Archived 'Dromes
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05/24/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
A young female soldier tells how she is feeling depressed and is becoming insane at being vilified over leaving her unit without permission.
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Click here for May 24's solution
05/23/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman is encouraged to have the courage to say "no" to her normal routine in casting her ballot, always the same, but to turn to the extreme and drastic, to go against the norm..
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Click here for May 23's solution
05/22/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
My Lord, Lena, tearing up, wasn't crazy when she married a schnauzer?
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Click here for May 22's solution
05/21/2018
World Geo/languages
Clue
A Spanish woman wonders wonders if she failed to say "good-bye" as she left and is embarrassed about it.
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Click here for May 21's solution
05/18/2018
Sports/USA Geo/Food)
Clue
I tell former MLB player Martinez of the Yankees. Mariner, Devils Rays, and Cardinals circa 1990-2005, that I ate a Fairbanks version of a dish of greens with slices of Tibetan ox and flakes of tuna.
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Click here for May 18's solution
05/17/2018
Languages/Business
Clue
Now a Lyft fan, a Frenchman relates his poor experience with the Big Dog in the space.
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Click here for May 17's solution
05/16/2018
Sports/Entertainment
Clue
What you call Oculus Rift as part of an entertainment package made for a luxury motor home for Sylvester who is a New York baseball player.
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Click here for May 16's solution
05/15/2018
Aporta/Science
Clue
A star San Antonio Spur guard relates how, while vacationing with his girlfriend at the beach, he had difficulty getting the words out when he noticed that a tidal wave was looming.
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Click here for May 15's solution
05/14/2018
Entertainment/Business
Clue
A member of the firm which handles the retirement account for a member of an early punk rock band( "Blitzkrieg Pop") tells a colleague it has come back from the dead after having taken a dip in a down market spell.
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Click here for May 14's solution
05/11/2018
Entertainment
Clue
When Ray and Deborah's twin boys were born, their dad made this vow that they would be well educated.
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Click here for May 11's solution
05/10/2018
USA Geo/Food
Clue
In a national cooking festival where all the state winners competed against each other, an entry from Chicago which used a Nabisco cookie as its base and combined it with elements of cuisine and methods from an alien ship, was deemed sensual to the point of almost being illegal.
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Click here for May 10's solution
05/09/2018
USA Government/Geo
Clue
The police in Los Angeles were astounded at the scam they uncovered involving the selling of nuts which had supposedly been made by the space agency and were calories free.
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Click here for May 09's solution
05/08/2018
HistoryGovernment/Food
Clue
An aide to Israeli PM Shimon tells him how he irritates a representative of Hellman's who had come to try to get them to buy sandwich spread.
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Click here for May 08's solution
05/07/2018
World Geo
Clue
The number by the group composed of 3 women from Rome and 3 from Guatemala was struck from the program celebrating the Vietnamese New Year.
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Click here for May 07's solution
05/04/2018
Languages
Clue
"In actuality", Enid puts a stop to risque, alluring behavior.
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Click here for May 04's solution
05/03/2018
Arts/Languages
Clue
"The Rime of the Ancient mariner" explained by a student to his German grandfather.
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Click here for May 03's solution
05/02/2018
World Geo
Clue
With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate ate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.
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Click here for May 02's solution
05/01/2018
Entertainment/Business
Clue
I told a Spanish man that when I went "over the rainbow" I was absolutely in love with my cell phone service.
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Click here for May 01's solution
04/30/2018
World Geo
Clue
With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.
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Click here for April 30's solution
04/27/2018
Government
Clue
You should pay attention to the fact that in the rib eating contest at a delicatessen in Vegas one of the judges, the PM of Israel, really lambasted the establishment over the quality of some barbecue I had put my money on.
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Click here for April 27's solution
04/26/2018
USA Geo/Sports
Clue
At an auction of used New York baseball locker room paraphernalia during the era when it had a minor league team, reps of this small western city, whose named means a small hill arising from flat surroundings, decided not to bid on the ice bath device.
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Click here for April 26's solution
04/25/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Police captain angrily reports how patrolman Tim became certain of his collar, albeit by being ruthlessly, devilishly efficient in zapping the suspect.
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Click here for April 25's solution
04/24/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Two naturalists noted that the doe and the buck cleansed themselves in the river before mating.
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Click here for April 24's solution
04/23/2018
World Geo
Clue
Rodney is told to really get the motor running on the new jointly owned business making and repairing medium sized orchestral string instruments
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Click here for April 23's solution
04/20/2018
World Geo
Clue
Young Ara, given the task of choosing the procession's formation, gave no thought whatsoever to this one.
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Click here for April 20's solution
04/19/2018
World Geo
Clue
Having reached the rank of Royal Master of Tires and retired after years of long service on government vehicles in Mumbai, 9 gentlemen find themselves having fallen on hard times. A legislator speaks up in Parliament on their behalf:
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Click here for April 19's solution
04/18/2018
World Geo/Food
Clue
Emily is questioned about her assertion that the high ranking Turkish official is a connoisseur, a gourmet when it comes to leftovers.
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Click here for April 18's solution
04/17/2018
Languages/Botany
Clue
My "psychic" Mexican aunt, haughty now that she thinks she is such an expert on dwarfed Japanese plantings.
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Click here for April 17's solution
04/16/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
A madam refuses service to a group of men who confess to being way behind on their bills and want credit.
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Click here for April 16's solution
04/13/2018
USA Entertainment/Science
Clue
The machines are coming: a very fast piece composed by an electronically enhanced human/machine named after a famous jazz singer.
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Click here for April 13's solution
04/12/2018
USA Miscellaneous
Clue
Iggy is told that the shoulder length mink wrap perfectly suited Angela.
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Click here for April 12's solution
04/11/2018
USA History/Government
Clue
NYC detective's note to himself ca. early 1980s, that in the drug investigation, the mayor himself had witnessed suspect Robert in the bathroom cleaning cocaine dust from his hands.
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Click here for April 11's solution
04/10/2018
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
[Unable to afford individual sets?] People in a far West African country who lived in small hamlets have to share a single game system to play Mario Bros.
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Click here for April 10's solution
04/09/2018
Entertainment[NSFW]
Clue
In a never aired [for obvious reasons] episode of an early 70s TV doctor show, a young boy tells his mom that that when he and his teenage sister were at the doctor's office for a checkup she...gratified the doctor orally.
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Click here for April 09's solution
04/06/2018
Entertainment/Language
Clue
Japanese Cousin of a Sea World killer whale laments to her about being stuck in a crummy high school swimming pool, but seems resigned to his fate.
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Click here for April 06's solution
04/05/2018
Business/Religion
Clue
Vincent's retirement vehicle grew and was inspired by biblical principles as laid out in a relatively recent modern translation.
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Click here for April 05's solution
04/04/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Terse line on a resume regarding previous experience:managed a small, but deluxe, grocery store on the moon.
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Click here for April 04's solution
04/03/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Landlord to tenant indicating that he believes it is nonsense that he cannot pay the rent by the agreed on date.
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Click here for April 03's solution
04/02/2018
USA Geo
Clue
Repeating the question, the principal answers a student who has asked if there are any careers he recommends avoiding: namely, toe tapping dance in the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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Click here for April 02's solution
03/30/2018
Arts
Clue
Co-owner of a tattoo shop tells his partner that an excellent artist of theirs had gotten mad at a customer, an itinerant seasonal worker, and cut him up pretty badly.
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Click here for March 30's solution
03/29/2018
Entertainment
Clue
What Loretta Lynn said to her husband when she was going to try out a new song for him inspired by their new young one, but leaving out the part about where his temperament was to be overly curious.
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Click here for March 29's solution
03/28/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
As they stalk the often gloomy, depressed cult leader who typically preaches apocalypse, one member tries to encourage another to act to take him out while he has stopped to take a leak.
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Click here for March 28's solution
03/27/2018
USA Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Cry from Lassie calling for medical aid , as he and Timmy ride the New York subway and witness a man kill his own brother.
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Click here for March 27's solution
03/26/2018
Government
Clue
Roger, the attorney for a "psychic" on trial for fraud, embarrassed at the dressing down he has just gotten from the judge, is now in agreement with judge's order that his client is to refrain from making any public statements about the case.
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Click here for March 26's solution
03/23/2018
World Geo/Food
Clue
Unfortunately the college dorm version of a classic Italian dish with chicken that I touched failed to feature its luscious signature sauce made with a wine similar to port if Madeira.
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Click here for March 23's solution
03/22/2018
World Languages
Clue
A Frenchman tells how very disappointed he is that Ivan came to stay for a while.
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Click here for March 22's solution
03/21/2018
Business/Entertainment/USA History
Clue
In a time warp fantasy, a legendary Dodge city lawman retires and decides to get a job with Sony servicing early video players. After taking a proficiency test, he speaks to the press, shaking his head about how poor a job he feels he did.
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Click here for March 21's solution
03/20/2018
Sports
Clue
The confidant and business partner accompanying ex Yankee Jeter is his friend who plays Baseball in Houston, and who is extremely drunk.
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Click here for March 20's solution
03/19/2018
World Languages/Food
Clue
A Mexican man exults at the extremely velvet, smooth, yet spicy braised pork dish, which he finds delicious.
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Click here for March 19's solution
03/16/2018
World Geo/History
Clue
Maureen's dinner companion complains to her that is was a big mistake to order the "leftovers" on the menu[which seem to have given her food poisoning]...and now needs a bathroom really bad.
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Click here for March 16's solution
03/15/2018
World Geo/History
Clue
Guiding principle of an Islamic woman: Iraq despot's Uday and Qusay, practically subhuman, anger her as they are emblematic of a headlong panic as her religion descends into perversion of its ideals.
