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    | On Jan. 31, 1968 South Vietnamese cities were attacked in what's called this, referring to the local holiday on which it took place | the Tet Offensive 
 
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    | In 1983 David Copperfield made this 225-ton national icon disappear! & for his next trick he brought it back! | the Statue of Liberty 
 
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    | It's a small quantity of something, perhaps "of tea", as referenced in "Carry On, Jeeves" | a spot 
 
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    | "I'm okay / I'm drinking rum & Red Bull" is one of jamaicans.com's 12 songs in this style to "get Jamaicans on the dance floor" | reggae 
 
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    | Arthur Miller's play "A View from the Bridge" refers specifically to this bridge | Brooklyn Bridge 
 
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    | In a 2006 film, Emma Roberts & Jojo discover Aquamarine, one of these mythic creatures, in the pool at the Capri Beach Club | a mermaid 
 
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    | During a transit boycott, Martin Luther King was elected president of the MIA, this city's Improvement Association | (Brendan: What's... Memphis?) ...
 (Ken: [*] Bus Boycott, right.)
 
 Montgomery
 
 
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    | For 11 seasons this duo has been figuring out the tricks behind magic on the TV show "Fool Us" | Penn & Teller 
 
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    | It's a small particle, like dust, or a tiny point; NASA described Earth as a "tiny, fragile" one "in the cosmic ocean" | (Brendan: What's mote?) ...
 (Ken: [*], had to start with "S".)
 
 speck
 
 
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    | This nation "is not yet lost, so long as we still live", begins "Dabrowski's Mazurka", its national anthem | Poland 
 
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    | One of her poems says, "Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well" | Plath 
 
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    | Colin Firth played Vermeer in this 2003 film | (Brendan: What's the Girl with the Pearl Earring?) (Ken: I'm sorry, [*] is the name of the movie.)
 
 Girl with a Pearl Earring
 
 
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    | Check out the reach of this ex-empire, sprawling across continents circa 1600 | the Ottoman Empire 
 
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    | Upon his return to Nottingham in 1911, this escapist invited one & all to bring their own "padlocks, shackles & handcuffs" | Houdini 
 
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    | It's the faintest hint or inkling of something; you may have been subjected to the "hypnotic" kind | suggestion 
 
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    | "Australia: Sound Of The Earth" features David Hudson, an aboriginal master of this wind instrument | a didgeridoo 
 
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    | This bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson was the basis for Ava DuVernay's 2023 film "Origin" | Caste 
 
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    | In "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", Marilyn Monroe sings this gem of a song that namechecks Cartier, Tiffany's & Harry Winston | "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" 
 
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    | In 2000 this party split into factions over its possible presidential nominees, Pat Buchanan & John Hagelin | Reform 
 
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    | He celebrated the success of his street magic TV special by being buried alive near the Hudson River | (Brendan: Who is... Criss Angel?) 
 David Blaine
 
 
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    | From the Latin for "spark", it's a tiny amount; add -ting & it describes something that's sparkling | (Ken: Brendan?) (Brendan: What's... scent?)
 (Ken: Sorry, no, [*].)
 (Brendan: Ah.)
 (Ken: For scintillating.)
 
 a scintilla
 
 
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    | The Chinese guzheng, with movable bridges under each string, is a type of this end-of-the alphabet instrument | a zither 
 
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    | "Outside Dorlcote Mill" is a chapter in this novel by George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss 
 
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    | This "gem" of a woman wrote & directed both "Promising Young Woman" & "Saltburn" | (Brendan: Who's Fennell? [*]?) 
 Emerald Fennell
 
 
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    | c. 60 B.C., Julius Caesar, Marcus Crassus & this "Great" guy formed the 1st Triumvirate; uh oh... that implies there'd be a 2nd one | [The "c." was presented in lowercase, in spite of typographic convention.] 
 Pompey (the Great)
 
 
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    | David Mamet's "truest friend", he wrote a book that included a story on a master flatulist & a pig that could read minds | (Ken: Late, great magician [*].) 
 Ricky Jay
 
 
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    | This word borrowed from French was not about consommé or vichyssoise; it had to do with suspicion | soupçon 
 
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    | Melodies in Indian music are classified by a system of these, sort of like scales but also including the ways they are to be used | ragas 
 
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    | This nymph has been holding Ulysses prisoner on the island of Ogygia when we meet him in the "Odyssey" | Calypso 
 
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    | A novel by Sapphire was the basis for this film with Gabourey Sidibe in the title role | (Brendan: What's Push?) ...
 (Ken: Push is the novel; [*] is the film. Well done, David.)
 
 Precious
 
 
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