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NOTABLE WOMEN

100

This great jazz singer was the daughter of jazz guitarist Clarence Holiday

Billie Holiday

200

This former Secretary of Transportation is known to her friends as Liddy

Elizabeth Dole

300

Dr. Mathilde Krim is renowned for her efforts to find a cure for this epidemic disease

AIDS

400

Vigdis Finnbogadottir, this country's 1st female president, has held office since 1980

Iceland

500

This Austrian-born woman known for her family singers was named Catholic mother of year in 1957

Maria (von) Trapp

CROSSWORD CLUES "K"(number in parenthesis indicates how many letters the answer has)

100

Beer barrel
(3)

keg

200

Work the dough
(5)

knead

300

Soviet shoe banger
(10)

Khrushchev

400

Michigan gal's town
(9)

Kalamazoo

500

Patellar reflex
(4,4)

knee jerk

AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY

100

This rhyming word refers to any time of great success, not a specific 24-hour period

heyday

200

A hand-held optical instrument lends its name to this adjective referring to a mix of shifting colors

a kaleidoscopic

300

"O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community

ostracize

400

Latin loqui, "to speak", gives us the words loquacious, meaning talkative, & this adjective, meaning well spoken

eloquent

500

Adventurous artists are described by this hyphenated French word, which used to refer to the leading body of an army

avant-garde

"IF" AT FIRST...

100

Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg wrote this classic tune sung by the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"

"If I Only Had A Brain"

200

In computer programming, this 2-word "statement" means that when a specific condition is met, a specific action follows

if-then

300

In "Field of Dreams", Kevin Costner first hears this phrase while walking through his corn

If you build it, he will come

400

The Department of Homeland Security designates Sept. 25 as awareness day for this 6-word reminder to report suspicious activity

_{If you see something, say something} 

500

In a rousing 1765 Patrick Henry speech criticizing Britain, these 4 words preceded "make the most of it"

if this be treason

WHAT DO U STAND FOR?

100

In UFO, possibly an alien craft

unidentified

200

In SCUBA

underwater
(Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)

300

In the government department HUD

Urban
(Department of Housing and Urban Development) 

400

In the ACLU

Union 

 (American Civil Liberties Union)

500

In the committee known as HUAC

Un-American 

(House Un-American Activities Committee)