Ancient Persia
It Ain't Shakespeare
Suburban Legend
We've Got Rights
Movie & Song, Same Title
Jeoportmandeau
100
Like the wise men who visited the baby Jesus, members of the Persian priestly class were known as these
Maji
100
Not Julius but "Sawdust Caesar" is a 1935 book about this leader by George Seldes, expelled from Italy 10 years before
Mussolini
100
Though associated with the SUV boom of the '90s & beyond, this automaker's Suburban turns 90 in 2025
Chevrolet
100
The bestselling book "Drawing on the Right Side of" this encourages artists to turn off their analytical sides
The brain
100
Robert Downey Jr. &
Black Sabbath
Iron Man
100
A mental survey of the past that follows "in"
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old-timey term for eyeglasses
Retrospectacle
200
When communicating within their empire, the Achaemenid Persians used the imperial type of this language related to Hebrew
Aramaic
200
1930s movie comedy about 3 couples in varying states of unhappiness is titled "Merry Wives of" this then-divorce capital
Reno
200
Tarbox, Mass. in John Updike's '60s novel "Couples" made the suburbs seem busy with this act against Exodus' 7th commandment
Adultery
200
The California driver's handbook: "Although pedestrians have" this, "they also must follow the rules of the road"
Right of Way
200
Amanda Bynes &
Christina Aguilera
What a Girl Wants
200
Blushing dwarf of "Snow White" fame
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point about which a lever rests
Bashfulcrum
300
Like one completed in the late 19th c., one of the first canals connecting these 2 seas was dug by the Persians around 500 B.C.
Mediterranean and Red Seas
300
Bolingbroke deposes "Richard II"; in a 2014 "Future History" play by Mike Bartlett, Kate & William depose this title king
Charles III
300
This Laker was drafted in 1996 out of suburban Philly's Lower Merion High, where he broke Wilt Chamberlain's local scoring record
Kobe Bryant
300
They're so called because their valuable oil & baleen once made them proper prey
Right Whales
300
Reese Witherspoon &
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama
300
Adjective for something out of place in time
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an in-your-face robbery
anachronistickup
400
Handel's 1738 opera "Serse" tells the story of this great Persian king who burned much of Athens after winning at Thermopylae
Xerxes
400
U.S. News & World Report's 2023 top suburban colleges include one in this Mercer County, New Jersey community
Princeton
400
These laws that the AFL-CIO says benefit corporations let employees in a union workplace get out of paying union dues
Right to Work
400
James Cromwell &
Styx
Babe
400
Twin-hulled boat
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spoiled or putrid
Catamarancid
500
Author Marjane's last name derives from this 6-letter title, a provincial governor in the empire
Satrap
500
A 1996 thriller by David Hewson isn't "Twelfth Night" but this 1-word title, the feast after Twelfth Night
Epiphany
500
Visual art's takes on suburbia include her 1968 photo of a glum-looking "Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y."
Diane Arbus
500
This 4-word doctrine held that monarchs derived their authority from God & could not be questioned
Divine Right of Kings
500
Matthew McConaughey &
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
500
To urge passionately
+
the science of growing plants
Exhorticulture