SPORTY ANAGRAMS
THIS IS NPR
THEIR '90s HIT ALBUM
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE
200
Often unpopular on a diamond:
IMPURE
the umpire
200
NPR teamed up with "Frontline" to report on how this industry failed to protect workers from black lung & "deadly dust"
the coal industry
200
According to Rolling Stone, the best album of the decade:
"Nevermind"
Nirvana
200
In this alliterative type of match, you need to touch your partner before you can be replaced in the ring
tag team
200
Belgium & 2 neighbors make up this 7-letter region, also a customs union begun in 1948
Benelux
200
2018:
"Ant-Man and
the ____ "
Wasp
400
He sometimes runs the football:
FLAB HACK
halfback
400
Audie Cornish & Ailsa Chang are among the hosts of this afternoon news program
All Things Considered
400
"Mama Said Knock You Out"
LL Cool J
400
Maintaining kayfabe means not letting on that the match is this, the word that "kayfabe" possibly came from with the help of Pig Latin
fake
400
A star can become one of these, also the name of a 4-letter region that includes places like Arlington & Alexandria
nova
400
2018:
"The Girl in
____ ____ ____"
the Spider's Web
600
A big shot in basketball:
HERE TO RIP NET
three pointer
***
600
NPR's Planet Money reported $875 buys 2.5 million of these automated annoyances, maybe to sell you on renewing an auto warranty
robocalls
600
1992's Grammy-winning Album of the Year: this Brit's
"Unplugged"
Clapton
600
This beastly term can describe a powerful embrace or a move where a wrestler grabs you
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🥒🥒🥒PICKLE PARTY ANSWER!!!🥒🥒🥒
🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
a bear hug
600
Tribeca in the Big Apple stands for the "triangle below" this street
Canal Street
600
1938,
a Disney
"Silly Symphony":
"____ and the Flame"
Moth
800
Multi-gender tennis:
EDIBLE MUD SOX
mixed doubles
800
Hold on, hold on... no, we won't reveal the name of this NPR weekly quiz show that debuted in 1998 with Carl Kasell as its judge
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
800
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"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
Smashing Pumpkins
800
Perhaps a play on "jobber", this Italian-sounding word is a wrestler hired to lose often; the Rock uses it as a synonym for loser
jabroni
800
Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park
Jackson Hole
800
2002,
desert battles in the ancient world:
"The ____ King"
Scorpion
1000
Olympic event with ropes & ribbons:
CATCHY STRING SHIMMY
rhythmic gymnastics
1000
In April 2021 NPR's Fresh Air remembered this Apollo 11 hero who had just passed; he had called his solo Moon orbit "completely serene"
Collins
1000
"Vitalogy", featuring "Better Man"
Pearl Jam
1000
The name of this masked Mexican wrestling is Spanish for "free fighting"
lucha libre
1000
The "P" in Pakistan comes from this region, the name of a Pakistani province & a state of India
Punjab
1000
1958,
remade in 1986:
"The ____"
Fly