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Mad Scientist Lab

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  1. 4. Helical wire setup inspired by Nikola's crackling inventions
  2. 5. Simmering mixture concocted from strange ingredients
  3. 7. Lip-spouted glassware common on chemistry benches

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  1. 1. Venomous substance brewing in a shadowy vat
  2. 2. Genetic duplicate grown in an artificial chamber
  3. 3. Sudden jolt of high-voltage electricity
  4. 6. Sluggish, radioactive seepage on the dungeon floor

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Sabrina Carpenter Pop Star Basics

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  1. 4. Caffeinated beverage referenced in Sabrina's smash hit Espresso
  2. 7. Artist who performs vocal music professionally
  3. 10. Hit track famous for Sabrina's customized rhyming outros on tour
  4. 11. Handheld device used on stage to amplify a singer's voice
  5. 13. Mainstream music genre associated with catchy melodies and widespread appeal
  6. 14. Song that achieves massive commercial success and radio play
  7. 15. Female performer who portrays characters in television and film

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  1. 1. Traveling series of live musical performances across multiple cities
  2. 2. Sabrina Carpenter track named after a 2007 comedy movie
  3. 3. Written words of a musical piece
  4. 5. Enthusiastic supporter and admirer of a celebrity
  5. 6. Sabrina Carpenter's smash 2024 hit single themed around caffeine
  6. 8. Live musical performance presented before an audience
  7. 9. Sabrina Carpenter song with lyrics about feeling light after a breakup
  8. 11. First name of Sabrina Carpenter's character on Girl Meets World
  9. 12. Celebrity performer in the entertainment industry

The Beatles Recording History: Abbey Road and George Martin

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  1. 3. Ravi Shankar's instrument, which George played on Norwegian Wood in Studio Two
  2. 5. Double-reed instrument George Martin formally studied at Guildhall before applying symphonic polish to rock
  3. 7. Tuxedoed forty-piece collective paid to improvise an apocalyptic sonic avalanche on A Day in the Life
  4. 8. Unnatural orientation chosen for George's guitar track on I'm Only Sleeping to produce floating swells
  5. 11. EMI label, home of George Martin's Peter Sellers comedy records, that signed the Beatles in 1962
  6. 12. Pencil-and-staff manuscript Martin drafted for eight skeptical classical string players on Eleanor Rigby
  7. 13. Ken's phantom doubler that excused Lennon from matching his own voice bar for bar

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  1. 1. Patch-cord synthesizer George Harrison overdubbed on Because in 1969
  2. 2. Single-channel mix the Beatles labored over for Sgt. Pepper, leaving stereo to Martin's team
  3. 4. Oxide-coated ribbon cut into loops and held taut on pencils for Tomorrow Never Knows
  4. 6. Frequency oscillator hack used to bring two disparate recordings into harmonic alignment
  5. 8. Alan Civil's French horn part on For No One highlighted this orchestral section Martin drafted
  6. 9. Low string instrument Martin scored with Bernard Herrmann-inspired staccato slashes for Father McKenzie
  7. 10. Drafty London platform where five floors of multicore cable met a freezing January swansong

Warhammer 40K Deep Lore: Primarchs and the Horus Heresy

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  1. 6. Author of the Lectitio Divinitatus who turned traitor after his city Monarchia was razed
  2. 7. Apex savanna hunter, or El'Jonson, primarch of the Dark Angels
  3. 8. Duke of Milan in fiction, or the Thousand Sons' pyramid-studded homeworld burned in the Heresy
  4. 11. Shadowy committee of xenos who calculated that humanity's extinction was the only path to peace
  5. 12. Chocolate confection, Roman god, or the Mechanicum's rust-red cradle fractured by schism
  6. 13. Fenrisian primarch who broke the cyclops Magnus's back over his knee
  7. 14. Bend out of shape, or navigate the churning psychic tides of the Immaterium

