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LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G" |
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The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country |
(Lisa: What is Syria?)
Iraq
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Once a border resort with casinos, it's the main entry port to Mexico from California for U.S. tourists |
Tijuana
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It comes bob bob bobbin' along as the state bird of Michigan, Wisconsin & Connecticut |
(Alex Trebek: Less than a minute.)
Robin
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Lancelot's ladylove (9) |
Guinevere
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In the Summit Series this country kept its hockey honor with a 1972 comeback win over the USSR |
Canada
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This tropical sea is sometimes referred to as the "American Mediterranean" |
Caribbean Sea
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While conquering this ancient empire, Alexander the Great burned the buildings of Persepolis, its capitol |
Persia
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Thousands of tourists & pilgrims visit this city each year (Dome of the Rock mosque) |
(Alex Huemer: What is Mecca?)
Jerusalem
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Not to knock it, but Alabama's yellowhammer is a type of this |
Woodpecker
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Ferber's "colossal" novel (5) |
Giant
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At the advanced age of 22, former Olympian Kim Zmeskal is making a comeback in this sport |
Gymnastics
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Scotland's longest river, the Tay, flows into this sea, see? |
North Sea
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It took more than 2,000,000 2-ton blocks of stone to build the great pyramid of this man |
Cheops
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In this largest Swiss city, you can wet your whistle at the James Joyce Pub which Joyce described in "Ulysses" |
Zurich
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Add red to this state's name & you get this bird |
(Alex Huemer: What is Carolina?)
Rhode Island
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Apuleius' "ass", or Henry James' "bowl" (6) |
Golden
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This golfer famous for his comebacks lost to a Billy Casper charge on the last day of the 1966 U.S. Open |
Arnold Palmer
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Inch on over to the port of Inchon & you'll be on this colorful sea |
Yellow Sea
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In 1700 B.C. this civilization's great palace at Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake |
Minoans
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A trip to this Italian city's Lagoon Island should include a visit to Murano, famed for its glass |
Venice
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You'll have "shear" delight using this term that describes the tail of Oklahoma's flycatcher |
Scissored
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Salinger family, or Williams menagerie (5) |
Glass
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In 1989, 2 years after being accidentally shot, this American won the Tour de France on the last day |
Greg LeMond
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It's the sea bounded by Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia & the Kamchatka Peninsula |
Bering Sea
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The civilization that grew up along this Pakistani river had planned streets & houses with bathrooms |
Indus
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Cowes on the northern coast of this isle in the English Channel is a famed yachting center |
(Alex Huemer: What is Jersey?)
Isle of Wight
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Some call it a pheasant & others a partridge; as a state bird Pennsylvania calls it the ruffed this |
grouse
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He brought "Dead Souls" to life (5) |
Gogol
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This ex-Brave whose name means "fairness" was fairly named 1997's A.L. Comeback Player of the Year for Cleveland |
David Justice
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Sydney, Australia is the largest city on this sea |
Tasman Sea
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