Archived 'Dromes

03/12/2024

Tech/Languages

Clue

Describing the fire in her eyes in wonder as a hearing impaired woman is able to communicate with her phone via sign language.

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03/11/2024

USA Geo

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The mayor of The Big Easy tells locals that his city will always be a huge player in attracting business, conventions, tourists, etc. He'd lay money on it.

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03/08/2024

Entertainment/Sports

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Currently whenever "my cousin vinny" sees me he apes a sword fighting motion toward me because of the blades I had made the high bid on a tan auction.

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03/05/2024

Science

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Salvador's text from a new number he has obtained to his good friend and family doctor Andrew wondering if plans were in place for sequencing his genome.

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03/04/2024

food & Drink/USA Geo

Clue

I tell my girlfriend that the long thin breads made from lean dough and with a licorice palate are daft, and a harbinger of things to come at the commissary where we are in college in Athens, Georgia.

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03/01/2024

Tech/World Geo

Clue

Ana, A world renowned expert in artificial intelligence completely dismissed the idea of hiring the guy from the Canal Zone I'm considering.

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Click here for February 29's solution

02/29/2024

Arts/World Geo

Clue

At a museum in a large Indonesian island an art lover exhorts his companion not to leave, as there is about to be a showing of modern art which enthralls the view when unfolded, something not to be missed.

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02/28/2024

World Geo

Clue

Embarrassed at her Inn's policy of not accepting non-Shia Muslims, Roni decided to take things into her own hands and do so.

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02/27/2024

Government

Clue

What's the best indicator that water quality is getting better? Well, I've noticed the slowing down of government regulators taking sips of water samples.

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02/26/2024

Business/Sports

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A comment from way back when he was a kid as the Dallas Mavs owner, speaking in the third person informs his poker playing buddy that he won't fold and is raising one whole dollar.

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02/23/2024

USA Geo

Clue

Tensions benign so inflamed and sensitive between two rival gangs in a New mexico arts town, nevertheless an peace treaty was able to be signed at a locla sandwich shop which put an end to all hostilities.

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02/22/2024

Miscellaneous

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Request to a mathematics tutor to crater the session scheduled for after dinner and postpone it to the following morning.

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02/21/2024

Miscellaneous

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Line of dialogue form a play where a man notes to his girlfriend how her little dogs incessantly barks and attributes it to her not having the dogs fixed, and what a sad state of affairs that is.

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02/20/2024

Government/History

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Words from the wife to her husband when she hears that her husband has awakened, telling him he needs to deal with the basement which has flooded at #10 Downing Street.

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02/19/2024

Miscellaneous

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Enthusiastic, at her coming out affair a fiery young woman severely pestered an opera star.

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02/16/2024

Miscellaneous

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A navy ship's captain tells rues the trauma on the upper deck when he saw his drunk Christmas guest's odd felinemade na angry sound.

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02/15/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

Alternate explanation for a buzzing sound.

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02/14/2024

Tech

Clue

A mom pleads with her kid Christpoher not to spend more time scrolling videos than she had allowed.

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02/13/2024

World History/Geo

Clue

Two coarse, ill-mannered, boisterous combatants who had been involved in a war against ancient Mesopotamia went house to house in one of its city states taking everything of value.

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02/12/2024

Entertainment/USA Geo

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Response to a friend who wanted me to join in to see a play based on the point of view of an abused character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" at a prominent Houston playhouse for the 2:30 performance. No, thanks, I've already seen it.

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02/09/2024

World Geo

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A bishop in VietNam reacts with surprise when hearing that the sisters were considering banding together to bargain for better benefits and working conditions.

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02/08/2024

Miscellaneous

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A boss berates his male staff at the flowers they got him, indicating that no only does he not like them, he reuse to let them remain.

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02/07/2024

Government/Food and Drink

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At the Christmas party at the Kennedy Space Center, as the vessel containing all the sweets began to buckle under its weight, the guest of honor abandoned his duties talking to children to keep it from falling.

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02/06/2024

Food and Drink

Clue

The manager of an Indian food restaurant gleefully exults to the boss at the increased sales of pureed vegetables and the extra money that will bring in.

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02/05/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

Maybe you have the wrong Eleanor? A correction regarding hwe body type: nothefty/bulky but thin and weak.

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02/02/2024

Entertainment

Clue

Response of the new bride of ambient/electronic music guru Brian when she find out the he is too busy right after their wedding and will love to postpone their trip.

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02/01/2024

Usa History/Government

Clue

The kid irate ate everyone is a young boy, a neighbor of a 21st century Alaska VP candidate.

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01/31/2024

Food&Drink/World Geo

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Request for a decision on whether to continue with the project to import from a West African country a Christmas drink creamed with beaten eggs.

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01/30/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

So, what is the vibe surrounding the match between these two women fighters, mister? Extreme vitriol. A fight to the death, and a bad end for one of them.

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01/29/2024

Government

Clue

A slangy description of the daughter of a 1960s TV doctor, named after a flower, who became a revolutionary in the prosecutor's office, extremely much.

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01/26/2024

Entertainment/Government

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A slangy description of the daughter of a 1960s TV doctor, named after a flower, who became a revolutionary in the prosecutor's office, extremely much.

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01/25/2024

Miscellaneous

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A guy giving a party is told that the recent discovery of feces in the U-shaped piping below the sink [which contains ice for drinks] , as it stands, will be a real turnoff and mood dampener to the rest of the guests when they find out.

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01/24/2024

World Geo

Clue

I report to my superior [at the police station] that I gather that some fellows from Dublin attending a posh UK public school have grabbed a canine pet from a local military school to use for their own purposes.

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01/23/2024

Sports

Clue

[At a crucial moment late in the game] I wail at my girlfriend, having noticed that defensive edn Edward has lined up over the line of scrimmage [and thus will be giving the offense a free play.]

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01/22/2024

Math/Science

Clue

A vote in the Great Mathematics e vs. π Debate.

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01/19/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

So, you're wearing army fatigues? How manly!

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01/18/2024

World Geo/Tech

Clue

Ecstatic about how good his imported gin is, a man asks his phone if there is a nearby place he can get some.

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01/17/2024

Arts

Clue

In a very blunt rejection letter a poetry editor slams a woman's submission, a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain , as being formulaic and containing everything he hates in submissions in general.

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Click here for January 16'solution

01/16/2024

Geography/Business

Clue

I can see that the sad sickly state of a shoe manufacturer in a Central Missouri town SW of St. Louis has put the city fathers in a state of fear and trepidation

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01/15/2024

Sports

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The father of a young man who is a workout freak and does reviews of the fitness clubs he frequents, tells his son that the latest review, the worst possible, is causing quite a stir.

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Click here for January 15'solution

01/12/2024

Geography

Clue

Fellows on the Yale track team are told that a female classmate of theirs had done a training run on a Biblical mountain. Looking for Noah's ark?

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Click here for January 12'solution

01/11/2024

Business

Clue

Emily, daughter of a well known fashion designer is chided that her mediocre breakfast of college dorm fare was downright disgraceful.

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Click here for January 11'solution

01/10/2024

Miscellaneous

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I tell Mom that I am depressed like my army buddy Sam who has fled our unit.

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Click here for January 10'solution

01/09/2024

Arts

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A Jules Verne character ponders to himself about why he took on lout Derek, always, drunk, when he could have employed any number of female sailors.

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Click here for January 09'solution

01/08/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

A hipster's description of Rose, daughter of a vintage TV physician, who is now a prosecutor, whis comprehensive, the total package.

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Click here for January 08'solution

01/05/2024

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play derived from The Bible, a follower of Jesus comments on the mutton she has been served by a boy, feeling it didn't come from a domesticated animal.

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Click here for January 05'solution

01/04/2024

Languages/Entertainmet

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I tell a friend that I have matched my friend Gino in finishing writing my book this evening and thus matching his time to finish.

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Click here for January 04'solution

01/03/2024

Languages/Entertainmet

Clue

Actress McClanahan told a French veterinarian not to have her dog "fixed."

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Click here for January 03'solution

01/02/2024

Arts

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In a discarded line of dialogue from "Streetcar Named Desire," [in a flashback] an old boyfriend of Stanley's wife suggests that they run off and get married.

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Click here for January 02'solution

01/01/2024

Entertainment

Clue

What, so was the minister enamored of that Beatles album? Well?

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Click here for January 01'solution

12/29/2023

Food & Drink/Nature

Clue

I describe to my friend Salvador how I finished the meal off with a very popular bowlful of mixed greens with slab of meat from shaggy haired domestic ox from a farm near Nome.

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12/28/2023

Miscellaneous

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Words from Ned, irate and having gone white in the face when he sees the decimation of his plantings:dwarf trees gone, certain flowers having lost all their glory and back to their original puny state.

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12/27/2023

Science &Medicine

Clue

An official's words to a woman who thought the airline was engaged in a conspiracy to lose her suitcase, whereas it was simply shipped off to The women's golf headquarters by accident.

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12/262023

Science &Medicine

Clue

A crazy, snarky woman of up and down temperament from a nearby planet, named after an erotica author, had a high on the hog lifestyle in her small rural town.

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12/25/2023

Science &Medicine

Clue

The head of surgery at a teaching hospital gives an order that seating in the operating room theatre be limited to only the available number of seats, that observers not packed in like sardines.

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12/22/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

Holy cow, mister, our clan's impulsive step forward in originating thih dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc is a bold signals a bold groundbreaking era.

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12/21/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

What do I do carousing into the wee hours? Usually, well,... various debaucheries including drinking and various lascivious acts and other things.

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12/20/2023

Geography

Clue

A woman relates to her friend that it was not until after midnight that she experienced sensations from her womb from her little one-to-be pounding.

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12/19/2023

Geography

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Not considering the destitute kid from Singapore, I have billed the members of theis biblically named fellow's family.

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12/18/2023

Sports

Clue

Senior team member in terms of years of service in the locker room of a Cincinnati baseball team in the 1950s.

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12/15/2023

Geography/Current Events

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It is strange do you think this wine-colored Jamaican liquor can cure flatulence? And besides that quantities needed are a killer.

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12/14/2023

Geography/Current Events

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Questioning, then an emphatic denial of a request by a landlord for someone to guarantee the lease on a North African conspiracy theory fan/soldier for a place in a rooming house in Central Florida.

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12/13/2023

World Geo

Clue

A man tells the extraterrestrials who are minding his cats at an inn in Germany that he had provided a small amount of food for the aging male mate of his overweight female

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12/12/2023

World Geo

Clue

Slangily, a young man tells the preacher that a fellow youth group pal of his had been overwhelmed by the variety of marijauna products he could get while visiting in the United Arab Emirates, and it was overwhelming, feeling like heaven on earth.

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12/11/2023

Entertainment

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An act of snooping into his daughter's innermost thoughts by her boyfriend looking for excitement makes a mafia boss very angry.

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12/08/2023

Entertainment

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Astonishment that Sheriff Masterson is abandoning reading simple short books in this particular instance.

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12/07/2023

USA Geography/History

Clue

A remark from a person visiting Alaska who had hoped to catch a glimpse of a former VP candidate, but who only saw 9 guys.

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12/06/2023

Geography

Clue

Goodness, we decided not to take a flier on Cyrus, that absolute but job from West Texas ( or is it Ukraine?)

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12/05/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Coach Dade sorrowfully tells his team that his gesture of assent meant that the team could not use its favored Nikes shoes, but had to revert back to a competitor whose product had been discarded earlier.

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12/04/2023

Miscellaneous

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As I am now well again, I act as spokesperson for the before dinner cocktail that I got in a raffle.

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12/01/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

There's a crypto-creature across from you.

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11/30/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

The wise and learned one in our group suggests a 180 change in plans:Nevada glitz, here we come.

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11/29/2023

USA Geo

Clue

The wise and learned one in our group suggests a 180 change in plans:Nevada glitz, here we come.

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11/28/2023

Sports

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Admonition to share rides to go to the regatta.

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11/27/2023

Entertainmnet/Sports/Geography

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Bon Jovi is told that not one heartless, callous Star Wars warrior is giving a lift to tennis star Monica while she is visiting Italy.

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11/24/2023

Arts

Clue

Comments directed at a famed cellist who seemed reluctant to perform completely unaccompanied, and urging to him get out there and do it, as opportunities like this don't come along very often.

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11/23/2023

Business

Clue

A friend of Anne asks her if she has the correct Japanese car company for the van her friend had purchased.

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11/22/2023

Geography

Clue

Ramon tells his girlfriend that he is nixing the idea of, once again, going to the capital of Austria for a vacation. Been there, done that! It's HIS time to choose.

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11/21/2023

Science/USA Geo/Food & Drink

Clue

The name of a company providing food to a Florida branch of the collective searching for alien life and whose flagship product is flavored bacon bits.

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11/20/2023

Business/Finance/Arts

Clue

One IRS investigator tells another that he has busted a scam using a retirement vehicle that didn't seem quite right, supposedly investing in op art.

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11/17/2023

Food & Drink

Clue

Do we all understand that bucks cannot stomach a drink made from a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and flavorings, often with alcohol.

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11/16/2023

Geography

Clue

A man recently returned from a trip to the eternal city, tells his Georgetown college chums how one morning he had to swerve mightily when he thought he saw the devil at an intersection, and just cou;dn't believe it.

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11/15/2023

Government/Sports

Clue

Miscellaneous lost male soldiers consider looting important works of art as they are looting.

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11/14/2023

Government/Sports

Clue

An airport official tells the entourage of an NFL quarterback for Baltimore in the 2010s that Government security had verified that the temporary sleeping quarters for him while he waited at the airport had been compromised by an admirer with a severe throat infection.

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11/13/2023

Government/Tech

Clue

In the raucous research facility I was in charge of, devoted to studying landing space vehicles on highly granular surfaces, we used only Apple products.

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11/10/2023

Tech

Clue

The squadroom is corrected as to who is the pleasant but know-it-all woman who has been perpetrating an ongoing scam on Los Angeles mass transit.It is Claire.

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Click here for November 9's solution

11/09/2023

Tech

Clue

Iris tells her boss that she will not be testing the complex set of electronic circuitry that runs the machine's operating system, at least not right away.

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11/08/2023

Entertainment/History

Clue

A Credence Clearwater girl of song exults at being able to sail the Atlantic in luxury.

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Click here for November 8's solution

11/07/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Drunk Ilse's words to her ex as she reads and signs the divorce papers that she finds unfair and horrifying, albeit, recalling how they had once been so in love.

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Click here for November 7's solution

11/06/2023

World Geo

Clue

Wow, an English town has really banned Dubliners et al?

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Click here for November 6's solution

11/03/2023

USA History/Geo

Clue

During the Clinton administration a lawyer is informed that the US Attorney General would not reopen the case of a man convicted of a federal crime and currently in jail in West Texas.

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Click here for November 3's solution

11/02/2023

World Geo

Clue

Ned, all coloring draining from his face, questions the deterioration of some of the flowers in his garden and the outright disappearance of his Japanese dwarf trees.

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Click here for November 2's solution

11/01/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Operating under a massive sugar high, I stow myself away under the bed,unclothed, but feeling calm as could be.

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Click here for November 1's solution

10/31/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

That fellow's entire life revolves around doing awful things, forbidden by his imam, with other members of his biological class, horrible, isn't he?

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10/30/2023

Hstory/Entertainment

Clue

Angry at an Egyptian prosecutor with ties to a previous president, and who he thinks has been leaking unfavorable information about him to the press, an archenemy of 007 eyes a young woman whose background is as a mafia enforcer.

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10/27/2023

Sports

Clue

Yankee ace reliever Rivera bamboozled at times by the antics of Amos, a ladies man, who was having the time of his life, trash talking and all.

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10/26/2023

World Geo/Entertainment

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A founder of a video game company is very pleased with himself at having been to a tattoo parlor in Viet Nam and gotten ink reflecting the birth of his company.

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10/25/2023

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

Question form the equipment manager for an Ivy Leagues fencing team when some of the equipment goes missing.

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10/24/2023

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A prominent folk singer of the 1960s ( "Lemon Tree" ), just starting out, did not turn up his nose any gratuities he earned while busking in the New York City subway,

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10/23/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

An English teacher announces the tenth homework assignment of the term, namely another round of brief expressive accounts of brave behavior spreading through the culture.

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10/20/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

The fact that there is an increase in enemy soldiers going to ink parlors for crude, rough images shows that they are getting ready to do battle.

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10/19/2023

World Geo

Clue

This destitute woman who lives at the beach practiced a form of Japanese Buddhism in the scouting group she led.

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10/18/2023

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

The producers give this actress a choice of roles, the gangster's rather dull girlfriend in THE GAY BRIDE, or a frightening British noblewoman in another film.

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10/17/2023

USA Geo/Business

Clue

Alan, a very large man whom we address with great respect and is the building superintendent in my apartment complex in San Antonio, again urged me strongly to get a burglary prevention device sold at my local grocery store chain, one of the biggest in Texas.

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10/16/2023

Arts/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A swedish guy and his friend, a prominent rapper, are told the the rumor they are spreading about a small archipelago between Sicily and North Africa regretting the acquisition of paintings by a prominent pointillist is incorrect, and in fact the government is making fun of them in the press for making such an accusation.

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10/13/2023

Entertainment

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A nemesis of James Bond scratches this fellow, immoral and mean, a real nothing, from his list of assistants.

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10/12/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a line of dialogue form a story, a man asks his daughter Diane, who is ean expert at recognizing, sniffing out, and hassling imposter holy men masquerading as the devil by their distinctly sulfurous smell, to do so with their latest, accused of child molestatrion.

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10/11/2023

Arts

Clue

A staff member at a big Charleston, SC festival featuring opera, dance, theater, classical music, and jazz, who writes revolutionary religious songs as needed, yet is mild mannered, leaves reviews on the website of my hotel where he is staying.

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10/10/2023

Arts

Clue

A woman who decides to omit the opening act in a play she is directing is informed that this is unorthodox, not the generally accepted way of producing it.

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10/09/2023

Entertainment

Clue

After a contestant in the interview portion of JEOPARDY announced that growing up his favorite program was Sesame Street, this is he answer given when the host asks who was his favorite Muppet.

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10/06/2023

Geography

Clue

Amos uses an Outlook message running to almost ten pages to notify several fellows from Mogadishu, hated and mistreated while they were inprisoned in Atlanta, what he had discovered about the bad conditions in the prison.

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10/05/2023

Business

Clue

A biblically named fellow is told that his pal, a crazy guy from Toronto, had not been ensnared by an irate South American snake.

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10/04/2023

Business

Clue

A member of a literary association in an island country in Micronesia wonders whether some poems of praise his country had submitted to a competition, never submitted before because they were strange, and even hated by some, were now much more appropriate and had a chance to garner them an award

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10/03/2023

Business

Clue

A very distinguished fellow named Basset from The Arab Emirates makes a 189 change in the viewpoint of the Buffalo pro hockey team with regard to how they celebrate after a victory: whereas they had been deliriously happy diehard pounders of beer, he convinced them of the merits of switching to doobies.

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10/02/2023

Business

Clue

A man tells is partner that her use of an earthy bitter cabbage delivered in a skewered meat and vegetable dish is extreme.

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09/28/2023

Business

Clue

Rae, a brokerage firm employee is told that the scuttlebutt around the office is that the boss is against participating in bringing any new companies to market in a stock offering.

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09/27/2023

Business/Tech

Clue

A corporate head tells his secretary to draft a response to a prominent ride sharing company spurning, in no uncertain terms, the company's old school overture to do a deal.

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09/26/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Tina encouraged her friends to stay, as realized that the LSD she had obtained was EXCELLENT, made by locals in a traditional, non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients as opposed to being mass produced.

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09/25/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

Here's the bottom line: My girlfriend Edna thinks I am great because I frequently make tasty, perfect use of an herb whose leaves produce cilantro.

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09/22/2023

Sports

Clue

The head basketball coach, whose assistant is taking notes on practice, tell him to jot down that the center Otto need to be informed that it is standard practice to establish position in the lower part of the key with his back to the basket in preparation of making a move.

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09/21/2023

orld Geo/Food & Drink

Clue

A man declares that his ultimate fate is almost sure to be determined by something he bought in Venezuela, a bottle of spirits created by an Indian ethnoreligious group of Punjabis.

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09/20/2023

World Geo

Clue

A real lover boy/ROTC student announces to the rest of the tourists group from his home town west of Hartford Connecticut that while they are visiting an Italian isle in Tuscany, the site of Napoleon's banishment, he would be very friendly to all.

"----, -- - ----- -- ---- -'- -------," ----- - --------.

09/19/2023

USA Government/Politics

Clue

A Democratic party legislator warns his opponents that they are in for tough intense, vengeful, unrefined fight using Daniel, the new nominee they they will have to run against, and that there is a new sheriff in town, and his party would come out fighting and would not weakly plead mealy mouthed.. Ever.

-------! ------! -- ---- ---, - ----, --- -- - ---. - --- ---. -- --- -----.

09/18/2023

Entertainment

Clue

A man tells his girlfriend he wants to do something more exciting than just sit around all night listening to records, which they ALWAYS do.

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09/15/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his sweetheart that the guy he was supposed to meet at the sandwich ship, a 6 foot 9, 350 pound soldier under the influence, was no longer there, having abruptly left shortly after arriving.

--, ---- -- --, -- ------ -- - ----, - -------- --, ---.

09/14/2023

Entertainment/Arts

Clue

Pooh's positive response when his friend asks home whether he understood.

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09/13/2023

Business

Clue

What would you say if all of us, no on second thought Tony might be the best at it, go ask the boss not to get us involved in designing any more benefit plans wherein the employees would become part owners of the company, before Derek does?

-'---- --, -- ----, --- --- -----, "--- -- -- --- -----?"

09/12/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment from sorority girl to her sisters, all of whom had a wager going about who had the best date the previous date, as she makes her case, having gone out with a sexy hunk with a palindromic name and who had come bearing lots of Beefeater's.

--, ---- ---, ---- --- -------, - ---.

09/11/2023

Sports/World Geo

Clue

A former teammate of a Colts QB relates to him in a phone call how he can see the devil as he drives toward an intersection in Saigon.

-------, - ---- ----- -- - ---- ---- -- ---.

09/08/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

After having heard Eleanor described as strong and hefty this correction begs to differ: she is actually quite thin and weak.

-- -----? --, ----, ------.

09/07/2023

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

[In a scene edited out of "Midnight Cowboy"] Joe Buck tells his pal that a sailor from an artsy community in New Mexico is laid low at a sandwich shoppe by a cleanse so virulent that he cried out to God for it to be over.

-----, -- - ---- -- ---- ----- ------ - ---- ---.

09/06/2023

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Slangy, excited request form a man in Hawaii who has learned that the Spanish restaurant he is has a special for soldiers, a poi dish with hints of a hallucinogen derived from cannabis, and want to know if he can get it right away, or at least some time before they close

-- -- ----~---- -- ----?! -----?...-----?

09/05/2023

The Law

Clue

Surprisingly, in a book she wrote on the basics of civil law, Nin insisted on not having an alphabetized topic list at the back, this from a woman who always had been very detail oriented.

-- ----- -- -- ----- -- ---- ---- -----, ----!

09/04/2023

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A 60s hipster assures his mother that he plays second fiddle to no one at a novelty dance of Cuban carnival origin by way of Africa and the West Indies.

----! - --- -- --- -- - ----- ----, --.

09/01/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

An under the weather erotica author is informed of an even more terrible situation, that a mutual friend, [a diplomat], was giving no thought at all to the spat among ostensibly friendly countries all over the continent of Asia.

-----, --- -----, --- -------- -- ---~----- ------' ---.

08/31/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman notes to a friend the reddened, hot, areas on her skin and wonders if it is something to be checked out.

---, --- ------. -'- ---. -- ----?

08/30/2023

World Geo/Arts

Clue

My text ordering that the supplies of visual art encompassing seemingly moving geometric patterns be brought in from the capital of Norway, even though everyone hated them and they made me want to throw up.

------- ----- -- (----, -'- ----! ) ---- --, -------.

08/29/2023

Food and Drink/Geo

Clue

An Italian grandma slangily tries to get her grandson to stay for dinner by pointing out that he can't leave because on the stove his favorite noodles are cooking.

'---- --- --, -- ---? --- '--' -- -----?

08/28/2023

Geography

Clue

The chair of the committee at the synagogue who had entered them into a lottery to have their first night of Passover celebration at a Las Vegas complex near The Strip is informed that they had luckily been selected.

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08/25/2023

Geography

Clue

Traci, chair of the welcoming committee for the newly appointed Episcopalian clergyman, is encouraged to nix the stale practice of presenting the new cleric with a small canine a la a Chihuahua or Yorkie.

---! --, -----, ---- ---- ----- --- ---!

08/24/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

An expression of disbelief that the new fitness facility started by Nathaniel is now housed in the workout facility of a condominium in a Turkish city on the Bosporus Strait.

-- ---! --! "---- ---'-" -- -- -- -------- ----- ---?

08/23/2023

Geography

Clue

Margaret noted that it was still a lot of money, the bottom line price the seller would take for the Florida Mexican/Polynesian themed bar as it was often not looking or functioning very well, with hardly an outstanding reputation.

--- - --- ---, ---, --- - ---- ---- ---- ---: ----- --- --- - ---.

08/22/2023

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

Protest sign outside the home of a podcaster living in a town in upstate New York and whose recent vitriolic shows about a legendary Notre Dame football coach were deemed full of shit and downright non-patriotic.

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08/21/2023

Geography/Entertainment

Clue

At a YMCA facility within a mountain range in Western Wyoming an official tells a man that his young son needs to be exercising not playing a video game featuring descending blocks.

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08/18/2023

Geography

Clue

A Jamaican police captain tells one of his officers to be sure to send the prosecutor a copy of their report on the guy with no fixed address who waylaid a West Point student.

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08/17/2023

USA Geo

Clue

A woman tells her travel agent that the best idea she has seen for what they want is in the Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap, and that she will settle for no substitutes.

-----, ------- ----'- --! -- -- ----, -- -- --------.

08/16/2023

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Thanks, goodnes for Jewish barbecue joint at a synagogue in Rio!

----, - ---, - ----- --- --- -- -------!

08/15/2023

Arts

Clue

Daniel is told that his girlfriend Rona's reports of an uproarious confusing sol that Tina had performed on the opera was in fact quite the usual and in fact was charming, stylish and cultured.

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08/14/2023

Language/Entertainment

Clue

A Southern woman in charge of a puppet show troupe [housed in a church] tries to talk her we way past the charge that their fare is way too dark, cynical,and morally ambiguous when confronted at rehearsal with such an accusation[ from one of the congregation's members.]

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08/11/2023

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

The head of a beverage company in Lima is angry that their product which was to be their company's great specialty, a sweeter variation on "the astronaut's drink." was still in the tanks, as yet unbottled.

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08/10/2023

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

A man is told that always truthful actress Thurman spied a Japanese warrior.

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08/09/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A lawyer tells his partner that the dirt that their female PI had dug up on a potential witness was the subject of the appendix to the report.

---, ---, ----'-, -- -- -- --------.

08/08/2023

Government

Clue

A manager at the Bureau of Veterans Affairs tells his assistant Lewis who had been in charge of making a good record of the recent meeting to discuss problems with Postal Service communications with the vets, that he is not against hearing reports about how things are going.

----, - -- ------ -- -- ----- -- -- ----, ---.

08/07/2023

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

Comment to a former Tonight Show host when he asked why the lines for the bathroom were so long in the animal park in Loverpool.

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08/04/2023

Sports/Science

Clue

Former San Antonio Spur Ginobli begins to panic as he is mesmerized noting to friend Sol the approaching tidal wave.

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08/03/2023

World Geo

Clue

A spoiled child as a deity in its bodily manifestation.

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08/02/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

One fellow to his buddy Reginald dreaming of spending the fall in serious relaxing [after a hard, sweaty summer job job was over], sharing beers in an idyllic setting.

---, --- ------ -- --, ------ ----: -- -- ------ -----.

08/01/2023

World Geo

Clue

Lewis answers Noel in a note after having been asked what kind of clothing was typical in ancient Rome.

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07/31/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Residence halls at WestPoint decline Rodney's application as they have observed that he is a frequent masturbater.

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07/28/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Negative response to Sidney from his friend at an auction who had asked if he was going to pass on the painting involving plants of the Southwest, as he couldn't resist.

--, ---, - ---: "-----" --- -- --.

07/27/2023

Arts/World Geo

Clue

The manager at La Scala tells his troops to begin thinking of doing several productions in rotation at [at an outdoor amphitheater] on a mountainside in Switzerland.

---- -- ----- --- -- -- ---.

07/26/2023

Arts

Clue

With a triumphant laugh an angered Mozart signed off on his tort action against a high ranking Hindu princess.

-- - --- -------, ---- ---, ---- - --------.

07/25/2023

Arts

Clue

Mocking him in n a lilting voice I excoriate a school administrator who had claimed he wanted a vibrant program in classical music for not having started the required ensemble.

"----, --," ----- -, " -- ---------?"

07/24/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Those damned spoiled Rao children seemed to hang out on the right side of the cruise ship all the time.

---------,----, ----- --- -----.

07/21/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A building owner who has a side business selling VERY vintage Italian clothing orders his super, an irate young woman who is a member of a dark rock music subculture, to keep pressing the tenants to buy clothes.

------ ---- -----, --- ------, -- - ---- -----.

07/20/2023

World Geo/History

Clue

A Uganda strongman questions whether he actually was violently against the assumed named one on his ministers was going to travel under.

"-? --- - ------ -- -----?," ---- ---.

07/19/2023

World Geo/Business

Clue

An exclamation of my intentions to roam around a Northern italian city in the Dodge truck I bought there, pretending to be thieving, attackmg, creating fear.

------ -- -- --, ---- ---.

07/18/2023

Arts

Clue

A gallery report stating that reclaimed and reold pieces that seem to have moving or blurring sections.

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07/17/2023

USA Geo

Clue

A Cambridge cat-like pet of a lab at the University dies after being exposed to some toxic lab detritus.

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07/14/2023

World Languages

Clue

A mother addresses her darling daughter Nan who had noticed an ink parlor artist work on a distinctly anti-religious message for her German grandfather.

--, -- ---- ---, ---, -- --------, ---.

07/13/2023

World Geo

Clue

A sailor who relished having philosophical discussions with the his Catholic captain, questions him regarding whether the whole idea of [an infallible] pope was a good thing.

---, ---, --- -- --, ------, --?

07/12/2023

Business/Government

Clue

Even though higher ups were against it, a big wig at West Point assigned one of the top students there to sniff out incriminating info from a whistleblower who had worked on Musk's electric cars.

-------, - ------- --- - ----- --- ----- -- - ----- --------'- ----.

07/11/2023

Food & Drink

Clue

I express to a Jamaican friend my total disinterest in the savory hors d'oeuvres that seem a bit past their prime and which will be chucked as they have lost whatever vitality they used to have.

--, ---. ------'- -----. - ----. -- -----. ---- -------, ---.

07/10/2023

Sports

Clue

Having partnered with a woman who promised financial backing for his planned purchase of a soup and sandwich shoppe] a former Notre Dame football coach stands agape, feeling threatened by news from her and her aide that the money would not be forthcoming, the cheapskate!

--- ------ --------- -- - ---- --- -----, -- ----.

07/07/2023

World Geo

Clue

Two actors describe how each one turned down the role of an angry ungodly heathen who to his own surprise finds himself dressed as a sailor and sitting in a Ukrainian church.

-- ------ -- -- ----- ----- -- -- ----- --- -- -- ------ ---.

07/06/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Having just been hired to run logistics for a popular singer//actress from Barbados and riding in an Uber she arranged for [to go to an appointment,] I forced Owen to quit.

---, --- -- - ---- ------- -----, - --- --- ----.

07/05/2023

Business

Clue

A head broker now embarrassed that he had issued a warning about the imminent fall in the German stock market doubles down and says he won't retract it, but then begins to second guess himself.

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07/04/2023

World Geo/Business

Clue

A Muslim con man disables Apple computers in the domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house belonging to his Syrian foes who have come for a conference in Germany, at the site of another famed WW II confab.

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07/03/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man watching soccer with his Mom and noting the pathetic performance of the referee, relates just how much she hated that #$@$*%$*&^ guy.

----! --- --- -- --- -- - --~--, -------!

06/30/2023

USA Geo

Clue

A boy haltingly complains to his mother about her suggestion that they trek to a nearby National Park in upstate New York, as it is too distant.

--, --,..., --'- -------. ----? --- ---. ------- -- - --.

06/29/2023

Government/Food&Drink

Clue

I tell an administrator at The Johnson Space Center that my guess is that a woman who is around a lot because she inherited a French pastry shop that supplies the cafeteria., is actually the extraterrestrial infiltrator we had been looking for.

----, - ---- ---------- ------- - --- -- -- -----.

06/28/2023

World History/Geo

Clue

Completely distracted from the business at hand, Russia's leader again angrily has his stenographer take a letter to a supplier, Enid, in Germany who has crazily sent him bad pressed apple juice.

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06/27/2023

World Geo

Clue

A Middle Eastern waiter named after The Prophet, for short, on occasion rudely rejected a very poor gratuity.

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06/26/2023

World Geo

Clue

The sailors engrossed in their work [on the deck of the aircraft carrier] take time out to greatly admire the underwater craft out of their foe,from Italy, as it surfaced.

---- --- ------ - ----- ----- ---.

06/23/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man in trouble[ at the lake at a] hydroelectric facility, alerts his mother NOT to think she should get there quicker by taking one of his stored race cars [but should just come in her own vehicle.]

--, -- --- ---- ------ --- -- -- ---.

06/22/2023

Science/Medicine

Clue

A boy whose mom had remarried and was now expecting a child from her new husband Nathaniel is encouraged strongly by the lad to get some prenatal testing after they had first rejected it.

-- -- --, --, ----! -- --- -- -----, ---!

06/21/2023

USA Geo

Clue

Regrettable, Lee, I think we have to let the Assistant District Attorney in Beantown go, as he is coming in drunk all the time.

---, ---- ------'- ---, ---, -- --- -----, - ----.

06/20/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

A psychic foody admits that i does indeed have the leftover citrus scraps needed to make the dish.

"-'-- ------ ----," ------ ---- ---------- ----.

06/19/2023

Languages

Clue

Actress McClanahan laughs as she lets on that she is no longer playing the role of a French war hero.

--- -- -- ----, --, - ---- --------!

06/16/2023

Sports

Clue

Tim is told that a German woman broadcasting the baseball game was embarrassed at having miscalled the pitch, thinking it was a fastball.

--- ---- ---, ---. -- --- - ------.

06/15/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

An apoplectic guest is incensed at hostess Nia when he discovers that the hot dipping sauces for chips, crackers, veggies, etc. are horrible, severely undercooked, suggesting it was a moral flaw, and encouraging her to alert the guests.

------! - ---! --- ---- -----, ---, (----!) -'- ----. -- - ---, ---.

06/14/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Someone points out to Laci, a groundbreaking CD from The Count whose contents could be described as showing a "noir jazz" element of his personality.

----, "---- ----" -- - ----- ----, -------.

06/13/2023

Government

Clue

As a big country music star and her husband tour a large city in Scotland they come across an establishment offering drinks on the house, and he insists that he has to have one right away.

--------! --'- - "----" ---! - ----, ----, - ----, ----!

06/12/2023

Government

Clue

Words of a university chancellor to his aide upon denying, for the record, a request to start a university-based officer-training program for training commissioned army officers.

---- - ----. --. -- ----, ------.

06/09/2023

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

About what to charge for the majority of our Puccinni series productions, how about cannabis? Maybe already rolled into a cigarette?

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06/08/2023

World Geo/Medicine

Clue

A man corrects misinformation about where he is going, indicating it was just his luck that he needs to see a podiatrist in Peru about a painful bony bump at the base of his big toe.

--, -- ---- -- -:---'- -- ---- -- ------.

06/07/2023

World Affairs

Clue

A police official agrees with Rae, a titled British woman, that the illegal random arrest sweeps which seemed to be of the devil since they used cruel and indiscriminate use of a taser, were, indeed, just crazy.

---- ---, ----, ---------' ------- ------- ------- -- - ----- ---, --- ---.

06/06/2023

Food & Drink

Clue

I trash talk an opponent at a beer competition, wherein I rejoice at the fact that his amber colored beer had gone bad.

"----! - ----- ----- -- - ---'- ---- -----!" - ----.

06/05/2023

Entertainment/Food & Drink/Business

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play about the life of a Tonight show host, his girlfriend begs him to dial up Dairy Queen for delivery of an ice cream snack.

--: -, ----, ---- -- - ------- ----, ----.

06/02/2023

Sports/World Languages

Clue

In an exclamation a many times Russian World Cup downhill champ gives all the credit to his lengthy association with his favorite ski brand.

--! --------- --- ----- -- -- ---!

06/01/2023

USA Government/Geo

Clue

A Hawaiian haberdasher relates that [it may be a while because] his current customer, a local politician is crazy bewildered, and very senile.

---, - ---, ----, - ---- --- - ---'- --- -- ----.

05/31/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ana informs the authorities at West Point that a professional ball player from Houston corrupted the morals of [her son] a student there.

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05/30/2023

World Geo

Clue

A man angry and sarcastic towards his former dear wife, take the opportunity to tell her, as he signs the divorce decree that he also cannot stand her new boyfriend, taking a swipe at his Southeast Asian heritage and Biblical name.

--------, -- ------, -----, --- ----, -- - ---- --, "-----."

05/29/2023

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

Tasked with providing entertainment during the prologue of a tennis tournament Nadal organized a march through the city featuring the spoiled children of famous hip-hop performers, an event that was universally panned.

---- --------- - ------- ----- ------, ------- ----.

05/26/2023

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

A fellow excoriates his pal for the lame brain idea of serving a boiled immature soybean dish at a movie snack bar.

----! ------ ---- -------? ----? ---!

05/25/2023

USA History/Food and Drink

Clue

A Jan.6 detainee laments to his girlfriend that he never intended to be a part of the breach or was a part of the cabal planning it, but that he just got swept up in the action with vapid promises of extra hoppy beer if he went along.

------, -- ------- --------, -- ----: --- ------ - --.

05/24/2023

Business

Clue

Lyft CEO asks his secretary to snottily decline an old school overture from a competitor to do a deal together.

-----, ---'- ------ ----'- --------.

05/23/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

I couldn't decide on whether the situation called for me to be disgusted or to double over in laughter.

...---- -- ----, -- ---- -- ----, -- ---- -- ----, ----...

05/22/2023

History/Geography

Clue

Base Russian leader on the eve of the Ukraine invasion, indicating that he needed to dubiously escalate tensions to the point of actual armed conflict.

--- -----: " - --- -- --- -- --:---"

05/19/2023

History

Clue

A few World War II buffs made sure that we were treated to [film of] massed crowds celebrating the end of the war in Europe.

---- -------- --- --- -- -- -----.

05/18/2023

World Geo

Clue

Motto of a Shite B&B.

--- ---? --- --- -----.

05/17/2023

Business

Clue

A brokerage firm head denies that he intervenes when one of his traders engages in wild back and forth trading on options to sell a particular stock.

--, --- --------- -- - ---- - --'-- --- ----.

