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SCANDINAVIA
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Every December 10, after these are handed out, there's a banquet at Stockholm's city hall
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the Nobel Prizes
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About one-fifth of Norway's economy comes from this natural product, led by Equinor operating in areas like its continental shelf
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oil
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Billund, Denmark is the home of this toy company
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LEGO
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This Scandinavian specialty is made with dried cod that's soaked in lye & simmered for about 10 minutes until translucent
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lutefisk
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He drew on Norwegian folk tales & tunes for his music, including "In The Hall Of The Mountain King", heard here
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Grieg
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WEATHER WORDS
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Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come" these 2 opposites
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rain & shine
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Starbucks sells a tea drink called London this
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Fog
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A Joyce story ends with this falling "upon all the living and the dead"
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the snow
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A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead"
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a hail
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The EPA says keep this below 60% to prevent mold
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humidity
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DANGER! DANGER!
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National Weather Service danger signs of this impending phenomenon include a dark, often greenish sky & a roaring noise
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a tornado
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Waves can create a current moving away from the shore, properly called this type of current & much stronger than an undertow
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a riptide
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You can sleep all night & work all day, but Time magazine listed this outdoor job as the USA's most dangerous
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a lumberjack
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This U.S. government department issues regular travel advisories on the level of danger in countries to which you might journey
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the State Department
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Eating certain fish can be dangerous for pregnant women due to this heavy metal; the FDA calls out king mackerel & swordfish
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mercury
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ROLE CALL
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Hitting the big screen as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" was an offer this actor couldn't refuse
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Brando
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In 2022's "The Batman", Zoë Kravitz brought a new take on this character with a secret identity of her own
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Catwoman
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These are the first names of the 2 characters played by Humphrey & Ingrid in "Casablanca"
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Rick & Ilsa
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In this film, Jared Leto plays the title biochemist who tries to cure himself of a rare disease but infects himself with vampirism instead
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Morbius
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King Kong had nothing on this actor when he starred as LAPD Detective Alonzo Harris in "Training Day"
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Denzel Washington
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HISTORIC STRUCTURES
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Near the border of Colombia & Ecuador Las Lajas Sanctuary was built after an image of this woman was seen on the surrounding cliffs
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the Virgin Mary
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Charles I was the last monarch to sleep in this castle, the night before he was crowned king of Scotland in 1633
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Edinburgh Castle
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Le Corbusier designed the Palace of Justice for Chandigarh, a regional capital built in the 1950s in this country
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India
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The luxurious Alhambra of Spain was built by these conquerors whose name is derived from a region of Africa
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the Moors
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Protecting the Roman Empire's alpine frontier, the Porta Nigra or "black gate", is in Trier, now in this country
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Germany
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ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING
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Add a "B" to a chess piece to turn it into this babbling stream
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brook
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Subtract an "A" from a word that describes sudden, intense pain to get this word meaning adorable
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cute
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Put a "B" on a synonym for donkey & you get this game fish
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bass
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Subtract a "B" from a loose-fitting women's shirt to get this parasite you don't want to find there
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louse
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Bite an "S" off a tentacled cephalopod & it becomes this, slang for a British pound
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quid
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THE COLD WAR ERA
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This president made a secret deal to take U.S. nukes out of turkey, helping end the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Kennedy
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Unearthed decades later a 1950 letter indicates happiness by Joseph Stalin that the U.S. was entangled in this war
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the Korean War
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In this year the U.S. & others boycotted the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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1980
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$1600
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The Stasi were a secret police force of this country that spied on its citizens & encouraged them to spy on each other
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East Germany
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Abbreviated M.A.D., this theory deterred the use of nuclear weapons by suggesting there would be no winners
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mutually assured destruction
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GONE EXTINCT
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The largest avian ever, the elephant bird of this island nation off the east coast of Africa could reach 10 feet high & 1,000 pounds
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Madagascar
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The great auk was a flightless & sadly fearless bird that lived on the Faroes & other islands in the northern part of this ocean
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the Atlantic Ocean
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Cygnus falconeri was a 35-pound one of these birds that lived in Malta
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a swan
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Humans brought an end to the Caribbean monk species of these flippered mammals that we often think of in colder climates
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seals
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Extinct in the wild today, the Barbary lion is famous for its activity in this Roman structure completed in 80 A.D.
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the Colosseum
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CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
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The online world (10 letters)
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cyberspace
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Solid, like a certain building material (8 letters)
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concrete
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Partner of "whole kit" (8 letters)
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caboodle
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Jesus' crucifixion site (7 letters)
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Calvary
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Flightless ostrich relative (9 letters)
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cassowary
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THE JACKSONS, 5
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Among those she acknowledged on her 2019 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were Dick Clark, don Cornelius & her brothers
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Janet Jackson
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He was inspired by the original "King Kong" to become a filmmaker
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Peter Jackson
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In 2004, a stretch of highway in Georgia was named in honor of this great
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Alan Jackson
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In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport
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speed skating
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A 2-time Oscar winner, she went on to serve in Britain's Parliament from 1992 to 2015
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Glenda Jackson
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WHAT IS LOVE...
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In "Frozen" Anna & Hans sing "Love Is An Open" one of these, "Life can be so much more"
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a door
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In "Tuesdays with Morrie", this author wrote, "Love is the only rational act"
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Mitch Albom
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This man's "[love is more thicker than forget]" continues non-capitalization in the rest of the poem
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cummings
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His "Symposium" from around 360 B.C. states, "Love is the eldest & noblest & mightiest of the gods"
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Plato
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Irving Stone's 1954 novel "Love is Eternal" was about this first lady who married an awkward lawyer
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Mary Todd Lincoln
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BABY, DON'T HURT ME
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Baby, I've asked you not to ruin plot points when we watch TV unless you give me this 7-letter alert
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spoiler
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I hate it when you eat the last one of these ice cream bars with a big polar bear on the wrapper; it's cruel, baby
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Klondike
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You know I'm trying to consolidate Asia in this board game, yet you invade from Kamchatka to Mongolia; not cool, baby
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Risk
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$1600
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I dropped out of this university, but so did Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg; what exactly are you trying to say, baby?
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Harvard
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You know my ex wore Opium perfume from this 3-named designer; why do you torture me so?
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Yves St. Laurent
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SCIENCE & THE BIBLE
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A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19
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Sodom
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