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    | As the story goes, this poem was written on December 24, 1822 on the way home with a turkey for dinner | 
    "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas")
 
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    | Send a one-hopper home to get the guy who tagged up; shoot it around the horn | 
    baseball
 
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    | This Italian term for the deepest male voice range can precede profundo or continuo | 
    basso
 
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    | Though spelled differently, it's the real first name of Diddy & Jay-Z | 
    Shawn
 
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    | Thousands have died in this country's 2011 uprising against the Assad regime | 
    (Alex: Assad--[*].)
  Syria
 
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    "He" is one: POOR NUN | 
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    | H. Rider Haggard is said to have penned "King Solomon's" these in a little over a month to back up a boast he'd made | 
    Mines
 
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    | In a Namco game, eat fruit, dodge ghosts, get the hungry gal around the maze | 
    Ms. Pac-man
 
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    | It's the time signature of the Chopin piece heard here; listen to the left hand | 
    (Dave: What is 3/3?) ... (Alex: [*]--yes--it's a waltz.)
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    | Like late actor Nielsen, Gerald Ford had this given first name | 
    Leslie
 
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    | In 2011 the New York Times it was a-changin' as Jill Abramson became its first female executive this | 
    editor
 
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    "Hasn't" is one: IRON CONTACT | 
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    | He wrote "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" in one night for Esquire magazine | 
    (Dave: Who is Capote?) (Molly: Who is Kesey?)
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    | Clear the zone; stay out of the crease when trying to score on the power play | 
    hockey
 
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    | In 1990, on this composer's 150th birthday, Itzhak Perlman was fiddling away in Russia in his honor | 
    Tchaikovsky
 
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    | Telly Savalas may not have had Mr. Onassis' money, but he did share this intellectual first name | 
    Aristotle
 
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    | A hunger strike by Anna Hazare forced India's govt. to agree to this type of "man" investigating corruption | 
    an ombudsman
 
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    Surrounding words that give meaning: NEXT COT | 
    (Dan: What is an adjective?)
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    | For a magazine story, this author of westerns once did his day's writing on a traffic island on Sunset Blvd. | 
    (Dave: Who is McMurtry?)
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    | Roll dice & try to get your 15 counters off the board before the other guy; watch out for doubling | 
    (Molly: What is Sorry!?)
  backgammon
 
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    | The name of this instrument consisting of steel bars on a frame is from the German for "play of bells" | 
    glockenspiel
 
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    | In Spanish please, it's the real first name of Chuck Norris & Charlie Sheen | 
    Carlos
 
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    | This country's leader tried to squash rumors of his ill health with tweets from his account @chavezcandanga | 
    Venezuela
 
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    Misplaced or not, it adds meaning: IF DO RE MI | 
    a modifier
 
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    | Unable to sleep, Longfellow knocked out "The Wreck Of" this ship between midnight & 3 A.M. | 
    the Hesperus
 
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    | As Master Chief, shoot at the Covenant, massacre the flood; rinse, repeat | 
    Halo
 
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    | In 1888 John Philip Sousa wrote this march that later became the official march of the Marine Corps | 
    "Semper Fidelis"
 
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    | Paul McCartney's real first name; he shares it with 2 apostles | 
    (Dan: What is Andrew?)
  James
 
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    | In 2011 the Kimberly Process regulating these "sanguine" items allowed Zimbabwe to sell certain gems | 
    blood diamonds
 
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    "Highest" is one example: ELUSIVE TRAP | 
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