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WWI

200

'In his war address to Congress, President Wilson said, "The world must be made safe for" this'

democracy

400

'In the 2nd battle of Ypres, the Germans used chlorine gas; at the 3rd battle, they introduced this gas'

mustard gas

600

'In September 1916 the British rolled out this new secret weapon on the Somme front'

the tank

800

'During a "Welcome U.S. Soldiers" celebration in Paris July 4, 1917 Col. C.E. Stanton made this famous 4-word statement'

"Lafayette, we are here!"

1000

'WWI's first declaration of war was July 28, 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on this country'

Serbia

THE MOVIES

200

'He went from waterboy to football star in 1998's "The Waterboy"'

Adam Sandler

400

'(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York) The Plaza Hotel was featured in this 1959 Hitchcock movie that starred Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint'

North by Northwest

600

'Marilyn Monroe's toe gets caught in a bathroom faucet in this 1955 classic'

The Seven Year Itch

800

'(Alex: Ah, let's hear from Sofia again) In this 1990 film, Patrick Swayze jumped from subway train to subway train'

Ghost

1000

'Elmer Bernstein did the classic music for this movie in which Steve McQueen flees Nazis on a motorcycle'

The Great Escape

LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

200

'Tea party adjective
(3)'

mad

400

'Crimes "in the Rue Morgue"
(7)'

Murders

600

'Maugham paired it with "Sixpence"
(4)'

Moon

800

'What the "Little Women" called their mother
(6)'

Marmee

1000

'Lady Chatterley's lover
(7)'

Mellors

INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

200

'The Turkish capital city known as this was once known as Angora'

Ankara

400

'Now the largest city in Sicily, this metropolis was founded in the 8th C. B.C. by the Phoenicians'

Palermo

600

'The westernmost mainland country in Africa, its capital is Dakar'

Senegal

800

'Mandalay, one of the largest cities & inland river ports of this country, lies on the Irrawaddy River'

Myanmar (formerly Burma)

1000

'It's the country where you'll find the cities of Granma, Cienfuegos & Camaguey'

Cuba

WORDS FOR WORDS

200

'Don't & can't are these; time how long between them to know whether you're in labor'

contractions

400

'From the Latin nominare, "to name", it's an inaccurate designation'

misnomer

600

'The verb "to typewrite" from "typewriter" is an example of this type of "formation"'

back formation

800

'A line from "Citizen Kane" might be an RKO-ism; this similar-sounding term refers to an outdated word'

archaism

1000

'On the same page as "epitaph" in the dictionary, it can be a characterizing word or an abusive one'

epithet