Final Jeopardy: The United Nations (8-13-24)

Here are some more clues from the 3/xx/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

The players got all the clues in BOOKS BY REPORTERS
($400) In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he’d later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy

($800) Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel “Erik Dorn” & then wrote for the movies with this director’s “Spellbound”

($1200) Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city’s black weekly The Defender

($1600) This New Journalism leader wrote the novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons”, about early 21st century college life

($2000) This scribe worked the baseball beat for a N.Y. paper but got his potatoes with the story collection “Guys & Dolls” & whatnot

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: CROSSWORD CLUES “R”
($200) What’s all this noise? (6 letters)
($400) A clever trick or stratagem (4 letters)
($600) A spinning spit for cooking meat (10 letters)
($800) The nose knows it’s inflammation of its mucous membranes (8 letters)
($1000) Fishie doing a ridealong on a shark (6 letters)

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