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    | It's the capital of Nova Scotia | Halifax 
 
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    | It's the real last name of Nicolas Cage--& of his famous uncle | Coppola 
 
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    | Use your digital jukebox software to connect to this No. 1 online music store | iTunes 
 
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    | One in every 6 known bird species makes its home in this rainforest | the Amazon 
 
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    | In this style of pre-Revolutionary Americans, I like the Southern version with brick exterior & side chimneys | Colonial 
 
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    | You probably made your first entrance through this "canal" | the birth canal 
 
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    | For over 75 years, a shrimp festival & blessing of the fleet have kicked off shrimping season in this Mississippi city | Biloxi 
 
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    | Destiny Hope Cyrus, Billy Ray's kid & star of TV's "Hannah Montana", now goes by this first name | Miley 
 
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    | Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish & "Strudel" in Hebrew | the @ sign 
 
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    | Sputniks 5, 6, 9 & 10 also carried these animals into space, & most were recovered alive | dogs 
 
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    | I'll entertain royally with a house in this style named for a 19th c. queen, with its welcoming front porch | Victorian 
 
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    | A command to your pooch to retrieve something | fetch 
 
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    | Famous for temple ruins, this city on the site of Thebes has been called "The World's Greatest Open-Air Museum" | Luxor 
 
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    | Yes Sir, his real name is Reginald Dwight | Elton John 
 
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    | Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology | DSL 
 
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    | Got one of these odorous animals also known as a polecat as a pet?  Call your humane society to make sure it's legal | a skunk 
 
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    | This is it: the classic L shape & low-pitched gable roof of this house named for a Western dwelling | a ranch house 
 
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    | You have one of these, aka a heartbeat, I assume | pulse 
 
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    | Averages for this U.S. city are 7.66 inches of rain, a daily high temperature of 85, & 325 sunny days per year | Phoenix 
 
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    | The movies' original "Alfie", he was originally named Maurice Micklewhite | Michael Caine 
 
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    | This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard | Wi-Fi 
 
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    | Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative | (Leslie: Kah! [Puts hand to forehead in exasperation] Uh...) (Alex: Oh, sorry!)
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    | Why hold back--tower, stone, ornamentation, I want a home in the style of one of these French mansions | a château 
 
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    | To perform this kids' activity "inside the lines" is to conform; to do it "outside the lines" is to be a free spirit | color 
 
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    | Love to shop?  This largest South Dakota city has the largest shopping center between Denver & Minneapolis | (Dan: What is Sioux City?) 
 Sioux Falls
 
 
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    | When she's "got mail", we wonder if it's addressed to Margaret Hyra | Meg Ryan 
 
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    | Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva | CERN 
 
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    | "Dachs", as in "Dachshund", is German for this burrowing animal | the badger 
 
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    | I'm going to use this smallish lot economically, putting up this kind of house with tiers only one half-story apart | a split-level 
 
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    | A form of matter--solid, liquid or gas | state (phase accepted) 
 
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