05/16/2023

World Geo

Clue

You're telling me, my boys, that your plaintive cry toward the government in Rome, actually while you were there, was not a distress call?

--, ----, - ---- --, --, ------ --- -- ---?

05/15/2023

Fod and Drink

Clue

THERE ARE NO WORDS: a cry of sorrow about the greens and cured pork sausage first course a customer has been given.

------ -----! ----! -'-,..., ----!

Click here for May 12-'s solution

05/12/2023

Fod and Drink USA Geo

Clue

A business franchising exciting rides on a cable down from a high perch in Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, etc. serves very substandard Domino's knockoffs at its snack bar.

-- -------- --- --- -----.

05/11/2023

Business/Entertainment

Clue

Suggestion to a young woman the she dress up for Halloween as a sexy, alluring Love-a-Lot one of these.

---, -- ---- ---- ----.

Click here for May 11-'s solution

05/10/2023

USA Geo

Clue

[Already on edge after a gun scare,] the passengers on a New York City subway were again alarmed when rodents escaped from some sorority girls [ who were using them for a psychology experiment.]

------- ---- ----- --~-------- ---.

Click here for May 10-'s solution

05/09/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Sailboat manufacturer Salvador, whose latest model boats' waste systems were faulty and leaching out into the water, angrily orders that the situation be fixed.

"----- ---------," ---- ---, "(-----) --- ------ --------."

05/08/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Warning by a frat head to his brothers to be wary of using sleeping pills being hawked by a fierce rival Kappa Alpha , as it is a scam.

-- --- ------- -- - --- -- ---- -- ---.

05/05/2023

Business

Clue

An advertising slogan for a popular brand of Mattress, indicating not only that it was restful, but ultra peaceful as well.

-- ---- --,... -, --- -- ------ ---- - --- -- --: -----!

05/04/2023

Food/World Geo

Clue

The CEO of a Lima beverage company expresses anger at the fact that the drink they are known for, a sweetened riff on "the astronaut's drink," has yet to be bottled.

------, - ------- --------- ---- ---- -- --- -- - ---? -'- ---!

05/03/2023

History

Clue

A Russian in the post WW I years ventures his opinion to an English journalist that the country's leader is a foolish failure.

------, ------- ----- -- - ---, ---.

05/02/2023

World Geo

Clue

Take heed: I will continue to wager forever that the Louisiana city with the most to offer, the elephant in the room, will get the project.

----: --- ----'-- --- ----- - --- --.

05/01/2023

World Geo

Clue

Depravity at CitiField: Mets mascot is consumed by sinister thoughts.

---- --- --. --- -----.

04/28/2023

World Geo

Clue

Is that right or not? Is it sorry you are expressing there at having visited Italy?

--? ---? ---- ------- ---?

04/27/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Suggestion to photoshop an image which involved a wardrobe malfunction.

---? -'- ---- --.

04/26/2023

Arts/Entertaiment

Clue

Response to a man named after a Genesis character about what the big stir is about, namely the absolute obsession of an A. A. Milne character for honey.

------, ----? - ------------ ----.

04/25/2023

World Geo

Clue

When a grad student arrives at 10:00 AM to volunteer at the synagogue, the rabbi informs him that the cleaning crew he was part of, organized by Eve among her graduate assistant bud, had already been there several hours earlier.

---, ---'- -- ------ ---- --- -- ----- --.

04/24/2023

Government

Clue

Magistrate Roger, embarrassed at having made a mistake in this area before, will soon say yes to a writ preventing so-called psychics from speaking out on issues in the trial of one of their own.

--- --- ------ ---- -- - ---- --- -----.

04/21/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A cop tells his partner to break arrest the fellow pretending to be a celebrity and selling his autograph, as he is sure it is a con job.

---, ---- -------. - ---- ----.

04/20/2023

Business/Science

Clue

The CEO of a firm investing in metals futures is irritated that broker Laci, given her current mindset, has very unorthodox views on the prospects for a silvery metal, atomic #50.

----, ---- --, -- -- -- - --- -------.

04/19/2023

USA Geo

Clue

A West Point student government leader got the student government to pass a resolution requiring every student to know the location of every bathroom at the academy.

--- ------- - ----- --- ----.

04/18/2023

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

A middle distance runner going to college in Troy, New York curtly responds to a fellow track participant at a meet who had wanted to know what event he was doing next and where he was from, indicating that next up were his heats.

-? -------. ----. ---.

04/17/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment from a young woman to her mother who had bought her clothes too large for her small, under 5' 4" frame.

--, -'- - ------ --- --.

04/14/2023

World Geo

Clue

Peruvian financial mogul who made his money in ancient Roman dress and in a chain low key French restaurants over which he reigned with a heavy hand, frightening the employees responds to an accusation that his businesses in the capital will fail for lack of fuel, pointing out that they are importing it from Spain and Portugal.

---- -----------/------ ------ -------,"------- --- ---- ---."

04/13/2023

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

Now we know why Vladimir and Estragon were kept waiting: their anticipated visitor was getting advice on how to get high energy club dancers by going to a small west African French Republic for training.

-- -- --~--, -- ---- --, -- ----, -----.

04/12/2023

Food/Government

Clue

A South Texas fellow urges a visiting Congressman to toss a spicy cheese filled hot pepper appetizer into his mouth and chow down.

---, --- ---, ---, - -------- ------.

04/11/2023

Arts

Clue

I deny to an official that I have blown up a [lesser known] highly rated flower painting, a deviation from his normal Impressionist lilies.

---, - -------- -- -----, - ----- "----."

04/10/2023

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

Positive response by winnie the Pooh, trying to act cool, when asked by his friend, " Understand what I said?"

---, - --- --.

04/07/2023

Business/Food&Drink

Clue

Worried about meeting production goals expected of its most recently hired workers, a Japanese watch maker decides to make them more comfortable by bringing in a variety of cakes, pies, cookies, etc., to make them feel better.

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04/06/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Laci is informed that the [long lost] CD whose name indicates it contains groundbreaking music with a "noir" flavor from jazz piano royalty.

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04/05/2023

History/Geo/Tech

Clue

An internet cultural item invoking similarity to a Middle East conflict, as tensions flare in Croatia.

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04/04/2023

History/Geo

Clue

When a prominent Boston silversmith order coffee for the shop from the eastern part of a California wine region, [shop manager] Ava from Tokyo countermands the order.

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04/03/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Comment from Mr. Spock who was in charge of a science lab, noting that colleague Lana saw him / it as never give up, and suffused with logical reasoning despite the baudy, risque atmosphere it was famous for.

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03/31/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Alerted that I would see it and be disgusted, I suppose what I just witnessed was an indication that a NY radio celebrity was acting in the role of an uncouth young woman.

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03/30/2023

Entertainment

Clue

When Rosalind comes into the saloon, she [bats her eyes and] asks for a freebie from the masked man wearing a cape who is doing temporary duty as a bartender.

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03/29/2023

USA Geo

Clue

Ada, an EMT in the New York subway calls in for help, identifying herself and angrily reporting a body not moving which she suspects to be the murder of a woman whose children are present.

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03/28/2023

Arts

Clue

I describe my latest novel, long, with tales of heroism, but also quite funny.

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03/27/2023

Entertainment

Clue

Occasionally one can find Jewish actor of "Fiddler" fame vacationing on a tiny out of the way island.

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03/24/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

Comment when a Jamaican stumbles on a farm growing human body parts.

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03/23/2023

Food

Clue

One guy to another in disgust at a soybean based snack made at the movie theater: a real failure.

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03/22/2023

Tech

Clue

Christopher is implored not to spend too much time on a Chinese video app.

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03/21/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

One teenager's comment to another that the folks whose house they had just toilet papered took a forgiving, kids will be kids, no biggie, attitude toward the whole thing.

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03/20/2023

History

Clue

Quote in the autobiography of a pirate whose, wounded and unable to access medicine, barely audibly says that what's best for him is his favorite booze to ease the pain.

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03/17/2023

History

Clue

Regarding Russia's leader? Well, the general sense I'm getting is that he wants to ratchet up the pressure.

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03/16/2023

Entertainment

Clue

A recording studio boss laments to his assistant that the guy causing all the trouble is a former hip-hop hotshot they had tried to work with had to let go , who is now hanging around all the time trying to leech off of them.

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03/15/2023

Science/USA Geo

Clue

A branch manager at an investment firm is angered when he discovers that as of late, broker Kyle has been discussing taking out his angered frustrations over his poor investment recommendations by discussing chancy retirement accounts invested only in tin with his clients.

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03/14/2023

Science/USA Geo

Clue

It was like being hooked on drugs, as the city fathers in Central Florida in the late 1940s could not tear themselves away from their new, huge computer, the first programmable, electronic all purpose machine developed at The University of Pennsylvania.

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03/13/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A worried caterer is concerned that the vessel to hold the pies, cake, custards, etc. will not support the weight.

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03/10/2023

World Geo

Clue

An ethnic group of the Central plateau in Mali was not fooled when an interloper dressed using dark eye make-up and pale skin colouring, dark clothes, and bulky metallic jewellery, and wearing classical Roman dress which he purchased in Dublin, pretended he was a deity.

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03/09/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Wonderng from time immemorial: does it disgust me or lay me low with laughter?

...rolf or ROFL or rolf or ROFL or rolf or ROFL or...

03/08/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Lament from a cop when he realizes that the guy he has arrested is Alvin the hot shot quarterback at the local private boys school [and that he will now likely be ineligible to play, ruining the teams chances.]

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03/07/2023

Geography

Clue

in a snarky comment one of the poor folks in a small hamlet near Laredo complains to Mayor Dias about how the wild and crazy lumberjacks just across the river lived like a king.

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03/06/2023

Busimess/Hostory/Food & Drink

Clue

A restaurateur is aghast at the note he was sent by the Speaker of the House in the early 1980s, agreeing with those who do not want him to be serving venison at a meeting with TexasInstruments lobbyists.

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03/03/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Cursing, I rue to my friend Timothy that I made a mistake when, angered even more, I absolutely exploded.

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03/02/2023

Science/Business

Clue

Pamela's response to her mother who had asked how her new job installing custom blinds and shades was going, indicating that she was fully trained as was now an expert with her own pet nickname around the store.

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03/01/2023

Science/World History&Geo

Clue

I tell Uganda's leader that ratings for our PSA to educate the people about how to calculate the circumference of a circle fell off

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02/28/2023

Sports

Clue

A golfer wonders to his girlfriend who is caddying whether he might finally defeat his long time rival in a match play event, assuming a short putt is conceded on the final hole.

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02/27/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment from a woman during a round of date comparison, contending she definitely was the winner since Otto had been very sexy and came with plenty of Beefeater's.

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02/24/2023

Entertainment

Clue

When Loretta Lynn's husband is coaxed by a friend to join him in a dubious caper, she tries to persuade him to turn the offer down.

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02/23/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

An epic novel by a former US tennis star about idiotic Nan and her flirtations with Mideast terrorists.

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02/22/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

A cry of interest at a debate between 2 apocalyptic scenarios, one from Viet Nam , the other from the bible.

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02/21/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

As an afterthought in an note to his friend and personal Physician Andrew, Salvador want to be sure that arrangements have been made to sequence his genome.

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02/20/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

I inform a colleague about my upcoming trip, to see a very small, almost impossible to find, parasitic louse in Venezuela.

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02/17/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell a friend that, as the property line dispute with my neighbor has again flared up, I see that I didn't handle things very well.

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02/16/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman having a party is urged to prevent several people from attending, and last but not least, Eli, an alien known for sexual groping.

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02/15/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Baby sitting a snarky unpredictable temperamental child in the family room sent already crazed Dani over the edge.

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02/14/2023

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

Skeptical headline in The Globe when the Red Sox inked an All-Armed Services player.

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02/13/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

I nastily trash talked the lack of success of my opponent in the competition involving golden-colored beers with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness.

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02/10/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

When the drinking fountain bowl was made from a chamber vessel that had originally been used for urination, no one wanted to drink from it.

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02/09/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Bottom line in a report about misuse of vehicles at West Point. A female Hispanicprof regularly diverted their use to joy rides for a student's dog.

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02/08/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

So did that guy hit his head on the doorknob when he fell, or what?

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02/07/2023

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

Brusque editorial response from the film critic for the University of Alabama student newspaper after it had received many letters complaining about his review of the Cate Blanchett movie featuring her as a symphony director. He isn't budging.

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02/06/2023

Entertainment

Clue

As they are exploring an alien planet, a member of the Star Trek landing party warns Mr. Spock that the commotion they hear is the danger of being caught by the oncoming police.

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02/03/2023

USA Geo

Clue

Title of a novel featuring a lone nurse in Nevada bucking the establishment.

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02/02/2023

Food and Drink

Clue

Catherine's date suggests that she remain seated, as he will refill her drink, double checking that she wanted a French brandy.

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02/01/2023

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

I note that actor Joe( "My Cousin Vinny") makes fun of the swords I got in an eBay auction by gesturing as if holding one.

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01/31/2023

Arts/Business

Clue

A man who is being forced out of the country relates sorrowfully that he saw someone else it was happening to, a nun who has been tied up so that she can't walk.

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01/30/2023

Arts/Business

Clue

I tell a friend that the woman who has inherited a French pastry business sericing the space agency is someone I have named as an ET.

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01/27/2023

Arts/Business

Clue

A student comments to his teacher that the violin melody they hear coming up as they shop in a prominent clothing store is a work by an Italian master.

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01/26/2023

Food

Clue

A chef calls a halt to food preparation in his kitchen when he notes that Alvin, his regular guy for preparing the cabbage based side dish, has switched jobs with Ava.

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01/25/2023

USA Geography

Clue

Describing a grotesque, attention grabbing strike against my quiet grandmother by the powers that be in Oklahoma City.

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01/24/2023

Geography/Food

Clue

As if his prayers had been answered, a man exults at a barb-q joint run out of a synagogue at the edge of a famed Rio beach.

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01/23/2023

Geography

Clue

Explaining to his buddy why he was no longer with the Mexican girl who had been his blind date while on vacation in Hawaii, a guy from Rome explains that his ethnicity and obesity was a turnoff to her.

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01/20/2023

Geography

Clue

A taxi driver in Dublin alerts his fare who he suspects to be on the way to pulling a prank, that they are almost there and that he should get some local spirits ready to consume.

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01/19/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A soldier tells his platoon leader that he is sure with every fiber of his being that he is the right one to go ahead and explore for chinks in enemy defenses.

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01/18/2023

Geography/Government

Clue

A NASA chief of the International Space Station crews disagrees with its most senior member, Stuart, telling him that the trainees form the Middle east must get jobs elsewhere in the organization.

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01/17/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A dignified, courtly tenant on the lord's manor uses his ink skills on a young girl.

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01/16/2023

Geography/History

Clue

My unwell sister, banished a la Napoleon, barely survives working in her yard to plant flowers in new containers upon request, anything to keep her going.

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01/13/2023

Arts/Food

Clue

Researching before appearing before the Supreme Court, a junior partner tells the lead attorney that Justice Iris studied in Austin, Texas for her BA and for 12 weeks at Fort Benning to earn her officer stripes.

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01/12/2023

Arts/Food

Clue

Advice to an Irishman to stay away from Ford's Econoline Vans for sale there and to use ride sharing instead.

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01/11/2023

Arts/Food

Clue

A hipster queries his ink parlor employees, surprised that no one in the shop is capables of a scam involving their pretending to be able to draw shells, vermicelli, etc.

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01/10/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry comment from a navy MP that not one of the suspects they had apprehended in the string of lighted sign vandalism, all easily captured as they fled, unable to ride bicycles very well, was a low ranking commissioned officer from the nearby base.

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01/09/2023

History/Science

Clue

When a client discovers that his life savings has been invested by Ponzi practicing Bernie into futures on a malleable, silvery metallic element that occurs in igneous rocks, he reacts like this:

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01/06/2023

History

Clue

Eleanor is told that Sheriff Masterson, finding something to do while awaiting a change of stagecoach at an aptly named terminal reflecting its owner's name and providing poker games, took a seat to play, very well equipped to take the other guys' money.

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01/05/2023

Science/World Geo

Clue

A young man tells the Mideast ruler that his dad had seen through the request to factor 151 as the trick question it was.

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01/04/2023

Food/USA Geo

Clue

Should I go ahead and take the caviar they had already asked for over to the tech university in Troy, NY even though they had let us know that they hated the previous batch?

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01/03/2023

Miscellaneous

Clue

A warning to the techies to stop what they are doing as there is a huge cybersecurity leak.

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01/02/2023

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

A boxing champ character in an American comic strip is asked whether it is appropriate for him to be smoking.

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12/30/2022

USA History/Science/Entertainment

Clue

As I leafed through the book, did I just see a lot of 3-D images of optical illusions, essential for my understanding of the culture of the largest island within Indonesia?

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12/29/2022

USA History/Science/Entertainment

Clue

President Reagan's first Treasury Secretary is told that in August or so a telepathic Star Trek TNG humanoid, sitting in his car, not moving at an intersection, sees a brightly colored fruit-eating bird atop the signage.

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12/28/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment to a rocket pioneer who had complained when the boss banned his canine form the premises even though he was "super cool," wherein the boss says it was really because he was foaming at the mouth.

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12/27/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A camp counselor delivers his bottom line: horrified at the thought of such a young boy taking the watercraft out all by himself, and banning it.

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12/26/2022

USA Geo

Clue

A sense of doom overshadowing an event at a SOuthern California animal park at an attempt to be very impressive, but turned out to be dated a rather pathetic.

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12/23/2022

Sports

Clue

Pit boss at Indianapolis speculates on the fact that his driver refused to come in for fuel and a tire change.

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12/22/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Drunk on my ass, I was speculating to the personnel director about whether Derek was a candidate for the job.

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12/21/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

[Not having been able to find suitable replacements], unfortunately we had to re-up the credentials of those dorks.

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12/20/2022

USA History/Sports/Entertainment

Clue

Advice from father to son about who to trust( his grandmother, famed Kenyan distance racer Henry, and President Reagan) and who to try to irritate ( bad bad guy Brown of song.)

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12/19/2022

USA Geo/Food

Clue

My comment when hearing that I have qualified for a cooking contest in Hawaii where I will change the recipe of my stuffed pasta to make the accompanying sauce spicier.

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12/16/2022

World Geo

Clue

When she arrives in Dublin Vera is warned that is against the law there to daydream about sex.

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12/15/2022

USA Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell my girlfriend that when I and, surprisingly, my buddy Greg went out in our primitive watercraft, just the two of us and our beer, it was my belief that it was a serene experience regardless of what brand we had.

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12/14/2022

USA Miscellaneous

Clue

The dispute between the owners over inventory, is that what is what is causing the brouhaha at the bait shop?

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12/13/2022

USA Government

Clue

What is the best indication of the government agency backing off on our theory of climate change? Theri more frequent canceling of wine samplings to show the effect climate has on that industry which I have begun to see.

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12/12/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

The large cask holding the after dinner sweets( heavy!) is not well enough reinforced.

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12/09/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

If we are going to explore the narrow cramped chasm, we should not bring our trained does and bucks as they fart too much. Amirite?

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12/08/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

This fellow, unable to find his way among the goings on on the cola wars, is a simple-minded soldier.

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12/07/2022

Entertainment

Clue

What media mogul Griffin,early in his career said as he attempted to strongarm a standoffish competing record label to do a deal with his own, Panda Records.

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12/06/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Cop Salvador relates how he had unfortunately irritated a perp by identifying him as an angry young woman needing help.

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12/05/2022

Food

Clue

The forecast as of early morning is for production of trail mix to be at its highest level yet of inactivity.

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12/02/2022

History/Food

Clue

When Patricia learns that her friend. Mrs. Peron is not feeling well, she says she has just the remedy, her signature Italian food dish.

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12/01/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A defense lawyer explains to the District Attorney why there was a steady stream into the courtroom from Uber Eats all due to his eager, animated client, hated #1 in his class at West Point whom he has repeatedly warned.

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11/30/2022

Arts

Clue

Instruction to continue a whaler crewman's drastic punishment for consorting with a Viet Namese prostitute who was hated by the captain and who wanted to deprive her of business.

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11/29/2022

USA Geo/Food

Clue

The guys involved in a scam involving oval shaped tomatoes in a Central Florida city have no ethical sense whatsoever, and it's not over, very much present tense.

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11/28/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Revolt against the king when he levies a dastardly duty of .3 cents per pound on beer imports.

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11/25/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Deleted story from Genesis, wherein one of the residents angrily complains to God about how his sandwich establishment is overrun by rats, angering his customers and so how can this "heavenly garden" be so described.

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11/24/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A precinct captain who can't get basic supplies for his unit reveals to his wife Edna that it's crazy, but Internal Affairs has been granted a bevy of perks,like a new car, a licorice liqueur flavored egg creation, citrus drinks, a Roman costume, new Apple computer products and semi-soft Dutch cheese.

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11/23/2022

USA History

Clue

Donald Trump's angry outburst to his first defense secretary for getting him into a landfill business that has a lousy balance sheet.

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11/22/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I really am collecting back taxes on a colony of clothing optional poets.

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11/21/2022

EU Geography

Clue

An American vacation in Europe with his congressman Tells him how embarrassed he was for skiing so badly in the mountains of Switzerland but hopes to make it up by water skiing better on a river in Germany.

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11/18/2022

Arts

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is overwhelmed when he ges financial advice form several female estate planning experts and realizes that he must start putting away a lot more if he is to retire comfortably.

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11/17/2022

World Geo

Clue

The proprietor of an inn in the mountains of Switzerland lets a customer know that the first thing on the agenda is a big game hunt nearby, and that it will be done in record time.

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11/16/2022

History

Clue

An aide to a Ugandan strongman is told to procure a wooden idol for the leader to pray to.

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11/15/2022

Food&Drink

Clue

The head of the manor angrily excoriates his cook / indentured servant about making the gumbo too slimy with overuse of these pods, indicating that he will have to set some boundaries regarding its use.

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11/14/2022

World Geo

Clue

The presence of a man from Sicily who lives at the base of the volcano and is known to be a cruel tyrant is enough to cause "Ed" not to even want to begin to play poker opposite him.

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11/11/2022

Business/Tech

Clue

A hipster dietician makes a recommendation about what to have for breakfast.

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11/10/2022

Business/Tech

Clue

Teenager Alexander, friendly, pleasant and outgoing, relates his nickname at the tech company he works for, big in cyber security, cloud and distributed computing.

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Click here for November 9's solution

11/09/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Rita leaves a note for her friend Ava, saying that she cannot walk in the parade because of a ligament tear in the knee.

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11/08/2022

World Geo

Clue

I would like to point out that a titled British woman angrily stated that a prominent British public school is in deep trouble.

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Click here for November 8's solution

11/07/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A marketing rep at a Japanese motorcycle company is told that their proposed advertising in the 5/1 issue was rejected because it was too risqué.

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Click here for November 7's solution

11/04/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

As far as bucks and does go, Evelyn, this guy is really an expert, knowing everything about raising them.

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Click here for November 4's solution

11/03/2022

Geography

Clue

So the sisters have organized in Viet Nam. Well, well.

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11/02/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Hard headed Robert is not returning my phone calls, however this action points me toward taking action.

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11/01/2022

Tech

Clue

Describing the situation when non-hearing Ilsa's digital phone assistant began answering her question in a way very familiar to her, and how eager and excited it made her when she saw it.

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10/31/2022

World geo

Clue

A Muslim whose name translates at "chosen one" is quuestioned on his choice of girlfriend, am obese woman, Sumner, who is freaked out at the sweets buffet: can she really be alluring?

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10/28/2022

Food and Drink/Geo

Clue

The Jamaican driver for the local beer distributor in Norway's capital tells a proprietor that he has not brought any of the Canadian beer he has asked for because it remains unpopular there.

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10/27/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

What's in the cooking vessel, mister? It is an egg. met, vegetable concoction, citrus infused that I see in the process of being made.

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10/26/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

A person tells their friend Russell that seeing as the wines wines created predominantly from pinot noir grapes pretty much guaranteed that they would sneak small sips whenever possible.

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10/25/2022

Geo

Clue

A Mideast bureaucrat who has a relationship with Mabel, a foxy woman he met going to school in Tuscaloosa, opines to the country's ruler that her having been caught only partially clothed is not really against the law.

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10/24/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Moniker for a street in town where one can troll up and down looking for these flowers or a quickie in the back seat or a smokable free base form of cocaine.

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10/21/2022

USA Geo

Clue

A spokesman for the family tells how they avoided sitting on the bench with a very short, mad, pale nature worshipping sailor who was in awe of the church they were in in West Texas.

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Click here for October 21 solution

10/20/2022

History/Geo

Clue

An Irish woman exclaims to her girlfriend Eleanor about the scandal that erupted in the 1890s when it became known that The Pope saw, her, an old girlfriend of his, bare chested.

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Click here for October 20 solution

10/19/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment asking for agreeemnt on the elaborate intricate and embellished bronzing effort of a woman who had been to the beach, speculating on the exact color she achieved.

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Click here for October 19 solution

10/18/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A boss excoriates his all male office on a flower decoration choice they thought he would like, indicating that they were a big no-no.

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Click here for October 18 solution

10/17/2022

USA Geo/Business

Clue

Noting that the dinner plans to cook at home before going to see a play in NewYork had been hasty and not well thought out, one of the guests suggest to another, Sidney, that they lobby for going out to eat in a popular place right in the theatre district.

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Click here for October 17 solution

10/14/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I politely suggest, in a friendly wager to my pal that one night 9 rodents discovered one of these growing in a dumpster.

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Click here for October 14 solution

10/13/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

See Solution.

Click here for October 13 solution

10/12/2022

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A Peruvian man exclaims in disbelief to his girlfriend, Patricia, about the rumor that Lin-Mamuel Miranda is bringing his hit show to their capital.

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Click here for October 12 solution

10/11/2022

Business

Clue

A group of nature worshippers holding a meet and greet in a prominent mall clothing store apologies for the food it had catered from a well known seafood chain, as it contained storinger pathogens that caused food poisoning.

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Click here for October 11 solution

10/10/2022

USA Geo

Clue

Normally very quiet, Tana spoke up and outlawed sexual activity in the tents set upa t a New York State prison to celebrate Native Americans Day.

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Click here for October 10 solution

10/07/2022

Business

Clue

A sales manager for a prominent kitchen storage products company assesses the suitability of a prospective salesman who is crude, has body odor, and is, unfortunately, just the bottom of the barrel of the recruiting class: NOT FOR THEM.

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Click here for October 07 solution

10/06/2022

World GeoGepgraphy

Clue

With flair and panache, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher worshipped a man stricken very ill with chills, sweating and fevers after a mosquito bite, and who is named after a son of Ruth in the Bible.

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Click here for October 06 solution

10/05/2022

Sports

Clue

A New York baseball player, a woodworking buff who had had a stay in the hospital, asks on of the nurses to sketch for him the instrument he noticed being carried by one of the doctors who had just performed an amputation.

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Click here for October 05 solution

10/04/2022

History/Gepgraphy

Clue

One Spanish government official tells another that re the plan to annex a Mediterranean island where Napoleon was banished, even though most people think it is not a worthwhile venture at all, he is pretty sure it can be done.

----, ------- -- -- --, -- -- - -----------.

Click here for October 04 solution

1003/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell my friend Lonnie that, having nothing to do, one morning I went for a walk on the grounds of a medieval fortress where I really had this happy spiritual feeling com over me.

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Click here for October 03 solution

09/30/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A restaurant owner's phone assistant responds in the negative, rudely, when asked for the umpteenth time whether the salmon based caviar he wanted had been ordered again.

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Click here for September 30 solution

09/29/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell my girlfriend that a married Muslim woman I know, who runs a brothel and is very pretentious about her art, has taken the alley cats I was taking care of.

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Click here for September 29 solution

09/28/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) (1) Aging oilfield equipment (2) Aging Bishop of Rome doing cocaine.

(1) ------ ---------. (2) ------ ---- -----.

Click here for September 28 solution

09/27/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Evelyn appears at the house of Edward and introduces herself as the hairdresser Ned had hired to do the long locks of his strong-willed daughter.

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Click here for September 27 solution

09/26/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

It is regarding some now unfashionable religious painting that a Nevada dork, pretending he is a dealer, is sniffing around the museum about, that idiot.

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Click here for September 26 solution

09/23/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Line of dialogue in a play wherein a woman who is running a criminal scheme and the FBI's forensic accounting team arrives to investigate the records. She tells her mother the receptionist to tell them she has gone and her assistant Gregory to get rid of the evidence, as she curses to herself for getting in so deep.

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Click here for September 23 solution

09/22/2022

USA Geo

Clue

The commanding officer at West Point comments on a student he has had to discipline, but who he knows has a great family heritage, is full of energy and enthusiasm, is smart and in whom he feels he sees all the qualities he is looking for.

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Click here for September 22 solution

09/21/2022

History/Geo

Clue

A UN diplomat raises his voice talking to his sister about The United States' ambassador Vera's insistence on voting again about a successful incursion into a low lying area by Islamic forces of Iraq and Syria.

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Click here for September 21 solution

09/20/2022

USA Geo

Clue

I tell my colleague Salvador at our Madison Ave firm one final thing, that the print ads for a campaign to attract East Coast residents to visit a prominent city in SE Washington about halfway between Portland and Seattle, were mainly running in a Long Island newspaper.

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Click here for September20solution

09/19/2022

Food&Drink

Clue

A huge fan of certain popular New york City hot dog stands is very upset at learning that one had been blasted apart by a young woman of a mafiosos family who had just had her coming out party.

----! ------'- ------, --, -- - --- ------- ------!

09/16/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment from a gun range owner to his sweetheart Evelyn, who has come to shoot, wondering if she wanted to use what she usually shoots or would like to try a couple of other varieties of handgun.

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09/15/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

I see the awful food on my regimen, a hamburger containing aromatic wild seeds related to licorice.

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09/14/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Words from the back seat upon seeing a cannabis dispensary.

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09/13/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Experiencing the serenity of the extremely bright lunar night, a normal regular occurrence, and then making fun of a companion's continued insistence that it must be due to aliens.

--, -- ---- -- -----, ----. -- ----...--, ----- ----? --!

09/12/2022

Food&Drink/USA Government

Clue

A man tries to convince his friend to vote against his incumbent Florida senator because he was cavalier and uncaring about damage that the senator's policies had done to the state's industrial operations of a traditional Polynesian food made from taro.

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09/09/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A crossword solver laments his inability to finish because he could not suss out the answer to a clues which referred to netting to catch a whale.

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09/08/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young Chinese lad who claimed that the horse he bet on won by a large margin is corrected: it was just the opposite.

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09/07/2022

Arts

Clue

A policeman describes his discovery that the fellow he pulled over, named after a Genesis character and nothing more than just a weed user who lives for pleasure, had now been made out to be some crazed guy in a poem.

----, - ---- ------- - ---- --- -- ---, ---- -- --- ----, ------.

09/06/2022

Food&Drink/World Geo

Clue

It is suggested to two cops that everyone get together and make a molasses based liquor popular with Japanese warriors with ingredients obtained from China, Russia, India, etc., just as had been suggested by Stella who had just been arrested.

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09/05/2022

Food/Languages

Clue

This is how at a woman of Hispanic descent relates when she made her exit after she notes that the non-citrus, non-cantaloupe items on the sweets table at her uncle's party look limp and are all past their sell by date.

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09/02/2022

USA Geo

Clue

One guy explains to another the name of his new restaurant in Pennsylvania's capital, touted to get you your food FAST, and seems very excited about it.

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09/01/2022

Arts/Geography

Clue

Partners with the captain of the Pequod and a fellow from Belgrade for a new Mexican fast food restaurant, I advise the latter prevent the former from signing a lease on a property in Viet Nam that we frankly thought he had already forgotten about.

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08/31/2022

World Geo

Clue

Irate, and embarrassed, a Catholic sister who runs a Cub Scout group in Old Mesopotamia condemned her boys for the fight they got into with rivals at the base of a local hydroelectric facility.

---, - --- --- -- --, - -- --, ------ - ---~-- ----- - ---.

08/30/2022

World Geo

Clue

This fellow, nattily dressed, is not fond of the living quarters at the private boys school he is attending on a prominent Greek island.

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08/29/2022

USA Geo

Clue

Someone points out to an eager young freshman girl that a crypto-creature is standing juxtaposed to a crazy big shot in the opera in New Haven, CT.

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08/26/2022

USA Politics

Clue

He came upon a burdened, a mad guy who claims to be a Republican? Who cares?

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08/25/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

I warn hauntingly hot Diana, a barmaid, to be careful and not fall down when she walks through the light colored lager on the bar floor.

"--, - -----, ---- -- -- -------," - ----.

08/24/2022

World Geo

Clue

A nattily dressed man is told that woman of the evening Pamela belts a weak loser from Dublin who is is now in a state of near-unconsciousness.

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08/23/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A Palindromic "to-do" list.

* Strive harder
* Tase that lunk, Russell.
* Fire secretary
* Look up an address
* Give Dad my guarantee
* Reset trip odometer

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08/22/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Irate at a video demonstration which he felt showed him in a very bad light, senile Emil came out of ths ahdoes and towered threateneingly over Adam.

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08/19/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

A senorita tells her sister that indeed she is anxious and asks her to get her an espresso with steamed milk at Starbucks, and is excited because it is so sweetly delicious.

--, --------! -- --- ---- -----... ---, -------, ---!

08/18/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

At a reunion of Medal of Honor recipients where an obstacle course competition between teams of three was featured, the tem finishing fourth could not believe it and their captain said this:

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08/17/2022

Arts/Business

Clue

A man is told that the music starting to play throughout the retail store Near St. Pete an hour before closing at ten o'clock is violin music by a well known Italian composer.

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08/16/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ava, referring to herself in the third person, ref;lects on how she raised her voice to the others on the trek she leads to refrain from lovemaking during their stay camping along a river between two mountains.

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08/15/2022

Entertainment

Clue

An SNL exec suggests a skit making fun of an entire government unit in Wasington devoted to ascribing unexplained phenomena to flying saucer

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08/12/2022

World History

Clue

Lewis leaves a joke-y note for his buddy who is about to embark on a trip to Rome and who has asked what they wear there.

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08/11/2022

Sports

Clue

An aging basketball player nearing the end of his career rues how he has become a pariah upon failing to make an easy layup that would have won the game, angry at himself, even.

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08/10/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A melancholy, depressed, senile fellow who has no friends or family gives a boy advice on how to end a prayer.

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08/09/2022

World Geo

Clue

The head of referees tells the league commissioner Lewis that he had weeded out one candidate from the Mideast whom he considered Satanic.

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08/08/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a punny headline it is reported that an opinion service head found that in general does and bucks when running fastest do it this way, when all four feet go off the ground in each stride.

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08/05/2022

World Geo

Clue

I contemplate the discovery that my vehicle has been stolen and rant to my Jamaican friend about it.

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08/04/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ill-advised comment from a guy facing a mountain of debt about how he is trying to get out from under it.

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08/03/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A new female prison head remarks on how she has had to endure various incidents of suggestive touching as if she were a coming of age girl, treated roughly, as a piece of meat.

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08/02/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

The district attorney is told that it is just terrible that the dog still barks excessively, the guess being that he didn't get her fixed to try to solve the problem.

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08/01/2022

World Geo

Clue

A reluctant description of a lodging chain spanning the United States, concieved by Emil, and in which only one sect following Muhammad is allowed to stay.

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07/29/2022

Sports

Clue

Bio of a star tennis player.

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07/28/2022

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

Arthur nominated a morose song stitching together several short stanzas from great songs on ARRIVAL into a repeated slogan for his organization for his club at The University of Alabama.

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07/27/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Blown away and all color having drained from my face at the news that there was never any plan to build the waterway that I had invested in, I speculated that I had been scammed.

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07/26/2022

Myth

Clue

When a wizard of eld offers to take the family on a vacation, his wife weighs in with her insistence that she only insists that the manor house he is renting be nice, not seedy, and not far away from all the action.

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07/25/2022

Entertainment/Geo

Clue

What's the bottom line on why we are excited to headline the rock concert in Canada's capital? Because people are again, as they always do, beginning to talk it up, including how much electricity it is going to take to pull it off.

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07/22/2022

Geography

Clue

A Bucharest native's motto recalling both the heartbreak associated with his upbringing as well as the love of his country.

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07/21/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I am disappointed and flabbergasted that this somewhat unattractive woman I am corresponding with at the sandwich shop was a minister, born sometime on the late 1980s.

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07/20/2022

World Geo

Clue

Unlike the locals that I worked with in an Italian research facility, I [not prone to let things go] reported an idiot to the authorities.

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07/19/2022

Food

Clue

Line of dialogues in which a man [who had eaten some very spicy Italian food] erupts at his sexy girlfriend when he finds that she has no mints to hide the repeating after taste on his breath.

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07/18/2022

World Geo

Clue

A Spanish travel agent trying to get a yes or no answer out of an electricity pioneer, regarding suggestions like climbing Mount McKinley and seeing an opera at La Scala.

--? --? ------? -----, ------?

07/15/2022

Business

Clue

A prominent USA real estate firm, fully cognizant of the[ scam going on in] unusually shaped pieces of property, nevertheless was told not to pass on the information when I told them about it.

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07/14/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman agrees heartily to her husband Cody's suggestion of Amy as obstetrician.

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07/13/2022

World Geo

Clue

In the opinion of a young lass, the guy from Italy who I observed as he was stun gunned into submission before taking his college entrance exams often lived in a jumbled state of chaos.

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07/12/2022

USA Geo

Clue

A parent questions her high school senior whose only college application was to study in Austin, Texas.

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07/11/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A jerk who is assailing and questioning the scientific necessity of the International Space Station is recruiting this young woman for his team.

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07/08/2022

Entertainment

Clue

Using a Star Trek reference, the rapid movement far into the suburbs, one so fast as likely to kill the inner city.

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07/07/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman who is a PI relates how her Italian boyfriend refuses to make love to her on a dead end street that she had recently reconnoitered.

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07/06/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Halting confessional regarding a man's partying into the wee hours, which includes porn, debauchery, liquor, etc.

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07/05/2022

World Geo

Clue

A resident of Mumbai exults at having discovered a rare magenta seaweed on which he can make a lot of money.

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07/04/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A police officer says he has nothing in particular to do and volunteers to get Dave,arrested at a sandwich shop white on the run from a scam, ready for arraignment

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07/01/2022

Food&Drink/Government

Clue

A prominent "squad" member visiting central Florida is offered hot chocolate.

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06/30/2022

Food&Drink/Entertainment

Clue

A man suggests that his actress friend Blanchette not get up, that he will go get the next round of drinks, verifying that what he wanted was a Courvoisier.

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06/29/2022

Food/Entertainment

Clue

Reaction when the murderesses of the Cook County jail realize that their matron has smuggled in the wrong kind of tomato for them.

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06/28/2022

Food

Clue

A man whobrandshimself as having a Ph.D. in Mexican food, both soft and crunchy, introduces himself at a social gathering to meet other people.

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06/27/2022

Business/World Geo

Clue

Ambassador in Hanoi to his wife in the late 1990s, griping that his assistants had taken out the full sized Mitsubishsi he had forbidden them to use and in addition it was not necessary that they even USE a car.

