DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
LATIN OVERLAPPIN'
ASIAN CITIES
OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y"
BIRDS!
LEADING WOMEN OF TV
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First popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, table soccer is also known by this 1-word name
foosball
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A pricy steak that doesn't logically follow from the previous argument or statement
Filet mignon sequitur
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This capital of Iraq was formerly called Madinat al-Salam, Arabic for "city of peace"
Baghdad
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It's a long, eventful journey or ordeal; a mythological one took 10 years
an odyssey
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It's the type of swan heard here
a trumpeter swan
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This actress was never far from "Scandal" as Washington, D.C. crisis manager Olivia Pope
Kerry Washington
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Delicious, here's a stack of the English type of this
toffee
800
"I think, therefore I am" on Indonesia's second-largest island by area
cogito, ergo Sumatra
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Some of Kazakhstan's only water ports, Aktau & Kuryk are major shipping centers on this sea
the Caspian Sea
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Meaning to become bone, this verb is used for ideas that have become fixed
ossify
800
Listen, you white-bellied bustard, I know where you live-- this continent's savanna
Africa
800
These 2 words describe "Xena" in the full title of the show that starred Lucy Lawless
Warrior Princess
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It is said that "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of" this
happiness
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Black Sea region, home to Yalta; it's just "my fault"
Crimea culpa
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This capital of the Philippines is on Luzon Island
Manila
1200
This raptor flies over water to hunt, plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons
an osprey
1200
This bird shown in an illustration is distinguished from the heron by the bustle of feathers over its rump
crane
1200
On this show Jennifer Garner was a college student recruited to be a spy
Alias
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In retirement Sherlock Holmes devotes his time to this hobby
beekeeping
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Your lawyer's doing this case "for the good", & for the pygmy chimpanzee
pro bonobo
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Dili is the capital of this nation that broke away from Indonesia in 1999
East Timor
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Numbering about 175,000, these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico
Ojibway
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Perhaps this "thrush", a type of babbler, hangs out at comedy clubs with the same-named hyena
laughing thrush
1600
"Angel of Mercy" is an episode of the show that tells the origin story of this character from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Nurse Ratched
2000
Hosteler is an archaic synonym for this person
an innkeeper
2000
Salieri steals the 1984 Oscar winner with the tagline "god of the machine"
Amadeus ex machina
2000
Israel's third-largest city, it overlooks the Mediterranean from Mount Carmel
Haifa
2000
From Latin for "shaded", it means non-transparency in an image
opacity
2000
The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers
a stilt
2000
Seen here, Jennifer Love Hewitt starred on this TV show as a woman who saw the spirits of the newly deceased 
the Ghost Whisperer