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[ Last 'Drome ]
12/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A request to close up a shirt made by this "pre-marketing merger with LaCoste" men's apparel maker.
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12/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Nora had a fling in the hay with Mr. O'Dell, a low rank British nobleman.
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12/29/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Morning puppet shows featuring danger, violence, bleak settings and cynical characters.
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12/28/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell this girl that I cried out sobbing as I was stopped at a traffic signal with Mr. Gilder.
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12/25/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The exam ( college entrance exam at a university in Tempe Arizona) has been scheduled.
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12/24/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
Collapsing dead tired into a chair, a Cambodian strongman says this to a prominent 50's stand-up comedian whose trademark props were a rolled up newspaper and a pullover sweater.
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12/23/09
Category:History
Clue
On a visit to the shore, Juan's wife wondered curiously at the completely glassy sea.
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12/22/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A computer access code that will not work.
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12/21/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
What someone might have said to Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" when they tell him that as far as hunting for snakes is concerned the area around Topeka is not very good at all.
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12/18/09
Category:Science/Entertainment
Clue
Brainwave test for "Grandpa Wlaton?"
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12/17/09
Category:History
Clue
The ambulance worker, a direct male descendent of our second President, is irate at me.
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12/16/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Post game show for a pro basketball team.
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12/15/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Tax free 501(c) (3) website managed by Stuart in which he dispenses advice on how to fill in bathroom tiling
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12/14/09
Category:History/World Geo
Clue
David leaves a note for Ms. Peron tell her that she should head to this West African nation ordering Ghana to the West and Benin to the east.
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12/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Eb is told that a sweet potato like food came out of the washing machine.
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12/10/09
Category:Entertainment/History
Clue
A Watergate journalist is encouraged to sketch Loretta Lynn's husband.
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12/9/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
) Red, who wanted to go to grad school at this branch of the University of Missouri, is told that his chances of getting a teaching assistantship there were pretty slim.
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12/8/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue from several friends of Florence all at once, crying and gnashing teeth incredulously once again as she told them at a delicatessen that she had been transformed into a wolf like creature.
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12/7/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A diner cook's yell to waitress that the order of venison minced and blended into a soup like consistency is ready.
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12/4/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
Comment of dismay to the Commanding General of the Allied invasion of North Africa in WW II as he was about to do a little soft shoe routine to entertain the troops.
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12/3/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Edward is told that a former Notre Dame football coach gave no consideration whatever to going to see the goings on on 5th Avenue in New York at Thanksgiving.
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12/02/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Del is told that David peeked, nay stared, when the naked lady rode by on the horse.
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12/01/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Line of dialogue in a novel wherein Maurice yelled out to his girlfriend Della to hurry up toward the canoe he had found for them to ride in.
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11/30/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Order for a very large amount of Russian vodka.
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11/27/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Actor Beatty ( "Deliverance") is told that discourteous, impolite Lena put paneling in the family room of a home in ancient Mesopotamia.
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11/26/09
Category:Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Someone suggests to "Clem Kadiddlehopper" that he order the sculpture made by the same one who did "The Thinker."
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11/25/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The family of Lou Costello's partner is told that actress Thurman is a shoo- in for getting a business degree.
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11/24/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Do you spot this movie theatre candy served at theatre on the Waco, Texas campus of this university?
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11/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Evelyn is told that the man from Melbourne is debonair, urbane and smooth.
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11/20/09
Category:Entertainment/Sports
Clue
A TV witch is told that a Yankee third baseman really had to have Dede.
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11/19/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I absolutely detest this South Sea Island.
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11/18/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Incredulous response to a WW II general by his aide who though the general was going to take up ballroom damcing and learn the Waltz, when in fact he had sigend up for a rhythmic dance where the beat is partially kept by using ones foot/toes.
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11/17/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Rosemary is told that Mal doesn't like too much noise.
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11/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Frantic call over the earpiece to the host of Jeopardy as one contestant, a drunken New York subway motorman is about to hit another contestant, half of a famous Muppet duo, for getting the Daily Double once again.
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11/13/09
Category:Science/World Languages
Clue
Response to Sidney, partly in Spanish, partly in English that the time for his afternoon nap has been delayed to 6 o'clock.
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11/12/09
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
Astronomer Lowell is a U.S. Congressman born in Belgrade?
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11/11/09
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
Max is queried as to whether the journey to look for large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having long, flexible snouts was still scheduled for early in the morning.
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11/10/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
In a "Hawaii Five-O" flash back, McGarrett's sidekick is shown as a boy, and a friend tells the boy's mother that he has climbed to the top of an earthen structure holding back the waters of a local lake.
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11/09/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I tell Maurice that I think it is really cool when he uses a word of specialized vocabulary, or the grammar, syntax, etc. associated with the agriculture business.
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11/06/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The face of a Japanese detective , the brother of their all-time homerun champ.
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11/05/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The weather in the capital of Poland was wet, rainy, and windy.
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11/04/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Staffer in Bush 41 White House tells the Chief of Staff that he was reeling from being pelted by a pecan by Emily.
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11/03/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Disapproving comment from an assistant district Attorney to his boss, whom he sees rolling a large joint of marijuana.
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11/02/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Clinton tells his AG that the Russian diplomat, a grandson of infamous Vladimir, is a silly, insane, obstinate buffoon who likes to keep to himself.
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10/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
He is a blankety-blank prevaricator & head of a cattle drive, is he?
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10/29/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Stuart is right next to the stringed instrument producing low register tones.
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10/28/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A plain Jane gangster's companion portrayed by 30's actress Carole.
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10/27/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I hurry off to Officer Candidate School.
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10/26/09
Category:Science
Clue
There is no evidence for any kind of psychic ability's residing on any brain nerve cell connection.
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10/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
A Canadian, invoking his country's national anthem, tells of his surprise that Fiona, from a prominent North Viet Nam city ate a crunchy Mexican food snack.
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10/22/09
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
Von is told that "over the rainbow" there is no ill will at all concerning cell phone service from this carrier.
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10/21/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Holy cow, when Ray played football in this country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west,Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north, they held him without a rushing yard.
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10/20/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Bra size named after the wife of the composer of "Madame Butterfly."
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10/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Abel's brother is told that Maurice's girlfriend Nina has trouble sleeping.
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10/16/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
To an all time 4-wall handball great, this country singer is extremely sexy and alluring.
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10/15/09
Category:Science
Clue
Greeks devoted to astronomy.
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10/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Someone tells a Star Trek character ( brother of Quark and father of Nog) that unfortunately the "angel" who gave the Golden Plates to Joseph Smith was,simply a drunk pulling a scam.
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10/13/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Amal Asti is shown a Turkish hat to be worn at natural childbirth classes.
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10/12/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Golfer Ernie is sick enough ( archaic ) as he visits an immigration landmark in New York Harbor.
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10/09/09
Category:History/Arts
Clue
Eva Peron is asked if she is still on for doing ceramics after her operation is over.
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10/08/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
WORD UNIT TODAY
Suggestion from an extremely cheap ( not to mention insensitive!) diner to his lunch companion when their waiter keels over dead.
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10/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Director's orders to a male actor, telling him that his part is to come on stage in Act I, tired out, exhausted, barely able to get himself on stage, but...., nervously he tells him, wearing women's clothing.
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10/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
WORD UNIT TODAY
A man asks Eleanor whether his presence is lowering the anxiety level and pallor in the room over a sense of impending disaster.
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10/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Marionettes heavily into aerobic exercise?
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10/02/09
Category: History
Clue
Pa Kettle tells his kids why he always wakeup in a grumpy mood: no mornin' lovin'.
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10/01/09
Category: World Geo/Languages
Clue
Innermost thought of this cad whose first act upon landing in Hawaii on vacation was: ( hire a prostitute! Welcome to Hawaii!)
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9/30/09
Category: Science/Fashion
Clue
What happened when genetic material obtained from fashion designer Christian was brought together into the existing configuration of hardware and software of and planted into an automaton resembling a human being.
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9/29/09
Category: Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Comment to folk singer/star of "The Dirty Dozen" when he comes upon a fellow in the New York subway who has been rendered unconscious by a bag of Krispy Kremes.
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9/28/09
Category: History&Government
Clue
What Obama says when he is irritated at Biden, deciding to keep him out of sight for a while.
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9/25/09
Category: Entertainment
Clue
On "Leave it to Beaver" a teenaged girl has been set up with a blind date with The Beave's brother. Her Mom, Susan, is concerned about it, but the Dad, who knows the young man, tries to convince her that they will all be very impressed with him.This is what he says.
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9/24/09
Category: Sports
Clue
I tell Emily that the amateur poetry open mike performances at the local delicatessen really disgusted me.
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9/23/09
Category: Sports
Clue
The business operated by Stuart, brother of New York Giant Hall of Fame slugger and crossword puzzle favorite, in which he sells inside information regarding hot tips at the racetrack.
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9/22/09
Category: Entertainment/Science
Clue
Robert who cannot speak is told that Anita, a cattle drive veteran who had the same job as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide" and is now on college, was sitting in the green area next to her dormitory where a variety of shrubs and trees were grown.
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9/21/09
Category: World Geo/Science
Clue
Graduates of scientific research facilities at a University in Dallas.
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9/18/09
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
Nathaniel performs hip-hop while dressed as a tough Greek city-statesman.
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9/17/09
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
A refusal to the son of John and Yoko in Edinburgh.
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9/16/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Jordanian queen, last wife of King Hussein of Jordan, carried Alvin Slade with her when she decided to go golfing at a famed Scottish course.
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9/15/09
Category:Science/History
Clue
A table of irrational square roots used circa 1849 in California as thousands descended trying to strike it rich.
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9/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
An early rock 'n roll label is encouraged to give in on a negotiation.
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9/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
It was Gregg's perception that I had gained weight.
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9/10/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
The burden of all the wrongs in this Texas hill country town is on everyone.
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9/09/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
German street featuring public art works all based on the letter S.
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9/08/09
Category:Science
Clue
An early digital computer running on Captain Queeg's ship.
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9/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
I ride the bus with Gil at a speed less than c.
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9/07/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Eli, truthfully, I cannot stand Popeye's girlfriend.
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9/03/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Margaret is shown a precious stone of 10 to the 9th power carats.
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9/02/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The Cub Scout leader showed disrespect to the female canine deity I swore at.
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9/01/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mrs. Luce and her husband Ira, standard bearers for the views of religious skepticism.
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8/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mother to her boy, telling him he cannot have the Pringles.
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8/28/09
Category:Science
Clue
A science activity performed in a hot and humid gymnasium.
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8/27/09
Category:World Languages/Entertainment
Clue
Lem who has laryngitis writes a note for Miki, sister of a one time TV talk show host whose named rhymed with hers, wondering ( correctly as it turns out) if she has just sung a traditional Hawaiian Christmas song.
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8/26/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
New inmate tells the warden that he wants no hominy in prison, for Christ's sake!
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8/25/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The orthopedic surgeons of the female deities completely preoccupied the thoughts of one of their canines.
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8/24/09
Category:Arts/World History
Clue
Piano teacher to Haitian strongman, reminding him that he has forgotten to play the concluding more or less independent section of the piece, designed to bring it to a satisfactory close.
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8/21/09
Category:Arts
Clue
To heck with the water pitcher, Oxford don Lewis of "Narnia" fame.
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8/20/09
Category:History/Arts
Clue
Chinese premiere of note pointed out a previously discovered vein of ore to M.I.T grammar guru Chomsky.
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8/19/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A 33 1/3 belonging to a freshman at West Point.
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8/18/09
Category:History
Clue
When the mother of Paul Tibbets had the B-29 Stratofortress crew over, one of them complains to her about serving a non-descript San Antonio brew
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8/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Edward, is my sister's daughter indoors?
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8/14/09
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
Pro basketballer Manute worries that he might have to eat what most people would consider a crustacean delicacy.
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8/13/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
When you make that sketch of Emily O,Hara, make it of her heading to her house.
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8/12/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Concerning Reggie:he's a "nothing," pretending to be ill to avoid work.
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8/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Racist rallying cry at a Paris university, calling for no black men to be admitted.
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8/10/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Man in Saigon and Hanoi who sells stolen pants with stretchable waistbands.
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8/07/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Paranoid order from Nixon to Haldeman ordering spying on even those closest to him.
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8/06/09
Category:Entertainment/Arts/History
Clue
An antiques advisor to country singer McEntire tells her assistants Diana and Tino to implore her to attempt to get a jewel encrusted historic Russian egg when it comes up for auction.
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8/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
When a woman asks her husband if their household staff liked the Snapple she bought for them to drink, he replies in the negative.
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8/04/09
Category:SPorts
Clue
Professional car racer Sneva.
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7/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sidney is told that Eleanor is of nobility.
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7/30/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Claude, a Florida congressman who was an advocate for the elderly.
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7/29/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
This follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity who is on the radio is an overweight fool.
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7/28/09
Category:Business
Clue
Line of dialogue that the narrator speaks to Lewis when he concedes that the way to finance their new business is by issuing bonds rather than selling stock.
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7/27/09
Category:World Geo/Arts
Clue
Rene is told that Edgar Allan's Japanese currency, considering the state that it is in, could cause one to arch his eyebrows.
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7/24/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Emily and Deborah that Fred, who loves to go bird watching, joked around with me.
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7/23/09
Category:Business
Clue
I tell Edward that I constructed a sporty Mazda.
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7/22/09
Category:Sports/History
Clue
Comment from Little League pal of Jackie.O's second husband, describing how when the latter was a catcher, it was easy to steal 2nd base on him.
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7/21/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Ed, that I try to avoid walking on all the cats and dogs at his place.
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7/20/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Hipster tells a friend that the upper crust who live in Saigon prefer to install tile flooring.
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7/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An organ repairer tells Roni that he sees something hung up in the "pulls."
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7/16/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
What happens when the bridge breaks in two.
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7/15/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Someone disputes to Wanda that Beantown in not nearly as terrible as had been suggested.
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7/14/09
Category:Science
Clue
Response from a test subject to # 10 in a group of "psychics" who were all seeing if they could read his mind. The subject tells her that she was wrong: he was not thinking about any evergreen, coniferous trees having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
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7/13/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Head of the college's military program tells M.D. Edward that he is going to hide the soldier's overdose.
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7/10/09
Category:World Languages/Business
Clue
Quote from a fellow in a German Lay's Potato Chip ad admitting that he sure can't eat only one, ever!
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7/09/09
Category:Business/World Geo
Clue
Economist Alan is not descended from Greeks who live along the west coast of Asia Minor.
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7/8/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A fellow faculty member tells Laci that one of their colleagues, Tab (%#&*$(@**#$& him) is getting a year off to do independent study, darn it.
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7/07/09
Category:Sports/Miscellaneous
Clue
Headline in local paper when it is revealed that the dastardly group which has been exploding foul smelling incendiary devices all over town is actually made up of [senior citizen] members of a local club who get together and makes sweaters.
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7/06/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Sal is told that "Sin City" is a high energy place, perhaps a billion electron volts worth.
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7/03/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Dana is told that an assistant district attorney completely wiped out the place where some West Point, New York college students would go to drop some LSD.
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7/02/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Berkeley University which rents out its fields on which a game played with sticks and balls originating with Native Americans is played.
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7/01/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A cabbie inquires of Max, foreman of the repair shop, whether his cab is scheduled for repairs early the next morning.
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6/30/09
Category:History & Government
Clue
Justice Alito's man at the gym who gives him rubdowns is filing suit against him.
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6/29/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The very large dog was just right for Detective Spade.
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6/26/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A man asks a young lady to massage something into him to provide relief from a burn.
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6/25/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Prosecutor to Ilana, on trial for her life, when he disbelieves her account of where she was the day of the murder, suggesting that she is not quite telling the truth.
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6/24/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Spinach flavored soda, popular in the Midwest.
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6/23/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Comment from Bill Bixby on the set of "My Favorite Martian" when his co-star launches into yet another boring story about his famous salad made of shredded cabbage and mayo.
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6/22/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The captain of the Nautilus desired to stop off in Sicily and fool around with the females who lived near the base of the volcano there.
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6/19/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Wow, look, I've discovered that Diana barely edged out Otto, nephew of "Sweeney Todd," in Simon Cowell's talent show.
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6/18/09
Category:Entertainment/Sports
Clue
An early nemesis of James Bond, having now secured a job as head trainer for the New York Yankees, ordered one of his apprentices, the son of a long time Penn State football coach, to again wrap securely the ankles of their left fielder who came from Boston after the 2005 season.
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6/17/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
An orange juice and pageant queen gave no thought whatsoever to the ornamental encrustation on the bronze statue.
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6/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Bond, James Bond, asks his secretary Tara to carbon Abraham on the memo he has written asking about the finer points of the casino game, akin to chemin de fer, that he is learning.
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6/15/09
Category:Entertainment/History
Clue
At a street fair Loretta Lynn encourages the artist, a brother of half of a famed Watergate investigative duo, to make a sketch of her husband.
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6/12/09
Category:World Geo/Languages
Clue
The Mexican man on the boat doesn't care at all for the gambling "palace" in Las Vegas.
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6/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Order to take into custody the youngster AWOL from home who was stranded on the streets of the big city, sickly and pale looking, likely on a drug overdose.
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6/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Set of procedures to be used by a submariners in the event that one of its weapons to be used against battleships makes a crazy turn and heads right back toward them.
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6/09/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Aging oilfield conduit.
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6/08/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Nickels.
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6/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The delicatessen, once it was visited by a football official who came in with his pet albino polecat which had such a pungent aroma that it never could be eradicated, went out of business.
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6/04/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Comment by Bush re Cheney or Obama re Biden, indicating irritation with the other having blabbed a little too much, and indicating that he would be kept out of the vicinity of microphones for a while.
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6/03/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Brother of long time New York Giants football owner who in his own right was a physician working for the world's largest oil company, originally a joint venture between Saudi Arabia and various American oil companies?
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6/02/09
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
So, a "race" in old Mesopotamia where the object is really to raise money for charity rather than to be all that serious about fast times, and where we have the chance of seeing alien spacecraft!
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6/01/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
A son of Mongolian tribesmen who is a hanger on at a college fraternity house.
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5/29/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Negative response from diner to waitress who had asked him of his lunch was OK as he gives her a clue that the reason was his Middle Eastern pocket bread was too dry.
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5/28/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Getting close to doing something I shouldn't, I polish off the last of my "Beefeater's."
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5/27/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A "Deliverance" actor is told that a bunch of tattered urchins went into the vegetable patch tended by "the Bride" ( "Kill Bill') and sniffed the plants.
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5/26/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
Speculation as to whether Bush 41's long time chef of staff had been let go.
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5/25/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Comment to Ada, a minister, from a friend with whom she has gone to the opera to see Maria Callas, whose entire performance was very listless and "dead" that night.
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5/22/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Pooh! Golfer Els is irate at a woman who is in the detox unit.
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5/21/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
S&M club run by actress Lupino.
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5/20/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Comment of disappointment by a Buffalo Bill rookie of the early to mid 1960s when he discovers that to his way of thinking the coach is a real son of a bitch.
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5/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A lumberjack resumes his conversation with Gregg lamenting what a disappointing state of affairs it is that Lew is such a bad sawing partner (or rather WAS now. that he is out of commission) and commenting about how it reminded him of another, Al, when he got too old.
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5/18/09
Category:Science
Clue
Party-goer at the release gala celebrating the introduction of one of the most basic of all machines.
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5/15/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Line of dialogue from the autobiography of a salty British sailor who had become ill after eating out with the Southern Belle of The Food Network, rejecting her offer of medicine to him, but whispering to her emphatically that what he really needs is his traditional daily ration of booze which some people disparage as being "of the devil."
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5/14/09
Category:Science
Clue
Pull the congers and morays downwind.
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5/13/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Finely braided hair done in a style resembling architecture and decoration originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types, and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shell work, foliage, etc., but now getting to be on the shabby side.
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5/12/09
Category:History&Government
Clue
I got under the skin of Britain's head of government who was walking with a limp.
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5/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
The fellow dressed all in studded black and sporting black lipstick and fingernails is wearing traditional Roman dress bought in Copenhagen.
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5/08/09
Category:Sports/Arts/World Geo
Clue
A high lofted tennis shot executed with a Latin dance move and first developed in Italy.
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5/07/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Comments from a hostess to Mr. Byrd and his date Ada, offering him a popular ginger ale after she has discovered that he is thirsty, and his date a Mexican food snack, seeing that she already has a drink.
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5/06/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing a secular support group for families of problem drinkers.
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5/05/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from a woman to her sister about the "very bad"condition that the copy of the old testament that she had wanted to buy is in, after it had been advertised as "very good."
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5/04/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
My lord, even though he is a complete nothing, Deron would not stoop so low as to deny insurance or mortgages to people who live in poor areas.
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5/01/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Bizarrely, this opera cigarette girl liked the severe case of the zits that O'Dell had, and even had a pet name for them.
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4/30/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Valerie, daughter of rotund actor Sebastian, is asked if she would like to make a foray to the dessert table to get some traditional flaky Greek pastry. ( Alternate spelling)
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4/29/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Request to Pat, who has been excessively yelling out the traditional warning for an errant ball in golf, going way overboard.
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4/28/09
Category:Sports
Clue
How "Sports Afield" might be described if it had a scratch 'n sniff strip inside.
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4/27/09
Category:Sports/World Languages
Clue
Thus, a soldier named after a famed NY Yankee reliever provider several suave, urbane, sophisticated Mexican gentlemen a place to lay their heads for a night.
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4/24/09
Category:(1) Sports (2) Arts
Clue
(1) What the Redskins did when they sent Monk to the Jets. (2) What my sister and I did when I exchanged my Pizarro for her Bottacelli.
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4/23/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Referee's comment to Tom Landry telling him that the reason for the flag is that Too Tall lined up with his hand in the neutral zone.
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4/22/09
Category:Sports
Clue
Question to Everest trek leader Timothy from a fellow climber who has just been bitten by a snake, asking whether, given his impaired condition, he has to proceed on the final push to the top.
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4/21/09
Category:History
Clue
Physician who treated a 20th century president for laryngitis.
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4/20/09
Category:History
Clue
Elegant, dignified, imposing tattoos worn by a Pulitzer Prize winning American war correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain.
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4/17/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sweetheart, one more thing: bring back this, a stalky vegetable.
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4/16/09
Category:History
Clue
The pope in 1300 insisted that the decaffeinated coffee served in the Obstetrics waiting rooms in Rome be from a manufacturer that everyone had heard of.
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4/15/09
Category:History/Science
Clue
A childhood friend and lab partner of a future president exclaims to him as they peer through a microscope and see a one celled animal.
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4/14/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A sidewalk man on the street kind of confidence game wherein a "Jaywalker" scams people out of their shaved ice treats.
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4/13/09
Category:History&Government/World Geo
Clue
Response to Indian Prime Minister circa 1970 from her uncle after she has asked him what the weather is likely to be like on her trip to Saudi Arabia.
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4/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Hesitating first words spoken by a woman who has been put under during a long labor to her obstetrician and friend Timothy.
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4/9/09
Category:Business/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Describing a visit to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by two creative people: The man who gave us Archie Bunker and the man who gave us the personal jet plane.
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4/8/09
Category:Science
Clue
Final words of a mother to her child, trying to prevent him from excessive squirming, lest the child make the dentist who is working on her son's gums and associated bones and tissue angry.
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4/7/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A stoner stationed on a Navy ship asks Edward if he can possible find some "stuff" up on deck.
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4/3/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Edward is the butt hole in the Maxima.
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4/2/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An avid defender of the police asks newspaper man Swen whether the department's missteps in the overuse of force that he observed while a criminal was being apprehended was very newsworthy.
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4/1/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Today's man Asa is reserved and reticent.
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3/31/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Alternative to Patrick's merely being extremely lucky always to make incredible tasty spaghetti and lasagna.
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3/30/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In the opinion of the soldiers who work at the post exchange, Essie is hot and giving off vibes!
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3/27/09
Category:Entertainment/History&Government
Clue
With this question I speculate to Red about whether Federal agent Elliot is visiting at the home of a perennial Republican presidential candidate of old.
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3/26/09
Category:World Geo/History
Clue
A Mexican soldier in 1966 tells his girlfriend that he ships out to Southeast Asia tomorrow.
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3/25/09
Category:History/Entertainment
Clue
The sometime girlfriend of HRH Prince Andrew, who fell out of favor when her involvement in soft-porn films "Emily" (1977) and "Cruel Passion" (1977) became known, toted a hot pepper to a small Himalayan country.
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3/24/09
Category:Science
Clue
Response to Nathaniel who had forgotten what the name of Saturn's largest moon was.
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3/23/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Jargony note left in the margin of Samuel's essay by his English teacher after reading one too many sentences like this: " If the Senator my late uncle knew what going to happen he sure didn't tell us and in fact he acted as surprised as the rest of us his extended family."
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3/20/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Headline in "The Mountain Times" when local country boy makes good by getting his college degree.
-.-. -----!
3/19/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
My friend who runs a pizzeria where mail can reach him at a postal zone in the capital of Bolivia.
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3/18/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Emily's co-pilot in the F-111 tells her that the Russian plane ahead is easy pickings.
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3/17/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
This girl comes from old world stock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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3/16/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Born to parents who are rabid University of Maryland fans, as I told you, Mr. Wong, Dias has now entered the 10-12 year old category.
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3/13/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A friend tells Emily that the alien she met on her recent trip to Houston and Dallas sent her a message on her cell.
--, --. -.-. --- ---- --!
3/12/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A group of orthopedic surgeons is introduced to a physician who delivers babies.
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3/11/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Advice from a man to his congressman friend as they visit a French town at which a pivotal WW II battle occurred on July 18, 1944, to pop into his mouth a spicy Mexican food appetizer, as it is known to give quite a kick.
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3/10/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A dog shelter run jointly by the owners for their mutual benefit.
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3/9/09
Category:World Languages/Science
Clue
Italian college student's report to his mother that he is studying applications of computer science to the problem of machine intelligence when she asks him what his field is.
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3/6/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Comment by a Midwesterner to a tycoon who made his fortune in the brassiere business, also declining the latter's offer of a "coke" made on a Caribbean island.
