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<b><u>adrenal</u></b> glands [or <b><u>suprarenal</u></b> glands; or <b><u>adrenal</u></b> medulla; or <b><u>adrenal </u></b>cortex]
<b><u>reform</u></b> [or <b><u>reform</u></b>a; accept <em>La <b><u>Reform</u></b>a</em>; accept <b><u>Reform</u></b> War or the War of <b><u>Reform</u></b>; accept Guerra de <b><u>Reform</u></b>a; accept Tower of the <b><u>Reform</u></b>er; accept Torre del <b><u>Reform</u></b>ador]
Vladimir <b><u>Arnold</u></b> [accept <b><u>Arnold</u></b> tongues]
James <b><u>Merrill</b></u> [or James Ingram <b><u>Merrill</b></u>] (The first poem is “Broken at Home.”)
<b><u><em>Untitled Film Stills</em></u></b> [accept <b><u><em>Untitled Film Still</u></b> #21</em> or <b><u><em>Untitled Film Still</u></b> #38</em> or <b><u><em>Untitled Film Still</u></b> #49 </em>or <b><u><em>Untitled Film Still</u></b> #96</em>; prompt on <u><em>Untitled</em></u>]
Jimi <b><u>Hendrix</u></b> [or James Marshall <b><u>Hendrix</u></b>; or Johnny Allen <b><u>Hendrix</u></b>]
<b><u>autopilot</u></b>s [accept <b><u>flight controller</u></b>s or <b><u>flight control</u></b> software; accept <b><u>flight management</u></b>; accept <b><u>UAV controller</u></b>s; accept <b><u>fly</u></b>ing <b><u>aircraft</u></b>, <b><u>plane</u></b>s, <b><u>UAV</u></b>s, <b><u>drone</u></b>s, or <b><u>autonomous</u></b> vehicles; accept <b><u>pilot</u></b>ing <b><u>aircraft</u></b>, <b><u>plane</u></b>s, <b><u>UAV</u></b>s, <b><u>drone</u></b>s, or <b><u>autonomous</u></b> vehicles; prompt on <u>ArduPilot</u>; prompt on <u>fly</u>ing or <u>pilot</u>ing; prompt on <u>actuation</u> by asking “for what purpose?”]
<b><u>Hypatia</u></b> of Alexandria
<b><u>1967</b></u> [prompt on ’<u>67</u>] (Newark Mayor Hugh Addonzio was set to appoint white councilman James Callaghan, who did not possess a post-secondary education, over City Budget Director Wilbur Parker, the first Black public accountant in New Jersey. Taxi driver John Smith was arrested near the Hayes Homes in Newark.)
magnetic <b><u>reluctance</u></b> [accept switched <b><u>reluctance</u></b> motors; prompt on <u>magnetic resistance</u>; prompt on <u><em>F</em></u>; reject “electrical resistance” or “resistance”; reject “electric reluctance”]
<b><u>nonlinear</u></b> [accept <b><u>nonlinear</u></b>ity or <b><u>nonlinear</u></b> Schrödinger equation]
<b><u>figure</u></b>s of speech [or rhetorical <b><u>figure</u></b>s; or <b><u>figure</u></b>s of grammar; accept <b><u>trope</u></b>s or <b><u>scheme</u></b>s; prompt on rhetorical or literary <u>device</u>s, <u>technique</u>s, or <u>term</u>s] (Peacham wrote <em>The Garden of Eloquence</em>.)
James <b><u>Bond</u></b> theme [or the original James <b><u>Bond</u></b> theme from <em>Dr. No</em>]
<b><u><em>Good-Bye to All That</em></u></b> (by Robert Graves. The latter novel is <em>I, Claudius</em>.)
<b><u>beach</u></b> [accept <em>The Pungapeople of Ninety-Mile <b><u>Beach</em></u></b>;<em> </em>accept <em>On the <b><u>Beach</em></u></b>; reject synonyms]
<b><u>router</u></b>s [or <b><u>routing</u></b>; accept <b><u>gateway</u></b>s; accept <b><u>switch</u></b>es]
<b><u><em>Nathan the Wise</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Nathan der Weise</em></u></b>]
<b><u>Java</b></u> [or <b><u>Jawa</b></u>; accept <b><u>Java</b></u> Man; accept <em>The Religion of <b><u>Java</b></u></em>] (Ann Dunham was Barack Obama’s mother.)
<b><u>mental hospital</u></b>s [or <b><u>psych</u></b>iatric <b><u>hospital</u></b>s; accept mental <b><u>asylum</u></b>s or insane <b><u>asylum</u></b>s; accept <b><u>mental institution</u></b>s or <b><u>psych</u></b>iatric institutions; accept <b><u><em>Funnyhouse</em></u></b> <em>of a Negro</em>; prompt on <u>hospital</u>s, <u>institution</u>s, or <u>house</u>s]
<b><u>orphan</u></b>s [or <b><u>child</u></b>ren or synonyms like <b><u>kid</u></b>s or <b><u>youth</u></b>; accept <b><u>juvenile</u></b> delinquents; prompt on <u>beggar</u>s; prompt on <u>homeless</u> or <u>unhoused</u> people]
Albert <b><u>Camus</b></u> (The stories in the first two lines are “Jonas or the Artist at Work” and “The Renegade,” respectively.)
<b><u>von Willebrand</u></b> factor [or <b><u>vWF</u></b>]
<b><u>Ashoka</u></b> the Great [or <b><u>Aśoka</u></b>; or <b><u>Asoke</u></b>; accept Santi <b><u>Asoke</u></b>, <b><u>Ashoka</u></b>vriksha, <b><u>Ashoka</u></b> tree, <b><u>Ashoka</u></b> Vatika, or <b><u>Aśokā</u></b>vāṭikā]
<b><u>Utah</u></b> [accept <b><u>UT</u></b>] (The Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027.)
Gilbert <b><u>Adair</u></b> (The latter work is Georges Perec’s <em>A Void</em>.)
<b><u>Kongo</u></b> [or Ba<b><u>Kongo</u></b> or Bisi <b><u>Kongo</u></b> or Esi<b><u>Kongo</u></b> or Musi <b><u>Kongo</u></b> or Mu<b><u>kongo</u></b>; accept Ki<b><u>kongo</u></b>; accept <b><u>Congolese</u></b>; prompt on <u>Bantu</u>]
Kate <b><u>Chopin</u></b> [or Katherine <b><u>O’Flaherty</u></b>]
<b><u>Bast</u></b> [or <b><u>Bast</u></b>et, <b><u>Pasht</u></b>, <b><u>bst</u></b>, <b><u>B’sst</u></b>, <b><u>Baset</u></b>, or <b><u>Ubasti</u></b>; accept <b><u>Ailuros</u></b> until read; accept Bu<b><u>bastis</u></b>, Tell <b><u>Basta</u></b>, Pou<b><u>basti</u></b>, Per-<b><u>Bast</u></b>, Pi-<b><u>Beset</u></b>, <b><u>Bubastite</u></b> dynasty, <b><u>Bubastite</u></b> Portal, Petu<b><u>bastis</u></b>, or Peftjauawy<b><u>bast</u></b>; prompt on <u>Sekhmet</u>, <u>Sachmis</u>, <u>Saḫmat</u>, or <u>Sakhmi</u> by asking “which form of Sekhmet?”]
<b><u>Ligeia</u></b> (“lye-JEE-uh”)
<b><u>witch trial</u></b>s [accept <b><u>witch hunt</u></b>s; prompt on <u>trial</u>s]
<b><u>fatwa</u></b> [or <b><u><em>fatawa</em></u></b>]
Alan <b><u>Bennett</b></u>
<b><u>adipose</b></u> tissue [or <b><u>fat</b></u> tissue; accept brown <b><u>adipose</b></u> tissue or white <b><u>adipose</b></u> tissue or brown <b><u>fat</b></u> or white <b><u>fat</b></u>; accept <b><u>BAT</b></u> or <b><u>WAT</b></u>]
Claude <b><u>Lévi-Strauss</b></u>
<b><u>zouave</u></b>s [accept Fire <b><u>Zouave</u></b>s, First <b><u>Fire Zouave</u></b>s, or First Regiment <b><u>New York Zouave</u></b>s]
<b><u>fret</b></u>s
Bertolt <b><u>Brecht</u></b> (“breckt”) [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich <b><u>Brecht</u></b>] (Ruganda translated <em>The Good Woman of Setzuan</em>.)
“<b><u>Who killed Boy Staunton</u></b>?”
<b><u>simplicity</u></b> [or being <b><u>simple</u></b>; accept “A <b><u>Simple</u></b> Heart,” “Un coeur <b><u>simple</u></b>,” or “A <b><u>Simple</u></b> Soul”]
<b><u>Gawain</u></b> [accept <em>Sir <b><u>Gawain</u></b> and the Green Knight</em>; accept <em>The Weddynge of Syr <b><u>Gawen</u></b> and Dame Ragnelle</em>; accept <em>Sir <b><u>Gawain</u></b> and the Carle of Carlisle</em>]
Zora Neale <b><u>Hurston</u></b> AND Richard <b><u>Wright</b></u>
