"AX" MARKS THE SPOT
It's the shaft connecting 2 wheels on a car
axle
This novel:
16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer
The Fault in Our Stars
She won 3 Grammys in 2020, including Best Pop Solo Performance for the song "Truth Hurts"
Lizzo
If you've really got all that dough, why don't you buy Action Comics #1 from 1938, which saw the debut of this otherworldly hero
Superman
Drusilla was one of the vampire antagonists on this TV series that debuted in 1997
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Addition is commutative" is one of these postulates used in algebra
axiom
This novel:
Stranded astronaut Mark Watney
The Martian
This Black Eyed Peas song asks the tough question "Whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?"
"My Humps"
You've likely moved on from this company's Platinum card & onto its much-esteemed Centurion
American Express
"You're Dead" by '60s folk singer Norma Tanega is used as the theme song to this FX series
What We Do in the Shadows
It transmits a signal from one neuron to another
axon
This Pulitzer Prize-winner: Celie, who writes letters to God & to Nettie
The Color Purple
She got her driver's license in 2021, & the song motored all the way to the top of the Hot 100
(Olivia) Rodrigo
DAILY DOUBLE
No wonder it's the most expensive--it takes about 70,000 crocuses to produce just one pound of this spice
In the "Twilight" saga, the Cullens avoid the Sun not because it would kill them but because this happens
twinkle (sparkle)
Rolling Stone called Jimmy Page "the legendary" this word
axeman
"The Bell Jar":
Esther Greenwood, this author's alter ego
(Sylvia) Plath
Pat Benatar was "running with" these in an iconic song from the 1980s; baby, take her hand, "it'll be all right"
the shadows of the night
If you're going to splurge for the Ferrari, get a GTO; the G & T stand for this Italian phrase, also a video game
Gran Turismo
In "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Anthony Hopkins played this vampire-hunting professor
Van Helsing
This salamander of Mexico takes its name from the Nahuatl for "water monster"
an axolotl
This downer of a novel:
14-year-old Susie Salmon, from heaven, because she's been murdered
The Lovely Bones
In her "Backyard Sessions", Miley Cyrus covered Dolly Parton's song about this title woman who might steal her man
Jolene
Parking is tough in this rhyming region of China; a parking space in a luxury building there sold for $1.3 million
Hong Kong
Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up of a movie
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter