SOUNDS LIKE A BUG
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BREAK THE "CODE"
4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS
100
In a 2006 film title youngster Akeelah competes in one of these
a spelling bee
100
Sales for the last 3 months of 2020 for this video conferencing co. were up 370% from the same time in 2019, for... reasons
Zoom
100
It's 808 for all of Hawaii
the area code
100
Data in the form of words
text
200
It's the nickname for celery filled with peanut butter & topped with raisins
ants on a log
200
DAILY DOUBLE
It's not your grandma's Western Union (stop) it's "a new era of messaging" (stop) are you getting the idea (we'll stop)
200
It begins with a murder in the Louvre
The Da Vinci Code
200
The highest part of something, especially one forming a point
an apex
300
There are some moving parts on this type of knife seen here
a butterfly knife
300
It was founded in 1998 as Confinity but soon went by this name instead of something like Reimbursafriend or Dollar-a-Buddy
PayPal
300
In computing, 0s & 1s are key to it
binary code
300
to persuade gently & persistently
to coax
400
The name of this radio storytelling project evokes summer nights spinning yarns under a porch light
The Moth
400
An "SNL" "ad" for this company included, "I'd never live in North Carolina, but if I did, I could buy a big, gross mansion"
Zillow
400
Ancient "eye for an eye" text
Hammurabi's Code
400
This feline carnivore is found in the northern climes of Eurasia & North America
a lynx
500
A computer program that searches & catalogs links on the Internet
a spider
500
The stars aligned, & by the end of 2021, this platform reported it had 244 million cumulative reviews
Yelp
500
Named for its first enforcer, it policed movie production back in the day
the Hays Code
500
French word for a mixture of butter & flour used to make sauces
a roux