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3/11/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Reply of red-blooded Italian male circa 50s/60s when asked what would be his # 1 fantasy, as he contemplated a liaison with a famed actress of the period.
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3/10/10
Category:Arts
Clue
Broadcast 'caro nome' or 'la donna e mobile.'
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3/09/10
Category:Business/Arts
Clue
A shady retirement income vehicle purportedly investing in pieces of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface.
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3/08/10
Category:Science/World Geo
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Mr. Roby is told that the Chinese company, manufacturing a half man/ half machine, in which he was considering an investment, was a scam.
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3/05/10
Category:Science/Business
Clue
( Having switched from computers to biology) Wang computer founder tells Damon that he has broken the genetic code of a malignant epithelial cancer tumor in this line of dialogue from a play about the research.
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3/04/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
(Before she became a gossip columnist) Ms. Barrett was embarrassed by and flummoxed by the botched takeout order she mishandled.
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3/03/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
Having come to the United States to organize an orgy, a sadist Marquis is told that they one of the invitees, from Topeka, was there and ready to participate, all ready to go and nude just like Edward who was already there.
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3/02/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The nemesis of the Dukes of Hazzard is told that Mr.Oh is a real bastard.
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3/01/10
Category:Arts/Business
Clue
Alan Greenspan is having dream conversation with British author Wells ( Time Machine) and tells him that the bottom line is that after a lot of thought he will raise interest rates.
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2/26/10
Category:Arts
Clue
In "Les Miserables" the woman who loves Mariius, who unfortuntely ooves someone else, responds negatively about whether she will ever trust males again in this line of dialogue.
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2/25/10
Category:Arts
Clue
In this line of dialogue from 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea, a group of citified women confidently tell the captain that they have grabbed Ill mannered Russell.
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2/24/10
Category:History&Government
Clue
Nervous suggestion to former Israeli PM Begin to fire Emily from his entourage.
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2/23/10
Category:Business
Clue
When Eleanor says she wants information about Texas Instruments, she is given this advice.
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2/22/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
The woman of Chinese/Mexican extraction pastors a church.
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2/19/10
Category:Entertainment/History&Government
Clue
Stand-up at a fund raiser by prominent performers and supporters of Obama/Biden et al.
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2/18/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.
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2/17/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
Sol is not up to speed on his knowledge of Indians who lived in New Mexico.
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2/16/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Negative, Don, those are my jeans.
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2/15/10
Category:Business
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a novel, Emilty tells Arthur that she is in the process of obtaining people whose job it is to devise a strategy for dealing with the newspapers, TV, etc.
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2/12/10
Category:miscellaneousSports
Clue
Salvador is told that famed Finnish distance runner Viren had placed an order of long stemmed crimson ones at the florist.
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2/11/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
I put the kibosh in the idea of using migrant farm workers from from Enid, Tulsa, Norman, Ada, Stillwater, etc.
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2/10/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Betty uses this to keep the dust down.
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2/9/10
Category:Business
Clue
Possible hedged answer to the question, "What motorcycle manufacturer might do best the year?"
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2/08/10
Category:Science
Clue
Kerouac fans mauling teaching assistant Eb skinned him alive.
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2/05/10
Category:Science
Clue
Comment of a man who likes to talk to his cat after the cat has indicated to him that it detected volcanic flows which the man thinks will precede earthquakes associated with an eruption.
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2/04/10
Category:Entertainment/World Geo/Sports
Clue
Comedian Silverman is told that the hallucinogenic drugs found in the desert in North Africa belong to a former Notre Dame football coach.
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2/03/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Someone points out that an early James Bond nemesis has gotten into Evelyn's store of deer meat.
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2/02/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Daniel, a high ranking navy official introduces himself to Larry, whom he has just met but is already calling by a nickname and in effect suggestion that Larry do the dame.
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2/01/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Terse statement put out by 20th century Italian central bankers after a meeting concerning worries over there currency. The statement indicates that they thought about the situation and decided that there was really nothing to worry about.
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1/29/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
That long looped rope with the nose at the end doing all those crazy tricks is so huge!
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1/28/10
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
The embarrassed staff at a newly built but currently broken again atom smasher located just west of a National Forest of the same name in Central Florida.
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1/27/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Hey, shoot a copy to the doctor on the "Enterprise."
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1/26/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
Concerning the airport in San Francisco.
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1/25/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A friend of actor Neeson ( "Schindler's List") tells him that it has been a very long time since he heard from him via email.
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1/22/10
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
A Northwest African scientist new to the European Organization for Nuclear Research is being shown around and someone points out to him the area where the scientists can relax, play games, recreate, etc.
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1/21/10
Category:Business
Clue
Heavens, no, Nan, the name of that company isn't pronounced "Erca."
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1/20/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Statement by Benjamin, a library worker that he had just cross referenced 9 accounts of peoples lives.
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1/19/10
Category:Business/World Geo
Clue
Edward is told that the founder of the computer company bearing his name, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas was against doing a survey to see if his workers wanted to set up an employee stock ownership plan.
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1/18/10
Category:History/Sports
Clue
Mrs. Peron thought about why the crowd did not go into that stadium wide contagion cheer from the 70s when she was introduced at the outdoor rally.