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3/5/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Road lined with be-bop clubs leading to a famed Roman fountain.
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3/4/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nervous order to Omar to harangue an Algonquin Indian from Connecticut.
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3/3/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The smell of a situation which could really bog us down.
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3/2/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
I give Lee my opinion that the tenderloin strip had its origin by being marinated in a hearty Dutch brew a la a recipe from a very strategic cold war island situated in the Taiwan strait.
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2/27/09
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
The mother of an impolite, discourteous CBS talk show host has managed to avoid capture by the authorities while visiting this ancient Sumerian city.
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2/26/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nameplate on the door of the office of hip Rocco who is the chief medical examiner of a prominent western Nevada town.
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2/25/09
Category:Arts/World Geo
Clue
Warning to famed movie director as danger is spotted as he crosses a river in Africa.
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2/24/09
Category:Arts/World Geo
Clue
I sent a text to a small graduate study group in Teheran which was discussing Impressionistic images of ballerinas.
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2/23/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Evelyn is told by her friend that the janitor who swept up the meeting hall in "The Last Meeting of the Nights of the White Magnolia," her significant other, was now treating her badly and had jaded her on the idea of love now that he was getting on in years.
--, ----- ------ ---- ------ ----.
2/20/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Ana brooded to herself about whether to have sex in the morning. Then she remembered that, no, the government in the Canal Zone prohibits it.
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2/19/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
After nosing around for a while at the crime scene, one cop tells his partners Jed and Bo that he can sense that that there was collusion between the perpetrators and the victim.
"--- -- -.-?" --- --------. "--, ------ -----."
2/18/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
Andre Agassi asks his wife if she wants to go see a Coen Brothers movie.
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2/17/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
An orchestra conductor's comment to his charges, using a common Latin phrase, telling them to "pay attention to the stick" so they won't get off the beat.
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2/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Jerry Seinfeld's neighbor relates what he said to the guy from whom he wanted to hire interns for his "business" when asked what the name of the business was.
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2/13/09
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
Comment by girlfriend of a St. Louis football player to him indicating how frivolous it was of him to give her a bulbous plant of the genus Hippeastrum, esp. H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant.
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2/12/09
Category:Science
Clue
Charles Darwin's comment to his friend Evelyn that even profoundly tender, passionate affection between human beings was subject to natural selection.
Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Darwin: Feb 12, 1809.
Happy 150th Anniversary to "On the Origin of Species"
Thank Goodness for Darwin!
Today's palindrome is dedicated to him.
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2/11/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Male "escorts" with no place to go on Saturday night.
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2/09/09
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A pre-Bond British secret agent is informed that an Indiana YMCA would reject his idea that a major auto race be relocated to their grounds.
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2/06/09
Category:Sports/World Languages
Clue
Don leaves a note for Japanese home run king, aghast at the fact that he went into debt to by Mexican food.
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2/05/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Hal questions his firend Al unbelievingly about the fact that he, the speaker is from the area near Everest.
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2/04/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
EMily expectorated on me because I failed to leave her a gratuity.
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2/03/09
Category:Arts/World Languages
Clue
The recurring theme in the music sung by the Spanish heroine of the opera indicating impending disaster accurately matched just how the composer Omar, himself, was feeling at the time regarding his own personal life.
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2/02/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Emily,a domestic who works in the capital, Kingston, introduces herself to Mac who works in newspapers and television.
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1/30/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Maurice, who lives on an island on the Mediterranean, is encouraged to discard his plans for a scam involving devices for measuring how fast taxicabs are driving. ( I have no idea what form this scam might take!)
--, ----- --, ---- ---
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1/29/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
I question Nan about whether I committed severe wrongs of a moral nature while visiting "Friends" in this Alabama city in the Appalachian foothills, and hope that I did not.
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1/28/09
Category:World Languages
Clue
Soldier on platoon football team tells his sergeant how he tried to bribe the referee with goose liver pate'.
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1/27/09
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A legendary Note Dame football player is asked to prepare the meat for roasting at the luau.
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1/26/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Palindromic introduction of two actors who have two "degrees of separation" one being in "The Lady From Shanghai" with Everett Sloane, who was in "The Patsy" with the other.
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1/23/09
Category:World Geo
Clue
Kay relates that she really makes Trevor angry about the way she prepares her Japanese dish of grilled beef marinated in soy sauce with sake, ginger, and sugar.
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1/22/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The physician of Deron is not at all as good looking as the "Sundance Kid."
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1/21/09
Category:Sports/Entertainment
Clue
A former heavyweight world champion who became a minister after his boxing days were over is corrected as to the identity of Roy Rogers's horse after he gets it confused with the Lone Ranger's.
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1/20/09
Category:World Geo/
Clue
Sidney is told that David, from this western Nevada city on I-80, is no geek.
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1/19/09
Category:Arts/World Geo/Science
Clue
Note left for poet Eliot after he had gone with a famed scientist known for the germ theory of disease to Lima where said poet was gored in the backside by a bull, and instead of getting it taken care of back home insisted that it be sewn up right there by local doctors. The note wonders if he regretted that decision.
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1/16/09
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Advice to gunslinger entering Mayfield not to try to make his reputation by challenging the Beave's Dad to a fight.
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1/15/09
Category:Arts
Clue
Poet Eliot's anxiety over tiny insects.
-.-.' ---- -----.
1/14/09
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment made by the owner of a women's clothing store as he sees shyster lawyer Diana who likes to deal in trivial quibbling disputes come in into the store. Not wanting to talk to her because he thinks her lukewarm to his advances, he asks his salesman Reginald to try to find her something to wear.
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1/12/09
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Shingle on door of the veterinarian in a fictional Connecticut town of compliant, robotic wives.
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1/09/09
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Teenager to his mother when she waked him up too early:i.e., before noon.
--, ----- --'- -.-!
1/08/09
Category: History/Arts
Clue
This is what one Ocala Florida bill collector said to the other as they faced their joint assignment for the day, collecting from two perennial deadbeats:one, an 11-fold great grandson of a famed English architect ( St. Paul's) who likes to parade around home with no clothes on, and the other the local chief medical officer for the city.
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1/07/09
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A single mother had been dating both Daniel and Samuel and wanted to do something unusual to let each know that she really liked each him.So, in a classic case of role reversal, she decided to take her guitar and stand below each of their windows and sing love ballads. Her son, indicating a preference for a possible stepfather, made this suggestion: that she start with Daniel.
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1/06/09
Category: Sports
Clue
I tell Japanese home run all time champ and his family how I lived such a sinful life.
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1/05/09
Category: Arts
Clue
A shop in The Emerald City where one can get help in casting horoscopes.
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12/29/08
Category: Arts/World Geo
Clue
What "erotica author" Anais was known as when she was a foolish silly, immature student at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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12/26/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
The realization that the vessel was a chamber pot for collecting urine prevented me from taking a small drink from it.
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12/25/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Response of landlord to potential renter who has asked what he needs to do to get the apartment: First thing: get rid of the dog and the cat.
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12/24/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Mister, don't lie down to sleep on that pile of rubble.
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12/23/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Maxine is a liberated Wall Street speculator in buying and selling symbolic mortarboard accessories, who makes a habit of going out for early sales calls without a bra.
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12/22/08
Category: Sports/World Geo
Clue
A Swedish friend of long distance swimmer Diana leaves a note for her excitedly telling her that she is to be interviewed by Long Island's most prominent newspaper.
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12/19/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Approving comment from a convenience store boss to his employee Lewis Asti whom he had asked to fix the poor lighting around the cash register area.
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12/18/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A hermit's recurring stomach problem.
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12/17/08
Category: World Geo/Sports
Clue
Famed NYC marathoner was in complete awe of and taken by the man on the building construction crew at the University of Texas who could hammer rivets better than anyone in history.
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12/16/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Website for the cave run as a charitable organization by the Mott family.
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12/15/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Amy, who runs a brothel and is half crazy and drunk to boot, expectorated.
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12/12/08
Category: World Geo/History
Clue
Maurice Orr, representing a leading association of attorneys which was considering purchasing an early biblical tract discovered, bizarrely, in central Florida, decided against the transaction after examining it in a local watering hole.
-- ---, -.-.-., ----- ----- ----- -- - -------.
12/11/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Alvin is told that it was psychic powers that enabled the West Pointer to find the location of the building that had fallen dues to structural problems.
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12/10/08
Category: Entertainment
Clue
( Because she was skinny and unattractive ?????, but since he was drawn to her because of her mind ??????and she wanted to take the relationship to another level??????? ---I'm just guessing, folks) What Popeye said he would unenthusiastically do when he and his date went parking on Friday night.
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12/09/08
Category: Arts
Clue
Someone points out to Mr. Asti a tall, powerful female warrior inhabiting Munchkinland.
--'- -- -- ------, ----.
12/08/08
Category: World Languages/Geo/Arts
Clue
Using a Yiddish interjection of exasperation, someone questions and then answers affirmatively to the author of "Up the Down Staircase" about whether a world renowned cellist made fun of a lad whose job is tile setting and who lives in the deeply religious South.
--, --- --~-- --------, ---, ----- ---- ---- ---?--, --- --!
12/05/08
Category: Entertainment
Clue
The dressmaker to an actress/vaudeville star famous for her double entendre's responds, sadly, to her boss's question about who her date was the preceding evening: it was Salvador.
"---," ------- ---'- ----------, "----."
12/04/08
Category: World Geo/SPorts
Clue
Elbert got a hard on as: he tells a soldier friend of his that he has qualified for the 1968 Winter Olympics in France.
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12/03/08
Category: World Geo
Clue
Advice to the pre O'Connor Supreme Court about where to eat dinner while they are on a fact-finding mission to Oklahoma.
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12/02/08
Category: World Geo
Clue
Nervous admission by a man who tells that what he and a buddy did when visiting a large city in South Australia was to call on his hotel phone and order up a prostitute.
--,....--,... -- ------ -- -------- -----.
12/01/08
Category: Sports/World Geo
Clue
"This," patterned after a well known beer commercial, is what Alvin chose to call the appropriate guy response to a particular social situation for men at The University of Alabama.
"---- ---~---" -- ----- --.
11/28/08
Category: Entertainment
Clue
The bottom line is that he is overdosing ( On video games.)
-.-., ---. ( --------.)
11/27/08
Category: Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Emily is told that this world wide 1985 concert to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia , as currently planned, is simply a bad, bad, idea of the mainstream press.
---- ---, --, -- -- -- - ----- ----.
11/26/08
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Eleanor is told by the manager that it is a matter of some regret that he had to send up actor Richard ( "Officer and a Gentleman", "Chicago") to bat in the ball game.
--, ------ ----'- --- -----------.
11/25/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A frankly less that appetizing entree on the menu, consisting of a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, and skin, of an emu, and served with peas.
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11/24/08
Category: World Geo
Clue
Al is told that Theodore got a role in a movie, portraying a West Pointer who finished as "the goat."
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11/21/08
Category: Sports/World Geo
Clue
After a Sunday game against the Giants, a Dallas Cowboy QB is asked if he want to have an interview the next day on New York's legendary talk radio station, 710 in the dial.
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11/20/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A waitress calls to her fellow staff members Emily, Alec and Nathaniel telling them that the gratuity she just received, unless more is to be coming later, is really lousy, so weak and inadequate and indicative of an out of touch diner.
--, ----, ---, --- -- -- -- - --------. ----!
11/19/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Dee is told that the poker player in "Jacks or better" who was taking one card gave no consideration whatsoever to allowing his opponent to bet with an ante-bellum real estate document.
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11/18/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Emily, writing about leftovers in her cookbook ( she is so funny!), shows herself to be quite a gourmet, capable of turning them into fine food.
-- -- ---- ( - ---!) -- - ----------.
11/17/08
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Suggestion from a friend which gave Weird Al Yankovic the idea to do "Amish Paradise."
---, -- --- ------, --?
11/14/08
Category: World Languages
Clue
Mason is told not to get some shuteye this afternoon on a Vietnamese fishing boat.
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11/13/08
Category: World Languages
Clue
A precocious Scottish baby to his Mother Emily, questioning and disagreeing with her decision to take him off her milk and be put onto the bottle.
--, ---! ---- --?
11/12/08
Category: Entertainment/Business
Clue
Ad slogan spoken by Phil Hartman for a manufacturer of women's shoes meant to be branded as stylish, smart, chic and jaunty.
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11/11/08
Category: Sports/Arts/World Geo
Clue
Former Aggie football coach Slocum is told that the stupid ass beating up on the captain of the Nautilus is certainly no member of the local Anabaptist church, characterized particularly by simplicity of life, pacifism, and nonresistance.
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11/10/08
Category: History/Government/World Geo
Clue
A boyfriend of the daughter of a Texas Governor whose name made her the butt of many jokes tells his friend Ron that he met her, this cute little number everyone has been talking about, on a tour of the Western end of Turkey near the Black Sea.
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11/07/08
Category: Technology
Clue
A picture file designed to be used in a campaign by a group seeking to overturn the constitutional protection against self incrimination.
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11/06/08
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A sultan laughs as he tries to rally his concubines as he tells them how "up" and alive they make him feel.
