Homophones
A military rank & a corn seed
colonel & kernel
It's the P in FERPA, a 1974 law that says your parents need your consent to get your grades from your college
Privacy
Florida's Streamline Hotel is the birthplace of this auto racing organization
NASCAR
Datum (4 letters)
data
Achilles' one weakness was here, left dry when his mother dipped him in the River Styx
heel
Time of dawn & time of sorrow
morning & mourning
More than 40 states have laws against this fraternity initiation practice
Hazing
On April 22, 1954 the NBA changed forever with the adoption of a shot clock with a time limit of this many seconds
24
Sister-in-law (the preferred way)
sisters-in-law
Aeschylus called this Greek's bearing of the heaven & earth "a burden not easy for his arms to grasp"
Atlas
A way of behaving & a lord's estate
manner & manor
Georgia State says it follows state law in banning hard liquor at these pre-game parking lot parties
Tailgate Parties
This tournament was first contested in 1930 & won by host nation Uruguay, 4-2 over Argentina
World Cup
Radius (5 letters)
radii
In Shakespeare's play about him & Cressida, he says, "I am weaker than a woman's tear"
Troilus
To lift up & to tear down
raise & raze
A 1940 statement on this status says it gives professors "freedom & economic security", but it doesn't mean they can never be fired
Tenure
It took 11 hours & 5 minutes over 3 days at this grand slam tennis venue in 2010 for John Isner to defeat Nicolas Mahut
Wimbledon
Cherub (8 letters)
cherubim
Phaethon tries to ride this god's chariot through the skies but isn't strong enough to control the horses
Helios
Gets ahead by the whole length of a track, or a slip-up in judgment
laps & lapse
The plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard say the school violates this amendment's Equal Protection Clause
14th Amendment
Leading his team to a come-from-behind victory, this 24-year-old Kansas City QB became the youngest Super Bowl MVP winner in 2020
Patrick Mahomes
Codex (7 letters--as per the Encyclopedia Britannica entry)
Codices
Suitors to Penelope struggle to string this man's bow, & it gets worse for them after that
Odysseus