Food
Animals
Words of Wisdom
Mythological Monsters
Colorful Language
100

It's served by the rasher

Bacon

100

Asian python and this south American giant share honors as longest snake

Anaconda

100

Make hay while the ____________________

Sun shines

100

Ulysses and his men were in trouble when this monster cas his eye on them

Cyclops

100

Tinted tool a censor or tough editor uses

Red Pencil

200

Food elevator named for the silent service it provides 

dumbwaiter

200

Bird named for founder of Maryland because its colors matched his

Baltimore Oriole

200

Don't count your chickens _________

before they hatch

200

Only those who could solve its riddle could pass safely by

Sphyinx

200

A rapid stream of words, some people curse this way

Blue Streak

300

Kind of bread San Francisco specializes in that starts with a "Starter"

Sourdough

300

Turncoat spy or an animal that borrows at top speed during mating season

Mole

300

Don't bite the hand that _______

feeds you

300

Chiron was best of these men-horses, so Jupiter made his constellation Sagittarius

Centaur

300

Kelly's car tome or what students feverishly try to fill during finals

Blue book

400

Fisherman's stew; from French for "boil and settle", cook's command to pot

bouillabaisse

400

The 200 species of this group of primates include marmosets, baboons, and mandrills

Monkeys

400

A penny saved is ________

a penny earned

400

This People's Greek name means a cubit or 13 inches, said to be their height

Pygmies

400

From fish used to throw dogs off scent, mystery writers find them indispensable

Red herrings

500

so many romans died after supping on it, that Pliny advised against eating it

Mushroom

500

Cat's claws retract into this and stay there while its muscles are relaxed

Sheath

500

Don't cut off your nose to ______

spite your face

500
Monster with lion's body and eagles head often seen guarding gloomy buildings

Griffin or gryphon

500

Emotional, overwrought writing, not to be confused with poetry

Purple prose