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  1. 1. Canine predator; Horus's legionaries were Luna ones before taking his name
  2. 2. Iron-willed siegemaster destined to dig brutal trenches while his golden rival built palaces
  3. 3. Genghis's title, also borne by the White Scars primarch who held back before siding with his father
  4. 4. Utter disorder, or the undivided four-headed nightmare lurking beyond the veil
  5. 5. Perfectionist artisan seduced by a silver blade into becoming a serpentine daemon prince
  6. 9. Powered by daylight, or the grueling multi-sphere war fought along the road to Earth
  7. 10. Metal worn 'within' and 'without', per the bitter siege legion's motto
  8. 11. Cat's scratcher, or the paired lightning-weapon prized by Konrad and Corax

Sabrina Carpenter Deep Cuts and Early Albums

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  1. 1. Inquiring 2017 standalone single about lovers who are total opposites
  2. 7. You can't assign this guilt to an inexperienced girl for attempting romance in 2014
  3. 8. Green and tender; word in two Eyes Wide Open song titles
  4. 9. Sophomore project whose backward four-letter opening spells romance
  5. 10. EVOLution cut that sounds astronomical, but actually begs for emotional breathing room
  6. 12. European capital that titles a 2018 single from Singular: Act I
  7. 14. Vaporous half of her 2016 breakup single paired with Fire
  8. 15. Confess or recount; Singular Act II orders you to do this to 'Em

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  1. 2. ___ Tight, Singular: Act I track featuring Uhmeer
  2. 3. Rebel Hart portrayed on screen by Sabrina, whose Disney tenure gave birth to her early records
  3. 4. Correct temporal state on Eyes Wide Open, living in the immediate present
  4. 5. Eyes Wide Open friendship song partly inspired by Rowan Blanchard
  5. 6. Intentionality claimed by accident on EVOLution's lead single
  6. 9. Calming breath that titles her anxiety ballad on Singular: Act II
  7. 11. Singular Act II track orders you to take off all of this aloof composure
  8. 13. Singular Act II furniture piece where spinning thoughts prevent sleep

Dolly Parton Songwriting and Country Music History

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  1. 1. Island navigator who shared chart currents with Kenny and Dolly in 1983
  2. 3. Currency dressed in black that walked the straight and narrow
  3. 6. Kentucky turf, or the high lonesome genre of Dolly's Grammy-winning 1999 album
  4. 8. Ancient mountain region whose front-porch ballads helped birth American roots music
  5. 11. Title rival of a frantic plea, inspired by a red-headed bank teller who flirted with Dolly's husband
  6. 12. Stage that turned an operatic snub into radio royalty since 1925
  7. 13. Royal figure who ruled not with an iron sceptre, but with butterfly wings and a wig

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  1. 2. Bottom-dwelling swimmer that sets the country rhythm section upright
  2. 4. Industrial alloy with pedals and slides that provides the genre's tears
  3. 5. Music Row's home ground, where the truth supposedly needs only three chords
  4. 7. Skein of yarn, or the drifting cowboy who proved you could be lovesick and rowdy
  5. 9. Station luggage hauler, or the rhinestone-clad TV partner Dolly walked away from with a song
  6. 10. Two-voice recording, like Dolly and Kenny's 1983 chart-topper

The Beatles Solo Careers

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  1. 3. Kind of musical 'Fantasy' Lennon and Ono shared in late 1980
  2. 4. Untamed descriptor for the 1971 debut effort from Wings
  3. 5. Harrison soared back onto the charts in 1987 with one numbered Nine
  4. 6. Ringo's nostalgic 1973 US number one, co-written with George
  5. 8. Word preceding 'on the Run' for Paul's biggest post-Beatles triumph
  6. 10. Newsboy's cry punned on in Harrison's 1975 album title ___ Texture
  7. 13. 1975 funky number-one single Lennon co-wrote with David Bowie

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  1. 1. Live charity spectacle staged at Madison Square Garden by George in 1971
  2. 2. Hyphenless label for the rotating ensemble backing Ringo on tour since 1989
  3. 6. Wind instruments named in McCartney's 1983 follow-up to 'Tug of War'
  4. 7. Five-letter wish John begged listeners to give a chance in 1969
  5. 9. Harrison's equestrian-themed boutique label, ___ Horse Records
  6. 11. Pulling contest paired with 'of War' on McCartney's 1982 album
  7. 12. Paul and Linda's pastoral 1971 farm-themed LP

