CIVIL WAR GENERALS
Frederick Douglass noted the nausea-inducing praise of this Virginian--one officer said his "bosom shone translucent"
Lee
Cash-strapped Korean TV contestants meet the mother of dragons, which should go well for everybody, right?
Squid Game of Thrones
Temple Square is a fixture of this U.S. capital, once referred to as New Jerusalem
Salt Lake City
According to the book "Mapping Gay L.A.", this 2-word term for a place for marginalized groups goes back to the mid-1960s
a safe space
Seeking bunnies in classic art? They may accompany this Roman fertility goddess, as in Piero di Cosimo's painting of her, Mars & Cupid
Venuse
Insert 2 letters in "very" (a related word) to get this, meaning "indeed"
verily
Did he invent baseball? Probably not, but this man did step up to the plate after John F. Reynolds' death at Gettysburg
Abner Doubleday
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As easy as ABC, the Dunphys meet Urkel; did we do that?
Modern Family Matters
New York's second-largest city, it's situated where Lake Erie tapers off into the Niagara River
Buffalo
A NYC home that sold for $59 million in 2021 boasted a saltwater pool & this safe area, also a Jodie Foster film title
a panic room
Baal was the god not only of rain but of this a.m. moisture, vital in the ancient Near East with months of no precipitation
dew
This adverb for when things are going very well begins with an Olympic sport
swimmingly
Post-bellum, General Lew Wallace became gov. of the New Mexico Territory & exchanged letters with this 19-year-old outlaw
Billy the Kid
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Tom Selleck travels from Hawaii to join Ms. Ball in the 1950s
Magnum, P.I. Love Lucy
As in the name of a nearby lofty tourist attraction, these 4 letters come before Kawaguchiko, a beautiful Japanese lake town
F-U-J-I (Fuji)
A word meaning safely isolated, it's the title of Catherine Coldstream's memoir about her "Years as a Nun"
cloistered
The holiday Sri Krishna Jayanti celebrates the eighth earthly avatar of this god
Vishnu
one wrong answer
When it means "in reverse", it can end with an S, but when it means "underdeveloped", it can't
backward(s)
According to one soldier, this gen. was not "loved or respected" by his men; in the 20th c. they still named a N.C. fort for him
Braxton Bragg
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Cybersecurity expert Rami Malek hacks into some satirical stop-motion animation with Seth Green & friends
Mr. Robot Chicken
one wrong answer
Once capital of the Helvetic Republic, this city lies on the lake that bears its name, as well as on the Reuss River
Lucerne
two wrong answers
A frithstool in some medieval churches offered this 9-letter protection to fugitives
sanctuary
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In the poem "The Shield of Achilles", W.H. Auden calls this fire god "the thin-lipped armorer"
Hephaestus
Framingham State University is far from this adjective for a school for teachers, having dropped it from its name
normal
This risk-averse Union general ran for president in 1864; he retreated to Europe after his defeat
George McClellan
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Freddie Highmore's neurodiverse physician hops on a cruise ship in 2025 helmed by Captain Don Johnson
The Good Doctor Odyssey
Site of a dramatic commando raid in 1976, this Ugandan city juts into Lake Victoria
Entebbe
30 years after the creation of OSHA, this government organization, workplace fatalities were reduced by 60%
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The protector deity of Alexandria was Serapis, an amalgam as his name suggests of this ruler of the dead & Apis
Osiris
2 Old English words combined, leading to this 9-letter word meaning "former"
erstwhile