'That's not a papal advisor: it's this red fish of the family Apogonidae'
a cardinal
200
'He said getting out of a milk can was "the best escape that I have ever invented"'
Houdini
200
'You do it for a casting director to get a part'
audition
200
'Down on the corner, this group was known as CCR'
Creedence Clearwater Revival
200
'If you're 62 or older & receive loans that are charged against your equity in your house, it's this type of mortgage'
a reverse mortgage
400
'The blue species of this spear-nosed sport fish can weigh 1,000 pounds or more'
a marlin
400
'He was the first of Europe's 20th century fascist dictators'
Mussolini
400
'A small business owner who fails to pay payroll taxes may find this person at his door'
an auditor
400
'Fans popularly refer to them as GN'R'
Guns N\' Roses
400
'Add 1 letter to a Darwinian word to get this, meaning assuming characteristics of an earlier form'
devolution
600
'The bottom-dwelling fish named for this stinging arachnid can be red in color'
a scorpion
600
'Ingrid Bergman's career suffered for a time due to her affair with this Italian film director'
(Roberto) Rossellini
600
'One of these in the LDS conference center in Salt Lake City seats 21,000'
auditorium
600
'Don't bring me down; tell me that ELO is short for this'
Electric Light Orchestra
600
'Chronometrically speaking, in contrast to most twining vines, morning glory climbs this way'
counterclockwise
800
'Seen here are red & blue specimens of this combative fish, native to Thailand, maybe getting ready to rumble!'
Siamese fighting fish
800
'Borromini was the greatest rival of this St. Peter's architect with a similar name'
Bernini
800
'In 1934 the first 33 1/3 RPM long-playing record was one of these, for the blind'
an audiobook
800
'What would you say if I told you DMB is this'
Dave Matthews Band
800
'In psychology when a 40-year-old acts like a 10-year-old, it's called this'
regression
1000
'The sharptoothed Lutjanus campechanus is better known as this popular food fish'
red snapper
1000
'His last name begins with the 5-letter title of a Puccini opera he conducted'
(Arturo) Toscanini
1000
'After the Marines turned him down as too short, he became a WWII hero in the U.S. Army'
Audie Murphy
1000
'nin.com is the official website of this dark outfit'
Nine Inch Nails
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) From Earth's point of view, shown here by the red line, planets sometimes appear to reverse direction because the Earth overtakes them in their orbits; the backward motion is called this--from the Latin for "walking backward"'