WRITER'S TOOLBOX
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It's the overall emotion created by a work, or in grammar, a verb form like subjunctive or imperative
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the mood
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It's the central message in a literary work; in music it precedes "and variations"
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a theme
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Boom! Slam! Pow! are all examples of this, a word that imitates the sound it refers to
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onomatopoeia
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It's the omission of one or more words in a sentence & the marks, such as 3 dots, to represent it
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an ellipses
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STATE OF THE ESTATE
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The Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, AKA The House of the Seven Gables
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Massachusetts
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The Pabst Mansion
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Wisconsin
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Thomas Edison's Glenmont Estate
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New Jersey
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James Buchanan's Wheatland Estate
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Pennsylvania
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NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE
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Collectively, a jacket, a vest & pants all made from the same material & pattern
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a three-piece suit
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Lucky multi-lobed sprout
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a four-leaf clover
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One made by Colt starting in 1873 is Arizona's state firearm
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.45
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Musical score designation AKA a quaver
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an eighth note
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""P"OTPOURRI
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Krewes in New Orleans organize these for Mardi Gras & many build floats for them
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a parade
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In the U.S. we're familiar with the food pyramid; China has a guide called a food this structure
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pagoda
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A club for these people who always put things off has protested the War of 1812 & published "Last Month's Newsletter"
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a procrastinator
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If you're being this 11-letter word, you're condescending; if you're doing it, you're supporting a business
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patronizing
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HEAVEN & PARADISE
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It's a 9-letter place of temporary suffering & purification prior to entry into heaven
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purgatory
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Achieving Nirvana in Buddhism releases the subject from this, the law that fate is based on your actions in life
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karma
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Referenced in Revelation, Chapter 21 Verse 21 and depicted here, they are a proverbial entranceway into heaven
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the Pearly Gates
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A place of drinking & merrymaking, this musician's green is a heaven for sailors & cavalrymen
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Fiddler\'s Green
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The celestial city mentioned in "The Pilgrim's Progress" is AKA the heavenly this real city
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Jerusalem
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track and field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority
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Jesse Owens
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier and became the first African-American to win the French and U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 and 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event
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Wimbledon
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1968
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring and out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964. In the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this and became an example of Black Pride and defiance of the Establishment
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Cassius Clay
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say Hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder. In a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest-living ballplayer
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Willie Mays
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THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
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During the war Poland fought this country; the Polish king claimed to be its czar
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Russia
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This French cleric and politician got France into the war in part to prevent Hapsburg dominance
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Under the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus, this Nordic nation established itself as a major military power in the war
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Sweden
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The 1648 peace deal had Spain recognize the independence of this North Sea nation, ending both the Thirty & the Eighty Years' Wars
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the Netherlands
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TV NEWS SHOWS
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Since 2013, weekday afternoons on CNN have featured "The Lead" with this man
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Jake Tapper
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An NBC news crime show, or the listing of when & where a newspaper story was written
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Dateline
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Margaret Brennan moderates this CBS weekend news show in which public affairs are debated by a panel of specialists
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Face the Nation
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Before handing out justice on Fox News, she started one of the first domesic violence unit in a U.S. prosecutor's office
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(Jeanine) Pirro
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SCIENCE
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More than 90% of all creatures are considered this, meaning they have no spinal column
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invertebrates
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It's a simple, fundamental synonym for alkaline
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basic
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William Wollaston discovered palladium & lent his name to Britain's highest award for this earth science
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geology
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An atom or molecule that has an unpaired electron is called by this "liberated" name & can damage your cells
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a free radical
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Grasshoppers undergo "incomplete" this transformation: the young look pretty much like adults but need to grow & add wings
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metamorphosis
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UNFILMED NOVELS
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Jerry Lewis was among those who desperately wanted to play him, J.D. Salinger's most famous character
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Holden Caufield
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Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures" novel is still unfilmed, with juicy parts for both Kavalier & this other title guy
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Clay
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He refused offers to film "Foucault's Pendulum", perhaps because of his experience with the film of his first novel
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(Umberto) Eco
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Plenty of this author's works have made it to the screen, but "Blood Meridian"--not yet
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Cormac McCarthy
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Will Ferrell & John Belushi were considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly, but this novel is still unfilmed
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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COMPOUND WORDS
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This tool lends its name to a type of puzzle made with it
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a jigsaw
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Outdoor public activity space for kids, often with a swing set
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a playground
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Epistaxis is the medical term for this injury for which you might need a tissue
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a nosebleed
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HMS Victory was this type of command vessel for Lord Horatio Nelson
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a flagship
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Getting to the core of things, the oldest & strongest part of a tree is the hard dark center called this
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heartwood
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
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Should really go without saying: none of this Nobel stuff patented in 1867
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dynamite
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Should go without saying part 2: none of these, whether of the fragmentation, smoke or stun variety
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a grenade
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None of this element used to disinfect pools & spas--relax, they'll use it at the resort!
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chlorine
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No booze above 70% alcohol, this proof
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140
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No to the Note7 model of this smartphone
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Samsung
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ASIAN GEOGRAPHY
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N/A
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This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species
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DMZ (the demilitarized zone between North & South Korea)
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