---, --! ---- ---- --- ----- --- -------- - ----: -- ----.

06/24/2022

USA Geo

Clue

When her hometown nicknamed Beantown relaxes some restrictions on vice issues, Dorothy tells her friend Lewis that he is not exactly laughing hilariously at it, in fact it makes him cry.

----, --- ------ -- -------- --- -'-, ...-, ---, ---(---!) ----, ---.

06/23/2022

Tech

Clue

Note from a networking consultant to Texas Instruments saying that the poor performance he witnessed of their linked PC system was probably due to its being so old, and that they should take it out behind the barn and shoot it.

-- --- -- --- ---------- ------: ---- --- - ---, --.

06/22/2022

Sports/Business

Clue

It is permitted for Eva to enter the natural underground facility where I house Roger Penske's vehicles and sit in them, turn on the engine and listen to it purr.

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06/21/2022

Food

Clue

Negative reaction with emphasis, to a boy who had offered to trade a sweet potato for a container of mayonnaise.

--. -- -- --- --- - --- -- ----. --, ---.

06/20/2022

Art/World Geo

Clue

Darn it, even more pathetic than we thought was the brouhaha that has come to light caused by a Londoner at The Museum of Modern art in NYC, that despicable creep.

----, ------, - ----'- ---- ---- -----! -------!

06/17/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Always large, hence his nickname, Antonio describes how he is getting even larger: ordering food online is so easy.

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06/16/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man residing in Somerset County England confirms to his friend Lewis that he has indeed found the love of his life right there in his home town.

----, -----, - ---- ----, ---.

06/15/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, Evelyn haltingly tells her boyfriend how angry she is that even though she got to keep all her gratuities, it was not enough to make ends meet, in particular, to buy food.

--: ----! -,..., ------- ----, --, - ------.

06/14/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell a woman that the current rumor is that Rona is critical of a mutual male friend's attempt at psychic powers, very much frowned on since he is a Sunni.

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06/13/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

The lord of the manor house congratulates his ehd of security for hiring sexy, alluring guards.

---, --! --~--~-- --------!

06/10/2022

Entertainment

Clue

Comedian Skelton is told to make fun of a boy, melancholy Alan, for going out with his binoculars and looking for exotic avains.

---, --- - --- ----, - ---, -- - ------.

06/09/2022

Science/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Common stimulants used by the crew of a one masted sailing ship out of the Beatles' hometown? Detestable! It is not allowed.

--- ------ --------- -----? -------! -- -----.

06/08/2022

Sports/World Geo

Clue

A woman visiting Venezuela's capital to do a magazine spread photo shoot laments to her German grandmother the disappearance of the guy at the racetrack who could help her pick winners.

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06/07/2022

Government/World Geo

Clue

Two fellas, crass and boisterous, uncouth, insensitive battle scarred vets of conflicts with a prominent Mesopotamian city-state, plundered it of valuables.

----, --- ----, --- ,- --- --- ------ --.

06/06/2022

Government

Clue

An opposition party member in Britain speculates on whether the leader of the opposition party now in power, embarrassed at disclosures of his having consorted with femmes fatale, would now be opposing bringing a censure measure to the floor of Parliament.

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06/03/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a stage adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the captain queries the female members of his crew about their insistence on having no dishes all containing starchy sugary compounds which they consider unhealthy.

----: -- --- ------- --- --- ---- ------, -----?

06/02/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Stuart gets an oral report from the medical examiner that the item that was tested again for genetic evidence which suspect Fiona had told them would certainly point to her brother in fact implicated her, and that there was no doubt about it.

---, "---'-'' ---'- ----- -----. --'- - -- --- ---- -- ----.

06/01/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment by a man who had been corresponding with a woman at a sandwich shop indicating that he could deal with the fact that she was she was rather plain looking, but when he found out she was a minister born in roughly in the mid to late 1980s, that was just too much.

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05/31/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

When a guy visits his friend, one of Santa's helpers, and complains about being cold, he is told that he should have worn his sheep's wool jacket, and he admits that it never occurred to him to bring it.

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05/30/2022

USA Geo

Clue

The manager of a commercial establishment Lake Erie in Ohio which offers health and beauty treatment through such means as steam baths, exercise equipment, and massage sarcastically notes to his assistant Otto that new hires recently have been observed to be dumber and dumber, a phenomenon he had heard was occurring elsewhere in the chain.

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05/27/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Robert is told that Kenneth, a centenarian and then some, in a public service video spot celebrating and encouraging tree planting, had a very respectable time of 550 seconds in a 1,000 meter run.

---, --- ---, -- -- ----- --- --, ---, --- - ---- --- --- -.

05/26/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his assistant Tana summarily escort out a colleague turned enemy doctor who he had such an argument with that he charged him.

----, --- -- -- - --- -- - --- --.

05/25/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

What did the guard at the manor call the burly District attorney who came for a visit: ...unknown as he was not wearing his badge.

------- -- -- --~---'- ----:???? --- -- -------.

05/24/2022

World Geo

Clue

Ramon is told that the guy who owns the business renting space to dock boats is not a lazy, slow-moving Middle easterner whose country borders the Persian Gulf.

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05/23/2022

Government

Clue

The chair of a committee In Brussels shuts down the imprecise, all over the map testimony of a woman making a presentation.

-- ------- -----, -----.

05/20/2022

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

A family member of the king and queen, agog at his first glimpse of a famed upstate New York racetrack, alerts his girlfriend Tara to combine several bets into one and do it as soon as possible now that he has obtained permission to do so from the family.

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05/19/2022

Religion

Clue

A Cardinal from the progressive wing of the Catholic Church complains to his assistant that the current uptight, control freak meticulous to a fault Pope now in office was not at all what the college thought it was getting.

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05/18/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Remark from Deirdre to Edward as she looks over the pre-nup he has presented her, finding it unfair, but ultimately agreeing.

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05/17/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman wonders to her friend about her idiot boyfriend who insisted on eating when they went to make love, not knowing what to do about him.

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05/16/2022

History/Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Russia's president [majoring in the minors, considering Ukraine, etc] again has his stenographer take a memo cursing and complaining to Enid, his personal contact at a company in Germany's Ruhr region, whose last batch of juice made from unfermented crushed fruit was awful, wondering if they had gone insane.

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05/13/2022

World Geo

Clue

Questions for a man from Bangkok as to his unwillingness to accept unusual lunar activity as in Isaiah Chapter 34 as a harbinger of doom.

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05/12/2022

Tech/Business

Clue

Michael, an Austin, Texas computer guru, is told that a woman from the dealership had called and that he needed to bring in his Escalade to fix a factory defect.

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05/11/2022

World Geography/Arts

Clue

North African Muslim Samuel is informed that some comrades living in the capital of Canada who had given up their religion went to an ink parlor, run out of Tomas' residence in a boarding house, Opal observed, to commemorate it.

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05/10/2022

Geography/Business

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play Bret, the chief executive of a German town whose title befits his thoughts, is very enthusiastic to Emily about McDonald'a coming to town.

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05/09/2022

Geography/Business

Clue

An Omaha buyer/seller of futures in Tibetan oxen, someone who was recognized by his peers to lead his organization made good on his appointment by stopping the rough, crude atmosphere in the trading pit.

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Click here for May 06's solution

05/06/2022

Food and Drink/Entertainment

Clue

In a deleted scene from The French Connection, Detective Eddie observed that the head of a local brothel bootlegged so much anise flavored liqueur that it required a huge fleet of ships.

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05/05/2022

Twech/USA Geo

Clue

An employee of a high tech Austin, Texas company apologizes to the boss for his tardiness, explaining that his cab had trouble starting and then broke down during the early morning alarms calling for help nearby.

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05/04/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

One female employee to another, agreeing that the salesmen who threw the party trying to get their business got way too frisky, and the offenders should be kicked out.

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05/03/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

After losing my wallet, I am called by a soldier who says he will meet me at Jason's to return it. When he shows up, I note that he is absolutely huge and seems to be on drugs. As I approach, he bolts. My wife calls to ask if I got it back. Here is my reply:

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05/02/2022

History/Food and Drink

Clue

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima offers his mother a beer brewed in Texas in exchange for a hearty helping of bratwurst sausage uncut by Hawaiian root vegetables.

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Click here for April 29's solution

04/29/2022

Miscllaneous

Clue

Palindromic definition: (1) Light or (2) Inexspensive

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04/28/2022

World Geo

Clue

Vacationing in Pristina in the center of The Balkans, a traveler answers a question about how his trip is going, indicating that things are satisfactory.

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04/27/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Boy meets girl. Alec, an obnoxious idiot. Ana, young, alluring , and just delightful. Setting: a hospital emergency room waiting area. He describes when he first laid eyes on her.

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04/26/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

Having been banished from Eden, a murderer ends up on the doorstep of a brothel where his newly minted recipe for a dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc., cooked and served in a large shallow pan, was deemed to be absolutely crazy, abrupt, off the wall different from any previous concoction like it, by the proprietor.

"------ ----" - ----- --- --- ---, - -------- ----.

04/25/2022

USA Geo/Tech

Clue

I will wager that in the late afternoon/early evening, an Austin, Texas computer guru saw a broken down cab near a dumpster.

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04/22/2022

USA Geo/World Geo

Clue

Patrick is corrected to indicate that indeed there will be opening soon a Polynesian themed /Mexican food joint in Florida just north of Pompano Beach.

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04/21/2022

USA Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

As we drive I point out to my companion the best ever palace we can go to get squid delicacies, a place in a chain only on interstate highways and named for a book of the Bible.

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04/20/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Swathed by the fiery awesome sunset, as the light fell I saw an omen.

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04/19/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell my sister that while waiting for cars to clear at an intersection I noted The Evil One, and he currently seemed very much NOT DEAD.

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04/18/2022

Languages/Food and Drink

Clue

A father teaching his very young precocious kid Latin reveals to him how he is going to lose weight: eating Romas.

----, - --, ---, "---" ------ -- ---- --.

04/15/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Question from dermatologist to his patient who had canceled his appointment for laser removal of a troublesome pimple.

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04/14/2022

USA Arts/World Geo

Clue

A Russian fellow relates how he felt that, yes Beantown was similar to a Venezuelan city he had visited, a not altogether unpleasant experience.

--, ------'- - -------, --- -- ---.

04/13/2022

USA Arts/World Geo

Clue

"Darn it, even worse, the commotion at the NYC Art Museum is a despicable fellow from Leeds running around naked."

"----, ------, - ----'- - ---- ----, -----, -------!"

04/12/2022

USA History/Geo/Sports

Clue

When he goes to a karaoke bar in a Nevada city in the 1990s a man points out to his companion, Ron, that so far the lineup of singers, the US Attorney General and an 8 time tennis major winner whose heyday was the 1970s and early 1980s, was not very good.

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04/11/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

As a DA chosen by my peers as motivating and persuasive, I tear into that derogatory, mocking, guy as I bring him up on charges.

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04/08/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

When you hear me at 1:00 AM marching around the block playing my small military band flute, it reflects upon the fact that I had more than my allotted 4 glasses of Beefeater's, and was three sheets to the wind.

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04/07/2022

Arts

Clue

This woman joined the bandwagon and wrote a lyric poem praising the Biblical Eve as the embodiment of humanity in a composition which avoids the letter "i."

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-- -- --- --------.

04/06/2022

USA History

Clue

What former Republican Minnesota governor and perennial presidential candidate's staff called his bouts early morning indecision.

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04/05/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

A friend points out that since Diana has now chosen an assumed name to keep her incognito on her ocean voyage, she has finally left.

"--- -- -- -----, -- --- ----," --- -----.

04/04/2022

World Geo

Clue

The owner of a fleet of cars tells the man he employs to keep them in good shape to deliver bullets to his mother.

----, -- ----- --- -- -- -----!

04/01/2022

World Geo

Clue

It was a heavenly experience when this French guy saw the spectacular views from their Sienna as they drove in the mountains of South America, as well as of his girlfriend Nan, prompting him to kiss her.

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03/31/2022

Sports&Entertainment

Clue

Words of a Shark tank entrepreneur way way before he became rich, when he was challenged to fold by a buddy in their low stakes poker game, indicating he was still in and upping the ante to a whole dollar.

--, ---- ----- -- --: - ----, -----.

03/30/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Maxwell is identified as the platoon leader during the battle who radioed in saying that, proud and confident, as of early morning he stood atop a prominent piece of high ground.

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03/29/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Incorrect: the rumor about being paid to come dressed like this is a scam.

--, "---- -- -- ----'-" - ---.

03/28/2022

Food & Drink/Business

Clue

Headline in a newspaper wherein the powers that be for a Kraft-Heinz flavored drink mix are reported to be upset at the papers deep dive into their alleged shady operations.

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03/25/2022

Entertainment/Current Events

Clue

A "Kill Bill" villain exults at having subdued a conspiracy theorist.

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03/24/2022

USA Geo/Entertainment/Sports

Clue

A chef exults at the prospect of a cooking competition in Hawaii in which the theme is to do a Hawaiian take on an American ballpark classic, and he decides that he will do a variation on an stuffed pasta version of it he was already familiar with.

---! -- ----! - ---- -- ------- --- ---!

03/23/2022

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Porky Pig's girlfriend went on a tirade and got rid of a place where ROTC students at the University of Texas at El Paso gathered to drop LSD.

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03/22/2022

Food & Drink/Entertainment

Clue

In a delicatessen dressed in costume as a Bond villain, mild mannered Daniel noted that the idiot owner was selling tuna fish, but labelling it as cod.

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03/21/2022

Food & Drink/Entertainment

Clue

A blue cartoon character tells his french friend that he has sworn not to drink bacardi and the like ever again.

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03/18/2022

Food/Transportation

Clue

A couple is told that they can get decadently delicious Italian sandwiches from a delivery van.

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03/17/2022

Sports

Clue

A father instructs his son to make catcalls at the opposing pitcher, a KC Royal Cy young winner in 1989, who he considers to be an evil idiot.

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03/16/2022

History/Science

Clue

An obnoxious Ph.D who had been hired by the comic strip company was given the job of putting all the words in several overly long ones in alphabetical order.

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03/15/2022

History/Science

Clue

Complaint of a cave man about a flatulent big cat.

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03/14/2022

World Geo/Food

Clue

I relate what a legendary catastrophe it was when Rosemary tried to spice up her dish based on tuna, mayo and hard boiled eggs with a ground spice from Indonesia, creating a formula that had an Amityville-like disaster

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03/11/2022

World Geo

Clue

The mayor of a Scottish town tells a newspaper reporter that the entire town is in a state of disbelief refusing to believe that its best chefs lost a cooking contest to a group from Denmark.

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03/10/2022

Arts

Clue

An English speaking gallery owner in Paris in the early 1800s tells a colleague, in 20th century slang, that in order for their upcoming show to really gin up excitement and be a success the gallery would take a chance on an up and coming fellow [who would go on to become pivotal in landscape painting.]

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03/09/2022

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Insanely eccentric about Il Trovatore, Madame Butterfly et al, Trevor, a manager of the bankrupt Hanoi company that produced them, enlisted Grover to fend off the repossession of all their assets with a taser.

--- ----- ----- ------ --- -- ------ -- ---- - ---- ---.

03/08/2022

Food

Clue

Lewis[because he has laryngitis] passes a note to a clerk at the sandwich shop saying that no, he had not come to pick up a friend who worked there, but his was their last order of the day done online, for a hearty Italian sausage sandwich.

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03/07/2022

World Geo

Clue

A woman fondly recalls how she was wooed/disrobed by the Italian man she had been flirting with.

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03/04/2022

Geography/Languages

Clue

The headmaster of a private school for boys in Indiana informs a German extraterrestrial (?) whose son is applying that having relations with the girls at the school [next door] is forbidden and always will be.

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03/03/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment to a dog owner indicating that the dog's incessant barking is a sign he has not yet been fixed.

-- ---- - ---. --- --- - ----, --?

03/02/2022

Food&Drink/Business

Clue

I tell Dee that I pay particular attention to a male friend's list of the best local drive-ins where you can sit in your car, enjoying a drink of espresso-based coffee drink that prepared with steamed milk foam, and at the same time listening to their loudspeakers play a song by Andy Beck that is the same name as what you are drinking.

---, --- --- ----- ----- ---------- ----- - ----.

03/01/2022

World Geo

Clue

Do you understand that in Brazil's largest city things come to standstill during the lavish evening marijuana smoking parties held by a university scholar whose parents named him after a WW II general.

---, --- ----- --- ------ ---, - ----'-, --- -------.

02/28/2022

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

Rancor and vitriol form a man to his girlfriend, a UT Chattanooga grad and Latter Day Saint, as all she wants to watch are romantic comedies.

-----: ---~---, --- ------ --?

02/25/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

When Ronald asks whether their mutual friend Rik's girlfriend is pleasant, I respond that, well, not exactly now, as she is daft, overweight, and always interrupting.

--, ---'- --- --- -- -- -- -- ---------, ---.

02/24/2022

Business/History

Clue

A fellow complains to his used car salesman that the car service he used only sent him a small, wimpy quintessential late 20th century lemon from Eastern Europe, hardly the great thing he was expecting from the manly British brand of four-wheel drive, off-road vehicle as an example of what he wanted.

----, ------, -.-.,---- - ------ - -----. -- ---! ----- ----- -- ---?

02/23/2022

Arts/Geography

Clue

A Dublin writer tells his friend from Cardiff, that he has made good on his promise to produce a poem praising a huge clan of his countrymen, albeit one that was universally panned.

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02/22/2022

History

Clue

An advisor to Uganda strongman Idi, laments to a colleague that he is angry and just cannot fathom what the leader is thinking

----, -'- -- - ----, ---, -- ----, ---.

02/21/2022

Entertainment/Arts/History

Clue

When the Simpson family visits Rome and goes to St. Peter's this is how the Pope refused Bart's sister's request when she found it too warm for her taste.

--? -, ----, --- -- -- - --------.

02/18/2022

USA History/Geo

Clue

Result when the Obamas cede the choice of where to vacation to their older daughter who changes the plan and decides that in the morning they will go skiing in Colorado.

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02/17/2022

Sports

Clue

Having been touted as a remarkable player who would surely lead the team to victory, Diana turns out to be too old to keep up, embarrassed at all her mistakes and has been pulled from the game.

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02/16/2022

Entertainment

Clue

On an episode of "The Avengers" Steed relates how his sidekick noticed him napping after having also put himself in harm's way to solve the case they were working on.

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02/15/2022

Arts

Clue

A petite young woman announces, with emphasis, to her friend that she has reached her goal weight, and is just blown away by it.

---, -'- --- ---. --- ---! ------!

02/14/2022

Arts

Clue

In slang a Brit is made fun of for misconstruing the the 4th note in the solfège system for C Major for the third, and thus having no musical ear at all.

--? -? ------ ----- ------ ---- ----.

02/11/2022

USA Geo

Clue

A woman is told that the very best vacation area is in the mountains northeastern Pennsylvania, so [book there] and accept no seemingly acceptable similar areas.

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02/10/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ana remarks that her friend Diana has now embarked on her cruise now that she has settled on a pseudonym to sail under.

"--- -- -- -----, -- --- ----," --- -----.

02/09/2022

Sports/Food

Clue

Describing a NY Yankee first baseman of old who made himself into quite a chef, as adept as anyone at traditional or Chinese cooking methods.

-------, --- -- -- -- -- --- -- ----.

02/08/2022

History/Geo

Clue

Aghast reaction at a request to jointly rent and therefore guarantee the rent on a room in a boarding house in central Florida for soldier Alvin of North African extraction who is a follower of Q.

-- ---- --? - ------ -- - ----- --'- ----- ----? --!

02/07/2022

Arts

Clue

Describing a painting by a Spanish romantic painter and printmakerof the 18th/19th century in which the subject matter is a Greek fabulist in the lotus position.

"- ---- ---- -- -----," - ----.

02/04/2022

Entertainment

Clue

An exclamation at hearing that perhaps the world's foremost juggler would be coming to perform, and that it was a must see.

-, -----? ----- --!

02/03/2022

Science/Food and Drink

Clue

Deborah is willing to wager that at the facility looking for aliens, the striking flavor of the hors d'oeuvres from marine crustacean delicacies that chef Bret has made are beginning to wane.

--- ---- -- ---- ----'- ---- ------- -----' ----- -----.

02/02/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

An editor at a French lifestyle magazine points out to the corporate MD that he suggested to Enid, a grandmotherly model in an advertisement, that to lose a few pounds she should switch to fish.

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02/01/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Thieves! Stop everything, they have stolen all our logon and password identification in a huge data breach!.

-------! -----, --'- - ---- -.-. ---!

01/31/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

An obese man ranting at other drivers is encouraged [by a passenger] to be careful and not to burst an artery.

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01/28/2022

Science/World Geo

Clue

When a Mideast ruler ordered that his 131 guards get into a rectangular formation I tell him that my Dad, one of the guards, said it was not possible.

----, -- --- --- --- - -----.

01/27/2022

Science/Languages

Clue

A Spanish woman is asked whether mutual friend Ivan has gone to the Red Planet for a vacation.

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01/26/2022

World Geo

Clue

Salvador, producer of a variety show is given one final instruction, to fire Lewis from Italy, who is without moral fiber, and also has such an off putting, melancholy demeanor.

----, --- ------ ---, --- -- ----, - ----- ---, ---.

01/25/2022

Food and Drink

Clue

The room is all abuzz with whispering as it is revealed that the newest offering from Bacardi contains a smattering of liqueur derived from anise.

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01/24/2022

Business/History

Clue

Arthur, advertising head at Proctor and Gamble, decides on an advertising slogan derived from a banned song of 1st century Jewish and Christian sects, to be repeated over and over in commercials for its popular laundry detergent

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01/21/2022

Business

Clue

I ask my friend Anne this, trying to confirm who the maker of her new van is.

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01/20/2022

Government

Clue

I speculate on whether Britain's head of government, embarrassed that he had been caught inflagrante with a female staffer, will now be against legislation barring such seductresses from the Parliament chamber.

--- ---, -- -- ------ -- ----- -- -----, - ------?

01/19/2022

Arts

Clue

Comment to a friend who was offering Sunday afternoon tickets to a play in a prominent theatre in Houston about the backstory of TKAM which focuses on the cruel childhood of Tom Robinson's accuser, Miss Ewell. Thanks but I have already been to a production.

-----? - -------? ---- --, - "-------."

01/18/2022

History&Government/Food&Drink

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, Stuart[US ambassador to China] is surprised as the Chinese premier declines his offer of hot chocolate, and offers him and his team palm seed pods to drink from instead.

---: -- -----, ---? --------?

01/17/2022

Government/History/Business

Clue

In the opinion of George W's wife it is Gino who often prevents smoking marijuana so close to a dealer selling Outbacks, Foresters, Crosstreks, Ascents, etc.

-- ----- ---- ---- ----- --- -- ---- ------ - ---.

01/14/2022

Nature/Entertainment

Clue

I admit being stumped by the crossword puzzle: in one ntry I could not come up with a term for hauling in killer whales, something I had never heard of.

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01/13/2022

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

A blue cartoon character swears, with emphasis, to his French friend that he is never ever going to partake of any sugar cane based alcoholic beverages.

-'- - -----, --- --, ------- ---, --- -- ----, ---.

01/12/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Currently thinking out loud as I was drunk, I asked my boss if we were to consider our quest to hire Derek away from the competition victorious.

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01/11/2022

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

Eve is told that William, who owns apartment buildings, can help her in the crossword with the answer for 7-A, the term for a left winger who works for an Israeli airline.

----, - ------, ---, ---, ---
----- ------: --~-- ---.

01/10/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Hey, bud, I lost weight. OMG!

---, -'- --- ---. --- ---!------!

01/07/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

During the period when police used stun guns a lot in the United States, the data shows that ink parlor renditions of same showed their diabolical nature.

---- --- ---- ------- -- - ----- -- --- ----.

01/06/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

News reporting that the ambush [ of their enemies] set in motion by the palace was not at all evil, and that the king and queen were blase to the point of boredom over the reaction.

-- --, ------ -------. ----- ---- -- --.

01/05/2022

World Geo/Government

Clue

Horrors at the lawyer whose advice to the child star was to take his compensation in Japanese currency, which resulted in a huge FIT problem. Fire him!

--- ---! --- - ---? -- --------!

01/04/2022

History/World Geo

Clue

I tell a friend that I have the lead in a new play about an overweight, foul smelling, slow-witted, anti technology, unethical Italian who gets up early every morning.

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01/03/2022

Miscellaneous

Clue

Reason not to trust sociology professor Ara? He is outwardly calm and easygoing, but harbors a fanatic, extremist worldview.

--- ------ --- ---, - ---, - ------- ----.

12/31/2021

World Geo/Languages/Business

Clue

I tell my French friend that I was totally obnoxious when confronted with the need for a COVID vaccination at a Japanese car dealership in "Lower California."

--- -- - ----- -- -----, - ---- - --- ------'- ------ --- - -----.

12/30/2021

Sports/Tech/World Geo

Clue

Text from a man who had been staying in an inn in Germany's industrial region, whose rooms open all to the outside parking, to the aliens who were pet sitting for them, that he had left a small amount of food for their aging male cat who was a companion to their very old one.

--- -- - ----- -- -----, - ---- - --- ------'- ------ --- - -----.

12/29/2021

Sports/Tech/World Geo

Clue

Very mad, a bicycle race director tells how he again called a participant from Australia's capital, and, realizing he had used an outdated term, clarified that he actually used his iPhone.

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12/28/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Iris, the head of the coming out pageant for young ladies, i stold that a great number of them were forceful, energetic women.

-- ---- ----, ----, -- -------.

12/27/2021

Entertainment/Tech

Clue

A woman is told that In an episode of "Bonanza" Dan Blocker's character,[time-travelling], is very turned on by the voice in his i-Phone.

----'- -- --- -- ----, ----.

12/24/2021

Arts/Style

Clue

I tell my friend that I do pay attention to the statement my guy is making by sporting his hair using braiding and plaiting thin narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp ,and done in a highly ornamental style

---, --- ---- ------ ---- ---- - ----.

12/23/2021

USA Geo

Clue

A Sea Scout attending college in New Haven, CT tells the gut he is riding with to turn quickly into the campus bookstore as it is promoting its new policy allowing one to make a deposit and set aside items for Christmas.

---! - ---- -------!

12/22/2021

Entertainment

Clue

A man waffles to rocker Sewart on his opinion of a spirited, fierce woman, a former wife of a member of a prominent heavy metal band, who is sexually attractive, yey has a distinct case of B.O.

---, -- - --------- -----, -- --, - ---------, ---:----!

12/21/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell a friend that I must not get too excited and play it cool, hoping to negotiate even higher, when I see the message offering way more than I ever expected for my team of oxen.

----, - ---- ----- -- -- -- ----- --- - ----.

12/20/2021

Business/Food and Drink

Clue

Anita is told that Dominick, the Ph.D. brewmeister of strong full-bodied beers and a devotee of vintage autos, is trying out an early Henry Ford car.

--. -- --- ---, -----, --- -- - ----- - ----.

12/17/2021

Food and Drink

Clue

I explain my new regimen to lose weight: a branded breakfast cereal, ova, a popular energy drink, the meat of several birds ( cut the monosodium glutamate) and Italian-style ice cream.

----, - -- -----, ----, -------, -----, -----( -- ---), ------ -- ---- --.

12/16/2021

Business/Entertainment

Clue

A fellow at a Madison Avenue firm is told [by a partner] that a prominent Japanese camera maker pre its merger with Minolta didn't care much for and indeed gave little thought to the campaign he had come up with to pair its camera commercial with an underwear ad featuring actor Al ( The Godfather) in his "Calvins."

------, ------ -------- -- ------/----- --.

12/15/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell a woman I know that it is my understanding that her son's college residence hall had so many silly, stupid, inept students that it had to record the names in alphabetized groups according to level of inanuity.

---, --- ---- ------- -------, - ----.

12/14/2021

Business

Clue

When a bunch of guys on vacation have engine problems with their Toyota van and take it in for service at the dealership, they give this woman who worked on it a very high rating/review, scoring it 9 out of ten stars.

---- -- - ---- ----- --- -- --- -- - ------.

12/13/2021

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

I tell a on time host of THIS OLD House that I detest a very popular show featuring an on air demonstration by Brett, a haberdasher from French Polynesia as he fits people with hats.

- ---- ------ ------ -----, - ---, - ----, ----.

12/10/2021

Science/History

Clue

The title of a book about a prominent 19th century scientist and natural historian and how it influenced the life of a Third Reich henchman.

------- --- - --- ----'- ----.

12/09/2021

USA Geo

Clue

Response to Mr. Ott who had objected to crazy Robert, his grandmother's personal trainer, who had taken her on a run, saying it was no more than a mile and that he did it so she could get a glimpse of some Yale students who had come to town for a cross country meet with the U. Michigan team.

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12/08/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Waitress Enid is questioned about the motive behind her drastic decision to try to get customers to order small herring-like fish packed in oil.

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12/07/2021

World Geo

Clue

The supervisor of the heads of the various synagogues under his jurisdiction denies that some of them spent a lot of time frequenting local watering holes where barbecue was served.

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12/06/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Sad sack Antonio, the guy we arrested, tried to sneak his scouts into the jamboree without paying ahead of time.

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Click here for December 03's solution

12/03/2021

USA Government

Clue

Motto of TSA airport crew which specializes in finding marijuana in the lining of the clothing of smugglers.

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12/02/2021

Arts/Entertainemtn/World Geo

Clue

A Saigon man completely gaga over Verdi, Puccini, etc made contact with a blue muppet to tase the person who had come to take back his car for failure to pay back his loan.

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Click here for December 02's solution

12/01/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I point out that the hamburger I am eating is an awful food choice for me trying to lose weight.

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11/30/2021

USA Geo

Clue

Headline in Times when the police department of a California city simply implodes under scandal.

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11/29/2021

USA History/World Geo

Clue

Lee reveals to his boss that Sheriff Masterson has gone to a traditional Jewish circumcision ceremony.

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11/26/2021

USA Geo

Clue

A frontiersman tells his buddy that he sees no particular strength or bravery in his Plains Indians opponents charging in full traditional feathered headgear, laughing at the prospect..

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11/25/2021

Arts

Clue

It was a reknowned sweets baker Edward, not an assistant at a law office, who found for a West Pointer quinteessntial art wrok by Man Ray that his girlfreind Lara had been considering, but was worried about not being able to find.

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11/24/2021

Science/Food

Clue

A appetizer consisting of a strange combination of lunch meat, tropical fruit and a seafood delicacy made by this fellow who is involved in looking for alien life in the cosmos.

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11/23/2021

USA Geo/Food

Clue

Patrick is politely corrected, in that he is told in fact that a drinking establishment serving Mexican food WOULD be opening in a southeastern Florida city.

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11/22/2021

World Geo

Clue

A member of a prominent UFO religion is told that the leader does like it sembers to use a popular acne medication.

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11/19/2021

World Geo

Clue

I dispute to Emily the notion that several University of Texas students bron into a minority tribe in Rwanda but having emigrated to Scandinavia, and overly admiring of themselvesgot after me with foul smelling Ronald.

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11/18/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Order from Chief Loan Officer at a bank to his employee to begin making plans to acquire the collateral from a man, wealthy but a druggie, who had pledged both his hydroelectric facility and a shipment of iron alloy from the man's cargo ships, either of which would pay off the loan.

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11/17/2021

Entertainment/Business

Clue

A prominent American rapper, audio engineer, record producer, and businessman, speaking on the 3rd person tells [potential new financial advisor] Abraham Moss that it is a shame that his previous advisors, considered formidable; excellent, uncompromising and admired in the industry had caused him to lose money, mainly by selling cattle futures at the wrong time.

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11/16/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Jailer Rosemary is told to harangue the suspect about his offensive, (sulfurous maybe, of the devil) aroma.

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11/15/2021

World Geo

Clue

Edward is encouraged to severely rebuke an unpleasant woman who works for an intergovernmental alliance in Brussels on their outing to view ornamental plant grounds laid out for public enjoyment and recreation.

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11/12/2021

World Geo

Clue

It is not surprising that Vivian, highly embarrassed, has gone up a Biblical ,mountain [to pray.]

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11/11/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

When I discovered that the inland waterway I had invested in in fact had no actual plans to build it, all the color drained from my face as I was struck with dread and feared that it was all a scam.

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11/10/2021

Sports/Arts

Clue

A client who has hired an artist to do something suggests that the subject be a not very flattering work, in the soft colors of crayon, of him trying to make a face to look like a famed Panamanian boxer who held world titles in 4 different weight classes.

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11/09/2021

mISCELLANEOUS

Clue

A suspect describes how it made him sick to his stomach when he and his companions were collared after having been followed to a sandwich joint because of misidentifications by the proprietors of flower shops in the area.

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11/08/2021

World Geo/History

Clue

In the 1990s a man points out to his grandmother that he has spotted a guy living in the capital of Turkey, none other than the brother of Egypt's president whom he despises.

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11/05/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Line of dialogue from a man being questioned by cops about an attack on a farm, wherein the man agrees that a male sheep and its tiny mate were victims, but not the horse or any of the flying mammals around.

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Click here for November 04's solution

11/04/2021

Government/Food and Drink

Clue

An employee of the USA's main medical research agencyinforms a friend that he is going to try to lose weight by having for lunch only 2 pieces of a Japanese dish featuring rolled rice and raw fish and vegetables.

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11/03/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

One final thing, a young sultry grad student is irate at Salvador.

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11/02/2021

Languages

Clue

A poor Latin I student frustratingly to his mother the teacher as he tries to remember the first person plural of "to Love" by trying to conjugate the word, and getting it all wrong, even repeating himself, and even including the imperative form.

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11/01/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Clue: (Category = Entertainment/USA Geo) The minister brother of Disney's long time CEO/Chairman was recognized by ObamaCare as being in the role of nursing a West Pointer back to health.

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10/29/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

WORD UNIT today. Not sure what to call these, but some of the words are heteronyms or homographs, same spelling but different pronunciation. Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) A man wonders if his girlfriend, now very happy and a speaker at meetings to discuss what goes into the curriculum, is elated over his female deer.

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Click here for October 28's solution

10/28/2021

World Geo/Arts

Clue

While visiting a large Indonesian island west of Java and south of the Malay Peninsula, did I notice an book that was considered a "have to have," containing 3-D pages of modern art?

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10/27/2021

Arts

Clue

To make a play on words: it is such a revolutionary yet calming hobby to pursue. So, let's see who has the cajones to do so.

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10/26/2021

Entertainment/Medicine

Clue

A flippantly cocky and assured 1950's comedian is told that Lewis is under the weather with tonsillitis caused by the treptococcus bacteria.

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10/25/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Three Palindefinitions:
(1) Mucus: _ _ _ _ _' _ _ _ _.
(2) Nickels: _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _.
(3) Oscillate: _ _ _.

10/22/2021

Languages

Clue

I tell Susan that having already been surprised so many times by our situation in Paris, I was all out of "My Gods."

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Click here for October 21's solution

10/21/2021

Science

Clue

A question to a woman as to whether the mistaken stir over possible aliens was the result of an electromagnetic signal that was misinterpreted by the space agency.

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10/20/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Bullet point on a resume indicating that the applicant had experience managing an especially large convenience store on the moon selling food items.

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10/19/2021

Business

Clue

A knighted Brit who is considering investing in a company is warned not to take a chance , as it seems that their idea of capital expenditures is to buy beer and brainstorm.

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10/18/2021

Science

Clue

In surveying how much she lost [in the robbery] the owner saw that it was very much, a trillion grams worth.

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10/15/2021

Food and Drink

Clue

Shock that a meek, unassuming Emily Asti has concocted a drink using rum, ale and a semi-hard cheese. especially that cheese part.

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Click here for October 14's solution

10/14/2021

Business

Clue

An insurance giant is questioned about the advisability of providing coverage to a guy's boat when he claimed that the world would again be flooded completely.

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10/13/2021

Sports

Clue

The emotions come flowing out from an aging NBA player whose bad free throw effort caused the team to lose: disappointment, anger, depression, the hatred of the fans, etc.

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10/12/2021

Sports

Clue

A race car driver tells his girlfriend that, referring to his team owner's, he will take to heart his insight about the kinds of situations during the race when it would NOT be a good idea to come in for fuel, tires, etc.mansplaining the terminology for her.

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10/11/2021

USA Geo

Clue

A dean at Troy, New York technological research university exults as he is hammered by emotions, but the bottom line is that he is blown away when he gets an advance look at the school's ranking, the best possible.

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10/08/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Rats! What a shame, a creamy dessert made from eggs, milk, sugar and ruined by potato pancakes!

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Click here for October 07's solution

10/07/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A sales rep coworker of Maureen exults at the incredible family room she had, large enough to hold 9 of the presentations that they made to clients.

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10/06/2021

Entertainment

Clue

When a high school drama teacher suggests doing a 60s counter culture musical, the principal questions whether it is appropriate, speculating that it is untouchable, the third rail of school productions.

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10/05/2021

World Geo/Language

Clue

Wicked Ana's positive, as is Alvin, that Lewis saw one of Putin's entourage survived [the attack.]

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10/04/2021

World Geo/Language

Clue

A snarky figure of speech was used to describe the immoral use of outrageous Italian sandwiches in prison.

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10/01/2021

World Geo

Clue

At an auction a potential bidder describes how the next item up, an antique wine bottle found at the base of a Sicilian volcano, is even more unlikely to be bid on by her than the previous item up.

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Click here for September 30's solution

09/30/2021

Food&Drink

Clue

In a terse movie review, former nBA great Ginobli describes what a stellar performance it was by Meryl in a movie shot in North Africa, that she is the best, hitting the screen like a tidal wave.

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09/29/2021

World Geo

Clue

It is suggested to Dara that it is well known that in Ireland Mac, a West Pointer, was having trouble making friends because he was strung out on dexedrine.

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Click here for September 29's solution

09/28/2021

Food&Drink

Clue

Having been interrupted as he was giving dictation, the bass resumes, asking his steno if she is ready and telling her what he wants to say next: that he and his grandmother had recently eaten Indian flat bread and palm tree fruit.

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09/27/2021

USA Geo/Food&Drink

Clue

A health department employee asks the boss if Rosemary had shut down the operations of a Florida watering hole/Mexican food place he had reported because it was dirty.

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09/24/2021

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

A woman whose father emigrated from Japan and whose mother from islands off the coast of Scotland to a win producing area of California is asked which heritage is behind the the coffee she has made.

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Click here for September 23's solution

09/23/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

An alluring temptress extols her queenly image and describes how she wooed and knocked the socks off of a guy who worked at the local mine and was sitting in the bar drinking beer.

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09/22/2021

USA Geo/Tech

Clue

That scam to sell superchargers for internal combustion engines in a Central Florida city is vicious and savage.

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09/21/2021

Entertainment/Business

Clue

When iris learned that she and her co-workers in the music department of a trendy NY 5th Avenue store( specialty: music that combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.)had to work overtime) she gave them a piece of her mind, didn't she?

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09/20/2021

World Geo/Nature

Clue

SO, when regulations in this huge city in SW Columbia outlawed growing marijuana plants, Iris decided to raise a lavender hued species of woody flowering plant common to woodland areas.

