PRO ATHLETES BY NUMBER WORN
Magic Johnson, Jim Brown
thirty-two
Divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson coined this term for financial support after an unmarried couple splits up
palimony
A popular London scientist & medical man, by suicide (though police found another man's body in his place)
Dr. Jekyll
In film titles this synonym for fear is found before "of the Tongs", "of Tiny Town" & "on a Train"
terror
If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it
your hard drive
Moses Malone, Derek Jeter
two
Flamboyant lawyer Melvin Belli was nicknamed "the king of" these civil wrongs
torts
Shakespearean royal, very briefly survived by her husband & son, by poisoning, in Denmark
Queen Gertrude
This synonym for "tumbled" is also a Shakespearean adjective meaning "cruel", as in a type of "swoop"
fell
Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun
Neptune
Jackie Robinson, Ronnie Lott
forty-two
John Adams was a defense attorney for patriots like John Hancock, & for British troops accused in this 1770 skirmish
the Boston Massacre
19th c. pickpocket gang leader, described as "a receiver of stolen goods", by execution
Fagin
This word whose 2 syllables rhyme is a synonym for "to ambush"
waylay
Slowpoke Rodriguez, "the slowest mouse in all Mexico", was his cousin
Speedy Gonzales
Bobby Orr, Lou Gehrig
four
This prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial fell ill & died shortly after that trial ended
William Jennings Bryan
Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson
The Great Gatsby
This synonym for "rich" consists of an adverb, a preposition & a verb
well-to-do
If you bet that the slowest fishes of all are these of genus Hippocampus--go to the winner's circle
seahorses
Willie Mays, Jeff Gordon
twenty-four
This orator who argued McCulloch v. Maryland in the Supreme Court was one of the USA's most highly paid lawyers
Daniel Webster
This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton
Willie Stark
A man's first name, or a word meaning "abrupt"
Curt
Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"
Shelby Foote