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"Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring"
Sterile
This Ivy League university was undefeated in 1912 & 1913 & was named national champion both years.
Harvard
This type of home loan converts home equity into cash; you have to be 62 or older to qualify for the one from the FHA.
A reverse mortgage
This type of story's name says it all--which character committed the murder?
A whodunnit
"Color a metropolis crimson"
Paint the Town Red
"The partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other"
An eclipse
In 2013 this Green Bay quarterback signed a 5-year, $110-million deal making him the highest-paid NFLer ever.
Aaron Rodgers
In knitting this basic stitch is the reverse of the knit stitch.
The purl
A parable is a short story with a moral, like the one Jesus told about this unlikely savior in Luke 10.
The good Samaritan
"Maintain one's digits folded" (for luck)
Keep your fingers crossed
"A flock of geese when not flying"
Gaggle
This school gave birth to the football huddle in the 1890s, when players huddled up to hide their sign language.
Gallaudet
A phrase meaning a 180 in your situation, or a film with Jeremy Irons & Glenn Close as Claus & Sunny von Bulow.
Reversal of Fortune
In Italian it's any tale, & can also mean news; in English it's a longish story, like "The Turn of the Screw"
A Novella
"Obstinate like one 4-legged crossbreed"
Stubborn as a mule
"Fruitless", or "showing excessive pride in one's appearance."
Vain
91,136 fans can watch this college team play home games in Pasadena
UCLA (Bruins)
It's the process in which pure water is produced by forcing waste through a semipermeable membrane.
Reverse Osmosis
Though its name harks back to medieval times, this genre of mystery & terror thrived from 1790 to 1820.
Gothic Novel
"Illumination from one underground passage's terminus"
Light at the end of the tunnel
"An animal having four feet...usu. Used of mammals"
Quadruped
The 17 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's first class in 1963 included this 1912 Olympian.
Jim Thorpe
A body such as Venus that moves in the opposite direction of other members of the solar system has this kind of motion.
Retrograde
This adjective follows "penny" in a term for a cheap lurid novel of 19th century England.
Dreadful
"One lifeless carillonneur"
A dead ringer