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Click here for March 15's solution
03/14/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Good grief, mother, a minister riding on an incline at a skateboard park hit a canine head on.
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Click here for March 14's solution
03/13/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Text sent by the writer of an alternate viewpoint essay for the West Point newspaper to its editor, one of the highest ranking of all the students at the academy, letting him know that he had dropped off his piece in the paper's mailbox.
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Click here for March 13's solution
03/12/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
An Audubon Society devotee is asked by a waitress if he would like his steak rare.
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Click here for March 12's solution
03/09/2018
Food and Drink
Clue
A beer snob is disappointed at the Boston craft brew instead of his favored imports. What are we coming to?
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Click here for March 09's solution
03/08/2018
Entertainment/Arts
Clue
An unkind assessment to U2 lead singer of the art objects for sale in a flea market stall operated by Yoko.
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Click here for March 08's solution
03/07/2018
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
A crime lab guy emphasizes to the detective that actress Campbell's genetic material was not found on the highball made with Seagram's whiskey that was found at the scene.
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Click here for March 07's solution
03/06/2018
USA Government
Clue
When George H.W. Bush had gotten a little sideways with his chief of staff, a rival for the position speculates on whether he has been axed.
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Click here for March 06's solution
03/05/2018
Government
Clue
Do you understand me, when it comes to taxes you don't mess around with the government as they are unyielding in their rules.
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Click here for March 05's solution
03/02/2018
Science
Clue
A colleague informs his friend, an anthropologist of somewhat high rank, that he is chasing an evolutionary dead end in studying specimens found in a German valley in 1856.
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Click here for March 02's solution
03/01/2018
Entertainment
Clue
Gilda Radner offers a drink to this woman, visiting the SNL set before Gilda goes on famously to impersonate her.
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Click here for March 01's solution
02/28/2018
World Geo
Clue
In a move of extremely bad judgement, swaying about haphazardly from intoxication, 9 guys urinated into the river near Luxor in such quantities as to raise its level.
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Click here for February 28's solution
02/27/2018
World Languages/Geo
Clue
When Trump's daughter arranged for the president of Mexico to visit with them and supporter Sarah Palin in Wasilla over the Christmas holidays,the prez tried to dissuade her, leaving her this unsigned note.
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Click here for February 27's solution
02/26/2018
World Languages/Geo
Clue
Complaint of a young man from Oman that the French girl who he considers his girlfriend thinks of him as a baby.
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Click here for February 26's solution
02/23/2018
Government&History
Clue
Press release by an aide of the choice by the Mayor of New York, circa 2016,of his physician-to-be.
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Click here for February 23's solution
02/22/2018
World Geo/Business
Clue
A veteran airline CEO scolds a young whipper-snapper of an investigator at an FAA hearing after a series of mishaps, denying that any of his captains gave any thought whatsoever to drinking Russia Vodka.
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Click here for February 22's solution
02/21/2018
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Gino's wife pleads with her Jewish husband one Friday night that they forego their traditional day of rest because she wants to watch her favorite musical group on TV, as they may sing some of her favorite songs, "Money Money,Money," "Dancing Queen," "Fernando," etc.
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Click here for February 21's solution
02/20/2018
Sports/Business
Clue
I tell Sidney that my girlfriend's use of a cologne popularized back in the day by Joe Namath just does not at any time bother me.
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Click here for February 20's solution
02/19/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Now that I have waked up, I tell Ira that I will copy Ava on a message about the proposal for immunity, not knowing the exact word to use.
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Click here for February 19's solution
02/16/2018
Arts/USA Geo
Clue
Central matters requiring a decision for the government of a Central Florida city which can be more easily be learned by a applying lessons learned from "Yertle the Turtle."
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Click here for February 16's solution
02/15/2018
USA Geo
Clue
This man, forcibly removed from office over his ideas regarding Florida's vast natural wetlands area, wrote a piece for the newspaper giving his side of the story.
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Click here for February 15's solution
02/14/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Awesome, chill, gnarly Robert, even though he couldn't speak, perfectly executed his vision of a combination delicatessen / cultivation center for flowers, trees, shrubs, etc.
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Click here for February 14's solution
02/13/2018
Sports
Clue
Comment from Dallas Cowboy Randy White when his teammate, who had crouched next to him as they lined up in the Doomsday Defense of the mid to late 1970s, farted.
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Click here for February 13's solution
02/12/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
The lords of the manor issue a statement saying that they are having a sexy young slave girl do the repairs on the borders of their robes.
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Click here for February 12's solution
02/09/2018
Arts
Clue
In a scene Jules Verne decided to leave out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is in port attending a retirement seminar run by a team of female financial planners when he realized that he was not putting away nearly enough to be comfortable in his golden years.
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Click here for February 9's solution
02/08/2018
Sports/USA Geo
Clue
It was not true that when a New York baseball team decided to auction off its training room equipment, a city in Southwest Montana tried to get one of their whirlpool ice baths.
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Click here for February 8's solution
02/07/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
A question to regarding whether the assistance wood shop teacher Alvin provided for the project involved one of these.
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Click here for February 7's solution
02/06/2018
Business
Clue
The commanding officer of a naval base in the early 1960s tells his wife Sue that he is putting restrictions on where she can drive her new luxury Studebaker.
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Click here for February 6's solution
02/05/2018
USA Geo/Food
Clue
After bitter, frank, painfully open campaigns that left everyone on edge debating whether to ban the sale of the meat of young calves, a Southern California city managed to say out of the way of an all out pitched battle over it.
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Click here for February 5's solution
02/02/2018
USA geo/Tech
Clue
The guy who just graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga is going to get a job at an internet startup trying to discover patterns or relationships by collecting, searching through, and analyzing large amounts of information about blue jeans wearing and buying habits using computer files at Levi's.,
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Click here for February 2's solution
02/01/2018
History&Government
Clue
How Trump would likely describe a big soiree at his home, in overblown prose of course.
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Click here for February 1's solution
01/31/2018
History/World Languages
Clue
Poetic image of the horrifying fireball at Alamagordo that was the product of the Manhattan Project at this lab in New Mexico.
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Click here for January 31's solution
01/30/2018
Tech Business
Clue
An order to clean a large soup serving bowl noticed by Ruth, who is undergoing tests to determine her expertise in running cameras to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems.
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Click here for January 30's solution
01/29/2018
Sports/USA Geo/World Languages
Clue
Describing a Mexican woman from Bozeman visiting a former Boston Red Sox Shortstop.
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Click here for January 29's solution
01/26/2018
Sports/World Geo
Clue
I question Japanese wrestlers on why I should not pass on to the authorities my concerns about the incident.
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Click here for January 26's solution
01/25/2018
Food
Clue
Response of a man to his dinner companion who had recommended the sheep dish and asked whether it had agreed with him, saying, unfortunately not, and he was going to need an antacid.
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Click here for January 25's solution
01/24/2018
USA Government
Clue
A New Mexico US Senator whose father was also a congressman and Secretary of the Interior tells a friend he can fix the ticket his friend got for driving high.
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Click here for January 24's solution
01/23/2018
History
Clue
A client of attorney Robert at the Nuremberg trials comes clean and tells him that he was the head of one hell-hole of a concentration camp.
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Click here for January 23's solution
01/22/2018
Arts/Business
Clue
So the man noticed that the retirement investment vehicle involving modern art was a scam, did he?
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Click here for January 22's solution
01/19/2018
Food
Clue
A contestant on "Chopped" comments that his competition's Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate is crazy good, the only entry which is a huge, powerful threat to his winning, so he is going to damage it.
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Click here for January 19's solution
01/18/2018
Business
Clue
Lee and his wife have been having a lot of problems with contractors doing work on their house, and have had to let several of them go. She tells him that it is her opinion that they should also get rid of the drain cleaning service they have hired.
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Click here for January 18's solution
01/17/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
Daddy's sick. [It was something he ate, a(n)] piece of candy on a stick that was way beyond its sell by date.
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Click here for January 17's solution
01/16/2018
Business
Clue
A man whose car has had a flat near a factory which grinds grain tells the proprietor what his problem is and how he was reconsidering the wisdom in buying cheap tires instead of a name brand.
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Click here for January 16's solution
01/15/2018
Business/TV
Clue
Boy to his Dad when he discovers that his Ronco Pocket Fisherman and Bottle and Jar opener didn't quite work as advertised.
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Click here for January 15's solution
01/12/2018
Food and Drink
Clue
Comment by a vintner after he heard about the disaster of having his sweet, dark-red wine left on the table, practically unopened, at the wine show.
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Click here for January 12's solution
01/11/2018
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
Mimicing a famed nursery rhyme, this palindrome and pun is about how a famed New York Giant linebacker is told the story of a young girl whose young male sheep was run over by the District attorney Hyman.
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Click here for January 11's solution
01/10/2018
Sports/World Geo/Languages
Clue
Yankee teammate of "Country" Slaughter tell him that he has seen some fresh banned reading material in from China or Japan or somewhere.
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Click here for January 10's solution
01/09/2018
History/World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Nat is told that an alien characterized Derek, a hire on their company's computer systems in the capitol of the Byzantine empire, as a) a colossal drunk, and b) one on whom they were throwing their money away.
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Click here for January 09's solution
01/08/2018
Sports/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
TV host and comedian Howie is told that the star of the Harlem Globetrotters did not consider going to Mexico because of the exchange rate, but had his eye on Saigon.
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Click here for January 08's solution
01/05/2018
History/Sports/Entertainment
Clue
[Some of you will be old enough to remember this.] Line of dialogue from a play in which a Uganda strongman reacts quizzically as he is watching the exciting finish of the Oakland Raider/New York Jet football game on November 17, 1968, as it was cut short for a movie.