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1/15/10
Category:Arts
Clue
You don't say! So they've instituted a prohibition against doing way, way too much "Swan Lake," "Nutcracker," etc., even if they could get Baryshnikov, Nuryev, etc.
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1/14/10
Category:Entertainment/Science
Clue
Members of the high wire act are encouraged to unsheathe their knives and take action when the killer whales got loose.
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1/13/10
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Folk singer who starred in "The Dirty Dozen" is told that Enid had dinner while riding the New York Subway.
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1/12/10
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A man exclaims to Warren Spahn's follower in a famous 50s Braves "weather wish" that he take a look at the flowers grown by his Native American neighbor in Utah.
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1/11/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A friend tells Damon that the psychiatrist recommended to him, Dr. Elton, was not able to help him through his insanity. .
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1/8/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Body art using carbon particles of incomplete combustion harvested from a chimney.
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1/7/10
Category:Entertainment
Clue
I tell Emily that "Kunta Kinte" from 'Roots" showed tremendous intestinal fortitude when he laid a wager on me.
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1/6/10
Category:World Geo
Clue
Describing frequent airline trips into Southern California.
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1/5/10
Category:Science
Clue
An incredible number of electric generators!
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1/4/10
Category:History
Clue
Gore departed, mac.
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1/1/10
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A soldier is told not to try out his "psychic" powers while he is peeling potatoes.
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12/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A request to close up a shirt made by this "pre-marketing merger with LaCoste" men's apparel maker.
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12/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Nora had a fling in the hay with Mr. O'Dell, a low rank British nobleman.
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12/29/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Morning puppet shows featuring danger, violence, bleak settings and cynical characters.
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12/28/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell this girl that I cried out sobbing as I was stopped at a traffic signal with Mr. Gilder.
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12/25/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The exam ( college entrance exam at a university in Tempe Arizona) has been scheduled.
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12/24/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
Collapsing dead tired into a chair, a Cambodian strongman says this to a prominent 50's stand-up comedian whose trademark props were a rolled up newspaper and a pullover sweater.
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12/23/09
Category:History
Clue
On a visit to the shore, Juan's wife wondered curiously at the completely glassy sea.
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12/22/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A computer access code that will not work.
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12/21/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
What someone might have said to Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" when they tell him that as far as hunting for snakes is concerned the area around Topeka is not very good at all.
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12/18/09
Category:Science/Entertainment
Clue
Brainwave test for "Grandpa Wlaton?"
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12/17/09
Category:History
Clue
The ambulance worker, a direct male descendent of our second President, is irate at me.
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12/16/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Post game show for a pro basketball team.
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12/15/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Tax free 501(c) (3) website managed by Stuart in which he dispenses advice on how to fill in bathroom tiling
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12/14/09
Category:History/World Geo
Clue
David leaves a note for Ms. Peron tell her that she should head to this West African nation ordering Ghana to the West and Benin to the east.
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12/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Eb is told that a sweet potato like food came out of the washing machine.
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12/10/09
Category:Entertainment/History
Clue
A Watergate journalist is encouraged to sketch Loretta Lynn's husband.
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12/9/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
) Red, who wanted to go to grad school at this branch of the University of Missouri, is told that his chances of getting a teaching assistantship there were pretty slim.
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12/8/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue from several friends of Florence all at once, crying and gnashing teeth incredulously once again as she told them at a delicatessen that she had been transformed into a wolf like creature.
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12/7/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A diner cook's yell to waitress that the order of venison minced and blended into a soup like consistency is ready.
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12/4/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
Comment of dismay to the Commanding General of the Allied invasion of North Africa in WW II as he was about to do a little soft shoe routine to entertain the troops.
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12/3/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Edward is told that a former Notre Dame football coach gave no consideration whatever to going to see the goings on on 5th Avenue in New York at Thanksgiving.
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12/02/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Del is told that David peeked, nay stared, when the naked lady rode by on the horse.
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12/01/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Line of dialogue in a novel wherein Maurice yelled out to his girlfriend Della to hurry up toward the canoe he had found for them to ride in.
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11/30/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Order for a very large amount of Russian vodka.
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11/27/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Actor Beatty ( "Deliverance") is told that discourteous, impolite Lena put paneling in the family room of a home in ancient Mesopotamia.
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11/26/09
Category:Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Someone suggests to "Clem Kadiddlehopper" that he order the sculpture made by the same one who did "The Thinker."
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11/25/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The family of Lou Costello's partner is told that actress Thurman is a shoo- in for getting a business degree.
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11/24/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Do you spot this movie theatre candy served at theatre on the Waco, Texas campus of this university?
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11/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Evelyn is told that the man from Melbourne is debonair, urbane and smooth.
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11/20/09
Category:Entertainment/Sports
Clue
A TV witch is told that a Yankee third baseman really had to have Dede.
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11/19/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I absolutely detest this South Sea Island.
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11/18/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Incredulous response to a WW II general by his aide who though the general was going to take up ballroom damcing and learn the Waltz, when in fact he had sigend up for a rhythmic dance where the beat is partially kept by using ones foot/toes.
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11/17/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Rosemary is told that Mal doesn't like too much noise.
