A condition in which a foot digit has an abnormal bend in it, and the first live-action Spider-Man

Hammer Toe-by Maguire

400

Antediluvian name of a 1974 live album by Bob Dylan and The Band

Before the Flood

400

A bar or nightclub with permission to remain open past a city's designated curfew

After hours

400

This Mexican state shares its name with a pepper variety, previously grown in Louisiana but now primarily cultivated in South America 

Tabasco

400

Everybody "except for Cain and Abel," and this Victor Hugo creation, are "either making love or else expecting rain"

Hunchback of Notre Dame

600
Lawsuit that legalized interracial marriage and the site of a 2007 mass shooting

Loving v. Virginia Tech

600

To reverse the proper order or procedure for something

Put the cart before the horse

600

The results of an event (usually a bad one); also the Rolling Stones album that contains the tracks, "Paint It, Black" and "Lady Jane"

Aftermath

600

Commonly used in Caribbean cooking, this very hot pepper (100,000-350,000 Scoville units) is named for its resemblance to a tam o' shanter hat

Scotch Bonnet

600

"They are spoon feeding" this famous Italian lover "to get him to feel more assured / Then they'll kill him with self-confidence after poisoning him with words"

Casanova

800

"Angels" shop, guarded by Treasury Department agents

Victoria's Secret Service

800

According to this 2005 country hit, vandalizing your ex's "pretty little suped-up four-wheel drive" is one way to send a message

Before He Cheats

800

An existence in which an essential part of an individual's identity or consciousness continues after the death of their physical body

Afterlife

800

This pepper, actually a smoke-dried jalapeno, is frequently used in Southwestern and Tex-Mex cooking (including burritos!)

Chipotle

800

Lon Chaney Sr. played this character in a 1925 silent film. He appears in the song "in a perfect image of a priest"

The Phantom of the Opera

1000

A 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller mixes with a forgotten 2020 subplot, with deadly results

Dial M for Murder Hornets

1000

Super talky and insufferable 1995 film with Ethan Hawke, which received an inexplicable sequel in 2004

Before Sunrise

1000

This 1983 TV movie dramatized the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas

The Day After

1000

The chili pepper is a member of this family of flowering plants, which also includes tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant

Nightshade (Solanaceae)

1000

These two modern American poets "are fighting in the captain's tower / While calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers"

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot

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