It's time for more Jeopardy Crossword, you may notice some shaded squares, after the puzzle is done read the shaded squares from top to bottom, then read my comment afterwards to understand what it spells.
CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
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Orizzontali
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CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
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THE WORLD ALMANAC: In 1950 the U.S. manufactured more than 75% of the world's these; in 2018, 12%.
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ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES: A football is placed on it in preparation for the kickoff.
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FRENCH: A sequence of 3 vowels creates this common French word, a homophone of a different vowel altogether.
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SALT & PEPPER: Coal soot during the Industrial Revolution caused the peppered species of this insect to quickly evolve to have darker wings.
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SAFETY FEATURES: Sodium azide reacts with potassium nitrate to (quickly!) produce nitrogen gas in this safety feature.
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ONLINE WORDS: You can get the New York Times or blogs in this type of XML format that's known as "really simple".
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MATH HYSTERIA: XVI minus IX; respond with the Roman numeral, please.
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CABLE CHANNELS: Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" and "Rescue Me".
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2-LETTER WORDS: Title of the Peter Gabriel album with the hits "Big Time" and "Sledgehammer".
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STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH: A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work.
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MEDICAL SCHOOL: Washington University School of Medicine is the birthplace of this scanner similar to a CAT scanner. It was first to reveal brain function.
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3-LETTER WORDS: Anonymous John's last name.
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TEASING: Composer Leonard Bernstein said the universal teasing song uses the notes G-E, G-E and this repeated syllable.
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BROADCASTING HISTORY: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms.
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WORD ORIGINS: Meaning to burn with hot liquid or steam, this word comes from calidus, Latin for "warm".
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IT HAPPENED IN 2023: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina.
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GEOLOGY: Pot, meet this deep circular hole scoured beneath a river or glacier.
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FRUIT: This hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit comes in 2 main varieties: Orlando and Minneola.
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MOVIE NAMES: Madonna in the title role: "Desperately Seeking ____".
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A help to the harassed, on Verizon *57 is this feature that tells you where your latest incoming call came from.
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CONSTELLATIONS: The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs.
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WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL: Yes, this Indian lad had to kill those endangered sea turtles, but he was shipwrecked, with a tiger in the boat
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STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020: In a collaboration with the late Juice Wrld, this Detroit man rapped, "I can swallow a bottle of alcohol & I'll feel like Godzilla".
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IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME: In 2019 this shipping company ended its U.S. air and ground delivery contracts with Amazon.
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WOODWORKING: If the joint called mortis and this is too deep, you get movement; too short, there's not enough gluing surface.
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THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field".
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SIGNS & SYMBOLS: From the Latin for "key" comes this symbol on a musical staff.
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NICKNAMES: Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State".
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STATE OF THE STATE FOREST: Tillamook State Forest
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ALONG CAME JONES: Unusual first name of the Jones who founded the English Classical School of Architecture.
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MEDICAL TERMS: Cerumen is the medical name for this substance.
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ELECTRICITY: George Westinghouse promoted this type of current that we use today.
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36 TIMES THE FUN: As a young man, this 36th president taught debate and public speaking at Sam Houston High School.
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GOLDEN GUYS: In 1948 Peter Goldmark and his team at CBS introduced this type of record.
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OBSCURE WORDS: This word, meaning "dizzy or in a state of confusion," can also describe the sensation of being lightheaded or off-balance, often as if one's head is spinning.
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SUFFIXES: This suffix denotes a distinctive doctrine, system, or theory, often used to categorize ideologies or beliefs.
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY: Much of Germanic mythology comes from old texts known as the "poetic" and "prose" these.
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5-LETTER WORDS: Islamic legal opinion or directive.
Verticali
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ANIMAL SOUNDS: From Latin, it means "for each".
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A RELIGIOUS SERVICE: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation
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PRIME NUMBERS: Alex Lifeson co-wrote this Canadian trio's "Prime Mover".
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SOUNDS LIKE TENNIS: Ambrose Bierce defined it as "A temporary insanity curable by marriage".
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CHIPS: This Mexican pepper is actually a smoked jalapeno which can be dried or canned in an adobo sauce.
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TOM SAWYER: Form of transport commandeered by Tom when he ran away from home with Huck and Joe.
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BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS: This numerically named show about the wives of Henry VIII debuted at no. 1 on Billboard's cast album chart.
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2-LETTER ABBREV.: Sadly, what Keats and Chopin died of.
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ANAGRAMS: If an artist doesn't own this kind of support, he should lease one.
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WORDS IN STATES: Me, myself and I in Eugene's state.
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SUPER TOUGH ANAGRAMS: It is a tropical shrub.
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LIFE OF PI: In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion.
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2-LETTER WORDS: Familial word before "Bell" in an alternate name for AT&T.
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AN ENCOURAGING VERB: The Latin tollere, "to raise", gives us this verb meaning to praise highly.
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ELECTRICITY: It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction.
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COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE: "Little strokes fell great...".
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UNREAL ESTATE: Though filmed on and around Martha's Vineyard, "Jaws" took place on and near this fictional New York island.
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING: To consume, or a live video signal.
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ETYMOLOGY: The kids of 15th century B.C. Mesopotamia might have liked Samassamu Street; samassamu gave us this word.
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TEXTILES: Dungaree is a sturdy type of this cotton cloth used to make dungarees.
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IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD: Jurassic National Monument, southeast of Provo in this state, is the site of a noted dinosaur quarry, home to over 12,000 fossils.
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ABBREV.: In lowercase a metric unit of wt.; in uppercase it stands for "Knight of the Order of the Garter".
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DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE!: In 1952 the population of this double-talk Hawaiian goose was about 30 but today it thrives on Kauai.
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DAYS: When founded by Benjamin Day in 1833, the New York Sun was sold daily for this much per issue.
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HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES: Lunar New Year is called Chunjie in Chinese and this three-letter name in Vietnamese.
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AT THE ANCIENT ROMAN CINEPLEX: 1997: Wesley Snipes, and Ronny Cox as the President, in "Murder at ____".
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SPANISH CLASS: Help! My pluma is out of tinta, this.
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WHAT'S THAT SONG?: Meghan Trainor's title advice for how to respond to a boy who "ain't giving up"? This word.
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2-LETTER WORDS: In the "Little House" books, it's what Laura Ingalls calls her father.
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POISON: The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little.
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MISSING MOVIE NAMES: A post-apocalyptic tale starring Denzel: "The Book of ____".
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SCIENTISTS: Astronomer Michael Brown discovered the object classified as UB313 in 2003 and named it for this TV princess.
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LOW TECH: It originally had a stone or wood blade, but "The Man With" one in the Markham poem probably used metal.
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BOTANY: The benjamina species of this genus is the one most commonly grown as a house plant.
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4-LETTER WORDS: Poet James Lowell asked, "And what is so" this "as a day in June?".
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KINGS: Killed in battle in 1031, this king of Norway was made a saint in 1164.
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DISEASES: In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis and started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease.
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3-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS: Your car's tachometer measures them.
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POTPOURRI: The June 1989 Life cover story was an uplifting piece on the 100th anniversary of this apparel.
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BEJEWELED: When dense, black lignite coal takes on a high polish and is used for jewelry, it's called by this high-flying name.
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SPACE EXPLORATION: This American aerospace manufacturer, founded in 2006, is known for its work in launching satellites and crewed missions.
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TECHNOLOGY: An erasable form of this audio product will allow a PC to store 275,000 pages of print.
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MAGAZINES COME & GO: In 2019 this magazine about pop culture kept its name but went monthly.