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11/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Frantic call over the earpiece to the host of Jeopardy as one contestant, a drunken New York subway motorman is about to hit another contestant, half of a famous Muppet duo, for getting the Daily Double once again.
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11/13/09
Category:Science/World Languages
Clue
Response to Sidney, partly in Spanish, partly in English that the time for his afternoon nap has been delayed to 6 o'clock.
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11/12/09
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
Astronomer Lowell is a U.S. Congressman born in Belgrade?
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11/11/09
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
Max is queried as to whether the journey to look for large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having long, flexible snouts was still scheduled for early in the morning.
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11/10/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
In a "Hawaii Five-O" flash back, McGarrett's sidekick is shown as a boy, and a friend tells the boy's mother that he has climbed to the top of an earthen structure holding back the waters of a local lake.
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11/09/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I tell Maurice that I think it is really cool when he uses a word of specialized vocabulary, or the grammar, syntax, etc. associated with the agriculture business.
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11/06/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The face of a Japanese detective , the brother of their all-time homerun champ.
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11/05/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The weather in the capital of Poland was wet, rainy, and windy.
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11/04/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Staffer in Bush 41 White House tells the Chief of Staff that he was reeling from being pelted by a pecan by Emily.
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11/03/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Disapproving comment from an assistant district Attorney to his boss, whom he sees rolling a large joint of marijuana.
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11/02/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Clinton tells his AG that the Russian diplomat, a grandson of infamous Vladimir, is a silly, insane, obstinate buffoon who likes to keep to himself.
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10/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
He is a blankety-blank prevaricator & head of a cattle drive, is he?
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10/29/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Stuart is right next to the stringed instrument producing low register tones.
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10/28/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A plain Jane gangster's companion portrayed by 30's actress Carole.
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10/27/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I hurry off to Officer Candidate School.
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10/26/09
Category:Science
Clue
There is no evidence for any kind of psychic ability's residing on any brain nerve cell connection.
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10/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
A Canadian, invoking his country's national anthem, tells of his surprise that Fiona, from a prominent North Viet Nam city ate a crunchy Mexican food snack.
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10/22/09
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
Von is told that "over the rainbow" there is no ill will at all concerning cell phone service from this carrier.
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10/21/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Holy cow, when Ray played football in this country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west,Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north, they held him without a rushing yard.
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10/20/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Bra size named after the wife of the composer of "Madame Butterfly."
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10/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Abel's brother is told that Maurice's girlfriend Nina has trouble sleeping.
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10/16/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
To an all time 4-wall handball great, this country singer is extremely sexy and alluring.
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10/15/09
Category:Science
Clue
Greeks devoted to astronomy.
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10/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Someone tells a Star Trek character ( brother of Quark and father of Nog) that unfortunately the "angel" who gave the Golden Plates to Joseph Smith was,simply a drunk pulling a scam.
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10/13/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Amal Asti is shown a Turkish hat to be worn at natural childbirth classes.
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10/12/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Golfer Ernie is sick enough ( archaic ) as he visits an immigration landmark in New York Harbor.
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10/09/09
Category:History/Arts
Clue
Eva Peron is asked if she is still on for doing ceramics after her operation is over.
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10/08/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
WORD UNIT TODAY
Suggestion from an extremely cheap ( not to mention insensitive!) diner to his lunch companion when their waiter keels over dead.
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10/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Director's orders to a male actor, telling him that his part is to come on stage in Act I, tired out, exhausted, barely able to get himself on stage, but...., nervously he tells him, wearing women's clothing.
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10/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
WORD UNIT TODAY
A man asks Eleanor whether his presence is lowering the anxiety level and pallor in the room over a sense of impending disaster.
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10/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Marionettes heavily into aerobic exercise?
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10/02/09
Category: History
Clue
Pa Kettle tells his kids why he always wakeup in a grumpy mood: no mornin' lovin'.
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10/01/09
Category: World Geo/Languages
Clue
Innermost thought of this cad whose first act upon landing in Hawaii on vacation was: ( hire a prostitute! Welcome to Hawaii!)
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9/30/09
Category: Science/Fashion
Clue
What happened when genetic material obtained from fashion designer Christian was brought together into the existing configuration of hardware and software of and planted into an automaton resembling a human being.
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9/29/09
Category: Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Comment to folk singer/star of "The Dirty Dozen" when he comes upon a fellow in the New York subway who has been rendered unconscious by a bag of Krispy Kremes.
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9/28/09
Category: History&Government
Clue
What Obama says when he is irritated at Biden, deciding to keep him out of sight for a while.
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9/25/09
Category: Entertainment
Clue
On "Leave it to Beaver" a teenaged girl has been set up with a blind date with The Beave's brother. Her Mom, Susan, is concerned about it, but the Dad, who knows the young man, tries to convince her that they will all be very impressed with him.This is what he says.
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9/24/09
Category: Sports
Clue
I tell Emily that the amateur poetry open mike performances at the local delicatessen really disgusted me.
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9/23/09
Category: Sports
Clue
The business operated by Stuart, brother of New York Giant Hall of Fame slugger and crossword puzzle favorite, in which he sells inside information regarding hot tips at the racetrack.