Games Workshop and Warhammer 40K History

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  1. 3. Forge World casting material known for crisp details and toxic dust
  2. 6. Massive scale 1980s tabletop spin-off focused on miniature Titan warfare
  3. 9. East Midlands English city that serves as the global home of Warhammer World
  4. 11. Young, high-tech xenos empire preaching unity for the Greater Good
  5. 12. Acrylic hobby liquid applied in two thin coats, per classic advice
  6. 13. Green-skinned brute powered by collective belief and scrap technology
  7. 14. Heavy metal element phased out of Games Workshop miniature production in 1997

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  1. 1. Color of the unpainted plastic pile of shame awaiting brushes
  2. 2. Plastic platform under a model that expanded from 25mm to 32mm
  3. 4. Classic space-dwarf miner faction, sidelined for decades before returning as the Leagues of Votann
  4. 5. Numbered cubes tossed in fistfuls during the shooting phase
  5. 7. Material whose multipart kits gradually replaced pewter and white metal
  6. 8. Miniatures brand Games Workshop co-founded with Bryan Ansell in the late 1970s
  7. 9. Soulless metallic xenos race previewed as free promotional models in 1998
  8. 10. Towering, god-machine war engine introduced via early Epic releases

Sabrina Carpenter Fan Trivia

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  1. 1. Irish actor Keoghan who co-starred in the Please Please Please music video
  2. 3. First name of Riley Matthews' rebellious best friend portrayed by Sabrina
  3. 4. Broad musical genre she re-energized with witty, 1960s-tinged hooks
  4. 7. Groovy vintage genre heavily influencing basslines on Espresso and Feather
  5. 8. Caffeinated pop smash that served as the defining anthem of summer 2024
  6. 12. ___ Me, Sabrina's 2018 single from Singular: Act I
  7. 14. Opening section of a song or concert
  8. 15. Surname shared by Sabrina's breakout Disney Channel character

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  1. 1. Hair color she name-checked in a pointed January 2021 single
  2. 2. Facial features in the title of her 2015 debut studio album Wide Open
  3. 5. Custom rhyming song endings she tailored to each city for Nonsense on tour
  4. 6. Emotion following Almost on her 2018 dance track
  5. 7. Entertainment company whose Girl Meets World made her a teen star
  6. 9. Sugary adjective paired with Short in her chart-topping 2024 album
  7. 10. Wednesday star Jenna who duels Sabrina in the campy Taste video
  8. 11. January 2021 single widely read as a response to online rumors
  9. 13. Lead adjective in her upbeat 2022 single paired with Times

Dolly Parton Awards and Honors

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  1. 1. First RIAA sales certification Dolly cracked with her breakthrough pop album in 1977
  2. 2. Symbolic royal headpiece metaphorically bestowed on Dolly as the Queen of Country
  3. 4. Golden statuette Dolly was twice nominated for in the Best Original Song category
  4. 6. Trio, with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, was up for the 1988 Grammy for ___ of the Year
  5. 9. Title Dolly held after entering the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001
  6. 11. Country music body that bestowed its prestigious Pioneer Award upon Dolly
  7. 12. National distinction of Arts awarded to Dolly in 2005
  8. 13. Television trophy Dolly earned as a producer of the Netflix musical film Christmas on the Square

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  1. 1. Golden sphere trophy for which Dolly scored both acting and songwriting nods
  2. 2. Association that named Dolly its Entertainer of the Year in 1978
  3. 3. Status earned more than fifty times across the Grammy Awards alone
  4. 5. Philanthropic medal awarded in 2022 acknowledging Dolly's Imagination Library initiative
  5. 7. Type of Achievement Grammy Dolly accepted in 2011 to celebrate her enduring legacy
  6. 8. Cleveland music museum that enshrined Dolly in 2022 despite her initial humble hesitation
  7. 10. Hall category into which Dolly was inducted by the Country Music Association in 1999
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