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A C Bowden #227681 11/27/2017 4:09 AM
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Iconoclasm means “image breaking” and refers to a recurring historical impulse that complicates the religious veneration debate. (17)

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Debate just might be the most important determinant of whether you succeed in catching your fish, or not. (18)

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Not playing by the rules is not only frustrating to the players, but extremely, narcissistic, arrogant and self aggrandizing (19).


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Self-agggandizing indeed. (2)

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Indeed it is. (3)

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Is pointing at specifics (4)


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"Specifics" are the fine print. (5)

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Print the rules and folly follows (6).


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LukeJavan8 #227704 11/30/2017 1:18 AM
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Follows those sneaky, little Hobbttses, Sméagol does. (7)

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Does anyone speak Esperanto as their first language? (8)

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9- Language, including Esperanto, is highlighted in Captain Fantastic movie.

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Movie moguls such as Sam Goldwyn ran studios like dictators. (10)

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Dictators need stenographers to transcribe their edicts, dubious rule-of-law status notwithstanding. (11)

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Notwithstanding the fierce resistance, the Allies drove the Germans out of Italy. (12)


Interestingly, it would also be true to say:
"Withstanding the fierce resistance, the Allies drove the Germans out of Italy."

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Italy looks like a boot, many of us were taught that in school? (13)


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Schooling like that betrays your age: "...shaped like a boot, run by a heel..." (14)

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Heel problems can afflict fast bowlers in cricket, due to the constant impact they make. (15)

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Make haste, early bird catches the worm, only thirteen shopping days before Christmas, get going now (16).


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"Now is the winter of our discount tents," said the sign in the cut-rate camping supplies store. (17)

(I saw this caption on a cartoon somewhere, but I don't remember exactly where, or the artist's name.)

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Store flammable or explosive substances in a cool place, in closed containers well away from any electrical sources. (18)

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"Sources say..." you can get away with anything you feel like writing here, provided you leave the "sources" unidentified. (19)

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Unidentified flying objects, otherwise known as UFOs or flying saucers, have been a common science fiction theme for decades now. (20)

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Now: two. (2)

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Two is even. (3)


(Actually, the limit is 20 - see my original post.)

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Even so; we'll continue. (4)

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Continue your holiday celebrations, please (5)

















1!! (5)


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Please do not play too loud. (6)

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“Loud-amus te,” say the faithful every Sunday (7)

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I believe it is "laud"-amus


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Sunday funnies, a family tradition enjoyed on Sunday. (8)

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Sunday sermons also encourage, for most minor peccadillos, forgiveness,. (9)

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Forgiveness is a concept about which Christian theology is ambivalent. (10)

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Ambivalent attitudes towards Hitler were common in Germany between the wars. (11)

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Wars probably are occurring in half the countries of the world today. (12)


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Today, the antepenultimate day of the year, is the fifth Friday of December. (13)

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December is over, but the coldest part of the winter is still to come. (14)

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Come what may, "this too shall pass" -- or so they would lead us to believe. (15)

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Believe what your eyes and ears tell you, unless there is a good reason not to. (16)

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To succeed as an artist in this democratic age, you need to cultivate an aura of notoriety. (17)

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Notariety,lately, seems to be attached to everyone of the male gender because women assume all are perverts (18).


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