SPOOKY
(HALLO)WEENIES
MAGIC
FINAL RESTING PLACES
PUMP
KIN
400

You don't have to keep it under wraps: a British kid might use this 5-letter word instead of mother

Mummy

400

This verb can mean a pickle topping for hot dogs or to eat with great pleasure

Relish
400

Is he a sailor or a genie? Unclear, but he's fastidious & he reps the brand that makes Magic Erasers

Mr. Clean

400

The marker on his grave in Illinois says "My Jesus Mercy", not "Scarface"

Al Capone

400

"Peanuts" figure awaited on Halloween

The Great Pumpkin

400

Morticia & Gomez, getting ooky

The Addams Family

800

It's named for how some of its growth dangles down as if in a web

Spider plant

800

A fermented cabbage dish with a German name that's popularly served with hot dogs

Sauerkraut

800

: Will Arnett watches magic being made with tiny plastic bricks on the Fox show called this "Masters"

Lego

800

He shares a crypt with wife Coretta in Atlanta

Martin Luther King, Jr.

800

Loafing gone a rye

Pumperpenisnickel

800

The Roy family battled royally for control of a media empire on this drama

Succession

1200

There are 3 species of this mammal, which uses echolocation & feeds on livestock

Vampire Bats

1200

Joey Chestnut said, "I found a vicious rhythm" after downing 74 hot dogs on July 4, 2018 in this Brooklyn neighborhood

Coney Island

1200

Sometimes heard in magical chants, this rhyming term now refers to deception or trickery of any kind

Hocus-Pocus

1200

After an attempted grave robbery soon after his death, Elvis Presley's body was moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to this estate

Graceland

1200

It's useful for when Mommy has to leave Baby for a period of time

Breast pump

1200

This 1980s primetime soap about the feuding Carrington & Colby families was set in Denver, Colorado, of all places

Dynasty

1600

This spooky director filmed his stop-motion animation film "Frankenweenie" in black & white to emulate classic monster movies

Tim Burton

1600

The Natl. Hot Dog & Sausage Council says this team's American Family Field is MLB's only park to sell more sausages than hot dogs

Milwaukee Brewers

1600

The rapper Twista has an affinity for magic & also can make his puppet Tiny Twista rap as one of these voice-throwing performers

ventriloquist

1600


Octavian honored her dying wish and she was laid to rest with Mark Antony

Cleopatra

1600

To prevent basement flooding, this rhyming device sucks up water

Sump pump

1600

In a 2023 film Jacob Elordi invites Barry Keoghan to his family estate called this; the visit is... unusual

Saltburn

2000

Before winning an Oscar for playing an imprisoned serial killer, he partnered up with a spooky dummy in "Magic"

Anthony Hopkins

2000

It's the 4-letter word for soybean curd that can be used to make cheesecake & even hot dogs

tofu

2000

In a story written by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle drinks a magic liquor & then falls asleep for this many years

20

2000

Dan Aykroyd led this fellow "SNL" comedian's funeral procession on a motorcycle to his grave in Martha's Vineyard

John Belushi

2000

The Air Pump, the Hare & the Northern Crown are lesser-known these

Constellations

2000

Christopher Plummer's death in this 2019 film casts suspicion on every member of his squabbling family

Knives Out