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It's from the French for one "who owns & manages a business", taking the financial risk
an entrepreneur
A Hungarian exam
a Budapest test
"When you're" at this restaurant, "you're family"
The Olive Garden
This brand famed for salad dressing never made a dime for its movie star founder, who gave $50 mil. in profits in its first decade to charity
Newman's Own
Prisoners really do make these; in Michigan, rolls of aluminum are used to produce about 10,000 per day
license plates
The Paleocene was this 5-letter division of geologic time
an epoch
A Korean parchment curled up for storage
a Seoul scroll
Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this, & is classified by its ascending level of it.
acid
This "numeric" dressing with mayo & tomato sauce takes its name from where it was invented, in the chain between New York & Canada
Thousand Island
As tectonic plates collide, a plate can snap up, causing an earthquake; that force transfers to the water, creating one of these
a tsunami
This word from the French is the practice of spying
espionage
A Lebanese matching jacket & trousers
a Beirut suit
Olive oil is high in this type of fat whose name tells you it has only one type of a certain bond per molecule
monounsaturated fat
A Nebraska plumber invented this dressing with garlic & onion powder, dried herbs, powdered pepper & buttermilk
ranch
This "colorful" phrase referred to cheap diner meals of yore & the item they were served on
a blue plate special
It's a sovereign decree, like that "of Nantes"
edict
Philippine flavoring from a tropical orchid
Manila vanilla
I've ordered this type of black olive so prized that the Spartans annexed Messenia to get the supply
Kalamata olives
It's the first name in salad dressing & for the steak house known for it, including fat free raspberry pecan & sweet Vidalia onion
Ken's
Steel plates were sewn into canvas to make these 4-letter vests worn by American aviators during World War II
flak jackets
One in this job studies the origin & history of words
an etymologist
Sudanese darkness or sadness
Khartoum gloom
This thick spread made from capers & black olives hails from Provence
Tapenade
Traditionally, this alliterative salad dressing is big on mayonnaise but a new trend used olive oil & nuts
green goddess
The first fossils belonging to this dinosaur with bony plates in its back were discovered in the 1870s
a Stegosaurus