'In the names of hummingbirds, this body part might be a "blue-" or "ruby-"'
Throat
200
'Before hitting "The Beach", he played Meryl Streep's son in 1996's "Marvin's Room"'
Leonardo DiCaprio
200
'Both Henry III & Henry IV were removed from office by this method'
Assassination (victims of stabbing)
200
'These colorful imports from the islands were perfect to top off Bermuda shorts'
Hawaiian shirts
200
'Ice cream portion, or breaking news story (5)'
Scoop
400
'Kelp is a visible example of these; spirogyra is a microscopic one'
Algae
400
'Streep suspects unsafe working conditions at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in this 1983 film bio'
Silkwood
400
'He married a Polish princess, lost Canada to the English & made a Pompadour center of his life'
Louis XV
400
'Ferragamo introduced these floor-scarring shoes whose name comes from the Italian for "dagger"'
Stiletto heels
400
'Racquet game, or gourd-shaped veggie (6)'
Squash
600
'When a maple tree loses its keys, it loses these'
Seeds
600
'Streep won an Oscar for playing this title role seen here: "The time I left I felt that there was nothing terribly wrong with me & that my son would be better off without me"'
Kramer vs. Kramer
600
'In 1995 Jacques Chirac became president of this current numerical republic'
Fifth Republic
600
'This polyester fiber from Du Pont made men's trousers "Neater...more comofortable...with less care"'
Dacron
600
'Lustrous last name of actor Martin (5)'
Sheen
800
'Although shaped like the bottom of a shoe, this protozoan doesn't walk, but swims by shaking its cilia'
Paramecium
800
'Streep mastered a Danish accent, but Robert Redford's British accent was vetoed for this 1985 Oscar winner'
Out Of Africa
800
'On July 17, 1429, with a little help from Joan of Arc, the seventh king of this name was crowned at Reims'
Charles VII (the Dauphin Charles)
800
'Found in a 1955 Sloan Wilson novel title, it was the uniform of the businessman'
A grey flannel suit
800
'It precedes Club & Leone (6)'
Sierra
1000
'This high-altitude resident of the Rockies is North America's closest relative of the true antelopes'
Rocky Mountain goat
1000
'What was Meryl Streep thinking, stealing Ed Begley Jr. away from Roseanne in this 1989 comedy?'
She-Devil
1000
'Louis, the nephew of this ruler of France, was the only ruler of the Second Republic'
Napoleon Bonaparte
1000
'The formless chemise dubbed this by Balenciaga & Givenchy was popular in 1957'