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ARTISTS
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Her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" commemorates their brief affair during his exile
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Frida Kahlo
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Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself
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water lillies
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A collage by Romare Bearden imagines this wanderer coming home not to Ithaca but to West Africa
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Odysseus
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Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist's measurements from his former tailor
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Rodin
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A portrait by him, Leonardo's almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million, a record for an old master not named Leonardo
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Botticelli
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BANK "C"
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To a banker, a CD is this
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a certificate of deposit
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While you don't sign the cashier's one, this double-"C" item that's also guaranteed is signed by you & a bank official
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a certified check
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It's payment earned on the sum of an original principal plus the money the principal has already accrued
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compound interest
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Also called a cap, it's the upper limit of a variable in a transaction, like the rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage
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the ceiling
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The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this
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collateral
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MUNCH
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A healthy snack is carrots & this dip traditionally made with ground chickpeas
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hummus
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Low in calories & neutral in flavor, these provide a base for lots of toppings
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rice cakes
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Breaded & deep-fried shrimp is perhaps misleadingly called this snack-food shrimp
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popcorn shrimp
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Munch on the trail mix called gorp, perhaps short for "good ol"' these 2 foods
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raisins & peanuts
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Developed from a tree called MN1711, the name of this apple conveys 2 of its attributes: its sweet taste & its crunch
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a Honey Crisp
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BOSH
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This word for idiotic talk can also mean "to drool" & likewise begins with "dr"
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drivel
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"Bosh" comes from a word for "nothing" in this language; the 1834 novel that popularized the word opens at the foot of Mount Ararat
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Turkish
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We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones
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disinformation & misinformation
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I'll be furious & will find it most injurious if your story turns out to be this, from the Latin for "illegitimate"
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spurious
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HOPPER
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A clodhopper can mean a bumbling oaf or one of these he might wear
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shoes
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Here are some kids playing an old-timey version of this game
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hopscotch
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To make a grasshopper green, use the green type of this liqueur
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crème de menthe
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Seen here, he lays down the law as Jim Hopper on "Stranger Things"
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David Harbour
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Eastern is the most common of this common type of rabbit best identified from behind
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a cottontail
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SAYS ANN(E)
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A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams
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King Kong
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Of co-hosting the Oscars in 2011, this actress said James Franco "convinced me to do it"
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Anne Hathaway
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On film Henry VIII asks her, played by Natalie Portman, "How do you propose to stay on the horse?" Her reply: "with my thighs"
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Anne Boleyn
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"But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series
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Anne of Green Gables
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At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS
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William Bradford had quite the task set before him after winning the governorship of this fledgling colony in 1621
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Plymouth
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Axed by Urban VIII in 1631, a female religious community modeled on this order founded by Ignatius of Loyola began in 1609
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the Jesuits
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In 1697 Spain ceded to France a third of what's now called this island; the new territory was dubbed Saint-Domingue
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Hispanola
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Called the first modern physics text, Galileo's "Discorsi" deals with the motion of projectiles, now called this study
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ballistics
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This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals
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the East India Company
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AB-WORK
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Adding "AB" to a 3-letter type of poem gets you this type of housing
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an abode
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An idle verb gets an "AB" at its front & becomes this fiery word
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ablaze
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Add "AB" to a passageway for air or water & you get this people-stealing word
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abduct
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A narrow mountain edge gets "AB" at the front to become this word of literary shortening
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abridge
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"AB" moves in front of a word describing a wayward knight, creating this word of deviation
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aberrant
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BRIT LIT
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You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon
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Beowulf
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Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind"
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The Time Machine
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At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
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the Mad Hatter
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Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding
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Tom Jones
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MUSIC OF THE 2000s
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In 2020 they sank their teeth into the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for "Father of the Bride"
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Vampire Weekend
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In 2001, he and his initial were everywhere with "U Remind Me" & "U Got It Bad"
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Usher
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Peaking at No. 2, their "Counting Stars" spent 68 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100
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OneRepublic
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Her "Hot Pink" & "Planet Her" were 2 of the top-selling albums in 2021
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Doja Cat
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Their 2007 collaboration album was a surprise success, & 14 years later, they returned to raise the roof
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Plant & Krauss
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HERE BE LIONS
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As described in 1 Kings, this great monarch's gold & ivory throne was flanked by figures of lions
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Solomon
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In a Roman story, this hero pulls a thorn from a lion's paw & is repaid for his kindness by not being eaten later in the arena
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Androcles
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Richard the Lionheart was King Richard I of England & Duke of Aquitaine & this French duchy
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Normandy
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6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS
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Benjamin Lee Guinness was its Lord Mayor in the 1850s
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Dublin
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Wenceslas Square is at its heart
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Prague
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This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals
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Zagreb
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Known as the "City of Columns", it's one of the oldest in the Caribbean
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Havana
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3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea
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Asmara
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SYMBOLS
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N/A
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This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978
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Harvey Milk
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