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Click here for January 05's solution
01/04/2018
World Geo
Clue
The secretary to an Islamic sovereign asks the guest who has come to see him to have a seat, as he is present but now in the throes of lovemaking with a member of his harem.
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Click here for January 04's solution
01/03/2018
USA Geo/Tech/Food
Clue
What I said to a relative of an Austin Texas computer maker who had become a Japanese style wrestler, when I discovered that the burger joint we were eating at had left off my favorite condiment.
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Click here for January 03's solution
01/02/2018
Miscellaneous
Clue
A report to Emily that the union representing emergency transport workers had surrendered in its long contract fight with the hospitals.
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Click here for January 02's solution
01/01/2018
World geo/Food and Drink
Clue
Officials in the largest city in the United Arab Emirates publicly identify the source of a spreading craze on a military installation there, namely a popular American beer.
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Click here for January 01's solution
12/29/2017
History
Clue
Von says "no" to seeing Ms. Peron because she is too prone to want to want to vary far from the missionary position in the bedroom.
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Click here for December 29's solution
12/28/2017
Sports
Clue
Advice to Federer from his coach to abstain from hitting so many volleys and use his powerful ground strokes in many rallies.
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Click here for December 28's solution
12/27/2017
World Geo
Clue
A 1960s diplomat explains to an aide, in staccato fashion what's going on. That he's heading to an area of danger, intrigue, dissension, and instability. Highest priority. To North Viet Nam where things are tense.
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Click here for December 27's solution
12/26/2017
Arts / World Geo/ Food and Drink
Clue
When The Nautilus surfaces near the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, the captain's second in command suggests to him that the crew be given some of the dark, heavy malt beverage brewed in a major Israeli city nearby.
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Click here for December 26's solution
12/25/2017
Tech / World Geo
Clue
A colleague of Robert points out to him what he has found, a variety of festive conferences on writing sequences of computer instructions in abbreviated form, all to be held on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands.
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Click here for December 25 's solution
12/22/2017
Geography
Clue
A Swedish freshman cadet at Texas A&M University is ordered by a stammering upperclassman to get the mascot of their hated rivals and serve him up with plenty of sauce.
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Click here for December 22 's solution
12/21/2017
Arts/Entertainment/World Geography
Clue
The police in Los Angeles were blown away by a scam involving the selling of these, falsely advertised to be " calorie free and just like the astronauts eat."
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Click here for December 21 's solution
12/20/2017
Arts/Entertainment/World Geography
Clue
Are you embarrassed, Jay, to discover that the man you made the Moroni joke about is not Islamic, but a member of the priesthood in Salt Lake City?
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12/19/2017
Arts/Language
Clue
Mixing Italian and English, a maestro reminds his orchestra to "watch the stick."
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12/18/2017
Arts/History
Clue
A disgruntled former member of a Roman Catholic prelature, featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, suggests that homemade, makeshift bombs be lobbed into their headquarters to get their habitually drunken leader.
---- ---- ---- ---- ---'- ---.
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12/15/2017
Entertainment/History/Geo
Clue
I feign to Diana knowledge of certtain banned material peculiar to or characteristic of language.
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12/14/2017
Entertainment/History/Geo
Clue
B movie actress Kathleen Stark, better known by her nickname and her relationship with Prince Andrew in the early 1980s transported a hot pepper to this country, the home of the Himalayas,
--- -- ----- - -------- ----.
Click here for December 14's solution
12/13/2017
Government/World Languages
Clue
Having had just about enough from a young whipper-snapper at at Federal Reserve Board meeting in the 1990s, the chairman lashes out at the young man using a disparaging term indicating that he is not Jewish and saying that his suggestions have no chance ever to be adopted.
"--," --------- -----, " --'--, ---!"
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12/12/2017
miscellaneous
Clue
I tried out a tiny bit of French when I was speaking to my friend as I was describing what my very unhappy reaction reaction would be at the Baseball Hall of Fame's introduction of a lifesized 3-D display of wax figures noting the misdeeds of McGuire, Bonds, Clemens et al.
"---- --- - --: - '---- -------," -'- ------.
Click here for December 12's solution
12/11/2017
miscellaneous
Clue
A young woman who expected to be at her coming our party described how she awoke sunburned, naked and muddled and confused, but still breathing, to see a surgeon looming over her holding a tool and about to amputate her leg.
--------- ----- - --- -
---, - --- ---- ---- ---.
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12/08/2017
miscellaneous
Clue
An instrument used by a lisping dentist for extractions.
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12/07/2017
Arts
Clue
A man exclaims in surprise at the gift he got from his girlfriend, a soldier named Maureen, a HUGE book about and titled for the French satirical magazine struck by Al Qaeda terror attacks in 2015.
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Click here for December 07's solution
12/06/2017
Arts
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play, supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience, Diana basically says " I told you, everybody hates liver."
-- ( -----): -----'- -------, - ----.
Click here for December 06's solution
12/05/2017
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A lively dance of Bohemian origin, but with more of a long easy stride, and popular near Denali.
-- ---- -----.
Click here for December 05's solution
12/04/2017
Entertainment/Arts
Clue
Note left by an American Singer/Songwriter ("A Sorta Fairytale") explaining that taking the ideal pleasure drug from Brave New World was causing her to deteriorate.
---- ----, --- -- ----. - ---.
Click here for December 04's solution
12/01/2017
History&Government
Clue
A really good friend of Justice Antonin Scalia relates that he sees the judge's son, a real devotee of psychic phenomena.
- ---- ----'- ---, ---- ---.
Click here for December 01's solution
11/30/2017
History&Government
Clue
Line of dialogue from a novel wherein a war veteran is serving a thin boiled soup in a chow line, and he warns a Spanish Surrealist painter away from it, characterizing it as downright Dickensian.
"- -----," ----- - ---,"----- -----, ----."
Click here for November 30's solution
11/29/2017
History&Government
Clue
Headline in a1966 newspaper: both Hanoi and Saigon name Maureen, ( who worked at Mission Control in Houston) to be a liaison and go between.
---- --- --- (---- ) -- -- ---------.
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11/28/2017
US Geo/Entertainment
Clue
I noticed that Timothy always books various hotel rooms during the time of Charleston South Carolina's spring arts festival, but, interestingly at each one he becomes a virtual recluse.
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11/27/2017
World Geo/Sports
Clue
Anna, a blood relative of mine, doesn't care for people smoking pot around here.
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11/24/2017
World Geo/Sports
Clue
I violently attacked the spinnaker on this woman's boat.
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11/23/2017
World Geo/Sports
Clue
What should be the title of a biography of an eight time tennis Grand Slam Singles winner who is now married to Steffi Graf.
------'- ----.
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11/22/2017
World Geo/Sports
Clue
Words of a travel agent while telling "Lew Alcindor" it would be crazy if he didn't snap up the deal on a vacation to Tijuana and Mexicali.
-- ---- ----, ------, ---!
Click here for November 22's solution
11/21/2017
Entertainment/Government/Sports
Clue
A motorcycle jumper extraordinaire, attending a banquet given by America's space agency gets a splitting headache and is told that the guest of honor, Kenyan and US Collegiate star runner Henry has something he can take for relief.
----, - ---- ------- ---- --- -- -----.
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11/20/2017
Business
Clue
Melvin tells how he is totally against the controversial diatribe someone had written arguing against the plan under which our company's capital stock would be acquired by the employees.
---- ------- -, ---, ------.
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11/17/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Girl tells her boyfriend that it is childish to sign on again at the delicatessen and that she would fight it.
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- ------. --~--.
Click here for November 17's solution
11/16/2017
World Languages
Clue
After the dust up in the Moms Over Forty Soccer League game in Barcelona, one of the players explains to the referee what happened: one of the women, Rosemary, offered a woman on the other team poison so that she could kill herself, as she was such a fat pig.
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Click here for November 16's solution
11/15/2017
History
Clue
A viral infection with painful, inflamed, sore, harsh symptoms felled s frat boy: in Operation Desert Shield ca. 1991.
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11/14/2017
World Languages/Geo/History
Clue
A budding Latin I student show off his skills as he describes how he feel in love with a nurse on a trip to see the Colosseum, an event which caused some note in the local press.
--- --, ---- - --- -- ----.
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11/13/2017
Sports
Clue
Pooh! Els or Banks is irate at a woman in a detox unit?
---! ----- --- -- - ---- -- -----?
Click here for November 13's solution
11/10/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
A terse note of irritation sent by Von, who owned a small business, to his father who was in charge of hiring, after they had seen a man who had interrupted the interview by asking if e-cigarettes were OK at the company when the job ad had clearly said that was against company policy.
-- ----- - ----, --. ~ ---.
Click here for November 10's solution
11/09/2017
Tech
Clue
The Second Law of the Undead, which basically says that since they don't evolve [I guess ] they are stuck using an old outdated PC operating system designed especially for them.
-. ------- --- --- --~-.
Click here for November 09's solution
11/08/2017
Sports/Science
Clue
After a Mexican man queried hospital staff about how NBC football analyst and booth partner of Curt Gowdy had been transferred to Houston for cancer treatment, he was corrected about who drove him there.
-- --., ----'- ------- ---- -- -- --------.
Click here for November 08's solution
11/07/2017
Arts/Sports
Clue
Amy, either one of two great arts institutions in New York City, both of which go by the same moniker, or one of its pro athletes, may grow weary of being rashly bold and reckless.
-------- ---, ---, --- ---.
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11/06/2017
USA Geo/Business
Clue
I introduce Ilana to the caretaker of my large estate house in Central Florida , a man who also keeps me supplied with plenty of Mexican beer.
