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BALLET
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Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character
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fox
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Choreographers like Alexander Gorsky have made this Moscow ballet co. that dates to 1776 one of the world's leading companies
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the Bolshoi
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$600
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As the costuming indicates, Giselle is this kind of country girl, also the name of a pas de deux in the ballet
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a peasant
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$800
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In "Swan Lake", the same ballerina often dances both of these roles, a princess & a sorcerer's daughter
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the white swan & the black swan (Odette & Odile)
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Moira Shearer, famous for dancing "Cinderella", popularized ballet playing a troubled dancer in this colorful film
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The Red Shoes
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7-LETTER GRAB BAG
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It's a room for young children or young plants
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a nursery
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This carbohydrate is also called milk sugar
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lactose
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$600
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Nixon famously said, "When the president does it, that means that it is not" this 7-letter word
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illegal
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$800
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These two events occurred simultaneously in early morning Cambridgeshire in 2011
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an eclipse & a sunrise
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Also called freerunning, this French-sounding word allows one to overcome obstacles in leaps & bounds
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parkour
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BEASTLY LIT
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In "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone", this groundskeeper has a pet dragon named Norbert
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Hagrid
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$400
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The polite Twinkleberry & his impudent brother Nutkin are this type of animal in a Beatrix Potter work
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a squirrel
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$600
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With sinister consequences, a cat named Church is brought back to life in this 1983 novel
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Pet Sematary
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$800
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Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal
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a lion
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$1000
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Odysseus is remembered by this faithful dog after returning from the Trojan War
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Argos
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CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU
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Arrêter translates to this 4-letter word, if you're reading our signs correctly
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stop
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$400
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A Frenchman who's living in fantasy builds châteaux en Espagne, literally these in Spain; we build them "in the air"
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castles
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$600
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Août is French for this traditional vacation time
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August
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$800
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La fenêtre is one of these in your home
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window
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$1000
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Literally "black beast", this 2-word French term refers to a specific thing that one strongly dislikes doing
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bête noire
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SPORTS WITH NO BALLS
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$200
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What you're playing or watching if a drop pass is followed by a pad save
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hockey
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$400
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Put on your gauntlet & wire mesh mask
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fencing
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$600
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A shammy towel is key; Olympian Jennifer Abel used a black one
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diving
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$800
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A grand champion is called a yokozuna in this Asian sport
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sumo
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$1000
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Lots of open space, 7 players per team & one disc
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ultimate Frisbee
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IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS
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"Water" is one suggested original meaning for this first name of swimming's Mr. Lochte
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Ryan
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$400
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One of the most common family names in Ireland & a shade of green, it once meant "bright-headed"
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Kelly
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$600
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Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior"
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Murphy
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$800
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"The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire"
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McCoy
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$1000
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This last name means "lover of foreigners"--but sadly for the brothers in the band Oasis, not "lover of people in my family"
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Gallagher
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LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE
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$400
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These 2 rivers meet near the city of Al-Qurnah, just north of Basra in Iraq
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the Euphrates & the Tigris
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$800
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The Yazoo River joins the Mississippi below the bluffs of this Civil War site
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Vicksburg
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$1200
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The Rideau River got its name, meaning "curtain", from the falls that forms when it joins this one at a national capital
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the Ottawa River
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$1600
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The Seine splits into 2 channels a around the Île Saint-Louis & rejoins just past this eridge across the Île de la Cité
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the Pont Neuf
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$2000
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Austria-Hungary, Germany & Russia formerly met at a river junction known as Three Emperors' Corner now in this country
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Poland
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MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON
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$400
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Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime
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Jack Ryan
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$800
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Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies
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Sarah Connor
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$1200
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Howard Keel in the 1953 film "Calamity Jane"; Keith Carradine in "Deadwood "
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Wild Bill Hickok
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$1600
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Marlene Dietrich in "The Scarlet Empress"; Elle Fanning, much more recently on Hulu
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Catherine the Great
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$2000
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James Cromwell in "The Queen"; Tobias Menzies in "The Crown"
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Prince Philip
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THROWING SHADE
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$400
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Drop a "Y" from an action made by sleepy people to get this shade-giving roof extension
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awning (from yawning)
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$800
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Abbreviated cu, these puffy, dense clouds are good for periods of shade
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cumulus
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$1200
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Archaeologists in Egypt found maybe the world's oldest this timepiece, missing its little shadow-casting doohickey
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a sundial
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$1600
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This "U" word refers to leaves that provide shade, or an annoyance that one takes personally
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umbrage
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$2000
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In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree"
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Hesse
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HISTORY QUICK TAKES
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Rebellion is in the air & in the photo seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising
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Boxer Rebellion
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$800
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Ferdinand & Isabella wed in 1469, uniting these 2 kingdoms
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Castile & Aragon
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$1200
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In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title
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the Dalai Lama
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$1600
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Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad
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a caliph
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$2000
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He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one
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Powhatan
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CHEMICAL PEOPLE
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$800
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Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things
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water
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$1200
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This English chemist analyzed Ancient Egyptian pigments but is remembered for funding an American institution
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James Smithson
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$1600
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Danish chemist Henrik Dam named this vitamin for its aid in coagulation, a word spelled differently in Denmark
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K
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$2000
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19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases
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diffusion
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"X"s & "O"s
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$400
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Heard here, it's a cousin to the glockenspiel
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a xylophone
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$800
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It's the side of a coin with the principal design
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obverse
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$1200
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From Greek for "dry" & "writing", this 10-letter word was described in 1948 as "a revolutionary process of inkless printing"
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xerography
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$1600
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It's defined as government by the few
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oligarchy
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$2000
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It's a gesture such as a bow to show reverence or respect
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an obeisance
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NONFICTION
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N/A
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This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth"
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Silent Spring
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