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11/05/08
Category: World Languages/Technology
Clue
A Spanish man exults at the prospect of his Mom Evelyn having an internet-based romantic relationship.
-~-----, --, -- -- ------ --,? ---!
11/04/08
Category: World Geo/Business
Clue
A small time New York crook tells his mother that he regularly tries to rob The Carnegie, or Katz's or Barney Greengrass or The Stage or even Jason's when he is out on the road across the country, but is always unsuccessful.
--, ---- --- - ---. ------ --.
11/03/08
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
Response of girlfriend of "Green Acres" handyman to him after he had exhibited surprise that an Italian Clothing Group had wanted to include her rather plain face in its controversial "United Colors" ad campaign.
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10/30/08
Category:sports
Clue
Order to abandon the race from the committee boat to the race participants when it notices that the waters have become fouled with raw sewage.
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10/29/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Business card slogan for this Ph.D. who can fix,...right,.... dare we say heal anything that is going wrong for a society girl who is having trouble with any aspect of her coming out celebration.
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10/28/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Vessels to be used in an agricultural emergency.
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10/27/08
Category:History/Government/Entertainment
Clue
Advice to Iraq war general who has been made a fool of by a "Laugh In" comic.
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10/24/08
Category:World Geo/Science
Clue
Answer to Mrs. Thatcher regarding another way to express a mass consisting of one billion kg.
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10/23/08
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
A man tells his mother, Roy Rogers's wife and a couple of girls named after "The Bride" who kills Bill that it is a load of crap that a popular beer named after an American patriot is fit for a king. [HOW'S THAT FOR CONVOLUTED?]
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--- --! -.-., --,----, ----!
10/22/08
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
In an intersport charity softball game, an Oakland Raider QB who had thought that the DH was in effect is told that in fact pitcher Hershiser is hitting for himself.
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10/21/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Bathrooms at the ballpark of a one time minor league baseball team in Sioux City, Iowa.
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10/20/08
Category:Science/Government
Clue
A government agency responsible for protecting the habitat of gorillas and chimps.
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10/17/08
Category:History/Government
Clue
Panic internal memo from a Republican staffer about how even among doctors everyone is going ga-ga about Barack, with a request to send a carbon to the candidate, the American Medical Association, his mother and Bo.
--- -.-.-.
10/16/08
Category:World Geo/Business
Clue
What I did when I hit Cardinal Flood and his interviewer Gowdy.
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10/15/08
Category:World Geo/Business
Clue
Ada, a young woman living on the flanks of the volcano in Sicily, owned a sporty Mitsubishi.
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10/14/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
I tell Del that I am absolutely in love with the lyric poem sent to me at gmail.com by the guy from The Eternal City.
---, - -- -------- -- --- ----- -~------.
10/13/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
What you're seeing is blatant, indiscriminate hiring of relatives and good buddies, and they're not even trying particularly hard to hide it.
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10/10/08
Category:Sports
Clue
1969 Amazin' Met right fielder, moonlighting in the Christmas package wrapping area at a local department store, is asked take on the job of putting the final touches on the packages using looped and knotted ribbon.
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10/09/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Town in the Lone Star State which is far away from everything?
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10/07/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A prominent Colorado beer on tap in the bathroom is a really great and nifty feature at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.
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10/06/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
George W. exults to his brother when he discovers that he can get better deal on a motorcycle, perhaps, by going to a Harley competitor.
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10/03/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
What happened ( courtesy of the tumblers and trapeze artists) when the killer whale got loose at the circus.
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10/01/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A drug lord tells his minions to try again to vigorously sell the recent shipment of hemp/ cannabis based narcotics from North Africa because is is SO GOOD!
--~---- ------ ----: -----!
9/30/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A nurse is aghast an an aide's having begun an intravenous drip on Weird Al while he was in the hospital, and she orders it stopped.
-------- -- --? ---!
9/29/08
Category:History/Science
Clue
A table of irrational square root estimates used by California prospectors circa 1849.
---- ---- ---- ---.
9/26/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
A programmer who had been working for the National Organization of Women was accused of not really being committed the "the cause." He responds by saying that his work on their website to draw attention to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment was an indication that he really was concerned about it.
--- ------ -- - ---- - -- ----.
9/25/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
DOUBLE PALINDROME TODAY!
(1) An apprehended criminal complains to a high ranking Middle East chieftain that the little scam he's just perpetrated is not sufficient to rate jail time. (2) Then the cheiftain replies, indicating that he does not like it at all and reaffirms that he thinks it DOES rate as more serious.
(1) ----, ---'- -- -----.
(2) ---- ------- --- -- -----.
9/24/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Peron really did want this cola alternative.
--- -- --- -----.
9/23/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Line of dialogue wherein the speaker thinks out loud to his friend Jon, wondering why the club they had gone into had neither pizza or even any good New Orleans originated swing music.
"-- ----," - --------, "-- -----, ---?"
9/22/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Alternative lifestyle establishment run by British film actress/director Lupino where the Marquis could go to experience extreme gratification through pain.
--. ---'- ------.
9/19/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In a state of having had all climbing plants removed?
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9/18/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A rant to Cecil( who cooked) that there was not even a hint of garlic in the dish.
--, -----, ----! --- --- ------ ----!
9/17/08
Category:Government/Arts
Clue
Body art foolishly mocking a situation in the art of government and diplomacy.
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9/16/08
Category:Science
Clue
Stars, and Eagles, too, taught to observe the clouds by a Dutch astronomer????
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9/15/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A University of Houston grad now living in central Florida is asked whether he would like some of a popular commercial spaghetti sauce.
---, -.-. ------ - ----- --- -----.
9/12/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Dee is told that it was the afterthought that he almost left out of the letter home that yielded a multi-geared bicycle for the ROTC student.
---, -.-. ------ - ----- --- -----.
9/11/08
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
A Round Rock, Texas computer billionaire of note is told that "The Godfather" (II and III) yelled goodbye despite being in a state of extreme muscular rigidity and mental stupor.
----, - --------- -. ------ "-- ~ --" ------.
9/10/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Over in the vicinity of the delicatessen ( well, it was actually inside it) the psychologist who was treating Lana for excessive apprehension and fidgetiness successfully had sex with with Anita.
-- ( -- ) - ---- -----
----'- ------- ------ -----.
9/09/08
Category:Sports/Science/Entertainment
Clue
McEnroe to Oscar winning first wife telling her she needs to change her ways.
------, -----.
9/08/08
Category:Government
Clue
What you are telling me is that the research wing of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not like for its employees to wear pants made of tough twilled cotton cloth typical in many uniforms.
--, --- ------- --- -- ------.
9/05/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Insincere yelling by a cheerleader at the unfunny joke Ed has just told.
---, ---, --.---. --- -- --- ---.
9/04/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Florence had filed on her insurance, claiming that her delicatessen was trashed by a werewolf. But when the adjuster came out to investigate, and started asking questions, one honest employee of hers nervously repeating herself, tells her in front of the adjuster that in fact the place had been a wreck even before.
---- --- --- --------, ---,----.....---- -------.
9/03/08
Category:Entertainment/World Geo/Sports
Clue
A star of "Charlie's Angels" is introduced to the brother of Pakistan's recent president, who is a wrestler trained in the classic Japanese tradition.
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9/02/08
Category:History
Clue
A member of the court of this "terrible" Russian tsar, tells everyone that he can now be found in a large country estate.
---, ---- -- -- - -----.
9/01/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Snuffy Smith, now manager of a McDonald's tells his employees, " Try once again to get the customers to buy the combo meal with the largest fries and drink."
--- -'-, "--~---- ----------."
8/29/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Mexican girl Rosemary is told that indeed, the gymnastic star pixie of the 1972 Olympics has gotten fat.
--, ---, --, ------ --.
8/28/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A neighbor of Archie Bunker is told that NBC's Mr. "Meet the Press" and family emphasized the importance of investing in collateralized mortgage obligations of big cities.
--, -----, -------- --- ------ ----- ----.
8/27/08
Category:Science
Clue
Who designed the optics system used in many lighthouses? Uh,.. that French scientist Augustin-Jean_______?
----? --,....-------?
8/26/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A cheerleader exults to her sister about the release of pent-up emotions she has experienced relating to her fear of Mexican food.
---, ---! ---- ---------!
8/25/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
NO CLUE TODAY. JUST ENJOY ANOTHER LINE UNIT PALINDROMIC POEM.
Revenge
Shooting the "Sahara" movie, director
Stan made matters worse by
Acting. Upon his own threats to
"Quit unless he's replaced the star,"
Stan drew a line in the sand. "I'll
Replace him with myself. You see what I mean?
Replace him with myself, you see?" What I mean.....
Stan drew a line: "In the sand I'll
Quit unless he's replaced." The star,
Acting upon his own threats to
Stan, made matters worse by
Shooting the "Sahara" movie director.
8/22/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Explanation by maitre d' to a group who comes to eat at the restaurant but is refused service because one of their party, Maurice, is wearing a felt hat with a soft crown dented lengthwise and a slightly rolled brim.
-- ----. -- --- - ------- --.
8/21/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A "Perfect 10" pulls a scam on a drunk obstetrician.
-- ----- ---- - --------- -.-.
8/20/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Eli calls Emily, identifying himself, and tells her that it is time to watch Scully and Mulder on cable.
--, --'- ---. -- -~----- ----.
8/19/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Business owners lease LL Cool J CDs.
-------- ---- ---.
8/18/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Maurice, working to get his own pizza business up and running, tells his boy that he, too, can match the door to door convenience of his hated arch rival in the business.
---, -, --, -------: ------ ------'-.
8/15/08
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
Comment from Roman Indy car racer to legend Foyt as they drink together at a bar that he is having a non-bottled beer brewed in New Orleans and rates it near the top on a 1-10 scale.
--- - --- -- ---. -- --, -.-.
8/14/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Biting, caustic Serbian tennis player Ivanovic, for example.
-- ------ ---.
8/13/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Crumbling, outdated infrastructure in conduits at Exxon tank farm.
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8/12/08
Category:Science/Entertainment/Current Events
Clue
Rey is told that there is a 1x10 to the -9 meter thick slab of Sharpton's DNA grafted onto that of a human/robot built primarily with genetic material of a famed fashion designer.
---, -- -- -- -------'- ---- --- ( ---- -----.)
8/11/08
Category:Arts/World Geo
Clue
Physician to ladies of somewhat ill repute near where Shakespeare grew up.
---------'- --. -- -----.
8/08/08
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A Swedish golfing great, about to embark on a weekend tryst with a former world class Swedish tennis pro, leaves him a note ( rather formally signed, I might add) suggesting that they meet at a little out of the way inn near Anchorage named after a Roman emperor.[How's that for a contrived setup?!]
----, ----'- -- ---. ~ ------ ---------.
8/07/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Maxine is plastered, has taken all her clothes off ( well, she still has her bra on) all through the night up to 6 in the morning.
--- -- ---, ---- ( --- ~ ------) ----- --- -.-.
8/06/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Notorious drunkard Newt who is Nathaniel's G.P. gave out a yell for his Palo Alto alma mater.
--. -- ---, --- ----, ----, "- --------."
8/05/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A request to temporarily house "Midnight Cowboy's" Rizzo's sexually promiscuous girlfriend.
--- -----'- ---- --.
8/04/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Ronald is encouraged not to try to clean out his blocked colon by using a concoction featuring massive amounts of noodles favored by poor college students.
-- ----- -----, ---.
7/31/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue from a first person novel wherein a female member of the serving staff at a restaurant boldly ( for her!) tells her boss Tim to be careful and not make a mess when he does #1 in the bathroom the staff must share.
"---," - ------ ( -, - --------!) "--- --."
7/30/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A woman commiserates with her friend, a famous country singer, about the non-existence of a store where she can shop for shirts, ties, hats and other men's furnishings.
-- -----------, --? ---, ----, ---.
7/29/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Note given to pharmaceutical clerk Dee by a controversial movie critic/sometime actor ( "Myra Breckinridge") pointing out to her that the prescription to relieve his laryngitis had been misfilled.
---, -- -----. ~ --- ----
7/28/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A member of Arnaz's Latin band of the 40s who has just contracted the clap tells his girlfriend Emily that,no, he had not seen a doctor, but he had gone to the band's leader to figure out what to do about it.
--- ------- --- --- ----'-.
7/25/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A member of Arnaz's Latin band of the 40s who has just contracted the clap tells his girlfriend Emily that,no, he had not seen a doctor, but he had gone to the band's leader to figure out what to do about it.
--, --, ---- -.-. ------- -- --.
7/24/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Red, a mafioso who is trying to build a conspiracy to knock of a famed LSU and New Orleans Jazz basketball player is rebuffed when he tries to recruit someone.
---, -- ------ ---- ----- - ------.
7/23/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Central American branch of a well known appliance manufacturer.
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7/22/08
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Roy is told that the singer of "Mandy" and "Copacabana" fame while visiting in Manhattan has gone missing without permission in the morning.
------- -- --- ----, ---, ---- ---- -- -.-.
7/21/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Diana, having run off from her army unit and now hiding out as a farmer, gave no consideration to applying for help in getting started with a plow.
--, ----, -------- -- ---- ---.
7/18/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Maria, daughter of Juan and Eva would not fix anything in the morning.
