ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING
DANGER! DANGER!
__ & __
4-LETTER ACRONYMS
"G"EOGRAPHY
100

Add a "B" to a chess piece to turn it into this babbling stream

brook

100

National Weather Service danger signs of this impending phenomenon include a dark, often greenish sky & a roaring noise

tornado

100

It's typically a small hotel or a house with private rooms offering a place to lay your head & a morning meal

bed & breakfast

100

The U.S. military gave us this other way to say "at your very earliest convenience"

ASAP

100

This strait narrows to 8 miles between Spain & Morocco

(the Strait of) Gibraltar

200

Subtract an "A" from a word that describes sudden, intense pain to get this word meaning adorable

cute

200

Waves can create a current moving away from the shore, properly called this type of current & much stronger than an undertow

riptide

200

Control C & Control V are the Windows keyboard shortcut for this pair

cut & paste

200

The "E" in this acronym that precedes "package" (_____package) originally stood for Europe, where the packages went 

CARE

200

About 1,700 square miles in area, it's the largest inland body of saline water in the Western Hemisphere

the Great Salt Lake

300

Put a "B" on a synonym for donkey & you get this fish

bass

300

You can sleep all night & work all day, but Time magazine listed this outdoor job as the USA's most dangerous

lumberjack

300

Made with a pale ale & stout, it's the colorful name for the beer drink seen here--cheers


black and tan

300

Deaf actor Troy Kotsur won an Oscar in 2022 for his role in this acronym-titled movie that also took home best picture

CODA

300

The Motagua, this country's longest river, flows into the Gulf of Honduras 

Guatemala

400

Subtract a "B" from a loose-fitting women's shirt to get this parasite you don't want to find there

louse

400

This U.S. government department issues regular travel advisories on the level of danger in countries to which you might journey

the state department

400

The Pentagon used this jarring term for the intense aerial bombardment of Iraq in 2003

shock & awe

400

Part of the Expedia group, this company pairs families ready for a getaway with over 2 million homes worldwide

VRBO

400

This nation on the border of Europe & Asia declared independence in 1991

Georgia

500

Bite an "S" off a tentacled cephalopod & it becomes this, slang for a British pound

quid

500

Eating certain fish can be dangerous for pregnant women due to this heavy metal; the FDA calls out king mackerel & swordfish

mercury

500

Taxation, tariffs & other revenue-raising measures come under the jurisdiction of this House committee

Ways & Means

500

The M-I is for "musical instrument" in this acronym, the standard that connects instruments with computers

MIDI
500

 Which archipelago, belonging to Ecuador, lies on the equator in the Pacific? 

Galapagos Islands