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9/22/09
Category: Entertainment/Science
Clue
Robert who cannot speak is told that Anita, a cattle drive veteran who had the same job as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide" and is now on college, was sitting in the green area next to her dormitory where a variety of shrubs and trees were grown.
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9/21/09
Category: World Geo/Science
Clue
Graduates of scientific research facilities at a University in Dallas.
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9/18/09
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
Nathaniel performs hip-hop while dressed as a tough Greek city-statesman.
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9/17/09
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
A refusal to the son of John and Yoko in Edinburgh.
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9/16/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Jordanian queen, last wife of King Hussein of Jordan, carried Alvin Slade with her when she decided to go golfing at a famed Scottish course.
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9/15/09
Category:Science/History
Clue
A table of irrational square roots used circa 1849 in California as thousands descended trying to strike it rich.
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9/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
An early rock 'n roll label is encouraged to give in on a negotiation.
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9/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
It was Gregg's perception that I had gained weight.
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9/10/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
The burden of all the wrongs in this Texas hill country town is on everyone.
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9/09/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
German street featuring public art works all based on the letter S.
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9/08/09
Category:Science
Clue
An early digital computer running on Captain Queeg's ship.
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9/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
I ride the bus with Gil at a speed less than c.
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9/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Eli, truthfully, I cannot stand Popeye's girlfriend.
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9/03/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Margaret is shown a precious stone of 10 to the 9th power carats.
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9/02/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The Cub Scout leader showed disrespect to the female canine deity I swore at.
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9/01/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mrs. Luce and her husband Ira, standard bearers for the views of religious skepticism.
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8/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mother to her boy, telling him he cannot have the Pringles.
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8/28/09
Category:Science
Clue
A science activity performed in a hot and humid gymnasium.
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8/27/09
Category:World Languages/Entertainment
Clue
Lem who has laryngitis writes a note for Miki, sister of a one time TV talk show host whose named rhymed with hers, wondering ( correctly as it turns out) if she has just sung a traditional Hawaiian Christmas song.
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8/26/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
New inmate tells the warden that he wants no hominy in prison, for Christ's sake!
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8/25/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The orthopedic surgeons of the female deities completely preoccupied the thoughts of one of their canines.
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8/24/09
Category:Arts/World History
Clue
Piano teacher to Haitian strongman, reminding him that he has forgotten to play the concluding more or less independent section of the piece, designed to bring it to a satisfactory close.
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8/21/09
Category:Arts
Clue
To heck with the water pitcher, Oxford don Lewis of "Narnia" fame.
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8/20/09
Category:History/Arts
Clue
Chinese premiere of note pointed out a previously discovered vein of ore to M.I.T grammar guru Chomsky.
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8/19/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A 33 1/3 belonging to a freshman at West Point.
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8/18/09
Category:History
Clue
When the mother of Paul Tibbets had the B-29 Stratofortress crew over, one of them complains to her about serving a non-descript San Antonio brew
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8/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Edward, is my sister's daughter indoors?
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8/14/09
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
Pro basketballer Manute worries that he might have to eat what most people would consider a crustacean delicacy.
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8/13/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
When you make that sketch of Emily O,Hara, make it of her heading to her house.
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8/12/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Concerning Reggie:he's a "nothing," pretending to be ill to avoid work.
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8/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Racist rallying cry at a Paris university, calling for no black men to be admitted.
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8/10/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Man in Saigon and Hanoi who sells stolen pants with stretchable waistbands.
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8/07/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Paranoid order from Nixon to Haldeman ordering spying on even those closest to him.
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8/06/09
Category:Entertainment/Arts/History
Clue
An antiques advisor to country singer McEntire tells her assistants Diana and Tino to implore her to attempt to get a jewel encrusted historic Russian egg when it comes up for auction.
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8/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
When a woman asks her husband if their household staff liked the Snapple she bought for them to drink, he replies in the negative.
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8/04/09
Category:SPorts
Clue
Professional car racer Sneva.
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7/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sidney is told that Eleanor is of nobility.
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7/30/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Claude, a Florida congressman who was an advocate for the elderly.
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7/29/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
This follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity who is on the radio is an overweight fool.
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7/28/09
Category:Business
Clue
Line of dialogue that the narrator speaks to Lewis when he concedes that the way to finance their new business is by issuing bonds rather than selling stock.
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7/27/09
Category:World Geo/Arts
Clue
Rene is told that Edgar Allan's Japanese currency, considering the state that it is in, could cause one to arch his eyebrows.
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7/24/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Emily and Deborah that Fred, who loves to go bird watching, joked around with me.
--, ---, ------ ---- ------ --.
7/23/09
Category:Business
Clue
I tell Edward that I constructed a sporty Mazda.
--, - ----- - ----.
7/22/09
Category:Sports/History
Clue
Comment from Little League pal of Jackie.O's second husband, describing how when the latter was a catcher, it was easy to steal 2nd base on him.
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7/21/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Ed, that I try to avoid walking on all the cats and dogs at his place.
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7/20/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Hipster tells a friend that the upper crust who live in Saigon prefer to install tile flooring.
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7/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An organ repairer tells Roni that he sees something hung up in the "pulls."
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7/16/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
What happens when the bridge breaks in two.
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7/15/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Someone disputes to Wanda that Beantown in not nearly as terrible as had been suggested.
