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The OED dates the first recorded use of this letter to mean "kiss" back to a 1763 British letter |
X
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Jacob & Wilhelm, who gave us "Snow White" & "The Golden Goose" |
the Brothers Grimm
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Related to dogs & wolves, foxes are part of this scientific family |
canine
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Things go south when they go here "in a handbasket" |
hell
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This No. 1 hit by Rihanna includes the apt lyric "let it rain" |
"Umbrella"
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Shortened a word |
abbreviated
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Take it slow! This rain forest tree-dwelling mammal can take weeks to digest a meal & can hold its breath longer than a dolphin |
a sloth
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Rod, short story collections as well as "The Twilight Zone"; Richard, "The President's Plane is Missing" |
[ERRATUM: "The President's Plane is Missing" is by Robert Serling, not Richard.]
Serling
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Term for a cozy room in your house, or a cozy fox burrow |
a den
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A football running play, or when a plane's tracking is given to another control center |
a handoff
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Lorde topped the charts with this song, her first single |
"Royals"
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Spirited someone away, likely illegally |
abducted
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1980s Russia traded subs & other ships for this red, white & blue soda brand, said to briefly make it 1 of the world's largest navies |
Pepsi
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Twins Matt & Ross, Emmy-nominated for writing "Chapter Nine: The Gate" for the television show "Stranger Things" |
the Duffer Brothers
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Writing about foxes? It's required that you use the adjective "bushy" to describe this body part |
(Alex: Less than a minute.)
the tail
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I heard it this way, directly from the original source |
firsthand
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Elaborate hand gestures are part of the dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream with this 1990 No. 1 hit |
"Vogue"
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Turned away one's eyes, from the Latin for "to turn" |
averted
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The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed |
duffel
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Henry, "Roderick Hudson" in 1876; William, "Essays in Radical Empiricism", published posthumously in 1912 |
James
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This species, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land |
the red fox
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Proverbially, "Close only counts in" this game "& hand grenades" |
horseshoes
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A song by Sia says, "I'm gonna swing from the" this, the song's title |
"Chandelier"
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Aided or assisted, specifically in the commission of a crime |
abetted
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Snoop Dogg tried to rent this entire Eur. nation, Vaduz & all, for a video shoot; doable? Yes, but Snoop didn't give enough notice |
Liechtenstein
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Frank, the 2005 memoir "Teacher Man"; Malachy, who wrote "A Couple of Blaguards" with his brother |
McCourt
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Only about 15 inches long, the fennec is the world's smallest fox & lives in this largest desert of Africa |
the Sahara
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The ends are left hanging in this long necktie that uses a slipknot |
a four-in-hand
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Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry |
"Roar"
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Played piano at the soprano recital |
accompanied
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