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    Athens
 
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    | (Jon of the Clue Crew unlocks a lock with the magic word.)  In their combinations, old-time locks of this popular portable type often used letters rather than numbers | 
    (Julie: What is a combination lock?) (Laura: What is a puzzle lock?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 26]
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    | "Moby Dick" is subtitled "or, the" this 5-letter word | 
    Whale
 
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    | French title of the film remade stateside as "The Birdcage" | 
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    | Louisville is this "city", like the race that's run there | 
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    | The type of lock now standard on U.S. residences was patented in 1865 by a guy with this Ivy League-sounding name | 
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    | The long, long subtitle of "Robinson Crusoe" includes this calamity | 
    a shipwreck
 
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    | With films like "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo brought attention to the cinema of this place where he grew up | 
    (Laura: What is China?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Laura: What is Taiwan?)
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    | (Kelly of the Clue Crew picks a pick.)  To open a lock without a key, specialists use many different styles of picks; because of its shape, this one is known either has a rake or by this reptilian name | 
    a snake
 
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    | "The Audacity of Hope" offers "Thoughts of Reclaiming the American" this | 
    Dream
 
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    | "Frankenstein" is subtitled "or the Modern" this mythical man | 
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    | Thiols, emitted by skunks & chopped onions, resemble alcohols but with an atom of this element in place of an oxygen atom | 
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    | In 1740 good girls read "Pamela: or," this "Rewarded" | 
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    | "Katyn", from this country, is the story of the killing of its army officers by Soviet soldiers in 1940 | 
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