Triple Alliteration
This pencil-&-paper game is also known as Xs & Os
Tic-Tac-Toe
"I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue"
Ben Franklin
The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet
a Whale
It's not being too shy to have one's picture taken; it's the quality of being responsive to light
Photosensitivity
This winning declaration in a chess game is from the Arabic for "the king is dead"
Checkmate
Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet
Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name
Lewis Carroll
The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest
a Sloth
A gross this is a misrepresentation of an event as less complex than it really is
Oversimplification
In the NFL regular season, overtime games end after nobody scores in the period that's this many minutes long
10
The movie "A Christmas Story" used this canine phrase to up the ante in a big challenge
Double-Dog Dare
Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man
L. Frank Baum
When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis
play dead
Type of church not affiliated with Baptists or Presbyterians, for example; it includes many megachurches
nondenominational
"Walk-off" began as a term for a play that ends a game in this sport
Baseball
Relationship of Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria
Great-Great Granddaughter
N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan
C.S. Lewis
The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it's looking around for here
Sparrow
If you fear the number 13, you suffer from this
triskaidekaphobia
The bank cannot go broke in this Parker Brothers game, so exhaustion may be the deciding factor
Monopoly
One of this organization's missions is "calling out & addressing substandard marketplace behavior"
Better Business Bureau
A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker
Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that's able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer
Richard Waterman, who studied the songs of the Yolngu people, helped popularize this field of study
ethnomusicology
A hand in this card game with 2 potent potables in its name comes to a halt after a player "knocks
Gin Rummy