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09/17/2021

World Geo

Clue

A Cardinal confides to Ana that despite all the contingencies they studied, having a new pope who was fussy and orderly to the max was something they hadn't contemplated..

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09/16/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A restaurateur laments his new employee a ne'er do well whose job it was to make the salad menu, chalking it up to his senility.

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09/15/2021

USA History

Clue

An avid collector of historical memorabilia describes how his employees were taking a look at important handwritten records President Lincoln took as he was assessing the progress the South was making during the Civil War and which had just become available on an online auction house.

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09/14/2021

Food and Drink

Clue

Testimony in court denying that a foxy waitress had fallen on a tavern floor wet from a spilled pale ale with considerable but balanced malt and hop character.

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09/13/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

The boss is told that [prospective hire] Laci, mysteriously evil, unless she changes her ways, is just too extremist to take a chance on.

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09/10/2021

Sports

Clue

Apothecary Ned is told not to dispense any drugs to a Shakeperean beauty as she elopes with Othello.

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09/09/2021

Sports

Clue

The classic emblem of Salvador, a drug addict ex-boxer's, world championship which he used as collateral for a loan, was taken back when he couldn't repay.

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09/08/2021

Business

Clue

Lament from one employee to another at the mall shoe store that tonight they will also have to put up with [the craziness associated with] the buy one pair get one for 50% off sale on thsese, which will last til past midnight.

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09/07/2021

Business

Clue

A detective relates how a visiting colleague from Hawaii who likes his weed has the feeling that the man they have arrested and are beginning to arraign is not really guilty, just an idealistic reformer often looking to improve the system.

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09/06/2021

Business

Clue

The director of a TVcommercial for a Japanese auto company asks hi assistant Diane if he heard right, that the idiot woman in the shoot had stated that she wanted the last take to be tossed in the trash.

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09/03/2021

Language

Clue

Brit soldiers in a war zone think that the very new to the job 9 young women who are charged with keeping their jeeps and such in good order are, frankly, not as good as the grizzled old veteran plumber they have.

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09/02/2021

Food/History

Clue

Comment to a gentleman that the changes initiated in the recipe for the English named version of a popular Spanish rice dish by Richard III were gigantic, perhaps, dangerous, even for a king.

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09/01/2021

Food/Geo

Clue

A Laugh-In comedian of note is told that an online brokerage house, embarrassed, used an old rotary phone to call up an Islamic holy man who lived in Australia for a second time.

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08/31/2021

Food/Geo

Clue

It is with great style and enthusiasm that I negotiate an exchange of my edible starchy tuber for a container of a beer with a bitter flavor and higher alcoholic content with a resident of the Yucatan Peninsula.

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08/30/2021

Food/Geo

Clue

Detective Mae was told by the head of the temple that there was not even a single one of their holy men who frequented the local wateringhole/BBQ joint in the wee hours after midnight.

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08/27/2021

USA History/Geo)

Clue

Remembering Roswell, a comment about the ruckus over a supposed sighting of an alien ship at 9:00 PM at a Standard OIL CO. station in an artsy town in New Mexico's high dessert.

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08/26/2021

World Geo/Science

Clue

A Swedish fella leaves a note for his mother telling her that he has heard that the YMCA in the capital city where they are staying has replaced its mattresses with new viscoelastic polyurethane ones.

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08/25/2021

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

At the present time here is no legendary crypto-creature over there in the area where we are doing the job.

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08/24/2021

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

An assistant to "The Godfather" noted that when he took the star's car to a local car wash named after the city at the western terminus of Rt. 66, they paid no attention whatsoever to cleaning the floor mats.

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08/23/2021

History/Geo

Clue

Stuart takes action which greatly pleases angry Vladimir, but unfortunately it angered the inhabitants of the archipelago across the Bering Seas from his country.

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08/20/2021

Sports

Clue

Opinion voiced to Japanese tennis sensation Osaka who questioned what she had just seen on the TV, namely a public service announcement for a political action committee devoted to promoting animal welfare.

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08/19/2021

World Geo

Clue

I tell overweight Sol that according to myth, I and my compadres were exiled a la Napoleon, not knowing where we were before finally triumphing.

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08/18/2021

World Geo

Clue

A Muslim attorney did the bidding of a spirit angel which took animal form, didn't it?

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08/17/2021

Arts

Clue

An artist tell his grandmother that he is astonished at the peculiar and highly irregular result that at a charity raffle the prize was his edgy work emulating Da Vinci of a Valley Girl with an enigmatic smile.

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08/16/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ned is told that before the cleaning crew gets going at the synagogue, Anita a member of the crew sits alone contemplating what for her is a paradise, basking in its pristine beauty.

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08/13/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his grandmother what he has been doing: (1) Following the clothing optional crowd [ as a PI}, (2) making sure underage organ players do not get into a bar, and (3) hitting up prejudiced members of an organization of soil and crop experts for their dues.

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08/12/2021

World Geo

Clue

Did this dark skinned fellow, almost elf-like, who has the same name as a book of the Bible come from Bangkok as I surmised?

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08/11/2021

Tech/Entertainment

Clue

Incredulity at the fact that Ivan is an expert at fixing particular brand of 3-D motion picture cameras.

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08/10/2021

World Geo/Food

Clue

Unfortunately, embarrassed Ronan got angry when forced to retrieve from Ayan a sweet delicate onion she had already begun eating but which belonged to an Islamic holy man.

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08/09/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young eager farmhand warns another, veteran Red, that he is chancing an argument with the owner over his just going through the motions while milking the cow rather than by really doing it in style and giving it all he could.

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08/06/2021

USA Government/History

Clue

Did I notice that the rules were often winked at when it came to the behavior of Paul, a former US Senator from Nevada, circa early 1980s?

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08/05/2021

USA Government/History

Clue

A man who has been challenging the reform of marijuana laws asks his sister if SCOTUS pre O'Connnor will not in its infinite wisdom agree with him and demand that a legalization law be struck down.

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08/04/2021

Food/Arts

Clue

Comment from an ink parlor artist when his customer asked how the image of his favorite dessert, which features as a base creamy layers of espresso-soaked ladyfingers, is going and has to admit that he has messed it up.

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08/03/2021

Business

Clue

Len, is told by a fellow platoon member that Eve, yes, even her, sat dispirited, at a prominent convenience store chain outlet after having abandoned her post.

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08/02/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman with a palindromic first name, who is very sensuous and alluring works in the mines.Try to picture it!. Way to go!

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07/30/2021

Food

Clue

Comment of a man who rues he is about to go off his diet when he is offered a sinfully delicious milk,egg, and sugar dessert laced with a traditional Jewish fried, filled dumpling snack.

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07/29/2021

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Tim the new new chef at the restaurant at a famed Scottish golf course, site of many Open Championships, is told in no uncertain terms that his idea for a special cold dish of leftovers would be inappropriate, even if heated up, because it just didn't fit their image.

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07/28/2021

Food

Clue

I tell my sister that his dish invented by Ira the chef is an improvisation on various agricultural product leftovers.

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07/27/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Query from the "females are better chefs" contingent at the restaurant that Ed had been the one to redo all the spoiled cakes and pies, in spite of all of his anxieties.

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07/26/2021

Entertainment

Clue

Little Joe tells his girlfriend that his hulking big brother has fis obsessed by the voice in his phone.

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07/23/2021

Entertainment

Clue

Enthusiastically, a crazy Comedy Central host enlisted a "cute, furry little monster".from Sesame Street to tase an opera star.

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07/22/2021

Religion

Clue

Having taken excessive flak from the other animals in the garden, Adam rails to God about the presence of disease carrying rodents in the sandwich shop he has started which are damaging other animals and crops.

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07/21/2021

Worlfd Geo/Entertainment/Food

Clue

When an anthropologist studying the Korowai of New Guinea, is fed a Mexican food like dish consisting of a venerable exercise queen he remarked on how non fatty the dish was.

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07/20/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Scathing, angry cursing comment form a producer auditioning a variety show to Reggie who wanted to recite poetry, that he must quit, and that his material was so bad, so there were no openings for him to get.

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07/19/2021

Religion

Clue

Angry at having been banned a singer blames it on mystical esoteric knowledge acquired in the Garden of Eden in The Fall.

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07/16/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A line of dialogue from an animal fantasy book wheein a cat rejoices at having stolen a watercraft for a ride by himself with his lover unchaperoned by his owner, a young woman.

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07/15/2021

World Geo

Clue

A State Department employee quizzes his boss about whether he has been named ambassador to Peru as he seems to have stumbled on the news ahead of time.

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07/14/2021

Entertainment/Science

Clue

A man tells his boy how back in college, as an enemy of those who got to train for space flight, intense, crude, unsophisticated, like a Boone's Farm lush, he was aware of their "social clubs" devoted to metallurgy.

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07/13/2021

Sports/World Geo

Clue

A woman leaves a note for a star Argentine footballer who also captains Barcelona, that she had had a flirtatious moment with another player who generally rides the bench for a team out of the capital of Ukraine.

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07/12/2021

Government/Business

Clue

A friend of a Georgia Senator first elected in 2021 tried to get him to commit as to his view of the market, as to whether we are in an environment of stocks outperforming bonds, or vice versa, finally getting the answer that it is the former and then thanks him.

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07/09/2021

USA Geography

Clue

A travel agent throws out a couple of other suggestions when her fist two, NYC and the Copacabana or Boca Raton, Florida are rejected by the client: maybe to Detroit to see The Pistons play, or to the mountains in Pennsylvania?

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07/08/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I am willing to wager that Daniel noted the spotty, sometimes good, sometimes bad employment of a spot for a trash can wielded by his rival at the advertising company.

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07/07/2021

Entertainment/Science/History

Clue

Science minded town council members in Dodge City instruct the sheriff not to rely on the pseudo-scientific tenets of a Caribbean religious practice in hs investigations as it was banned by the town's charter, and to repeat his study without it,

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07/06/2021

USA Geo

Clue

Let's bring in some fresh air to the handful of plots of land Pam stole but then allowed her hometown, the capital of Oregon,to use as a place where people can walk their dogs.

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07/05/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Mobster tells the boss that if he fails to deliver [bootleg whiskey] even though he has plenty of mrn to do the job, he will be hated for it.

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07/02/2021

Entertainment

Clue

A devotee to the max of all things related to music systems for cars is asked to give up Patricia's player for her 8 tracks immediately.

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07/01/2021

USA Geo/Languages

Clue

Text from a college French major saying that he will be leaving Tuscaloosa to transfer to Kingston to continue his studies.

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06/30/2021

Food and Drink

Clue

All that racket you hear is this guy again complaining about his wife not getting cantaloupes and &Up at the grocery store.

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06/29/2021

Arts

Clue

The sailors on the Nautilus, docking in modern day Japan in the mid 2010s, tell the captain that they are only ogling the [beautiful] female entourage of the prime minister, but will not be paying them for favors at all.

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06/28/2021

Aets

Clue

A reporter stumbles as he describes a meeting as the men gather round as a disturbance of proportions fitting this legendary king seems to be brewing, the king's disappointment with the deterioration of the kingdom's overhead cable transport system.

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06/25/2021

Food and Drink/USA Geo

Clue

Flummoxed by the popular marine flatfish being served at the jamboree,( ordinary, unexciting, unappealing), I thought long and hard about the group of boys transitioning from Cub Scout to Boy Scout in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

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06/24/2021

Business

Clue

Brother, did Olivia see that Edward, the nincompoop who cheated her at a Japanese car dealership, refused to acknowledge it!

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06/23/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Actress Campbell, let go from her job at a famed but now closed resort in the Catskill Mountains in New York, rested in a chair at a convenience store[contemplating what to do next.]

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06/22/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

The sad sack son of fashion designer Calvin.

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06/21/2021

World Geo/Nature/Entertainment

Clue

Actor Guinness is told that a lover of flightless birds observed that a complete chaotic mess threatened the capital in Vientienne.

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06/18/2021

USA Geo/Government

Clue

On the docket of cases to be considered by the Supreme Court: The state of Vermont's lawsuit against the the University of Texas school which trains civilians and enlisted personnel in order for them to gain a commission as officers in the armed forces.

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06/17/2021

Languages

Clue

Thus, I, a Spanish woman. speculate on whether my current feeling of embarrassment is because I forgot to say "goodbye.."

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06/16/2021

Business

Clue

Although his staff disagreed with him, a Pentagon bigwig gave a well known brilliant West Pointer the job of seeking out opposition research on Elon Musk's cars from a former employee who had gone rogue.

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06/15/2021

World Geo

Clue

A woman expresses good wishes to her manly Aussie date telling him that the evening was compelling, engrossing.

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06/14/2021

World Geo

Clue

Defying an order not to complain, a curator at an East coast art museum laments the institutions' showing of pieces from several arrogant, affluent expatriates from across the pond.

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06/11/2021

History

Clue

English note smuggled out of Russia during the revolution in 1917 by a citizen to his sister living abroad, realizing that the situation was dire and that the new head of state was mindless and really bad news, and then asking for help.

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06/10/2021

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

The manager of a Los Angeles bookstore tells a woman from Tijuana that they are stopping to feature, reducing the price, and putting on the super sale table, just like every other bookseller in town, a large [poor selling] book about the history of a Scotch whiskey.

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06/09/2021

History

Clue

Tara noticed that Argentine president Juan, wearing this, was actually faking being a member of the press, and was a disloyal fink..

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06/08/2021

Arts

Clue

[A museum director] indicates to Sy that, indeed, he should not pass along his warning about the [possible theft of their edition of ] a Homer classic.

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06/07/2021

Government/Food

Clue

Quick Italian meal for agents doing airport screening.

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06/04/2021

Entertainment/Business

Clue

A woman tries to entice her friends Emily into coming for a visit, using the added enticement that it is that month that the shoe store always puts its throwback Hullabaloo dancing footwear on "Buy one, get one for hals price."

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06/03/2021

World Geo/Science

Clue

A Serbian woman double crossing her biotech employer, having met an extra terrestrial with an earthly name who has the expertise needed, served him up to their main competitor.

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06/02/2021

World Geo

Clue

Casting agents describe to a [film's producers ] how they decided not to offer the role to a mad, irreligious man who was auditioning for the small part of an extremely surprised sailor sitting in a church in a major Ukrainian city.

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06/01/2021

History

Clue

A fellow Al-Qaeda member to the boss who is holding a large book, wondering how it's going. And his response that it is the biography of the women who fathered his children.

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05/31/2021

Arts/World Geo

Clue

I tell my grandmother that I saw an Islamic militant woman who shares the name of a TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD character and who recently graduated from college in the narrow passageway between two tall buildings swallowed in her traditional dress.

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05/28/2021

Sports/World Geo/Food

Clue

A Jewish holy man who led his football team while in high school was the proprietor of a barbecue joint specializing in ribs.

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05/27/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Swen reported on the flowery aromas of the spiced ale or mulled wine often traditional at Christmas.

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05/26/2021

World History/languages

Clue

A man, a la Julius Caesar, describes to his friend how it was more than luck that he conquered the lovely, heavenly Violet.

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05/25/2021

World Geo

Clue

Describing herself as both angry and looking and acting undignified, a woman curses at herself for being stranded God knows where in the desert in the Middle East.

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05/24/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I will assess the eligibility of the sexy, shrewish fox Nan, whom I ran into in one of the outbuildings of the debate hall, to enter the contest by taking her to bed with me.

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05/21/2021

Tech/World Geo

Clue

I tell my friend Timothy that, adopting an Indian alias, I run a con selling bootleg Apple computers in a raucous, rowdy laboratory.

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05/20/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Totally intoxicated by all the pies and cakes I consumed, I take off my clothes andI conceal myself below my bed, finally feeling calm.

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05/19/2021

World Geo/Sports/Food

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play. this Mexican woman, completely nuts, cheers and tells an Italian fellow who lassoes calves in the rodeo how much she adores her meal of highly prized mushrooms, Mexican beer and a rounded Dutch cheese in a red wax coating.

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05/18/2021

Arts

Clue

Advice to Nathaniel on where to obtain a wind instrument for their Swedish friend.

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05/17/2021

Arts

Clue

A man is told to work the flower beds dressed outrageously in women's clothes, a la erotica author Anaïs.

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05/14/2021

World Geo

Clue

A home architect describes how his associate Laci has designed a bathroom future invented in France but never popular in the US, but that he put the kibosh on it as an absurd idea.

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05/13/2021

Mythology/USA Geo

Clue

The woman who heads up a Tempe, AZ campus' organization of student democrats can be described as monstrous, Gorgon-like, with a stare you would not believe.

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05/12/2021

Arts

Clue

I don't think that considering "Paradise Lost" a total piece of trash was a factor in this woman's rising through the ranks in her university's Engllsh department.

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05/11/2021

Tech

Clue

A new hire whose desk was far underground at a Titan missile facility asks for assurance from his boss that he will be able to access the internet with no lag using his old ISP/web portal.

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05/10/2021

Miscellaeneous

Clue

A feeble sad sack, embarrassed, I sag with weariness.

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Click here for May 07's solution

05/07/2021

World Geo

Clue

Breezy short pieces of data regarding a Middle Eastern chickpea dish hawked by vendors along the river leading to Cairo are meant to convey just what the Egyptian government wants Damascus to hear.

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05/06/2021

Arts

Clue

[After retiring from coaching and broadcasting] a former KC Chiefs head coach will devote his time to raising awareness against trophy hunting for bucks or irresponsible use of marijuana.

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Click here for May 06's solution

05/05/2021

Arts

Clue

in a comment to Ronald who was handing back scores that his music composition students had done, the author who had forgotten to put his name on his piece identifies it by its title about 9 battlefield medal of honor recipients and its key.

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05/04/2021

Food/Nature

Clue

This guy, drunk, ate classic Bar-B-Q from the meat of a flightless bird.

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05/03/2021

Business

Clue

What was the brouhaha at Tesla between the boss and his CFO? Seems the financials didn't add up.

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Click here for April 30's solution

04/30/2021

History/World Geo

Clue

Even though he is wicked and actually of low social class, this tough, intimidating fellow lives like a king in his small town in Syria because he has the same name as the president,

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04/29/2021

World Geo

Clue

A Scottish woman is told that her town refuses to accept the results of the international cooking competition in which the actual winner was from near Copenhagen.

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Click here for April 29's solution

04/28/2021

Science/Tech

Clue

Describing this woman, who made it easy for Trevor to rise through the ranks of the group which designed the vehicle exploring the Red Planet.

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04/27/2021

World Geo/Food

Clue

A Jamaican rejects pasta imported from Port Au Prince as a real nothingburger.

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04/26/2021

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

Advice from the concert organizer in a small hamlet to a local who will turn pages for comedy pianist Victor that the performer will have a royal air about him and will play very fast in a performance.

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04/23/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A Caribbean brand of alcoholic drink made from fermented sugar cane or molasses and combined with tropical flavors? Cure for bloating? Strange. Well, in the recommended prescription it is pretty brutal.

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04/22/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Noting the increased activity of our crude, uncouth enemy's troops getting new tattoos, it seems to be an indication that we are battling again.

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04/21/2021

Business

Clue

A man who had lost a ton of weight asks his wife Amy to get rid of all of his previous size of very form fitting swim suits.

--, ---- ---, ---, -- ---- -------.

04/20/2021

Business

Clue

Alvin, in an offroad race calls in from his TITAN PRO-4X Crew Cab which has become bogged down in an unrecognizable area in a muddy area after his own dumb mistake, saying that his good fortune had run out.

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04/19/2021

Entertainment.USA Geo

Clue

Latinish motto for the Harvard Lampoon, indicating that their work is the harbinger of truth?

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04/16/2021

History and Government

Clue

A reporter tells his assistant to send a note to let Mr. Romney know he needs to wrap up his interview responses because he is on deadline with his large NYC employer one of whose publications is famous for Person of the Year.

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04/15/2021

World Geo/Science

Clue

A Tibetan Buddhist teacher outlaws intimate relations among the faithful while a fever produced by a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes was afoot.

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04/14/2021

World Geo

Clue

Comment from a journalist covering a brewing competition, that he would put his money on Anais from Minsk with her hopless, high alcohol content brew from a recipe unearthed at an archaeological dig in ancient Mesopotamia.

----, ----------- -----'- -- --- --- --.

04/13/2021

Arts

Clue

When a Cambridge/Oxford literary don is asked what he feels should be on any list of monsters from Greek Mythology, he leaves a note saying that at the very least this one, counterpart to Charybdis, should be.

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04/12/2021

World Geo

Clue

I tell my mother that Amy, detested by all at the delicatessen,and from Bangkok like me, noticed this fellow with a biblical name who was being followed while taking orders to customers for take out.

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04/09/2021

World Geo

Clue

One final thing that distresses Salvador about his trip to Egypt was not being able to visit the high dam on the Nile.

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04/08/2021

Entertainment/History

Clue

A close associate of "Anakin Skywalker" does a double take when he hears that he has been chosen to send a cablegram [of demands] to Earth's leaders at the World Economic Forum.

--, ----, -? ---- - ---- -----?

04/07/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Maureen responds in a mocking, sarcastic way when it is suggested that she put up the money to satisfy the demands of the kidnappers.

-- ------, "-? ---- ------?"

04/06/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Short tongue in cheek note from a councilman in Vero Beach Florida, suggesting a new slogan for the town, hoping to attract the spring break crowd.

-- ----: ---- ---- -------.

04/05/2021

Food and Drink/USA Government

Clue

Nathaniel, a US Navy watchstanding officer on a ship is offered Indian food by the steward.

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04/02/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

However, this very large dog was a perfect choice for this very large guy.

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04/01/2021

Food and Drink

Clue

A youngster exults to his parents when he notes that at the various event venues at the Olympics he can get his favorite drink, one usually advertised in a pitcher with a smiley face.

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03/31/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

After Ira has fallen for a girl who works at Starbucks, a friend tells him that he should dump her since her college entrance exam score was so low.

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03/30/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A terse note from a woman to her online dating service letting them know that her most recent date was a big nothing, and that it looked like prospects for Mr. Right were not in the offing based on who they had matched her up with so far.

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03/29/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

As an enemy of an enemy of a rude, crude lass, I have been alerted.

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03/26/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

This woman, hardly alluring, crazy and certainly not likely to turn any head, is wise to her grandmother's lies.

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03/25/2021

USA History

Clue

A young woman is told that this man, working at a legendary New York City restaurant, angrily drew up the alphabetical listing of all the people, places, etc. referenced in a book about the USA's early 1970s presidents's schoolboy days.

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03/24/2021

Science

Clue

A detective asks Stuart, the head of the crime lab, whether the genetic evidence in the case and found on his murdered frat brother still pointed to his [former girlfriend] Fiona, even after retesting, and whether that was the final say in the matter.

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03/23/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Incredulity at the suggestion that to followers of Muhammad the worst thing any animal in the Class to which humnad belong can do is to smoke marijuana.

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03/22/2021

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

Quick! get out of here. If they ask why you left, tell them you needed to go out and get breath mints.

----! ---- ---`----.

03/19/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

POST ANIMAL HOUSE NEWS: Eric Stratton, now working for the District Attorney's office, a guy Ada had a sexual relationship with, consumed a popular sweet Italian liqueur.

"-----," - --- --- ---, -- ---, --- -- --------.

03/18/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A surgeon comments to his mother about how funny it is that he feels extremely nervous while going under the knife himself.

--, ------, -- - ----- -- -- - --.

03/17/2021

History

Clue

Enthusiastically, excessively interested in all the statistics, in her home city in Florida, Lana was quite a supporter [of her baseball team] that I know.

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03/16/2021

History

Clue

The wife of the explorer for whom the Americas got their name tells him, lovingly, that she doesn't want ANY setbacks or difficulties, even minor ones, in their plans.

-- -------, ---- ---, --------, ---.

03/15/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ida is snapped up to try to restart a low quality trade newspaper devoted to Juul and the like that I had dissolved and given up control of.

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03/12/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man posts on social media how much he really likes Maureen.

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03/11/2021

Food/World Geo

Clue

A man whispers to his mother suggesting that she limit the use of a creamed filling of Hormel "meat" in her Viet Namese dish baked in a pastry shell.

--, ----! ------ - ----- ----'- ----.

03/10/2021

Entertainment/Science

Clue

In a deleted line of dialogue from Jurassic park, a worker tells companion Edward that he had such bad BO that even the fiercest of their animals noticed it and reacted.

---: -- - -~--- - --- ----- -- ----.

03/09/2021

Business/Entertainment

Clue

Sister of a "Music Man" girl slangily tells her that it was ridiculous that their Dad thought a good new place to live was at a local hotel.

-----, ------ -- --- -- - ---, ---------.

03/08/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell the gentleman that I walked in out of the rain, embarrassed, angry at the delicatessen, and had a bowl of miscellaneous meat and veggie leftovers on a bed of flowers.

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03/05/2021

World Geo

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play a travel agent tries to get Ed to decide where he wants to go on vacation, suggesting, perhaps to see the opera at La Scala, or climb Mt. McKinley, or perhaps to visit the desert in Southern California.

--- --: -----, --? ------? ------?

03/04/2021

Food/Languages

Clue

A French "psychic" crows to his friend and seeks validation that he was exactly right in predicting the chefs feted in a contest in Cleveland to come up with recipes using the underground stem of the taro; that he was the best!

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03/03/2021

USA Geo

Clue

A woman who was not recognized by the man speaking to her tells him that perhaps he remembers her as a student at Duke, UNC, or NC State where she led the modern Pagan Witchcraft Society.

---, -- --- - --- - ------, ----.

03/02/2021

Arts/History/Tech

Clue

A message being reviewed by Captain Queeg saying that an alliance formed in 1949 and headquartered in Brussels had just acquired one of the world's first general purpose programmable computers.

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03/01/2021

Sports/Language/Arts

Clue

Comment from a guy playing golf with erotica's Anais as caddy, explaining his previous throwback request saying that he didn't want a niblick either.

---, -.-., ---, - ---- ----.

02/26/2021

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

The Japanese style wrestling champion at an army installation speculates to himself whether he should have chosen a dance in the style of Gene Kelly for the talent show, as abuse was heaped upon him.

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02/25/2021

Sports/Business

Clue

Former San Antonio Spur guard Ginobli [now involved in real estate] tells how he prevented 9 agents at a prominent national real estate company from instigating an absolute tidal wave of home repossessions.

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02/24/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a note the manager of a fine lodging establishment in Iraq named after a prominent Meopotamian city-state tells his Spanish bartender that they are going to take chance and flout a rule against serving hard liquor to women by giving the current guest some "White Label.

---., -- ---- ----- --'- ----: -- ---, - ------.

02/23/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) A palindromic to-do list:

* Do some sketching
* Leave home
* Watch youtube videos of soccer's famed #10 of Santos
* Urinate
* Place [baby] Ed securely in his car seat.

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* ------
* --- ----
* ---
* ----- ------

02/22/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

After the trial was over a mafioso don wonders to his wife whether his arrogant disloyal former associate had in his testimony to the prosecutor weaved a fictional tale making himself look good.

--! --- -- ------ --- ---- - --, ---?

02/19/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

When her friend Pam speculated on how awful her extreme camping venture must have been because of the lack of any "facilities," a British woman responds in the negative indicating that that is a wacky idea as she is used to blazing new trails, having new experiences. exploring the unknown.

--- ----? --, -, ---, -- - -------, ----.

02/18/2021

Food/Business/Entertainment

Clue

The Barefoot Contessa is introduced to an Italian fashion designer of note.

---, --. ------.

02/17/2021

Food/Business

Clue

An order to Anna to prevent tomorrow's planned delivery, like a gift from heaven, of a prominent brand of refrigerator full of fruit[ to the refugees.]

----, ------ --- ----- ------ -----.

02/16/2021

Sports/Food

Clue

A fireballing phenom of the Oakland A's who won the Cy Young and MVP awards in 1971 tells how he called a state of emergency when he observed a container of a Southern nougat-like candy made from egg white, corn syrup, and sugar, that he was expecting to have to finish his meal, but which which was extremely near going bad.

--, -------- --- - -------- --- -, ----, ---, -------. ---!

02/15/2021

World Geo

Clue

An eastern European woman whose name means "peace" and now resides in Dublin noted that to her the solemn pledges of fealty to her new country written into its constitution were examples of the "right way" or natural order of things.

----- ----- --- -- -- ----- "---."

02/12/2021

World Geo

Clue

The commander of forces fighting a Northern Italian city in the Middle Ages yells to a lieutenant that they have been conned into attacking the castle walls.

--'- - ----, ------ - ----- -------, ----.

02/11/2021

Arts

Clue

Owner of an ink parlor in a city where the Nautilus has docked tells his wife that he is able to serve the crew by always remaining in the present, not dwelling on any past mistakes or worrying about the future.

--, - --- -- ---- --- --- ------ -- - ----.

02/10/2021

Misellaneous

Clue

Alvin sees his wife weighed down, arms full at the department store and speculates as to whether she is shopping for Christmas with the idea of the store setting them aside in exchange for a deposit, to be paid for later.

"------- --- -- ------- - ---?" -------- --.

02/09/2021

Sports

Clue

Fed Cup captain in the late 1990s speculates on whether his star player Monica is too exhausted to be of much usein the upcoming match.

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02/08/2021

World Geo

Clue

Obese Sara can hardly believe herself when she thinks she sees a dreadlocked member of a Jamaican religious movement on TV.

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02/05/2021

MMiscellaneous

Clue

A detective says they have arrested a depressed, spoiled sports team ace who has run away from a local private boys' school.

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02/04/2021

Sports&Games

Clue

A fellow bridge player warns a friend looking for a partner to reconsider taking on Dee, as her record in bidding and bringing home 6 and 7 level contracts is bad.

---? --- ------ ----- -'- ------.

02/03/2021

Entertainment/Food

Clue

When Oscar winner Robbins takes Oscar winner Berry on a date, he tells her that he is actually very good at a Spanish dish of a Spanish dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc,. that she thought was beyond his skills.

--, -----, --- -- -, ---, -- ------, ---.

02/02/2021

Science/USA Geo

Clue

An aide to West Point teacher Abtaham tells him that one of the top notch students, even though drunk on his butt in bio lab, was able to find the one-celled animal in his microscope.

---, - ---, - ------ --- ----- --- -- ------.

02/01/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Alas and alack, a feline devotee of Mexican food has lost its voice!

---, --. ---- ---'- ----!

01/29/2021

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A woman whose last name is the same as a man's first name is told that ultra cool American actor, comedian, talk show host, writer and producer Hall had now come to the attention of the powers that be in the capital of Iowa.

--- -------, --. ------, --- ---- --- ------' -----.

01/28/2021

Business

Clue

Ahmad is told that this fellow who lives in a grotta uses a Hoover or a Dyson to clean up, not some off brand.

------- ---- ---, -----, - ---- ---.

01/27/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

Are you really leaving a gratuity for our waiter who had such bad underarm odor?

--- --. ------?

01/26/2021

History

Clue

When appointed as a US Marshall, this legendary Western figure is encouraged not to rely on the banned use of pseudo-scientific, mystic beliefs in his investigations.

-----, ---~--, ---.

01/25/2021

Entertainment/Tech

Clue

In a line of dialogue cut from screenplay for "The Godfather" Stuart expresses surprise and disappointment to Corleone that he cannot watch one show with him on TV and record another.

---: --, ----! -- ----? ----!

01/22/2021

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

A man explains to his son that the cause of the riot was not hatred, exactly, it was just when the relentless, unending spirit of the Arizona State fans collided with the anger of the USC fans when the Trojans lost the away game in the final seconds.

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01/21/2021

History/Sports&Games

Clue

I tell my sister that the boxer who won the bout all the while demeaning and belittling his opponent and now sports the spoils of victory is condemned by just about everybody the way things stand.

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01/20/2021

History/Sports&Games

Clue

Indifference to a motocross pileup.

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01/19/2021

History/Sports&Games

Clue

Ira began to wonder about a prominent computer networking company of the 1990s , now defunct, supporting the efforts of another, also now defunct , which he considered quite a chancy move.

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01/18/2021

History/Sports&Games

Clue

I ( playing 1:e4, e5 2. Nf3, Nc6 3:Bb5 .. as white) and following Bret in a chess challenge to Soviet leader Andropov in 1983, really am disconcerting him.

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01/15/2021

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A friend leaves a note for experimental and ambient music impressario music Brian, disappointed that on his recent trip to the US he had not returned with tattoos of the Alamo, or a longhorn steer or an oil well or something.

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01/14/2021

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Curt response from an art appraiser who reports in the negative on the authenticity of an Impressionist painting of ballerinas hanging in the statehouse in Des Moines as it is a modern forgery, having been artificially treated to make it look older.

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01/13/2021

Arts/SPorts

Clue

[Having become a poetry maven, I suppose] a former Cleveland Browns and San Diego State quarterback howled again at a woman whose name is based on an island which in Greek myth was the home of Apollo and Artemis, about how irritated he was about the just not quite right lyric poems he was reviewing.

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01/12/2021

USA Geo

Clue

A prominent Indiana University took a haughty royal tone as it again retweeted a post about beer drinking on campus.

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01/11/2021

World Geo

Clue

I correct my Scottish friend who had misidentified my cooking vessel as his, the one that was cooking spuds on the range.

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01/08/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

A defense attorney wonders to her husband and law partner as they review the trial transcript, whether a turncoat witness who carried himself with more personal importance than is warranted had put one over on the District Attorney.

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01/07/2021

Miscellaneous

Clue

You're wrong, that story telling me that Deron, CEO of a Las Vegas gambling establishment is embarrassed about the mishap is a scam.

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01/06/2021

History

Clue

Even an ancient fabulist isn't immune to criticism, as Eleanor is told to mount a campaign to object to his Facebook message.

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01/05/2021

World Geo

Clue

Refugees fleeing North from a huge storm in the Mediterranean seek shelter in a mainland grotto.

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01/04/2021

Entertainment

Clue

One classic actor of the early to mid twentieth century noted that another was not mesmerized by a performance by a country singer with an amusement park named after her.

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01/01/2021

World Geo/Business

Clue

I tell my grandmother that my current state of mind, stemming from being lost in thought daydreaming over some Irish poetry, was of an impending disaster for Texas Instruments[my employer.]

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12/31/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A stylish gentleman judging a brutal competitive flower planting contest is asked if crude contestant Ned made fun ofa sad sack spineless foe from Dublin.

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12/30/2020

Food/World Geo

Clue

Excuse me, I will not be subjected to an invasive company mandated course of treatment involving a starchy Hawaiian vegetable, no I won't, so there!

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12/29/2020

Geography/Nature

Clue

A man planning a Traditional Jewish Passover feast is told that they have acquired the rights to do it at a Las Vegas vacation spot just off the strip and named for this plant:

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12/28/2020

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

When Belle finds out that the local who is her suitor has asked her to dinner and and has decided to serve venison, she tells him that she is thinking about a variety of red wines , but not that of the Vitis vinifera variety, and seeks his approval.

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12/25/2020

Arts/US History

Clue

Props for a newly developed rapid fire gun in a madcap comedy play centered around the US Civil War.

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12/24/2020

World Geo

Clue

A French business owner laments to his wife that they had no income at all, not even from their Japanese subsidiary, nor , heavens, was any expected.

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12/23/2020

World Geo

Clue

Nathaniel, injured by a poisonous snake, was in the capital of Jordan I noted to a Sherpa, a member of this ethnic group.

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12/22/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A parent expresses great surprise when he learns that in the skit his son's Cub Scout troop is going to perform, their leader Deborah will play the part of a sick sheep.

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12/21/2020

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

A typical young guy and NFL fan speculates on the lack of desire to play a football video game with him by girls he has wined and dined, even though they seem embarrassed at that stance.

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12/18/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

How's my reception on my wireless phone network? Well, where are periods of long pauses and reverberation as my voice bounces back at me.

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12/17/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

In a contest to see who can make the best carbonated beverage from scratch, one contestant notes that his main rival is using a few aromatic seeds from the parsley family which have a hint of a licorice flavor.

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12/16/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

So,if it isn't Lewis, smelling of rank, sinful illegal activities!

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12/15/2020

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Response form a judge at an art show when he notes what he considers absolute rubbish: the unfortunate appearance of pieces made by subjecting the paint to the fluttering wings of certain flying insects, indicating that he doesn't even think they belonged in the show.

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12/14/2020

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Describing a famed New York Yankee first baseman who is as skilled at as anyone in the kitchen, whether using traditional or Chinese frying vessels.

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12/11/2020

Arts/World Geo

Clue

The board of La Scala directs that its staff begin a program of rotating performances at regular short intervals at a venue in the shadow of the Matterhorn.

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12/10/2020

World History/Geo

Clue

A Southern US woman bemoans to a girlfriend she is very fond of that there is not one virile gent with stones in the whole room.

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12/09/2020

World Hostory/Geo

Clue

Feeling comfortable now? You idiot! This Mexican guy has recruited a whole host of men ( recruited from a Mideast terrorist organization) carrying weapons.

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12/08/2020

Science/Nature

Clue

Each of a couple of flightless birds, having heard that there was an alligator lurking at their watering hole, see lots of other animals around and comment that there must be nothing to worry about.

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12/07/2020

Entertianment/World Geo

Clue

Am I right, When the Viet Namese New Year's celebration comes around I notice that talk show host O'Brien is helping celebrate by joining in with seven other people to sing?

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12/04/2020

History and Government

Clue

The president of the USA remarks on how, embarrassed and frequently agitated, unable to sleep, he still has faith in his senior ministers, a great group of people.

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12/03/2020

World Geo/Sports

Clue

An associate is flabbergasted at the Commissioner of the NFL in the 1990s over a scandal involving using league funds to get some of their stars on a tour of Europe out of jail.

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12/02/2020

History

Clue

We decided not to do any more business with them because, good grief, we found that they held people as slaves during the Holocaust.

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Click here for December 02's solution

12/01/2020

Sports

Clue

A woman partnering with Anne to back a new work by Puccini in Austria wanderers of they can get their money back as she wants nothing to do with a production that just seems to be going through the motions.

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11/30/2020

Sports

Clue

An agent for an NBA basketball official tells his client that the proposal made by leagues in Europe was not as generous as what he now had.

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11/27/2020

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Daniel, a marathoner relates how disappointed he was to have to do an event in ancient Mesopotamia without his beloved Nikes, having to wear a competing brand.

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11/26/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A Thanksgiving hostess tries to allay the fears of Dee who had brought "sweet potatoes," (disclaiming them as being a not inspired choice),telling her it was always something she could use.

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11/25/2020

Entertainment

Clue

At a break in rehearsals for "The Sound of Music," the man playing Von Trapp notices that a couple of the actresses including his beautiful counterpart lead seemed faint so he suggested that someone go over and make sure at least one of them got some air, as they seemed immobile and dazed mentally.

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11/24/2020

Sports

Clue

Rosemary, the newspaper publisher is told that their head sports guy cut his teeth on, was engendered from his experiences in college covering Alabama football.

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11/23/2020

USA Geo/Arts

Clue

Can the alien ships discovered by SMU students in Dallas be something that the music department can use in its upcoming Verdi and Puccini productions?

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11/20/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

If you want to assist us, make every effort to be gracefully flexible AND sexy.