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7/14/09
Category:Science
Clue
Response from a test subject to # 10 in a group of "psychics" who were all seeing if they could read his mind. The subject tells her that she was wrong: he was not thinking about any evergreen, coniferous trees having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
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7/13/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Head of the college's military program tells M.D. Edward that he is going to hide the soldier's overdose.
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7/10/09
Category:World Languages/Business
Clue
Quote from a fellow in a German Lay's Potato Chip ad admitting that he sure can't eat only one, ever!
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7/09/09
Category:Business/World Geo
Clue
Economist Alan is not descended from Greeks who live along the west coast of Asia Minor.
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7/8/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A fellow faculty member tells Laci that one of their colleagues, Tab (%#&*$(@**#$& him) is getting a year off to do independent study, darn it.
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7/07/09
Category:Sports/Miscellaneous
Clue
Headline in local paper when it is revealed that the dastardly group which has been exploding foul smelling incendiary devices all over town is actually made up of [senior citizen] members of a local club who get together and makes sweaters.
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7/06/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Sal is told that "Sin City" is a high energy place, perhaps a billion electron volts worth.
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7/03/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Dana is told that an assistant district attorney completely wiped out the place where some West Point, New York college students would go to drop some LSD.
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7/02/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Berkeley University which rents out its fields on which a game played with sticks and balls originating with Native Americans is played.
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7/01/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A cabbie inquires of Max, foreman of the repair shop, whether his cab is scheduled for repairs early the next morning.
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6/30/09
Category:History & Government
Clue
Justice Alito's man at the gym who gives him rubdowns is filing suit against him.
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6/29/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The very large dog was just right for Detective Spade.
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6/26/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A man asks a young lady to massage something into him to provide relief from a burn.
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6/25/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Prosecutor to Ilana, on trial for her life, when he disbelieves her account of where she was the day of the murder, suggesting that she is not quite telling the truth.
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6/24/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Spinach flavored soda, popular in the Midwest.
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6/23/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Comment from Bill Bixby on the set of "My Favorite Martian" when his co-star launches into yet another boring story about his famous salad made of shredded cabbage and mayo.
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6/22/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The captain of the Nautilus desired to stop off in Sicily and fool around with the females who lived near the base of the volcano there.
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6/19/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Wow, look, I've discovered that Diana barely edged out Otto, nephew of "Sweeney Todd," in Simon Cowell's talent show.
--, -- ------ ---- ---- -- "----."
6/18/09
Category:Entertainment/Sports
Clue
An early nemesis of James Bond, having now secured a job as head trainer for the New York Yankees, ordered one of his apprentices, the son of a long time Penn State football coach, to again wrap securely the ankles of their left fielder who came from Boston after the 2005 season.
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6/17/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
An orange juice and pageant queen gave no thought whatsoever to the ornamental encrustation on the bronze statue.
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6/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Bond, James Bond, asks his secretary Tara to carbon Abraham on the memo he has written asking about the finer points of the casino game, akin to chemin de fer, that he is learning.
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6/15/09
Category:Entertainment/History
Clue
At a street fair Loretta Lynn encourages the artist, a brother of half of a famed Watergate investigative duo, to make a sketch of her husband.
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6/12/09
Category:World Geo/Languages
Clue
The Mexican man on the boat doesn't care at all for the gambling "palace" in Las Vegas.
--. ---- ------- --- -- ------'-.
6/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Order to take into custody the youngster AWOL from home who was stranded on the streets of the big city, sickly and pale looking, likely on a drug overdose.
-- --- -------, - --- ----- -.-.
6/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Set of procedures to be used by a submariners in the event that one of its weapons to be used against battleships makes a crazy turn and heads right back toward them.
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6/09/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Aging oilfield conduit.
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6/08/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Nickels.
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6/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The delicatessen, once it was visited by a football official who came in with his pet albino polecat which had such a pungent aroma that it never could be eradicated, went out of business.
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6/04/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Comment by Bush re Cheney or Obama re Biden, indicating irritation with the other having blabbed a little too much, and indicating that he would be kept out of the vicinity of microphones for a while.
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6/03/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Brother of long time New York Giants football owner who in his own right was a physician working for the world's largest oil company, originally a joint venture between Saudi Arabia and various American oil companies?
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6/02/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
So, a "race" in old Mesopotamia where the object is really to raise money for charity rather than to be all that serious about fast times, and where we have the chance of seeing alien spacecraft!
--, --- --- -- -- '- ----!
6/01/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
A son of Mongolian tribesmen who is a hanger on at a college fraternity house.
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5/29/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Negative response from diner to waitress who had asked him of his lunch was OK as he gives her a clue that the reason was his Middle Eastern pocket bread was too dry.
--, ----'- - ---: ---- ----, ---.
5/28/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Getting close to doing something I shouldn't, I polish off the last of my "Beefeater's."
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5/27/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A "Deliverance" actor is told that a bunch of tattered urchins went into the vegetable patch tended by "the Bride" ( "Kill Bill') and sniffed the plants.
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5/26/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Speculation as to whether Bush 41's long time chef of staff had been let go.
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5/25/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Comment to Ada, a minister, from a friend with whom she has gone to the opera to see Maria Callas, whose entire performance was very listless and "dead" that night.
