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    | Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation | 
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    | Wally the Green Monster & his sister Tessie | 
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    | Emily Bronte paid 50 pounds to have this novel published in 1847 | 
    Wuthering Heights
 
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    | These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but... it's a trap! | 
    Hansel & Gretel
 
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    | In 2015 this radio host ended his time judging "America's Got Talent" | 
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    It precedes  Pole, Sea & Star | 
    North
 
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    | These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy | 
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    | A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side | 
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    | A 12-line poem from 1913 ends with "but only God can make a" this | 
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    | Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second | 
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    | As of 2021 the once-vast empire of restaurants named for this Howard is down to a single one in Lake George, N.Y. | 
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    | Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking | 
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    | Where's the beef? One place is this city of 1.6 million on Osaka Bay | 
    Kobe
 
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    | Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta | 
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    | In the 1920s this novelist ran the University of Mississippi post office... until they made him quit | 
    Faulkner
 
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    | The now-heavily memed Admiral Ackbar discovers, "It's a trap!" in this 1983 film | 
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    | Some cried fowl when this Marvel comic book hero flew away in 1979, but he would return | 
    (Rehka: Who is... Iron Man?)
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    | Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one? | 
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    | This ecologically vital region also called the Selva reaches its northern limits in Colombia & Venezuela | 
    the Amazon rainforest
 
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    | Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin | 
    Marlins
 
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    | It's Mary Norton's 1952 children's classic about a family living under the floorboards | 
    The Borrowers
 
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    | In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price | 
    (Pete: Who is Pan?)
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    | The very brief marriage of Henry VIII to this woman ended in 1542 | 
    Catherine Howard
 
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    | It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist | 
    girth
 
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    | Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west | 
    Chechnya
 
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    | A lime green parrot hatched in 1979 | 
    Pirates
 
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    | This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part | 
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    | The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country | 
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    | In 1939 it was Hodgkin's disease, not King Tut's curse, that did in this archaeologist | 
    Carter
 
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    | In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde | 
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