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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.)
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 (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
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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.)
 
 Rabat
 
 
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    | Perky "prankster", counterculture commentator,
 "Nest" novelist
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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?) 
 the Conclave 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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