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5/22/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Pooh! Golfer Els is irate at a woman who is in the detox unit.
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5/21/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
S&M club run by actress Lupino.
--. ---'- ------.
5/20/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Comment of disappointment by a Buffalo Bill rookie of the early to mid 1960s when he discovers that to his way of thinking the coach is a real son of a bitch.
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5/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A lumberjack resumes his conversation with Gregg lamenting what a disappointing state of affairs it is that Lew is such a bad sawing partner (or rather WAS now. that he is out of commission) and commenting about how it reminded him of another, Al, when he got too old.
--'-, ---, ----, - --- ------, -----. --- -- -- --- ----, --?
5/18/09
Category:Science
Clue
Party-goer at the release gala celebrating the introduction of one of the most basic of all machines.
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5/15/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Line of dialogue from the autobiography of a salty British sailor who had become ill after eating out with the Southern Belle of The Food Network, rejecting her offer of medicine to him, but whispering to her emphatically that what he really needs is his traditional daily ration of booze which some people disparage as being "of the devil."
"----," - ------, " -- ----. ----- ---. --- - ----!"
5/14/09
Category:Science
Clue
Pull the congers and morays downwind.
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5/13/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Finely braided hair done in a style resembling architecture and decoration originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types, and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shell work, foliage, etc., but now getting to be on the shabby side.
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5/12/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
I got under the skin of Britain's head of government who was walking with a limp.
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5/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The fellow dressed all in studded black and sporting black lipstick and fingernails is wearing traditional Roman dress bought in Copenhagen.
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5/08/09
Category:Sports/Arts/World Geo
Clue
A high lofted tennis shot executed with a Latin dance move and first developed in Italy.
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5/07/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Comments from a hostess to Mr. Byrd and his date Ada, offering him a popular ginger ale after she has discovered that he is thirsty, and his date a Mexican food snack, seeing that she already has a drink.
--, ------ ---, ----? ---, -----?
5/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing a secular support group for families of problem drinkers.
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5/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from a woman to her sister about the "very bad"condition that the copy of the old testament that she had wanted to buy is in, after it had been advertised as "very good."
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5/04/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
My lord, even though he is a complete nothing, Deron would not stoop so low as to deny insurance or mortgages to people who live in poor areas.
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5/01/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Bizarrely, this opera cigarette girl liked the severe case of the zits that O'Dell had, and even had a pet name for them.
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4/30/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Valerie, daughter of rotund actor Sebastian, is asked if she would like to make a foray to the dessert table to get some traditional flaky Greek pastry. ( Alternate spelling)
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4/29/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Request to Pat, who has been excessively yelling out the traditional warning for an errant ball in golf, going way overboard.
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4/28/09
Category:Sports
Clue
How "Sports Afield" might be described if it had a scratch 'n sniff strip inside.
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4/27/09
Category:Sports/World Languages
Clue
Thus, a soldier named after a famed NY Yankee reliever provider several suave, urbane, sophisticated Mexican gentlemen a place to lay their heads for a night.
--, -.-. ------- ------ -------- ------.
4/24/09
Category:(1) Sports (2) Arts
Clue
(1) What the Redskins did when they sent Monk to the Jets. (2) What my sister and I did when I exchanged my Pizarro for her Bottacelli.
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4/23/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Referee's comment to Tom Landry telling him that the reason for the flag is that Too Tall lined up with his hand in the neutral zone.
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4/22/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Question to Everest trek leader Timothy from a fellow climber who has just been bitten by a snake, asking whether, given his impaired condition, he has to proceed on the final push to the top.
---, ---- -, ---, ------?
4/21/09
Category:History
Clue
Physician who treated a 20th century president for laryngitis.
--. -- --- ----.
4/20/09
Category:History
Clue
Elegant, dignified, imposing tattoos worn by a Pulitzer Prize winning American war correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain.
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4/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sweetheart, one more thing: bring back this, a stalky vegetable.
-----, - -.-.: ---------.
4/16/09
Category:History
Clue
The pope in 1300 insisted that the decaffeinated coffee served in the Obstetrics waiting rooms in Rome be from a manufacturer that everyone had heard of.
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4/15/09
Category:History/Science
Clue
A childhood friend and lab partner of a future president exclaims to him as they peer through a microscope and see a one celled animal.
---, -, ---, -- ------!
4/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A sidewalk man on the street kind of confidence game wherein a "Jaywalker" scams people out of their shaved ice treats.
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4/13/09
Category:History&Government/World Geo
Clue
Response to Indian Prime Minister circa 1970 from her uncle after she has asked him what the weather is likely to be like on her trip to Saudi Arabia.
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4/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Hesitating first words spoken by a woman who has been put under during a long labor to her obstetrician and friend Timothy.
--, -- -, ---, - --?
4/9/09
Category:Business/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Describing a visit to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by two creative people: The man who gave us Archie Bunker and the man who gave us the personal jet plane.
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4/8/09
Category:Science
Clue
Final words of a mother to her child, trying to prevent him from excessive squirming, lest the child make the dentist who is working on her son's gums and associated bones and tissue angry.
----, ---! -- -- --- ------------, ---!
