IT'S A TRAP
DOING THE SAFETY DANCE
ALPHABETICALLY NEXT GEOGRAPHY
HILL & MOUNTAIN IDIOMS
2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS
200
These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but... it's a trap!
Hansel & Gretel
200
FEMA says to replace the 9-volt battery at least once every year in this home device; some even include carbon monoxide sensors
Smoke detector
200
Great Lakes:
Huron,
Michigan...
Ontario
200
Someone at the top is this monarch, the title of an animated sitcom
King of the hill
200
Put rocks in a drink to serve it this way
On ice
400
Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second
Venus Flytrap
400
Goggles, gloves & masks are considered PPE, short for this
Personal protective equipment
400
California counties:
San Benito,
San Bernardino...
San Diego
400
A course of action with the potential for greater difficulties is this alliterative downhill course
Slippery slope
400
A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart
To bed
600
The now-heavily memed Admiral Ackbar discovers, "It's a trap!" in this 1983 film
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
600
DuPont says this ballistic body armor product provides tensile strength 10 times that of steel on an equal weight basis
Kevlar
600
DAILY DOUBLE!
South American nations: Bolivia,
Brazil...
600
To do this means to exaggerate a problem into something much larger
Making mountains out of molehills
600
This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male
Oh, boy!
800
In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price
Daedalus
800
Also known as an emergency stop, you hit this "lethal" 2-word device to turn off a machine immediately
Kill switch
800
State capitals:
Harrisburg, Hartford...
Helena
800
Reaching one's highest level of efficiency; you don't want to be doing it "too soon"
Peaking
800
Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish
Oy vey
1000
The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country
Chile
1000
Subaru provides beeps & visual cues on the rear camera screen, as well as reverse automatic this to ensure you don't hit anything backing up
Braking
1000
Former Soviet republics: Turkmenistan,
Ukraine...
Uzbekistan
1000
Be flexible: "If the mountain won't come to" this prophet, he "must go to the mountain"
Muhammad
1000
To Longfellow's Paul Revere, two lanterns meant this
By sea