Entertainment Awards
Cheers to him, an 11-time Emmy nominee & 2-time winner for playing Boston bartender Sam Malone
Ted Danson
Adding the spice called file to a soup or stew does this to it, which is also good when it happens to a book plot
thicken
Widowed at 24, this Philadelphian born Elizabeth Griscom kept herself afloat by making the occasional flag
Betsy Ross
This disappearing cat is owned by the Duchess of Wonderland
The Cheshire Cat
To stimulate another to do something creative
inspire
This social satire from director Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes film festival
Parasite
The long, narrow covered pan called a "fish" this refers to a specific cooking method, not to a person who steals fish
poacher
On Feb. 19, 1766 James Watt wrote, "I have thought on a simpler circular" this machine "which I expect will be practicable"--it was
a steam engine
Tom Kitten gets rolled up in dough & is almost baked in a pudding in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" by this author
Beatrix Potter
The lead wolf
alpha
Olympia Dukakis & Cher both won Oscars for this 1987 film, playing mother & daughter
Moonstruck
Veggies are scalded, then plunged into ice water when you do this, a word also meaning "make pale with fear"
blanch
The 2 dynasties vying for power in the War of the Spanish Succession were the Habsburgs & this French one
the Bourbons
In "The House at Pooh Corner", Rabbit & Piglet hatch a plot to unbounce this feline character
Tigger
Camera lens used to make distant objects appear larger
telephoto
At the 2019 People's Choice Awards, the Competition Contestant winner was Hannah Brown, the title personage of this TV show
The Bachelorette
Splitting a steak open but not separating it is called this, which really gives it wings
to butterfly
Similar to Uncle Sam, this character represents England, first appearing in the 1712 satirical pamphlet, "Law is a Bottomless-Pit"
John Bull
Mungojerrie & Bustopher Jones are memorable characters in this T.S. Eliot work
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Sacrilegious speech
blasphemy
Arthur Hill won a Tony for originating the role of George in this play by Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This French term for a ball of meat or potato fried crisp begins with a type of lawn game
croquette
Tacky's Revolt was carried out in 1760 by enslaved people on this Caribbean island, a center of sugar production
Jamaica
Pixel the cat shows up in the Robert Heinlein work "The Cat Who" does this, which regular cats can't do
Walks Through Walls
2 linked lines of verse
a couplet