AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY
THERE'S AN EMOJI FOR THAT
SILENT LETTER BUT DEADLY
COLORS OF THE RAINBOW
MASKS
200
Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive
Dynamite
200
This primate has 5 emojis, including smiling, hearing no evil, seeing no evil & speaking no evil
Monkey
🐵🐒🙈🙉🙊
200
Mom might let you run with rock or paper, but never with these
Scissors
200
Sad or gloomy
Blue
200
The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion
Black Plague
400
A paper cylinder holding a weak explosive, or a red, white & blue popsicle brand
Firecracker
400
A person in this seated, cross-legged yoga position
Lotus
🧘🧘♂️🧘♀️
400
Proverbially, you go "under" it when you head into surgery
Under the knife
400
Unseasoned; verdant
Green
400
These 2 antonymic forms of theater are symbolically represented by masks
Comedy and Tragedy
600
It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself
Implosion
600
For Trekkies, there's this gesture favored by Mr. Spock
Live long and prosper
🖖
600
It's a tool & a deadly weapon in a game of Clue & can also mean to twist violently
Wrench
600
Fear of Communists in early 1950s U.S. politics was this "scare"
Red
600
The "Music Of The Night" might surround you when you wear the mask from this musical
Phantom of the Opera
800
The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815
Volcano
800
A man in a suit defies gravity & is doing this synonym for floating, from the Latin for "light"
Levitating
🕴️
800
This "d'etat", a sudden forced change in government, can get dangerous fast
Coup
800
A sensational type of journalism
Yellow journalism
800
"The Man in the Iron Mask" was a mysterious unidentified prisoner held in this country in the late 1600s
France
1000
These sudden outbursts of energy on the Sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system
Solar flares
1000
Tree choices include evergreen & this type that, by definition, sheds its leaves annually
Deciduous
🌳
1000
A silent "C" is the second letter of this agricultural implement, Death's symbolic tool of the trade
Scythe
1000
Historically difficult to produce in fabric dyes, and often associated with royalty, luxury, and spirituality.
Violet
1000
In Latin America skull-shaped masks are popular on this holiday, el Dia de Los Muertos
Day of the Dead