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May 2025
Saturday,
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Ancient civilisation that built Machu Picchu
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Piece of pocket change you might flip to see who bats first
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What you leave in a will; or perhaps code that hasn't been touched in a while
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Wire loop on a loom that every weaver knows (grandma's original thread!)
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Stick on a pool table; or the subtle signal telling an actor to start
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Surname of 'Life of Pi' and 'Brokeback Mountain' director Ang
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First name of Ms. Markle who went from TV-series 'Suits' to royalty
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Cryptography initialism from Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman
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Sheeran's given name
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Two-letter code for Switzerland seen on car bumpers
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IKEA sends you one; Amazon keeps it online
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Two-wheeled push vehicle hauled by Mormon pioneers and today's airport porters
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A type of AI algorithm, popularized by AlphaGo
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Picturesque Himachal hill station named for a 19th-century Viceroy
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Letters you show for identification at the club door
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Shorthand meaning 'not applicable'
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Homer's epic of the Trojan War, long before Chris Hemsworth's 'Troy' cameo
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2017 Christopher Nolan film about the WWII Channel evacuation
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A contactless smart card system used for electronic payments in Malaysia (abbr.)
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Carved pole telling a clan's story in the Pacific Northwest
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Humble or degrade - make someone eat humble pie
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German word for 'I'
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Christmas-carol word; former Oasis rocker Gallagher; or chairman Tata Trusts
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Spiced apple drink at a British winter market
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Mountain chain running the spine of western South America
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Internet onomatopoeia for a cat's tongue-out lick
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Gorbachev's 1980s 'restructuring' policy
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Photo-first social app owned by Meta, abbr.
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'Friends' character whose 90s haircut became a craze
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Citizens of Quito or Cuenca
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Japanese currency
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Eric - ex-Google CEO
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Praise from critics - what every Bollywood trailer promises
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Comic-book laugh syllable repeated by the Joker
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Relaxed sigh - “Hot-spring bliss!”
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Surgeon-author Gawande's first name
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Old Scots word to glance sideways (squinting cunningly) - a Scrabble lifesaver
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Bismarck is the capital of this U.S. state, abbr.
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“Thanks!” in Berlin
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Hindu Goddess, wife of Rama, daughter of Janaka
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Dynamic ___; pair like Batman & Robin
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Zeppelin __, a class of helium-filled airships (Germany)