----- ----- --- -- ----- -.-.
7/17/08
Category:World Geo/History&Government
Clue
This girl, also named after the mother of Paul Tibbets, as was his plane, is a spoiled rotten kid from Texas.
- ---- ---- ----'- -----.
7/16/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Dee that I pay attention to the young child of that man over there when it comes to "the best" in oven baked potato nuggets.
---, --- --- -- ----- ---- - ----.
7/15/08
Category:Entertainment/History&Government
Clue
Neither of an Oscar winning brother directing team, given his current mindset, could be considered in the same camp as those in the Republican party who developed most of the Bush thinking on Iraq, e.g., Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Libby, Kristol, etc.
-- ---- -- -- -- - ------.
7/14/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue from a play in which an angry Timothy yells, cursing, at some hunter gatherers who had tried to grow their own food but did not recognize the importance of watering it.
---(---): -- -- --! --------, ---------!
7/11/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Mae, working on costumes for the movie "Sweeney Todd," cut the stitching running from the crotch to the bottom of the leg on a pair on pants worn by the star.
--- ------- -. ---- ------.
7/10/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Eleanor, you can many times scam Omar into giving you his one-eyed eyeglass.
--, --- ---- --- --- - -------.
7/09/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A disbelieving question to Amos about the group of mature otherwise dignified women of high social standing who got together to do lines of cocaine.
-- ------- --- -----, ----?
7/08/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
British secret agent who was the 74th hired after James Bond is given this toll free U.S. number to use to order the checked, tartan pattern jackets he wants.
-~---~----~-----, ----.
7/07/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Olivia leaves a note for Mr. Tate telling him that San Diego's star running back is made very happy and proud by mean despicable kids who inform on others.
---- ----------- ----- -.-., ----. ~ ---
7/04/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Wide footed Pete thought not at all about what his favorite fencing sword might be.
-- ---- -------- -- --- ----.
7/03/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Farmer Reginald's wife bets him that their vegetable operations are slowing/reducing the profits from their wine business.
------, - -----'-, ---, - ---- ----.
7/02/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
The action by the local California district attorney to steal the vehicle at gunpoint from the Muslim extremists heightened the chances that they would retaliate in a holy war in the area, mister.
-.-. ------, ---, --- ---- -- -----.
7/01/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I'll make the "sweet potato," if it is all right.
--- - ---, -- - ---.
6/30/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A man asks his boss whether he really wants to take a chance on Rodney, a real dweeb.
---- ---, - ----, ---?
6/27/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
As hairless as a morose retrieving dog.
---- -- - --- ---.
6/26/08
Category:World geo
Clue
Picture file name for a photo to be used on a poster to promote keeping Massapequa, Hempstead Turnpike, Merrick, The Hamptons, Oyster Bay, etc. free from garbage.
------------.---
6/25/08
Category:Business
Clue
Eve points out to Diana a play on words involving the Uncola.
"--, - -----~-- ---," --- ----.
6/24/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Edward is told that going to the City of Angels would be perfect.
-.-., --, -- -----.
6/23/08
Category:History
Clue
A disconcerted Republican candidate for president in 2008 reacts as he wonders if it is his turn on the golf green.
--: -- --- --- --- ---, ---, -- --?
6/20/08
Category:Science
Clue
In this line of dialogue form a play, Emily queries the man whom she can only call "father" about finding out that she is in fact not at all genetically related to her parents.
--: -- --- --- --- ---, ---, -- --?
6/19/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
English Name of a newspaper written for those who speak languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, etc., and perhaps others said to be descended from Noah's son Shem.
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6/18/08
Category:World Geo/Science
Clue
Diana, and two guys named Bret , all buyers for the zoo, are told not to put in a bid on a smallish poisonous lizard from Mali.
--, --, -----, -- ---- ---- ------- --- --.
6/17/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
It seems that Art is left-handed, Lewis.
----, --- ---------, ---.
6/16/08
Category:History/Science
Clue
Roman general, conqueror of Hannibal, gave not thought to the photos of fermented taro root concoction.
------ -------- -- --- ----.
6/13/08
Category:WOrld Languages
Clue
Emily, cool idea! A black guy is under consideration for the Paris police force.
--, ---! ----- --- --------.
6/12/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Mother of teenaged TV doctor yells as her son knocks back his 5th Tom Collins.
---- -----! ----- ---, ----?
6/11/08
Category:World Languages/Business
Clue
Request from Japanese electronics store salesman to his client Al Pacino to sit down and watch a brand of TV particularly suited to his needs.
---,------~---. - --------- --- --.
6/10/08
Category:History
Clue
Reginald and I will identify a notorious 30s bank robber.
--- '- -'-- -.-. ---------.
6/09/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
Indeed, Mr. Orta. Emily, Mr. Egan and Anita pat engaged in a threesome.
--, ----! ----, --, ----- --- -- - ----- - -----.
6/06/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Ned is told that the wet dirt on the extra material attached to the end of the West Pointer's paper showed its age.
---, ---, ----- - ----- --------.
6/05/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Pastor to his Minister of Music wife, questioning her lack of preparation for the music to be sung by the congregation at the morning service.
-- ------- ----, -- ---?
6/04/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Suggestion that the president of Rennselaer Polytechnic be honored and remembered by making a painting of him to hang in the gallery.
------- -.-.-. ---- -- ---.
6/03/08
Category:History
Clue
Order from Julius Caesar to his eventual assassin to take a flat topped hill rising quickly over the landscape near a Mesopotamian city and which order eerily foreshadowed his death.
-- --, -----, -- --- -- -----.
6/02/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Question to no a nonsense lollipop sucking TV detective from an underling who wants to know if he can tell a funny story?
---- - ----, ----- ---?
5/30/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Rosemary, an enemy of Nabisco because she makes knockoffs of one of their top selling cookies.
---- --- --.
5/29/08
Category:Arts
Clue
Edna is told that Edgar, painter of many ballerinas, rubbed his same hand over and over.
-----' ---- ----, ----, -- --------.
5/28/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Prevaricator on the single track tram system in this large Southwest Siberian city.
---- -- ----'- --------.
5/27/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The C.O. of unit of Demi Moore character as she tries to become a navy seal, asks the others under his command whether she is hard to figure out, an enigma, like a puzzle.
--- -.-. ----, ---, - ------?
5/26/08
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
Golfer Champagne Tony referred to Mr. O'Dell, as some kind of dromedary.
---- ------ -'---- - -----.
5/23/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Guy who checks i.d. at the entrance to the estate.
------- ---- ---.
5/22/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Using one of his favorite phrases, Archie Bunker tells friend Doogie Howser to, indeed, bootleg the gin for quick profits.
---- ----- -----, ---! --- --' ---, ----.
5/21/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Handyman on "Green Acres" is told that no matter what, Eleanor would be a yeller with a bad temper.
--, ---------- --'- ----- --.
5/20/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Sign on German river outlawing the repair of Eskimo water vehicles.
---- -- ----- -- ----.
5/19/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Regarding Theodore, figure out what kind of blues jeans he will wear.
--------- ----- -- ---.
5/16/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Cursing complaint in a typical Madison Avenue office that Dan was not pulling his weight.
--- ---- --- --- ---- --.
5/15/08
Category:Arts/Sports
Clue
In this line of dialogue from a play, Alvin tells his links partner, author ( The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe), that his report of making a 3 on the short 137 yard previous hole is a bunch of sh___!.
--: -, ---, -.-., -- -------!
5/14/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Eleanor, an alluring, dangerous graduate teaching assistant.
--, - -.-. ----- ------.
5/13/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A cowboy tries to pick a fight with someone form Central Florida whom he perceives to be a yellow belly.
----, ----- ------.
5/12/08
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Small children on a beach made famous in a Beach Boys song were verbally abusive over the oil of a common yard weed brought to Thomas by Edna, you got it? Got it?
------ ---- ------- --------- ---
---- -------- -- ---, --? --?
5/9/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
The name of an untaped local access talk show in Dogpatch, starring Fleegle, the master of the quadruple whammy.
---- --- ----.
5/8/08
Category:Arts
Clue
Confession of a taxi driver to sailors from The Nautilus, telling them that he had just broadsided a Greyhound.
--------- ---, - --- ---.
5/7/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nan was kissed by her boyfriend Emil while they were hiking in the mountains of South America. It was wonderful!
---- ------ --- -- -----. -------!
5/6/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Headline in California newspaper as an entire town agrees to quit drinking.
-.-. -- --------.
5/5/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Martini spirits shipped from Lagos through Cameroon and the Central African Republic to The Democratic Republic of the Congo, but still know by their old historic name.
-------/----- ---.
5/2/08
Category:Arts/Entertainment
Clue
I tell 50's mivie star Sandra and Erotica author Anais that I must have some rare, expensive, and actually illegal to obtain draft animals.
---, ---, ------ ------- ---- - ----.
5/1/08
Category:Arts/Entertainment
Clue
I noticed that a former James Bond actor had been cast in the lead role in a movie about Stravinsky.
---, - ---, --- ----.
4/30/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
The Mexican woman who is the heiress to a fortune built on the minty leaf also known as marjoram didn't even consider moving in with the minister because it meant living with him in the house provided by the church, Rosemary.
------- ---. -------- -- ---------, --.
4/29/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
A German adman tells his cohorts above all to play up the excitement building upon the reintroduction of the product in the new campaign.
---- - --~---- ---- -----.
4/28/08
Category:History
Clue
In this line of dialogue from a story, an Iranian religious leader points out a green onion to Diana Spencer.
"--, - -------," --------- ----.
4/25/08
Category:World Geo/History
Clue
What one Ocala Florida delinquent tax collector says to another as they go out to collect, their "clients" that morning being a distant relative of a famed English architect ( St. Paul's) who likes to go around his house without clothes and the city's chief medical investigative officer.
---- ---- -- ----- ------- -- ---.
4/24/08
Category:Sports/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A former Celtic coach and his friend Deborah visit the Flintstones Theme Park in South Dakota and one of them ,it is not clear who, says no to the idea that they make love on one of the rides.
-.-. -- --- ----- --- -- -------.
4/23/08
Category:Arts
Clue
Pat has heard that a prominent American bi-monthly magazine is going to publish some harsh, mean scandalous gossip in its next issue. I tell him that this is not the case.
---, -- ------- ---- ----'- -- ---.
4/22/08
Category:Science
Clue
You need to take a seat for this news. .....You have an inflammation of the liver common in gorillas.
---. -- ........--- ---------.
4/21/08
Category:Science
Clue
( Derisive laugh !) All you have are old types of early particle accelerators?
( -----! ) --' ----------?
4/18/08
Category:World Geo/ Arts
Clue
Ada, employed by a large public transportation system in North Texas, was the possessor of a very rare and valuable violin.
----'- --- --- - -----.
4/17/08
Category:Sports
Clue
LINE UNIT TODAY
The basketball team's shooting guard was gunned down after he went out of the arena, wasn't he? Because, he was pretty poor at the 20 foot jumper.
_(2) _(3) _(4) _(7), _(2)? _(3) _(2) _(7) _(4) _(3) _(2) ( Numbers = # of letters in each word.)
4/16/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
This woman paddled a canoe on a man made waterway while, disrobed, she lay beneath Frederick who was trying to make love to her.---- ------ ----- ----, ----, -- - -----.
4/15/08
Category:Legend
Clue
Exclamation from Guinevere to her husband that she has his erectile dysfunction medicine, so, presumably, they can proceed now that she is in the mood.---, -'-- -------!!
4/14/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Ancient Chinese philosophy really got to Dee, who sported a moustache and chin hair.-- ------- --- --- ---.
4/11/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
"Michael Corleone" portrayer and family are questioned about the appropriateness of serving takeout food from the local drive in at their dinner party.-----? --- -- --, -------?
4/10/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
After an argument broke out between a sidearm packing naval officer and a Berber/Arab server from NW Africa in the dining area of a warship, the former challenged the latter to a duel with these words.-------- ----, ..........----!
4/9/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
There is no trace of any pale lager with a strong taste of hops ( originally brewed in Bohemia in the Czech Republic) on the mouth of that alluring female with the hauntingly beautiful voice.------- -- --- -- -----'- ---.
4/8/08
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A man tells his golfing buddy Reginald that he saw the world's best golfer in the capital of Jordan.---, -- --- -- ----- - --- -----.
4/7/08
Category:Arts/Geo
Clue
A Tolkien monster who somehow morphed into a lounge singer in Nevada.---- --- -------.
4/4/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I insisted that everyone take notice of the overdose by the guy who went crazy when he overdid steroids.-- ------, - -------, '---- ----- -.-.
4/3/08
Category:Science
Clue
Report on the lack of ferrous matter in the constellation of "the belted one."-- ---- -- -----.
4/2/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A business planning partner of Evelyn agrees with her that they have a good idea for a shop where they will be open to bribery from customers who want to get the best cuts of their smoked, flavored beef brisket.----- -------- ----'- - ----, --.
4/1/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Nina is naive, foolish and generally uninteresting.-- ------- --- -- ----.
3/31/08
Category:World Geo/Languages
Clue
Russian man tells his son that is it is indeed a shame that the food in the German city they were visiting tasted like bat dung.--, ---, -------'- ----'- -----. ---.