-----, ----- ----- ------ --- ---.
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11/03/2017
Books
Clue
Vincent and others are charged with developing a new translation for a popular version of the Bible and they are discussing a particularly thorny passage where the committee is going to have to vote on what is the best way to go. Vincent thinks that all is set for the vote, but he is a questioned about whether or not that is true.
------, ---- ----'- --- ---- --- -- ---?
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11/02/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Laboratory director Ira is OK with a kind of mocking, irreverent atmosphere, but draws the line at people actually hooking up.
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11/01/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Mother's job is sort of a throwback to the old days, as an attendant in railroad car, just like me.
-- -- - ----- ------, -- - --.
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10/31/2017
Food/World Geo
Clue
Kitchen helper tells the head chef in a restaurant on the banks of the river separating Poland and Germany that unfortunately there aren't any of these because they had been tossed into the river;
--, -- ----'-, ----, --- -----.
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10/30/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Evelyn's boyfriend tell her that he has an almost religious reverence for the early 8 track she is holding.
--, ----- --------'- ------, ----.
Click here for October 30's solution
10/27/2017
Business/Legend
Clue
A Himalayan beast of legend is finally spotted, doing sever damage to some luggage. "It" is asked to stop.
--, ----. -- ----- --------- ---.
Click here for October 27's solution
10/26/2017
Entertainment
Clue
A prominent rapper had been placed in charge of cleaning up after the picnic, and he went around collecting the plastic utensils, but only found knives and forks.
-----'- -- -----, --- --- -- ------.
Click here for October 26's solution
10/25/2017
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
While at the barn on a farm where milk cows are raised, McGarrett questions his right hand man about whether they had discovered the haul from a burglary which had been smuggled in from Aleppo. And if so, to put it onto the seat farmer uses to milk the cows.
----? -----, ----? --- -- -- -- - ----- -----.
Click here for October 25's solution
10/24/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
I ask Rosemary of she really does want me to leave a gratuity for that waiter, that guy who had a massively bad smell coming from under his arms.
--, -- --- --. ------ ----?
Click here for October 24's solution
10/23/2017
Sports/Entertainment
Clue
A young man who is sort of a sexist questions a friend, surprised that women also like to play a popular football video game.
---, ----- --- ------?
Click here for October 23's solution
10/20/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Angry words whispered by a man to his wife upon realizing that their hostess was too uppity to provide his favorite movie theatre candy as snacks when they came to dinner.
----! -- --- ----?
Click here for October 20's solution
10/19/2017
Food Entertainment/World Geo/Languages
Clue
TV Food Channel host is informed that the crazed "luna"tic Curtis is not a native of this country on the Arabian Peninsula.
---, "----"------ ----'- -- -----.
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10/18/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
When Stuart brought his car in to the body show to have it thoroughly cleaned and for minor repairs to improve its appearance, he left a box of Krispy Kremes in the car. When he got the car back they were gone, and he tried to blame the manager Eli or the guy who had worked on his car. Reporting this to the owner, he gets this rebuff in denial:
---, -- -------- -- --- --- ------.
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10/17/2017
Arts
Clue
I think that Lee had tunnel vision with regard to the levy he wanted on publishing any expressive lyric poem,
--- ------- -- -- --- ---, - ----.
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10/16/2017
Arts/Business
Clue
What you might call it when an attendant at the concession stand at a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance " storms down the aisle and takes back a Starbucks steamed espresso from a patron who had skipped the line to pay.
-------- ----- ----.
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10/13/2017
Miscellanous
Clue
These five people made a business out of finding, nurturing, and then selling mongrel felines who would would have been homeless scavengers if not for their intervention.
-----, ----, ----, ---, --- --- ------ ----- ----.
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10/12/2017
Miscellanous
Clue
Good grief, Nan. I wanted a word that had the SAME meaning.
--! ---, ---, -- -------!
Click here for October 12's solution
10/11/2017
USA Geo
Clue
(1) A top notch company which owns and finances income producing real estate in"The Biggest Little City in the World."
(2) Unfortunately, I note that they use lots of their income to buy high grade marijuana.
(1)---- --- ---- ----. (2)---- --- ---, - ---, --- ----.
Click here for October 11's solution
10/10/2017
Entertainment/Food
Clue
When a young TV doctor asks his friend how his sister's trail mix making was going, he friend says this, indicating that all is well.
--- -- ----, ----? ---- ---------.
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10/09/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Von's Dad tells him that he noticed that the motto his grandfather had coined for his Harvard alma mater, suggesting that truth is to be found in wine and drink, was just a parody.
"---- -------" ---, - ---, ------, --- --.
Click here for October 09's solution
10/06/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
The frat guys are betting on whether the various brothers will come to the party stag or with a date. One of them says to Lewis that he agrees with him that Greg will have one.
----, -----, - ----- ---- - "---- ----," ---.
Click here for October 06's solution
10/05/2017
World Geo
Clue
I tell a female friend of a Dallas basketball player that we were pretty rough on him for their choice to go trick or treating dressed as Barnabas Collins.
---, -- --- ---'- ------- ----.
Click here for October 05's solution
10/04/2017
World Geo
Clue
A woman in bed with her polite, refined boyfriend, an Olympic sprinter who lives in a desert of Southern Israel, asks him to turn over.
-------, ------- ----- ----- -----.
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10/03/2017
USA Geo
Clue
A proud Tuscaloosa boy brings home his intended, a recent college graduate and home grown girl with children, and thusly introduces her to his mother.
-- ------- ----, --, -- ----.
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10/02/2017
Entertainment
Clue
"Mr. Kot-ter" is going to cure the leather on his carryall.
---- -- --- - -------.
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09/29/2017
Food and Drink
Clue
Give him room to breathe! A crazy recently hired headwaiter passed out (probably too much of that dark Jamaican liqueur made with coffee beans, rum, vanilla and sugar.)
---! - ------ -' ---, ---, ----
----- ( --- -----.)
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09/28/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
The bottom line is that Timothy is reeling, whirling, absolutely transfixed by the vegetable he has just eaten and, in fact, fallen in love with.
---: --- -----, ---- -- -------, -------.
Click here for September 28's solution
09/27/2017
Business/USA Geo
Clue
A Florida State student introduces himself to the Founder of Space-X.
----, -'- ----, - --------.
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09/26/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
What I say when I ask several friends to wander over while they are out walking, aimlessly.
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09/25/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
What those of us in church do when we realize what a horrible mistake it was when we hired the new preacher.
-- ----- -- - ---.
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09/22/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Maximilian that I am the featured author at a huge book signing with my heroic, majestic novel that I wrote waking early every morning to get down to business.
---, - ----. --'- -- ---- - ---, ----- -- --- --.
Click here for September 22's solution
09/21/2017
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Sy, who plays professional baseball in NYC, is establishing a rigid set of social distinctions to govern behavior and privileges in the locker room.
--- -- ---- - ----- ------.
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09/20/2017
Tech
Clue
Place on the internet where my sister can go as a refuge, a pleasant place to get away from it all.
---' --- -----.
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09/19/2017
World Geo
Clue
A South American pack animal animal relegated to a petting zoo at a local shopping center owned by the Luft family tells Tina how he just feels used as some kind of prop and sadly yearns be running wild.
-- ---- -- - ---- ( ----'- ), - ---
- ------- -----, ----, ----.
Click here for September 19's solution
09/18/2017
Business
Clue
Introductions all around at a big business conference featuring past, present and future : McDonald's CEO to JP Morgan's. Wang Computer's founder to eBay chairman.
---, -----. --, -------.
Click here for September 18's solution
09/15/2017
Medicine
Clue
Response from a doctor half confirming his patient's self diagnosis when he had asked," Am I crazy, or am I missing my large intestine?"
-- ----. -- -----.
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09/14/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Suppose I Irepair it for you. Will you give me tickets to the game?
--- -- - --- --?
Click here for September 14's solution
09/13/2017
US Government/History
Clue
At the Supreme Court's annual softball game against the clerks circa 2014, one of the justices said this as he came up to bat with ducks on the pond,ready to plate a run with a hit.
-, ------, --- ---.
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09/12/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Pay attention: I'd lay money that the little Parisian cafe/restaurant gets sued in civil court.
----: ----- ----- - --- --.
Click here for September 12's solution
09/11/2017
World Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
Line of dialogue from a play set in Ireland where in a miscellaneous native pub patron there makes fun of Edward's order of a common American beer.
--------: -- --'- ------ --- ---?
Click here for September 11's solution
09/08/2017
Business
Clue
Re the issue of which credit card company we should choose to handle payments, watch me: Master Card. Not their chief rival.
-- - ----: ---- ----.
Click here for September 08's solution
09/07/2017
World Languages
Clue
Boss at an advertising firm, showing off a little Spanish, suggests aside an entire year to get done a brocuyrea bout a coral reef area.
-- -- ----- ----- -- ---.
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09/06/2017
Language/Sports
Clue
What "Nomeaux" is,to a Dodger baseball fan in the mid 1990s, made up by him for Cajun Day.
-- ---- -------.
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09/05/2017
Tech
Clue
A woman tells her her friend that she can send requests to men to call her with just a very low resolution photo.
---, - ---- --- -- --- ---------.
Click here for September 05's solution
09/04/2017
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A friend tells this "Oklahoma!" girl that the advertisement she has crafted to celebrate Islams' holy month was ridiculous.
----- ------- --, ---------.
Click here for September 04's solution
09/01/2017
USA Geo
Clue
Simple description of Atlanta, Georgia's transportation system, at least in part.
-----'- - ----.
