2017's
"Battle of the Sexes"
tennis
In an Adele hit, this one-word title precedes, "It's me, I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet"
"Hello"
It's a (supa cold) song by Gucci Mane & also precedes "it's cold in here" in a cheer used in "Bring It On"
"Brrr"
Hollandaise-laden breakfast entree known as a traitor in the United States
eggs Benedict Arnold
In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this
sugar
Vertically oriented phrase meaning exaggerated, hard-to-believe stories
tall tales
"Balls of Fury"
Ping-Pong
"Oh, baby, give me one more chance to show you that I love you", this quintet sang in 1969
The Jackson 5
A 1984 humor book is titled this request for silence "Is a Four Letter Word: Laughs for Library Lovers"
Shhh
"Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course
toad in the hole in one
Both the English & Dutch companies with this name began around 1600 with their minds on monopoly & monopoly on their minds
East India Company
"The Gallopin' Gaucho" is an early film featuring him, before his name came to mean small-time & unimportant
Mickey Mouse
"The Iron Claw"
with Zac Efron
(pro) wrestling
"I just need one more shot at second chances", sang this Ontario-born heartthrob in his 2016 chart-topper "Sorry"
Justin Bieber
Old ads for Campbell's said their soup was this! This! Good!
M'm! M'm!
"Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of canoodling in the barn
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Having gotten a 20-year monopoly for steamboat navigation in New York, Robert Livingston paired with him to, y'know, build a boat in 1802
Fulton
Before "favorite", it's another way to say the one expected to win
odds-on
"The Legend of Bagger Vance"
golf
A Grammy winner by Toni Braxton implored an ex to do this to her heart
un-break
It follows "Riot" in a feminist punk movement of the early 1990s
grrrl
"Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained
shepherd's pie in the sky
In the 1400s the Germans led the league in having a near monopoly in the Baltic's long-distance trade; this league, specifically
the Hanseatic League
In a much-imitated spiel, old travel films end, "as the sun sinks slowly into XX body of water, we bid" this alliterative goodbye
a fond farewell
Based on a true story:
2004's "Miracle"
hockey
"If we loved again, I swear I'd love you right", sang Taylor Swift in this hit in which she mentally revisits a certain month
"Back To December"
This double-talk expression of disapproval sounds like it should have an "I" or 2 in it
tsk, tsk
Blue cheese-accompanied poultry products that are on the marquee as a Wim Wenders film
Buffalo Wings of Desire
Founded in 1851 stop this company dominated the telegraph biz in the early 1900s stop but the telephone changed things stop
Western Union
An adjustment to the path of a ship to get it headed to its destination, or any similar change in a non-nautical process
a course correct(ion)