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    | Before proclaiming it was "the best a man can get", this razor company asked via cartoon parrot, "How are you fixed for blades?" | Gillette 
 
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    | Purported drink inventor Tom & Irish independence fighter Michael | Collins 
 
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    | King's Landing & Winterfell are a few of the places seen during this show's opening theme | Game of Thrones 
 
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    | It's from the Latin for "not readable", like with bad handwriting | illegible 
 
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    | Here's something to ponder... purchased as a gift to Paris, this Rodin sculpture was placed outside the Panthéon in 1906 | The Thinker 
 
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    | On running for re-election in 2024, this law alum from Leningrad State University said, "I haven't decided"; uh huh, sure, man | [A "Recorded on January 27, 2022" note was displayed with this clue.] 
 Putin
 
 
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    | A dermatologic surgeon can use a No. 15 type of this small, light blade & a Bard-Parker handle | a scalpel 
 
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    | Movie auteur Wes & book author Sherwood | Anderson 
 
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    | The jaunty "William Tell Overture" was the theme song for this old show about a masked man | The Lone Ranger 
 
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    | It's from the Latin for "to drink in", perhaps some beer | imbibe 
 
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    | In pottery, when feldspar is added to clay & hit with 2,000-degree temps, the product turns translucent & is called this | porcelain 
 
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    | By the numbers in 1984, it was Ronald Reagan, 54 million votes, this Minnesota man, 17 million fewer | Mondale 
 
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    | Olympian Bonnie Blair wore different blades of glory in winning 5 gold medals in this sport | (Camron: What is figure skating?) 
 speed skating
 
 
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    | Sci-fi scribe William & "Laugh-In" poet Henry | Gibson 
 
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    | The Ventures had a hit with the theme for this "stately" cop show, rebooted in 2010 with the same theme | Hawaii Five-O 
 
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    | This 10-letter word describes one who destroys religious images | (Kathleen: What is iconographer?) 
 iconoclast
 
 
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    | A new exhibit, this movement "Beyond Borders" has a 1936 work showing high heels & a rosary tangled in what looks like fish nets | (Camron: What are... nuns?) 
 Surrealism
 
 
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    | On Sept. 21,1981 the Senate confirmed her Supreme Court nomination, 99-0 | Sandra Day O'Connor 
 
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    | You can see Joyeuse, the sword of this great king of the Franks in the 700s, both here & in the Louvre | Charlemagne 
 
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    | U.K. Labour prime minister Harold & rocker Nancy | (Mattea: Who is Macmillan?) 
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    | This '90s sitcom set at an airfield took flight with an arrangement of a Schubert sonata | Wings 
 
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    | This Latin abbreviation means "in the same place" | (Camron: What is in situ?) (Kathleen: What is i.e.?)
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    | His painting of a peasant woman of Nuenen peeling potatoes isn't nearly as famous as his "Potato Eaters" | van Gogh 
 
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    | In 2002 this Mideast world leader didn't sweat re-election, winning 11 million to 0, but by 2003, was an ex-president | (Camron: Who is Kim Jong-un?) 
 Saddam Hussein
 
 
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    | The trowel type of this blade was used to dig; if a "charge" was called, it fit onto a muzzle for hand-to-hand combat | a bayonet 
 
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    | Accused conspirator Clay & producer Run Run | Shaw 
 
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    | Heard here is the stock music piece "Temptation Sensation", recognizable as the theme of this FX comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 
 
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    | A narrative poem treating an epic theme; Tennyson wrote some "of the King" | idylls 
 
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    | Piet Mondrian "saw my line quiver", said this sculptor; inspired, he began to make mobiles, whole pieces that quiver | Alexander Calder 
 
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    | Taking a seat in 1990 to rep Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen preceded this politician's 4 wins running for the world leader gig | Angela Merkel 
 
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