TOUGH TALK
TITLES & HONORIFICS
HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY?
SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS
"DIS"INFORMATION
MUSICAL IDIOMS TO MY EARS
GUITAR GODDESSES
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This hyphenated numerical adjective can mean tough or holding booze in both hands
TWO-FISTED
100
A Massachusetts paper discussed using this honorific for women in 1901; the New York Times would embrace it in 1986
MS.
100
After raising $17.9 billion in a 2008 IPO this credit card company was truly everywhere it wanted to be
VISA
100
World Boxing Council champs get these handmade of Italian leather
BELTS
100
Expelled from the legal profession like Alger Hiss pictured here in 1952
DISBARRED
100
If something triggers a strong emotional response it might strike one of these harmonic note combos
A CHORD
100
This former Runaway was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 along with her Blackhearts
JOAN JETT
200
There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded
HARD-NOSED
200
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The wife of a Lord ain't just a Lady (though that is a title equivalent) she's a this
A DAME
200
This company makes Scotch Wall-Safe Tape
3M
200
MLB's Rookie of the Year Awards are named for this groundbreaker who won the award in 1947
JACKIE ROBINSON
200
People pay good money for this type of jeans that come already torn up
DISTRESSED
200
To do things your own way & disregard convention is to march to this sound
THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUMMER
200
Bonnie Raitt is also known as the queen of this style of guitar playing that uses a glass tube on a fretting finger
SLIDE
300
This last name of English novelist Thomas means sturdy & tough
HARDY
300
American legal eagles are commonly called this but it also can refer to the eldest son of a baronet
ESQUIRE
300
In 1978 its eventual co-founders saw red--make that orange--after getting fired by Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers
THE HOME DEPOT
300
South African Gary Player was the first non-American to receive this association's lifetime achievement award
THE PGA
300
It's a list of musical recordings by a performer or composer
DISCOGRAPHY
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Playing this stringed instrument means to take a subordinate role
SECOND FIDDLE
300
Carrie Brownstein axe-slinger in this hyphenated Riot Grrrl band made Rolling Stone's list of 25 underrated guitarists
SLEATER-KINNEY
400
Meaning able to recover quickly from a setback it's from Latin for to bounce back
RESILIENT
400
An abbot is referred to as right this; a Roman Catholic bishop most this
REVEREND
400
There's no business like this shoe business that joined the Dow in 2013
NIKE
400
College football rivalries can have their own trophies; the Ireland Trophy goes to the winner of Boston College vs. this school
NOTRE DAME
400
You can tour Jameson's original one of these on Bow Street in Dublin
A DISTILLERY
400
Someone who repeats the same thing over & over sounds like one of these -- perhaps a scratched 45
A BROKEN RECORD
400
This singer-songwriter's unique guitar sound comes from her mastery of alternate tunings
JONI MITCHELL
500
A tough guy from ancient Greece or a synonym for spare or frugal
SPARTAN
500
In German forms of address traditionally this word goes before doktor if the doktor is a dude
HERR
500
When it comes to personal insurance boat & yacht & even umbrella insurance are all under its symbolic umbrella
TRAVELERS
500
The NHL's Vezina Trophy goes to the league's top player at this position
GOALIE
500
The feline type of this disease is highly contagious but often curable
DISTEMPER
500
To make yourself look good sometimes you have to do this sound a brass instrument with a flared bell
TOOT YOUR OWN HORN
500
Classical guitar virtuoso Liona Boyd has won five of these Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards
THE JUNO AWARDS