Click here for September 01's solution
08/31/2017
World Geo
Clue
Suggestion to alphabetize the small restaurant/nightclubs of the European style located in this Central African country, but serving for Russian expatriates living there the good old home cooking that they were used to as they recall the days on the frozen tundra.
---- -------/----- -------.
Click here for August 31's solution
08/30/2017
World Geo
Clue
What I said to my Mother about our trip to Spain, wherein I curse it's largest city, the low point of our trip, in a fit of anger.
-, --, ---- ------, - -----. ---- --- -- -!
Click here for August 30's solution
08/29/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing Obed, who worships The Flying Spaghetti Monster and is courteous, gracious and charming albeit overweight and a gullible fool.
----------- ----, --------, - --- ---.
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08/28/2017
Entertaiment
Clue
Kuryakin's partner never considered wearing a short sleeved pullover sports shirt.
---- -------- -- -----.
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08/25/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
What you might call the student body president at an underground cemetery converted into a college.
---- -- - --------.
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08/24/2017
Science
Clue
When soldier Tino complains about the quality of the water his unit had to drink, his CO slangily lets him know that considering that the unit had been pretty bad at their jobs recently, it was what they deserved.
----, ---- ---- ------ --- -- --.
Click here for August 24's solution
08/23/2017
Science
Clue
Response to this request: "Give me examples of two chemical elements."
--------, -.-., -- ---.
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08/22/2017
History/World Languages/Food
Clue
What a boy said to his uncle from Acapulco on the occasion of a visit to them in the 1920s from the head of the Soviet Union, reminding him that he should start cooking breakfast, hominy, as their foolish obstinate guest was just waking up, and that he should really get a move on to be sure the food was ready.
----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.
Click here for August 22's solution
08/21/2017
Food/Entertainment
Clue
Celebrity chef Paula, in this line of dialogue from a play, tells Emily that there is no pleasure in arguing with her over the menu,but really there should not be containers of Pringles and not many customers like melted cheese and bread for dipping.
----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.
Click here for August 21's solution
08/18/2017
Entertainment/Medicine
Clue
"Thelma" borrowed the car from "Louise" and went to the drive thru at the hospital to get her brain wave activity checked.
----- -- -- --- -- ---.
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08/17/2017
Science
Clue
When the big time party goer got drunk and fell down passed out at the frat party, a physics major suggested that they used a long steel bar a la Archimedes to get him up, It almost works, but someone lost their grip. So this suggested was made, to try it again.
-- ~ ----- - -------.
Click here for August 17's solution
08/16/2017
Nature
Clue
A man rejects the "vision" his psychic had had in which she had seen a wildebeest wearing blue jeans coming into his life.
----, - --- ---- -- ---------.
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08/15/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
An outer space alien gossip.
---- --- --.
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08/14/2017
World Languages/Entertainment
Clue
After a young country singer duo had been turned away by a record producer, Scruggs, who had been studying German, sent his partner back in to talk to them to try, above all, to make the case against the company's argument for not picking them up. This is what Scruggs said.
---- - --------, -----, ---- -----.
Click here for August 14's solution
08/11/2017
USA Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A captain of industry in a large Southern Ohio city chides actor Cage in this line of dialogue from a play.
---------- -----: ---, ---!
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08/10/2017
World Geo/History/Slang
Clue
I tell Nan that US Rep Darrell, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee comes off hilariously in this tale of the time he and his staff visited the birthplace of St. Francis in Central Italy.
- --- -- ----, ---, -- -- ------ ----.
Click here for August 10's solution
08/09/2017
USA Geo
Clue
Someone tells Lee that in his opinion the remains of Castro are being held, isolated in a town he just made up, roughly somewhere between Amarillo and Brownsville, which is remote and just seems to be a long way from everything.
---, -----'- -- ----- ---, --, ------- - ----.
Click here for August 09's solution
08/08/2017
USA Geo
Clue
Name for a potential clothing line for informal everyday wear befitting the Southern California lifestyle of the United States.
--/--- ------.
Click here for August 08's solution
08/07/2017
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
It is not true that this star of "Roots" gave a massage to the composer of "Bolero."
----- ------ --- --- --- -----.
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08/04/2017
Business
Clue
I noted that Stuart, although mad, agreed silently with me when I lambasted the quality of the fare at Krispy Kreme.
--- ------, ----, - --- -- - ------- ------.
Click here for August 04's solution
08/03/2017
Arts/Business
Clue
Diana was asked if the art work in an early twentieth century style often expressing nonsense, irrationality, and bourgeois protest, anti-art to some, was based on an advertisement for this, which had been seen by [her assistant] Ada.
---, - ----, --, - ---- -- - ----~--- -- --- ---?
Click here for August 03's solution
08/02/2017
USA History
Clue
Did Los Angeles notice now much of a threat to safety Alec the ambulance attendant was? Are you kidding?
--- ---- -- --- ------ -- ---!!!!?
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08/01/2017
USA History
Clue
Note left for former OJ Simpson prosecutor by her boyfriend after she stomped out accusing him of not liking her artwork of inlaid stones, in which he protests that she has it all wrong.
--, ------.---- ------! ~ -----.
Click here for August 01's solution
07/31/2017
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Being totally unyielding in his opinions Ara, a Hanoi "Jack McCoy" wannabe, is also an informing scoundrel.
------- ---'- - ---, --- ---.
Click here for July 31's solution
07/28/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Suggestion to Emily that she refrain from saying things to me like, "The early bird seldom knocks twice" or " Give him an inch and he'll rush in where angels fear to tread."
--, -- --- - ----- -- --.
Click here for July 28's solution
07/27/2017
USA Geo
Clue
[When I was driving from Spokane to Seattle] I noticed a team of Transportation Department employees putting up new road signs.
-- ------- ---- - ---.
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07/26/2017
Slang
Clue
Del hired a redneck with a new college degree whom Nathaniel eyed [with suspicion.]
--- --- -- -.-. ----- --- -----.
Click here for July 26's solution
07/25/2017
US History/Geo
Clue
Describing a hitchhiking right wing idealogue, author, and movie maker D'Souza to a group of people from a subculture favoring dark themes and melodies in music and a dark and morbid aesthetic, as he told them where in Oklahoma he needed to get to.
------ -- -----: ----.
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07/24/2017
USA History
Clue
I am pretty very impressed with the movie I produced and directed about how our 16th president, melancholy though he could be, was really excellent in an aggressive, tough, intimidating way, as suggested by the slangy title.
- ---- "--- --- --- --- --- ------?!"
---- -- -.
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07/21/2017
Business
Clue
Ann fantasizes about vacationing with her girlfriend using peer-to-peer short term lodging.
---, ------, '- -------!
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07/20/2017
Sports
Clue
What mid fifties-70s major league player Francona, who is also the father of the current Indians manager, yelled to his infielders as he called them off on a short popup to right field.
---- --- --!
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07/19/2017
USA History
Clue
Harsh words of reproach to the inventor of bifocals who was so drunk and drinking so fast that he could hardly catch his breath.
-- --- ---, ---, ---------. ---!
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07/18/2017
Government
Clue
Agent Dias relates how Cyrus, a newly newly minted college graduate and CIA operative, chewed him out after he had told Emily not to use an unlicensed taxi.
-- --, ---, --- -- --, ----, - ---, --
- ----, "--, -- -- ----- ---."
Click here for July 18's solution
07/17/2017
USA Geo
Clue
Do not lose track of West Pointer Edward; stay near him, observing him from all angles while I think about what to do about him.
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Click here for July 17's solution
07/14/2017
Sports/World Geo
Clue
When a man thinks he has won $10,000,000 in a horse race, and has his friend point out that it is really only about $150,000 as the winnings had been posted in Indian Currency, a friend points out his error.
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Click here for July 14's solution
07/13/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Having finally made her choice, a woman says this to her date who is about to leave because she can't make up her mind about what kind of tea she wants to order at the restaurant.
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Click here for July 13's solution
07/12/2017
Government/World Geo
Clue
A scam perpetrated by the nomadic small statured Africans who run a workout facility that is actually a CIA front.
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Click here for July 12's solution
07/11/2017
Arts
Clue
Lilliputians' view of their oversized guest.
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Click here for July 11's solution
07/10/2017
Food&Drink
Clue
Line of dialogue in a play wherein a girl discovers that she is supposed to provide drinks and snacks for her father's buddies when they come over, so she asks if perhaps she could prepare for someone, say hot peppers stuffed with cheese, or perhaps a frappe of rum, coconut, pineapple juice.
---: --, --- - ----, ---, --- ---
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Click here for July 10's solution
07/07/2017
History
Clue
When a friend in the 1970s referred to Uganda's Amin in the past tense as if he were no longer in power, I corrected him, referring to his gruesome, revolting reign that I had seen.
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Click here for July 07's solution
07/06/2017
Sports
Clue
Website devoted to all the activities of 1980s Philadelphia 76er point guard and 4-time NBA All-star Cheeks when he decided to get married.
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Click here for July 06's solution
07/05/2017
World Languages
Clue
The government in Spain outlaws lovemaking in vaulted recessed areas within the country's cathedrals.
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Click here for July 05's solution
07/04/2017
Government/USA Geo
Clue
Maverick brass at a Los Angeles army base countermanded orders from the Chief of Staff in Washington.
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Click here for July 04's solution
07/03/2017
Sports
Clue
With the national championship on the line, and behind by 1 point with .1 seconds left on the clock, ambidextrous Evelyn is to shoot two free throws. A fan explains to his wife Nina why the opposing team in the lead just called time out, giving her time to stew over which hand she would shoot with and the enormity of the situation.
-- ---------- -- -- ----, ----.
