"HY" FIVE
THE CRIME OF THE DECADE
FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES
T OFF
BEFORE, DURING, & AFTER
400

It's a little personal, but it's keeping your body clean & healthy so that you look & feel your best

HYGIENE

400

5 burglars are busted at the DNC's office at the Watergate

THE 1970S

400

Digging up redstone can help power all sorts of projects in this video game that also features creepers

MINECRAFT

400

Remove T from a piece of dining room furniture & you get this word meaning competent

ABLE

400

Depicting mobile homes on a space near Boardwalk, it sits under your plate

TRAILER PARK PLACE MAT

800

Before, during, & after exercise, it's important that you do this, meaning take in a proper amount of water

HYDRATE

800

The NSC goes around Congress to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair

THE 1980S

800

In a 1976 Clive Cussler book Dirk Pitt attempts to Raise this doomed liner to get the rare element byzanium

THE TITANIC

800

Take T off a word meaning to cut & you get this edge of a crater

RIM

800

DAILY DOUBLE

'40s bandleader playing "In the Mood", who drinks a less filling beer before charging In the valley of death

1200

Botanically: The pluot or tangelo, for example

HYBRID

1200

The Unabomber commits his last murder & is caught with bomb parts & detailed journals of his crimes

THE 1990S

1200

The mythical silvery metal called mithril was created by this author

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

1200

Remove T from a hiking path & you get this horizontal bar

RAIL

1200

A child's tiny green plastic military figure who fights for money inside a Chinese dessert item

TOY SOLDIER OF FORTUNE COOKIE

1600

It's the type of lift a mechanic uses to raise up a car

HYDRAULIC

1600

The kidnapping of Charles & Anne Lindbergh's baby

THE 1930S

1600

Marvel Movie metals: Wolverine's claws are adamantium & Captain America's shield is made of this Wakandan metal

VIBRANIUM

1600

Get rid of the T in the regular rises & falls of the oceans & you get this day in a Roman month

THE IDES

1600

Oscar-nominated South Park song that soars in a V formation with a 1970s Yankee closer

BLAME CANADA GOOSE GOSSAGE

2000

The grape variety of this flowering plant is seen here

A HYACINTH

2000

Leopold & Loeb kill Bobby Franks for an intellectual thrill

THE 1920S

2000

"The Core" & "Avatar" both use this term for their unpossible material

UNOBTAINIUM

2000

Detach T from an edible fungus & you get this ornamental frill on a garment

RUFFLE

2000

Louisiana Purchase explorers joined by LBJ's Secretary of Defense & a Golden Boy dramatist

LEWIS AND CLARK CLIFFORD ODETS