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11/19/2020

World Geo

Clue

An astronomy buff from Muscat on the Arabian Peninsula is delighted, referring to himself, to hear that he has a chance to participate in an orgy, and says that he is all in, the more debauchery the netter.

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11/18/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A fellow from Glasgow had stolen money sent to Edward, an aging despicable fellow helping finance the South in the Civil War.

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11/17/2020

Entertainment

Clue

The conductor of the orchestra that will accompany pianist/ comedian Victor in the concerto is forewarned that he will try to set a blistering pace.

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11/16/2020

Arts

Clue

Edward, a teaching assistant going for his MFA is very disappointed when the University decides to sell off a painting by a prominent pointillist from its permanent collection.

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11/13/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Frustrated, exhausted, not knowing where he, and drunk on top of it all, a man being hectored reluctantly agrees to join two pieces of metal in a low-melting alloy, based on lead and tin.

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11/12/2020

Sports

Clue

Margaret is given a thumbs up on the instructor she has drawn for her civil law 101 class at law school.

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11/11/2020

Sports

Clue

Comment from a real estate lawyer to an all time great NY Giant linebacker that the document showing his ownership rights to 9 undeveloped pieces of property unfortunately had been taken in a burglary.

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11/10/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A boy politely explains to the church's pastor's wife how his mother cursed and was abusive to 9 elders from the church who had come to lecture and pray over her right in their family room.

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11/09/2020

Sports

Clue

When a business rep for tennis champ Rafa came into the Spa Store and did not see the model that they had wanted to buy, the owner indicates that he and his young assistant had squirreled one away for him.

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11/06/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Thus it was that Laci showed [the press] all the capabilities for administering first aid that were available at all the venues being used [by the Olympics.]

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11/05/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

I observe that hauntingly, dangerously beautiful Ida who runs the greasy spoon does not allow the use of a common amphetamine.

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Click here for November 04's solution

11/04/2020

Food

Clue

I wailed loudly to the breakfast chef when I discovered that my hearty egg dish was soaked in a fruit drink suffused with a licorice flavored liqueur before cooking.

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11/03/2020

Entertainment

Clue

It's strange. but during his physical in "Midnight Cowboy" Rizzo's doctor was ,ost interested in his daring new hair style.

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11/02/2020

World Geo

Clue

Indeed, I am pretty much chillaxin' over the mistake we made regarding that woman roaming the mountains with her family in Switzerland.

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10/30/2020

Food

Clue

A soldier tells nis NCO, who was trying to fix a New York Jets football game how he had tried to bribe one of the players , who was very mad about it, with a free Uber and and one of the officials with a goose liver delicacy.

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10/29/2020

History

Clue

A girlfriend of Mrs. Peron tells her that her new lover does not go for much experimentation in the bedroom.

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Click here for October 28's solution

10/28/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A comedian relates how after having been invited to dinner at a prominent rapper's house, he was being brave in his routine by satirizing him and ragging on the dinner of leftovers he was served.

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10/27/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Patient to his MD evidencing his great distaste for a classic fish oil extract as malevolent and vile.

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10/26/2020

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

I tell British actor David( "Around the World in 80 Days"), redundantly, that as no other wine producer had shown up for the competition, I was victorious.

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10/23/2020

Sports

Clue

Deirdre, tasked with taking measurements of a former Dallas Cowboy quarterback for a new suit, was incredibly nervous and scared.

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10/22/2020

History/Food

Clue

A A guy questions his girl Dee, on how splendid the soiree at the Trump compound was, as he had gotten his fiill of cheap noodles when he was in college.

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Click here for October 21's solution

10/21/2020

World/Arts

Clue

At the museum a painting of small islands in the Tiber near the capital was displayed next to several hellish pieces of visual art based on illusions, extolling love and done in the subdued colors of a chalk like crayon.

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10/20/2020

World Geo/Food &Drink

Clue

Response from a VERY precocious baby to a young Columbian woman who was making nice with the baby asking him what he was drinking from his bottle.

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10/019/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A girl protests to her mother's idea that she break up with her boyfriend because he was ugly to her about her weight, telling her he thinks she is sexy anyway and inadvertently punning on where they met, in the whirlpool.

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10/016/2020

History/Government

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, the physician to NYC Mayor circa 2020 tells a political opponent that the rude,, indecent story going around about the mayor is batshit crazy.

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10/015/2020

Food

Clue

Reply to Rae about how to cook a popular game fish: in a shallow vessel with bursts of intense heat to form a crust.

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Click here for October 14's solution

10/014/2020

History/Business

Clue

Although she should have known better, Emily, more than anyone else unwittingly smuggled for Arthur a popular bottled water up and and down a river, the site of a prominent WW I battle in France.

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10/013/2020

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

Actor McGregor is told by the editors at Sports Afield that the scratch and sniff advertisements will come to and end beginning with the issue out middle of next week.

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10/012/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Name of a church social group for seniors that meets over breakfast and is as much about gossip as studying the scriptures.

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10/09/2020

Food/Business

Clue

A man encourages his friend to hurry up and select the chic, saucy white heron dish that is now available at Marcus Samuelsson's famed Harlem restaurant.

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10/08/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A boy questions his mother at the seeming inability of [his brother] Sol to understand what was going on, a feeling he shared.

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Click here for October 07's solution

10/07/2020

World Geo/History

Clue

Terse response back to philosopher Kierkegaard warning him not to have sex with with hot young woman he had met vacationing in Nassau.

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10/06/2020

USA Geo

Clue

A college student in Hamilton, New York tells a prof that he would bet his pistol that the small restaurant on campus risked going out business by continuing to serve leftovers and table scraps.

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10/05/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

When two girls with the same name riding a tandem bicycle came into the delicatessen to ask for help in changing a tire but were told that the store was too busy to help them, their becoming extremely snarky about it did not help them at all.

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10/02/2020

Arts

Clue

In possible the worst editorial decision ever made an editor suggests that the firm may not want to take a chance on this new "Harry Potter" thing, as the author was an unknown with no previously published works.

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10/01/2020

World Geo

Clue

Statement issued by the NY Transit Authority giving a religious group pushing the three fold nature of God permission to let them make a presentation in the vicinity of, strike that, actually ON, the line which dates back the the origin of the NY subway system.

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Click here for September 30's solution

09/30/2020

Arts/History

Clue

A Jules Verne captain is told by some of his crew members that they are going to snatch up the sophisticated, wordly women who work for a fixed regular payment for an ill mannered, impolite young woman who was part of a paramilitary group prominent in Belfast in the latter part of the 20th century.

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09/29/2020

Arts

Clue

Director Laci is questioned about her choice to begin the play with act two, a move that definitely did not conform to normal practice.

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Click here for September 29's solution

09/28/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

In Los Angeles a woman with children who is an army deserter, after she had eaten, slandered a member of the top brass at her base.

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09/25/2020

Food and Drink/World Geo

Clue

I tell my Jamaican pal not that I am indifferent to it, but that sweet red wine from Lisbon paired with Mexican food is an absolute disaster.

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09/24/2020

Food and Drink/Science

Clue

A police lab tech texts a young female detective telling her that the wine glass at the crime scene had no traces of the victim's favorite Italian brand, or was of any genetic value.

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Click here for September 23's solution

09/23/2020

Business

Clue

Yoko's business manager instructs an assistant to copy her on the email detailing news that The Tuttles of Orange County New York plan to build a Beatles tribute bike.

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09/22/2020

Business

Clue

One stock broker to the next as he hails gains of his recent purchase on share of The "Amazon"of China.

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09/21/2020

Food

Clue

Parents' instructions to the babysitter, that rather than let the child get upset, just give in if he demands to eat Mexican food.

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09/18/2020

USA Geo

Clue

Officials in one of New York City's boroughs investigated an organization that colludes to keep up prices of a mostly green ornamental mineral by following the crazy tattoo habits of its leaders.

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09/17/2020

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play about a prominent US marathon race on Patriot's Day, competitor Patricia tells a resident who had asked if she was going to run, answered "No, sadly" because it was cold and windy and no warming was in the forecast.

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09/16/2020

Business

Clue

A woman who won the "telephone company's" beauty contest suggests that she be referred to as emblematic of a cultural phenomenon as her picture is constantly shared on social media.

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09/15/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Keith is told that his girlfriend Gina does not to make love while wearing her lingerie.

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09/14/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

An eclectic group were passengers in a (very large) watercraft of Inuit origin which can be folded up: 2 women named Edna, a soldier Ron, a family member of the ruling North Korean government, Kay, and a silly fool.

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09/11/2020

Language

Clue

After Pat, visiting a nomad in his railroad boxcar, had speculated negatively on his host's ability to provide some suds for refreshment, she gets this surprising answer, delivered with a Southern colloquialism,as he heads toward his keg and spigot for an admittedly Irish off brand.

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09/10/2020

World Geo

Clue

Although most saw him as an obese fool I viewed this biblically named devotee of The Flying Saghetti Monster as quite charming and dshing.

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09/09/2020

Arts/History

Clue

I tell Evelyn that I am smearing the view on help for the poor espoused in the writings of Objectivist philosopher Ayn.

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09/08/2020

Food and Drink

Clue

Stuart motioned with his head that he wanted toroidal deep fried breakfast sweets made from spaghetti dough, ...that idiot.

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09/07/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell famed opera singer Bert to pass on my alert about impish children who like Latin music.

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09/04/2020

Food and Drink

Clue

Even though he has fled to a star system approximately 31 trillion meters ( 3.26 light years) away, Ira still will have to stand trial on sexual assault charges , won't he?

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09/03/2020

World Geo/Fashion

Clue

A line of dialogue from a play in which angry Timothy notes to his girlfriend that he is sporting his new suit from one of London's top drawer tailors, and then curses at discovering a blemish on it.

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09/02/2020

World Geo/History

Clue

Report to a Swedish [journalist] that this island of the Tuscan Archipelago and famous in palindrome circles does not think that FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, FNN,Bloomberg TV, ESPN News, or any others like them are slanted communistic in their reporting.

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09/01/2020

World Geo/Arts

Clue

Heed the fact that when polled on who they thought would win the Oscar for best documentary, the citizens of this Northern Ireland province went overwhelmingly for their countryman Bret who chronicled the unmasking in Egypt of his enemy who had been trafficking in fake modern art ( he had been photocopying it.)

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08/31/2020

Arts

Clue

When the all male stenography pool visited the Louvre and were irked that the crowds were so bad, I pointed out to them that they could easily and quickly see a grouping of famous water lily paintings.

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08/28/2020

Food/Business/History

Clue

Describing a woman whose sons are members of an Irish paramilitary organization, followed to a Jason's near the boat docks.

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08/27/2020

Sports

Clue

Sign to Indy 500 driver telling him that not only is it the absolutely perfect time during the race to come in, but that when he does he can get some absolutely perfect weed to smoke.

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08/26/2020

World Geo

Clue

Take a look at the historic places in Brazil's second largest city where on the docks there are often huge parties, taking advantage of the hot weather.

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08/25/2020

Food/Cooking

Clue

When I demurred it was concerning my objection to using the maximum amount of this common cooking extract possible in the recipe.

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08/24/2020

Food/World Geo

Clue

A rather moody, distant native of Naples, having been tasked with designing a container worthy of holding prickly pair delicacies for sale is told in no uncertain terms to really get it perfect this time.

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08/21/2020

Science

Clue

A college student who is a member of ΔΤΔ is told by the professor who runs a psychology research facility on campus which has a reputation for raucous behavior that he scared some of the subjects [when he came into the lab early in the morning and turned the lights on.]

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08/20/2020

Food

Clue

Plan for huge fruit pies to be served in the dining car of a computer/internet enhanced overhead trolley system.

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08/19/2020

Tech/Business

Clue

Stuart tells everyone that he is embarrassed to be using an Apple product instead of a PC and that he feels he has been ostracized.

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08/18/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Question from a member of a strange religious group with a slavish veneration for its leader and whose ceremonies revolve around regular gatherings where each member brings a covered dish, regarding their skipping his house in the rotation.

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08/17/2020

Sports

Clue

When Ms. Williams faded during the stretch is a match when she fell sick, she offers this suggestion to sportswriter Sol who suggested a lack of fire in her belly, suggesting that she just need to take it easy and recover from her illness.

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08/14/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A [failed, down and out] race track tout snatches up a bit of pocket bread that tourists had been feeding to the only remaining white heron [at the zoo.]

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08/13/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Surprise spoken to an auburn haired fellow when a young child, a waif, has gone abandoned in London and the public has not yet been apprised of the situation by the media, police, etc.

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08/12/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Adele is apprised that the rough. crude conditions arise from the brouhaha associated with conflict began with an alien invasion.

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08/11/2020

US History

Clue

Headline in a Norfolk. Virginia newspaper upon the Battle between the Monitor and The Merrimac at the Battle of Hampton Roads in the first meeting of ironclad warships.

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08/10/2020

Business/World Geo

Clue

Listen, that orange flavored drink whose recipe was made his own by a prominent billionaire/philanthropist based on aromas he found in Lima while visiting South America has a hint of rose petals , doesn't it?

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08/07/2020

USA Geo

Clue

Resembling the devil in every way, an Alaska prosecutor is really something to see in action in person.

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08/06/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

When I went on a long and difficult outing my friend and he began to take on too much color and said" I don't suppose you have anything for sunburn,” my response amounted to this.

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08/05/2020

History/Entertainment

Clue

After Nixon's VP told him he should watch this wild, exciting, fantastic 80s sci-fi film starring Jeff Bridges, Nixon leaves him this note, indicating he did not find it so.

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08/04/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A prince who really wanted to deliver a speech to the kingdom tells his friend Stuart that he was able to overcome the serious doubts of the King and Queen, which he considered to be absolute nonsense.

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08/03/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

I did not tread the same roads in live as did the annoying, spoiled nigh demonic child star who specialized in percussive dancing.

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07/31/2020

World Langiages/Geo

Clue

I note that the best examples from the archeological dig I viewed in a Mideast desert, which purported to be written back in ancient Rome, were actually much more modern, as evidenced by the language.

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07/30/2020

Business

Clue

A woman whose own name contains the name of a fashion magazine she edits outlaws advertisements containing provocative images.

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07/29/2020

Business/World Geo

Clue

The commotion is a neighbor yelling at her husband about what's missing from his trip to the grocery store: cantaloupes and the sort, and no 7Up, Sprite, Mountain Dew, Slice or whatever.

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07/28/2020

Entertainment

Clue

[ As a part of a ""hire the vets" campaign] a "Roots" actor was able to get jobs for an additional 9 decorated vets working at a rock crushing plant.

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07/27/2020

World Geo

Clue

The Islamic fundamentalist who had just graduated university in a Yemen port city, the most amazing jewel of a woman a man could ever have hoped for, glowered irate as I concealed the whereabouts of her traditional dress.

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07/24/2020

Food

Clue

Katherine, a delicatessen owner emphasizes to her boy that she is not turning up her nose at the new type of bread roll, one with a distinctive Japanese hint, and that she had in fact sold some.

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07/23/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Having always wanted since my youth to spend some time bronzing out in the sun, but afraid to, I tell a friend obsessed/interested its ill effects that I am finally going to give it a try as I am weary of worrying about it.

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07/22/2020

Tech

Clue

In addition, each of the two pictures I took of myself with my phone are enhanced by a new Apple feature whereby my pre-loaded skin tone was used to adjust the photos in case they came out looking too dark or too light in the picture.

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07/21/2020

Food

Clue

A man at a restaurant tells the waiter that since he is exhausted, his mouth is watering for caviar along with his main course.

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07/20/2020

Arts

Clue

The sailors on The Nautilus, clamor at their captain about the ruckus as they are invaded by aliens.

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07/17/2020

Entertainment/Food/World Geo

Clue

Reaction when David, a Criminal Minds character, prevents the team from eating Mexican food,..sad. But then when he tries to ban pot?.. Dirty pool!

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07/16/2020

Business/World Geo

Clue

Did the accountants at Texas Instruments have a sudden moment of inspiration and clarity when they found that they could reduce their tax bill by shifting operations to Viet Nam?

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07/15/2020

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Given a chance to take back her biting remarks about the organizers of the Italian Open tennis tournament in the early 1990s, Monica refused to do so, bottom line being, it was an awful experience.

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07/14/2020

World Geo

Clue

I question whether the noisy clamor I heard in a German industrial city was some kind of evil, as opposed to just being some kind of ridiculous absurdity as my friend thought.

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07/13/2020

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

Description of Van Helsing's nemesis in a comedy routine in the style of Desi Arnaz//Ricky Ricardo.

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07/10/2020

World Geo/Languages

Clue

A woman is told by someone having seen, on the way to breakfast in Italy, a billboard encouraging people not to say "love you" in an angry manner.

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07/09/2020

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Describing a hidebound negative attitude toward a painting in an eponymous brownish-orange color, even questioning its aesthetic value and whether it should be hanging in the museum, as its subject matter is offensive: a Middle eastern woman with a breast exposed.

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07/08/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Buckwheat/Eddie Murphy expresses surprise, then acceptance that the person he is speaking to has taken his [toy] shark to Amy.

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07/07/2020

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

Lines form a biography of a 60s folk singer Lopez describing 2 jobs he had before he got famous: helping install repurposed church benches for seating and cleaning the floors, both in the New York City subway.

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07/06/2020

History and Government

Clue

A new law student is told that Nina, his teacher for his first civil law class in law school, is the best, enthusiastic and highly popular, a stand out from the rest.

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07/03/2020

Food

Clue

Megan is told by the waiter that the appetizer she was contemplating, an eponymous Dutch semi-hard cheese flaked with bits of beets, rutabagas, radishes, etc., was a guilty pleasure, highly esteemed, and could be made upon special request.

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07/02/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Headline next year in The Times Picayune emphasizing that on December 2 liquor sales will end in the city.

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07/01/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Even though they are situated in the shadow of the castle and live at the beck and call of the royalty, you can tell by looking that neither their garden flowers or any of the inhabitants share in the wealth of the kingdom. >

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06/30/2020

Arts/Entertainment/Food

Clue

(1) Domino's aides.
(2) Everyone in the office is dieting! /p>

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06/29/2020

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

Cool cat Pooh tells a friend that he understands, sympathizes.

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06/26/2020

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

When Emily asks her boyfriend where he had gone to see the very best in college basketball, he tells her, definitely that it should be North Carolina, Durham or Chapel Hill, or maybe Charlottesville, Virginia.

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06/25/2020

Entertainment

Clue

What Sammy Davis, Jr. said to Sheriff Masterson as he is about to meet a soldier, namely that he is not going to pretend to be anyone other than his own genuine self.

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06/24/2020

Arts/Tech/Nature

Clue

Since it knew that he raised Angora goats, his phone gave Dr. Jekyll's alter ego this answer for a simple way to [polish tarnished silver]: rub it with this.

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06/23/2020

Entertainment/Business

Clue

In a short note a board member of a giant media company with theme parks all over the world is encouraged to really go after the Japanese tourist market.

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06/22/2020

Science/Business

Clue

Newspaper headline heralding the public outing of shenanigans in the plan under which a local company's capital stock was acquired by its employees, alerting the public to its unwise investments in a company producing inert gases.

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06/19/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A Star Trek series alien notices about to go through the intersection notices the octagonal warning just in time to avoid his cruel destiny.

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06/18/2020

Tech /Fashion

Clue

Put this woman's hair back up when we get into the ride share we ordered.

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06/17/2020

World Geo

Clue

Comment when a local Arab military chief challenges two women of the same name who have accused him of crimes against dogs, saying basically, if you think so, get a law enacted against it.

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06/16/2020

Arts

Clue

A confession from a classical music critic that he may have been wrong, after hearing 'Rigoletto."

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06/15/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A hipster fully agree with his mother that there is no one better at a line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s.

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06/12/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Vera told her three friends that she was going to get a boob enhancement job so that she would be more likely to get jobs in commercials. After she did, one of them sees the result and tells the other two, Nina and Dana, that "boy did she ever!"

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06/11/2020

Entertainment

Clue

I tell my superiors that I see a drunk, "supposedly first rate" starship captain was in actuality, sad, aging unsuccessful misfit, as was noted by a Starfleet Academy student.

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06/10/2020

World Geo/Sports

Clue

A British artist bristles at the command that he not paint images glorifying The Sport of Kings.

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06/09/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman tells her son not to play bland, gentle hip hop songs for Eva, a bullfighter who lusts after Rodney.

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06/08/2020

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

When a famed American gospel singer went to see Les Miz, and she was confused as to the actions of Fantine's daughter, some explained to her that it was because the young one was in a cloudy mental state having had too much of a particularly designated licorice based liquor.

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06/05/2020

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A German woman leaves a note for actress Thurman who has been relegated to kitchen duty [while on a movie set] telling her that this is something she needs to know how to tie for various purposes.

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06/04/2020

Niscellaneous

Clue

A man who works in silver and pewter once observed some idiot's vegetable sponge clean Timothy's mother, who is no longer alive.

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06/03/2020

Sports

Clue

Each of two guys on the a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled and from whom I was collecting taxes are going on about how they are haranguing some clothing optional friends.

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06/02/2020

World Geo

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play a character describes himself to his grandmother as vile and hated and existing by roaming the breezy, arid steppe east of Damascus.

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06/01/2020

World Geo/Language

Clue

A Brit's exultation at the prospect of being able to have a molasses based drink from an ace Japanese warrior and his part of the world, complete with an offer to a friend to have a small amount himself.

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05/29/2020

World Geo/Nature

Clue

Communist Chinese androids angrily reject an extract from a common yard weed with white hairy seeds that Edna ships to outposts along China's boundary with Russia.

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05/28/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman questions her friend who has set her up with a blind date, angrily telling her that he is surely no hunk, and is in fact a dweeb, the the bottom of the barrel.

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05/27/2020

World Geo/Arts/Entertainment

Clue

When is was necessary to get actress McClanahan of Golden Girls to the opera at La Scala, [after racking their brains] someone had an aha moment and figured out that they could hire a stretch Town Car to get her there.

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05/26/2020

World Geo/Business/Tech

Clue

Question to a prominent fashion designer as to whether Nathaniel had likely agreed at another time to buy a human like automaton from the Dalai Lama.

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05/25/2020

World Geo/Science

Clue

A German city's signature dish for sandwich shops made from insect larvae is hated , as it taste's like bat shit.

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05/22/2020

USA Geo/Food

Clue

When I went on a rather pathetic, lackluster arduous outing with the walking club in an Oklahoma city I hydrated with a popular brand of bottled water.

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05/21/2020

USA Geo/Food

Clue

Irritation by a non-meat eater at the evil disappearance of a large shipment of fruit drink in Alaska possibly diverted to make a pudding like dessert?

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05/20/2020

Science

Clue

Response of a woman who owned a store selling a devicr which uses an inert gas to to wash [parts of the body] with a granular cosmetic preparation in order to remove dead cells from the skin's surface, when asked what she did for a living.

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05/19/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

The boss laughs it off as no big deal when his assistant tells him that the woman he has just hired is a druggie, LSD no less.

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05/18/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

TODAY' GUEST PALINDROMIST IS MY BROTHER, DON EMMONS

Stuart, a film editor, disdains brevity.

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05/15/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Negative answer to the question," Did country's Loretta borrow that synthetic polymer nightgown?"

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05/14/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Adam here tells how he besmirches, befouls the deplorable, sloppy declaration that his mate has just made with such confidence [about the snake.]

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05/13/2020

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Edward's aunt from Barcelona tells how she made him a Polynesian rum-based cocktail.

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05/12/2020

Arts/Business

Clue

A munchkin who works at a fulfillment center Over the Rainbow, tell his boss that he is to deliver [a refrigerator] made by a prominent manufacturer to Dorothy and needs help on the directions.

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05/11/2020

World Geo

Clue

A suggestion from a Brit that the management of the streetcar system near the Leaning Tower select PSAs which encourage a reduction in deer hunting, or, better, responsible use of marijuana.

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05/08/2020

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

Snapping him back from having been misdirected, a Cockney magician finishes a magic trick he was performing for the former Cassius Clay.

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05/07/2020

Business

Clue

Indifferent reaction of police to random, deliberate violence done at a motorcycle dealership.

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05/06/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A farmer stare into his field and thinks to himself about a forlorn female sheep standing in the rain and imagines having it for a hearty meal with broth and vegetables.

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Click here for May 06's solution

05/05/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Having gone through a recent spate of sluggishness preparing meals submitted online, a delicatessen owner makes changes and then has a huge one submitted to see how they do, and it is quite successful, so he announces he is ready to start winning [the lunch time crowd] again. p>

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05/04/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A recent hire at Nintendo is informed that to be designated as the one to have to deal with fools from a rival game manufacturer screaming insults at them, just something all new hires have to go through.

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05/01/2020

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

A person trying to help out a group of soldiers who have taken unauthorized leave in the 1980s to Canada's capital city for a little fun tells them that things are a little dead at the moment and the best she will be able to do for them is to watch Buck Owens and Roy Clark on TV at the home of her friend Toni.

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04/30/2020

World Geo

Clue

Wherein I confess to having continued borrowing on new credit cards to make payments on mountains of debt.

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04/29/2020

World Geo/Nature

Clue

I tell my grandmother that right up the very end of my bird watching days near Galway I would discover a variety of small birds inhabiting [abandoned] eagle nests.

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04/28/2020

World Geo

Clue

Headline in a monastery newsletter when a monk of the Reformed Cistercian Order, who was in a fraternity and ROTC in college, was cast in a play as a University of Texas at Austin student.

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04/27/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry at having already been disrespected by a man saying that her nursery plantings contained no irises, this woman tells him in no uncertain terms that they can be found in a plot off to the side.

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04/24/2020

World Geo

Clue

A hirsute sharpshooter named Samuel had no intention of doing training in this Middle east country ( under the auspices of this Palestinian Sunni-Islamic terrorist organization operating in the area.)

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04/23/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Response to Ronald who had suggested that my flight from Kigali International Airport to Logan must have been exhausting, indicating that it could have been a lot worse.

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04/22/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Answer to the question "What's the bottom line on how you know we are winning the battle?" indicating that it is because we hear the enemy waking up regularly in the middle of the night and the sounds of the bugle playing at the burial ceremonies.

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04/21/2020

Entertainment/Science/Sports/Business

Clue

Actress/Mathematics writer Mckellar or Indy car driver Patrick slangily expresses to her mechanic surprise that the Cadillac she will be driving will actually have functioning air conditioning, it having been out of commission for several days.

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04/20/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman is encouraged to re-setup a prank on which a rubber snake is compressed in empty containers of Pringles.

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04/17/2020

Tech/Business

Clue

Possessing a specially equipped phone which can deliver a directed electric shock, a man gives a final instruction to it to zap comedian Salvador who is performing nude with his stock in trade routine of irony, sarcasm and ridicule against various acts of folly.

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04/16/2020

Tech/Business

Clue

With this statement a father with old fashioned ideas about roles for girls sums up his orders to his daughter Ana, who is angry about it, to give up her idea of working for NASA or Space X, considering the idea to be malarkey.

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04/15/2020

World Geo/Tech/Languages

Clue

Iris, Mr. Dias' wife to husband after they had arrived in Barcelona for vacation and the jet lagged husband wanted to get a bit of shuteye but she wanted to hail a ride share and get to the sightseeing.

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04/14/2020

World Geo/History

Clue

Enid is told how Ned had to put up with utter stupidity and slow-wittedness from members of an early Jewish sect about how to brew decaffeinated coffee.

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04/13/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A well hidden defense against submarines, a system used by a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel to befoul the vicinity with disgusting sewage.

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04/10/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man characterizes atheist Eve to his good pal as a worthless, inferior vehicle for promoting their organization's lofty ideals.

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04/09/2020

History/Entertainment

Clue

Cries of anger, shock and fright to friends about infamous paranormal murders on Long Island, complete with speculations about whether they were extra-terrestrial in nature.

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04/08/2020

History

Clue

Ancient Chinese wisdom: No angry sailors allowed.

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04/07/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Both were disgusting, the conditions at the delicatessen and just reading about them in the health inspector's report.

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04/06/2020

Sports/Geography

Clue

A late 20th century daredevil is encouraged to pry concessions out of a potential sponsor using the success of his Mexican/Polynesian tavern in Florida which was complete with carved images of Polynesian gods.

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04/03/2020

World Geo

Clue

A rustic Southwestern US Man of Mexican-American heritage relates to his boy how as he looked for jobs throughout Russia, China, India, etc., he contemplated that they did not consider him or any of his fellow country men at all.

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04/02/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Maureen is asked to get a towel and clear away the water from the overhead cable car, dramatizing it as an act if great suffering, as it was really slow dimwitted Londoner Ian's job.

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04/01/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

At this time, Diana observed that, it having been sufficiently lighted to be able to see well, it was a cash box that Lewis had told of being high bidder on.

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03/31/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Calvin's detective partner tells him that the solution to the homicide can be found by examining this, found in the gang's Los Angeles headquarters.

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03/30/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A District Attorney muses about her defense attorney opponent Theodore who seems easily put off by her arguments, seems to plan to call no one to the stand in the trial, and who has had delivered to her a dozen long-stemmed red ones just prior to closing arguments.

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03/27/2020

Entertainment

Clue

After we had been invited to a prominent rapper's home for dinner and had been served leftovers, pretty much everyone was too afraid to speak up and make fun of him for it, but not me.

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03/26/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Disgust that normally level headed Thomas, recreating a Hitchcock thriller has fiendishly added flying mammals to an already frightful shower scene.

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03/25/2020

Entertainment/Food

Clue

Comment by the server as he brings breakfast to The Divine Miss M and her friend Edward, he having ordered a hearty egg/meat vegetable dish and she only a glass of fruit juice.

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03/24/2020

Business

Clue

Line of dialogue from a play about the purchase by Adolph of the New York Times, wherein his Swedish friend questions whether it is such a good idea, or a scam, the paper not exactly making a lot of money, and questioning if this is even a business he wants to be in.

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03/23/2020

Science/Arts

Clue

The Nautilus' anthropologist informs the captain that [after the threat] the crew had placated the 7 females they had encountered [on a remote island] and who had been worshiped as surviving early missing links on the branch of the evolutionary tree leading to humans.

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03/20/2020

World Geo/Food

Clue

Anger by flush faced Ronan at a disgusting directive to wrestle away from Ayan a green onion she stole from an Islamic holy man.

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03/19/2020

Arts/Food

Clue

French writer de Beauvoir is informed of the disgusting,repulsive forecast for the trail mix to be produced at a local delicatessen, malignant and spiteful it is.

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03/18/2020

Entertainment/World History

Clue

In a [very strange!!] fantasy play appears this line of dialogue wherein Buffalo Bill introduces Barbara Streisand to the President of Haiti.

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03/17/2020

World Geo

Clue

A play on words she heard in a French city bothered my grandmother.

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03/16/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

On the other hand a cute young thing who works in a raucous research facility I was in charge of is someone I met while in the whirlpool.

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03/13/2020

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A Ricky Gervais character is informed of the death of big rig driver Edward from Sarajevo who was severely overweight.

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03/12/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Listen, the small cafe we were discussing did not even consider the wines I had wagered would win the tasting competition.

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03/11/2020

World Geo

Clue

A new member of a faith teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity and equality of all people, reveals how embarrassed he is, sitting in a small wooded valley and knowing that Owen had murdered Isaiah, a recent summa cum laude college grad, the boyfriend of Anita.

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03/10/2020

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Comment by a curator of a prominent Madrid museum to a visitor from Nevada who had hoped to see works by a well known 20th country abstract artist, sculptor and collagist who is considered a deity in the visitor's home town, only to be told that they were no longer there.

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03/09/2020

Entertainment/World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

A Brooklynite tries to get the attention of actor Lugosi to tell him that across from the New Haven freshman is a Himalayan crypto-creature.

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03/06/2020

Arts

Clue

I tell my grandmother that in the poem we were jointly writing some instances of immorality and wickedness crept in, something I saw right as it was happening.

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03/05/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Note left for Nils by Maureen, astonished at the uncomfortable sad state of affairs that Anissa had gotten herself into through her own ill-considered actions.

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03/04/2020

Science/World Geo

Clue

A scientist tells his assistant that he has found some molten rock remnants, admittedly only a tiny bit, but that at least it is evidence of their theory that the area around County Cork once had volcanic activity.

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03/03/2020

Entertainment

Clue

A line in a review panning the enthusiastic star of a festive special presentation featuring female impersonators.

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03/02/2020

Food and Drink

Clue

Sara, angry concerning her meal, that she cannot get her favorite sandwich, which includes pork strips, with a glass of red wine right from the spigot, lashes out.

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02/28/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Is it not true that in these times a few [doctors] will berate the conglomerates behind therapeutic use of LSD to the greatest degree?

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02/27/2020

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

A neighbor of distance swimmer Diana [knocks on her door] at 3 in the morning, basically telling her that the weekend is over, he's got to go to work in the morning, and she needs to quit blasting Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.

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02/26/2020

History

Clue

Exultation at finding a compact disc containing orations of a famous Roman, done with uncompromising dedication to be true to the original.

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02/25/2020

Food/World Language/Arts

Clue

An Italian woman explains in English how she feeds a famous opera singer with classic fare on a regular basis in order to work off a debt.

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02/24/2020

Food and Drink/Entertainment

Clue

Deep six that idea for a movie [you propose] about dark, cynical, fatalistic puppets going wild, drunk on anise flavored liqueur.

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02/21/2020

Business

Clue

I teased my ride share company about [my driver's inability to avoid] the large vulture [that crashed into the windshield.]

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02/20/2020

World Geo

Clue

Nathaniel is told that it was with an overpowering dread that in the frenzy caused by the appearance on an alien ship that the people in a small Iranian village saw a giant emerge.

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02/19/2020

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Description by a German-American of a strange man who emigrated from the Balkans to Wrocła, as it is known in Western Poland on the Oder River.

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02/18/2020

Sports

Clue

A woman recalls how, dressed in her most fetching outfit at a sandwich shop she inflamed the urges of a Star Trek TNG Lieutenant Commander android who she saw as very manly.

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02/17/2020

Sports

Clue

A member of a climbing team queries leader Timothy about a the decision of a young woman, who had given up her coming out party to participate, not to complete the climb up Everest even though the low visibility weather had cleared.

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02/14/2020

World Geo/Food

Clue

A Chinese man asks his friend Enid if she would like to go out for some variety of sandwich: hot dog, Italian sandwich, hearty hero? Or to stay at home and eat in their personal sacred temple.

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02/13/2020

Food

Clue

Darn it, small thin pancakes like these use a filling which includes a spiny-finned freshwater fish in a creamy dessert whose base is eggs and milk?

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02/12/2020

History

Clue

I identify myself as the film maker who directed a movie about our melancholy 16th President who, despite that, was quite exceptional, and indicate how pleased I am with my work.

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02/11/2020

Food

Clue

Instructions to the baby sitter to give in to any whim of the kid when it comes to eating his Mexican food supper.

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02/10/2020

Business/History

Clue

Comment from an investor who discovers that his money was invested with Ponzi man Bernie and realizes that it's all gone.

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02/07/2020

History

Clue

Let's mention the way things went with the long hard fought negotiations to reduce nuclear weapons as being [a] sublime [effort of the goodness of mankind.]

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02/06/2020

Language

Clue

A Scottish boy disagrees with [his nanny] young, unmarried Ada, who had panned [the movie] using one slang term to describe another, [fearing that she would not understand.]

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02/05/2020

Business/World Geo

Clue

It is unfortunate that when Etta from the mountains of Western Russia visited Elon at the gigafactory in Nevada, the VPs showing her around irritated her as they were extremely insensitive and ill-mannered.

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02/04/2020

Tech/World Geo

Clue

When this woman was participating in a sit in in the capital of Viet Nam, her phone detected that her personal information from when she used to live in Alaska was on the device of a promiscuously dressed woman trolling the streets.

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02/03/2020

Tech

Clue

Disgust with this idiot who's posted a nude pic of himself on a well known dating site.

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01/31/2020

USA Geo/World Languages

Clue

A jilted Latino tells his boy that he is wise about many things, but his pitiful efforts to reconcile with his former wife way up east in Augusta have been quashed, and then suggests that they leave.

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01/30/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

HARD OF HEARING? Mister, I did not put the elite Russian horseman into jeopardy, only the robe worn by the man's clergyman.

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01/29/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Looking for evidence after reports that Vera's delicatessen food was laced with small flies, the health inspector found it right there on the menu.

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01/28/2020

miscellaneous

Clue

A manager in Rome distinguishes himself from the natives who are willing to put up with idiocy and hijinx in their tech facility by indicating that he called a particularly stupid offender on the carpet.

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01/27/2020

miscellaneous

Clue

A tax collector reacts in horror to his boss Vera he when learns that the local flower shop he must go collect from is clothing optional, as it makes him want to throw up.

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01/24/2020

World Geo

Clue

A sad sack, convinced he is isolated because he is so little regards by his peers, sinking into insanity in a German industrial city curses to Sol about how he closely questions and tries to verify the truth from inquisitors who are immorally trying to extract information from him.

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01/23/2020

World History

Clue

A TALE OF THREE DESPOTS: One verifies to a second how he plowed his car into a third. /p>

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01/22/2020

World Geo/Tech

Clue

I tell Ronald that I have noticed that a song about a crazy old Norwegian relative coming to visit is #1 in music downloads.

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Click here for January 21's solution

01/21/2020

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

For use in his book of experiences in the New York City, a folk singer prefaced each of the 10 chapters in his book with a short literary sketch with illustration about an encounter he had with a soldier on the subway.

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01/20/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A very drunk West Pointer who was irate at the actions of some Midshipmen who broke items being delivered to him witnessed them being severely scolded as they crossed over a hydroelectric facility.

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01/17/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

The older he got the more Stuart held boorish ill-mannered oafs in esteem.

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01/16/2020

World Geo

Clue

Rod is informed of a mix up in Mr. O'dell's status, as he, a Reno resident, is thought to be dead according to the state, whereas a minister only considers him a boorish sexist salesman.

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01/15/2020

World Geo

Clue

Having walked out, irate at the cup of decaffeinated coffee she had been served at the conference, Anais from St. Petersburg was discovered taking a walk at the local hydroelectric plant.

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01/14/2020

Food/World Geo

Clue

Ronald is informed that people in The Eternal City are madly in love with cheap noodles right out of the package, with nothing added, as they make an excellent cleanse.

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01/13/2020

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A Korean MASH unit corpsman with a sixth sense is told of Arthur, straight from West Point, who, sunburned and naked, would go out and ride the waves unnoticed when he was feeling disappointed and dissatisfied.

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01/10/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

It is for sure that the women of extraordinary beauty and charm [at the beauty pageant] gave no thought whatsoever to the [ruckus when the ] demon actuated/dominated canine [ran across the stage.]

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01/09/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

A recently discovered remote tribesman describes how his band of ferocious, wild, uncultivated brothers are weighed down with having to haul precious jewels for a local gem miner and that their numbers are dwindling.

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01/08/2020

Arts

Clue

In order to do a theatre project which would be like a religious experience, Diana contemplated staging a classic Samuel Beckett play.

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01/07/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Right up to the end I was very often able to steal billions and billions of binary digits from an idiot Inuit tribesman.

