(You aren't allowed to curse!)
A small immature branch, or a session of filming a movie
shoot
Since we're all about tennis, if you serve a ball that doesn't land in the proper service box, it's one of these
a fault
This organ has a mitral valve & semilunar valves
heart
In 2021 Queen Latifah rebooted this old Edward Woodward TV role of righting wrongs that no one else will
The Equalizer
Black pudding isn't a type of dessert--it's a type of this
sausage
Before children, the Pied Piper of Hamelin led these to their doom
rats
The field & the don't pass bar are part of this casino game, & don't forget to tip your stickman
craps
Condyles are the rounded ends of bones that meet up at joints--the femur has one where it meets up with the tibia in this joint
knee
Robert Newton's 1950 performance as this rogue in "Treasure Island" is considered the source of the "pirate accent"
Long John Silver
Someone vigorously fighting for a cause, not just in the medieval Middle East
crusader
Channel SpongeBob with this creamy condiment, like the Legal Sea Foods house brand
tartar sauce
Make "room" for Change Seats! & Wink Murder, 2 of Mental Floss' "games to bring back" for the holidays
parlor games
The brain region known as the parietal this 4-letter area contains the sensory cortex
lobe
In 2008 the visitors' locker room in Bryant-Denny Stadium at this university was named in honor of James M. Fail
Alabama
Named for a composer of military marches, this instrument is made for marching
sousaphone
2 words that completed Red Skelton's signoff, "Good night and..."
god bless
In 1996 the New Zealand All Blacks beat Australia 43-6 in the first tri-nations tourney in this tough sport
rugby
The Palatine type of these masses in your throat are the ones often removed--the pharyngeal types are called adenoids
tonsils
You can get your own red energy dome hat from the website of this 4-letter band, popular in the 1980s
devo
The free-swimming stage in a jellyfish's life, it sounds like a mythological monster
medusa
Rob Halford leads this band that has celebrated 50 heavy metal years
Judas Priest
Handicaps & divots are in this sport, but don't say golf; there is also penalty 3, a free hit from 40 yards to an open goal
polo
The gallbladder stores this greenish fluid that aids in the digestion of fats
bile
A Nintendo video game creator used an animal word that symbolizes stubbornness in naming this gorilla villain
donkey kong
Adjective for a behavior or transgression that is so bad it cannot be pardoned or tolerated
inexcusable