Jhumpa <b><u>Lahiri</u></b> [or Nilanjana Sudeshna <b><u>Lahiri</u></b>] (The story in the first sentence is “Only Goodness.” The story in the third and fourth sentences is “The Third and Final Continent.”)
<b><u>Barr bodies</u></b> [or <b><u>X-chromatin</u></b>; accept <b><u>inactivated X</u></b> chromosomes; prompt on <u>X</u> chromosomes]
<b><u>Berlin Zoo</u></b> [or <b><u>Berlin Zoo</u></b>logical Garden; or <b><u>Zoo</u></b>logischer Garten <b><u>Berlin</u></b>; prompt on <u>zoo</u> by asking “in what city?”]
<b><u>math</u></b>ematics [or <b><u>math</u></b>; accept <b><u>trigonometry</u></b>; accept <b><u>calculus</u></b> or <b><u>derivative</u></b>s; accept <b><u>infinity</u></b>; accept <b><u>set</u></b> theory or <b><u>number</u></b> theory; accept <b><u>math</u></b>ematical logic]
Mario <b><u>Benedetti</u></b> [or Mario <b><u>Benedetti</u></b> Farrugia]
<b><u>messenger</b></u>s [or <b><u>dūt</b></u>a; accept <em>The Cloud <b><u>Messenger</b></u></em> or <em>Megha<b><u>dūta</b></u></em>; accept <em>The Wind <b><u>Messenger</b></u></em> or <em>Pavana<b><u>dūt</b></u>a</em>; accept <em>The Swan</em> <b><u><em>Messenger</b></u></em> or <em>Haṃsa<b><u>dūt</b></u>a</em>; prompt on <u>cloud</u>s, <u>wind</u>s, or answers that describe a <u>weather</u> phenomenon until “cloud” is read by asking “what role does that character perform?”]
<b><u>adhesive</u></b>s [or <b><u>glue</u></b>s; accept super<b><u>glue</u></b>s or wood <b><u>glue</u></b>s or epoxy <b><u>glue</u></b>s; accept Scotch <b><u>tape</u></b>; prompt on thermo<u>plastic</u>s; prompt on <u>polymer</u>s]
<b><u>Hadestown</u></b> [prompt on <u>underworld</u>; reject “Hades”]
<b><u>Yazilikaya</b></u>
<b><u>burn</u></b> AND <b><u>drown</u></b> [or “I <b><u>burn</u></b> and <b><u>drown</u></b>”; or “I’m on <b><u>fire</u></b> and I <b><u>drown</u></b>”; or “je me <b><u>brûle</u></b> et me <b><u>noie</u></b>”]
Kathleen <b><u>Kenyon</u></b> [or Kathleen Mary <b><u>Kenyon</u></b>]
<b><u>gravitational wave</u></b>s [or <b><u>gravitational radiation</u></b>; reject “gravity waves”]
<b><u>Isis</u></b> [or <b><u>Isis</u></b> Pelagia; or <b><u>Isis</u></b> Pharia]
<b><u>Covenant</b></u>ers [or <b><u>Cùmhnantaich</b></u>; accept the National <b><u>Covenant</b></u>; accept The Solemn League and <b><u>Covenant</b></u>; accept <b><u>Covenant</b></u>ism; prompt on the <u>Kirk</u> Party; prompt on Scottish <u>Presbyterian</u>s until read; prompt on <u>Whiggamores</u> until read; prompt on <u>Engagers</u> until read; prompt on Scottish <u>royalist</u>s until “Robert” is read; reject “Scottish independence”; reject “Scottish Reformation”] (The first clue refers to the Battle of Dunbar.)
“<b><u>In the beginning was the Act</u></b>” [or “<b><u>In the beginning was the Deed</u></b>”; or “<b><u>Im anfang war die tat</u></b>”]
<b><u><em>Leaves of Grass</b></u></em>
Jun’ichiro <b><u>Tanizaki</u></b> [or <b><u>Tanizaki</u></b> Jun’ichiro]
<b><u>anoxic</u></b> [or <b><u>anoxia</u></b>; accept <b><u>anaerobic</u></b>; prompt on <u>euxinic</u> or <u>euxinia</u>; reject “hypoxic” or “hypoxia” or “dysoxic” or “dysoxia”]
<b><u>sparse</u></b> [or <b><u>sparsity</u></b>; accept <b><u>sparse</u></b> matrices or compressed <b><u>sparse</u></b> row format or <b><u>sparse</u></b> principal component analysis or <b><u>sparse</u></b> PCA; prompt on <u>SPCA</u>]
<b><u>Lunar New Year</u></b> [or <b><u>Spring Festival</u></b> or <b><u>Chūn Jié</u></b>; accept <b><u>Chinese New Year</u></b>; prompt on <u>New Year</u>]
