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    | Time to make a pilgrimage & tee it up at this revered golf club's Old Course in Scotland | 
    St. Andrews
 
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    | The OED calls this palindrome "an expression of interrogation"; it's often used to mean "what?" | 
    huh
 
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    | One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions | 
    (Jeff: [*]. What is [*]?)
  a line
 
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    | Profession of Pat Cipollone ("Patsy Baloney" to some), who testified on July 8 to the January 6 Committee | 
    lawyer (White House Counsel)
 
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    | It was originally a curved goat horn overflowing with fruits & vegetables; you can buy ones on Etsy woven from grapevines | 
    a cornucopia
 
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    2008:  "I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing" | 
    (Ken: Yes, "Viva La Vida".)
  Coldplay
 
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    | Park Güell, with unique architectural features by  Antoni Gaudí, is a must see in this Spanish city | 
    Barcelona
 
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    | Imitation okay--NHL star Alex Ovechkin often uses this "I can't hear you" gesture when he gets booed | 
    a cupped ear (hand behind the ear)
 
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    | Abbreviated log, it's the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a certain number | 
    logarithm
 
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    | Queen Elizabeth II's last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty's reign | 
    (Sarah: Who is Theresa May?) ... (Ken: The British PM is now [*].) [NOTE: [*] was in office on September 15 when the game was taped.]
  Liz Truss
 
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    | The Latin for "earth" gives us the name of this plant-friendly container seen here | 
    terrarium
 
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    1996:  "He's going the distance, he's going for speed" | 
    Cake
 
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    | As reflected in its name, five medieval fishing villages make up this destination, perched on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera | 
    Cinque Terre
 
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    | Testifying before Congress in 2019, Robert Mueller asked several lawmakers to do this, including Devin Nunes with a near 100-worder | 
    (Jeff: What is filibuster?)
  to repeat the question
 
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    | For 12 & 16, 4 is the GCF, or greatest this | 
    greatest common factor
 
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    | Turkish President Erdogan got enough concessions to drop his opposition to letting Sweden & Finland do this | 
    (Ken: Now, Sadie, usually our contestants look happy when they find a Daily Double; you just gave a look like your goldfish just died.) [Laughter]
  join NATO
 
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    | Practitioners of this 7-letter bushy art have been called tree masons & leafage sculptors | 
    (Sadie: What is horticulture?) ... (Ken: That's what it's called when you clip the hedges to look like dragons or whatever.)
  topiary
 
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    1992:  "Thursday doesn't even start, it's Friday I'm in love" | 
    The Cure
 
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    | In the reliquary of this king & saint's basilica in Budapest, you can see what is reportedly his right hand | 
    (Sarah: Who is Wenceslas?) (Sadie: Who is Vlad?)
  St. Stephen
 
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    | It's the word of incomprehension invariably used by the character Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" | 
    qué
 
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    | Add up the lengths of all the sides of a polygon to get this measurement | 
    (Jeff: What is circumference?)
  perimeter
 
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    | Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year | 
    Politico
 
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    | This art of joining 2 plants to grow as one enabled Axel Erlandson to create the "Circus Trees" at Gilroy Gardens in California | 
    grafting
 
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    1977:  "That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning" | 
    the Commodores
 
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    | Here's a view of Oia, with some of its blue-domed churches on this Greek island | 
    Santorini
 
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    | This word meaning "can't understand what was said" appears often in the Nixon library transcripts of Watergate tapes | 
    (Sadie: What is inaudible?) (Sarah: What is incomprehensible?)
  unintelligible
 
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    | This symbol with a "way out" name tells you to take the square root of the number inside it | 
    radical
 
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    | California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination | 
    Sirhan Sirhan
 
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    | This art, the dwarfing of trees, finds its smallest entries called keishi & shito | 
    bonsai
 
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    1994:  "With their tanks & their bombs... & their guns, in your head, in your head they are dying" | 
    (Ken: "Zombie", you got it.)
  The Cranberries
 
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