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01/06/2020

Entertainment

Clue

An aerobics class instructor calls out instructions to Miss Piggy and Bert and Ernie.

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01/03/2020

Miscellaneous

Clue

Bottom line on the advice given to a man being honored tonight, not to act all exultant and prideful about himself, at least to keep it to a minimum.

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01/02/2020

Entertainment/Business

Clue

Insisting on being paid in Japanese currency instead of dollars, a diabolical fellow actor Coleman observes did not live well at all.

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01/01/2020

Entertainment

Clue

Happy and at peace with himself, a prominent guitarist ( Hall and Oates, SNL Band) used great love, care, and affection on a lyric poem extolling the virtues of a daytime talk show host.

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12/31/2019

Food

Clue

The chef at a delicatessen describes how he was unsuccessful at his dish featuring a luxurious sauce made with onions, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, heavy cream, oil, butter, and the wine the sauce is named for, perhaps because he paired it with the cheapest of noodles.

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12/30/2019

Business

Clue

Phrase on the business card of a prominent financial news expert and prognosticator.

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12/27/2019 Guest Palindromist today: Don Emmons

Arts

Clue

The ultimate bard? I select a Roman.

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12/26/2019

USA History/Geo

Clue

[During the Civil War], the commander of the Confederate forces did not take the opportunity to bring on board a West Texas chef chef who was very good at prepping potatoes.

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12/25/2019

Business

Clue

Salesman Stuart tried to ply his prospective clients into letting him demonstrate his products by bringing in Krispy Kremes, but it didn't work.

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12/24/2019

World Geo

Clue

Well, well, well, who's surprised at the conceit of those Swiss connoisseurs of long, loose-hanging dresses, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women.

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12/23/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Reply from the boss to his assistant who has recommended someone for the position they want to fill, someone the boss thinks is superb and well worthy of an offer.

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12/20/2019

World Geo

Clue

A citizen in Poland tells my mother that he wants no late night carousing, general dirtiness, hard liquor, prostitutes, etc, in the inn she was building, as it was too uncultivated and unrefined for the image he wanted.

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12/19/2019

World Geo/Sports

Clue

Circa 2000, an official warns an executive of a now defunct Indy Car Racing organization that the condition of an Alaska track built in the style of a famed French racing track which they had won in a raffle and where they were planning a race was bad for the organization's image as it was pretty awful now. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Car )

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12/18/2019

World Geo

Clue

It is not true that Ira, who lives near the Trevi Fountain, would refer to a bureaucrat of Imperial China as an idiot.

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12/17/2019

World Geo/Nature

Clue

A museum curator questions the decision to bypass his institution for upcoming showings of an artist's feature work on African cats created while the artist was in residence in a West German industrial city.

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12/16/2019

USAGeo/Food

Clue

Chicago food merchants gather to choose a picante sauce made in their state to enter into a competition, rejecting, as the worst possible entry, one made by and for local delicatessens but laced with marijuana.

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12/13/2019

World Geo

Clue

Demeaned, defiled Nan I noticed, the object of scorn, and therefore irate about it, hid out in the mountains of South America, not even wanting to get out of bed.

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12/12/2019

Entertainment

Clue

What Iris, a fertility expert, is trying to do is to help Mia through her pregnancy so as to preserve their family's bloodline which goes way back through County Cork and Galway, but is in danger of dying out.

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12/11/2019

Entertainment

Clue

A man tells his girlfriend that several, he's not sure of the exact number, almost pearly drops of fresh morning condensation brushed him like a soft kiss one morning in Stockholm.

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12/10/2019

Sports

Clue

Future 1950s Dodger star Duke witnessed a crazy lunar event where the moon turned blood red, as he, a top student, was drunk on his ass at military school, but it was not of prophetic significance.

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12/09/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Cabbies who work for actress Campbell ( Scream films) are hard working, energized, and steadfast, often roaming the streets very early in the work day for customers.

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12/06/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

I observed that [in an act of love and humility] a young woman left her debutante ball to minister to the needs of 9 additional wounded soldiers [in the VA Hospital.]

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12/05/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment regarding the persistent, repetitive hum heard while sitting in alien ships, temporarily not in use while refueling.

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12/04/2019

World Geo

Clue

[A private detective] reports to this woman that a wealthy Persian is in an Uber in Omaha, Nebraska in traditional dress.

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Click here for Deceember 03's solution

12/03/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man is about to excoriate a resident of a huge church as being anti-progress/anti-technology, not to mention stupid and foul smelling, until he realizes that the fellow has Mexican fast food to offer, when he hesitates and changes his tune.

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12/02/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Comment from the police chief who said that reports that the military academy student Arthur's apprehension was not illegal or the result of not following proper procedure were a lie.

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Click here for Deceember 02's solution

11/29/2019

Arts/Sports

Clue

A racetrack tout tells how he has found a horse, well bred and named after the author of The Three Musketeers, which is good on a sloppy track, which is in the forecast for the upcoming race.

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11/28/2019

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A new college student in Chattanooga, Tennessee lambastes his idiot dorm mates for wanting to watch another movie like SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, YOU'VE GOT MAIL, CLUELESS, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, etc.

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11/27/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Timothy is irate that at the movie about Southern California's attractive and seductive female teaching assistants, on a mission to ultimately bring disaster to men who becomes involved with them, all except one seem to be overweight.

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11/26/2019

Food

Clue

When his customer asks how the tattoo was going of his favorite Italian dessert, the artist admits he has made an error.

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11/25/2019

Entertainment

Clue

[In a rejected scene from the 1972 novel by Ira Levin set in an idyllic Connecticut town] a local vet, in charge of bedrooms affairs, outlaws conventional, trite, unoriginal lovemaking, in a move that I see Lana had wagered would happen.

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11/22/2019

World Geo

Clue

A business in Southeastern Europe whose customers are mafioso who want tattoos of their criminal exploits erased, with a pledge to complete silence with respect to the authorities.

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11/21/2019

USA Geo

Clue

Emergency! New Santa needed in now trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood!

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11/20/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A minister whose wife led the congregational singing questions her lack of preparation for the Sunday service, including even which songbook to sing from.

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11/19/2019

Business

Clue

One woman said to another that she should under no circumstances buy less than 100 shares when purchasing stock, or in fact engage in any transaction for less that the usual number of units sold.

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11/18/2019

Medicine

Clue

Doctor's note on a patient's chart that 6 o'clock in the morning marked the time when blood flow to the inflamed area was at is most stagnant.

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11/15/2019

USA Geo

Clue

A woman tells her friend in an unsigned note that she does not plan to ignore her husbands dalliances in Providence in a nearby state.

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11/14/2019

Language

Clue

Myra is told told the light was very low in the bird house, which made Donald Trump's ex-wife reluctant to go in when she noticed it.

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11/13/2019

Arts

Clue

A former NY Philharmonic conductor gave no thought to it whatsoever when his trousers began to come apart at his left inside thigh.

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11/12/2019

Entertainment/World Languages

Clue

Angry at a member of ΔΤΔ, a U2 front man showed anger/irritation toward Adam.

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11/11/2019

Business/World Geo

Clue

A man assessing Vera's company with offices in England, Scotland,Wales, and Northern Ireland reports to Ned, who is considering buying the company, that there is a huge number of outdated inventory categories.

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11/08/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Viewing the huge, angry fight between foolish silly Trevor and a bunch of alien ships led an observer to this conclusion.

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Click here for November 07's solution

11/07/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Spencer of the BAU is informed that Levi, possibly disoriented ( or maybe not wanting to be found?) is a GI with over 20 years of service.

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11/06/2019

USA Geo

Clue

This California city in the San Joaquin Valley is transfixed by the presence of a street preacher who is on the run from indentured servitude at a local winery.

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11/05/2019

Sports/History/World Geo

Clue

A Son of the Confederacy, Bo, unrepentant, is the one who stole former tennis great Monica's purse at gunpoint when she was visiting The Colosseum.

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Click here for November 04's solution

11/04/2019

Food/World Geo

Clue

A man's comment to his wife as he comes home for dinner, disappointed when he can tell from the smells that he would not behaving cured pork roast or a lighter Middle Eastern meal of hummus and falafel.

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11/01/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Things were gritty at the societal levels populated by strange artists in the capital in bohemian Poland,

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10/31/2019

Sports&Games/USA Geo

Clue

Commentator disses to his broadcast partner Ronald the drive by Timothy to a six no-trump off 3 aces at the collegiate bridge championships, which seemed to doom the team from Boston.

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10/30/2019

World Geo

Clue

Cry of cursing anger at Yoko et al, when she appeared at the gala with U2 and they were accompanied by several pygmy chimps.

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10/29/2019

World Geo

Clue

A Mideast potentate is told that it was not a violation of the law to entrust goods to the flea market store in hopes that the store would sell them, in exchange for a percentage of the sale price.

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Click here for October 28's solution

10/28/2019

Food/World Geo

Clue

A man exults to his grandmother about a compendium of places in Luanda, the capital, and other cities in this West African nation where Mexican fast food can be obtained.

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10/25/2019

Science/World Geo

Clue

No flower shop in a large Southwestern Columbia city has a flower like this, but bred to have equal areas of black, white and orange.

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10/24/2019

Science

Clue

Ronald who works at the supermarket in the seafood department, is told to stop what he is doing and fix the pricing strip, which consists of a series of parallel lines of varying width which can then be scanned at checkout, for the crustaceans.

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10/23/2019

World History/Geo

Clue

A confidante of the Russian president relates to his boss that he decided to stir things up a bit, cause a little trouble, by getting a tattoo of a topless lady while attending a flashy showy soiree at Trump's Palm Beach resort.

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10/22/2019

Arts/Food

Clue

A cooking school chum of erotica author Anais relates to her how he is sick to the point of exhaustion of several retired male professors who are critical of his efforts at making small Italian sandwiches filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, etc., something they are already good at.

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Click here for October 21's solution

10/21/2019

World Geo

Clue

Things are peaceful up a mountain arising from this Israeli port city, kept quiet by organized crime bosses devoted to an Orthodox Jewish spiritual revivalist sect.

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10/18/2019

Government/Geo

Clue

A UK space official denies being in charge of provisions for their planned settlement on the moon and for the choice of an official breakfast food which had been shopped out for bids and which a Northern Ireland town jumped at the chance to fulfill, instead giving a member of Bret's staff the credit.

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10/17/2019

Arts

Clue

A prominent New York museum produces and offers for sale in its gift shop a print made from original Green Eggs and Ham artwork.

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10/16/2019

Business/USA Geo

Clue

A new Tesla employee, a Florida State grad, introduces himself to the Chairman who is a on a tour of the Gigafactory.

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10/15/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Being a stick in the mud about getting all the papers graded quickly and correctly, one of the professor's teaching assistants muses silently over the appropriateness of the profs tapping the keg just as they all had gathered to work as the sun goes down.

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Click here for October 14's solution

10/14/2019

Entertainment/US History

Clue

What you might call a SNL skit lampooning Rick Perry's performance during the Republican debates in 2011.

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10/11/2019

USA Government

Clue

I relate how I noticed its relationship to the space agency when I was in charge of a laboratory noted for its irreverent, mocking, abusive hijinx.

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10/10/2019

Business

Clue

A man cries out to Evelyn to help him throw up as he fears he has consumed some poisonous Grey Poupon.

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10/09/2019

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

A freshman is irritated, indeed, it makes him sick, that at his Dallas, Texas University they place a cap on the how many vinyl records he can have in his dorm room.

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10/08/2019

US Government

Clue

Spokesman for a new generation of overweight US astronauts speculates on whether their being accepted into the program was indicative of a change in focus away from the physical aspects of the job.

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Click here for October 07's solution

10/07/2019

Entertaknment/World Geo

Clue

Richie Cunningham advises his buddy not to hold a painting of a Turkish hat in such esteem.

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10/04/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

The proprietor of a manor house, in an exasperated tone, tells her gardener Bo that he is planting the creeping vines too far from the house.

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10/03/2019

Entertainment/Business

Clue

Yoko noted that the supposed retirement income vehicle specializing in visual illusions, but which one could never tell if they were really invested or not, was a con job.

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10/02/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Reply of a young Japanese boy to his judo instructor that the source of his fanciful, dreamlike musing was playing Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda.

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10/01/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

The cry of a depressed, irate, condemned female soldier who is on the run.

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Click here for September 30's solution

09/30/2019

Arts/Science

Clue

As he looks at an oscilloscope, the choir director sees a jumbled mess instead of a sine wave pattern and kisses the chances of the group's being able to sing together goodbye.

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09/27/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Would you like a suggestion to make your puppet show better? Heighten its grimness and somber look with feelings of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair.

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09/26/2019

Business/Tech

Clue

How one might summarize the status of a company which wanted to launch its website, but discovered during a meeting that both the graphic representation of its name, and the ability to get access its site were not ready.

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09/25/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Dolly insists on sticking to country music on her show as she nixes the idea of inviting Jay-Z.

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09/24/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Describing a supposed festive occasion complete with entertainment that was lackluster and fell well short of the event the previous year.

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Click here for September 23's solution

09/23/2019

Science

Clue

It is unlikely we will all be singing together as the sound waves we are emitting are not even close to being derivative of a simple trig function.

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09/20/2019

Business

Clue

Stammering mention of a popular sleep device.

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09/19/2019

Arts

Clue

A poet is non-committal regarding whether the naked folks in his poem are sexually attractive to devotees of pleasures of the flesh.

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09/18/2019

Business

Clue

An exclamation of excessive dither and anxiety after hearing that they are running out of the favorite Mexican beer at the mansion on the estate, only to learn that to was just a put-on.

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09/17/2019

World History

Clue

An example of being under pressure during talks to limit nuclear weapons: one woman, frustrated at what she was sure was a con job by her opponents finally can't take it and irately rejects the proposal.

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09/16/2019

World Geo/Food

Clue

Describing an Italian city in the throes of overpowering anxiety and terror at the boring, monotonous routine the city's grilled sandwich makers had fallen into.

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09/13/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Rae is told by her brother that despite great billboards and TV spots, their friend's father's ink parlor had made not one sale, and that the business was a financial disaster.

-- --- ----, (--- - ----- --- ---, ---) --- --- ---- - ---.

09/12/2019

Science

Clue

One way to describe sexual cannibalism in certain spiders and praying mantises.

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09/11/2019

Social Media

Clue

Since I don't have any kind of social media account, it is not possible that I am responsible for the harassment, you weak, slow-witted fool.

------- ---, -'-- ---- -- --------, --- ---.

09/10/2019

Food

Clue

Disbelief that this had been voted "Fruit of the Year."

-- --- - ------ ---!

09/09/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Erno who has just, surprised himself with having had sex with a beautiful redhead and wanting to hook up again, thinks about and hopes that he can easily find her using the "previous call" feature on his phone.

---- ---- -------, "-- --- --- -- ------?"

09/06/2019

Entertainment/Food

Clue

Closed captioning text from an episode of "The Avengers" in which Emma tastes a lunch meat cum tropical fruit cum crustacean delicacy from chef Bret and, finding it repulsive, curses.

----: ----'- ------- ~ ----- -------? (-----.)

09/05/2019

World History

Clue

TENSE DIPLOMACY: During taxing negotiations about limiting nuclear weapons, a woman positive of a sneaky ploy by the opposite side, becomes irate and finally can't take it any more and rejects their offer out of hand.

-- ------ -- ----, - ----, ---- -- - --- ----, ---, -- ---- ------- "--!"

09/04/2019

World Geo

Clue

Evidencing weariness and frustration that he may never get one, a man tells Rene that he desires, nay, loves the idea of getting a dachshund from a variety raised in the vicinity of Trevi Fountain or the slopes on Sicily.

---, ----, - ----/------ - -----/---- ------ ---.

09/03/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

What I said as I saw the female sheep standing out in the rain. the one who sensed that she we going to butchered and used for a hearty goulash with vegetables.

---'- - --- --- -- ------ -- - ----.

09/02/2019

Entertainment/Business

Clue

Arthur, a descendant of the host of a hugely popular variety show in the 1950s-60s, is shown how the per share price tells the unfortunate story of the aliens' investment in funds investing in "Au" stocks as an inflation hedge.

--- ----------- --- ---- -- ---'- ---- -----, --- --------.

08/30/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

An order to track down a sneaky, cowardly snitch, malicious in all respects, and yet woebegone, who will even prevaricate while praying.

-- -- ----- - ---- -------, - --- ---, ---, ----, - ---- -- ---.

08/29/2019

World Geo/Sports

Clue

A Russian wrestler, having upset several Japanese favorites to win a Tokyo tournament questions the ethics of a young woman who was running the tournament and had dug a hole in the ground to hide the prize money which had already converted from the yen for him.

-- ---- - ------ ---- -- ------, --- -- -----?

08/28/2019

Food/World Geo

Clue

The meat producing segment of ancient Rome's agriculture was able to sidestep the push that everyone be thrilled to go meatless.

----- -- ------ ----- ----.

08/27/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Having gotten all his paperwork ready, Abraham again sent off for the after purchase refunds he had been promised on the caviar he bought.

---, --- --------- --- -------.

08/26/2019

World Geo

Clue

Thus we saw that municipal ordinances in the Columbia city prevent us from growing marijuana, so we decided to grow a pale violet flower.

---- ---, ----, ----- ---. --,...---- - -----.

08/23/2019

World Geo/Arts

Clue

An Italian man who lives and works near La Scala really goes off on his wife in their messy divorce action, denying paternity of child Bret, refusing to support her, and accusing her of being wicked, cruel and an idiot.

---! ---- -- -- ----! -- ----- -------, ----, ------- ----!

08/22/2019

Arts

Clue

A sailor on the Nautilus questions his captain, who had led a poetry seminar on board, about whether the pleasure seeking characters in this emotionally charged lyric poem were female.

----, ---- --------- -- --- ---- -----?

08/21/2019

Entertainment

Clue

A woman comments on her realization that when she lost weight she lit up the interest of a British rocker who began with the punk band Generation X.

--, ------- - --- --- ------ ----.

08/20/2019

Business/World Geo

Clue

Plan for huge fruit pies to be served in the dining car of a computer/internet enhanced overhead trolley system.

-------- ----- ---- ---------.

08/19/2019

business/World Geo

Clue

As a man in Canada heads to an Exxon branded gas station that also now sells marijuana, he says this in response to "Why are you going there?"

-- ------- ---- ---.

08/16/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Same letters, different punctuation: A woman in the 1950s leaves a note for her man 1) wondering if he wants to watch some prime time TV with her after dinner or 2) letting him know that their lovemaking was taken to new heights this evening.

(1) _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _? _ _ _ _ _ _ _? - _ _ _ _.
(2) _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _! - _ _ _ _.

08/15/2019

History

Clue

Comments of a diplomat who is astonished at what he considers a crazy assault that is being leveled against the agreement among the Allies at the end of WW II concerning military and political matters relating to reconstruction in Germany and the ETO.

---! ---- --- - ----- - --- -- -------.

08/14/2019

Business

Clue

In a comment with double meaning, a sales manager for electric generators looks out over his stellar inventory and his group of energetic hardworking salesman and contemplates with alarm the large number of sales call they have to make, showing off the product.

---- -------, -- ---- -----!

08/13/2019

Business

Clue

An oafish pompous manager at Jason's, a national chain, who had been tailed as a suspect but then dismissed by a lumberjack hunting for communists, was attacked.

---- --- - ------ --------, -- ----, --- --------.

08/12/2019

Entertainment

Clue

With these words the grandfather of a good friend of Richie Cunningham says that even though he is old, he is putting an end to his grandson's cocaine use.

------, - ---- ------ -----.

08/09/2019

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

Text from a man to his friend named after a Viking explorer whom he was supposed to meet in Chicago, now disoriented because he ended up at a Bears game, not where he wanted to be.

-'- -- ------- -----, ----. ----. ---- -- -.

08/08/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

It's crocodile tears as a man tell his friend Bret about how his sister complains about her whiny idiot supervisor.

---, ----. ---' ---- -- --- ------ ----.

08/07/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

An Eclectic Road Race.

Ken in an Armani suit, Angie, I, Reed, Nan, and eerie Ignatius in AM ran a nine-K.

08/06/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

I saw that at the VA hospital, there visiting and comforting 9 medal of honor recipients as they lay recuperating is a young woman who was giving up her coming out ball to be of service, as she had done several times before.

------- -- ---- ---- ---- --- - ----- -- ---.

08/05/2019

World Geo/Food

Clue

Valerie is told that there is extremely high demand for the wide variety of sandwiches mad from meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie at the Greek cafe set in the local YMCA.

---, ---, --- '-' ---- -------.

08/02/2019

Entertainment

Clue

What Andy Dufresne felt after he slipped and fell, crotch exposed, as he straddled a pipe, depressed, on his escape from Shawshank Prison

------- ----, ------ ----.

08/01/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Possible answer to the challenge,"Name at least two chemical elements."

--------,-.-., -- ---.

07/31/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

In rather flowery language, a PE student familiarly tells his coach Arthur he must disagree with his order to exercise today.

-- ---, -- - ---------- ---, ---, -- --- - -- ---.

07/30/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

English words of an Italian highway patrol officer radioing ahead that the stretch luxury auto he has stopped headed toward La Scala had yielded marijuana during a search.

---'- -- - ---- -- ----- - ----.

07/29/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Deathbed comment as he expires from a man to his sister's daughter after being shot, indicating that he never himself considered using a gun in the petty quarrel gone bad.

----, -----. - -------- -- ----- -- ----.

07/26/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Brief news item about the press's making fun of Supervising Agent Emily's staging an all out assault by federal law enforcement over a dispute at a fondue party.

----- --- ------ ----. "-- --- ----, --!"

07/25/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Isn't it true that a single woman was able to correct our descent into the hell-hole of a mess I got us into again?

--- ---- ------- - ----- -'-- ------, --?

07/24/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Look out for being ensnared by ideas and songs of Kanye or Jay-Z which will suck the life out of you.

------! --------- -- --, - --- --- ---.

07/23/2019

USA Geo

Clue

A NY detective orders that the Dade County fellow arrested on charges of kneecapping strangers for no apparent reason be readied for the traditional walk past the media to the courthouse, past the media.

------- ----- ------, - ----.

07/22/2019

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

The entertainment chair for the convention of long haul truckers being held in the mountains of Switzerland tells them that he will see to it that there will be no Marcel Marceau imitators this year.

---- ---, - ---- -- - --- -- ------ -----.

07/19/2019

Arts/Myth

Clue

Princess Diana to a Robin Hood charcter re her oinion of a British literary heorione: more darling than ever but absorbed in suspicion about Mr. Rochester.

-- -- - ---- ----. ----: ----- --- --------.

07/18/2019

World Geo

Clue

Though the wide spout pitcher we saw displayed on the benches at a synagogue in a large Ukrainian city had been sitting unbid upon at the silent auction, we decided not to bid either.

-- ------- -- -- ---- ------ ---- ------ -- -- ------ ---.

07/17/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

The current pregnant state of several of the zoo's gorillas and chimps has changed the gloom and doom mindset of the committee charged with solving gestation problems to one of elation.

------- ---- ------- ----- ----.

07/16/2019

Entertainment/Tech/Sports

Clue

A high school boy snarkily asks for a bribe from Coach Foy to participate in gym class, and wonders if it is a popular soft drink.

-- -- ------, ---, - -----?

07/15/2019

Entertainment/Tech/Sports

Clue

I punked an Austin Texas computer legend or a long time Boston Celtic by tricking them into going here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

---- -- -- - ----------.

07/12/2019

Entertainment/USA Geo/Pseudoscience

Clue

When the Long Island Medium gets to Los Angeles for a show and discovers that her powers have really left her, she texts her friend in a panic and lets him know that she needs help in a big way.

-- --! ---! --- -----! -------! ---! - ---!

07/11/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

When Salvador calls a friend and asks her "wassup?" she woman laments her date and the fact that they are up at all hours drinking and stuff.

---, - ---- -----, -, ---- --- -- --. ----.

07/10/2019

World Geo/Business/Food

Clue

Question from a Domino's takeout guy to his friend, a customer in Bolivia about where, generally, his order was to be delivered.

-- --- ---, ----- ---?

07/09/2019

World Geo

Clue

An order to encourage the organization of an unruly riotous group recruited by Otto and dressed in military camo to vigorously assail immorality in the mountains of Switzerland.

---- -- ----- ---- --- ---- --- -- ------- ---- -- -- ---.

07/08/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A scientist relates to his mentor that in the research facility he frequented, one which was very wild with irreverent, scurrilous behavior, he put an end to marijuana use.

--- --- -- - ------ --- - --- -- - ----.

07/05/2019

Business/Food and Drink

Clue

A well known British painter tells how at about 9AM in Rome one day he sold several of his celebrated works, but only the water colors and pastels.

-------- --- --- ---- - --- -- ----, -- ------ -- ---.

07/04/2019

Business/Food and Drink

Clue

Tim's line in a play telling Ed who has been complaining nonstop about the food and service he gets at an Italian Chain, yet keeps going back, to write a bad review on their site if he is so pissed off about it.

---: --------? --- ---- ----- ------, --, ------!

07/03/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

I think we should hire the excellent prospect that you recommended!

------- --------! ---'-!

07/02/2019

Tech/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

A huge rock concert in Canada's Ontario province whose electrical needs would be sufficient to provide energy to approximately 700,000 homes for a year, easily enough to be provided by the flux capacitor.

-------- ------ ---.

07/01/2019

Tech

Clue

What you might call it when the evidence of your own eyes contradicts what your smart phone tells you.

------ ------- ----.

06/28/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Comment in an interview with Martin Milner about his experiences on the 1960s TV show Route 66, when he was asked about his co-star, indicating that he tended to be something of a scene stealer and overactor.

------- ---, - ---, ---, - ---.

06/27/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Fraught and haggard at being imprisoned by cannibals in 4 stages: (1) Fattened up, (2) Worshiped as God-like. (3) Mentally and physically debased, and (4) Eaten as a last course.

-------- --- -- --- ----~---
--- -- ---- -------
--- -- ---- -------
--- -- ---- --------.

06/26/2019

Entertainment/World Geo/Nature

Clue

A spokesman for a U2 star denies that his client brought his bird with a distinctive sound when he went to a birthing ceremony eight days after his Jewish friend's son was born.

--- ---- ---- ------ -- -- ----.

06/25/2019

Business

Clue

Who cares if there is a huge motorcycle gang war resulting in much carnage.

---. ------ ------.

06/24/2019

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

The female owner of a chalet in the mountains of Switzerland who is renting out a room to several guys who came for skiing warns them that she likes to play Megadeath, Ozzy Osborne, Iron Maiden, etc. into the wee hours.

----, -- ------ ---, - ---- -----.

06/21/2019

World Geo

Clue

A Jamaican judge indicates that as for himself he will no longer use classes in Eastern enlightenment as part of his sentencing.

-- ---- --- - ----: ---- ----, ---.

06/20/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A brief hurried message from the boss to Alec, commiserating with him about the fact that his interoffice rival Maureen had been granted the chance to work from home as he had not.

- ------, ----, -- --- -- --- - ---- ------.... -----. ~ ----.

06/19/2019

Arts

Clue

Mid morning Impressionist rivalry(?) wherein Edouard says he cannot stomach the work of Claude as he views it then.

----- -----? -- ------ -- --- --.

06/18/2019

Tech/Sports

Clue

The general manager of Elon Musk's gigafactory notes to Alvin that when the Dodgers' starting lineup comes for a visit, a car has been allocated for them to test drive.

--, --- ----- -- ---- --- - ----- -- - -----.

06/17/2019

Science

Clue

A fellow exults to his, friends two of whom have the same name, at his excitement at getting tickets so close to the stage for a concert featuring Steven Tyler, et al.

-- ----, ---! -- ----! ---------, -----!

06/14/2019

Science

Clue

Order from a physics professor to demagnetize the very talented man who he had just brought on board and who had now been calmed down after the accident with the electromagnet

------- - ------ - -----, --- --------.

06/13/2019

World Geo/History/Math

Clue

Japan's all time home run king shows a very positive attitude in cooking a Mexican food dish made of fish and the meat of a songbird.

-- --- --: ---- ------/--- -----.

06/12/2019

World Geo/History/Math

Clue

When Aristotle Onassis needed to hire a domestic and was sent several unsatisfactory candidates from a nearby Mediterranean island, he speculated to aide Ira on why they all had to be so obese.

--- --------," -- -- ----- ----'- -------- ---------- ---, ---?"

06/11/2019

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

An unsigned memo from Lieutenant Tragg to the prosecutor on "Perry Mason" about their upcoming lunch, requesting no Peruvian food at a restaurant named after the capital, because it is too spicy.

_ _: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _: _ _ _ _
_ _ _ "_ _ _ _." _ _ _!

06/10/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

This woman latched onto one of the girls at the coming out ball for dressing like a cocktail waitress.

----- ------- - ---, --- ------.

06/07/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Ruing the fact that bad things happen to good people, a woman laments to her friend that her newborn may not survive.

----, -----: -- ---- --- --- ----.

06/06/2019

Tech

Clue

A man says the idea that a deer can tell another is interested in a same sex relationship just by the vibes it gives off is a load of crap, and a NE Pats Quarterback concurs.

--, ---- ------, -.-. -- --, ----- ------ --.

06/05/2019

Tech

Clue

A member of the tenants association suggest to fellow member Alvin that they again lobby building superintendent Stella for wireless internet produced by Texas Instruments.

--, ---'- ---- -- -- ---- ----- ------.

06/04/2019

Arts

Clue

A renowned opera star notes a rival who is live streaming on Facebook.

---, --- ---- --- -- - ----- ----.

06/03/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

After a nerdy guy had been razzing the performers mercilessly, a security guard ask him whether he really wanted to get into it with the bull riders or bronco busters or whatever?

---- ----- ---, ---- ---?

05/31/2019

USA Geo/Science

Clue

One of the city fathers of a Central Florida city reports that its being able to get time on an early electronic general-purpose computer was addictive like a narcotic drug, C17 H21 NO4.

-----, -----'-, - -- -------.

05/30/2019

USA Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

An irate comment from a young man in Alaska who likes his Beefeater's simply over ice, at the thought of adding flavoring with a twist, an act he considers essentially immoral.

"---- ---," ----- - ---- ---, "- -------- -------?! ---?"

05/29/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Not one Peruvian soldier felt surprise at the low lying clouds reducing visibility.

"-- ------," -------- -- ---- --, "---."

05/28/2019

Food/Business

Clue

Abe pleaded with operating room nurse Delia to help hm put an end to the uproar that the recent spate of admissions was due to injuries caused by aliens.

"-----, -- --- -- --- -----," --- ------.

05/27/2019

Food/Business

Clue

Diana, en exec at a prominent US real estate firm, is told that the company's decision to invest betting on the fall in price of an eponymous Dutch semi-hard cheese was not very smart.

--, ---- --- ---- --- -- ---- --- ------.

05/24/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Here's an example of why I think the Apollo crew member might be capable of mass murder, the way he, a constant complainer gripes about a triviality, the screen image he had to click on to order leftovers from the NASA cafeteria.

--------- --------- --- ---- ---------- --- ----- ----,-.-.

05/23/2019

Food/World Geo

Clue

Words of irritation from Giada de Laurentiis when she discovers that in an Italian food cook off her dish had been jointly awarded first place along with one from French Polynesia.

---? ------ ----? ---- --!

05/22/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Young lady, to hell with that huge group of irate, insolent, impudent, contemptible jerks.

------, - ----- -- --- -' --------- - ~ -----, ---.

05/21/2019

World Geo

Clue

Sworn promises by her ancestors in Galway were to Irina an indication of their fealty to an ancient universal code of human conduct.

----- ----- --- -- -- ----- ---.

05/20/2019

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

When NBC decided to air a cake/pie/cookie competition in the arid conditions of California's Zip Code 92332, and send its football announcer Al Derogatis to cover it,this nervous, agitated woman drove him there. This palindromic PUN explains all.

-------- --- -- ------- ---- -- ------ --------.

05/17/2019

#MeToo

Clue

A young woman relates to her friend Deborah the sorrows she carries after having been bothered by Edward getting too close for comfort.

---, -------- - --, - ------ -- ------.

05/16/2019

Entertainment/Food?business

Clue

Andy tells his best bud from Shawshank that when he gets spice blends for basting meats at the supermarket he never considers this one particular brand.

---, -- --------- ----'-- - ------.

05/15/2019

World Geo

Clue

A Mideast watering hole near El Tor on the Gulf of Suez is soon to be off limits for members of the House of Saud.

--- ~ ------- -- - ----- --- ----.

05/14/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Those looks of us seemingly lost in thought are probably an indication that I am toting up the days receipts I dream we can reap from selling the masterworks we can sell after we sack and pillory the library.

------ - --- -- --- ----- -- --- --- - ---- - ---.

05/13/2019

World Geo

Clue

Crotchety, foolish old Dana, from a well known peninsula in the Mideast, acts too much like those guys from Toronto and Calgary.

--- -------- -- - ----- ----, - ----.

04/26/2019

Clue

Nan gets this negative reply after she suggests that sometimes the Strategic Air Command is hesitant or reserved in expressing what it is that it really wants.

--, -- --- ---, ---, -- --- --------?

04/25/2019

Entertaiment/Science

Clue

Yawning reaction to the killer whale show at Sea World.

-----? -- --- ---.

04/24/2019

Business

Clue

Edward is told that a prominent New York City retailer specializes in showy, pretentious, and often spurious items for photogs.

--, ----- ------- --- ----'- -----.

04/23/2019

History

Clue

Lewis leaves a note for his boy telling that the "prophetic quatrain collection" he is so enamored of has about the same predictive power as randomly tossing darts, and is a big nothing.

----, -- --- - ----, ---'-
-----------. ---. ~ ---

04/22/2019

Sports/History/World Geo

Clue

Mother, a real golf fan, noticed that the fertilizer used at the Master's was derived from the dung of seas birds whose habitat is a South China Sea land much in the Cold War news of the 1960 Presidential debates.

-- ------- -- --- --- - ----- -----.

04/19/2019

Sports/Business/World Geo

Clue

Formula One driver Ayrton is asked if he want to go to Howard Johnson's for dinner while he is in South Africa for a race.

--, ------------ ----, -----: ----'-?

04/18/2019

Food and Drink/ Entertainment

Clue

Quentin Tarantino orders a bartender to halt filling his glass of a classic Boston brew since his favorite actress/companion has noticed that there is an exciting, wild, darker malt beverage that she sees.

---- ------ ----- -- -- --, -- --- --- --- -----.

04/17/2019

Entertainment

Clue

After he retired from playing Tarzan on TV, the actor got a job in Carson City working for the state assessing the quality of socks with a multicolored diamond pattern sold there.

--- ------ ------ ------ ------.

04/16/2019

US Government

Clue

Suggestion from a staffer of Mike Pence that they try to sell the paintings purchased for his office because they irritated him.

----- "----'- ------" ---.

04/15/2019

Business

Clue

A bunch of grandmotherly types, incredibly loyal to a Japanese car company and dependent on it for its dividends providing their retirement income, tell how they love to pile into their Pathfinder and go around performing the song they wrote protesting double taxation of their company.

-- ----- ---- "--- -- ------ ------ ----."

04/12/2019

Entertainment

Clue

A Doonesbury character is told that not one of his 33 1/3s contained any songs by Fats Domino, or James Brown, or Bo Diddley or Gladys Knight.

--, ---- - -- --- ---- - --- -.

04/11/2019

USa Government/History

Clue

What GHW Bush yelled when he caught his Chief of Staff toking in the West Wing.

---, ------? ----!

04/10/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his sister to whom he has sold his often prone to flooding inn that Tomas can be counted on with no training whatsoever to take care of the problem if it ever occurs again.

---, - -------- ----- -- - ----- ------ -- --.

04/09/2019

History/Business

Clue

Classic philosophic question of Palindrome Land regarding an ancient ascetic Jewish sect which still has some members who work at General Electric.

-- -- ------- --- ---?

04/08/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man disagrees with his mother telling her that Damon the so called gourmet is devilish, morally low, and ill refined as is shown by the fact that his cooking specialties are restricted to leftovers.

--, --, ----- --- ----'- - ---- ---------- -----.

04/05/2019

USA History

Clue

What one might call the 1995 Courtroom of Judge Lance Ito regarding the confusing "what the hell is happening" atmosphere and back and forth regarding the genetic evidence presented in the OJ SImpson trial.

--- -- -- ----.

04/04/2019

Entertainment

Clue

After arguing about it, an enemy of James Bond angrily tells his boy that he the father is going to enroll him in softshoe lessons to music with morbid , dark themes and aesthetic. that are traditional in the family.

-- ----, "--'- ---- -- ---- ---'- -- ---, ---."

04/03/2019

USA Geography

Clue

Twin brothers, separated shortly after birth, both of whom were given a middle name of their father, and by coincidence each chose to go by that middle name, one an outgoing Dallas resident, the other a withdrawn Nashville resident.

(1) ------, -- ---------
(2) ------, -- ---------

04/02/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Unused line from the Movie "Carrie" in which we see understand the how and why of the dance going from fun and full of energy to full on demonic: she was hitting the Beefeater's.

---- ---- ---- ----- ( -, --- ---), ----- -- -----.

04/01/2019

SPorts/Food/Geo

Clue

Comment to "John"a fellow volleyball team member from Italy who mainly plays the front line, chiding him about the perfunctory salad dressing he had made of oil, vinegar and seasonings.

------ ----, - ---- ---- ------------.

03/29/2019

USAHistory&Government/Botany

Clue

Question to Watergate judge re his selection at the florist when he couldn't make up his mind.

------, ...,----, -----,----?

03/28/2019

History&Government

Clue

A Russian minister tells his boss that he has brought for 9 guys in generate excitement for the proposal.

-----, - --- ---- --- -- -- --- -- --.

03/27/2019

Sports

Clue

Here is the thought that went through my mind when I saw this pro basketball player who the press had reported missing from the Philadelphia team's training camp.

--, --- --- - --- - ------ ----?

03/26/2019

USA/World Geo

Clue

When a knight named for the Piedmont wine making region of Italy where he is from goes to visit a University in Hamilton New York, he is warned that it is dangerous and he should carry a gun.

--'- - ----, -------. --- - -----, --- ----.

03/25/2019

Entertainment/World Geo-History

Clue

A Star Wars villain is encouraged by an aide to continue to keep/move the details of their goods exchange with the ancient capital of Assyria, now opposite Mosul on the Tigris River, closer to the vest. .

---- ------- -----, -----, ---- ------.

03/22/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

The junior partner in an air conditioning business with his father tells how occasionally, but not on any regular basis, his dad is really dissatisfied with the job the son does installing units.

-------------'-- -- - -- --- --.

03/21/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Mr. Egan queries about whether he made a mistake by selling a Hewlett-Packard computer system he found in the large shipment that had been delayed at the warehouse.

--- - ---- --- -- ------ -- ----
-- ------ ----- ------- - ---?

03/20/2019

Food/History&Government

Clue

Alvin practically jumped across the room to get at a Spanish dish made by overweight Yasir, prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings.

-- ----- ---- -- - --- ------ ------.

