Word Puzzles
A relative by marriage
SI
ST
ER
Step Sister
The principal, to Janine on this ABC sitcom: "Step was my thing in college! It certainly wasn't academics. I hate school"
Abbott Elementary
You're just getting by if you're on a budget that mentions this footwear fastener
shoestring
It typically consists of swimming, running & a bike race
The largest known structure in the universe is a group of galaxies, the Hercules-Corona Borealis this, also a long thing in Asia
a Great Wall
This flying elephant has his own ride at Disneyland
Dumbo
Workwear with straps
DENIM
_____
ALL ALL
denim overalls
As Oliver, Martin Short has a shocking revelation on this Hulu show:
"Rock icon Sting is a dog-poisoning murderer"
Only Murders in the Building
Casinos use multiple-deck cardholders called shoes to combat card counters at this game
blackjack
Pirates & patriots were known to wear this style of hat
a tricorn
The beautiful Orion Nebula is an H II region, a vast cloud of ionized this elemental gas
Hyrdrogen
This en"deer"ing character frolics in the forest with his animal friends Thumper & Flower
Bambi
A B-flat woodwind
ECLART
a clarinet
This sitcom's Dr. Spaceman, delivering Tracy some tough news: "I don't know how to say this... D.A. but eez?"
30 Rock
Pressing a certain car pedal pushes these shoes against the inside of the drum
brake shoes
High-ranking Nazis including Rudolf Hess were tried by an international military one of these
a tribunal
A class of objects the size of asteroids but resembling comets in composition is named for these man-horse hybrids
centaurs
In a 2022 remake, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the voice of him, Pinocchio's conscience
Jiminy Cricket
A favorite dinner at my house
GEHRY
CAPRA
GARBANZO
PINTO
Franks & Beans
Noho Hank, to this title guy wanting off work: "What do you want me to do? Go to John Wick Assassin Hotel with help wanted sign?"
Barry
This dreamy style of British indie rock got its name from the way performers stared at their effects pedals
Shoegaze
When its remains were first discovered in 1887, they were thought to belong to an extinct species of bison
Triceratops
The Milky Way is made up of these spiraling appendages with an anatomical name; we're in the little Orion one
an arm
Introduced in "The Lion King", they teach Simba the meaning of Hakuna Matata
Timon and Pumba
A single serving of a November dessert
☮UMPKIN 3.141592
a piece of pumpkin pie
Darius, on this FX show: "I would say nice to meet you but I don't believe in time as a concept. So I'll just say we always met"
Atlanta
Eyewitnesses differ as to whether this Soviet premier actually banged his shoe on a desk at a 1960 U.N. meeting
Khrushchev
In math
2a2 + 6a + 9 is one of these expressions
a trinomial
In 2018 the Kepler space telescope was retired after finding about 2,600 of these--no life on any yet
exoplanets
In "Frozen", he's Kristoff's reindeer pal
Sven