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    | He wrote "Long Day's Journey into Night" in 1941, but it wasn't performed until 1956, 3 years after his death | 
    O'Neill
 
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    | James Spader "practice"s for Crane, Poole & Schmidt on this show | 
    (Bob: What is The Practice?)
  Boston Legal
 
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    | ...Key West, Florida | 
    Havana
 
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    | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.)  The bigger species of shrimp with the larger nippers on the second pair of thoracic legs are called these | 
    (Melissa: What are jumbo shrimp?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Melissa: Ooh... I don't know.) ... (Alex: Jumbo shrimp and colossal shrimp are usually referred to as [*].  That's what we're going for.)
  prawns
 
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    Gipper gabber, crafty Californian, "Bonzo" bedmate | 
    Ronald Reagan
 
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    | A 2004 magnitude 9.3 earthquake produced a deadly one of these that had people curious well into 2005 | 
    a tsunami
 
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    | Although he was Irish-born, most of his works after WWII, including "Waiting for Godot", were written in French | 
    Beckett
 
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    | In 1963 this Erle Stanley Gardner title character suffered his only loss in a TV case | 
    Perry Mason
 
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    | ...the Hollywood sign | 
    Mexico City
 
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    Tool-Timer, movie-maker, aviation aficionado, Texas titan | 
    Howard Hughes
 
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    | A spoonful of sugar won't help this, from the Greek for "all people", meaning an epidemic over a wide range | 
    pandemic
 
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    | This "Betrayal" dramatist adapted John Fowles' novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" for the screen | 
    Harold Pinter
 
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    | This 1990s banjo-strummin' defense lawyer lived in Willow Springs, Georgia | 
    Matlock
 
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    | Shrimp can be a problem in Asia, as when they burrow they create muddy water that blocks photosynthesis for this crop | 
    (Melissa: What is seaweed?)
  rice
 
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    Louisiana lad, fabulous food, picture perfect | 
    Paul Prudhomme
 
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    | Fingers were flying when New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for this | 
    contempt
 
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    | During most of WWII, this German playwright resided in the U.S.; he left in 1947 & formed the Berliner Ensemble in 1949 | 
    Bertolt Brecht
 
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    | Bailiff Bull Shannon's real first name on this '80s NBC sitcom was Nostradamus | 
    Night Court
 
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    | ...the Strait of Gibraltar | 
    (Luis: What is Madrid?) ... (Alex: [*], in Morocco, yes.)
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    Perky "prankster", counterculture commentator, "Nest" novelist | 
    Ken Kesey
 
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    | There were cardinals but no blue jays at this meeting in 2005 that gave us Benedict | 
    (Luis: Who is the College of Cardinals?)
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    | In 1935 this dramatist stopped "Waiting for Lefty" & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer | 
    Clifford Odets
 
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    | West Coast attorney Rosalind Shays got the (elevator) shaft on this NBC drama | 
    L.A. Law
 
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    | ...the continent of Antarctica | 
    Wellington, New Zealand
 
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    Melville man, Claggart clash, hanged high | 
    Billy Budd
 
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    | The most looked-up word was this, which means "firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values" | 
    (Melissa: What is ethics?)
  integrity
 
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