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TAKING STOCK
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200

Oh, deer, it also means to behave in a sycophantic way over someone

Fawn

200

In July 2024 this park near the Mojave Desert reached at least 125 degrees on 9 consecutive days

Death Valley
200

On Jan. 12, 2009 the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto made the first transaction of this currency to a software developer

Bitcoin

200

Beastly word for someone with an optimistic view of the stock market

Bull market

200

PALINDROME: A polite thing to call a woman

Madam

400

It's capital,
it's most important,
it's a school administrator

Principal

400

In area, Manhattan is New York City's smallest borough; this one is the largest

Queens

400

In the late '80s Warren Lieberfarb of Warner Bros. pushed for this optical disk format; "Rocky" & "The Mask" in 1997 were early releases

DVD

400

The Nikkei Index tracks the top 225 stocks on this city's stock exchange

Tokyo

400

RHYME TIME: It's a cucumber preserved in brine that has an irritating tendency to change its mind 

A fickle pickle

600

One can hang as a wall decoration or worse, some can hang out on the outsides of your teeth 

DAILY DOUBLE

Plaque

600

"Valley Isle" is a nickname for this second-largest Hawaiian island

Maui

600

Presented in 1994, "Archie-Like Indexing" for the Web, or ALIWEB, was one of the web's first of these, the "SE" in SEO

DAILY DOUBLE

Search engine

600

Market winners in early 2018 include CMG, this Mexican food chain that got a new CEO & saw its price rise 50%

Chipotle

600

BEFORE & AFTER: Oscar-winning epic Spielberg war film about rescuing Ken 

DAILY DOUBLE

Saving Private Ryan Gosling

800

A supplementary structure separate from a main one, or to incorporate territory into a sovereign nation

Annex

800

The Catskill Mountains in New York are part of this much larger mountain system

The Appalachians
800

On March 2, 1969 this supersonic transport jet took its first successful flight

The Concorde

800

In 1971 this new U.S. stock exchange introduced the era of all-electronic trading

NASDAQ

800

ANAGRAM: OK CHARMS becomes this Irish item

Shamrock
1000

To vex or worry, perhaps about your fingers moving about that part of a musical instrument

Fret

1000

Niagara Falls is made up of 2 falls, the American falls & these Canadian falls

DAILY DOUBLE

Horseshoe Falls

1000

His first patent for improvements in boats by steam was obtained February 11, 1809 (but was lost in a fire)

Fulton

1000

Running its own market index as well as providing credit ratings, "S&P" stands for this company

DAILY DOUBLE

Standard & Poor's

1000

OVERLAPS:
Home city of the NFL Bills
+
a type of leather step-in shoe

Buffaloafers

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