IN PRISON
7-LETTER WORDS
CROSSWORD CLUES "Y"
AN APRIL TO REMEMBER
GAMES WITH DICE
100
A shorter stay due to "exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations" is AKA time off for this
What is Good Behavior?
100
A dangerous storm that can form over tropical waters; a hurricane is one type
What is a Typhoon (or Cyclone)?
100
Sing like an Alpine mountaineer
(5)
What is Yodel?
100
An April 1985 attempt to make the regular kind of this soda taste more like the diet kind led to marketing disaster
What is Coke?
100
This game played on a board with 24 spear-shaped points utilizes dice & often a doubling cube
What is Backgammon?
200
The "sighs" heard on the Bridge of Sighs came from prisoners sent from the doge's palace to this city's prisons
What is Venice?
200
Grammatically, the song title "You Are Loved By Her, Yeah Yeah Yeah" would be in this voice
200
It can precede fever, jacket & pages
(6)
What is Yellow?
200
In April 1906 an earthquake hit this U.S. city followed by a massive fire & the loss of 3,000 lives
What is San Francisco?
200
In craps if you bet on the pass line & the first throw of the dice equals either of these 2 numbers, you win
What is 7 & 11?
300
This term for a cut of meat from the leg of an animal is also something helpful in settling disputes with a bunkmate
What is a Shank?
300
Many an old westerner packed his pistol in the Mexican loop style of this
What is a Holster?
300
A fungus for fermentation & leavening
(5)
What is Yeast?
300
Major League Baseball's first of these postponed the opening of the 1972 season to April 15
What is a Strike?
300
In this classic game a large straight gets you 40 points & 5 of a kind gets you this, 50 points & the name of the game
What is Yahtzee?
400
Varner Prison in Arkansas has a section called this 8-letter portmanteau word implying the ultimate in security
What is Supermax?
400
For a standup comic, it's an overlubricated member of the audience who keeps interrupting
What is a Heckler?
400
School for future rabbis
(7)
What is Yeshiva?
400
In April 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in what he named Florida, searching for this legendary spring
What is the Fountain of Youth?
400
Seen here are tiles & dice for this game
What is Mah-Jongg?
500
This infamous prison complex was built in Iraq by a British company in the 1960s
What is Abu Ghraib?
500
The hazelnut is also called this, for a saint on whose feast day it is often ripe
What is Filbert?
500
Brute in "Gulliver's Travels"
(5)
What is a Yahoo?
500
On April 15, 1974, as everyone else paid taxes, this radical "Army", the S.L.A., was robbing a bank of $11,000
500
Hasbro sells a retro 1986 edition of this game with its iconic dome-shaped Pop-O-Matic die roller
What is Trouble?