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April 2025
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Historic Chinese city with a 'Purple Mountain'—not a Prince album
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Country code top-level domain for Grenada
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Italian author Umberto who wrote 'The Name of the Rose'
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Sacred Vedic mantra that begins with 'Om', also a common Indian girl’s name
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Popular Team Cycling competition in virtual reality (abbr.)
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Undead creature in horror flicks—and a 1994 hit by the Cranberries
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Neighborhood association that scolds you about your lawn (abbr.)
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NBA team from Washington that sounds like it belongs at Hogwarts
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Not typical, like Wednesday Addams’s idea of home decor
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French word for 'the'
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College department for rock hounds (abbr.)
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Friendly Spielberg alien, for short
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Empress wife of Augustus featured in TV’s 'I, Claudius'
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Horn-of-Africa capital whose name starts and ends with 'A'
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Do-it-yourself verb that’s the opposite of break
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First name of folk-rocker DiFranco
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Yard-makeover trade featured on HGTV’s 'Curb Appeal'
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Honey-loving bear from the Hundred Acre Wood
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Avoid completely—or a classic American muscle-car brand
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Third Lotus Prince, and 2019 Chinese box office hit animation
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Tightrope walkers and trapeze artists, collectively
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Director Christopher of 'Oppenheimer' and 'The Dark Knight' trilogy
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The satirical __ nobel prize awarded to celebrate unusual achievements
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Russian-American Alla, silent-film star famed for her 1923 'Salome'
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Japanese pan-fried dumpling that rivals a pot sticker
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Total traffic jam—think Manhattan at 5 p.m.
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Vin of the 'Fast & Furious' films, or a compression engine
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Blend or alloy, like bronze or steel
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Book-blogger abbreviation meaning 'to be read'
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The best global performance that is ever recorded (abbr.)
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Florida city that hosts Mickey, Harry Potter, and lots of tourists
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Noble title—or Jason Lee’s sitcom alter ego in 'My Name Is ___'
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From Dublin or Cork, nationality-wise
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Spanish for 'hand', or honoring gesture performed in Filipino culture
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Bone-dry, like the Atacama Desert
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Border on something, or the U2 guitarist’s nickname
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Young chap, in British slang
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News agency or college-credit exam, just two letters
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Kung Fu Panda’s cuddly hero
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Andrew __, British-American professor known for DeepLearning.AI