FROM THE MERMAID'S LOCKER |
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THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT "P" |
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One of these instruments with a magnetized needle, from a navigator who should've avoided that reef |
compass
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A 1994 letter from Mother Teresa called this 1973 abortion rights decision "tragic and destructive" |
Roe v. Wade
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Mork from Ork; Mrs. Doubtfire |
Robin Williams
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She lived on public assistance between jobs as a French teacher, then wrote about a boy wizard, conjuring millions |
J.K. Rowling
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19th century County Supervisor Julian Chavez got this type of deep valley named for him in Los Angeles |
ravine
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Sometimes found before "intellectual", it has stepped out on its own as a 6-letter word for fake |
pseudo
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From a pirate ship, a tompion, a plug placed in the muzzle of one of these to protect it from water when loaded |
cannon
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The ACLU sometimes acts as a friend of the court, usually dealing with these issues, the middle 2 letters in ACLU |
civil liberties
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Regional manager Michael Scott; Bobby Riggs in "Battle of the Sexes" |
(Steve) Carell
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Barack Obama's favorite book of 2018 was this memoir by a former first lady |
Becoming
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Al D'Amato was known as "Senator" this opening in the pavement because he got them fixed for constituents |
(Alex: And now with less than a minute to go.)
potholes
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It means inflated with air, as in that type of tire |
pneumatic
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A coral & gold chain of beads for this Catholic devotion--must have fallen overboard |
a rosary
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P.J. O'Rourke weighed in on a case about whether an Ohio law criminalizing false statements violated this amendment |
(Alex: And now you're a shade off the lead.)
the First Amendment
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Anna Faris' "Mom"; Tonya Harding's mom |
(Evan: Uh--). (Alex: Ohh. Too much time.)
Allison Janney
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Delia Owens used the marshes of North Carolina as the setting for her bestseller "Where" these, aka crayfish, "Sing" |
(Alex: Where the [*] sing.)
crawdads
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Water buildup on your cropland? Dig this alliterative waterway to let it flow elsewhere |
drainage ditch
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The silent "P" comes third in this word for the place you might keep plates or spices |
cupboard
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The Cato Institute helped convince SCOTUS to rule against these organizations in 2018's Janus v. AFSCME |
unions
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Bette Davis on "Feud"; one of "The Banger Sisters" |
Susan Sarandon
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In 1925 she published "Mrs. Dalloway" &, to explain what she was doing, the critical work "Modern Fiction" |
Virginia Woolf
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The Mormons named this canyon in Utah, found in the alphabetically last national park of the same name |
Zion
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The 3 main forms of plague in humans are bubonic, septicemic & this one that strikes the lungs |
(Alex: And that would be--[coughs]--[*].)
pneumonic
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A bar of silver from a 17th century Spanish one of these treasure ships, such as the Atocha |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a galleon
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The first amicus curiae filed before the Supreme Court came in 1821 from this Kentucky attorney & congressman |
(Alex: And that would be the famous [*].)
Henry Clay
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Athena Grant on "9-1-1"; Tina Turner in "What's Love Got to Do with It" |
(Angela) Bassett
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Born in Paris in 1804, she's known for her novels, her lovers & writing under a masculine name |
(Alex: And the lead is now yours.)
George Sand
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Ausable Chasm bills itself as the Grand Canyon of these New York State mountains up by Lake Champlain |
(Elaine: What are the Catskills)
Adirondacks
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A recent discovery in Utah: perhaps the oldest flying vertebrate, a 200-million-year-old one of these |
pterodactyl
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