Chauncey <b><u>Billups</u></b> [or Chauncey Ray <b><u>Billups</u></b>]
Murray <b><u>Gell-Mann</b></u> (He popularized V-A theory with Richard Feynman. His book is <em>The Quark and the Jaguar.</em>)
<b><u>Sekhmet</b></u> [prompt on <u>Hathor</u> until read]
<b><u>snake charm</u></b>ing [accept <b><u>snake charmer</u></b>s; accept <b><u>serpent charm</u></b>ing; prompt on <u>charm</u>ing by asking “of what?”; prompt on answers like playing <u>music</u> or playing a <u>flute</u> by asking “for what purpose?”] (The Sol Bloom song is also often called “The Streets of Cairo.”)
<em>The <b><u>Rediscovery of America</u></b>: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History</em>
Woodrow <b><u>Wilson</u></b> [or Thomas Woodrow <b><u>Wilson</u></b>]
<b><u>South Africa</b></u> [or Republic of <b><u>South Africa</b></u>, <b><u>RSA</b></u>, Republiek van <b><u>Suid-Afrika</b></u>, iRiphablikhi yo<b><u>Mzantsi-Afrika</b></u>, or iRiphabhuliki yase<b><u>Ningizimu Afrika</b></u>] (The fourth clue describes the Jazz Epistles.)
<b><u>herb</u></b>s [or <b><u>plant</u></b>s; or <b><u>flower</u></b>s; or <b><u>leaves</u></b>; or <b><u>parsley</u></b>; or <b><u>herbal</u></b> medicine; prompt on <u>medicine</u> by asking “made from what natural objects?”]
<b><u>Maldives</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Maldives</u></b>; accept <b><u>Dhivehi</u></b> Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa until “Dhivehi” is read]
<b><u>Lowell</b></u> [accept Robert <b><u>Lowell</b></u> or Robert Traill Spence <b><u>Lowell</b></u>; accept Amy <b><u>Lowell</b></u> or Amy Lawrence <b><u>Lowell</b></u>]
Charles W. <b><u>Mills</u></b> [or Charles Wade <b><u>Mills</u></b>]
<b><u>rational emotive</u></b> behavior therapy [or <b><u>rational</u></b> therapy; or <b><u>REBT</u></b>]
Satyendra Nath <b><u>Bose</u></b> [accept <b><u>Bose</u></b> gases or <b><u>boson</u></b>s]
<b><u>mirror</u></b>s [accept <em>Sky <b><u>Mirror</em></u></b>]
<b><u>Vyās</u></b>a (“V’YAH-suh”) [or Veda <b><u>Vyās</u></b>a; or Krishna <b><u>Dvaipayan</u></b>a] (That work is the <em>Mahābhārata</em>.)
<b><u>Montana</u></b> [or <b><u>MT</u></b>]
<b><u>Milan</b></u> [or <b><u>Milano</b></u>; accept Duchy of <b><u>Milan</b></u>] (Filippo Maria Visconti lost the Battle of Anghiari.)
<b><u>miracle</u></b>s [accept no <b><u>miracle</u></b>s argument]
Charlie <b><u>Parker</b></u> [or Charles <b><u>Parker</b></u> Jr.; accept <b><u>Bird</b></u> or Yard<b><u>bird</b></u> or <b><u>Bird</b></u>land]
<b><u>CPU</b></u>s [or <b><u>central processing unit</b></u>s; accept <b><u>CPU core</b></u>s; accept (computer) micro<b><u>processors</b></u>; prompt on <u>core</u>s by asking “cores of what devices?”; prompt on <u>SoC</u>s or <u>systems on a chip</u> or <u>system-on-chip</u>s by asking “what components of an SoC?”; prompt on <u>computer</u>s; reject “(integrated) circuits” or “ICs”; reject “chips”] (Reorder buffers are used to implement precise exceptions. VLIW and Tomasulo’s algorithm aim to maximize instruction-level parallelism.)
<b><u>criminal</u></b> law [accept <b><u>criminal</u></b> conversation; prompt on <u>criminology</u>; reject “tort law”]
Irish <b><u>potato famine</u></b> [or Great <b><u>Irish Famine</u></b>; or <b><u>Great Famine</u></b>; or <b><u>An Gorta Mor</u></b>; prompt on <u>Great Hunger</u>]
