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Marine Biology
100

This puzzle game's name is a shortening of a Japanese phrase that means "the numbers are restricted to single status"

Sudoku

100

You'll spend a lot of time on I-95 going from Maine to Georgia, maybe to see a major golf tournament. (Starts with A)

Augusta

100

The long, narrow part of a guitar that carries the strings from the body to the headstock has this anatomical name

A neck

100

Spring begins officially at this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night

The equinox

100

To offer something for purchase, or the basic structural unit of an organism

Sell/cell

100

Stay out of my affairs: MYOB

Mind Your Own Business

100

Species of this cephalopod with 10 appendages include the colossal, which can be 40' long, & the southern pygmy, less than 3/4"

Squid

200

While recovering from polio in 1948, teacher Eleanor Abbott invented this "sweet" board game for the children in the ward to play

Candy Land

200

Interstate stops in Cleveland & Cheyenne may await on a trek from Maine's largest city to Oregon's

Portland

200

Don't worry, we're sure you know this word for the strips of metal embedded in a guitar's fingerboard

Frets

200

MLB fans are full of boundless optimism during this, another term for baseball's preseason

Spring Training

200

A measure of gold purity, or a Bugs Bunny favorite

Carat/carrot

200

Hold on now:
JAS

Just A Second

200

One look at the forehead of the genus Naso, & you'll see why it's also known as this fish.


Unicorn Fish

300

Richard Garfield "Gather"ed his wits to create this 1993 fantasy card game

Magic: The Gathering

300

Interstate stops in Cleveland & Cheyenne may await on a trek from Essex County, Mass. to Marion County, Oregon

Salem

300

A guitar's strings are set to E-A-D-G-B-E in "standard" this

Tuning

300

A state flower, the California species of this blooms in great numbers in the spring.

A Poppy

300

A female antelope, or material to be baked

Doe/dough

300

Occurring away from the Internet:
IRL

In Real Life

300

The polyp is the body of this creature whose name also refers to its skeleton; masses of them form reefs

Coral

400

Created in 1959, these dolls named for a creature of Scandinavian folklore were known for their unique hairstyles

Trolls

400

You'll head south on I-65--& remember I said south--when you go from Miami University to the University of Mississippi

Oxford

400

Guitarists use picks, also known by this other "P" word

Plectrum

400

Observed in spring, Beltane Eve is a major celebration for these modern-day followers of witchcraft

Wiccans

400

To fire a nerf blaster, or a sloping channel for water

Shoot/chute
400

A bit similar to IMHO:
FWIW

For What It's Worth

400

A major type of these free-floating ocean organisms, with a name from Greek for wandering, dinoflagellates can cause red tides.


Plankton

500

George Lerner originally had trouble selling this toy because after WWII it seemed wasteful to make toys using veggies

Mr. Potato Head

500

You start on Interstate 91 out of the one in Massachusetts & you end up on I-55 to reach the one in Illinois

Springfield

500

This type of clamp raises the pitch of a guitar's strings.

Capo

500

The modern tradition of spring break began in the 1930s as part of a swim meet in this Florida city named for a military man

Fort Lauderdale

500

A lowly servant in the era of knights, or the central part of a church

a knave/nave

500

I only skimmed it: TL;DR

Too Long; Didn't Read

500

A brown alga, this largest seaweed can grow 200 feet long & forms forests off the California coast

(Giant) Kelp