Connections are phrased oddly - I knew 3/4 but got none correct. I typed "storms" and was ruled incorrect for "weather phenomena" (although I guess a tornado isn't a storm, so that's probably ok), typed "NHL teams" and was ruled incorrect for "US ice hockey teams". I can understand the "defame" question. I had a really convoluted explanation for that one that would have flown on the tv show, but couldn't think of the word "defame" so I wrote something like "to speak ill of" which I see why the site didn't know was the same.

Anyway, great grid - iffy phrasing on the connections.

Great ideas