1993
In October "Jurassic Park" surpassed this film to become the highest-grossing movie of all time
E.T.
American colonists used red bergamot to make this drink while they boycotted British goods
Tea
A network security device that can block incoming data traffic
Firewall
Relating to a time between ancient & modern--Weird Al warned he'd "get" this "on your heinie" in "Amish Paradise"
Medieval
Thom Yorke once said this band's song "Karma Police" was for "everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses"
Radiohead
The largest one of these California conifers would yield more than 50,000 cubic feet of lumber
Sequoia
In 1993 this team made headlines with a "Three-peat", its third NBA title in a row
the Chicago Bulls
Cardamom is a member of this family that you should be able to identify in a snap
Ginger
A comedy genre; "His Girl Friday" & "Bringing Up Baby", for example
Screwball
An avian term for a person who thirsts for a scrap, it was used of congressmen elected before the Scrap of 1812
a War Hawk
This reggae song by Inner Circle was the theme to the reality series "Cops" for over 30 years
"Bad Boys"
A line of waiting people, or a sequence of stored computer data awaiting processing
Queue
The 51-day standoff of a compound in this Texas city lead to the death of the Branch Davidians leader, David Khoresh, amongst others
Waco
Turmeric gives this color to curry
Yellow
A government's often one-time tax on a company's excessive profits
a Windfall Tax
This 9-letter adjective for someone itching to fight comes from Latin for "of war"
Bellicose
In a 1973 protest song, Bob Marley admits "I shot the sheriff" in self-defense, but denies committing this other crime
Shooting the Deputy
Hawaii's fourth-largest island, it's the state's only island that has navigable rivers
Kauai
In September the 8 people sealed in this structure near Tucson emerged after 2 years
the Biosphere
Italians preserve basil by salting the leaves or by putting them in a jar filled with this
oil
In 1972 routine vaccinations against this disease were discontinued in the United States
Smallpox
Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight
a Friendly Fade
It's no small tusk, er task, to decipher this trippy Beatles song, whose lyrics include a sighting of "Mister City P'liceman"
"I Am The Walrus"
This adjective means fawning or exhibiting servile obedience
obsequious
These two women were given t-shirts that read "The Supremes" on the front and a distinguishing phrase on the back
Sandra Day O'Conner & Ruth Ginsburg
Other names for this herb include black sugar & sweet root
Licorice
9-letter word meaning to anticipate & prevent
Forestall
A snack & a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense
a Chip on Their Shoulder
"Mama, take this badge off of me" is the first line of this Dylan song, written for a movie scene about the death of a lawman
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
"The moan of doves in immemorial elms, and murmuring of innumerable bees" is an example of this literary device
onomatopoeia