4/7/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A stoner stationed on a Navy ship asks Edward if he can possible find some "stuff" up on deck.
--, -- --- -------?
4/3/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Edward is the butt hole in the Maxima.
-- -- ------ --- ------.
4/2/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An avid defender of the police asks newspaper man Swen whether the department's missteps in the overuse of force that he observed while a criminal was being apprehended was very newsworthy.
----, --- --- ------ -- ------ - --- ----?
4/1/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Today's man Asa is reserved and reticent.
---- ---'- -----.
3/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Alternative to Patrick's merely being extremely lucky always to make incredible tasty spaghetti and lasagna.
-- ---'- - ----- ---.
3/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In the opinion of the soldiers who work at the post exchange, Essie is hot and giving off vibes!
-- -- ----- -- ------.
3/27/09
Category:Entertainment/History&Government
Clue
With this question I speculate to Red about whether Federal agent Elliot is visiting at the home of a perennial Republican presidential candidate of old.
---, --- -- ---- -- -------'-, - ------?
3/26/09
Category:World Geo/History
Clue
A Mexican soldier in 1966 tells his girlfriend that he ships out to Southeast Asia tomorrow.
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3/25/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
The sometime girlfriend of HRH Prince Andrew, who fell out of favor when her involvement in soft-porn films "Emily" (1977) and "Cruel Passion" (1977) became known, toted a hot pepper to a small Himalayan country.
---, --'- -----.
3/24/09
Category:Science
Clue
Response to Nathaniel who had forgotten what the name of Saturn's largest moon was.
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3/23/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Jargony note left in the margin of Samuel's essay by his English teacher after reading one too many sentences like this: " If the Senator my late uncle knew what going to happen he sure didn't tell us and in fact he acted as surprised as the rest of us his extended family."
---, --' ------!
3/20/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Headline in "The Mountain Times" when local country boy makes good by getting his college degree.
-.-. -----!
3/19/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
My friend who runs a pizzeria where mail can reach him at a postal zone in the capital of Bolivia.
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3/18/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Emily's co-pilot in the F-111 tells her that the Russian plane ahead is easy pickings.
--, --- - -----.
3/17/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
This girl comes from old world stock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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3/16/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Born to parents who are rabid University of Maryland fans, as I told you, Mr. Wong, Dias has now entered the 10-12 year old category.
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3/13/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A friend tells Emily that the alien she met on her recent trip to Houston and Dallas sent her a message on her cell.
--, --. -.-. --- ---- --!
3/12/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A group of orthopedic surgeons is introduced to a physician who delivers babies.
---- ---, -.-.
3/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Advice from a man to his congressman friend as they visit a French town at which a pivotal WW II battle occurred on July 18, 1944, to pop into his mouth a spicy Mexican food appetizer, as it is known to give quite a kick.
---, --- ---, ---. - ----'- - --. -- -------- ------.
3/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A dog shelter run jointly by the owners for their mutual benefit.
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3/9/09
Category:World Languages/Science
Clue
Italian college student's report to his mother that he is studying applications of computer science to the problem of machine intelligence when she asks him what his field is.
--, ----- ---.
3/6/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Comment by a Midwesterner to a tycoon who made his fortune in the brassiere business, also declining the latter's offer of a "coke" made on a Caribbean island.
--- - -------- ----, --- -----.
3/5/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Road lined with be-bop clubs leading to a famed Roman fountain.
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3/4/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nervous order to Omar to harangue an Algonquin Indian from Connecticut.
---, --, ----, - -------.
3/3/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The smell of a situation which could really bog us down.
- ------ -----.
3/2/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I give Lee my opinion that the tenderloin strip had its origin by being marinated in a hearty Dutch brew a la a recipe from a very strategic cold war island situated in the Taiwan strait.
---, -----'- ----- ---- -- ------ ------, - ----.
2/27/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
The mother of an impolite, discourteous CBS talk show host has managed to avoid capture by the authorities while visiting this ancient Sumerian city.
---- ----' ---'- ------ --.
2/26/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nameplate on the door of the office of hip Rocco who is the chief medical examiner of a prominent western Nevada town.
---- -----, ---: -------.
2/25/09
Category:Arts/World Geo
Clue
Warning to famed movie director as danger is spotted as he crosses a river in Africa.
--------, ----!
2/24/09
Category:Arts/World Geo
Clue
I sent a text to a small graduate study group in Teheran which was discussing Impressionistic images of ballerinas.
----- ------- -- ---- - --------.
2/23/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Evelyn is told by her friend that the janitor who swept up the meeting hall in "The Last Meeting of the Nights of the White Magnolia," her significant other, was now treating her badly and had jaded her on the idea of love now that he was getting on in years.
--, ----- ------ ---- ------ ----.
2/20/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Ana brooded to herself about whether to have sex in the morning. Then she remembered that, no, the government in the Canal Zone prohibits it.
--, ---, - ----- ------ ---.
2/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
After nosing around for a while at the crime scene, one cop tells his partners Jed and Bo that he can sense that that there was collusion between the perpetrators and the victim.
"--- -- -.-?" --- --------. "--, ------ -----."
2/18/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
Andre Agassi asks his wife if she wants to go see a Coen Brothers movie.
-----, ----?
