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    | ...But not so fast, said Australia, which said no to putting this royal on the $5 bill after he got a big promotion in 2023 | King Charles 
 
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    | Due to a "great" this, Nov. 9, 1965, the Times had to use the presses of the Newark Evening News to get its paper out the next morning | (Chris: What is a strike?) 
 a power outage (the great blackout)
 
 
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    | Phantom Ranch, the only lodging below the rim of this natural wonder, can be reached on foot, by mule or raft on the Colorado River | the Grand Canyon 
 
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    | First class tickets to this capital of India? Wow! Check out the 340-room Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace | New Delhi 
 
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    | As a noun it refers to a property put up for sale; as an adjective, it describes an unsteady ship | listing 
 
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    | A spunky New York City street urchin gets adopted by a wealthy man | Annie 
 
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    | Though dad only got to live in the White House for less than 5 months, he got a full stay 24 years later | John Quincy Adams 
 
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    | In 2017 Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey broke the story of the sexual harassment that would bring this film producer down | Weinstein 
 
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    | In 1954 Steve & Gayle Henson bought the Sweetwater Ranch near Santa Barbara, renamed it this & began making their salad dressing | Hidden Valley 
 
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    | You got 5 "A"s, so courtesy of Aunt Janie, enjoy an A5 coupe from this German luxury brand | (Chris: What is Mercedes-Benz?) 
 Audi
 
 
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    | These 2 words that combine to form a playground device both imply unsteadiness | (Chris: What is helter-skelter?) (Grant: What's see-saw?)
 
 teeter-totter
 
 
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    | A milkman in the village of Anatevka faces modern challenges to his traditional ways | Fiddler on the Roof 
 
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    | Genghis' kid Ögödei was chosen over other sons to lead this empire, which would later expand across all Persia & China | Mongol 
 
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    | It's been the 7-word motto of the New York Times since 1896 | "All the News That's Fit to Print" 
 
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    | John Parker began his ranching dynasty in Hawaii in 1816 when he was given 2 acres on the slopes of this, the state's highest peak | (Grant: What's Mauna Loa?) (Chris: What is Diamond Head?)
 
 Mauna Kea
 
 
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    | Aren't you one of the Cry Babies, fans of this alliterative female artist? She'll be taking a break from tour to play you some songs | (Grant: What's... uh, Lady Gaga?) 
 Melanie Martinez
 
 
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    | Nothing to do with Scottish fashion, being "off-" this 6-letter word means uneven | kilter 
 
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    | Albus Potter teams up with Scorpius Malfoy in a spellbinding journey through time & space | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 
 
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    | Britannica says this man "Fils possessed a good measure of his father's literary fecundity", but their work was very different | Dumas 
 
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    | Working for the Times, Sydney Schanberg & Dith Pran's collaboration in Cambodia led to a Pulitzer Prize & this 1984 film | (Grant: What's... The Bridge on the River Kwai?) 
 The Killing Fields
 
 
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    | This movie cowboy & his wife Dale raised Palomino Tennessee Walkers on his Double R Bar Ranch near Victorville, California | Roy Rogers 
 
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    | Grammy & Grampy bought you this California co., the first to hit the $3 trillion valuation mark in 2023... how thoughtful | Apple 
 
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    | Industrial workers of the world, give us this unsteady word for a member of that group | a wobbly (the Wobblies) 
 
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    | Cinderella, Jack, of beanstalk fame, & others all learn to be careful what they wish for | Into the Woods 
 
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    | They're the 3 first names (or initials, fine) of J.S. Bach's most famous son, whose work bridges his father's time & Mozart's | (Grant: What's JCS?) 
 CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel)
 
 
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    | In 1972 the Times won a Pulitzer Prize for the publication of this top secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam | the Pentagon Papers 
 
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    | The only home D.H. Lawrence & his wife ever owned was their ranch near this New Mexico town known as an artists' colony | Taos 
 
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    | For your wall, we shelled out 8 figures for 1962's "L'Arc de Triomphe" by this artist who lived mostly in Brussels, not Paris | (Ken: It's Belgium's [*].) 
 René Magritte
 
 
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    | Compared to the left circle, the right shape is this, also an adjective for warfare, pitting outnumbered insurgents against armies | asymmetric warfare 
 
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    | A princess has bedding-based sleeping trouble | Once Upon a Mattress 
 
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