"C" food
Spirits
Board Games
Dessert
Time for desert
100

These crunchy cubes come in a Parmesan version for your Caesar salad.

What is a crouton?

100

A county in Kentucky gives this type of corn-based spirit its name

What is bourbon?

100

 One yummy change to this game over the years was renaming the Molasses Swamp the Chocolate Swamp

What is candyland?

100

Popular around the holidays is the term "nutty as" one of these, like the Scottish Dundee variety

what is a fruitcake?

100

Petrified Forest National Park sits within this area named for its colorful badlands

What is "painted desert"?

200

In the same genus as broccoli, it's grown for its large, white curd, or head

What is cauliflower?

200

It's the booze in common to a Moscow Mule & a Bloody Mary

What is vodka?

200

 It's "the classic naval combat game"

What is battleship?

200

"The proof is" here likely referred to a meat dish back in the day; to us, it sounds much sweeter

What is "in the pudding"?

200

In the Sahara, avoid the deathstalker, an extremely dangerous & venomous variety of this arachnid

What is a scorpion?

300

 They're not technically nuts, though so called, but the curved edible seeds of a tropical evergreen.

What us a cashew?

300

Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song

What is rum?

300

If you play the latest version of this Hasbro game you can be Chef White or Solicitor Peacock

What is clue?

300

To make bad news easier to bear; it's also done to sweeten some donuts

What is "to sugarcoat"?

300

Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state

what is Nevada?

400

Boston cream pies are traditionally filled with a layer of this, vanilla flavor.

What is custard?

400

 This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name

What is absinthe?

400

In Monopoly, Boardwalk is in the same color group as this alliterative property

What is park place?

400

Fair skin is described as this mixture of fruit & dairy, used by Ringo Starr as a descriptive in "You're 16"

What is peaches and cream?

400

 "P" is for this desert that takes up large parts of Argentina & Chile

What is the Patagonian desert?

500

This darling member of the mandarin family has a thin peel & is often seedless.

What is a clementine?

500

 During happy hour these inexpensive, house brands of spirits named for the area where they're kept may be even cheaper

what is a well drink?

500

When you're playing this board game trademarked in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles

what is scrabble?

500

If you boast & come up short, you may have to eat this metaphorical pastry

What is "humble pie"?

500

 This live form of transportation is sometimes called the "ship of the desert"

What is a camel?