<b><u>maqāma</u></b> [or <b><u>maqāmāt</u></b>; reject “maqām”]
<b><u>nucleotide excision repair</u></b> [or <b><u>NER</u></b>; prompt on DNA <u>repair</u>; reject other DNA repair mechanisms, such as “base excision repair” or “mismatch repair”]
a <b><u>lion hunt</u></b> [accept <b><u>Lion Hunt</u></b> of Ashurbanipal; prompt on <u>hunt</u> by asking “of what animals?”]
<b><u>calypso</b></u> (The title of “Calypso King” is now “Calypso Monarch” due to the success of Calypso Rose, who won it in 1978.)
<b><u>bald</u></b>ness [or being <b><u>bald</u></b>; accept word forms such as <b><u>not having hair</u></b> or a <b><u>lack of hair</u></b>; accept a <b><u>shaved</u></b> head]
Saint <b><u>Germain</u></b> (“san jer-MAN”) [accept Saint-<b><u>Germain</u></b>-en-Laye, Edict of Saint <b><u>Germain</u></b>, Comte de Saint <b><u>Germain</u></b>, Count of Saint <b><u>Germain</u></b>, Abbey of Saint-<b><u>Germain</u></b>-des-Prés, <b><u>Germain</u></b> of Paris, Saint <b><u>Germanus</u></b>, or <b><u>Germain</u></b> d’Autun] (The librarian was Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples.)
Vera <b><u>Mukhina</u></b> (“MOO-kin-uh”)
<b><u>Lǐ</b></u> Bái [or <b><u>Li</b></u> Po or <b><u>Li</b></u> Bo or <b><u>Taibai</b></u>]
<b><u>blues</u></b> [accept “Sonny’s <b><u>Blues</u></b>”; accept “<b><u>Blues</u></b> Ain’t No Mockin Bird”; accept <em>Dirty Bird <b><u>Blues</em></u></b>; reject “blue”] (<em>Dirty Bird Blues</em> is by Clarence Major.)
<b><u>Japan</u></b> [or <b><u>Nippon</u></b>; or <b><u>Nihon</u></b>] (The philosophers clued are Keiji Nishitani and Kitaro Nishida, from the Kyoto School. The principles in the penultimate sentence are <em>mono no aware </em>and <em>wabi-sabi</em>.)
Clement <b><u>Vallandigham</u></b> (“vuh-LAN-dig-um”) [or Clement Laird <b><u>Vallandigham</u></b>]
<b><u>independence</b></u> of <b><u>Norway</b></u> [or <b><u>secession</b></u> of <b><u>Norway</b></u> from Sweden; accept <b><u>Norwegian independence</b></u> from Sweden; accept descriptions of Sweden and <b><u>Norway</b></u> <b><u>disuniting</b></u>; accept <b><u>Norge</b></u>, <b><u>Noreg</b></u>, <b><u>Norgga</b></u>, or <b><u>Vuona</b></u> in place of “Norway”; prompt on <u>independence</u> or <u>secession</u> or equivalents by asking “of which country?”]
<b><u>Dayton</u></b> Accords [or <b><u>Dayton</u></b> Peace Agreement; or <b><u>General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina</u></b>]
<b><u>Denmark</u></b> [or Kingdom of <b><u>Denmark</u></b>; or <b><u>Danish</u></b> Realm; or Kongeriget <b><u>Danmark</u></b>; or Kongsríki <b><u>Danmarkar</u></b>; or Kunngeqarfik <b><u>Danmarki</u></b>; accept <b><u>Danish</u></b> Empire] (Christian Matras is from the Faroe Islands.)
<b><u>rhyme</u></b> [or word forms like <b><u>rhyming</u></b>; accept end <b><u>rhyme</u></b>s; accept <b><u><em>Rhyme</u></b>’s Rooms</em>]
<b><u>network</u></b>s [or network <b><u>graph</u></b>s; or economic <b><u>network</u></b>s; or social <b><u>network</u></b>s; or social <b><u>graph</u></b>s; accept <b><u>network</u></b> externalities or <b><u>network</u></b> effects; prompt on <u>node</u>s or <u>vertex</u>es or <u>vertices</u> or <u>edge</u>s by asking “what larger structures are those components of?”] (Editors’ note: Pairwise stability was popularized by Stanford economics professor Matt Jackson.)
<b><u>phosphofructokinase</b></u> [or <b><u>PFK</b></u>; accept <b><u>PFK</b></u>-1 or <b><u>PFK</b></u>-2]

