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    | Whoops! John Proctor becomes a victim of the witch hunt in this Arthur Miller drama | The Crucible 
 
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    | These high nests for birds of prey, like the osprey, may take their name from the Latin for a "vacant place" | aerie 
 
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    | This "Sesame Street" character fittingly appears as a census taker in a 2020 public service announcement | The Count 
 
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    | A query that expects no real response is this 10-letter type of "question" | rhetorical 
 
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    | Some NCAA basketball teams begin their journey with "Midnight" this; reminds me of March... | Madness 
 
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    | There were no rooms for Frederick the Great's wife in his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital | (Erin: What is Paris?) (Quan: What is Vienna?)
 
 Berlin
 
 
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    | The stage manager is a pivotal role in this play by Thornton Wilder | Our Town 
 
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    | Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure | (Erin: What is a sty?) 
 a chicken run
 
 
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    | The first season of this series said the title location "lies between the pit of man's fears & the summit of his knowledge" | The Twilight Zone 
 
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    | Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with "C" | craven 
 
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    | Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863 | [Quan selected the first clue.] 
 the Emancipation Proclamation
 
 
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    | This red-bearded Fred built a mighty, now ruined castle at Gelnhausen in the 12th century | Barbarossa 
 
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    | 2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape | The Glass Menagerie 
 
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    | Just below the overstory, this area of a tropical forest is home to the spider monkey & the sloth | a canopy 
 
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    | The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages | (Erin: Who is Dante?) 
 Dan Brown
 
 
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    | Church law defines it as the "obstinate post-baptismal denial" of truth "which is to be believed by divine & Catholic faith" | heresy 
 
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    | One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival | Cannes 
 
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    | While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House | the Prince of Wales 
 
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    | In this Albee play, Martha's husband George is an associate professor of history | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
 
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    | These crustaceans with a "solitary" name seek new shells to live in after outgrowing their old ones | hermit crabs 
 
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    | "Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season | (Erin: What is Thor: Ragnarok?) 
 Joker
 
 
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    | A symphony sounds lovely; this word with the same suffix is a discordant bunch of sounds | (Savannah: We've got less than a minute left.) 
 cacophony
 
 
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    | Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name | Twelfth Night 
 
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    | Frederick the Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521 | (Martin) Luther 
 
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    | In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back | American Buffalo 
 
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    | This type of spider creates a deep burrow with a hinged entrance from which it jumps out & snatches prey | (Quan: What is a tarantula?) (Katie: What is a wolf spider?)
 
 the trapdoor spider
 
 
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    | Tony Todd was paid $1,000 each time he was stung by a bee playing the title villain in this 1992 horror movie | (Savannah: He earned $23,000, by the way; that's a lot of bee stings.) 
 Candyman
 
 
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    | Like prophesize, this 13-letter "pro-" verb means to forecast or predict a future event | prognosticate 
 
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    | Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad | Gabriel 
 
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    | A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country | (Quan: What is Austria?) 
 Poland
 
 
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