GAME ON
A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game
Scrabble
On Aug. 8, 2022 FBI agents executed a search warrant here, which Donald Trump calls "my beautiful home"
Mar-a-lago
"Easy come, easy go, little high, little low", says "Bohemian Rhapsody" by this group
Queen
Sauerkraut is fermented this
Cabbage
A Sony exec wanting to hear opera was the original impetus for this portable cassette player
The Walkman
For me, it's left hand, green, right foot, blue & left hamstring, pulled playing this Hasbro game
Twister
The latest sad result of climate change: drought has largely deprived France, where Grey Poupon was born, of this condiment
mustard
This '60s group loved the waves with hits like "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' Safari" & "Surfin' U.S.A."
The Beach Boys
It can mean both clothes to wash & a place to do it
laundry
Captain Hook made prisoners do this, involving a board leading over the water; real-life pirates, not so much
walk the plank
Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities
Minecraft
In the 2022 U.S. Open, likely the last tournament of her incredible career, she lost in a valiant third-round match
Serena Williams
"Valerie" is a soulful tune from this singer who died too young in 2011
Amy Winehouse
In Judaism, observance of this seventh day of the week begins just before sunset on Friday
Shabbat (or the Sabbath)
Someone going home early Sunday morning in Saturday night's clothes is taking this stroll
the walk of shame
In 2021 a Wisconsin teen pulled 32 of these blocks & placed them back atop a tower of them in one minute without toppling it
Jenga
This 3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention went live in 2022
988
In a 2018 release, Childish Gambino told us in this song, "Don't catch you slippin' now, look what I'm whippin' now"
This is America
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
As the song says, life is a this, a restaurant with booze & live entertainment
There's tension in the wire & among the crowd when these circus performers take their walk high in the air
a tightrope walker
Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar
darts
Subjected to Islamist death threats since the 1980s, this author was savagely attacked at a speaking engagement
Salman Rushdie
A hit from 2012, "I Will Wait" is by this band who, despite the "Sons" in their name, are unrelated
Mumford and Sons
This pain reliever went on the market in 1899, long before ibuprofen
Asprin
When Nancy Sinatra sang "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", she probably meant these repetitive boots she favored
go-go boots