Double Jeopardy-May 26, 2025(2)

Homophones

400

An empress' tenure & a downpour

reign/rain

800

An oracle & a monetary yield

a prophet/profit

1200

A sense of style & a sudden solar explosion

flair/flare

1600

A sculpted decoration on a wall near the ceiling & the act of keeping prices or wages at a fixed level

frieze/freeze

2000

A person's animating spirit, or city that's headquarters to Hyundai

soul/Seoul

Anagrams

400

It's got a West Indian vibe:
ScALP YO

calypso

800

Sia wanted to swing from one:
ARcHED LINE

chandelier

1200

Daily Double

A chef's finishing touch:
REpLAYS

1600

One of man's best friends:
dADS HUNCH

dachshund

2000

It can have a beach on both sides:
SALINE pUN

peninsula

D(5 LETTERS)D(The correct response will begin and end with the letter D, and there will be five letters in between those two "D"s.)

400

One who vigorously defends a seemingly hopeless position, perhaps like Bruce Willis

diehard

800

Disagreement, or lack of harmony between persons or things

discord

1200

marked with spots or rounded patches

dappled

1600

tree of north temperate regions, which yields hard timber and is grown for its decorative foliage, red stems, or colorful berries

dogwood

2000

A mythological being who is partly divine & partly human

 demigod

ONE LETTER CHANGES THE VOWEL SOUND(Each response will be two words in which one letter will change the vowel sound for us in those words.)

400

A toothed strip of plastic for arranging hair turns into an ancient burial chamber

comb & tomb

800

One turn in chess becomes passionate affection

move & love

1200

To peruse a book or magazine, & a Jerry Garcia fan

read & dead

1600

A word meaning to grant something becomes a bee colony home

give & hive

2000

Pig feed suddenly gets delivered with less than usual speed

slop & slow

SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES

400

The Black Pearl in the subtitle of this film had been Jack Sparrow's ship, lost in a mutiny

Pirates of the Caribbean

800

He had some trouble hiding his Scottish accent as a Soviet sub commander in "The Hunt for Red October"

Sean Connery

1200

Daily Double

This Spielberg film recounts how in 1839 captive men on a slave ship freed themselves & killed most of the crew  

1600

Shipwrecked teens grow up on a deserted tropical island in this 1980 movie

The Blue lagoon

2000

He played "Master and Commander" Jack Aubrey, Captain of HMS Surprise in this 2003 movie

Russell Crowe

Vowels missing-

400

It means held in common, like some interests:
mtl...6

mutual

800

A 5-nation Native American group:
rqs....8

Iroquois

1200

A type of dental occlusion:
vrbt...8

overbite

1600

To renew skin by removing a layer: xflt ...9

exfoliate

2000

An ideal place, like a certain literary island:
tp...6

utopia