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CROSSWORD CLUES "T"
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PARDON MY FRENCH
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You can gaze upon many masterpieces at this museum & former royal residence on the Rue de Rivoli

The Louvre

400

In 1944 this teen wrote, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"

Anne Frank

400

A storm--in Shakespeare or a teapot
(7 letters)

a tempest

400

Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting

airplane mode

400

I feel like I've been here before; I have a sense of this, French for "already seen"

déjà vu

800

It's the last name of tennis player Naomi as well as the Honshu city where she was born

Osaka

800

In "The Story of My Life", she wrote of the coincidence of one of her ancestors being "the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich"

(Helen) Keller

800

Doorway part brides have been carried over
(9 letters)

threshold

800

Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port

a thumb drive

800

For obvious reasons, this classic, egg-based dessert has a French name meaning "puffed up" (show picture)

a soufflé

1200

The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago

The Black Sea

1200

Thomas Edison gave us, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent" this

perspiration

1200

Math term for a digression
(7 letters)

a tangent

1200

These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression

streaming

1200

Literally it's the "joy of living"

joie de vivre

1600

Mya Thein Tan, one of these towering shrines in Myanmar, is built to resemble Mount Meru, sacred to Buddhists

a pagoda
1600

"Throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet" was part of her dissent of dismantling the VRA

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1600

Boss Tweed's corrupt Hall
(7 letters)

Tammany

1600

Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error

the blue screen of death

1600

Meaning let the people do as they please, it's the belief that government should not interfere in the economy

laissez-faire

2000

Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina, is in this archipelago with a fiery name

the Tierra del Fuego

2000

In 1983 he predicted that "The computer will become the predominant medium of communication"

Jobs

2000

A really fast heart rate
(11 letters)

tachycardia

2000

Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the RepRap project led to a self-replicating one

a 3D printer

2000

It frequently follows "haute" to refer to the world of high fashion

couture

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