03/19/2019

World Geo/USA Government

Clue

When the members of the Supreme Court went to Saigon in the 1950s to interview potential expert witnesses regarding a lawsuit involving putting in grass lawns, they find their man after having bypassed the first eight they interviewed.

---- --- -- --- -- ---- - --- --- --- ---- --- --.

03/18/2019

Science/USA Government

Clue

A man responds to his Scandinavian friend about the new job he has taken, director of press relations at NOAA for tidal wave related matters.

----, - --- -- ------- ----.

03/15/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Outraged reaction by a debutante to a nasty next round of hazing, canine sex, dreamed up by by a group of former participants.

"---," - --- --------, " --- --- - ---?"

03/14/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Goodness gracious, the way he sees it, I'm showboating.

---, -- --- ---- - --- ---.

03/13/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Invoking a deity from his mythology in a mild oath, an Athenian tells his girlfriend how he really doesn't care for Gilbert and Sullivan, as evidenced by his bad review of the production they are seeing.

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03/12/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

I saw that when an additional 9 brave men died in a plane crash, a cockpit instrument for each one was saved as a commemorative.

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03/11/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A rock guitarist tells a woman he knows how surprised he is that his favorite, absolutely insane amplifier's getting a little long in the tooth is an indicator of the declining fortunes of the band.

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03/08/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

The boss at the bedding store tells his the supervisor of his territory that he in #1 in getting people with good credit to buy on credit.

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03/07/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

It is a clever way to intercept illegal marijuana to storm the stations along the railed public transport at the airport.

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03/06/2019

Sports/World Geo/ Food and Drink

Clue

A Mexican American woman relates how she noted he uncle's custards which had no citrus or cantaloupe and which was in danger of going bad, so she said her goodbyes and left.

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03/05/2019

Sports/World Geo/ Food and Drink

Clue

Famed Czech long distance runner Zatopek is told of the he fuss and bother turned crude and brutal, relating to the battle between 7Up, Sprite, Fresca, Upper 10, etc. in an Alaskan town.

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03/04/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Deborah is told how, thinking of his days in combat, Edward feels their full weigh on his shoulders and that they have brought pressure on him, opening old wounds.

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03/01/2019

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Each of a group of highly ranked West Pointers together adamantly relate that, for example, the halfpiper who consistently gets the most elevation on his jumps is the one he saw from Lagos.

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02/28/2019

Sports

Clue

In a sarcastic remark a female Indy car and NASCAR driver feigns surprise and joy in that the Cadillac that she has rented for the day has air conditioning that actually works, having been burned several times in the past.

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02/27/2019

Entertainment/Food

Clue

What's that, you say that her foray into movie theatres has allowed Nan to corner a segment of the market for snack food based on steamed soybeans?

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02/26/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

One waitress leaves a note for another speculating about whether their co-worker Rona, embarrassed and crying her eyes out had been let go because of the takeout order she botched.

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02/25/2019

Sports/World Geo

Clue

A doubly alliterative palindrome in which Lewis is told that a former Yankee slugger followed a private teacher of cooking methods for a tuber of the Pacific Islands who was employed at a Trump golf course sandwich shop.

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02/22/2019

World Geo

Clue

A woman who can't wait to get up to her hotel room in Israel for her liaison with Levi, abruptly says so long to him when she finds that his manservant will not allow them to make love right there in the lift.

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02/21/2019

Science/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

Rocker Brian, unyielding in having the opposite opinion, is told that Dara, a US soldier geologist working on Sicily gave no thought whatsoever to the prevailing framework, assumptions,and methodology commonly accepted in studying volcanoes.

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02/20/2019

Food

Clue

When the brothers Tate tried opening a shop serving iced treats made from fruit juice, it gave everyone the runs.

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02/19/2019

World Geo

Clue

Let that Brazilian girl expert in her country's jazz influenced samba-like dance in on the fact that that I long for more classical dance fringed with western themes wherein the performers wield riatas.

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02/18/2019

World Geo

Clue

A man laughs at the suggestion by his friend with a Biblical name, that while he was losing control of the car he was fantasizing about the Playboy centerfolds on his wall.

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02/15/2019

World Geo

Clue

A strong reaction upon getting a whiff of this Russian woman's body odor and being told the reason: she was raised by her County Cork parents to shun bathing.

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02/14/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

An engineering executive at Panasonic tells an employee how the sticky tape he had showed her would improve their top of the line picture quality. ( I can't quite see how this would work, myself.)

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02/13/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

A private detective sent by the Dalai Lama to recover stolen art noticed that the painting he had traced to a delicatessen about mid morning was titled after Nathaniel who had been bitten by a snake and was done by by a French painter who led the charge from Realism into Impressionism.

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02/12/2019

Language

Clue

For heavens sake, Peter never contemplated naming something after his dog or cat.

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02/11/2019

World/USA Geo

Clue

One of the Little Rascals, an idiot, with little to say even as his fellow citizens react with sudden fear at a delicatessen in Central Florida, thrashed about violently with a bathing sponge.

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02/08/2019

World/USA Geo

Clue

A Mideast potentate is lobbied by his aide not to have Mabel, young mother from Tuscaloosa who was breastfeeding and exposing a good deal of flesh, arrested by the decency police.

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02/07/2019

Language/History

Clue

A Quaker judge passes sentence on a man accused of sexual assault who had asked for probation.

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02/06/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman laments to her friend Deborah that her boss Edward had gotten a little too close for comfort and that it was weighing heavily on her.

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02/05/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Punny exclamation to Jan about when the Star Wars warrior turned minister, out for a a ride on his motorcycle, gunned the motor and collided with Fido.

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02/04/2019

History

Clue

Staring at the canvas, a Roman emperor speculates about the young woman who he had just painted, figuring that she would have some reaction, yet curious that he had shocked and overwhelmed her.

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Click here for Febrary 01's solution

02/01/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Loni is told about an early, very 'B" movie, about aging vermin on an island overrun by mushrooms, that this actor had the lead in before "Everybody Loves Raymond" became popular.

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01/31/2019

World Geo/Arts

Clue

When Mozart played a concert in Bombay, the church, claiming it was under the Pope's jurisdiction, went after his fee.

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01/30/2019

World Geo

Clue

Silly Gina ( no) and Nina (yes) have a difference of opinion on how to welcome soldiers to their Inuit fortress, namely over whether to have sex with them.

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01/29/2019

Arts

Clue

A woman's male companion is exasperated, feeling he's been made a captive, and cannot bear to sit through "Swan Lake" after she took him to "Giselle" the previous might, and he swears "Never again!"

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01/28/2019

Languages

Clue

An archeological team member identifies to its knighted leader the ancient Germanic character representing a bear's erection, found on a stone in their dig.

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01/25/2019

Art/Science

Clue

After a field trip into a remote area crewmen of the Nautilus tell the captain that they have encountered and placated 7 simians whom they felt were almost godlike and hearkened back to the dawn of our species.

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01/24/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A government policy nerd remarks to his boss that just arrived for shelter, is a sunburned member of a religious order under relentless attack. a hazard to them all that he is willing to take.

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01/23/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Weak and limp, I yell out to a newborn cow whose height is impressive and which is having gastric stomach problems.

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01/22/2019

Sport/World Geo/Language

Clue

So listen, dude, are you saying that I should not tell the authorities some of the wrestlers have hidden leather straps to flog their opponents?

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Click here for January 21's solution

01/21/2019

Geo

Clue

The Health Commissioner in Boca Raton, Florida is asked whether Rosemary, one of his enforcers, had closed down a filthy bar/Mexican food place he noticed recently.

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01/18/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Not one of the military academy students, recognizing their potential victim, a dormitory peer leader and coordinator, as unlikely to fall for it, participated on the scam, saving their efforts for an easier target.

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01/17/2019

USA Geography/Arts

Clue

What you can do at a swap meet organized by female painters and sculptors on the campus of the University of Central Florida.

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01/16/2019

Sports

Clue

Thus, a New York Yankee superstar reliever, vexed at times, put an end to the real time snark of suave ladies man Amos.

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01/15/2019

World Languages /Geo

Clue

Floride, Dakota du Sud, or Georgie.

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01/14/2019

History

Clue

Mrs. Peron's Russian history teacher tells her that a terrible tsar's sense of foreboding again caused his bad temperament resulting in extreme verbal abuse to those around him.

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01/11/2019

#MeToo

Clue

Reply from a young woman with Edward's unwanted advances weighing heavily on her mind, to her friend who had asked of she was OK.

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01/10/2019

Tech

Clue

A small meat market which uses Macs, Mac Books, accepts Apple Pay, uses Homepod, etc. etc., is particularly good at this kind of deli meat.

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01/09/2019

World Geo

Clue

Is it not true that the ill conceived, ill thought out journey by a group of inexperienced women explorers to a serpentine ridge of gravelly and sandy drift left by glacial ice will be perceived as a severe departure from the norm?

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01/08/2019

World Geo

Clue

Mother inflicted injuries on an overweight woman whose heritage includes Native Americans and people from Jakarta on this Indonesian isle, and who runs a house of ill repute out of her small grocery/liquor store in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in NYC.

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01/07/2019

Government/Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A Mafia branch head, who is also a lawyer and has risen through the ranks in their professional organization, is not a fan of the New York night club often frequented my members of the family.

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01/04/2019

Sports/Entertainment/Science

Clue

A prominent race car drive, or actress, doing an advertisement for a Vitamin B3 supplement in the room of a klutzy, dorky, foolish college student.

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01/03/2019

US Government/Geo

Clue

Lament from one University of Alabama Democrat living in Auburn, AL to another on the thin attendance at their get togethers in 2009-2016.

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01/02/2019

US Government/Geo

Clue

Exultation of a prominent member of an Indiana family which produced Democratic senators and governors when a member of their family was accepted into a world class engineering school in Boston.

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01/01/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A girl tells her father that she noted that the vintage rotating fan from the delicatessen that he had been looking for, made in the mid 1930s, was in a cabinet usually used to store documents.

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12/31/2018

Entertainment/Food&Drink

Clue

A detective to his partner Eve, explaining that the suspect, actress Campbell's, genetic material had not bee found on the remains of a highball featuring Seagram''s and 7-UP that had been found at the crime scene,

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12/28/2018

World Geo

Clue

Order at the groundbreaking ceremony for building on land that had degenerated into dull, boring furrows of wagon tracks, as it had not ever been annexed by this thriving city in Belgium, but now finally was.

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12/27/2018

Sports

Clue

Did you say that I assisted famed Romanian gymnast Comaneci who died as we were committing the crime?

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12/26/2018

Food&Drink/ Languages/Entertainment

Clue

When a crazy beer maker came to the delicatessen which was planning to make its own beer, he was quite taken aback that they had no nice equipment, likes vats, etc, and they showed him the bath tub they were planning on using instead, at which point he quit the project.

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12/25/2018

Food&Drink/ Languages/Entertainment

Clue

Comment, using a French expletive, by Andy's partner to his mother regarding a sometimes slimy Cajun vegetable,that he finds disgusting.

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12/24/2018

History/Geo

Clue

Bill Clinton's attorney General leaves a note for a friend describing how calm ans stress free it is to be sipping beer in Brighton at a seaside resort.

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12/21/2018

US Government/Geo

Clue

When he had a drinking problem this Israeli premier and Nobel Prize winner agreed to go dry out in old colonial Massachusetts. His heart not really being in it, however, the city wasn't able to help him thanks to that little fridge in the hotel room.

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12/20/2018

US Government/Geo

Clue

Comment from a good friend to Supreme Court Justice Scalia that he doesn't have to worry for a while about his stalker Edward , a sad sack from Nevada because he is now on an Alaskan cruise.

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12/19/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

A judge at a wine tasting event tells a vintner that he cannot give any of his premium Bordeaux reds, as they currently stand, its top rating because of the hints of pork present.

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12/18/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A casino mogul describes how the tyrannical draw poker player par excellence he brought on board playing for the house now is regularly beating the casino's nemesis. a TV psychic who he thought had been taking them for a ride.

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12/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his wife that the dateless tree men he met at a party, then robbed, did not make fun of pictures of the couple's unborn child.

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12/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man who has accidentally swallowed some Grey Poupon laced with poison yells out to anyone within shouting distance to continuously help him activate his gag reflex as his throat and stomach are burning fiercely.

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12/13/2018

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A Chinese woman relates how actor Patel ( "Slumdog Millionaire") was a great admirer of the very elevated Chinese life force that had been bred into her. which had affected her overall intelligence.

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12/12/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

After music class TA Ron had asked who submitted an unsigned composition evoking The Koran and non-human mammals, with component pitches A,B,C,D,E,F,G. The author speaks up and claims it.

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12/11/2018

Food/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A celebrity chef and her sons do a makeover of the mushrooms they obtained from alien spaceships which are necessary for Jewish Passover meals.

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12/10/2018

Food

Clue

The bottom line on steamed soybean pods? Well, they make for a good cleanse.

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12/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman, very destitute, had dates every night for several weeks and always wanted to go out to eat with her date to save money on food, but she admits here that it really got tiring after a while.

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12/06/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

British teenager tells his Mother who has scored some weed for him and placed it on the other of the twin beds in his room that it could have been of higher quality.

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12/05/2018

Tech/Business

Clue

Developers at a Japanese car company have come up with an idea that the car morph into a canoe in case it goes into the water. But is is all manual, no hardware or software to perform the function. The boss suggests that those responsible be berated mercilessly for such a stupid idea.

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12/04/2018

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

It is my understanding that the best marksman for Star Trek TNG's second officer who I am employing also helps out a little in the Enterprise's bowling alley when the automatic pinspotter is down for maintenance.

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Click here for December 03's solution

12/03/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry and all agitated at the presence of Sam, a famous competitor [ who I thought would not be allowed in the race], I am very surprised that I emerged victorious.

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11/30/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

When I did the painting of Neil, a California drunkard, I portrayed him as a sunburned dork, unlike anyone Salvador could imagine.

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11/29/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Speaking in the 3rd person, Verne's submarine captain questions his North African contractor about the roofing material being used on the roof above his bedroom by the members of the plain living, antiwar sect that he had hired.

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11/28/2018

USA History

Clue

Frustrated Joseph McCarthy declaring himself smarter than witness Del at HUAC hearings in the 1950s describing what he said to Del who seemed not to be giving him the information he wanted.

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11/27/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Brief lines of dialogue in a new play detailing when Yoko met this actor who played The Joker on Batman on TV in the 1960s. She asks him whether he is sorry for what he had done and he dismisses the idea.

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11/26/2018

Entertainment/Tech

Clue

Edward is told how a famous actor's ( The Godfather) girlfriend Ana, a snarky sort, shopping in a bog box store for TVs dismissed any suggestion that she consider a Japanese model using electrically charged ionized particles.

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11/23/2018

Business

Clue

Terse text to a biblical patriarch from his insurance company that his plans when they rains came were hasty and ill thought out.

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11/22/2018

Miscealleneous

Clue

After the minister has gone missing, continuously eluding them, one member of the search party tells another that their subject is ex- military.

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11/21/2018

Miscealleneous

Clue

A museum director reacts in irritation when he notes that a painting of, and titled to suggest, two men in homoerotic love which everyone pretty much hated had been sent for display and that it would HAVE to be shown since an influential Hollywood personality on the board demanded it.

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11/20/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Ida is told that young women from Des Moines, looking for kinky sex involving pain and cruelty with roughnecks, guesstimate that they have found what they were looking for, considering the contraption they see off in the field.

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11/19/2018

Business

Clue

My discussion with Lewis who had been looking for a certain sum to be invested in his business. I had offered it to him for 20 % of the company but he said he was reluctant to give us equity, so I revised my offer as a loan.

"----, --- -- -- ----," - ---- ---.

11/16/2018

Business

Clue

Response to Levi who had been asked what kind of life his Coke executive/opera singer friend lived: her destiny was for it to be a crazy one.

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11/15/2018

Business

Clue

Bret, agog at actually being in the famed restaurant of celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson in Harlem, is reminded by his agog,excited companion of where they are for the first time and to concentrate and select what what he wants to eat.

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11/14/2018

Sports

Clue

Text from an infamous Heisman Trophy winner to a friend, a former Celtic and Celtic coach in the Bill Russell era, who had asked aboutwhat items of athletic undergarment he now sells on his new job.

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11/13/2018

Business

Clue

A cop tell his partner to write a ticket for the people at this Hasbro research facility for just being too darned active and frenzied as they pummel each other with foam-based weaponry.

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11/12/2018

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Astonished reactions to Fiona and her green ogre friend at a screening at a religious high school for United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a Christian sect known for its simple living, architecture, and furniture.

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11/09/2018

World Geo

Clue

Aristotle Onassis speculates to his butler Ira, in charge of hiring staff, why all the potential domestics that have been interviewed from the largest of the Greek islands are so rotund and whether being so is not a disqualifying consideration in the screening process.

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11/08/2018

World Geo/Science

Clue

A member of a religious order is told that this Swedish fellow who works in public relations for scientists searching for extra terrestrial life made a big mistake in not including media centers on Australia to announce their results.

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Click here for November 07's solution

11/07/2018

Science

Clue

Order from the lab director to demagnetize a fantastic new hire he had made, whom, fortunately he had been able to calm down after he had been subjected to an excessive magnetic field.

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11/06/2018

Arts

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, Dias it told by Eli that he absolutely hates an opera by an Italian composer, set in Egypt and featuring a well know Triumphal March.

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11/05/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

One FRIDAY morning Pat gets this frantic call that there is about to be a serious moral transgression that is causing quite a stink, as the Pope is planning to serve a traditional, small Italian sandwich filled with ,MEAT, cheese, grilled vegetables at a luncheon.

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11/02/2018

Cildren's Lit

Clue

What one of three men in a tub says to his pal, when he gets way to much sun and asks to get relief with a salve.

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11/01/2018

History/World Geo

Clue

Ruler of a rival of the large state that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia in in the 14th - 20th centuries given his troops a maxim to live by, saying that the enemy will be destroyed.

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10/31/2018

World geo

Clue

The "desert taxi" on a rd. through the Middle east between Egypt and Israel is a two humper.

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10/30/2018

Arts

Clue

Comments from a church alderman denying that the minister had been found consorting with and turning on erotic author Anais , as it was a dastardly act he would not ever do.

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10/29/2018

Science

Clue

Punny comment from "good" partner of cop Mott, replying in the negative, after they had switched roles in questioning a suspect, after Mott had wondered if he should continue to play Mr. Nice Guy or go back to the role that, on average he had played all these years, "bad" cop.

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10/27/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Middling decent wood for making bug proof chests, closets, etc.

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10/26/2018

History/US Geo/Food

Clue

The mother of Paul Tibbets, Hiroshima pilot, for whom he named his plane, is offered classic Texas brew and sausage, gratis.

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10/25/2018

World History/Geo

Clue

The female suicide bombers for a prominent terrorist organization don't need to have their hair done now, I suppose, as the beauty shops are empty.

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10/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

My drunken words of amazement to a woman I know about how our friend Derek, a leather worker had no plans whatsoever to make billfolds.

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---------- -- -------?"

10/23/2018

Arts/USA Geo/Science

Clue

Choir members performing at a South Carolina arts festival are told by the proprietor of the hotel where they are staying that their concerns over germs found there at a convention of food scientists are being taken of. He says he's on the job.

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10/22/2018

Food

Clue

Soldiers sent on a mission to buy noodles, stop for lunch at sad sack Rosemary's cafe, and having eaten her almost gone bad dessert which contained no citrus or cantaloupe as advertised, got angry and took it out on her.

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10/19/2018

Entertainment/World Geo/Sports

Clue

In "Midnight Cowboy" Joe Buck" asks a stylishly decked out Rizzo, resplendent in bright bell-bottoms and boots if his lady friend Luanne really had to attack the famous Japanese wrestler they had met.

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10/18/2018

Arts

Clue

A Polish city, at certain layers of society involving pretentiously showy painting and music, was crude and unrefined.

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10/17/2018

Arts

Clue

When Zubin the NY Philharmonic Director saw that the delicatessen had put out a giant spread of leftovers for the reception, he cried out in anguish.

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--- ------- ------.

10/16/2018

Tech

Clue

Noisy quarrels over employee logons at a major Dallas semiconductor company insidiously weaken its computer systems department.

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10/15/2018

history/World Geo

Clue

When Chinese forces invading a Greek city-state offered an elaborate curved roof temple as a gift, and departed, an elder warns them of the fate that befell Troy and insists that they send out a warning signal.

--, ------ -- ---- --- --
--- ------ ----. ---!

10/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman curses to her mother, feeling that her life is going to pot comtemplating her impecunious state from student loans.

--? - ---! -- ------! - --
- ------ -- ------ - --.

10/11/2018

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

I question Lee who claims that the era of children's books with 3-D photo effects illustrating various works by Puccini, Verdi, etc. is over, while I still feel that they are cool and desirable.

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10/10/2018

Entertainment/US Government

Clue

A CPA who has just opened his own consulting firm to help clients with their income tax problems calls a music streaming service to have them set his office up for it.

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10/09/2018

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

Samuel, son of a James Bond nemesis, finds climbing the tallest peak in Antarctica a religious experience, almost like reading the Bible in more modern English.

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10/08/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

An up and coming young actress is excessively excited, indeed crazed, yet pale with apprehension as she closely follows and provokes in social media postings about the hysterics surrounding the infestation of a Dutch beer factory by vermin.

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10/05/2018

World Geo/Sports

Clue

A hugely embarrassing mistake at The Tour of Italy bicycle race wherein riders crashed into a specially outfitted tractor trailer where spectators could get married while enjoying the race.

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10/04/2018

Food

Clue

A woman chides her boyfriend for complaining about the faint hint of this spongy bulb that remains on her breath from the Italian food she had eaten earlier.

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10/03/2018

Finance

Clue

I sarcastically, angrily let Edward know that he should demand of his staff they they do not trade any options to sell, as I have buried that idea.

"----, --! ------ -- -- ----," -, -----, ----.

10/02/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

An order from the major to the seargent to put an end to the platoon members going down into the wet, spongy area nearby to smoke dope.

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10/01/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Instruction given to mimic the sound of a machine gun at lower speed of fire.

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09/28/2018

Arts/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

The first officer on The Nautilus reports to the captain that the ill behaved son a hip-hop mogul visiting from Bangkok is despised and an outcast to the crew.

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09/27/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Wondering if actor Richard's poetry is sufficiently pious.

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09/26/2018

History/Science

Clue

What you might call tricks played on his students by a ancient Eleatic philosopher when he told them that they could never ever finish their shaved ice treats because first they would have to eat half of it, then half of the remaining, or 1/4 of it..,then half of the remaining or 1/8, etc., there always being SOME remaining to be eaten.

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09/25/2018

Food/World Geo

Clue

Anthropologist Upton is told that the fact that a large community with common customs developed several different varieties on this Spanish dish prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings, was not a factor in its abrupt advance forward.

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09/24/2018

Arts

Clue

How do the beaches due East of Ho Chi Minh city feel about "clothing optional?" Not sure, guy.

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09/21/2018

Arts

Clue

Little Eleanor, a great great great great great granddaughter of an Italian opera master blew the morning bugle call at camp.

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09/20/2018

World Geo

Clue

When Lewis asks a man how he liked his vacation, the man replies that, for instance, considering Putin and all, it certainly was no barrel of laughs.

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09/19/2018

Arts

Clue

I tell my Mexican friend who was running my garage sale for a while that if I were he, I would go and try to get back the cool rare, cutting edge compact disk of an early Yo-Yo Ma which is now gone because it was accidentally sold.

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09/18/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

This melancholy, wicked man went through life working at a throwback job, carrying baggage at various railroad stations as he roamed aimlessly from place to place.

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09/17/2018

World Geography

Clue

A University of Texas grad, who just got back from the beach and is putting on a concert in his now home town in Sweden, put the kibosh on a foray into baroque classical music by a groundbreaking British punk rock band.

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09/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man's fatalistic assessment of his mother's life spent being and doing evil, a mistake of creation, hated just as he has been.

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09/13/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Make your preparations within the protective compartment housing Star Wars warrior sharpshooters.

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09/12/2018

Government/Entertainment

Clue

A lawyer for a Miami-based serial killer, hearing that he is still in jail, is surprised, wondering if the habeas corpus petitions have not been granted.

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09/11/2018

World Geo

Clue

North Africans make improvements in the place in the hotel where a man absolutely transfixed on robbing people at the parade was staying.

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09/10/2018

World Geo

Clue

Not caring at all what kind of TV or newspaper coverage she got, this woman had an absolutely tormenting obsession with tiny Japanese trees.

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09/07/2018

Entertainment

Clue

A prudish veterinarian at the zoological park in a fictionalized Connecticut town of zombie-like submissive wives, orders that certain animals producing copious amounts of fluid cannot be seen having sex.

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09/06/2018

World Geo

Clue

Viscerally irritated at Mr. Dias, I curtly but politely told him that I had consulted my phone on several occasions and each time I got the same message, that there were no plans afoot to sign the ballplayer I had asked about to a contract.

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09/05/2018

World Geo

Clue

The goal of a woman from Dublin is to raise a family using the sperm of her friend and neighbor, an only child gone missing in the war and presumed dead, so that the family's long line will go unbroken.

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09/04/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

Teaser headline sourced from Soviet New Agency regarding a sudden breakout of overwhelming fear in a Volkswagen sedan.

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09/03/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Insensitive, negative reply to a mother when she asked if her ( not very bright ) son was finding learning Latin easy.

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08/31/2018

World Geo

Clue

A man angrily tells his wife Ana, to pay attention, that the cabinetry she has chosen for the kitchen is THE WORST, and that he is in favor of cool mahogany hued ones like those he misplaced after buying them when they visited Spain.

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08/30/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

The recently enacted statute that discourteous, insensitive Valerie had pushed in an ancient Sumerian city, severely restricting the times when a vast majority of the population could drink ale, made it feel like bondage to them.

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08/29/2018

Food

Clue

I tell Kay that I have some inside information about the "signature" Japanese sauce advertised by the delicatessen to be unique to their food. I actually sell it at my burger joint.

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08/28/2018

World Geo/Arts

Clue

Irate while attending a discussion group at Tehran University on impressionist images of ballerinas, I sent a text to this friend.

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08/27/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A prisoner about to be hanged indicates that he would like dessert for his final meal.

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08/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A group of ailing centenarians in a nursing home contemplating what is likely to be their final presidential election in November, 2012 raise a toast to their common role of voting Republican.

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08/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A manager is told by the CEO that her employee, a woman named Ott, was fired because her frequent marijuana use.

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08/22/2018

Sports/Food/USA Geo

Clue

This is what a famed Oakland A's pitcher of the early 1970s told Food Network southern chef Deen before he headed back to California, describing to her his hankering for some of their shared heritage of Southern candy like he used to eat in his native Louisiana.

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08/21/2018

Sports/ World History/Geo

Clue

I noticed that crazy Edward, our groundskeeper for the Masters, decided to use a special fertilizer made of bat dung from an island in the Taiwan Straits, strategic during the Cold War, just as I had told him to.

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08/20/2018

USA Geo

Clue

The artwork produced by my sister while she was imprisoned on "The Rock" was first rate.

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08/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

What you might say happened when a West Pointer and the cat which had been adopted by the dorm in which he he lived each suffered a grievous catastrophic loss yet found emotional support and connection that got them each through.

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08/16/2018

USA Geo

Clue

The stoner from Hawaii who I am planning to employ is Alvin, an idealistic social reformer.

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08/15/2018

Entertainment

Clue

A guy leaving, who admits he's what people would call clueless and out of touch, says he can find nothing good to say about hip-hop.

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08/14/2018

Entertainment/Food

Clue

Closed caption contents in an episode of "The Avengers," when Steed's sidekick gives her profane assessment, as suitably modified by the censors of chef Bret's dish made of fine shellfish, lunch meat and tropical fruit.

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08/13/2018

Business

Clue

After a big corporate battle over sneakers, the new CEO of Adidas suggests to aid Margaret that the best thing they can do is communicate a peace offering to their rival, and to do it old school.

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08/10/2018

Food

Clue

A report back on the first of a series of food trades with a friend, namely a container of very sweet spaghetti sauce for a hot pepper.

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08/08/2018

History/Science

Clue

The bottom line is ( oh my God! ) that unfortunately a satanic terrapin was able to channel deep seated facts about my life when I was a boy living in girls' bodies.

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08/08/2018

History/Science

Clue

When "Lawrence of Arabia" has been snooping around someone points out that one of his seargents would not prevaricate in a conversation he had with the Cosmos star and head of the Hayden Planetarium.

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08/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

That crazy, ridiculous, weird moon was not a harbinger, as was pointed out by Nina.

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08/06/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Angered at at the District Attorney after a hard fought case,an Australian lawyer friend of mine cheering as he went had an audience in India with a sovereign princess.

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08/03/2018

The Bible

Clue

Words from Jesus to Judas, telling him he wants to have a chat after Judas had offered his famous question.

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08/02/2018

History

Clue

I point out that in not too long 9 additional assistants to a Roman emperor who, probably legendarily, fiddled while Rome burned, will be hanged.

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08/01/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

This guy is the editor of a magazine about alien visitations.

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07/31/2018

USA Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

A frat guy tells his buds that in the large estate they live in at the College of Central Florida, the man who delivers the Mexican beer is even more than royalty.

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07/30/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A father tries to convince his daughter Diana that she does not want to develop any feelings for the guy she is seeing, a spoiled son of a movie star who also is an LSD druggie.

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07/27/2018

USA Geo

Clue

A campus police officer in New Haven reports to his superior that a male student had been found in a planter on on of these:

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07/26/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Using Morse code, Anita asks whether Red, having been expectorated on after ordering in an Oklahoma City restaurant, shook if off and just carried on as if everything was all right.

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07/25/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Nola, who was intoxicated, certainly gave no thought whatsoever to the careful examination of the proposal for the office to switch to decaffeinated coffee.

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07/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A minister is told that a group of 9 dock workers treated a group of veterans poorly by persistently ridiculing and harassing them in a poetic jam.

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07/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A soldier tells his CO how he did his normal duty and took his horse and visited 9 additional former members of his troop who had distinguished themselves in battle in order to give them their medals, but then backtracked and admits maybe he also visited his girlfriend instead.

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07/20/2018

History&Government

Clue

After leaving office, Bill Clinton's VP befriended my mother who admired him immensely, and he happily came for a visit where he took her to lunch where she eats a grinder, as kind of a pun on how she felt about him, and he eats pork loin.. This palindrome sums it up.

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07/19/2018

History&Government

Clue

A budding Syrian terrorist whose mom has just written a novel asks her if the main was modeled after the country' president, who has the same character as he: tough, powerful, intimidating. A budding Syrian terrorist whose mom has just written a novel asks her if the main character was modeled after the country' president, who is like him: tough, powerful, intimidating.

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07/18/2018

Entertainment

Clue

An unsigned memo from Bud to his boss in"Wall Street" disparaging the US's most prominent medical society, indicating that they make him want to throw up.

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07/17/2018

World Geo/Languages/History

Clue

Characterization by a Mexican waiter of the big nothing of a soiree Trump threw to celebrate the Islamic Holy Month, [clearly a fantasy event which would never happen.]

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07/16/2018

World Geo

Clue

I detest it when I have to modify the military installation on the eastern end of the largest island in French Polynesia for other use because of a mistake.

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07/13/2018

Arts/Entertainment/Business

Clue

Moonlighting as a salesman at the auto dealership while he wasn't studying, young medical resident Howser refused to allow Arthur to use this NOW classic 50s Ford in making a deal on a new vehicle because he thought the car was an absolute lemon.

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07/12/2018

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

A chocolate factory boy, confused about why people kept making jokes that ended with "Damn it, Janet," is schooled on its origin.

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07/11/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Comment regarding a very senior citizen returning to college in Los Angeles to get his theatre degree, but whose attention to detail re his lines is obsessive to the point of annoyance to others unless he can be broken of this habit, as he always calls "line" even for the smallest correction,

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07/10/2018

Entertainment/Nature

Clue

Comment from a "psychic and spiritual advisor) to a client who had asked him to evaluate his relationship with Sue, where she says she must get up and go get her cards.

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07/09/2018

Entertainment/Nature

Clue

Right up until my retirement from SPECTRE, I insisted over and over again to the agent often assigned to dispose of James Bond, that I did not want him putting contracts out on large South American snakes.

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07/06/2018

Entertainment

Clue

I reveal that when they were making the movie and needed close ups of an actress who was supposed to be very lithe, supple, and flexible, they brought in an English supermodel prominent in Calvin Klein ads as a double.

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07/05/2018

World History/Geo/Food

Clue

Daughter-in-law to the wife of an Egyptian president tells her who she is going to get to do the food at an upcoming event, a man who has a hyphenated nickname using two Mexican food favorites both beginning with the letter T.

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07/04/2018

Arts

Clue

Complaint from a customer to a dealer that the painting he sold, in chalky, soft subdued shades he has for sale, one purportedly done by AA Milne of one of his characters is a fake, and that he got conned.

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07/03/2018

Arts/World Geo/Languages

Clue

British man informs his mother that circumstances could be better for her now that the passenger add on to her motorcycle had been found by the cops, but that they had found marijuana in it.

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07/02/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

A huge Japanese wrestler turned PI tracked down the green auto's ownership to a man of Middle eastern descent.

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06/29/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

The final thing JK Rowling said to her Italian publisher Salvador, trying to convince him to distribute in Italy because Harry's main antagonist would go over very well there.

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06/28/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Upset, a Brit somewhat rudely admonishes a tourist from California not to disparage a historic public area near Charing Cross Station in London.

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06/27/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

A "house mother" who runs an inn catering to artists at a famed South Carolina arts festival has strict rules against late night carousing, dirtiness, booze, and hooking up at her establishment.

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06/26/2018

USA History

Clue

When William Dawes and friend had dinner on April 17, 1775, and the friend said he felt bad because he was eating deer meat, Dawes tells him that at no time did he consider it a moral failing.

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06/25/2018

Sports

Clue

An assistant's comment to Clemson's head football coach who had questioned the signing a player because of his drug use, arguing that, well it could be worse, considering all the conditions and concessions the hotshot has asked for.

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06/23/2018

USA Geo

Clue

A man relates how a large number of the persistently tormenting obsessions he has are actually first-rate, showing serious self control just like the serious, hardworking people in his Alaska hometown.

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06/22/2018

Tech

Clue

A young man relates how he has broken a confidence. telling everyone that the skinny braggart at the delicatessen who claimed he had mastered an early video game installed there was not telling the truth

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06/21/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Twitter meme for those following the travails of the captain of the Nautilus as he fails over and over again on his test to get into the high IQ Society.

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06/20/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

When famed bullfighter Rodrigo is asked what airline he flies, this is his answer.

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06/19/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A sort of formally blunt comment from one man at a reception to another, turning away from their conversation in favor of having one with one of the female guests of honor.

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06/18/2018

Entertainment

Clue

The vibe was that harsh, grim,desolate hip-hop music animated the feelings of impending disaster among the vermin.

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06/15/2018

Miacellaneous

Clue

A philosophical chicken, having noticed all her other barnyard mates bed down, muses on whether the farmer or anyone else had given the order to do so.

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--------, ----- - ---?

06/14/2018

Entertainment/Food/Business

Clue

Elvis' daughter made a wager that the jerk who cut her off driving a Pathfinder liked to have his food flavored with a minty herb common in Italian cooking.

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06/13/2018

Miscelaneous

Clue

A District Attorney cries out in anguish over how a female police officer had, confidently subdued the perp, but by zapping him mercilessly, as of the devil.

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06/12/2018

USA Arts/USA History

Clue

Dorothy manages to get a message to her German grandfather, telling him that "over the rainbow" the powers that be had curtailed the airtime of the scourge of O'Reilly and his like minded network buds.

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06/11/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

I, a cook at Annapolis, toss to Morton and his crew who make deliveries for us, a turnover filled with cheese and cold cuts and vegetables on pizza dough, as it was hated by the men.

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06/08/2018

Science/Food

Clue

The son in a mother/son research team suggests that they toast first, instead, when she suggests that they dig on the hog's quarter that she had cooked to celebrate their history making synthesis of genetic material in sheep.

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06/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

If you are going to go ballistic over someone's bad driving, better watch out that you don't burst a major artery.

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06/06/2018

Business/Food

Clue

A crusty old sailor I noticed at a big German software firm rhapsodizes as he was confronted with a buffet containing varieties of Italian dishes made form large rectangular strips of pasta.

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06/05/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

I tell a young woman that a vast lot of impudent, insolent pricks who are so angry can just go to hell.

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06/04/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Clue: (Category = Food) A contestant in a sashimi eating contest describes the moment he had to give up, after consuming the equivalent of approximately 10 yellow fin tuna.

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05/31/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

A West Pointer saw nose mucous in the Chinese soup he ordered.

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05/30/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

Do not allow in the woman we had called, a foolish Saudi woman who lives in Australia and works for a Japanese car manufacturer.

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05/29/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

I tell Olivia that disgusting, repulsive, highly offensive moths heighten my excitement in the wetlands we are exploring.

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05/28/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Listen to me, don't let that sad sack from Mecca into our watering hole where we specialize in a wide variety of Spanish appetizers, one that grandmother took a flyer on, hoping to make it go.

----, --- -- ---- --- --
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05/25/2018

Mathematics/History

Clue

Scams perpetrated by an Eleatic in ancient Greece wherein he convinced young people to give him their shaved ice treats , as they would never be able to finish them anyway, needing to eat half, and then half of what was remaining, then half of that remaining part, thus never actually being able to consume the whole thing.

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05/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young female soldier tells how she is feeling depressed and is becoming insane at being vilified over leaving her unit without permission.

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05/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman is encouraged to have the courage to say "no" to her normal routine in casting her ballot, always the same, but to turn to the extreme and drastic, to go against the norm..

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05/22/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

My Lord, Lena, tearing up, wasn't crazy when she married a schnauzer?

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05/21/2018

World Geo/languages

Clue

A Spanish woman wonders wonders if she failed to say "good-bye" as she left and is embarrassed about it.

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05/18/2018

Sports/USA Geo/Food)

Clue

I tell former MLB player Martinez of the Yankees. Mariner, Devils Rays, and Cardinals circa 1990-2005, that I ate a Fairbanks version of a dish of greens with slices of Tibetan ox and flakes of tuna.

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05/17/2018

Languages/Business

Clue

Now a Lyft fan, a Frenchman relates his poor experience with the Big Dog in the space.

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05/16/2018

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

What you call Oculus Rift as part of an entertainment package made for a luxury motor home for Sylvester who is a New York baseball player.

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05/15/2018

Aporta/Science

Clue

A star San Antonio Spur guard relates how, while vacationing with his girlfriend at the beach, he had difficulty getting the words out when he noticed that a tidal wave was looming.

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05/14/2018

Entertainment/Business

Clue

A member of the firm which handles the retirement account for a member of an early punk rock band( "Blitzkrieg Pop") tells a colleague it has come back from the dead after having taken a dip in a down market spell.

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05/11/2018

Entertainment

Clue

When Ray and Deborah's twin boys were born, their dad made this vow that they would be well educated.

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05/10/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

In a national cooking festival where all the state winners competed against each other, an entry from Chicago which used a Nabisco cookie as its base and combined it with elements of cuisine and methods from an alien ship, was deemed sensual to the point of almost being illegal.

