HOMOPHONES
To shatter &
to halt a vehicle
Break/Brake
A man on his back / On whom his kids hop / Makes a simple request / For the love of god, stop!
Pop
To open an oyster shell or to remove a corn husk
Shuck
The 1932 election of FDR over Herbert Hoover serves as the backdrop to what 1977 Broadway musical about anorphaned protagonist who actually gets to meet Roosevelt in Act II?
Annie
What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?
Pong
To carry &
naked
Bare/Bear
He pushed protein & pork / 'Til a man needed a therapist / On a boat?! With a goat?! / He's a comestible terrorist!
Really thin French fries can be matchsticks or these laces
Shoestring
The Hollywood Reporter noted in its review that one character in this musical changed from an "imperious arbiter of high school hotness to full-blown arch villainess."
Mean Girls
What game has pieces representing winds, dragons, flowers, and seasons?
Mahjong
An Alaskan seaport &
a fabled dwarflike creature
Nome/Gnome
His holiday story has been discussed / In some hardy colleges / But after all that re-gifting / He should see his cardiologist
The Grinch
Hebrew for "seven" gives us this word for a Jewish period of mourning; the use of low stools may be why you hear that you "sit" it
Shiva
Traveling salesman Harold Hill declares his love for Marian Paroo in the song "Marian the Librarian" in what classic Broadway musical?
Music Man
The properties in Monopoly are based on what US city?
Atlantic City, NJ
Illegal &
to provoke a response
illicit/elicit
The Once-ler cuts truffula / All greedy for cash / But he fights for nature / With a Sam Elliott 'stache
Lorax
Inspiring the name of this cryptocurrency, a memeable Japanese dog breed.
Shiba Inu
The smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" is staged in a theater named for what legendary songwriting partner of Oscar Hammerstein?
Richard Rodgers
In Mario Kart, the power-up that seeks out the player in first position and explodes on impact is a shell that is what color?
Blue
One underling &
10 Jews praying
minion/minyan
A duo of destruction / Now, how about that? / Blue hair & red jammies / Per "The Cat in the Hat"
An Irish tune called "Mush-Mush-Mush Tural-I-Addy" mentions lathering someone with this type of cudgel -- also, a Druid spell in DND 5e.
Shillelagh
Because Broadway show listings in newspapers were alphabetical, this musical added the letter "A" to the front, so by having the first letters be A and C, they ensured always being first.
The first Advanced DND adventurers module in 1976 featured what mythical creature in the title?
Vampire