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    | In 1874, after more than 20 years, he finally completed his entire "Ring" cycle with "The Twilight of the Gods" | 
    Wagner
 
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    planets
 
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    rigor
 
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    | Robert Schumann's high hopes for "Genoveva", his only one of these works, were dashed by a Leipzig audience | 
    an opera
 
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    | Yankee profiled "New England's greatest invention"--this one created in a restaurant on a Mass. toll road | 
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    | This craftman's wife made clothes & knitted stockings for 2 elves, but they left his shop & never came back | 
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    | The "M" in MASER stands for this; the rest of the acronym is the same as in "LASER" | 
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    | A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912 | 
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    | Appropriately, this Andersen heroine had "eyes as blue as the deepest sea" | 
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    halve
 
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    | We're fortunate to have the "Fingal's Cave" overture by this composer whose first name means "fortunate" | 
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    Washington
 
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    | Hansel had a sister named Gretel; so did this boy in an 1865 novel | 
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    (Alex: You have a long way to go.) (Jeff: Can I bet $22,000?) (Alex: No.) (Jeff: $2,200 then?) (Alex: Sure. Here is the clue for you...) ... (Alex: Jeff?) (Jeff: Who is... Hofstadter?)
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    insulin
 
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    | The May 2004 issue visited the lobstermen of Stonington on this Maine bay | 
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    | Beatrix Potter wrote a "tale about a tail--a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was" this | 
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