Crossword Clues "R"
Dumb Science Riddles
The Passion of the Christ
A Man for All Seasons
Presidential Trivia (Un-Fact-Checked)
Eye Rhymes
Final Jeopardy
100
A King's or Queen's time in office (5).
What is a REIGN?
100
Species seen here.
What is a Polar Bear?
100
The Passion of the Christ was a 2004 film directed by this Australian-born actor.
Who is Mel Gibson?
100
Even if others are involved, he takes all the blame.
Who is a fall guy?
100
This President's notorious laziness and orange-tinted skin inspired Jim Davis's comic strip.
Who is Garfield?
100
A way to style your hair, and a common fabric pattern.
What are braids and plaids?
200
She got mail after being sleepless in Seattle (4).
Who is Ryan?
200
Rhyming phrase describing a test-tube with bluetooth audio.
What is a beaker speaker?
200
Hanging above Jesus's cross was a mocking Latin acronym, "I N R I," standing for this.
What is "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews"?
200
Season of the year with the most months named after dictators.
What is summer?
[JULIUS and AUGUSTus Caesar]
200
The type of money that researchers and organizations compete over is named after this President.
Who is Grant?
200
This type of wind might break this type of limb.
What are rough and bough?
300
Unnecessarily repetitive, needlessly repeated, uselessly restated, superfluously reiterated (9).
What is REDUNDANT?
300
Who are Newton, Einstein, and Darwin?
300
He outruns Peter as they race toward Jesus's empty tomb.
Who is John?
300
This play, later made into a film with Orson Welles in it, is about Thomas More, an adviser to Henry VIII who was executed for not endorsing the King's divorce.
What is A Man for All Seasons?
300
This President's Indigenous ancestry inspired the name of a professional sports team.
Who is Cleveland?
300
To misplace a flower.
What is to lose a rose?
400
Spelled with two p's in a row, it's a word for a mutual understanding between people (7).
[FREE PASS]
What is a rapport?
400
Type of acid seen here.
What is an A-Mean-O acid?
400
Mentioned in three Gospels and in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it's the hometown of this Joseph, thought to be a wealthy (and perhaps, secret) Christian who owns the tomb in which Jesus is buried.
Who is Joseph Arimathea?
400
The first words spoken by Shakespeare's villainous Richard III are "Now is the [THIS] of our discontent."
What is winter?
400
After his Presidency, he founded a sporting goods line.
Who is ...
400
This many people may feel this way.
What is one and alone?
400
The Category is . . .
Cash and Coins
500
Three-Word financial phrase abbreviated as ROE.
What is "Return on Equity"?
500
It's why a joke about cobalt, rodan, and yttrium never gets a laugh.
500
In one Gospel account, Simon is a man from this place who is compelled by the Romans to temporarily carry Jesus's Cross.
What is Cyrene?
500
In Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, the main characters hatch a plan to make money by purposely creating a terrible musical entitled "[THIS] for Hitler."
What is Springtime?
500
This President was so beloved by Eastern Europeans that they named a lively style of music/dance after him.
Who is Polk (for Polka)?
500
To search thoroughly for, and to perform terribly on stage.
What are comb and bomb?
500
This person appears on the US dime.
Who is FDR?