3/28/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
A fellow marathon competitor running with Eli in an Illinois college town comments to him about the very difficult albeit not at all hilly stretch they have just traversed.---, ---, - ------ ---- ------ ----!
3/27/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
Brooklynese for "Use a switchblade on the rat."----- -- ----.
3/26/08
Category:Sports/History
Clue
Cyril, father of tennis player Helena Sukova swears at all the noise and commotion.--- ------ ------.
3/25/08
Category:History
Clue
Love between terrorists! A prominent Palestinian terrorist group thinks that the architect of the 9/11 attacks is sexy.-- ----- ----- ---.
3/24/08
Category:Arts/Science/World Languages
Clue
Defiant note left by noted 20th century physicist to poet Eliot who had asked him whether he would like to reconsider his position, to which the reply is NEVER!---, -.-., ---! ~ --------.
3/21/08
Category:Science/World Languages
Clue
With a mild curse, a Frenchman tells Enid that he could really use some dream-state sleep.-----, ----! - ---- -.-.-.
3/20/08
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Ms. Reese, this is what Ana did when she fell into the Niagara River near the falls and couldn't get help from the US authorities.-----, -------- --- --- ------.
3/19/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Tell all, sorority sister! Spill the secrets! Anything juicy and racy?-------, ------! ----?
3/18/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A perfect Boy Scout rope tying set of procedures.---- -- ---- ---.
3/17/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Young man, young man, ( insert urban slang interjection) We have to bring our own liquor to the party?---, ---, --! ----?
3/13/08
Category:Sports
Clue
Golfer Ernie has been dating a very trim, graceful woman, Ms. Upton, whom he feels is perhaps too thin and whom he suspects of bulimia. He asks a friend to follow her into the bathroom after a restaurant meal to report back on whether she actually "gave it up." This is the report, in the negative.----- ----- --- --- ----, ---.
3/12/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A Jack Benny sidekick, casting caution to the wind, led a racy, risque lifestyle in the morning hours and behaved immorally.
------, ----- --- ----,
---- -.-. -----. ------.
3/11/08
Category:Historical Slang
Clue
A son, noting his father's smoking of a marijuana joint, tells how it caused him to stand up and catcall in disbelieving, but polite, disapproval.---- -. ---, ---: " - ------, ---?"
3/10/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Joe Friday sings his theme song as he mulls over the major clue/news from fellow police officer Ed that extremely wet and dirty clothes matching the mess at the crime scene were found on a recently apprehended suspect in the case.---? ---, --? ---? ---~--~---~---!
3/07/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
It looks as if Captain Hook's sidekick put the quietus on the child who is not only mischievous, but has evil magical powers.---- ------- - --- ---, -- -----.
3/06/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
This Japanese villainess from "Kill Bill" really made am impression on Otto.---- ---- --- --.
3/05/08
Category:Science
Clue
Not one of the mafia under bosses was sorry about perpetrating the scam involving selling off parts of a Jovian moon.-- ---- ---- ------ ---.
3/04/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A hostess having a dinner party is accused of being too uppity to have out little chocolate treats like at the movies as snack food before dinner.---, -- ---~----?
3/03/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A "Roots" star is told that his one "man" act portraying a Roman Catholic sister can come apart on him really fast.-----, --- --- --- -------.
2/29/08
Category:Sports/Science
Clue
This palindrome is in honor of the mathematician John Horton Conway who invented an algorithm for determining the day of the week for any calendar day. The name of that algorithm, which involves the nickname given to the last calendar day of February, reflects how long distance ( say, Florida to Cuba ) swimmer Diana is feeling.-------- ----'- ----.
2/28/08
Category:Science
Clue
A man tells Ned that he is (owing to superior genetics ) very sexy and attractive to his female servant.---, - -- (---) --- -- ----------.
2/27/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Cursing directed toward Tim regarding excrement left behind by his "irate canine."---, --- --- ----, ---------!
2/26/08
Category:Science/History
Clue
Always a critic, the user of the first phonograph ever made asks its inventor why the recording had no "flip side."-- ---- '-,' ------?
2/25/08
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
A business run by Samuel high in the mountains of Switzerland selling the clear liquid portion of blood into which cells are suspended.---'- --- -------.
2/22/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell Salvador that the final thing I will do is to retool the fort to correct the mistake that was made.----, - ---- ----- --------, ---.
2/21/08
Category:History
WORD UNIT TODAY
Clue
After the tragedy in November, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald's wife found work packaging meals take out meals at a restaurant. On this occasion her shift manager tells her that the recently prepared orders should be given to the driver for delivery down to the lake where the boats are docked.-, - - - - - - - -.
2/20/08
Category:Science
Clue
The baleen whale at Sea World tells his handler Emily, that he is getting irritated with the same old diet all the time.--, ----- --- --.
2/19/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I produced the film which loosely translated means " Is it not true that melancholy Abraham was one bad tempered and hard to deal with dude?" and I am simply awestruck by my accomplishment.
- ---- "--- --- --- --- --- ------?"
---- -- -.
2/18/08
Category:Sports
Clue
A former Olympic backstroke champion, now having sworn off all meat products, harangued Evelyn about banning them from sale.-----, -----, --- --- -- -- ---.
2/15/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Comments to "Rose" Midler and her date Edward by the waiter as he restates their orders as he delivers their food: a breakfast egg dish for him, and a refreshing summer drink for her.--, -- --------,..... -----, --------.
2/14/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Explanation for the ruckus at the psychiatric hospital: it seems former Secretary of State Vance expectorated at one of the patients.--, -- ---- -- - ------.
2/13/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Edward, the boyfriend of President Carter's daughter, leaves her a note on June 23rd telling her to get rid of last months leftovers.-------, ---, --- ----. ~ --
2/12/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Donald is encouraged not to wait on the alien from outer space as it were some celebrity or something.--! ---- --- -- -.-., - ---.
2/11/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Maitre d' tells server to escort Barack and Michelle not just to a table, but somewhere where they can have a little privacy.---, - ----- -- ------.
2/08/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
An utterance of pain to a restaurant reviewer suggesting that he pan the small establishment run by Italian actor Marcelo, as the menu is overrun with dishes featuring leftovers.-.-. -----------'- ---. --! ---- ----!
2/07/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Ana is told that the deep secrets and mysteries associated with the University of Texas is a load of trash.---, ---- -- -~--- ------.
2/06/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Del is told to keep out the eagle that the German woman nursed back to health.---, --- ----- ----- -------.
2/05/08
Category:Entertainment/Arts
Clue
Tami is told that as she accompanies the Danish Clown Prince of piano comedy, he will try to play very fast.----, ------- -----'-- --- --.
2/04/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Alien bean curd.--- ----.
2/01/08
Category:Science/Arts/World Geo
Clue
The guy from Saigon who learned to weave sound waves through strands of genetic material to produce Sousa marches.-- ---- -.-.-. ------, ---.
1/31/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A father tells his son that he cannot get his high school equivalency exam by being proficient in "mind reading."---'- --- --------.
1/30/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Edward is told that Ira, who has the growl and fierceness of a bear when he gets out of bed, has indeed gotten up and is in his usual mood.--, ------'- ---, ------. -- ----.
1/29/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Luke Duke's cousin is told that the number of the post office box is 60.
----, --, -.-. --- --.
1/28/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Deborah is told that "Avenger" Steed's sidekick has hit the hay and is sawing logs.
----'- ----, ---, ------.
1/25/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
The 16 year old son of Ronald Reagan's Chief of staff, a boy with very wide feet.
-----, -- --------.
1/24/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
You see my Dad's beer container opener collection?
---- ---'- ---~----?
1/23/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
The buzz around Saigon: Asa delivered payoffs for the local crime syndicate.
--- ---: --- --- - ------.
1/22/08
Category:World Languages
Clue
Man leaves a note for his Mexican father and Ivan Zapata, telling them that he is leaving, but "Merry Christmas."
---, ---- -., - ----. ----- -------.
1/21/08
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Aliens hip to earth lingo for their kind tell their new friend Estelle goodbye as they head off to get their favored Mexican fast food in this large Florida city in Palm Beach County.
--~--, -------, ---- ---- ---- -.-.- --- --.
1/18/08
Category:World Geo/Arts
Clue
Lewis leaves a note for Alvin telling him that famed erotica author Nin thinks he hails from Moscow or Minsk.
----, ----- -------- -'- -------, --.~ ---.
1/17/08
Category:Science/History&Government
Clue
Response to House Speaker O'Neill about water which tasted rather stannous, judging from a tiny drink taken by the person reporting this news.
--- ( - --- --, ---) -- -- --.
1/16/08
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
Curt response from a New Haven student when asked where he went to school and what he did on the track team.
----. --- -- - -----.
1/15/08
Category:History&Government
Clue
Otto, the security guard at the Minneapolis airport apprehended Mr. Pate, also a member of the House of Representatives: (why? well, because Pate pulled a Larry Craig.)
---. ---- ---- ---: (--- ------.)
1/14/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Royal bell ringer during a king's reign.
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1/11/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The god of Moses used a scythe on the grass and clover intended for the cattle.
------ --- --- ---.
1/10/08
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Mr. Li and actor Neeson are told to send a response to Drew, and by the way to do so the old fashioned way, as Drew does not have e-mail.
----,--, ------ ----: ----- ----.
1/09/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Do not ever stealthily come up behind a newborn dog.
-- --- -'-- ----- -- --.
1/08/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Company that makes fur shoulder scarves from the pelts of certain felines.
------ ----- --.
1/07/08
Category:Sports
Clue
First question by Senator Mitchell to Bonds, Clemens, McGuire, Palmeiro, Canseco, etc, wanting to know if it was supplements or genetics that made the difference for them.
----- -- ---?
1/04/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Where Elliott might hear out of this world music.
--- -.-.'- ------.
1/03/08
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Website devoted to pictures of very ugly derrieres.
-----.---.---.
1/02/08
Category:Arts
Clue
Anticlea and her son Odysseus, who want to sell the house, are angered at the fact that that their husband/father chose which broker would handle the transaction and say this:
---! ------- --- --- -------.
1/01/08
Category:World Geo
Clue
Tess, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority is told she will have to ride the subway until the bus strike in New York is resolved.
------- ----, --- --'- -------........---.
12/31/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
No clue today. Just enjoy one of several LINE UNIT palindromes I recently wrote in the spirit of J.A. Lindon's "Doppelganger."This one was recently published in Wordways, The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
(If you have already seen this as last week's, then enjoy again, as somehow it did not mail out, so I am using this as the 12/31 daily. New one tomorrow, I promise. And check the archive for the rest of last week's offerings)
Hot buns!
I see you are baking now. Well done!
Into the oven now must go,
So I say, my darling Liz,
Buns I see you feel so
Fond of. And then his
Hand creeps, I see. Your thigh is
But his sole desire. I see that groping,
But his sole desire. I see that groping
Hand. Creeps, I see, your thigh is
Fond of. And then his
Buns I see you feel.
So I say my darling Liz
Into the oven now must go!...
I see you are baking, now well done!
Hot buns!
12/28/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A New York city hack questions his pal Max about the work stoppage in thier cabs set for the following day, at the crack on dawn, verifying the time twice.
---, -- ---- ------ -- ---? -- --- -.-.?
12/27/07
Category:History
Clue
Words of mild disapproval to an Egyptian boy-king.
---~---, ---.
12/26/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
I don't give a hoot about what that Cub Scout pack leader Deborah thought.
--- -- --- -- ------.
12/25/07
Category:World Geo/Government
Clue
Insensitive 2nd banana to the president irritated the people of old Mesopotamia.
---- ---- ------ --.
12/24/07
Category:Business/Finance
Clue
Red is told that Arthur would not be very good at selling fixed income instruments.
---, ---'- -- -- ---- ------.
12/21/07
Category:World Geo/Sports/History
Clue
The city where the Angels play, Maurice, doesn't care much for Hana, the devotee of Karl Marx.
-------, --, ------- --- -- ------ ----.
12/20/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Response circa 1982 from a Congressman to the Speaker trying to explain away his drinking whiskey on the house floor by saying it's not done ostentatiously, but in small portions
---, - --- --.
12/18/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Jeer at Gomer Pyle's cousin again.
--~--- ------.
12/17/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Lead reindeer tells a fellow team member, all stuffed up, about the manifestation his current,absolutely awful head cold produced, resulting in his most interesting feature.
--- ----, ------.
12/14/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
So you got the hard, stale fried turnover filled with sausage and potato cut in half, did you? Then clean up the mess you made in the basin.
----- ----, --? ---- ---- ----.
12/13/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Sidney is told not to twist out of all proportion Sarah's slow paced run to follow Cain into the "land east of Eden."
-- --- ------- -----'- ----, ---, -- ---.
12/11/07
Category:Entertainment/Business
Clue
In a deleted scene from the first James Bond movie, Bond's nemesis disparages to his henchmen the take from their robbery of a store selling "hand tools, power tools, industrial tools, tool storage products, tool boxes, automotive diagnostics, and shop equipment "* and whose name suggests ease of use.
* taken directly from company website.
----~-- ----- ---- -- ----.