Click here for July 03's solution
06/30/2017
Science/World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Business selling the colorless fluid part of blood, opened by Mr. Malone when he sold "Cheers" and moved to St. Morittz.
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Click here for June 30's solution
06/29/2017
Technology
Clue
When a man hears from his friend, local warden Dominick, that there are job opportunities for guards who will monitor dial up access to the internet by the inmates, he is excited about it and asks for a job.
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Click here for June 29's solution
06/28/2017
Entertainment
Clue
A man is told that Samuel was the victor in a ski race at as Aspen hill and is now a celebrity.
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Click here for June 28's solution
06/27/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Comment from someone surprised to hear that Mr. Douglas' handyman on Green Acres was the father of repurchasing this modern version of "gotcha" which involves infrared-sensitive targets.
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Click here for June 27's solution
06/26/2017
World Geo/Business
Clue
A salesman at Payless tells his customer, a Jamaican who follows this religion which has always been conceived as a way of life for and by people of African descent, why he can't fit him.
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Click here for June 26's solution
06/23/2017
World Geo
Clue
A geologist yells at his buddy that on the countryside of thus African nation bordering Nigeria there are no mineral deposits that can be mined for a profit.
-- ---, ---, --- -- --------.
Click here for June 23's solution
06/22/2017
Government
Clue
A Texas A&M University frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.
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Click here for June 22's solution
06/21/2017
Government
Clue
Olivia is a diehard conservative who thinks the "death tax" is immoral. After her friend hears Olivia goes on a tirade about it the friend sends a text wondering why. But she makes a typo, causing the text to autocorrect, accidentally creating the palindrome below that Olivia in turn cannot fathom: why in earth anyone would think that her body ink picturing her country home would be a bad thing.
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Click here for June 21's solution
06/20/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Begging to be lavishly entertained, Sid's friends ask him to pass out the brewskis.
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Click here for June 20's solution
06/19/2017
Business
Clue
I get the well known Dutch pale lager, do I?
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Click here for June 19's solution
06/16/2017
Entertainment
Clue
A woman who accompanied her "Roots" star friend to an auction and watched him continue bidding on on an expensive piece that had gone way beyond its estimated value, responds in the negative to Diana who had asked if he ever finally chickened out and quit.
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Click here for June 16's solution
06/15/2017
Business
Clue
I tell Emily how the men's cologne salesman really irritated me.
--, ---- --- --- ------- --.
Click here for June 15's solution
06/14/2017
History/Food
Clue
The mother of the man who piloted the plane which dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima lathered sauce and juices onto the meat of the large mollusk she as barbecuing for a West Pointer.
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Click here for June 14's solution
06/13/2017
Sports
Clue
Back in 1982 or so it is reported to the San Diego Chargers quarterback that is was a more senior game official that front office man Stuart had proposed a cash bribe to.
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Click here for June 13's solution
06/12/2017
Arts
Clue
In a [thankfully!] deleted scene from Pagliacci, the clown explains to his pal Salvador that one final thing he does not care for in the magic show they have gone to see is when they do coin tricks. [WHY HE SPEAKS IN THE THIRD PERSON AND IN SOUTHERN USA COLLOQUIALISMS IS ANOTHER MIND TWISTER.]
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Click here for June 12's solution
06/09/2017
History/Science
Clue
When Bin Laden needed to make bronze he found he had the copper but was short on the other needed ingredient, so he asked asked one of his henchmen to get some, and the fellow replies that he already has someone working on it, namely the woman by whom he has children. [DON'T ASK ME WHY THEY ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH, ESPECIALLY LIKE THIS.]
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Click here for June 09's solution
06/08/2017
Business/USA Geo
Clue
Helping the police, actor Norton is requested to sketch a bunch of reckless, criminal soft drink salesmen who terrorized him.
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Click here for June 08's solution
06/07/2017
Business/USA Geo
Clue
A rep for a drive-in restaurant had been speculating about whether this San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles had enough economic activity, and. concluding that it didn't, questions councilwoman Deirdre on whether she agrees that it could use one of his franchises.
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Click here for June 07's solution
06/06/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
After enduring a screaming fit following a fender bender with one of his rivals leaving the calf roping competition, a cowboy tries to calm things down by politely informing him that if he doesn't control his temper he could burst an artery.
-- ---- ---- --, ----- ---, ------ -----.
Click here for June 06's solution
06/05/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
The head county prosecutor asks his assistant Sy to evaluate the writing assignments he had given to one of his assistants, Bo, who even though he turned them in after the deadline, had produced an excellent product.
--, ------ --- --'- ----, ---
---- ------, ------.
Click here for June 05's solution
06/02/2017
World Geo
Clue
A tourist in Lima, angry at having had his rear end lacerated, nevertheless gives no thought whatsoever to having it taken care of there.
----, -- ---- ---- ------ ------ -.
Click here for June 02's solution
06/01/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Someone tries unobtrusively to tell Lani and Patricia, that they can see what happens when you turn a guitar amp up to eleven by watching this group.
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Click here for June 01's solution
05/31/2017
World History/Geo
Clue
Holy cow, a proverb attributed to the prehistoric Greek civilization flourishing in and around the southern part of this sea near Crete!
----, -- ------ -----!
Click here for May 31's solution
05/30/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
When we found out that for a fee one could reserve a place during the church service for couples with very young children who might need to be changed, well, after we stopped laughing out butts off we signed up for a whole year in advance.
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Click here for May 30's solution
05/29/2017
World Geo/Languages/Business
Clue
Von is told that he will not be able to use his "Blue" Cross health coverage when he visits this elongated Mexican state bordering the Caribbean.
-- -------- "--------," ---.
Click here for May 29's solution
05/26/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Exclamation to Reginald from a friend when they visit Mork on his home planet and they see a familiar grocery store.
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Click here for May 26's solution
05/25/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Newspaper headline announcing that a New Jersey University had been selected to be the repository of the original jottings taken by Muhammad as the archangel Gabriel dictated the word of God to him.
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Click here for May 25's solution
05/24/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Comment from TV chef Paula when she is informed that she was responsible for making the evening meal for the cat, indicating that she intended to go all out and had to have cooking vessels to perform the task.
---- -- -- ---- -----'- ------? ---- - ----!
Click here for May 24's solution
05/23/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell the headmaster that Tino and I noticed that sickly pallid Iris may have had a hand in the mischief at least to a certain extent.
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- --- ---- --- -- -- --.
Click here for May 23's solution
05/22/2017
Business/Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
Response to Lonnie who is trying to recall a famous auto race in France, after hearing him go. " The 24 hours of Paris. No, the 24 hours of Nice. No, the 24 hours of Bourdeaux. No,......" for long enough.
--, -- ---- -- ----, ---.
Click here for May 22's solution
05/19/2017
Business/Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A woman who shares a name with supermodel McPherson and who had been named queen of Mexican Fast Food in this city, the southernmost in Palm Beach County Florida, in this palindrome which is also a pun on the named of one of the local restaurants.
----, ---- ---- -----.
Click here for May 19's solution
05/18/2017
Arts
Clue
A good friend of the composer of "William Tell" is concerned about what he considers to be his friends unseemly, dirty, illegal marijuana smoking and encourages him to give it up.
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Click here for May 18's solution
05/17/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Evelyn is told that in a game of poker this guy has a devilish drive and passion, filled with spite and malice.
-----! -------'- ---- -----, --.
Click here for May 17's solution
05/16/2017
Sports/Business/Entertainment
Clue
What Dorothy said to Cowboys #88, as she told him how tremendous online shopping was over the rainbow.
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Click here for May 16's solution
05/15/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
[I guess I won't be getting a date with her because] Hot hot hot Ana noticed that I was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Darn it!
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Click here for May 15's solution
05/12/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Harsh, hysterical reaction from a dear friend of actress Lamarr, upon seeing the star's fake leather couch, which she likens to bat shit.
--, ----! --, -----! ---------, ---?
Click here for May 12's solution
05/11/2017
Sports/USA History
Clue
It seems that there was a Civil War re-enactment taking place at the Daytona 500. One of the organizers expresses regret that one of the star race drivers, who won this event 4 times, chewed out a student from a local military academy who was performing the part of a confederate solider in the re-enactment.
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Click here for May 11's solution
05/10/2017
Entertainment
Clue
I am told that Emily, a niece of Morticia and Gomez, is one crazy girlfriend , I tell Rae.
-- ------ - ----'-, ---, --- --- ----.
Click here for May 10's solution
05/09/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Why I never again wanted to go to eat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aston: filthy cooking vessels.
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Click here for May 09's solution
05/08/2017
USA History/Geo
Clue
Stopping at a way station on hi way up Pike's Peak, which would later be named after him, this explorer is asked by the proprietor if he is sure he doesn't want to have the axles on his wagons greased.
-- ----, -------?
Click here for May 08's solution
05/05/2017
Sci-Fi
Clue
I reflect on how much pleasure I got out of visiting alien spacecraft and lounging back in the captain's seat.
-- --- -- --, - ---, -- - --- -- ----.
Click here for May 05's solution
05/04/2017
Geography
Clue
A consortium of markets for cured, then smoked, brisket, run by a group of Brahma devotees from Calcutta who have relocated to the mountains in Switzerland, cheer at regulations promulgated by the National Institutes of Health.
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Click here for May 04's solution
05/03/2017
Business
Clue
When the aliens visited the US, they decided not to stay on their ships for the most part, but to rent rooms at from a prominent economy hotel chain noted for its name and which would make the accommodations easily findable from the mother ships above. Their rental agreement was known as the:
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Click here for May 03's solution
05/02/2017
Entertainment/Nature
Clue
Testing facility for yellowfin tuna recipes located in the "South Pacific."