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05/09/2018

USA Government/Geo

Clue

The police in Los Angeles were astounded at the scam they uncovered involving the selling of nuts which had supposedly been made by the space agency and were calories free.

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05/08/2018

HistoryGovernment/Food

Clue

An aide to Israeli PM Shimon tells him how he irritates a representative of Hellman's who had come to try to get them to buy sandwich spread.

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Click here for May 07's solution

05/07/2018

World Geo

Clue

The number by the group composed of 3 women from Rome and 3 from Guatemala was struck from the program celebrating the Vietnamese New Year.

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05/04/2018

Languages

Clue

"In actuality", Enid puts a stop to risque, alluring behavior.

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05/03/2018

Arts/Languages

Clue

"The Rime of the Ancient mariner" explained by a student to his German grandfather.

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05/02/2018

World Geo

Clue

With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate ate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.

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05/01/2018

Entertainment/Business

Clue

I told a Spanish man that when I went "over the rainbow" I was absolutely in love with my cell phone service.

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Click here for April 30's solution

04/30/2018

World Geo

Clue

With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.

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04/27/2018

Government

Clue

You should pay attention to the fact that in the rib eating contest at a delicatessen in Vegas one of the judges, the PM of Israel, really lambasted the establishment over the quality of some barbecue I had put my money on.

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04/26/2018

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

At an auction of used New York baseball locker room paraphernalia during the era when it had a minor league team, reps of this small western city, whose named means a small hill arising from flat surroundings, decided not to bid on the ice bath device.

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04/25/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Police captain angrily reports how patrolman Tim became certain of his collar, albeit by being ruthlessly, devilishly efficient in zapping the suspect.

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04/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Two naturalists noted that the doe and the buck cleansed themselves in the river before mating.

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04/23/2018

World Geo

Clue

Rodney is told to really get the motor running on the new jointly owned business making and repairing medium sized orchestral string instruments

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04/20/2018

World Geo

Clue

Young Ara, given the task of choosing the procession's formation, gave no thought whatsoever to this one.

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04/19/2018

World Geo

Clue

Having reached the rank of Royal Master of Tires and retired after years of long service on government vehicles in Mumbai, 9 gentlemen find themselves having fallen on hard times. A legislator speaks up in Parliament on their behalf:

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04/18/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Emily is questioned about her assertion that the high ranking Turkish official is a connoisseur, a gourmet when it comes to leftovers.

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04/17/2018

Languages/Botany

Clue

My "psychic" Mexican aunt, haughty now that she thinks she is such an expert on dwarfed Japanese plantings.

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04/16/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A madam refuses service to a group of men who confess to being way behind on their bills and want credit.

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04/13/2018

USA Entertainment/Science

Clue

The machines are coming: a very fast piece composed by an electronically enhanced human/machine named after a famous jazz singer.

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04/12/2018

USA Miscellaneous

Clue

Iggy is told that the shoulder length mink wrap perfectly suited Angela.

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04/11/2018

USA History/Government

Clue

NYC detective's note to himself ca. early 1980s, that in the drug investigation, the mayor himself had witnessed suspect Robert in the bathroom cleaning cocaine dust from his hands.

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04/10/2018

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

[Unable to afford individual sets?] People in a far West African country who lived in small hamlets have to share a single game system to play Mario Bros.

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04/09/2018

Entertainment[NSFW]

Clue

In a never aired [for obvious reasons] episode of an early 70s TV doctor show, a young boy tells his mom that that when he and his teenage sister were at the doctor's office for a checkup she...gratified the doctor orally.

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04/06/2018

Entertainment/Language

Clue

Japanese Cousin of a Sea World killer whale laments to her about being stuck in a crummy high school swimming pool, but seems resigned to his fate.

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04/05/2018

Business/Religion

Clue

Vincent's retirement vehicle grew and was inspired by biblical principles as laid out in a relatively recent modern translation.

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04/04/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Terse line on a resume regarding previous experience:managed a small, but deluxe, grocery store on the moon.

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04/03/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Landlord to tenant indicating that he believes it is nonsense that he cannot pay the rent by the agreed on date.

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04/02/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Repeating the question, the principal answers a student who has asked if there are any careers he recommends avoiding: namely, toe tapping dance in the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

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03/30/2018

Arts

Clue

Co-owner of a tattoo shop tells his partner that an excellent artist of theirs had gotten mad at a customer, an itinerant seasonal worker, and cut him up pretty badly.

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03/29/2018

Entertainment

Clue

What Loretta Lynn said to her husband when she was going to try out a new song for him inspired by their new young one, but leaving out the part about where his temperament was to be overly curious.

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03/28/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

As they stalk the often gloomy, depressed cult leader who typically preaches apocalypse, one member tries to encourage another to act to take him out while he has stopped to take a leak.

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03/27/2018

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Cry from Lassie calling for medical aid , as he and Timmy ride the New York subway and witness a man kill his own brother.

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03/26/2018

Government

Clue

Roger, the attorney for a "psychic" on trial for fraud, embarrassed at the dressing down he has just gotten from the judge, is now in agreement with judge's order that his client is to refrain from making any public statements about the case.

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03/23/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Unfortunately the college dorm version of a classic Italian dish with chicken that I touched failed to feature its luscious signature sauce made with a wine similar to port if Madeira.

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03/22/2018

World Languages

Clue

A Frenchman tells how very disappointed he is that Ivan came to stay for a while.

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03/21/2018

Business/Entertainment/USA History

Clue

In a time warp fantasy, a legendary Dodge city lawman retires and decides to get a job with Sony servicing early video players. After taking a proficiency test, he speaks to the press, shaking his head about how poor a job he feels he did.

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03/20/2018

Sports

Clue

The confidant and business partner accompanying ex Yankee Jeter is his friend who plays Baseball in Houston, and who is extremely drunk.

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03/19/2018

World Languages/Food

Clue

A Mexican man exults at the extremely velvet, smooth, yet spicy braised pork dish, which he finds delicious.

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03/16/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

Maureen's dinner companion complains to her that is was a big mistake to order the "leftovers" on the menu[which seem to have given her food poisoning]...and now needs a bathroom really bad.

--, ---- -----!...--------!

03/15/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

Guiding principle of an Islamic woman: Iraq despot's Uday and Qusay, practically subhuman, anger her as they are emblematic of a headlong panic as her religion descends into perversion of its ideals.

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03/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Good grief, mother, a minister riding on an incline at a skateboard park hit a canine head on.

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03/13/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Text sent by the writer of an alternate viewpoint essay for the West Point newspaper to its editor, one of the highest ranking of all the students at the academy, letting him know that he had dropped off his piece in the paper's mailbox.

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03/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

An Audubon Society devotee is asked by a waitress if he would like his steak rare.

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03/09/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

A beer snob is disappointed at the Boston craft brew instead of his favored imports. What are we coming to?

----, - --- ----- -- --, -----, - --- ---.

03/08/2018

Entertainment/Arts

Clue

An unkind assessment to U2 lead singer of the art objects for sale in a flea market stall operated by Yoko.

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03/07/2018

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

A crime lab guy emphasizes to the detective that actress Campbell's genetic material was not found on the highball made with Seagram's whiskey that was found at the scene.

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03/06/2018

USA Government

Clue

When George H.W. Bush had gotten a little sideways with his chief of staff, a rival for the position speculates on whether he has been axed.

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03/05/2018

Government

Clue

Do you understand me, when it comes to taxes you don't mess around with the government as they are unyielding in their rules.

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03/02/2018

Science

Clue

A colleague informs his friend, an anthropologist of somewhat high rank, that he is chasing an evolutionary dead end in studying specimens found in a German valley in 1856.

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03/01/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Gilda Radner offers a drink to this woman, visiting the SNL set before Gilda goes on famously to impersonate her.

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02/28/2018

World Geo

Clue

In a move of extremely bad judgement, swaying about haphazardly from intoxication, 9 guys urinated into the river near Luxor in such quantities as to raise its level.

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02/27/2018

World Languages/Geo

Clue

When Trump's daughter arranged for the president of Mexico to visit with them and supporter Sarah Palin in Wasilla over the Christmas holidays,the prez tried to dissuade her, leaving her this unsigned note.

-- -- -------, ------, --?

02/26/2018

World Languages/Geo

Clue

Complaint of a young man from Oman that the French girl who he considers his girlfriend thinks of him as a baby.

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02/23/2018

Government&History

Clue

Press release by an aide of the choice by the Mayor of New York, circa 2016,of his physician-to-be.

--. -- -- ------ -- -- -------.

02/22/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

A veteran airline CEO scolds a young whipper-snapper of an investigator at an FAA hearing after a series of mishaps, denying that any of his captains gave any thought whatsoever to drinking Russia Vodka.

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02/21/2018

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Gino's wife pleads with her Jewish husband one Friday night that they forego their traditional day of rest because she wants to watch her favorite musical group on TV, as they may sing some of her favorite songs, "Money Money,Money," "Dancing Queen," "Fernando," etc.

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02/20/2018

Sports/Business

Clue

I tell Sidney that my girlfriend's use of a cologne popularized back in the day by Joe Namath just does not at any time bother me.

--'- ----, ---, ----- ---- ---- -------- --.

02/19/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Now that I have waked up, I tell Ira that I will copy Ava on a message about the proposal for immunity, not knowing the exact word to use.

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02/16/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Central matters requiring a decision for the government of a Central Florida city which can be more easily be learned by a applying lessons learned from "Yertle the Turtle."

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02/15/2018

USA Geo

Clue

This man, forcibly removed from office over his ideas regarding Florida's vast natural wetlands area, wrote a piece for the newspaper giving his side of the story.

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02/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Awesome, chill, gnarly Robert, even though he couldn't speak, perfectly executed his vision of a combination delicatessen / cultivation center for flowers, trees, shrubs, etc.

---- ---, ---, ------ - ---- --- ---------.

02/13/2018

Sports

Clue

Comment from Dallas Cowboy Randy White when his teammate, who had crouched next to him as they lined up in the Doomsday Defense of the mid to late 1970s, farted.

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02/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

The lords of the manor issue a statement saying that they are having a sexy young slave girl do the repairs on the borders of their robes.

-- ---- --- ----, - ------, -- --- ----.

Click here for February 9's solution

02/09/2018

Arts

Clue

In a scene Jules Verne decided to leave out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is in port attending a retirement seminar run by a team of female financial planners when he realized that he was not putting away nearly enough to be comfortable in his golden years.

----: ----! --- ---- --- - ----
---- ---, --, -----?

02/08/2018

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

It was not true that when a New York baseball team decided to auction off its training room equipment, a city in Southwest Montana tried to get one of their whirlpool ice baths.

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Click here for February 8's solution

02/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A question to regarding whether the assistance wood shop teacher Alvin provided for the project involved one of these.

--- --. -- --- - ------ --- ---?

Click here for February 7's solution

02/06/2018

Business

Clue

The commanding officer of a naval base in the early 1960s tells his wife Sue that he is putting restrictions on where she can drive her new luxury Studebaker.

---, - ----- ----- ------ -------.

Click here for February 6's solution

02/05/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

After bitter, frank, painfully open campaigns that left everyone on edge debating whether to ban the sale of the meat of young calves, a Southern California city managed to say out of the way of an all out pitched battle over it.

--- -- ------ - ---- ---.

Click here for February 5's solution

02/02/2018

USA geo/Tech

Clue

The guy who just graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga is going to get a job at an internet startup trying to discover patterns or relationships by collecting, searching through, and analyzing large amounts of information about blue jeans wearing and buying habits using computer files at Levi's.,

--- -- ---- ---- ----- -- - ------.

Click here for February 2's solution

02/01/2018

History&Government

Clue

How Trump would likely describe a big soiree at his home, in overblown prose of course.

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Click here for February 1's solution

01/31/2018

History/World Languages

Clue

Poetic image of the horrifying fireball at Alamagordo that was the product of the Manhattan Project at this lab in New Mexico.

-- --- - ---: --- ------.

01/30/2018

Tech Business

Clue

An order to clean a large soup serving bowl noticed by Ruth, who is undergoing tests to determine her expertise in running cameras to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems.

---- ------ ---- -------- ---- ---.

01/29/2018

Sports/USA Geo/World Languages

Clue

Describing a Mexican woman from Bozeman visiting a former Boston Red Sox Shortstop.

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01/26/2018

Sports/World Geo

Clue

I question Japanese wrestlers on why I should not pass on to the authorities my concerns about the incident.

--, ---- - --- ----- -- ----- -- --, -----?

01/25/2018

Food

Clue

Response of a man to his dinner companion who had recommended the sheep dish and asked whether it had agreed with him, saying, unfortunately not, and he was going to need an antacid.

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01/24/2018

USA Government

Clue

A New Mexico US Senator whose father was also a congressman and Secretary of the Interior tells a friend he can fix the ticket his friend got for driving high.

---, - ------ - -----: -------.

01/23/2018

History

Clue

A client of attorney Robert at the Nuremberg trials comes clean and tells him that he was the head of one hell-hole of a concentration camp.

---, - ------ - -----: -------.

01/22/2018

Arts/Business

Clue

So the man noticed that the retirement investment vehicle involving modern art was a scam, did he?

-- --- - ------ -- --- ---, --?

01/19/2018

Food

Clue

A contestant on "Chopped" comments that his competition's Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate is crazy good, the only entry which is a huge, powerful threat to his winning, so he is going to damage it.

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01/18/2018

Business

Clue

Lee and his wife have been having a lot of problems with contractors doing work on their house, and have had to let several of them go. She tells him that it is her opinion that they should also get rid of the drain cleaning service they have hired.

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01/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Daddy's sick. [It was something he ate, a(n)] piece of candy on a stick that was way beyond its sell by date.

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01/16/2018

Business

Clue

A man whose car has had a flat near a factory which grinds grain tells the proprietor what his problem is and how he was reconsidering the wisdom in buying cheap tires instead of a name brand.

----, ------. - -------- "-- -------" -----.

01/15/2018

Business/TV

Clue

Boy to his Dad when he discovers that his Ronco Pocket Fisherman and Bottle and Jar opener didn't quite work as advertised.

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01/12/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

Comment by a vintner after he heard about the disaster of having his sweet, dark-red wine left on the table, practically unopened, at the wine show.

--, ---- ---? - -----------!

01/11/2018

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

Mimicing a famed nursery rhyme, this palindrome and pun is about how a famed New York Giant linebacker is told the story of a young girl whose young male sheep was run over by the District attorney Hyman.

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'--- - -- -- "----" --.

01/10/2018

Sports/World Geo/Languages

Clue

Yankee teammate of "Country" Slaughter tell him that he has seen some fresh banned reading material in from China or Japan or somewhere.

--, --- ------- -------- - ---, ----.

01/09/2018

History/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Nat is told that an alien characterized Derek, a hire on their company's computer systems in the capitol of the Byzantine empire, as a) a colossal drunk, and b) one on whom they were throwing their money away.

-- --- - -----, -------------- ----
-- --, ---, ---------, - -----.

01/08/2018

Sports/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

TV host and comedian Howie is told that the star of the Harlem Globetrotters did not consider going to Mexico because of the exchange rate, but had his eye on Saigon.

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01/05/2018

History/Sports/Entertainment

Clue

[Some of you will be old enough to remember this.] Line of dialogue from a play in which a Uganda strongman reacts quizzically as he is watching the exciting finish of the Oakland Raider/New York Jet football game on November 17, 1968, as it was cut short for a movie.

---: --,..."-----?"

01/04/2018

World Geo

Clue

The secretary to an Islamic sovereign asks the guest who has come to see him to have a seat, as he is present but now in the throes of lovemaking with a member of his harem.

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01/03/2018

USA Geo/Tech/Food

Clue

What I said to a relative of an Austin Texas computer maker who had become a Japanese style wrestler, when I discovered that the burger joint we were eating at had left off my favorite condiment.

----, ---- ------- ----, -'-- -- -------.

01/02/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A report to Emily that the union representing emergency transport workers had surrendered in its long contract fight with the hospitals.

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01/01/2018

World geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Officials in the largest city in the United Arab Emirates publicly identify the source of a spreading craze on a military installation there, namely a popular American beer.

----- ----- - ---- -----: ---.

12/29/2017

History

Clue

Von says "no" to seeing Ms. Peron because she is too prone to want to want to vary far from the missionary position in the bedroom.

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12/28/2017

Sports

Clue

Advice to Federer from his coach to abstain from hitting so many volleys and use his powerful ground strokes in many rallies.

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12/27/2017

World Geo

Clue

A 1960s diplomat explains to an aide, in staccato fashion what's going on. That he's heading to an area of danger, intrigue, dissension, and instability. Highest priority. To North Viet Nam where things are tense.

---------? - --- ----.
----. -- -----. ---- --.

12/26/2017

Arts / World Geo/ Food and Drink

Clue

When The Nautilus surfaces near the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, the captain's second in command suggests to him that the crew be given some of the dark, heavy malt beverage brewed in a major Israeli city nearby.

----, --- ---- --- -- ---?

Click here for December 25 's solution

12/25/2017

Tech / World Geo

Clue

A colleague of Robert points out to him what he has found, a variety of festive conferences on writing sequences of computer instructions in abbreviated form, all to be held on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands.

---, ---, ------- ----- ---------!

12/22/2017

Geography

Clue

A Swedish freshman cadet at Texas A&M University is ordered by a stammering upperclassman to get the mascot of their hated rivals and serve him up with plenty of sauce.

---, -~--- -~-~----.

Click here for December 22 's solution

12/21/2017

Arts/Entertainment/World Geography

Clue

The police in Los Angeles were blown away by a scam involving the selling of these, falsely advertised to be " calorie free and just like the astronauts eat."

-- --- ---- ------- --- ---
--- -- -- -- ---.

Click here for December 21 's solution

12/20/2017

Arts/Entertainment/World Geography

Clue

Are you embarrassed, Jay, to discover that the man you made the Moroni joke about is not Islamic, but a member of the priesthood in Salt Lake City?

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Click here for December 20 's solution

12/19/2017

Arts/Language

Clue

Mixing Italian and English, a maestro reminds his orchestra to "watch the stick."

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12/18/2017

Arts/History

Clue

A disgruntled former member of a Roman Catholic prelature, featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, suggests that homemade, makeshift bombs be lobbed into their headquarters to get their habitually drunken leader.

---- ---- ---- ---- ---'- ---.

12/15/2017

Entertainment/History/Geo

Clue

I feign to Diana knowledge of certtain banned material peculiar to or characteristic of language.

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12/14/2017

Entertainment/History/Geo

Clue

B movie actress Kathleen Stark, better known by her nickname and her relationship with Prince Andrew in the early 1980s transported a hot pepper to this country, the home of the Himalayas,

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12/13/2017

Government/World Languages

Clue

Having had just about enough from a young whipper-snapper at at Federal Reserve Board meeting in the 1990s, the chairman lashes out at the young man using a disparaging term indicating that he is not Jewish and saying that his suggestions have no chance ever to be adopted.

"--," --------- -----, " --'--, ---!"

12/12/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

I tried out a tiny bit of French when I was speaking to my friend as I was describing what my very unhappy reaction reaction would be at the Baseball Hall of Fame's introduction of a lifesized 3-D display of wax figures noting the misdeeds of McGuire, Bonds, Clemens et al.

"---- --- - --: - '---- -------," -'- ------.

12/11/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman who expected to be at her coming our party described how she awoke sunburned, naked and muddled and confused, but still breathing, to see a surgeon looming over her holding a tool and about to amputate her leg.

--------- ----- - --- -
---, - --- ---- ---- ---.

12/08/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

An instrument used by a lisping dentist for extractions.

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12/07/2017

Arts

Clue

A man exclaims in surprise at the gift he got from his girlfriend, a soldier named Maureen, a HUGE book about and titled for the French satirical magazine struck by Al Qaeda terror attacks in 2015.

------, -------- ---- -----, -- --!

12/06/2017

Arts

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience, Diana basically says " I told you, everybody hates liver."

-- ( -----): -----'- -------, - ----.

12/05/2017

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A lively dance of Bohemian origin, but with more of a long easy stride, and popular near Denali.

-- ---- -----.

12/04/2017

Entertainment/Arts

Clue

Note left by an American Singer/Songwriter ("A Sorta Fairytale") explaining that taking the ideal pleasure drug from Brave New World was causing her to deteriorate.

---- ----, --- -- ----. - ---.

12/01/2017

History&Government

Clue

A really good friend of Justice Antonin Scalia relates that he sees the judge's son, a real devotee of psychic phenomena.

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11/30/2017

History&Government

Clue

Line of dialogue from a novel wherein a war veteran is serving a thin boiled soup in a chow line, and he warns a Spanish Surrealist painter away from it, characterizing it as downright Dickensian.

"- -----," ----- - ---,"----- -----, ----."

11/29/2017

History&Government

Clue

Headline in a 1966 newspaper: both Hanoi and Saigon name Maureen, ( who worked at Mission Control in Houston) to be a liaison and go between.

---- --- -- (---- ) -- -- ---------.

11/28/2017

US Geo/Entertainment

Clue

I noticed that Timothy always books various hotel rooms during the time of Charleston South Carolina's spring arts festival, but, interestingly at each one he becomes a virtual recluse.

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11/27/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

Anna, a blood relative of mine, doesn't care for people smoking pot around here.

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11/24/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

I violently attacked the spinnaker on this woman's boat.

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11/23/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

What should be the title of a biography of an eight time tennis Grand Slam Singles winner who is now married to Steffi Graf.

------'- ----.

11/22/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

Words of a travel agent while telling "Lew Alcindor" it would be crazy if he didn't snap up the deal on a vacation to Tijuana and Mexicali.

-- ---- ----, ------, ---!

11/21/2017

Entertainment/Government/Sports

Clue

A motorcycle jumper extraordinaire, attending a banquet given by America's space agency gets a splitting headache and is told that the guest of honor, Kenyan and US Collegiate star runner Henry has something he can take for relief.

----, - ---- ------- ---- --- -- -----.

11/20/2017

Business

Clue

Melvin tells how he is totally against the controversial diatribe someone had written arguing against the plan under which our company's capital stock would be acquired by the employees.

---- ------- -, ---, ------.

11/17/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Girl tells her boyfriend that it is childish to sign on again at the delicatessen and that she would fight it.

-------! ---'-, -----!
- ------. --~--.

11/16/2017

World Languages

Clue

After the dust up in the Moms Over Forty Soccer League game in Barcelona, one of the players explains to the referee what happened: one of the women, Rosemary, offered a woman on the other team poison so that she could kill herself, as she was such a fat pig.

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11/15/2017

History

Clue

A viral infection with painful, inflamed, sore, harsh symptoms felled s frat boy: in Operation Desert Shield ca. 1991.

--- --- --- -- ---: ---- ---.

11/14/2017

World Languages/Geo/History

Clue

A budding Latin I student show off his skills as he describes how he feel in love with a nurse on a trip to see the Colosseum, an event which caused some note in the local press.

--- --, ---- - --- -- ----.

11/13/2017

Sports

Clue

Pooh! Els or Banks is irate at a woman in a detox unit?

---! ----- --- -- - ---- -- -----?

11/10/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

A terse note of irritation sent by Von, who owned a small business, to his father who was in charge of hiring, after they had seen a man who had interrupted the interview by asking if e-cigarettes were OK at the company when the job ad had clearly said that was against company policy.

-- ----- - ----, --. ~ ---.

11/09/2017

Tech

Clue

The Second Law of the Undead, which basically says that since they don't evolve [I guess ] they are stuck using an old outdated PC operating system designed especially for them.

-. ------- --- --- --~-.

11/08/2017

Sports/Science

Clue

After a Mexican man queried hospital staff about how NBC football analyst and booth partner of Curt Gowdy had been transferred to Houston for cancer treatment, he was corrected about who drove him there.

-- --., ----'- ------- ---- -- -- --------.

Click here for November 07's solution

11/07/2017

Arts/Sports

Clue

Amy, either one of two great arts institutions in New York City, both of which go by the same moniker, or one of its pro athletes, may grow weary of being rashly bold and reckless.

-------- ---, ---, --- ---.

11/06/2017

USA Geo/Business

Clue

I introduce Ilana to the caretaker of my large estate house in Central Florida , a man who also keeps me supplied with plenty of Mexican beer.

-----, ----- ----- ------ --- ---.

11/03/2017

Books

Clue

Vincent and others are charged with developing a new translation for a popular version of the Bible and they are discussing a particularly thorny passage where the committee is going to have to vote on what is the best way to go. Vincent thinks that all is set for the vote, but he is a questioned about whether or not that is true.

------, ---- ----'- --- ---- --- -- ---?

11/02/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Laboratory director Ira is OK with a kind of mocking, irreverent atmosphere, but draws the line at people actually hooking up.

--- -- - ------ --- --- -----.

11/01/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Mother's job is sort of a throwback to the old days, as an attendant in railroad car, just like me.

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10/31/2017

Food/World Geo

Clue

Kitchen helper tells the head chef in a restaurant on the banks of the river separating Poland and Germany that unfortunately there aren't any of these because they had been tossed into the river;

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10/30/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Evelyn's boyfriend tell her that he has an almost religious reverence for the early 8 track she is holding.

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10/27/2017

Business/Legend

Clue

A Himalayan beast of legend is finally spotted, doing sever damage to some luggage. "It" is asked to stop.

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10/26/2017

Entertainment

Clue

A prominent rapper had been placed in charge of cleaning up after the picnic, and he went around collecting the plastic utensils, but only found knives and forks.

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10/25/2017

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

While at the barn on a farm where milk cows are raised, McGarrett questions his right hand man about whether they had discovered the haul from a burglary which had been smuggled in from Aleppo. And if so, to put it onto the seat farmer uses to milk the cows.

----? -----, ----? --- -- -- -- - ----- -----.

10/24/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I ask Rosemary of she really does want me to leave a gratuity for that waiter, that guy who had a massively bad smell coming from under his arms.

--, -- --- --. ------ ----?

10/23/2017

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

A young man who is sort of a sexist questions a friend, surprised that women also like to play a popular football video game.

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10/20/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry words whispered by a man to his wife upon realizing that their hostess was too uppity to provide his favorite movie theatre candy as snacks when they came to dinner.

----! -- --- ----?

10/19/2017

Food Entertainment/World Geo/Languages

Clue

TV Food Channel host is informed that the crazed "luna"tic Curtis is not a native of this country on the Arabian Peninsula.

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10/18/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

When Stuart brought his car in to the body show to have it thoroughly cleaned and for minor repairs to improve its appearance, he left a box of Krispy Kremes in the car. When he got the car back they were gone, and he tried to blame the manager Eli or the guy who had worked on his car. Reporting this to the owner, he gets this rebuff in denial:

---, -- -------- -- --- --- ------.

10/17/2017

Arts

Clue

I think that Lee had tunnel vision with regard to the levy he wanted on publishing any expressive lyric poem,

--- ------- -- -- --- ---, - ----.

10/16/2017

Arts/Business

Clue

What you might call it when an attendant at the concession stand at a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance " storms down the aisle and takes back a Starbucks steamed espresso from a patron who had skipped the line to pay.

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10/13/2017

Miscellanous

Clue

These five people made a business out of finding, nurturing, and then selling mongrel felines who would would have been homeless scavengers if not for their intervention.

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10/12/2017

Miscellanous

Clue

Good grief, Nan. I wanted a word that had the SAME meaning.

--! ---, ---, -- -------!

10/11/2017

USA Geo

Clue

(1) A top notch company which owns and finances income producing real estate in"The Biggest Little City in the World." (2) Unfortunately, I note that they use lots of their income to buy high grade marijuana.

(1)---- --- ---- ----. (2)---- --- ---, - ---, --- ----.

10/10/2017

Entertainment/Food

Clue

When a young TV doctor asks his friend how his sister's trail mix making was going, he friend says this, indicating that all is well.

--- -- ----, ----? ---- ---------.

10/09/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Von's Dad tells him that he noticed that the motto his grandfather had coined for his Harvard alma mater, suggesting that truth is to be found in wine and drink, was just a parody.

"---- -------" ---, - ---, ------, --- --.

10/06/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The frat guys are betting on whether the various brothers will come to the party stag or with a date. One of them says to Lewis that he agrees with him that Greg will have one.

----, -----, - ----- ---- - "---- ----," ---.

10/05/2017

World Geo

Clue

I tell a female friend of a Dallas basketball player that we were pretty rough on him for their choice to go trick or treating dressed as Barnabas Collins.

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10/04/2017

World Geo

Clue

A woman in bed with her polite, refined boyfriend, an Olympic sprinter who lives in a desert of Southern Israel, asks him to turn over.

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10/03/2017

USA Geo

Clue

A proud Tuscaloosa boy brings home his intended, a recent college graduate and home grown girl with children, and thusly introduces her to his mother.

-- ------- ----, --, -- ----.

10/02/2017

Entertainment

Clue

"Mr. Kot-ter" is going to cure the leather on his carryall.

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09/29/2017

Food and Drink

Clue

Give him room to breathe! A crazy recently hired headwaiter passed out (probably too much of that dark Jamaican liqueur made with coffee beans, rum, vanilla and sugar.)

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09/28/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The bottom line is that Timothy is reeling, whirling, absolutely transfixed by the vegetable he has just eaten and, in fact, fallen in love with.

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09/27/2017

Business/USA Geo

Clue

A Florida State student introduces himself to the Founder of Space-X.

----, -'- ----, - --------.

09/26/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What I say when I ask several friends to wander over while they are out walking, aimlessly.

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09/25/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What those of us in church do when we realize what a horrible mistake it was when we hired the new preacher.

-- ----- -- - ---.

09/22/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell Maximilian that I am the featured author at a huge book signing with my heroic, majestic novel that I wrote waking early every morning to get down to business.

---, - ----. --'- -- ---- - ---, ----- -- --- --.

09/21/2017

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Sy, who plays professional baseball in NYC, is establishing a rigid set of social distinctions to govern behavior and privileges in the locker room.

--- -- ---- - ----- ------.

09/20/2017

Tech

Clue

Place on the internet where my sister can go as a refuge, a pleasant place to get away from it all.

---' --- -----.

09/19/2017

World Geo

Clue

A South American pack animal animal relegated to a petting zoo at a local shopping center owned by the Luft family tells Tina how he just feels used as some kind of prop and sadly yearns be running wild.

-- ---- -- - ---- ( ----'- ), - ---
- ------- -----, ----, ----.

09/18/2017

Business

Clue

Introductions all around at a big business conference featuring past, present and future : McDonald's CEO to JP Morgan's. Wang Computer's founder to eBay chairman.

---, -----. --, -------.

09/15/2017

Medicine

Clue

Response from a doctor half confirming his patient's self diagnosis when he had asked," Am I crazy, or am I missing my large intestine?"

-- ----. -- -----.

09/14/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Suppose I Irepair it for you. Will you give me tickets to the game?

--- -- - --- --?

09/13/2017

US Government/History

Clue

At the Supreme Court's annual softball game against the clerks circa 2014, one of the justices said this as he came up to bat with ducks on the pond,ready to plate a run with a hit.

-, ------, --- ---.

09/12/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Pay attention: I'd lay money that the little Parisian cafe/restaurant gets sued in civil court.

----: ----- ----- - --- --.

09/11/2017

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Line of dialogue from a play set in Ireland where in a miscellaneous native pub patron there makes fun of Edward's order of a common American beer.

--------: -- --'- ------ --- ---?

09/08/2017

Business

Clue

Re the issue of which credit card company we should choose to handle payments, watch me: Master Card. Not their chief rival.

-- - ----: ---- ----.

09/07/2017

World Languages

Clue

Boss at an advertising firm, showing off a little Spanish, suggests aside an entire year to get done a brocuyrea bout a coral reef area.

-- -- ----- ----- -- ---.

09/06/2017

Language/Sports

Clue

What "Nomeaux" is,to a Dodger baseball fan in the mid 1990s, made up by him for Cajun Day.

-- ---- -------.

09/05/2017

Tech

Clue

A woman tells her her friend that she can send requests to men to call her with just a very low resolution photo.

---, - ---- --- -- --- ---------.

09/04/2017

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A friend tells this "Oklahoma!" girl that the advertisement she has crafted to celebrate Islams' holy month was ridiculous.

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09/01/2017

USA Geo

Clue

Simple description of Atlanta, Georgia's transportation system, at least in part.

-----'- - ----.

08/31/2017

World Geo

Clue

Suggestion to alphabetize the small restaurant/nightclubs of the European style located in this Central African country, but serving for Russian expatriates living there the good old home cooking that they were used to as they recall the days on the frozen tundra.

---- -------/----- -------.

08/30/2017

World Geo

Clue

What I said to my Mother about our trip to Spain, wherein I curse it's largest city, the low point of our trip, in a fit of anger.

-, --, ---- ------, - -----. ---- --- -- -!

08/29/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Describing Obed, who worships The Flying Spaghetti Monster and is courteous, gracious and charming albeit overweight and a gullible fool.

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08/28/2017

Entertaiment

Clue

Kuryakin's partner never considered wearing a short sleeved pullover sports shirt.

---- -------- -- -----.

08/25/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What you might call the student body president at an underground cemetery converted into a college.

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08/24/2017

Science

Clue

When soldier Tino complains about the quality of the water his unit had to drink, his CO slangily lets him know that considering that the unit had been pretty bad at their jobs recently, it was what they deserved.

----, ---- ---- ------ --- -- --.

08/23/2017

Science

Clue

Response to this request: "Give me examples of two chemical elements."

--------, -.-., -- ---.

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.

----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.

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.

----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.

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.

----- -- -- --- -- ---.

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.

-- ~ ----- - -------.

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.

----, - --- ---- -- ---------.

08/15/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

An outer space alien gossip.

---- --- --.

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.

---- - --------, -----, ---- -----.

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.

---------- -----: ---, ---!

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.

- --- -- ----, ---, -- -- ------ ----.

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.

---, -----'- -- ----- ---, --, ------- - ----.

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.

--/--- ------.

08/07/2017

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

It is not true that this star of "Roots" gave a massage to the composer of "Bolero."

----- ------ --- --- --- -----.

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.

--- ------, ----, - --- -- - ------- ------.

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.

---, - ----, --, - ---- -- - ----~--- -- --- ---?

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?

--- ---- -- --- ------ -- ---!!!!?

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.

--, ------.---- ------! ~ -----.

07/31/2017

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Being totally unyielding in his opinions Ara, a Hanoi "Jack McCoy" wannabe, is also an informing scoundrel.

------- ---'- - ---, --- ---.

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."

--, -- --- - ----- -- --.

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.

-- ------- ---- - ---.

07/26/2017

Slang

Clue

Del hired a redneck with a new college degree whom Nathaniel eyed [with suspicion.]

--- --- -- -.-. ----- --- -----.

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.

------ -- -----: ----.

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.

- ---- "--- --- --- --- --- ------?!"
---- -- -.

07/21/2017

Business

Clue

Ann fantasizes about vacationing with her girlfriend using peer-to-peer short term lodging.

---, ------, '- -------!

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.

---- --- --!

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.

-- --- ---, ---, ---------. ---!

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.

-- --, ---, --- -- --, ----, - ---, --
- ----, "--, -- -- ----- ---."

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.

--, -- ----- --, - ----- - ----- --.

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.

---, -----'- ------.

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.

---. - -------. ---- -- --.

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.

----- ----- --- --- ---.

07/11/2017

Arts

Clue

Lilliputians' view of their oversized guest.

--------, ---- ---.

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.

---: --, --- - ----, ---, --- ---
- -------- ------? ---- ------?

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.

--- --- -----? --, ----! -----, - ---.

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.

-----.--.---

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.

-- --------- -------- - -------.

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.

-- ---------- -- -- ----, ----.

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.

---'- --- -------.

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.

----- ------? -, - ------? --- --, ---!

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.

---, ---, -- -------- --- ---. ---- -- ---.

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.

-- ----- ------ ----- ---, --, --?

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.

--- ---'- - ----- ----.

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.

-- ---, ---, --- -- --------.

06/22/2017

Government

Clue

A Texas A&M University frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.

---, - --- '--,

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.

---, ------ ---'- ----?

06/20/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Begging to be lavishly entertained, Sid's friends ask him to pass out the brewskis.

------ --, ---. ----- -----.

06/19/2017

Business

Clue

I get the well known Dutch pale lager, do I?

--------, -, --?

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.

--, --, ------- ----- --- --.

06/15/2017

Business

Clue

I tell Emily how the men's cologne salesman really irritated me.

--, ---- --- --- ------- --.

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.

----- ------ - -----'- -------.

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.

--- ------- ---- -- ----- ---, -----.

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.]

----, ----- ------- --- -- ---- ---, ---.

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.]

---, -----? -- ---- ----'- -- --.

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.

---- --------- ---- ----, ------.

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.

----, ------'- -- - --------.
--- -- - ----- ------.

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.

-- ---- ---- --, ----- ---, ------ -----.

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.

--, ------ --- --'- ----, ---
---- ------, ------.

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.

----, -- ---- ---- ------ ------ -.

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.

---, ----, ----! --'- "------ ---."

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!

----, -- ------ -----!

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.

-- -------, ----, --- ------ ---.

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.

-- -------- "--------," ---.

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.

---, ---'- ------!

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.

----- ---- ------- --- ----- -----.

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.

---- -- -- ---- -----'- ------? ---- - ----!

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.

---- ' -, ---, ---, -- - ---
- --- ---- --- -- -- --.

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.

--, -- ---- -- ----, ---.

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.

----, ---- ---- -----.

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.

--- --- -- ------, -------. ----!

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.

-----! -------'- ---- -----, --.

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.

---, ------ -- ------.

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!

------ --- --- - --- - -----. ---!

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.

--, ----! --, -----! ---------, ---?

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.

---, ---- ------- - -----, - ----- -----!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 31.4159% 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 TODAY

03/13/2017

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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Click here for March 9's solution

03/09/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

On a business trip to Des Moines, Lew has asked a group of local businessmen and farmers what the region's consensus outlook is for the price of crude, and they tell him that they think it will fluctuate a lot.

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03/08/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

A variety of plum tomato grown in Marrakesh.

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Click here for March 8's solution

03/07/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

A man needing to use video editing software tells a Middle Eastern friend that the bottom line is, the prospect of having to use Apple's product makes him want to puke. That it's an order of magnitude worse worse than anything else.

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Click here for March 7's solution

03/06/17

Miscellaneous)

Clue

Turmoil in the ranks of cola manufacturers.

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Click here for March 6's solution

03/03/17

Language

Clue

What words like AMOEBAE, EVACUEE, and SEQUOIA have.

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Click here for March 3's solution

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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Click here for March 2's solution

03/01/17

Food/Mythology

Clue

As they sail on in the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason responds to crew member Alvin who had asked for rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, in a bowl of milk for breakfast, telling him that have none.

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Click here for March 1's solution

02/28/17

World Geo/Languages

Clue

A Latin I student visiting Italy and the Colosseum exults at the smell of love in the air.

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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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Click here for February 9's solution

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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Click here for February 8's solution

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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Click here for February 7's solution

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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Click here for February 6's solution

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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Click here for February 3's solution

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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Click here for February 1's solution

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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