I’m Thesaurus Famous
The Pit
Lend Me A Jazz Hand
From Ye Olde English
Say It Like A Brit!
400

This boss is so miserly in a classic 1843 story, his name became a synonym for "cheapskate"

Scrooge

400

On warm nights, some 3 million of the Mexican free-tailed type of these flying mammals emerge from the Devil's Sinkhole in Texas

Bats

400

The "Chairman of the Board", this singer once crooned for jazzy bandleaders like Harry James & Tommy Dorsey

Frank Sinatra

400

It's a specific type of morbid or grim humor, or a terrible place where people used to hang around

Gallows

400

It would be especially appropriate to use this Cockney greeting with California's Gavin Newsom

Hello Gov’nor

800

Ink ain't cheap, you know! His name became a synonym for "signature" after he chose to supersize his on a 1776 document

John Hancock

800

A mammoth is stuck in bitumen while its family watches in horror in a sculpture outside of this research site in Los Angeles

La Brea Tar Pits

800

Thundercat has a robot hand in "The Book of" this "Star Wars" character but doesn't play any space jatz music in Mos Eisley

Boba Fett

800

This 6-letter word means to slake or to put out

Quench

800

It's a stereotype that Brits say goodbye with this 3-word exclamation that begins by repeating the first word

Pip pip cheerio

1200

DAILY DOUBLE: This character from an 1818 novel really should be a synonym for "scientist"; instead, he's a synonym for "monster"

Frankenstein

1200

The town of Mirny in this chilly region of Russia is built around a large pit for mining diamonds

Siberia

1200

This singer who lent her voice to bands formed by Count Basie & Artie Shaw received the nickname Lady Day from Lester Young

Billie Holiday

1200

This rhyming phrase means "here & there" and starts with the same letters as those 2 words

Hither and thither

1200

This slogan about sober restraint was coined for World War II posters that were never officially used

Keep Calm and Carry On

1600

When you write "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" like he did, that's when your name becomes synonymous with "genius"

Einstein

1600

Chuquicamata in Chile is a large open-pit mine providing ample amounts of this element, symbol Cu

Copper

1600

Terrence Blanchard blew some jazz for the alligator in this Disney film set in New Orleans

The Princess And The Frog

1600

It often precedes "& between", but it means "between" all by itself, so you're really saying "between & between"

Betwixt

1600

In the face of trouble, a Brit is told to keep "a stiff" this body part

An upper lip

2000

This American's name is used of anyone who gets out of a tough spot

Houdini

2000

DAILY DOUBLE: Take a deep dive near Tulum at the Pit cenote, one of the deepest sinkholes on this peninsula

Yucatán

2000

Louis Armstrong lent his iconic voice to the film version of this musical where Barbra Streisand is a matchmaker

Hello Dolly

2000

Maybe using sulfur instead of this synonym in the King James Bible wouldn't have had the same impact in Luke 17:29

Brimstone

2000

American bars have last call; pubs have this gendered equivalent (because apparently ladies aren't there at closing?)

Time gentlemen please

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