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    | Robert Caro's "Means of Ascent", a biography of this Texan president, recounts his early Senate victories | 
    [Chris selected the first clue.]
  Lyndon Johnson
 
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    | On this '50s sitcom Frank Bank played Lumpy | 
    Leave It to Beaver
 
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    | Fold a cloth into a triangle, gently slip the widest part under the arm, tie the ends around the neck | 
    (Russ: What is fold a flag?)
  make a sling
 
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    | "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.  One or the other of us has to go", quipped this Irish playwright | 
    Oscar Wilde
 
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    7-8-9: A type of hyena | 
    laughing
 
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    | This writer won for his novel "The Counterlife" & for the biography "Patrimony", but not for "Portnoy" | 
    Philip Roth
 
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    | Most geologists believe the Earth's core to be mainly a heavy, compressed lump of this metal | 
    iron
 
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    | Rub a needle across a magnet & float it on a piece of paper in a bowl of water | 
    (Chris: What is make a magnet?) (Alex: That's it--no, sorry.)
  make a compass
 
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    | This Algonquin wit suggested "Excuse My Dust" as her own epitaph | 
    Dorothy Parker
 
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    4-5-6: Transfer one's allegiance to another nation | 
    defect
 
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    | Houdini, Emma Goldman & Henry Ford are in this writer’s first winner; Dutch Schultz is in his second winner | 
    (Chris: Who is Michael Chabon?) (Alex: No.  The two works are Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, and the author is [*].)
  E.L. Doctorow
 
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    | From the Norwegian for "lump", it's a blob of whipped cream put on a pie | 
    a dollop
 
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    | Combine wine, aquavit, raisins, cloves & sugar; light mixture on fire; learn a Swedish toast | 
    make glögg
 
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    | In a self-fulfilling prophesy about his drug habit, this comedian said "I'll die young, but it's like kissing God" | 
    Lenny Bruce
 
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    8-9-10: Forcibly seize control of a moving vehicle | 
    (Chris: What's carjacking?)
  hijacking
 
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    | Edmund White wrote a definitive biography of this French thief, novelist & playwright of "The Maids" | 
    (Jean) Genet
 
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    | Kipling water carrier called a "limping lump o' brick-dust" | 
    Gunga Din
 
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    | Change direction & speed while walking, tug on the leash as you say the command, don't forget to say, "Good boy!" | 
    get your dog to heel
 
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    | A flower child turned Fuhrer in the film "The Producers", he made his egress during a 1987 stage performance | 
    Dick Shawn
 
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    18-19-20: Explode, in air, perhaps | 
    (Alex: Chris is saying, "Bet it all, bet it all!") [Laughter] (Alex: "Come on, masterful Tom!") ... (Alex: Hurry.) (Tom: [No response])
  burst
 
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    | This Peruvian novelist won for his critical work "Making Waves" | 
    Mario Vargas Llosa
 
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    | Karl Marx bunched the dregs of society under this 17-letter mouthful | 
    the lumpenproletariat
 
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    | This 16th c. philosopher died of bronchitis after experiments with snow to delay the process of putrefaction | 
    (Sir Francis) Bacon
 
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    19-20-21: Dampness | 
    (Russ: What is [*]?) (Alex: [*] is right.) (Russ: [Chuckles] Oh, okay.) [Laughter] (Alex: Oh, Russ.)
  moisture
 
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