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CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
TITLE BALLET WOMEN
200
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) This prototype of Sony's new OLED technology demonstrates that TVs can be made an eighth of an inch thick, which is 3 of this metric unit'
a millimeter
200
'"V" was for this Feb.-to-Dec. 1916 battle, begun by a surprise attack, in which Charles De Gaulle fought'
Verdun
200
'Its upper part runs clear; it clouds up near Great Falls, Montana & gets muddier from there'
Missouri
200
'Delaware or Virginia in the 1760s
(6)'
a colony
200
'1949 saw the first ballet version of this operatic Bizet work that features Don Jose & a toreador'
Carmen
400
'(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Brando won the Oscar, the Dodgers won the World Series, Bill Haley & The Comets had a monster hit, and Sony introduced the first transistor radio, all in this year'
1955
400
'In 1965 De Gaulle won the Presidency by defeating this Socialist, later France's leader from 1981 to 1995'
Francois Mitterrand
400
'It's fed by the Hasbani River in Lebanon & by the Baniyas in Syria'
the Jordan
400
'Hooded cape for a monk
(4)'
cowl
400
'The evil priest Frollo wants Esmeralda but she is saved by him'
Quasimodo
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan) The 70-inch Bravia TV has LED backlighting, but the basic tecnology is LCD, short for this, providing a wider viewing angle than the plasma screens'
Liquid Crystal Display
600
'De Gaulle's June 18, 1940 broadcast in this city asking for France's leadership led to a death sentence in a French court'
London
600
'GE acknowledges that in the 20th Century it dumped PCBs into this river around Troy'
the Hudson River
600
'A reddish-brown horse
(8)'
a chestnut
600
'Margot Fonteyn is seen here resting her tootsies as Princess Aurora in this ballet'
Sleeping Beauty
800
'(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan) Most DVD players use a red light laser; to show true HD movies, however, this player uses a laser of this color, which has a shorter wavelength'
blue
800
'De Gaulle wanted a small, mobile army vs. static theories like this defensive "line" named for a Minister of War'
the Maginot Line
800
'3-letter name of the British river on which Oxford's rival university is located'
the Cam River
800
'Slide Mountain's range
(9)'
the Catskills
800
'This Kenneth MacMillan ballet intrigues with the curious story of the last of the 4 daughters of Czar Nicholas II'
Anastasia
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan) PS3 makes games more realistic using computer power from this alliterative technology in which multiple core CPUs run at once'
parallel processing
1000
'In 1925 De Gaulle was promoted to the staff of the Supreme War Council by this marshal'
Marshal Petain
1000
'Candido Rondon found the River of Doubt, now the Rio Roosevelt, which flows in this country's Amazonas State'
Brazil
1000
'The muse of history
(4)'
Clio
1000
'This Greek gal falls for her stepson Hippolytus in a ballet based on Racine's tragedy'
Phaedra
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