DITLOIDS
an example of a ditloid clue: If we said, "N 10 D S", "What is Number 10 Downing Street?"
FISHY CINEMA
THE "EX" FACTOR
GO FOR THE THROAT
WORDS OF OPPOSITION
200

The end of an at-bat:
3 S & Y O

What is three strikes and your out?
200

Joe Alves designed the shark for this 1975 film

What is Jaws?
200

What you're looking at on a can

What is the expiration date?
200

In a Grimm fairy tale, a poisoned piece of apple sticks in this woman's throat & her 7 housemates think she's dead

What is Snow White?

200

"Mary, Mary, quite" this adjective meaning "stubbornly opposed"

What is contrary?
400

These hit the pharaoh hard in Exodus:
10 P of E

What are the ten plagues of Egypt?

400

Flounder the fish & Sebastian the crab are Ariel's sidekicks in this animated favorite

What is the Little Mermaid?

400

This 15-letter word describes certain after-school activities or an activity you might not want anyone to know about

What is an extracurricular?

400

Ruby-throated is one variety of this creature that can beat its wings 50 times a second

What is a hummingbird?

400

Compare's proverbial partner

What is contrast?

600

A jolly good film:
4 W & a F

What is Four Weddings and a Funeral?

600

This type of carnivorous fish menaces the folks at Lost River Lake in a 1978 film

What is a piranha? 

600

It's the online travel booking site that uses the logo seen here

What is Expedia?

600

This term for a ruthless killer is also used for 3-player variations of some 4-player card games

What is cutthroat?

600

Backwards, or a double handoff football play

What is a reverse?

800

Where Remus & his brother got started:
7 H of R

What is the Seven Hills of Rome?

800

Willem Dafoe voiced a Moorish idol fish named Gill in this 2003 animated movie

What is Finding Nemo?

800

It's a 9-letter adjective for "so excellent it deserves imitation"

What is exemplary?

800

These medieval stone monsters at the tops of buildings take their name from the Old French for "throat"

What are gargoyles?

800

In Hegel's thought history proceeds in a 3-phase pattern with this "A" word as the middle one

What is antithesis? 

1000

Geometry fact:
180 D in a T

What is 180 degrees in a triangle?

1000

Kevin Kline shoves French fries up Michael Palin's nose & eats Palin's beloved tropical fish in this film

What is A Fish Called Wanda?

1000

Soren Kierkegaard was considered the "father of" it

What is existentialism?

1000

About 500,000 U.S. kids a year undergo removal of these masses of lymphatic tissue below the adenoids

What are tonsils?

1000

Diametric 9-letter term meaning on the opposite side of the globe

What is antipodal?