Days of Guns n' Roses
The State I'm In
Same First and Last Letter
A Strawberry Festival
The Responses GPA
100

"Take me down to" this Guns N' Roses song "where the grass is green & the girls are pretty, oh won't you please take me home"

"Paradise City"

100

Terlingua has been called one of Texas' most famous one of these 2-word sites, a specter of its heyday as a hub for mining cinnabar

a Ghost town

100

This playground pavement game has a potent potable in its name

Hopscotch

100

In 1985 a 2.5-acre area dubbed Strawberry Fields was dedicated here in memory of John Lennon, who once lived nearby

Central Park

100

2.0:
Lazarus Naturals makes creams & gummies out of it

CBD

200

A 1991 compilation album by this Sixx-shooting band looked back at a "Decade of Decadence"

Mötley Crüe

200

Daniel Boone National Forest & the International Museum of the Horse can be found in this state

Kentucky

200

This adjective deals with the creation & use of low-temperature phenomena

Cryogenic

200

This character created by Barbi Sargent was first used on greeting cards before expanding to dolls, cartoons & more

Strawberry Shortcake

200

3.0:
It's on a blackboard in "Glengarry Glen Ross"

A-B-C

300

Deadly on Billboard, this hair metal band had Top 10s with "Talk Dirty To Me" & "Unskinny Bop"

Poison

300

This lake in Idaho comes from French for "heart of an awl"

Coeur l'Alene

300

In the U.S., form N-400 is an application for this process that may also require fingerprints

Naturalization

300

In the original language, this film about an aging professor is called "Smultronstället"

Wild Strawberries

300

2.75:
Immigration policy program announced June 15, 2012

DACA

400

"Here I Go Again", talking about Tawny Kitaen's acrobatics on David Coverdale's Jaguar hood in a classic video by this group

Whitesnake

400

This hah-bah on Mount Desert Island in Maine is called "the Gateway to Acadia National Park"

Bar Harbor

400

Type of container meaning "2-handled" & often holding wine; the Acropolis museum has a 3,400-year-old one

Amphora

400

In "The Caine Mutiny", a supposed theft of some strawberries aboard ship pushes this Bogie character over the brink

Captain Queeg

400

3.6:
Limerick rhyme scheme

AABBA

500

Rolling Stone gave us an oral history of this song by extreme, "1991's iconic ballad"; now hold me close, don't ev-ah let me go

"More Than Words"

500

This state is not famous as a source of jazz talent, but Bix Beiderbecke was born there

Iowa

500

It's the term for a blank page found at either the beginning or the end of a book

Flyleaf

500

Bands who recorded at the UK's Strawberry Studios include the Smiths, the Buzzcocks & this group fronted by Ian Curtis

Joy Division

500

1.75:
This body wants to win back the House of Representatives

DCCC