Get Your Game On
This other term for military exercises is also the title of a 1983 film
What are war games?
Physically or figuratively, you can come to this utensil where an important choice must be made
What is a fork in the road?
This robust New World crop descended from teosinte, which only had about a dozen kernels per ear
What is maize?
"Pommes frites" in Bourgogne are better known as these in the States
What are French Fries?
Moscow citadel (7)
What is the Kremlin?
By definition a contest in which 1 player's $5 gain must mean another player's $5 loss is this type of game
What is a zero sum game?
You're in charge if you're said to be occupying this place in a car
What is the driver's seat?
Used to break up the soil, it evolved from the prehistoric digging stick & was improved in the 18th century with a moldboard
What is a plow?
Fried wonton strips, Mandarin orange & sesame dressing are key ingredients in this poultry salad
What is Asian Chicken Salad?
Cosmic reincarnation principle
(5)
What is Karma?
Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Raally upset? You're "mad as" this moistened fowl
What is a wet hen?
The Romans made sure to plant legumes, which increase yield by returning this element to the soil
What is nitrogen?
2 Southwest restaurants claim to have created this deep-fried burrito with a 4-syllable name
What is a chimichanga?
Garments gotten "in a twist"
(8)
What are knickers?
Paul Schrader has said this French director's "The Rules of the Game" represents all that film can be
Who is Renoir?
If the victory was easy, you won this 2-word way, originally referring to a jockey so far ahead he could drop his reins
What is hands down?
To irrigate farmland, the Persian empire built qanats, tunnels that tap into this underground source, from the Latin for "water-bearing"
What is an aquifer?
The name of this fast food hot dog chain refers to an Austrian food item not on its menu
What is a wienerschnitzel?
Invasive climbing vine
(5)
What is kudzu?
This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language
What is Gamesmanship?
In bridge, if the lead plays a heart, the others must as well; hence this idiom meaning "to do the same"
What is follow suit?
Deuteronomy 8:8 promises a land not of milk & honey but of this salad dressing "and honey"
What is olive oil?
Ham, roast pork, cheese & pickles are hallmarks of the sandwich that Floridians dubbed this
What is a cuban?
No fair trials in this court
(8)
What is kangaroo?