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    | It's what the first "C" in FCIC stands for; it was insurance for farmers | (Alex: Benjamin says [*] and he's right: the Federal [*] Insurance Corporation.) 
 Crop
 
 
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    | Store some Nikes & Pumas in this company, FL | Foot Locker 
 
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    | The unit equal to 10 decibels is named for this inventor whose early career included teaching the deaf | Alexander Graham Bell 
 
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    | Add this letter to "action" to get a little bidding action going | [Andrew provides the word, and Alex accepts it.] 
 U (for auction)
 
 
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    | The title of this director's movie "Rope" is also the murder weapon used in it | Alfred Hitchcock 
 
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    | On the road to Morocco from Tunis, I go by this capital city | Algiers 
 
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    | This 1935 act that provides unemployment insurance was born out of the New Deal | the Social Security Act 
 
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    | "X" marks the spot for this company spun off from USX in 2002 | U.S. Steel 
 
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    | On this Swedish astronomer's scale, zero represents the ice point & 100 is the steam point | Celsius 
 
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    | When you add this letter to "quart", instead of a unit of measure, you get a mineral | [Tracy provides the word, and Alex accepts it.] 
 Z (for quartz)
 
 
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    | Alfred Drake was the first male lead in "Kismet" & "Kiss Me, Kate" as well as in this show, as Curly | Oklahoma! 
 
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    | On the way to Santa Fe, I go by this city where Bugs Bunny wished he'd taken a left | Albuquerque 
 
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    | 3 letters in the New Deal's "alphabet soup", it oversaw the federal art, theatre & writers' projects | the WPA 
 
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    | You can't NOK this leading mobile phone & networks supplier | Nokia 
 
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    | The principle that sound seems higher in pitch as it apporaches & lower as it recedes is called this man's effect | Doppler 
 
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    | Add this letter to "Boer" to get the name of a rebellion in China that occurred the same time as the Boer War | [Tracy provides the word, and Alex accepts it.] 
 X (for Boxer)
 
 
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    | As Dr. Octopus in "Spider-Man 2", this actor was armed & dangerous | Alfred Molina 
 
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    | Heading south from Washington, D.C., I go by this Virginia city where George Washington once drilled troops | Alexandria 
 
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    | Many of the original groups of programs were devised during this "numerical" period of FDR's first term | the Hundred Days 
 
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    | Cialis is a hit for this company, LLY | (Eli) Lilly 
 
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    | A triangle, a theorem, a law & a computer language are named for this Frenchman | Pascal 
 
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    | Sorry to tell you that adding this letter to "apology" turns it into the study of bees | [Andrew provides the word, and Alex accepts it.] 
 I (for apiology)
 
 
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    | What, me worry about Alfred Newman, who won music Oscars for "With A Song In My Heart" & "The Song Of" her | Bernadette 
 
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    | If I take the 5:15 p.m. train from Adelaide, Australia on Sunday night, I go by this city Monday at noon | Alice Springs 
 
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    | In 1935 the Supreme Court declared this Administration, the NRA, unconstitutional | (Alex: It was not the National Rifle Association, it was the [*].) 
 National Recovery Administration
 
 
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    | People seem to go bananas over this company, CQB | Chiquita (Brands) 
 
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    | When a fisherman adds this letter to "reel", he gets a wicker basket for holding his fish | [Benjamin provides the word, and Alex accepts it.] 
 C (for creel)
 
 
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    | In 1915, with his wife Blanche W., he founded the firm that published Thomas Mann, John Updike, et al. | Alfred Knopf 
 
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    | En route to Grenoble, the 1968 Winter Olympics site, I go by this 1992 Winter Olympics site | Albertville 
 
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