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For centuries Indian rajahs trained this swift cat to hunt gazelles
cheetahs
Describing a climate that's more damp, it's spelled like a peak in Washington
Rainier
It's said there are 3 things that matter in real estate: this. this, this
location
Blake Carrington is the patriarch on this 1980s primetime soap rebooted in 2017
Dynasty
Mickey or Minnie's mansion
a mouse house
In this novel by Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise says he'd "often dreamed of going west to see the country"
On the Road
In physics, it means empty space; when you feel like you're working in one, you feel isolated
a vacuum
Pleasant, like the same-spelled city on the Cote d'Azur
Nice
One honored for achieving distinction in a certain field; poet is one type
laureate
Constantine the Great is considered the first emperor of this empire
Byzantine
Calamitous sleight of hand
tragic magic
Estragon suggests that he & Vladimir hang themselves in this absurdist play
Waiting for Godot
This James Bond villain, Goldfinger's henchman, used a razor-sharp bowler hat as a weapon
Oddjob
On the page, these annelids look just like a German city
Worms
There once was a clue in our place/ about this type of poem, not mace/ short & quick/ a niffy old trick/ but then we ran out of
a limerick
It describes futuristic novels full of doom & gloom & oppressive societies like "The Hunger Games" series
dystopian
An odd group of connected mountains
a strange range
A student murders a St. Petersburg pawnbroker in this masterpiece by Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Germans call Brussels sprouts "Rosenkohl", literally "rose" this
cabbage
Information from a gauge, spelled like a Pennsylvania city
Reading
The this & Lymphoma Society is a charity fighting blood cancers
Leukemia
A genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas (H)
hydrangeas
Down at the docks, he clips your locks
the harbor barber
Isak Dinesen mentions that the Masai are her neighbors in this memoir
Out of Africa
These electromagnetic rays have a higher energy & shorter wavelength than X-rays
gamma rays
4-letter adjective for XY chromosomers, looking just like the capital of the Maldives
Male
To contest in court or to carry on a lawsuit
litigate
This jellylike substance that fills the cells of an organism contains mitochondria & ribosomes
cytoplasm
A thick cup for tea on a small, powerful boat that likes to push or pull
a mug tug
Daily Double
Young Cedric charms his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, in this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett