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Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Roots

Medium · 11×11 · 14 words
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  1. 1. Deep cultural ties Dolly never abandoned despite global stardom
  2. 4. Guiding spiritual compass that sustained the Parton family through hard winters
  3. 7. Hewn timber used to build the two-room home in Locust Ridge
  4. 8. Southern state whose mountain greenery nurtured Dolly's earliest melodies
  5. 11. Garment stitched from multi-colored scraps that inspired an iconic ballad
  6. 12. ___ Forge, the foothills town that became home to Dollywood
  7. 13. Descriptive of Dolly's childhood isolation far from bustling cities

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  1. 1. Colorful textile scraps transformed into a schoolgirl's prized treasure
  2. 2. Dolly had eleven of them, as the fourth of twelve Parton children
  3. 3. Bowed instrument whose lively reels echoed at local hoedowns
  4. 5. Sacred song Dolly first belted out in her grandfather's rural church
  5. 6. Driving mountain sound marked by rapid picking and high lonesome tones
  6. 9. County in East Tennessee where young Dolly was born and raised
  7. 10. Twangy five-stringed instrument heard picking across mountain front porches

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Curtis slwia

Medium · 11×11 · 15 words
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  1. 2. Role Sliwa assumed behind the microphone moderating daily broadcast debates
  2. 5. Former Brooklyn Borough President who defeated Sliwa in the 2021 mayoral contest
  3. 6. Distinctive French-style soft cap that became the uniform trademark of the Guardian Angels
  4. 7. Political style appealing directly to ordinary working folks against bureaucratic elites
  5. 11. Cohesive faction or crew joined together for a shared patrol mission
  6. 13. Neighborhood vigilance organization formed to keep an eye on community blocks

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  1. 1. To protect or watch over vulnerable travelers against imminent threats
  2. 3. Paved urban avenue where neighborhood watches maintain an active presence
  3. 4. Medium of popular WABC talk programs co-hosted by Sliwa for decades
  4. 6. Official voting paper or touchscreen mechanism used to elect leaders
  5. 7. Routine surveillance beat carried out by citizen watchdogs on local streets
  6. 8. Official law enforcement agency that initially clashed with Sliwa's street volunteers
  7. 9. Underground transit network where the original Magnificent Thirteen patrolled platforms
  8. 10. Signature color worn atop the head by Sliwa and his volunteer safety patrol
  9. 12. Five-borough metropolis where Sliwa founded his anti-crime patrol group in 1979

Ancient Civilizations

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  1. 1. A tool or weapon with a sharp metal head
  2. 3. A large human settlement with complex social structures

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  1. 1. A curved structure that supports weight over an opening
  2. 2. A traditional story about gods or heroes

Greek Mythology

Hard · 15×15 · 24 words
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  1. 1. Stone-cold wept-out mother of fourteen
  2. 3. Absolute void prior to universal order
  3. 5. Enchantress whose golden fleece quest ended in family tragedy
  4. 7. Oblivious flow in the underworld
  5. 8. Three-part chiming monstrosity with goat, lion, and snake anatomy
  6. 12. Criticize harshly in a goat's clothing?
  7. 14. Monster-slayer whose hubris led to a crippling fall from a winged mount
  8. 15. Ocular diaphragm carrying messages on an arc
  9. 16. Hear a scrambled queen on high
  10. 17. Sore rearrangement causing romantic flutter
  11. 19. Cheater of death condemned to endless summit rolling
  12. 20. She repeats what she is told, lingering in caves
  13. 21. Horse-sense mentor who taught heroes medicine and archery
  14. 22. Firm boundary crossed by dead twigs?

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  1. 1. Lion with an arrow-proof pelt choked in its own cave
  2. 2. Capital judge of golden fruit who abducted a queen
  3. 4. Book of maps bearing the heavens on his shoulders
  4. 6. Invulnerable warrior undone by a tendon vulnerability
  5. 9. Three-headed bouncer at the gates of hell
  6. 10. Pomegranate seeds sealed her seasonal subterranean exile
  7. 11. Cast-off smith god who crafted golden automatons at the forge
  8. 12. Forethinking rebel whose liver was on a raptor's daily menu
  9. 13. Ram's upset follower of bloody conflict
  10. 18. Serpent offering a two-for-one deal upon decapitation

Greek Mythology

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  1. 2. Giant predecessor dethroned in an epochal clash
  2. 6. Feathered with peacocks and crowned with jealous wrath
  3. 7. Aviator whose wax wings melted when ambition flew too hot
  4. 9. Three heads that prefer honey cakes over postmen
  5. 10. Watchman who never needed to close all his lids at once
  6. 11. Spiteful goddess whose golden apple fruit sparked the Trojan War
  7. 13. Theban riddle-maker who fell when human legs were counted

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  1. 1. She repeats whatever you say after wasting away to mere sound
  2. 3. Pool gazer who found true love staring back at him
  3. 4. Firstborn Olympian who tended the hearth instead of seeking drama
  4. 5. Forethinking rebel whose liver paid a daily tax to an eagle
  5. 8. Equine flyer born from a Gorgon's severed neck
  6. 12. Night's personification concealing an onyx heart

