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A Devilish Category
100

Dating from around 300 B.C., the silver tetradrachma coin depicts this Macedonian leader

Alexander the Great 

100

Gary Oldman hijacks the President's plane in this 1997 thriller

Air Force One 

100

This, an orzel in Poland, is seen on some of our coins

An Eagle 

100

A young reporter may have to work in this section updating life stories, just in case 

obituaries 

100

Among this famous literary detective's exploits is the "Adventure of the Devil's Foot"

Sherlock Holmes 

200

Following the lead of Germany, this man declared war on Britain & France in June 1940

Mussolini

200

A crop-dusting plane nearly makes dust out of Cary Grant in this Hitchcock thriller

North by Northwest 

200

In Swahili, this familiar sight in the Sahara is a ngamia

a Camel 

200

An uncritical piece is called this & is as hard-hitting as the pastry of the same name

a puff piece 

200

Tartini's sonata "The Devil's Trill" came to him in a dream in which the devil played this stringed instrument

the violin 

300

In 2002 Helen Clark won election to a second term as this Down Under country's prime minister

New Zealand 

300

William Wellman, who'd served in the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps, directed this first Best Picture winner

Wings 

300

In Dijon a homard is a lobster & a canard is one of these (if someone throws a homard at you, canard)

a duck 

300

It's the 7-letter term for the text under the photo that goes with the article; it can be a quote from the story

a caption 

300

One of this "Robinson Crusoe" author's final works was "The Political History of the Devil"

Daniel DeFoe 

400

It's the military rank of the head of state of Libya

colonel 

400

Bruce Willis is waiting for his wife's plane to land at Dulles when trouble begins in this 1990 sequel

Die Hard 2

400

As Lowe is German for this animal, it sounds like Loews cinemas should only show MGM movies

a lion 

400

These freelance reporters not completely "tied" to the paper but working part-time were once paid by the column inch

stringers 

400

Goethe & Mann used an anonymous 1587 tale about this devilish doctor as a basis for tales of their own

Faust or Faustus 

500

A former foreign minister, Fernando Cardoso became president of this large South American country in 1995

Brazil 

500

The Jailbird is the prisoner transport plane in this 1997 Nicolas Cage flick

Con Air 

500

You'll find atum, this fish, sandwiched inside Portuguese dictionaries

tuna 

500

These 2 "line"s tell readers where & when a story originated & who wrote it

the byline and the dateline 

500

In a Stephen Vincent Benet work, this man defends Jabez Stone before the devil's jury of villains

Daniel Webster 

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