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"AE"-NCIENT CROSSWORD CLUES |
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Trees company for those who study dendrochronology using these to determine the tree's age and history |
rings
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3 feet of original bricks, now almost 100 years old, cover the start/finish line of this venue, "The Brickyard" |
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Medellin, Cartagena, Barranquila |
[ERRATUM: Barranquilla should be spelled correctly, as Alex pronounced it.]
Colombia
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One of his sonnets begins, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" |
Shakespeare
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Neil & Buzz ditched Michael & took off for some very private lunar time in this craft |
the Eagle (lunar module)
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The biggest bear ever, an 11-foot 1,800-pounder, became extinct around the time this age ended 12,000 years ago |
the Ice Age
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Both Clemson's Memorial Stadium & this SEC school's Tiger Stadium are nicknamed "Death Valley" |
LSU
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Ghent, Charleroi, Liege |
Belgium
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Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night but it gives a lovely light" |
my candle
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Sens. Wayne Morse & Ernest Gruening were the lone nays in this 1964 vote authorizing escalation in Vietnam |
the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Virgil's epic about a prince of a Trojan (6) |
the Aeneid
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew experiments in the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant.) The Babcock test, invented here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses this potent non-potable, H2SO4, to dissolve everything in milk except the fat, so the fat content can be measured |
(Milt: What is uh, hy-, what is hydros-, what is [*]? What is [*]?) (Alex: [Laughing] You're right, but the way you started, "What is hydro?", I'm thinking he's going for hydrochloric acid. "What is hydro-, hy-, uh, [*]!" Thank you very much.)
sulfuric acid
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This National League baseball stadium is nicknamed "the Ted", for obvious reasons |
(Milt: What is Fenway Park?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Turner Field
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Siwa, Luxor, Al Fayyum |
Egypt
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Byron's 1814 ode to him says, "Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!" |
Napoleon
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He & Edmund Hillary snuck out of camp & got high together May 29, 1953 |
(Tenzing) Norgay
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Sea between Greek peninsula & Asia Minor (6) |
the Aegean
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In science a big M can mean mach, & a little m this, as in Einstein's most famous equation |
mass
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Mazar-e Sharif, Jalalabad, Herat |
(Milt: What is Saudi Arabia?)
Afghanistan
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A poem by this author asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" |
T.S. Eliot
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Edmond Dantes & the Abbe Faria share a dungeon, a tunnel & a dream in this Dumas work |
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Philosophic study of taste & beauty (10) |
aesthetics
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Jaffna, Kandy, Moratuwa |
Sri Lanka
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This Quaker poet wrote of a "barefoot boy, with cheek of tan" |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Martha & 2 males, the last of these birds, had time alone at the Cincy zoo; too bad they didn't make the most of it |
(Jim: What is the dodo?)
the passenger pigeon
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Athenian drama king (9) |
Aeschylus
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