Crossword Clues "Q"
An argumentative dispute (7 letters)
Quarrel
It’s not being too shy to have one’s picture taken; it’s the quality of being responsive to light.
Photosensitivity
In this family, Henry was a historian; his grandfather & great-grandfather had both been U.S. presidents
Adams
This smallest planet is the fastest moving, circling the Sun in 88 days
Mercury
Sully Sullenberger & Walt Disney
Tom Hanks
To haggle over a small detail (7 letters)
Quibble
A gross this is a misrepresentation of an event as less complex than it really is
Oversimplication
Last name of siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John, who in 1884 started the “World’s Greatest Shows” circus
Ringling
This Utah body of water is several times more saline than the oceans
The Great Salt Lake
Arnie Grape & Jay Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio
Scandinavian traitor (8 letters)
Quisling
Type of church not affiliated with Baptists or Presbyterians, for example; it includes many megachurches
Nondenominational
The members of this “First Family of Jazz” do toot their own horns, with Wynton on trumpet & Branford on sax
Marsalis
To prevent Marines from landing, in 1991 this country dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf
Iraq
Fantine & Jane Austen
Anne Hathaway
Not “Jeopardy!”-like, but puzzled (9 letters)
Quizzical
If you fear the number 13, you suffer from this
Triskaidekaphobia
Kykuit Estate in New York’s Hudson Valley was a “center” of 4 generations of this family’s life.
The Rockefellers
The name of these 2 states goes back to a Sioux word for “friend” or “ally”
the Dakotas (North & South)
Groundskeeper Carl Spackler & Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bill Murray
Term for a 40-to-49 year old (14 letters)
Quadragenarian
Richard Waterman, who studied the songs of the Yolngu people, helped popularize this field of study.
Ethnomusicology
The first 3 doctors who worked at St. Mary’s hospital in Rochester, Minnesota all had this last name
Mayo
The term “Cold War” was first used in print by this British author in his essay “You and the Atomic Bomb”
George Orwell
Captain Hector Barbossa & the Marquis de Sade
Geoffrey Rush