12/10/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Two young women each named Laci are filing a lawsuit against a Broadway musical production featuring songs such as "Amazing Gertrude," "Solla Solew," and "Notice Me Horton."
----- --- "---------."
12/07/07
Category:History&Government
Clue
What's that Defense Minister Dayan, you want me to have the family dog neutered?
--, -- ------ ----, -----?
12/06/07
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
If this Howard Stern movie trailer is playing in Saigon, there will be no motor vehicles on the street.
-- --- ------- -- "-------" --.
12/05/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Punny advice to an army man, to pay no attention to the fact that he lost his dog tags, and just to live with it.
------ -.-. ----. ------- --, -.-.
12/04/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Elvis' mother, invoking his middle name, tells one of his playmates not to make machine gun noises at him.
-- ---~-~---~--- -- ----.
12/03/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
What a NORML member might call his new corner convenience store, selling what he had heretofore worked so hard to get legalized.
--- ----.
11/30/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Oh, is it possible that Doctor Raft, the physician who owns the weight loss farm, can afford money for even a little Mexican food?
--! --- --. -- --- ----, ----, ------ -----?
11/29/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Pedro's wife sweetly tells him not to invite to many people over to watch the game.
-- -----, ----- ---.
11/28/07
Category:Entertainment/Sports
Clue
Doyle Brunson talks of the sickening feeling he has as he bets it all, at the same time fearing that he may be beaten by a better hand.
-'- --- --. --- -- -.
11/27/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Negative response of a man to his lawyer who gives him tax advice and who has just suggested investing in Japanese currency.
--- ---, --- --------.
11/26/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Very overweight Diego misplaced his identification card allowing him entrance to this lower balcony area, reinforced and with wide seats to accompany theatre goers like him.
----- ---- - ----- ---- -.-.
11/23/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Darn it! This pop singer ( "Cherish the Day") is a lowlife, mean sneaking coward.
----! ----'- - ---- -------.
11/22/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In this dialogue, Mac points out to Diana a dish one could eat scooped onto chips or crackers and made out of large shrimp sautéed in garlic and butter.
"--, - ------ ---," --- ----.
11/21/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A "country feller" tells Evelyn how his idiot jerk sister , having eaten even the serving bowl also, is absolutely insatiable.
------ "--," --- ---'- --------, --.
11/20/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Creator of "Cosmos" is very funny to be around.
-----: - ---.
11/19/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mother, I tell you, expectorates: it's like a bell going off in my head reminding me: she is as drunk as I am.
--, - ---, -----: - ------
-----: -- -- ----- -- - --.
11/16/07
Category:Science/World Geo
Clue
Mister, the German valley where a homo sapiens relative was discovered in the first half of the 19th century is a genetic dead end.
----, --- --- ------- --.
11/15/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
The owner of a black tar supply company expresses disgust as he orders his employees to take back the large shipment sent to a barrel maker in a Central Florida city because of non-payment.
----! ---- ----- ------'- ---.
11/14/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
The leader of a small military group sent off to do a particular task hesitatingly tells his group that he is highly embarrassed at having gotten them lost.
------, -'-, ...--..., ----------.
11/13/07
Category:World Geo/History
Clue
Query to Kay regarding her purchase of a kit to make a replica of explorer Thor Heyerdahl's raft rather than an Eskimo canoe.
---, - ---~---- ---? -- -----?
11/12/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Thomas Asti is told about a special upscale resort on an island being developed by a discount motor hotel chain.
--'- - ----- --- ----, --- ----.
11/9/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
We again validated the identification papers of the geek?
-- ---- -.-. --- -----?
11/8/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play Emily tells her son Alfred she would prefer that he be in love with Beverly, his girlfriend from long ago.
--: ------, ---- ---, ----- -----.
11/7/07
Category:Arts
Clue
The whining, tearful, snot nosed nothingness of the relatives of the author of Rosemary's Baby.
---------- --- ------.
11/6/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
My brother or sister set fire to the trash from the family room.
--- ------- --- ------.
11/5/07
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A bewildered query to Rosemary, head of a mountaineering company, from a potential customer who is surprised to be quoted such a small price to be guided up the world's second tallest mountain.
--, --, --- --?
11/2/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Sadie, wife of famed NY Giant footballer and mother to NASL soccer star, had her daughter Nan buy their favorite brand of tater tots at the store.
----- ---- --- --- -- --- --- ----.
11/1/07
Category:Sports/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Name and nickname of the granddaughter of a former diminutive Dallas Cowboy quarterback of the early 60's, and who is now employed as by a major Las Vegas hotel to walk around selling a pounded and fermented taro root delicacy imported from Hawaii.
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10/31/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An incredulous question to Sid regarding the recent appointment of Rodney, a real butt hole despite his three academic degrees, as a representative of good will from Hewlett Packard to the rest of the computer industry.
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--, ---, -.-. ----------?
10/30/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A friend points out to Robert the big time, festive, professionally run Boy Scout gatherings.
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10/29/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A crewman tells his friend Devorah about the awful conditions on board ship without much food to eat, where even the rodents could became undernourished before the rest of them were.
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10/26/07
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
How to refer to "belonging to Raymond's wife" in Mexico.
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10/25/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Ira noticed that I was standing next door to a drinking establishment frequented by homosexuals.
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10/24/07
Category:Arts
Clue
A high Catholic church official tells poet Eliot that he forgives the homeless man who lives at the YMCA and who sexually terrorized women and the recent ecclesiastical conference.
-.-., - ------ -'- ----- ------.
10/23/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
In this dialogue Edward tells his secretary Dede to buy a dozen long stemmed ones.
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10/22/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Physician named Mara who is the chief medical officer of the State owned oil company of Saudi Arabia.
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10/19/07
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
The son of "Illya Kuryakin" is told to consider Duke or North Carolina, or Wake Forest, or Virginia or..... when thinking about college.
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10/18/07
Category:History
Clue
Despite being high out of her gourd on marijuana as she was very often, Evelyn, caught in an an amorous embrace with "Bush's Brain," told him "No" in no uncertain terms.
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10/17/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Yell of distress at home of USA-Cuba long distance swimmer after tasting her (erroneously called) "sweet potatoes."
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10/16/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Matt, golfing, tells everyone that it is his turn to make his stroke on the green and that he is absolutely transfixed by his opportunity to avoid bogey.
-, ----, --. ---- -- --- ---- -- -.
10/15/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Dee, his cry for the U. Arkansas football team is one I pay attention to.
---, --- "--, ----" - ----.
10/12/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Cigar Aficionado editor Alvin allowed Ana to give a bad review to a new offering, a long slim cigar.
-- --- --- --- - ---------.
10/11/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
That little number by the Alabama band about Brando in the Windward Isles? I couldn't stand it!
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10/09/07
Category:Arts
Clue
Someone tells Rosemary that an example of what he was referring to was a "forgetful" popular variety of garden flower which grows near a mountain famous in a Martin Luther King speech.
----- --., -.-., --, ------~--~----.
10/08/07
Category:Arts
Clue
Eb is asked whether it was true that the family of the composer of"William Tell" led a filthy lifestyle.
--, --- -------- ------ --?
10/05/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Lost Biblical parchment books( alternate plural) on sex education found near a Central Florida City.
_ _ _ ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
10/04/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
WORD UNIT TODAY
A concerned friend notices a reddish blotch on the skin of the lead singer of The Police in the old days, and asks him therefore whether or not it hurts a little bit.
_, _ _ _ _ _, _, _, _ _ _?
10/03/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Nabila, a Muslim native of the Western Mediterranean area of North Africa, carried Alvin Slade to a location where he could be interrogated by rebel forces in Afghanistan.
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10/02/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Someone offers marijuana to Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard.
---, -- ---?
10/01/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mister, Omar is a slimy, rich, powerful CEO of a big multinational corporation.
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9/28/07
Category:Arts
Clue
Dynamic modern art, suggestive of movement, made out of gummed note paper.
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9/27/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Amy is told that Ms. Carey refuses to make love onstage in a remake of the 60's hit "Flower Power" musical.
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9/26/07
Category:World Geo/SPorts
Clue
Alvin, a small boy from Los Angeles irately yelled to be driven to the stock car races in this Georgia town.
"-- ---------," ----- --, -.-. ---.
9/25/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Well, if it isn't Lewis, reeking of illegal, cheap, dirty sex!
----, -------- ------- ------ ---!
9/24/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Mr. Hall, a Muslim who is walking with his god near a haberdashery where he can use his PC wirelessly, pauses to make a purchase as a gift.
----, -- - -------, ----- -- --- -----.
9/21/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Lee is told by his boss that perhaps the tenth version of the menu that they have just mocked up may need to be tweaked a bit.
"---, ---- ---- ---- ---, - ----."
9/19/07
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
A former Kansas City Chief coach, standing next to a grain storage unit, thought not at all about Krakow stores selling gin.
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-- ------ --- -----.
9/18/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
A mean nursery school teacher dealing with a slow child whose parents are big University of Tennessee-Chattanooga football fans impatiently tries to get him to do the #2 that he said he needed to do.
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9/17/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
This Missouri town home to a branch of the State University gave no thought to the extreme paleness of many of its citizens stemming from a recent public health scare.
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9/14/07
Category:History
Clue
A famed Roman statesman and political opponent of Julius Caesar, is asked by his hostess at a dinner party if he is sure he does not want any of the Mexican food dish she has prepared.
--, ----, -- -----?
9/13/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Brouhahas about carbonated drinks.
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9/12/07
Category:World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Folk singer Lopez is told that 6 or 7 times a week at night Roxanne travels on the New York subway system.
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9/11/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Eva, out to assault and rob unsuspecting people outside Yankee stadium, takes a liking to "Mr. October" and offered him a piece of Wrigley's instead.
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9/10/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Vodka detected on the lips of drinking glasses.
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9/7/07
Category:World Languages
Clue
I would arrest the deity of Mexican robbers and highwaymen.
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9/6/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sy, blown away by what he has seen straight ahead, has turned away 90 degrees.
--, ----, -- --------.
9/5/07
Category:World Languages
Clue
Involved in a meeting with both his current and former wives and using a common shortened Latin word form, a man asks them if they need any photocopies made.
-----, -- -- --?
9/4/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
An environmental firm tells Texas Instruments that their recommendation would be to reduce the level of fungi on the moisture susceptible walls.
--'- ----- -.-. ------.
9/3/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Together with Kenneth, Robert, Alvin, and long distance swimmer Dianne, I participated in a 9000 meter road race today.
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8/31/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
After having had several other articles rejected, customer questions bank officer Lewis on whether his tall man clothes from Officer Candidate School would suffice as security for a loan.
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---- ----------, ---?
8/30/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Britisher comments on how his mother thought that the treatment she received from the foot doctor in the New York subway was the best it could possible have been.
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8/29/07
Category:World History/Geo
Clue
As Mohammed leads god on a tour of the campus of the University of Houston, he comments on how the building they are in is not very well lit and the atmosphere is clammy.
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8/28/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mister, don't lie down to sleep on that pile of garbage.
---, --- --- -- ------.
8/27/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
That mutt has been practically deified over his ability to sniff out alien spaceships, has he?
--'- --- -- --- ----, --?
8/24/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Lester is an arrogant jokester/wise guy on the overhead cable car, Eleanor.
---'- - ---- -----~---, --.
8/23/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Line of dialogue delivered by Anna, who loves the "Name Game" lyric based on her name, and who is a smelly, but wealthy and influential, snob made famous by Spiro Agnew: she sings the beginning part of said lyric. ( I ADMIT: THIS IS BIZARRE!!)
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"---- ---- -- ----- ------ ----- -- -----!"
8/22/07
Category:Government/Business
Clue
A young man who had just gone to work for the Atomic Energy Commission reports back to his mother that he liked it except for one small thing: he was mad that all they had for lunch was "The San Francisco Treat."
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8/21/07
Category:Misellaneous
Clue
Eleanor is ordered to reduce her cursed senseless folly.
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8/20/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
The Chinese MD practicing in Provincetown, Mass. is a sting perpetrated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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8/17/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
A visitor queries Don Corleone as to his lack of digital recording equipment for any of the television sets in the house.
--, ----, -- -----?
8/16/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A recovering arsonist tells his friend Lee that he thinks that any sudden acute urge to strike again is now behind him.
---, ---'- - ---- ------ ----, - ----.
8/15/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Command to an Eskimo not to try to fix his vessel while on this river forming the northern boundary of Germany and Poland.
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8/14/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
I tell Dee that I pay close attention to a king's time on the throne is a North African city.
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8/13/07
Category:Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
A Scot tells "Victor Sifuentes" or "Matt Santos"that Timothy did not urinate much.
-----, - --- --- --- ---'-.
8/10/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
On NBC's Sunday night magazine show is the boy who has prematurely aged, is that not right?
-- --------'- - ------ ---, --?
8/9/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
This woman desired to purchase billfolds sold by vendors who man the slopes of a Sicilian volcano.
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8/7/07
Category:Sports/World Geo
Clue
A friend tells Dee that she is paying particular attention to Yankee Matsui, especially as he is speaking through an amplified system.
---, ------, -----, - ----.
8/6/07
Category:History/World Geo
Clue
It was Assistant District Attorney David , not Evelyn, who insisted to President Bush's top political advisor that he present himself before the District Attorney in Carson City.