2/17/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
An orchestra conductor's comment to his charges, using a common Latin phrase, telling them to "pay attention to the stick" so they won't get off the beat.
---- ---- : -----!
2/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Jerry Seinfeld's neighbor relates what he said to the guy from whom he wanted to hire interns for his "business" when asked what the name of the business was.
--, ---, - ----- ------ ---.
2/13/09
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
Comment by girlfriend of a St. Louis football player to him indicating how frivolous it was of him to give her a bulbous plant of the genus Hippeastrum, esp. H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant.
----- ---, -- ---------?
2/12/09
Category:Science
Clue
Charles Darwin's comment to his friend Evelyn that even profoundly tender, passionate affection between human beings was subject to natural selection.
Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Darwin: Feb 12, 1809.
Happy 150th Anniversary to "On the Origin of Species"
Thank Goodness for Darwin!
Today's palindrome is dedicated to him.
--, ---- --- ------.
2/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Male "escorts" with no place to go on Saturday night.
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2/09/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A pre-Bond British secret agent is informed that an Indiana YMCA would reject his idea that a major auto race be relocated to their grounds.
---, -'- --- ---- ---.
2/06/09
Category:Sports/World Languages
Clue
Don leaves a note for Japanese home run king, aghast at the fact that he went into debt to by Mexican food.
--! ---- -- -----, --, ------ --! ~ ---.
2/05/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Hal questions his firend Al unbelievingly about the fact that he, the speaker is from the area near Everest.
---, --, -- -, ---, - ---------?
2/04/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
EMily expectorated on me because I failed to leave her a gratuity.
-- (-- --- ) ---- -- --.
2/03/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
The recurring theme in the music sung by the Spanish heroine of the opera indicating impending disaster accurately matched just how the composer Omar, himself, was feeling at the time regarding his own personal life.
---- ---. ----- --- --- ----'- ----.
2/02/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Emily,a domestic who works in the capital, Kingston, introduces herself to Mac who works in newspapers and television.
----- ---, - -- - ------- ----, --.
1/30/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Maurice, who lives on an island on the Mediterranean, is encouraged to discard his plans for a scam involving devices for measuring how fast taxicabs are driving. ( I have no idea what form this scam might take!)
--, ----- --, ---- ---
- ---- ----------- ---.
1/29/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
I question Nan about whether I committed severe wrongs of a moral nature while visiting "Friends" in this Alabama city in the Appalachian foothills, and hope that I did not.
- --- --- ---, ---, -- --------, --- -?
1/28/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Soldier on platoon football team tells his sergeant how he tried to bribe the referee with goose liver pate'.
-----, - ----- --- ---- ----.
1/27/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A legendary Note Dame football player is asked to prepare the meat for roasting at the luau.
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1/26/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Palindromic introduction of two actors who have two "degrees of separation" one being in "The Lady From Shanghai" with Everett Sloane, who was in "The Patsy" with the other.
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1/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Kay relates that she really makes Trevor angry about the way she prepares her Japanese dish of grilled beef marinated in soy sauce with sake, ginger, and sugar.
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1/22/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The physician of Deron is not at all as good looking as the "Sundance Kid."
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1/21/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
A former heavyweight world champion who became a minister after his boxing days were over is corrected as to the identity of Roy Rogers's horse after he gets it confused with the Lone Ranger's.
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1/20/09
Category:World Geo/
Clue
Sidney is told that David, from this western Nevada city on I-80, is no geek.
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1/19/09
Category:Arts/World Geo/Science
Clue
Note left for poet Eliot after he had gone with a famed scientist known for the germ theory of disease to Lima where said poet was gored in the backside by a bull, and instead of getting it taken care of back home insisted that it be sewn up right there by local doctors. The note wonders if he regretted that decision.
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1/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Advice to gunslinger entering Mayfield not to try to make his reputation by challenging the Beave's Dad to a fight.
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1/15/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Poet Eliot's anxiety over tiny insects.
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1/14/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment made by the owner of a women's clothing store as he sees shyster lawyer Diana who likes to deal in trivial quibbling disputes come in into the store. Not wanting to talk to her because he thinks her lukewarm to his advances, he asks his salesman Reginald to try to find her something to wear.
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1/12/09
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Shingle on door of the veterinarian in a fictional Connecticut town of compliant, robotic wives.
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1/09/09
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Teenager to his mother when she waked him up too early:i.e., before noon.
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1/08/09
Category: History/Arts
Clue
This is what one Ocala Florida bill collector said to the other as they faced their joint assignment for the day, collecting from two perennial deadbeats:one, an 11-fold great grandson of a famed English architect ( St. Paul's) who likes to parade around home with no clothes on, and the other the local chief medical officer for the city.
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1/07/09
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A single mother had been dating both Daniel and Samuel and wanted to do something unusual to let each know that she really liked each him.So, in a classic case of role reversal, she decided to take her guitar and stand below each of their windows and sing love ballads. Her son, indicating a preference for a possible stepfather, made this suggestion: that she start with Daniel.
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1/06/09
Category: Sports
Clue
I tell Japanese home run all time champ and his family how I lived such a sinful life.
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1/05/09
Category: Arts
Clue
A shop in The Emerald City where one can get help in casting horoscopes.
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