---- --- --- ---.
Click here for May 02's solution
05/01/2017
Entertainment/Business
Clue
The king's daughter, who had joined a troupe doing variety skits between acts at the local theatre, demanded that she be provided with lanolin based skin care products which are one of Proctor and Gamble's billion dollar brands.
"--- -- ----," ------- ----- -- ----.
Click here for May 01's solution
04/28/2017
Arts
Clue
Cancer researcher's kind of "in your face" comment to his arch rival telling him that he had broken open the secret to preventing a common type of cancer originating in epithelial cells.
--, -----! - ----- ---------. ---!
Click here for April 28's solution
04/27/2017
Arts
Clue
When Tom, a prominent playwright wrote and directed a new play, it contained a seance scene, the spooky sounds of which he thought would be better conveyed if done live by a stage hand by beating into with kitchen utensils rather than using the theatre sound board. In a rehearsal he stopped because he said he could not hear the sounds at all. The chastised stage hand responds that he had indeed made the required noise.
"--- -- ----," ------- ----- -- ----.
Click here for April 27's solution
04/26/2017
USA Geography
Clue
I tell Patricia that on today's walk around the streets of a Central Florida city, I note that a food truck business, owned by several female college students and specializing in leftovers from the college cafeteria, is on the verge of opening.
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---- ---- - --- -- ---.
Click here for April 26's solution
04/25/2017
Entertainment
Clue
Description to Mr. Luft of the rapid spread of cities way into the surrounding countryside, using a Star Trek reference for effect.
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04/24/2017
History&Government
Clue
A mean tempered, tough, intimidating troublemaker makes the case to Syria's president for hiring his mother as well as he, since they are just alike.
-- --, -----, - ------, -- - --.
Click here for April 24's solution
04/21/2017
Science
Clue
Calvin, taking part in a drug efficacy study, thinks and hopes to himself that he is not a part of the control group in the double blind study, as he is feeling much better and wants it to be the real thing, actually working.
"-, --," --- --------, " -- -------!"
Click here for April 21's solution
04/20/2017
Arts/Business
Clue
Headline from an article in a financial help magazine, alerting readers to a scam involving retirement accounts invested in visual art which often gives the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping.
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Click here for April 20's solution
04/19/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell my sister that right up until the very end [ of his employment in actions which presumably got him fired ] Edward very often ceases doing tasks assigned to him.
-- ----, ---, -- ------- - ---.
Click here for April 19's solution
04/18/2017
Entertainment/US Geo/Sports
Clue
A policeman is informed that a burglary may be taking place near Arrowhead Stadium at a business which sells waterproofed protective canvas coverings and is named after a nursery rhyme character, as the door is slightly open.
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Click here for April 18's solution
04/17/2017
History/Food
Clue
Edward made hot chocolate from a recipe he found in "The Little Red Book."
-- - --- ----- ----.
Click here for April 17's solution
04/14/2017
History&Government/Business/Food
Clue
After his defeat in the 2012 presidential election, Gov. Romney decided to shake things up for Christmas dinner by having Italian, A diner guest questions him on it, and his choice of where to buy, the food section of a major clothing retailer?
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Click here for April 14's solution
04/13/2017
Technology
Clue
In a future Congress where debate is moderated by Apple's personal digital assistant, a representative stands and makes a plea that the ballots not simply be cast along party lines.
- ---- -- ---- ---- ----, ----.
Click here for April 13's solution
04/12/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
A total social misfit and incompetent dressed in earth tones is told to try again to join the two pieces of metal together.
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Click here for April 12's solution
04/11/2017
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A too vague announcement regarding a folk singer's album ("Lemon Tree") autograph session in the 14th Street Union Square station in New York City.
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Click here for April 11's solution
04/10/2017
Sports/History/Arts/USA geo
Clue
Incredulous, an Arkansas resident of a town named after a mythic Spanish city of gold and immortalized in verse by Edgar Allan Poe, tells Yankee Alex Rodriguez and Leonard that a guy names Nils who has known ties to Mideast terrorists has been spotted working out in a local club.
-- ---. -~---, ---, -- ----
---- ---- -- -- -- -- ------ ---.
Click here for April 10's solution
04/07/2017
Food
Clue
Mister as you sure you want to take a chance and eat that entire hunk of semi-hard, open textured cheddar cheese?
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Click here for April 07's solution
04/06/2017
Sports/Business/World Geo
Clue
The woman in charge of personnel at an appliance manufacturer gave no thought whatsoever to hiring the guy from the Canal Zone whose parents named him after a famous boxer.
----- -- ----- --------
-- ---------- ---.
Click here for April 06's solution
04/05/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Negative response to someone who wondered if, when Rik, a military academy student, visited Manhattan, he got scammed by a three card monte game
--, ----- --- ------- - ---.
Click here for April 05's solution
04/04/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
The seven of them had gone out to eat, but an argument had ensued and Enid had had her feelings hurt, so she left and decided to walk back to the hotel instead of take a cab, while the rest remained, some carrying on with dinner as though nothing had happened and others unable to eat, remorseful at the unfortunate turn of events.
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Click here for April 04's solution
04/03/2017
History/Sports
Clue
A description of how a Gnostic woman who composes songs for her sometimes disapproved of, unlawful sect often implores Pete Maravich not to slurp his soup.
"------," ------- ------- -------
---------- - ---, "---."
Click here for April 03's solution
03/31/2017
Food/Entertainment
Clue
A woman in The Hamptons, finding that she is missing a common sweet extract she needs for the cookies she is baking, panics and asks her husband Von to get some from their next door neighbor, the "Barefoot Contessa."
-- -------! ---- ---, ---!
Click here for March 31's solution
03/30/2017
World Geo/ Education
Clue
It seems that there was quite a buzz around a high school in New Rochelle, New York, as a rumor spread that the upcoming Advance Placement exam would be held near a famous beach in Rio, [ which was quite exciting, of course], but in an " I wouldn't lie to you" statement, the counselor confirms to the students that the rumor is wrong and that the exam will be at the local college instead.
----, -- -- ----, -- "-- -------."
Click here for March 30's solution
03/29/2017
Math/Science
Clue
A waitress tells the owners, her Mexican uncles, how colleague Nina was blown away by what she saw as the the ridiculously large 31.14159% gratuity.
-- -- --- -- ------ ---, --/---,
-- ---- ---, ----.
Click here for March 29's solution
03/28/2017
Business
Clue
A man tells his boy that he is quite overeating on takeout pizza.
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Click here for March 28's solution
03/27/2017
World Geo
Clue
Ira, coming from from Budapest right after had been made a citizen, is certain about one thing, his competition, Putin associates.
---- --- -- --- -- - ---, ------ ------.
Click here for March 27's solution
03/24/2017
Sports/Business
Clue
Words spoken on Christmas morning by his parents to a young boy who would grow up to become a defensive superstar for the 1990s era Dallas Cowboys, as he gazed upon the sea of toys he wanted, like He-Man, Thomas the Tank Engine, Hot Wheels, Rugrats, and Cabbage Patch Kids, to name a few.
---- ----, - ------ ----.
Click here for March 24's solution
03/23/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
These days you won't see this fellow on the LA --> New York flight that leaves very late at night.
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Click here for March 23's solution
03/22/2017
Entertainment/Arts/World Geo
Clue
After Captain Hook's sidekick had beaten himself up pretty badly over his poor job of investing the Captain's booty, the captain tried to cheer hm up by reminding him of his good decision to invest in the farming of large flightless Australian birds.
----, ----- ------ -- -- --- ----, -- -----.
Click here for March 22's solution
03/21/2017
World Geo
Clue
A poor, sad sack of a boy in Columbia sold this flower after he had already sold it to someone else, but it was returned.
---- ---, -----, ------ - -----.
Click here for March 21's solution
03/20/2017
World Geo
Clue
An veteran solider tells his daughter Emily of the time when, injured on the battlefield, he thought he saw his unit's Swedish born medical officer, just as if he actually had all his faculties, even though he was really totally out of it.
----- --- - --- -- -- -----, --.
Click here for March 20's solution
03/17/2017
Business
Clue
Terse note from a client to his broker, irritated that the latter had not included any real estate in the portfolio despite his having been asked to do so many times.
-- --- - -.-. ----, - ---------. ---!
Click here for March 17's solution
03/16/2017
Sports
Clue
It seems that Ohio State football coach circa 2015 was chasing Edward, who he felt had discourteously defamed him with lies, along a railroad track in a handcar. But even though an obstruction on the track caused his car to wreck, the coach got him anyway.
--------, ----- --- --- ---- ---- --.
Click here for March 16's solution
03/15/2017
USA Geo/Sports/Business
Response from a friend to Lonnie, a college basketball player in Salt Lake City, that instead of the usual, they consider some "Louisiana Fried Chicken."
--, --- -- --- -------, --- ---.
Click here for March 15's solution
03/14/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Order from a public figure to an aide to strongarm a publisher over the sheer irritability and peevishness emanating from an enemy in the print media by suggesting that the stories may be actionable.
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Click here for March 14's solution
WORD UNIT TODAY03/13/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
A 60s hipster says that the fellow at the right side of the photo is exactly correct and his comments are perfectly relevant.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Click here for March 13's solution
03/10/2017
US Geography
Clue
Stuart's mother exults to him at being so proud that her son was a college student at a branch of the University of Texas, in a city where, when visiting him, it would be easy to get in a trip to The Alamo.
-'- - ---- ----, ---, -- -!
Click here for March 10's solution
03/09/17
World Geo/Tech/Science
Clue
On a business trip to Des Moines, Lew has asked a group of local businessmen and farmers what the region's consensus outlook is for the price of crude, and they tell him that they think it will fluctuate a lot.