Greek Mythology

Hard · 15×15 · 25 words
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  1. 3. Island administrator who outsourced his maze management
  2. 4. Boastful matriarch who wept herself into solid limestone
  3. 7. The void that kicked off the whole cosmic inventory
  4. 8. Giver of grain whose Greek counterpart was Demeter
  5. 9. Noted brawler caught in an embarrassing gold net
  6. 10. Dark figure who even made the lightning-hurler tread lightly
  7. 12. Pomegranate seeds bound her to a split-custody arrangement
  8. 14. Chattered excessively until she had no original speech left
  9. 15. A lot of peacock feathers ruffled by divine infidelity
  10. 16. Drink here and you won't remember the bill
  11. 17. Multiheaded swamp monster that made severing problems twice as hard
  12. 18. Consumed, or the ruinous impulse behind reckless hubris
  13. 19. Titaness paired with the thunderer at ancient Dodona
  14. 20. Sky father who was cut down to size by a flint sickle
  15. 21. Appraiser who picked vanity over wisdom and ruined his hometown

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  1. 1. Early riser who harbored a penchant for handsome mortals
  2. 2. Equine marvel that sprang forth from a decapitated neck
  3. 3. Colchian chemist whose culinary experiments turned deadly
  4. 5. Unflattering review from a rustic piper?
  5. 6. Hero who rode high until an equine gadfly checked his ascent
  6. 7. Net-wielding queen who turned royal bath time into an assassination
  7. 9. Headache-inducing daughter who preferred olives to horses
  8. 11. Fire thief whose liver paid the daily installment plan
  9. 13. Sub-basement so deep an anvil takes nine days to hit bottom
  10. 16. She was utterly taken aback by an aggressive waterbird

ancestral puebloan

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  1. 2. Flat-topped tableland prominent across the Four Corners region
  2. 3. Stout southwestern pine yielding oil-rich edible seeds in autumn
  3. 5. Sealed stone room dedicated to storing harvested maize against drought
  4. 6. Shallow geological bowl where runoff pools naturally
  5. 7. Rock engraving created by pecking off dark desert varnish layers
  6. 8. Descendants in northeastern Arizona continuing dry-farming traditions
  7. 11. Diagnostic piece of antique pottery found during an archaeological dig
  8. 14. Pueblo people celebrated for intricate silverwork and lapidary art
  9. 16. Preserved by sun-curing to survive lean desert winter months
  10. 17. Open central courtyard where communal dances and trading occurred
  11. 18. Beehive-shaped outdoor hearth introduced later for baking bread
  12. 19. Pertaining to astronomical alignments marking solstices and equinoxes

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  1. 1. Sprawling D-shaped Chacoan Great House with over six hundred rooms
  2. 2. Sacred indigenous ear nurtured through dry desert farming
  3. 4. Steep-sided desert gorge sheltering perennial springs and settlements
  4. 6. Roof timber whose annual rings expose exact construction dates
  5. 7. Painted pigment image decorating protected sandstone shelter ceilings
  6. 9. Small rock wall built across a wash to slow runoff and catch fertile silt
  7. 10. Pointy desert succulent processed to weave tough sandals and twine
  8. 11. Early semi-subterranean dwelling roofed over with timbers and earth
  9. 12. Straight prehistoric avenues linking outlying settlements to regional centers
  10. 13. Footwear woven from durable wild yucca cords to cross hot slickrock
  11. 15. Underground chamber hosting sacred ceremonial gatherings

mythologie

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  1. 1. The river that was central to ancient Egyptian life and mythology.
  2. 4. The chief god in Norse mythology known for his wisdom.

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  1. 2. The Greek goddess of the rainbow.
  2. 3. The trickster god of Norse mythology.

Romer

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  1. 1. Paved path built for travel across the empire
  2. 4. The capital city of the empire
  3. 5. Rules established to govern the people

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  1. 2. Large stadium for public spectacles
  2. 3. Curved structure used in Roman construction

South America

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  1. 1. Brilliantly colored canopy parrot with a curved bill
  2. 2. Pacific nation famed for mysterious Nazca lines
  3. 4. Nocturnal herbivore with a short, flexible proboscis
  4. 6. Longest continental mountain range on Earth
  5. 9. Capital city set in a valley beneath Mount Avila
  6. 11. Empire that built roads across the Andean peaks
  7. 12. Capital city overlooking the Pacific Ocean
  8. 13. Major legume exported in vast quantities from the Cerrado

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  1. 1. Herbal infusion traditionally shared through a metal bombilla
  2. 2. World's largest tropical wetland ecosystem
  3. 3. Flightless bird roaming the open Pampas
  4. 5. Windswept southern territory of glaciers, steppes, and fjords
  5. 7. Apex spotted feline of the Pantanal and dense jungle
  6. 8. Vast fertile lowlands where cattle graze
  7. 10. Shrub whose leaves are chewed at high altitudes to ward off fatigue
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