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    | One of Hawthorne's last works, "Chiefly About War Matters", was chiefly about this war | Civil War 
 
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    | In Sanskrit this speedy animal's name was chitraka, meaning "speckled" | (Alex: A minute to go.) 
 the cheetah
 
 
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    | 20th Century Fox oddly chose the month of June to release this 1947 fable about Kris Kringle | Miracle on 34th Street 
 
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    | Holly Joan Hart, this magazine's April 1998 centerfold, likes F. Scott Fitzgerald & bubble baths | Playboy 
 
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    | Minnie Driver, Scott Wolf & LeAnn Rimes are among celebrities who've confessed to doing this in the shower | singing 
 
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    | A replica of the Mayflower is docked on the waterfront of this Massachusetts city | Plymouth 
 
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    | Hawthorne added this letter to his last name when he began writing stories | (Robin: What is E?) 
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    | Discovered & decimated in less than 200 years, its name is from the Portuguese for "foolish" | Dodo 
 
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    | He directed Judy Garland in "Meet Me In St. Louis" & married her the next year | Vincent Minnelli 
 
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    | In 1789 the first of these events took place in April; it was later moved to March, then January | presidential inauguration 
 
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    | This type of enclosure for showering shares its name with a home for horses | Shower stall 
 
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    | Samoset stunned the Pilgrims when he welcomed them to America in this language | English 
 
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    | Hawthorne based "The Celestial Railroad" on this John Bunyan work, one of his boyhood favorites | Pilgrim's Progress 
 
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    | These colorful beetles were named in honor of the Virgin Mary | ladybugs 
 
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    | He was the subject of the 1946 biopic seen here: 
 "You see, tomorrow I leave for Hollywood, according to what they call 'talking pictures', so what's going to happen to me?"
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 Al Jolson
 
 
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    | 2 American car models, or the 2 signs of the Zodiac that cover parts of April | Aries & Taurus 
 
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    | The name of this thin mortar that seals tiles can also refer to meal or malt | grout 
 
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    | No Puritan, this friend of Myles Standish was the last surviving signer of The Mayflower Compact | (Robin: [No response]) 
 John Alden
 
 
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    | Mrs. Hawthorne's nickname for this family friend & novelist was "Mr. Omoo" | (Robin: Let's finish off Hawthorne.) (Alex: He was finished off a long time ago!)
 
 Herman Melville
 
 
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    | The story goes Capt. Cook asked what that animal was & a local replied this, meaning "Don't understand" | Kangaroo 
 
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    | The title of this Boyer-Bergman film became a verb meaning to make someone doubt his sanity | Gaslight 
 
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    | It's the 1991 film about 4 women who share an Italian villa for a month | Enchanted April 
 
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    | In 1993 this Teledyne brand produced its 40 millionth shower massage unit | Waterpik 
 
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    | Hawthorne died while traveling through New Hampshire with this former president, his close friend | Franklin Pierce 
 
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    | This name for the spiny anteater is from the Greek for "viper"; it has a venom system | (Jim: What is a porcupine?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
 
 Echidna
 
 
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    | Don't look for a mail carrier in this 1946 crime flick--he's only a metaphor | The Postman Always Rings Twice 
 
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    | April 5 is the feast day of St. Vincent Ferrer, patron of these workers, like Sir Thomas Crapper | (Jim: What are toilet workers?) 
 plumbers/sanitary engineers
 
 
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    | A squirting shower head may be clogged with this--the calcium compound, not the fruit | Lime 
 
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