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Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep sang "SOS" on the soundtrack of this 2008 film
Mamma Mia!
Brett Goldstein stars as foulmouthed soccer star & coach Roy Kent on this comedy
Ted Lasso
Adding the spice called file to a soup or stew does this to it, which is also good when it happens to a book plot
thicken
2 parallel ropes attach to a horizontal bar to make up this acrobatic apparatus
trapeze
To stimulate another to do something creative
inspire
Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy
Airplane!
This title 1970s sitcom family was "movin' on up, to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky"
The Jeffersons
The long, narrow covered pan called a "fish" this refers to a specific cooking method, not to a person who steals fish
poacher
To breathe with difficulty & with a whistling sound
wheeze
The lead wolf
alpha
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & Martin Short, collectively; now turn your head & cough
Three Amigos!
He was the poor mountaineer who struck oil & became rich on "The Beverly Hillbillies"
Jed Clampett
Veggies are scalded, then plunged into ice water when you do this, a word also meaning "make pale with fear"
blanch
To identify someone vile or unethical, "ball" or "bag" can follow this word
sleaze
Camera lens used to make distant objects appear larger
telephoto
Tom Hanks wrote & directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders
That Thing You Do!
Setting out for a 3-hour tour, it was the "fishy" boat on "Gilligan's Island"
The Minnow
Splitting a steak open but not separating it is called this, which really gives it wings
to butterfly
Idiomatically, these may "fall on deaf ears"
pleas
Sacrilegious speech
blasphemy
What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film
Oliver!
Sara Bareilles & Renée Elise Goldsberry are 2 members of a '90s group making a comeback on this Peacock show
Girls5eva
This French term for a ball of meat or potato fried crisp begins with a type of lawn game
croquette
It's an ornate decoration just below a building's roof
a frieze
2 linked lines of verse
a couplet