----, ---- ---- - ------ ---, ---.
Click here for March 9's solution
03/08/17
World Geo/Tech/Science
Clue
A variety of plum tomato grown in Marrakesh.
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Click here for March 8's solution
03/07/17
World Geo/Tech/Science
Clue
A man needing to use video editing software tells a Middle Eastern friend that the bottom line is, the prospect of having to use Apple's product makes him want to puke. That it's an order of magnitude worse worse than anything else.
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Click here for March 7's solution
03/06/17
Miscellaneous)
Clue
Turmoil in the ranks of cola manufacturers.
---- --- ----.
Click here for March 6's solution
03/03/17
Language
Clue
What words like AMOEBAE, EVACUEE, and SEQUOIA have.
---- -' ------.
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03/02/17
Food/World Geo
Clue
This girl thought the sweet dark-red wine was from an area warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation.
---- ---- --- -- --------.
Click here for March 2's solution
03/01/17
Food/Mythology
Clue
As they sail on in the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason responds to crew member Alvin who had asked for rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, in a bowl of milk for breakfast, telling him that have none.
--, -- ---- -- -------.
Click here for March 1's solution
02/28/17
World Geo/Languages
Clue
A Latin I student visiting Italy and the Colosseum exults at the smell of love in the air.
----, ----! ----- ----!
Click here for February 28's solution
02/27/17
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
When "Billy" doesn't want to go to school, this is what he tells his mother.
----, --- -, -------, --.
Click here for February 27's solution
02/24/17
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
As the roof of a prominent subway line in New York begins to fall, someone yells to a folksinger riding the train and singing "Lemon tree" to get out and take as many people as he can with him.
----~--! ---, -----! ----!
Click here for February 24's solution
02/23/17
Entertainment
Clue
A cab driver whose girl friend Eve has been selling methamphetamines out of his vehicle suggests that one or the other of his passengers, actor McGregor or gossip columnist Barrett, help him ditch the goods in the river early the next morning.
---, ---'- ---- -----, ---- --
----, -- ---- --- -- ----- --.
Click here for February 23's solution
02/22/17
Food
Clue
Lester, a waiter, expectorated on the teenage girl who had left a $1 gratuity when paying for the table of 6 with a bill of $150
---, --- -- - ---, ---- -- - ------.
Click here for February 22's solution
02/21/17
Food
Clue
A comment/question from a non-fan, aghast at the prospect that Sidney is going to again purchase some of this putrid stuff:
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02/20/17
World History/Geo
Clue
A Egyptian man living in the capital of Turkey tells his former country's president circa 2010 that his grandmother treated him as if he were a homeless panhandler.
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02/18/17
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
You probably didn't know that the librarian in "The Music Man" later went to med school and become an obstetrician. The later during the Six Day War she volunteered to fight. Instead of being nerdy and meek, she became fanatically militant and violently aggressive as she fought in the desert. This palindrome is a news report about that.
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02/17/17
History/Language
Clue
Comment regarding a prominent American economist, that his suggestions ( hearkening back to an ancient Greek statesman and his code of laws) can can be pretty severe, harsh, even cruel, certainly not ones destined to make him the life of the party.
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02/16/17
World Sports/USA Geo
Clue
Allen is told that this woman, a member of the West Point softball team who played the same position as her hero, a Brooklyn Dodger stalwart catcher of the 1950s, and claimed that she played with his his same flair and style, did not, in fact. It was all a scam.
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02/15/17
World Geo/Arts
Clue
His Indian business advisor tries to get Mozart to invest in a hydroelectric plant near Bombay by telling him that the money will be great.
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02/14/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
After someone asks the ship's captain if the presence on the crew of a young woman named Reba was a harbinger of changes to come in sailing crews, he responds in the negative that it was just a one time deviation from the norm.
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02/13/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
It was the domestic servant/laborer who kept the killer whales for the tycoon who I scoffed at angrily, not personally, but at ANYONE who would do such a thing to such glorious animals.
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02/10/17
World Geo
Clue
Sue us told by the boss at the travel magazine that he is going to put a cap on, no more than that, he cannot stand, stories on the cultural environment and vibe of this, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia.
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02/09/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
I don't think I want to be around these two women, one very angry, the other contemptuous and mocking.
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02/08/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
Perhaps the least popular item in Mr. Stratton's bakery.
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02/07/17
Fod/Emtertainment
Clue
As Ed is going to eat at a restaurant run by singerAni Di Franco, he is told that he should order the absolutely delicious, decadent savory egg dish she concocted using mild, hard, yellow cheese and cooked in a vessel which has leftover traces of the aroma of a popular simmer citrus drink made with licorice, which had been made in it earlier. He says it it the best!
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02/06/17
World Languages
Clue
Question to Ahmad, keeper of the Sultan's concubines, asking him for a little heat in the morning as it is unpleasantly cold and damp.
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02/03/17
World Languages
Clue
A devout member of the Cistercian order of Christian monks asks his superior if he should not bad mouth some recent converts to the order, recent graduates of the University of Texas, who not only do not observe the vow of silence, but regale themselves late into the night like the frat boys that they were.
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02/02/17
World Languages
Clue
Prominent English lawyer Bret politely denies that he is crazy, just furiously, extremely intense.
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02/01/17
History/Geography
Clue
Headline in a New jersey newspaper when a university in South Orange was granted possession for its archives of a trove of the original handwritten papers that Muhammad produced as he was receiving the word from God.
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01/31/17
Entertainment
Clue
When his wife accused him of getting senile and forgetful, racing Hall of Fame trainer Bud, who trained Spectacular Bid to 2/3 of the Triple Crown in 1979, asked her for proof, examples of his lapses. In this palindrome she cites his recent trip to the grocery store were he was supposed to get both cantaloupes and their favorite furniture polish, but didn't, even though they were right there on the list.
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01/30/17
Entertainment
Clue
When a prominent TV chef discovered that she was supposed to make the evening meal for the cat, well, she didn't just open a can, she said she was going all out and couldn't do it without equipment, cooking vessels, etc.
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01/27/17
History
Clue
Words of disgust from a major rival to Yuri when he heard from his friend Ira that he has lost out to his competition to be the fist man in space.[Don't ask me why they are speaking English]
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01/26/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
"The Queen of Gospel," a fixture of the civil rights movement, and Diana cooked an absolutely perfect ham at the church social.
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01/25/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
It is little known but true: after his army days in Viet Nam, Lieutenant Bill Kilgore of "Apocalypse Now" fame went to work for the College Board. Many years later when they were considering a proposal for an Advanced Placement exam in the common markup language used for creating web pages, he put his foot down, and suggested that the project be blown out of the water with what he so fondly remembered smelling from his Nam days. And the sooner the better.
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01/24/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
The owner of a business which specializes in very unusual projects on behalf of clients gives one of his employees a choice of assignments for the day, take back a hydroelectric project which the owner has failed to pay for, or release a herd of does and bucks being illegally held by a spaced out drug user.
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01/23/17
USA Geo
Clue
I tell Dee that I am certainly going to seriously consider my boyfriend's offer, in a note he left me, to go hiking in the mountains located in northwestern Wyoming just south of Yellowstone National Park.
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01/20/17
History/World Geo
Clue
Billing for a major debate in the 1960s, a one on one no holds barred battle royale between Mona and the Chinese premier over his role in destabilizing Southeast Asia.
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01/19/17
World Geo
Clue
A young girl questions the role she has been given in the movie based on the Depp Water Horizon debacle, to be sure that was what was intended.
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01/18/17
World Geo
Clue
Rosemary is told that she has made a huge mistake, one for the ages, in her concoction for an episode of Chopped.
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01/17/17
World Geo
Clue
A confidante of Amin in Uganda in Uganda questions the sanity of some of his friends who have suggested that he forward on to the leader the foul, filthy reports of furious anger by Amin's staff.
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01/16/17
US History/Arts
Clue
Emily is told that the famed Washington DC socialite and "hostess with the mostest" really regretted her purchase of several painting by a French pointillist impressionist, one of whose paintings was made into a Stephen Sondheim musical.
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01/13/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
Compared or in relation to the medicinal drip into Iva's arm.
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01/12/17
Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing a military academy student so drunk that he was even unable to take a crap.
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01/11/17
USA Geography
Clue
Question by a student in Columbus, Ohio as he sat in a chair getting some ink: a Buckeye on one arm and Script Ohio on the other, wondering how it was going.
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01/10/17
World Geo
Clue
Holy cow, it's a proverb generally believed by and about the people who live on this arm of the Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece.
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01/09/17
Sports History
Clue
Edward is told that Derek, a pale, solemn, wise looking man with round glasses was once a victor in the mile run at The Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden.
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01/06/17
Business/World Geo
Clue
The name of a joint venture between a telecom giant and a Los Angeles university, located in India.
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01/05/17
Food/Entertainment
Clue
Salvador, stocky of frame and looking like he can really pack it away, son of Brian's( Roxy Music) brother, decided to have an additional hero sandwich.
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01/04/17
Government
Clue
It seems that Emily has an aging friend who likes to drop LSD. Since it has become unaffordable for someone living on a fixed income, Emily wonders if perhaps it could be considered "medicinal" and covered by the government. Patiently and tenderly the friend responds in the negative.
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01/03/17
Business/Government
Clue
I tell my Dad that Tim Cook and company have really angered the folks at the firm they hired to assist them with their obligations under a federal law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and which provides for extensive rules on the federal income tax effects of transactions associated with employee benefit plans.
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01/02/17
History
Clue
Friends of a Roman emperor give him this signal as they take leave. meaning,...
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