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    | This book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" | 
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 
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    | A maternal-fetal medicine doctor can judge the wisdom of VBAC, giving birth naturally when you've previously delivered this way | 
    caesarean section
 
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    | A 1912 review of this ballet based on Russian folklore said ornithologists would be interested in a new discovery that flew on stage | 
    (Basile: What is Swan Lake?) [Goins did not include the leading article in his response.]
  The Firebird
 
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    | Pink outfits are central to this "-core" that got some pop culture heat from a 2023 flick with some real dolls | 
    Barbiecore
 
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    | A holy well in this U.K. country is named for Saint Winifred, whose head ended up in it; her name sometimes starts with "G" | 
    (Goins: What is... England?)
  Wales
 
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    | He left "City Slickers" & Oscar hosting behind for roles like writer with dementia ("Here Today") & widower therapist ("Before") | 
    Billy Crystal
 
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    | "Catriona", a sequel to this novel, recounts "The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad" | 
    Kidnapped
 
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    | It's thalassemia, so you're short on this protein that carries oxygen in the blood--here's a referral to the hematologist | 
    hemoglobin
 
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    | This painter is a character in the animated film "Coco", still creating art in the Land of the Dead | 
    Kahlo
 
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    | Involving a paper container, this phrase refers to what someone is after not selling that bad investment, now even worse | 
    (Ken: It makes them [*], left holding the bag.)
  a bag holder
 
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    | At a well in Genesis 24, this biblical matriarch helps out some thirsty camels & soon is Isaac's wife | 
    Rebekah
 
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    | Albert Brooks of likable schlub roles was chilling as mobster Bernie in this Ryan Gosling movie | 
    Drive
 
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    | Published in 1853, "Villette", her last completed novel, tells of a young woman who teaches at a boarding school in the title town | 
    Charlotte Brontë
 
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    | Meaning related to the elderly, it precedes "medicine" for a specialist who sees a lot of falls & dementia | 
    geriatric
 
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    | This architect captured the horizontal sweep of the Plains in the Prairie style, as seen in his Robie House | 
    (Frank Lloyd) Wright
 
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    | Meaning perfectly acceptable, this word from "Simpsons" fame made it into Merriam-Webster in 2023 | 
    (Basile: Oh, um... A-OK--what is A-OK?) ... (Ken: It's a perfectly [*] word; "What is [*]?")
  cromulent
 
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    | The man seen here is deciding where to dig a well; he's divining or doing this, which sounds like soaking someone with water | 
    dowsing
 
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    | Snubbed by the Academy for "Daddy Day Care", he earned an Oscar nomination for an edgy role in "Dreamgirls" | 
    Eddie Murphy
 
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    | This James Joyce novel ends, "The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the" | 
    (Goins: What is Ulysses?)
  Finnegans Wake
 
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    | An epileptologist will know how to treat tonic-clonic seizures, the bad kind also known by this French name | 
    (Ken: That's another stroke of luck for you, Drew.) ... (Goins: What is... Guillain-Barré?) (Ken: Oh, that's a shame.  No, those are [*] seizures.) (Goins: Ah, yeah, yep.) (Ken: Drops you down into third.  Gutsy move.)
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    | Bernini sculpted this goddess struggling helplessly as she is dragged to the underworld | 
    Persephone
 
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    | This online activity of anxiously poring over the sad state of affairs was in full swing in 2024 | 
    (Goins: This is for Mehal, all of it.)
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    | On film in the '70s this stand-up legend made comedies like "Silver Streak" but also the Marxist auto worker drama "Blue Collar" | 
    (Ken: It's [*] who's very good in that.)
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    | This Irish poet & 1995 Nobel laureate won monster praise for his modern translation of "Beowulf" | 
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    | An endocrinologist can treat this insufficiency--the glands of the same name are under-producing hormones like cortisol | 
    adrenal
 
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    | This pioneering photographer titled his iconic photo of garment worker Ella Watson "American Gothic" | 
    Gordon Parks
 
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    | E.H.E. is short for this type of steamy meteorological happening, all too common now with climate change | 
    an extreme heat event
 
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    | Giving oil since 1861, McClintock Well #1 in Northwest Pennsylvania was long-owned by this motor oil company with a Pennsylvania name | 
    (Neilesh: What is Pennzoil?)
  Quaker State
 
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    | Sacha Baron Cohen gets all upset on "Disclaimer", with this blonde actress as documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft | 
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