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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.
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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.
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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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Click here for August 18's solution
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.
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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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Click here for August 16's solution
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.
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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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Click here for August 11's solution
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Click here for August 07's solution
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.
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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.
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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.
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07/31/2017
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Being totally unyielding in his opinions Ara, a Hanoi "Jack McCoy" wannabe, is also an informing scoundrel.
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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."
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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.]
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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.
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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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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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07/11/2017
Arts
Clue
Lilliputians' view of their oversized guest.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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06/22/2017
Government
Clue
A Texas A&M University frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.
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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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06/20/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Begging to be lavishly entertained, Sid's friends ask him to pass out the brewskis.
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06/19/2017
Business
Clue
I get the well known Dutch pale lager, do I?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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!
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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05/02/2017
Entertainment/Nature
Clue
Testing facility for yellowfin tuna recipes located in the "South Pacific."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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04/17/2017
History/Food
Clue
Edward made hot chocolate from a recipe he found in "The Little Red Book."
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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03/28/2017
Business
Clue
A man tells his boy that he is quite overeating on takeout pizza.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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03/08/17
World Geo/Tech/Science
Clue
A variety of plum tomato grown in Marrakesh.
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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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03/06/17
Miscellaneous)
Clue
Turmoil in the ranks of cola manufacturers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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02/27/17
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
When "Billy" doesn't want to go to school, this is what he tells his mother.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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