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A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment

Diamonds

200

Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru

The Inca

200

Sunday nights on "60 Minutes" & New Year's Eve in Times Square are two places you might spot him

Anderson Cooper

200

You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)

A foot

200

While in Samoa, this author penned a sequel to "Kidnapped" called "David Balfour"

(Robert Louis) Stevenson

400

First name of Mr. Strauss, who heard California needed sturdy pants & filled the gap for miners, making a fortune

Levi

400

Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico

The Rockies

400

Sean Hannity is on this news channel every weeknight

FOX

400

Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea

Knots

400

Nicole Diver in "Tender is the Night" is based in part on his wife Zelda

Fitzgerald

400

The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part

Lung

400

This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport

Lacrosse

400

Last name of CNN's Chris; he says one person he wouldn't grill on politics is his brother, the New York governor

Cuomo

400

"The whole 9" these means all the way

yards

400

Ironically, poet Hart Crane, whose father invented this ring-shaped hard candy, died after jumping overboard

A life saver

600

After 69 days deep in the Earth, in 2010 Florencio Avalos became the first of 33 miners rescued in this S. Amer. country

Chile

600

Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola

Haiti
600

She was a college journalism student, acted on "The Newsroom" & corresponded for "The Daily Show"

Olivia Munn

600

It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion

A second

600

This author's close relationship with the Davies family was the subject of the film "Finding Neverland"

James Barrie

1200

In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines

Canaries

1200

Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator

Sao Paulo

1200

Jose Diaz-Balart is a fixture on this network whose name contains the Spanish word for "world"

Telemundo

1200

The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern

A meter

1200

Years after this alliterative poet wrote "Tintern Abbey", he was made poet laureate

Wordsworth

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