Food and Drink Homophones
Starting peg for your ball on the links
Tee
As early as 1903 dazzling electric signage had earned this street the moniker "The Great White Way"
Broadway
Idiomatically, if you're "plain" this, you're unexciting
Vanilla
It's the "I" in Britain's MI6
Intelligence
This title for a European ruler can have a silent "T" or "C" at the front
Tsar (Czar)
A matched set, as of socks or gloves
Pair
During World War I, giant searchlights were used in the U.K. in defense of nighttime bombing raids by these craft like the LZ-98
Zeppelins
Named like the appendage of a large cat, this flavour of ice cream tastes of orange and black licorice
Tiger Tail
An herb, or a profound philosopher
Sage
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is considered this kind of gospel, from the Greek for "knowledge"
Gnostic
Use one to kill the undead or to hold down the corner of a tent
Stake
From Latin for "to ask", this room in a police station often (on TV) has one very bright bulb--we know you did it, so make it easy on yourself
Interrogation (Room)
This alliterative expression refers to a literal path fraught with troubles
Rocky Road
The idiom "too" this smart synonym "by half" means you're wise, but in a way that causes problems
Clever
This lung infection is commonly caused by a strain of streptococcus
Pneumonia
Large quadruped of North America with dangling dewlap & immense antlers
Moose
Dubbed the brightest light on Earth, the sky beam from the top of this Vegas casino can produce 40 billion candlepower
Luxor
It's the rock classic that begins, "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!"
Tutti Frutti
As Malcolm Gladwell discussed in his bestseller, “Outliers“, to become one of these at something it takes 10000 hours of practice
Expert
Psalms says, "Cease from anger, and forsake" this, "fret not thyself in any wise to do evil"
Wrath
An unpleasant high-pitched noise like from a jet engine
Whine
In 2019, a GRB, or "burst" of these radiation waves in space, was the brightest high-energy light ever observed
Gamma Rays
Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast
Neapolitan
Add -nt to the end of a word for one overly sensitive to decorum & you'll get this synonym for wisely cautious
Prudent
This type of "device" helps you remember something
Mnemonic