STARS
TELEVIZED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
WHAT'S THAT SPELL
COMPOUND WORDS IN OTHER WORDS
FREAKIER FRIDAYS
200

Nicknamed Lucy after a song, a star in Centaurus hosts a core of this gem, 10 billion trillion trillion carats in size

diamond

200

It's Showtime! This title serial killer dealt with the Ice Truck & Trinity killers

Dexter

200

The 3 witches in "Macbeth" chant, "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron" this

bubble

200

Pretty much only in "The Wind in the Willows" will you find a toad in a midriffjacket

a waistcoat

200

On Friday, June 29, 2007, a newspaper announced "fire, the wheel and now" this item released that day--it retailed around $499 for a model with a whopping four gigabytes of storage

the iPhone

400

Castor is approximately 17 light years away from this star it shares a constellation with

Pollux

400

On "Weeds", this actress sells some well-received stuff to Snoop Dogg, who is inspired to rap about MILF weed in her honor

Mary-Louise Parker
400

The tale of Ali Baba & the 40 thieves gave us this door-opening phrase

Open sesame

400

A slide & plenty of shade are essentials if you're building a dramafield for kids

a playground

400

On a freaky Friday, January 17, 1969, cosmonauts on this Russian spacecraft returned home after swapping ships--but not bodies--up in space

Soyuz (IV)

600

Epsilon Leonis & Mu Leonis are stars in this asterism of Leo with the name of a farming tool

A scythe (sickle)

600

The Donbot of the Robot Mafia hangs out in Little Bitaly on this animated show set in the 31st century

Futurama

600

In "The Fellowship of the Ring", he cries, "Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!" & a tree bursts into flames

Gandalf

600

The Palace of Versailles has a "royal" tribunallawn

a courtyard

600

Casual Fridays are said to go back to Aloha Days in Hawaii & informal clothes worn on Beer Bus Days, implemented by this then-hyphenated tech giant named for Bill & Dave

Hewlett-Packard

800

Called the Star of Isis in Ancient Egypt, its rise in summer forecasted the rise of the Nile River

Sirius

800

An astounded Idris Elba rips the paper away from someone actually taking notes on a criminal conspiracy on this HBO drama

The Wire

800

Spell 77 in one of these funerary texts written for a man named Ramose was for transforming him into a golden hawk

the (Egyptian) book of the dead

800

Though he was miles away, the heist was planned by the criminal Gurubrain

mastermind

800

In a confession printed in "The New York Times", Leon Czolgosz said the words of Emma Goldman & living in Ohio led him to do the deed, the deed of shooting this man on Friday, September 6, 1901

William McKinley

1000

Arcturus, the brightest star in Boötes, is this colorful type of star, the fate of some main sequence stars

a red giant

1000

Jessica Gunning researched stalker characters like Kathy Bates' in "Misery" to play Martha Scott on this Netflix show

Baby Reindeer

1000

It's the killing curse in the Harry Potter books, & don't you dare point your wand at me when you say it

Avada Kedavra

1000

Cartoon & comic strip characters are often hit on the head by a falling bloompan

a flowerpot

1000

On a Friday the 13th in 1307, Philip IV of France made claims of heresy when ordering the arrest of all members of this group named for their original headquarters in Jerusalem

The Knights Templar