DICKENS TITLE LETTER DROP |
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WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS |
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Drop a letter from Dickens' novel about pickpockets & it becomes this story of an internal organ that's sprained |
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"Yell barracuda, everybody says, 'huh? what?'; you yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands" is said in this film |
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Folks with tailbone injuries find sweet relief sitting on pillows in the shape of these sweet baked treats |
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A woman engaged to be married |
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The first major excavations of Ur were made after WWI by H.R. Hall of this London institution |
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I'm not a canine, I'm this burrowing squirrel of the genus Cynomys that's ubiquitous on the plains of North America |
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Bah! Humbug! It's Rob Reiner's dad on December 25 |
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A captain & his inexperienced crew patrol the Atlantic in a sub in this 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film with a German title |
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The child carrying a pillow in a wedding procession |
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In a beverage or a hue, it precedes "au lait" |
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One of the last kings to build at Ur was this "great" Persian, also called Koresh |
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I'm this colorful bird formally known as Cyanocitta cristata, not a Canadian baseball player |
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The loss of a letter causes the evil Quilp & Little Nell to jump around on one leg a lot |
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One tagline for this 1997 Oscar winner was "Collide with destiny" |
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It's a small decorative pillow also known as a scatter cushion |
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Now called Tall al-Muqayyar, modern Ur is about 10 miles from Nasiriyah in this troubled Mideast country |
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I'm P. onocrotalus, the white species of this big-throated bird; more fish, please! |
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It's a Pip of a novel full of anticipation from Beowulf's people |
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This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as a "manphibian" (he had gills!) cost an estimated $175 million |
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Homedics makes a pillow to support the part of the lower back named for these vertebrae just above the sacrum |
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These chili peppers seen here are popular because they can be easily seeded |
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Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C. |
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I'm C. latirostris, this South American crocodilian, not an island group in the Caribbean |
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Drop a letter from Dickens' last completed novel & it's about that devilish guy we both know |
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Jack Lemmon was Ensign Pulver, in charge of laundry & morale aboard a ship called The Reluctant, in this 1955 film |
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Don't forget this word precedes "foam" in the name of a 4-pound "wave" pillow from Serta |
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This 2-word Native American tribe lived in the Pacific Northwest |
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Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization |
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I'm not a piece of farm equipment, I'm this shark of the genus Alopias that uses its long tail to stun prey |
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