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LukeJavan8 #228198 04/29/2018 12:25 AM
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Necklace styles vary greatly in this year's fashion show, ranging from the exquisitely elegant to the downright bizarre. (18)

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Bizarre happenings around the globe have convinced world leaders to make ends meet and come full circle once again. (19)

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Again we see the unpredictability of international politics, with the prospect of peace between North and South Korea, it seems. (20)

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Seems likely. (2)

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Likely, yes indeed. (3)

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Indeed, you are arrogant. (4)

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Arrogant politicians seek more power. (5)

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Power hungry politicians buy it monetarily (6)


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Monetarily deficient men were shunned by ladies. (7)

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Ladies had delicate sensibilities towards Hetherington's top hat. (8)

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Hat or no hat, Beau Brummell was impeccably dressed. (9)

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Dressed in ermine, the Lords gathered for the State Opening. (10)

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Opening ceremonies will be Monday, averting any conflict with weekend activities. (11)

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Activities for the College World Series have been going on here daily. (12)


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Daily beatings were a widely accepted feature of school life until quite recently. (13)

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Recently an infestation of Japanese beetles has been decimating my grapes, time for insecticide. (14)


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Insecticide can be a two-edged sword, as the DDT experience decades ago illustrates so poignantly. (15)

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Poignantly reminiscent of happier times, hundreds of old magazines, posters and sepia photographs filled the room. (16)

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Room service in some hotels is of poor quality, but generally you get what you pay for. (17)

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"For Liberty, for Fraternity, for Equality", this motto delineates the ideals and the goals of the French Revolution. (18)


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Revolution has often occurred in the history of France, which has been ruled by kings, emperors and republican presidents. (19)

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Presidents dying on the Fourth of July: there have been three: Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe;Coolidge was born on same. (20)


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Same difference. (2)


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Difference is good. (3)

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Good July Fourth, everyone! (4)

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Everyone likes holidays, don't they? (5)

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They should use summers filling potholes (6).

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Potholes in roads are a problem here. (7)

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Here I stand; I can do no other. (8)

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Other famous quotations may follow, should the opportunity arise. (9)

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"Arise, shine, for thy light has come!" Handel quoted Isaiah. (10)

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Isaiah had a son named Mahershalahashbash,and the Bible's longest word.(11)


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Word classes, sometimes called 'parts of speech', include nouns, verbs and adjectives. (12)

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Adjectives are overused by novelists who do not appreciate that 'less is more'. (13)

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More and more, these days, news anchors are guilty of using really improper grammar(14).


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Grammar runs afoul of the "We don' need no steenkin' roolz" principle, I heared tell. (15)

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"Tell me, Holmes", asked Watson, "how on earth did you deduce that Mr Llewellyn is Welsh?" (16)

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Welsh is central to the national identity of Wales, and is still spoken by many people there. (17)

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There are many Native American nations for whom their indigenous language is also central to their tribal identity (18)


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Identity is a confusing property in physics, where the same particle can seemingly be in two places at once. (19)

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