Change the Middle Letter
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Any Day Of The Week
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100

You can sit on one in a park, change the middle letter & boom, you're at a new location laying out & catching rays.

What is Bench & Beach?

100

A 2.2-horsepower motor drives the Vitamix 750, one of these with pre-programmed settings for smoothies & more.

What is a Blender?

100

A 2007 Time article apologized for confusing "LOLcats" with this feline-posting tradition, a day of the week portmanteau.

What is Caturday?

100

This type of tax on imports goes back to Arabic for "notification".

What if a Tariff?

100

Magic, schematic! The Russo kids must deal with hordes of geckos & skinks.

What is Lizards of Waverly Place?

200

A rodent eats up the only vowel & becomes a word of decomposition.

What is Rat & Rot?

200

A small motor drives the turntable in one of these, whether countertop or over-the-range.

What is a Microwave?

200

McDonald's & Wendy's observed this day on July 12, 2024, which fell on the day of the week it sounds like.

What is Fry Day?

200

It can mean to mock someone, or to eat voraciously.

What is to Scoff?

200

Hugh Laurie goes full rodent at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital & he's addicted to all the cheese.

What is Mouse?

300

Heroic bravery in battle becomes a visible exhalation of steam.

What is Valor & Vapor?

300

A clicking noise when you turn the ignition can mean a bad this, the motor that gets your combustion-engine car going.

What is a Starter?

300

October 24, 1929, this "dark" day on Wall Street, kicked off the stock market crash.

What is Black Thursday?

300
It's the Hogwarts house that fits the category?

What is Hufflepuff?

300

Richie, Fonzie, Potsie & Ralph Malph gather to sing the opening word of the "Banana Boat Song"

What is Happy Day-O?

400

The underlying subject of a literary work isn't love or guilt but a seasoning great for pasta & roasts.

What is Theme & Thyme?
400

The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor.

What is a Central Processing Unit?

400

Founded by a University of Tennessee student, this restaurant chain shares its name with a song by The Rolling Stones.

What is Ruby Tuesday?

400

In Ancient Rome, an ancestor of the English type of this dog breed fought bears, lions & even gladiators in the arena.

What is a Mastiff?

400

Murderous blood-splatter specialist Michael C. Hall is addicted to his cell phone and can't stop messaging.

What is Texter?

500

A description of one bearing a message (or worse, a disease) gets fancy as a French luxury brand name.

What is Carrier & Cartier?
500

An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas.

What is the Compressor?
500

On "American Gods", Ian McShane was Odin, also known as Mr. this guy.

What is Wednesday?

500

This word meant any bishop, but now it's specifically the bishop of Rome.

What is a Pontiff?

500

Ben Bailey is back in the taxi-based game show biz; no money through--your prize is an itchy skin condition.

What is Rash Cab?