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    scarlet
 
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    | In this 1955 play Brick tells Maggie, "I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch!" | 
    (Paloma: What is Fences?)
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    | Steve Kerr joked, "Well, I guess I got to bail Michael out again" describing a game-winning shot for this team in the 1997 NBA Finals | 
    the Chicago Bulls
 
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    | As Baghdad fell in 2003, this president took some pocket money... $1 billion from Iraq's Central Bank | 
    Saddam Hussein
 
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    | Ruth Benedict analyzed this country in her classic book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" | 
    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
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    coral
 
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    It's not a fan of "under glass": HATES PAN | 
    (Keoni: What is a, uh, sorry.)
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    | David Frost gets a drunken late-night call from this other title man just before the final interview | 
    (Keoni: What is Death of a Salesman?)
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    | At the 2008 Olympics he won his 7th gold by a fingertip, beating Milorad Cavic to the wall in the 100m butterfly by .01 of a second | 
    Michael Phelps
 
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    | The Fascist Grand Council booted this leader on July 24, 1943 but in a George Costanza-like move, he went to work the next day--didn't fly | 
    Mussolini
 
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    | This flowy top is in an anthropology book as "the most universal of civilized garments" & in Anthropologie stores sells for $95 | 
    (Alex: Less than a minute to go now, Keoni.)
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    | Not plum but this purplish red comes from a fruit tree, scientifically Prunus avium | 
    cherry
 
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    If it charges:  HI CORONERS! | 
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    | "God of Carnage" starred Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden & this "Sopranos" boss | 
    James Gandolfini
 
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    | On May 24, 1992 Al Unser Jr. held off the perfectly named for his sport Scott Goodyear by .043 of a second to win this event | 
    (Paloma: What is the Daytona 500?)
  the Indianapolis 500
 
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    forensic
 
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    | Gemstones that are also types of red include the ruby & this 6-letter dark, clear mineral | 
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    Specific type of bird in a Stevie Nicks tune:  EVIDENT WHO WE DIG | 
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    | Kevin Bacon was not in this "numeric" play in 1990 but you could go trace his connections to Courtney B. Vance & Stockard Channing | 
    (Alex: Anything?) (Devin: No.)
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    | It doesn't get much closer than the 2009 Wimbledon final, where this Swiss Mr. beat Andy Roddick 16-14 in the fifth set | 
    Roger Federer
 
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    | The 1st prehistoric individual IDed with parents of different human groups lived around 90,000 B.C. & was half Denisovan, half this group | 
    Neanderthal
 
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    What one lion said to the other:  PLATE ONE! | 
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    | Neil Simon won a 1991 Tony for "Lost in" here, which actually isn't too far from Broadway | 
    Yonkers
 
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    | In 2015, after 8:08:32, just 8 seconds would separate the 1st & 3rd place finishers in this type of race | 
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