Rhyme Time
An excuse for betraying your government.
A treason reason.
It's the alliterative volume in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy
The Two Towers
The executive chef of this fast-food chain made its secret-for-decades "special sauce" on YouTube in 2012; mayo was involved
McDonald's
This Welsh buccaneer who ransacked Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1668 is....calling all captains
Captain Morgan
If you're this "as a hatter", you're said to be insane
Mad
Reddening of the face in the presence of someone you're crazy about.
A crush blush.
A work of occult terror The Haunting of this mansion is by Shirley Jackson
Hill House
In 1942 Gen. Leslie Groves was put in charge of this super-secret "Project" that would forever change the world 3 years later
Manhattan Project
Captain Joseph Hazelwood was in charge on March 24, 1989 when this oil tanker hit Bligh Reef, off Alaska's coast
We're coming at you "fast &" this, which can mean angry or at unrestrained speed
Furious
A sense of excitement in Sao Paulo.
First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy
Horatio
The motto of the British circle of these performers is "Indocilis Privata Loqui" ("not apt to disclose secrets")
Magicians
Tom Hanks played this captain of the Maersk Alabama in the 2013 film that bears the real captain's name
Captain Phillips
It can describe an acrid taste or an acrimonious feeling
Bitter
An oxford that's a piece of evidence at a crime scene.
A shoe clue OR a clue shoe.
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In "The Raven", "while I nodded, nearly ____, suddenly there came a tapping"
Napping
In 2013 Barack Obama became the first president to mention this secretive place in Nevada by name
Area 51
To his horror & shame, on May 7, 1915 the captain of this liner was saved & did not go down with the ship after a U-boat sank it, kickstarting American involvement in the Great War
The Lusitania
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These two words sound almost identical. The first means to make someone furious. The second means to make it worse.
Exasperate and exacerbate
To unsettle cows.
To rattle cattle.
He was known as a writer of political pamphlets before he hit it big with the 1719 tale of a castaway, Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
This secret membership program at Disney used to have a 14-year waiting list
Club 33
This Portuguese Captain led the first ever circumnavigation trip in 1522
Magellan
Meaning bad-tempered or irritable, this word is one of Hippocrates' Four Temperaments