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8/3/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Watch belonging to a fellow from Enid or Tulsa,..........or Muskogee.
----'- -----.
8/2/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Mr. Asti is told that his dish using tuna fish and flavored with a a spice from tropical Southeast Asian tree is the star of his recipe collection.
--'- - ---, ---- ------, ----.
8/1/07
Category:Entertainment/Myth
Clue
Advice to a Greek god who is upset that a Mexican- American hero of the Old West is trampling on his territory by having switched from rapier and bullwhip to thunderbolts.
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7/31/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
What the cowgirls at the dude ranch said was their main focus when the E Street Band came for a week's stay.
-- ----- "----" - ---.
7/30/07
Category:Arts
Clue
Enid introduces herself to Ronald as the composer of a symphony with one sharp in its key signature based on images and sounds of a drug overdose.
---, -'- ---- -- "-.-. -- - -----."
7/27/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Horror man Chaney is told that Ms. Thurman was telling the truth when she said she saw a Japanese warrior.
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7/26/07
Category:Sports
Clue
Comment by wife of a former Celtic basketball coach to him after she realizes that Ilsa has just pulled a fast one on them by selling them a repossessed mobile home, pretending it was new.
---, - ----, -.-! ----'-
- ----- --------.
7/25/07
Category:Science
Clue
A poor geometry whom Evelyn has queried as to how far he got in a proof tells her that he could not get past just writing down the initial assumptions.
-- "-----," --, - ---.
7/24/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
John Blutarsky offers his Corvette driving fraternity brother a sweet liqueur.
-----, --------?
7/23/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Sidney's estranged wife tells him to give up all claims on her frozen eggs.
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7/20/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
It is my understanding that 98 year old Rae Hines gave a tongue lashing to a West Pointer who had left his unit in protest in Essen, Germany.
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-----, - ----- -- -----, - ----.
7/19/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Olivia, queenly in bearing, and head of a pack of Cub Scouts, cursed a resident of their small town.
----- ---, - --- --, ------ - --------.
7/18/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Co-producer tells Red he is thinking about why their show has no life or spark.
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7/17/07
Category:Arts
Clue
When the music got very fast and complex, it even did this to a famed Chicago Symphony director.
-- ---- -----.
7/16/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Question from McGarrett to his sidekick, confirming his refusal of a refreshing summer drink, and wondering of he would like cantaloupe instead.
-- --------, ----? -----?
7/13/07
Category:History
Clue
50's/60's female dress code violation.
---- -----.
7/12/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
A serial killer tells Evelyn that he almost exclusively uses a butcher knife to kill male residents of this Wisconsin city.
--, ------ --- - -----.
7/11/07
Category:Sports
Clue
The fact that Swen has not lined up in the neutral zone is sort of like "dog bites man,"Edward.
---- ------, --, -- -- ----.
7/10/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Anita is told that Deborah from North Africa crafted a mat for Jed where they slept.
---- ---, -----, ----
--- - --- -- - -------.
7/09/07
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
What the principal said when he announced Timothy, great grandson of a NY Giant slugger, as he came across the stage at graduation and told everyone he was going to study engineering in Cambridge.
--- --- -- -.-.-.
7/06/07
Category:World Languages
Clue
Ed tells his best friend in the 'hood that he is an expert at draw poker, having achieved practically divine skills despite being a mere mortal.
---, -'- ------, - ---- -------.
7/05/07
Category:World Geo/Entertainment/Legend
Clue
"Irish."
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7/04/07
Category:World Geo/Entertainment/Legend
Clue
Eleanor is told that folk singer Lopez was an enthusiastic onlooker as a legendary woman rode naked in the New York subway car.
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7/03/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
Stationed in Saigon, the country's only purveyor of bootleg expandable waistbands.
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7/02/07
Category:World Geo/Sports
Clue
I tell Sidney that I don't think much of the Royal Crown Cola sold at Alabama home football games.
---- -.-., ---, - ---------.
6/29/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing, Lem, absent without permission from his army unit, but just chillin' without a care in the world.
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6/28/07
Category:Sports/Business
Clue
A New York baseball player named Sy is politely asked whether it can possibly be true that tuna fish is not a part of the South American version of a popular weight loss plan he is on.
--- --, ---, ----'-
--- -- -.-. -----------?
6/26/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
A boy points out to his father a puzzling and illegal advertisement for gin which suggests that a swig of it in the morning can also be as effective as Viagra.
---, --------- ------- -.-. --- -- --!
6/25/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
Hey, Conehead Aykroyd, hold your son gently in your arms!
--, ------, ------ ---!
6/22/07
Category:History
Clue
Internet area promoting the Equal Rights Amendment: brutish "abominable" males watch out!
--- -------: ----- ------!
6/21/07
Category:History&Government
Clue
Someone tells Eleanor not to go overboard for the 1996 Republican nominee for president, mentioning him by both first and last names.
--, -.-. --- -- ---! --- -- ----!
6/20/07
Category:Arts/Entertainment
Clue
An opera star's nemesis and professional rival, Dee, refuses to have sex in a scene to be broadcast live on video.
---, --- ----, ----- --- -- - ----- ----.
6/19/07
Category:Arts/Business
Clue
A blindly and wildly optimistic heroine of children's literature happens to own stock in Wang Computers. ( You didn't know that, did you?) In this palindrome a friend tells her that by a simple "no" vote, the founder of the company will come out in opposition to her idea to institute an employee stock ownership plan.
-- ---'-- ------ ----, ---------.
6/18/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Don't try to identify that guy who is yelling and screaming out of control.
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6/15/07
Category:Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
That guy from Saigon, Nik Wa, is the one Ida is going to chase after in Lil Abner on the first Saturday following November 9.
---'- --- ---, -- ---'-
----- ------- ---.
6/14/07
Category:Entertainment/World Geo/Science
Clue
Note left to Oscar winning actor (Godfather Part II) by a Swedish friend, telling him what a key element in tooth decay prevention is.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _
~ _ _ _.
6/13/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Despite his having been a member of his high school band's brass section, a colleague wrote this in an unsigned note to U.S. Senator Morton requesting him not to play an unaccompanied piece in the upcoming talent show.
-- -------- ----, ---. -. -. ------!
6/11/07
Category:Miscellaneous
Clue
Mystic Indian M.D. Chopra, mesmerized by the hooded fur coat he has been given, wet his pants.
------, ---- -- -----, ----.
6/8/07
Category:Entertainment
Clue
WORD UNIT ToDAY,
A movie director tells the assembled cast and crew that, despite Denzel's protestations that he does not need to take a break, after rehearsing the scene 10 times the actor has changed his mind.
_, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
6/7/07
Category:World Geo
Clue
An order to a bouncer regarding drunkard Sam, a college student in Amherst.
---- ---, ----- ---.
6/6/07
Category: Arts/World Geo
Clue
Swen shares data on abstract art using optical illusions with other papers in and around Norway's largest city.
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6/5/07
Category: Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
(1) A James Bond actor made a phone call to a woman named Anita Pat who was staying in a hotel room in the capital of South Australia. (2) Or he called up a former UN Secretary general.
(1) ----- ------ ----- ---
-- -------- ----.
(2) ----- ------ ---- -- -------- ----.
6/4/07
Category: Arts
Clue
Eb is told that the dirty, lurid story of the generations of the family of the "William Tell" composer was quite pleasing and entertaining.
--, - --- --- -------'- ------ ---- --.
6/1/07
Category: Entertainment
Clue
In a quote from "Midnight Cowboy" Rizzo tells his buddies Maurice and Mac that he does not care for the woman from Costa Rica with the toddler.
--,---, -, -----, ------ ---
-- ----- ---- ---.
5/31/07
Category: World Geo
Clue
In a line of dialogue Edward demands that Deirdre produce the crimson long stemmed flowers.
"----, --- -----," ------- --.
5/30/07
Category: World Geo
Clue
A phrase suggesting a preference for a (Hawaiian) dish made from fermented, pounded taro root that comes from a shop near the Alamo, rather than from grandmother's kitchen.
--- ------- ---, --- ----'-.
5/29/07
Category: Sports
Clue
O, sweet potatoes cooked by a famed long distance swimmer ( Florida to Cuba)! Rescue us! No!
-, ---- ----! ------! --!
5/28/07
Category: History/Government
Clue
A mafia under boss infiltrated New Gingrich's political action committee while he was Speaker.
-- ----- ---- ---.
5/25/07
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Newspaper headline reporting that the hierarchy of the Southern Baptist Convention had held a press conference in which it lambasted the network for the exposed breast of Janet Jackson during the Super Bowl halftime show.
---: ----- ---- -- ---.
5/24/07
Category: World Geo/Business
Clue
A woman exults at the news that an American specialty retailer whose brands include Banana Republic and Old Navy is coming to this tourist town in American Samoa.
---- ---- ---? -, ---!
5/23/07
Category: Science/Business
Clue
This is what a nurse yelled as she ran in and announced to the doctors that she had received the report on brain wave activity for her patient, one of those Best Buy computer help dudes.
---- ---!
5/22/07
Category: Entertainment
Clue
99 and her partner have been tracking a rival spy named O'Dell, and she calls to partner to tell him that she had been able to delay the spy's progress as he left early in the morning.
---, - ------- -'---- -- --- -.-.
5/21/07
Category: Sports
Clue
Los Angeles Dodger bullpen catcher circa 1995-6 tells the manager not to bring in their recent Japanese signee from the bull pen because he doesn't have his good stuff.
"--" -- ----: --- --.
5/18/07
Category: World Geo
Clue
In a live show , a crude young woman tormented the citizens of this ancient Mesopotamian city (in what is now Southeast Iraq) at her coming out party.
---- ---- --- --------- --.
5/17/07
Category: World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Mordecai, a Muslim of Berber descent from NW Africa and a congressman from his district, was an expert on a quiz show in the category of a long running children's TV series originating in the fifties.
---- --- -------- ---- ------ ----.
5/16/07
Category: Sports
Clue
The athletic director at Alabama politely tells Bear Bryant that that his idea of having an undergraduate major for his players is going a bit too far.
---, - -------- -.-. --- --- --.
5/15/07
Category: Sports
Clue
Borg, vis a vis McEnroe, frequently.
--- --- -----.
5/14/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Diana, she verbally jousted with that West Pointer while they were reclined on a Serta, is that right, Sidney?
--, --- ------- - ----- ----, --, ---?
5/11/07
Category: World History/Geo
Clue
Sal has been beaten an tortured by a despotic Ugandan strongman in an attempt to get him to confess. He is in such a state that he cannot even speak. As he is finally placed against the wall to be shot, he is asked if he has any last words. Since he cannot speak he delivers this note, blaming it all on his girl Dede.
----, ---. ---- --- --. ~ ---.
5/10/07
Category: World Languages
Clue
What did I, Hamilton, order for my girl Rosemary at the restaurant? I, Hamilton, got her the dolphin.
-, ---? -, ---, ------- -- ---- ----.
5/09/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Goal of some stewardesses re captain in the go-go- "Coffee, tea or me" days??
-- --- - -----.
5/08/07
Category: World Geo
Clue
In an order to Hal, buyer for the campus store, the Chancellor at this Norman University tells Hal to stop purchasing camouflage wear.
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5/07/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Negative, Deron, if I were to refuse mortgages to poor people in areas of urban blight, it would be an indicator that I am a real nothing!
--, --------- -- - ---- - ---, -----.
5/04/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
A salesman tries to show Department store buyer Gil flimsy nightgowns designed exclusively for men in hopes he will buy.
---, ---, ---- ---------!
5/03/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Equivalency diplomas for those who drop out of high school to become "psychics."
---- -.-.-. -------.
5/02/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Let's try out a variety of figs as a possible present for Christmas, birthdays, etc.
---- ---- -- ---- ---.
5/01/07
Category: Entertainment
Clue
Ana, a rarity as a college educated female Mafia under boss, does not care for this famous New York night club where many of her compadres hang out (e.g. "Goodfellas.")
---, -.-. ----, ------- --- -- ----------.
4/30/07
Category: Sports/Entertainment
Clue
Eleanor is told that no Detroit basketball player had a drop of the dark, heavy malt beverage.
--, - ------ --- --- --- ---.
4/27/07
Category: Science
Clue
My mother Diana, an attorney, stammers in worry, " I have been bitten by a mad dog and failed to get a shot for it."
-- --, ---------, -----," -~----- -- --."
4/26/07
Category: World Geo
Clue
O, things are "messed" up beyond all recognition! Get up, mister, and see the alien spacecraft which they have brought over from Saudi Arabia!
-, -----! -----, ---! ---- ---!
4/25/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Reply to Ely Grayson who has butted in and asked the rather personal question of what kind of socks I am wearing.
----! -------, --- -------.
4/24/07
Category: Miscellaneous
Clue
Floor salesman at an appliance store tells his boss that he had this particular brand of refrigerator delivered to the soldier.
- --- -- ----- -- -.-.
4/23/07
Miscellaneous
Clue
Eli is informed that a "famed" Scottish "monster" is getting long in the tooth.
---, ------ -- ------.
4/20/07
Miscellaneous
Clue
Alvin is told that the homeless woman would prattle on and on.
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