adrenal glands [or suprarenal glands; or adrenal medulla; or adrenal cortex]

reform [or reforma; accept La Reforma; accept Reform War or the War of Reform; accept Guerra de Reforma; accept Tower of the Reformer; accept Torre del Reformador]

Vladimir Arnold [accept Arnold tongues]

James Merrill [or James Ingram Merrill] (The first poem is “Broken at Home.”)

Untitled Film Stills [accept Untitled Film Still #21 or Untitled Film Still #38 or Untitled Film Still #49 or Untitled Film Still #96; prompt on Untitled]

Jimi Hendrix [or James Marshall Hendrix; or Johnny Allen Hendrix]

autopilots [accept flight controllers or flight control software; accept flight management; accept UAV controllers; accept flying aircraft, planes, UAVs, drones, or autonomous vehicles; accept piloting aircraft, planes, UAVs, drones, or autonomous vehicles; prompt on ArduPilot; prompt on flying or piloting; prompt on actuation by asking “for what purpose?”]

Hypatia of Alexandria

1967 [prompt on ’67] (Newark Mayor Hugh Addonzio was set to appoint white councilman James Callaghan, who did not possess a post-secondary education, over City Budget Director Wilbur Parker, the first Black public accountant in New Jersey. Taxi driver John Smith was arrested near the Hayes Homes in Newark.)

magnetic reluctance [accept switched reluctance motors; prompt on magnetic resistance; prompt on F; reject “electrical resistance” or “resistance”; reject “electric reluctance”]

nonlinear [accept nonlinearity or nonlinear Schrödinger equation]

figures of speech [or rhetorical figures; or figures of grammar; accept tropes or schemes; prompt on rhetorical or literary devices, techniques, or terms] (Peacham wrote The Garden of Eloquence.)

James Bond theme [or the original James Bond theme from Dr. No]

Good-Bye to All That (by Robert Graves. The latter novel is I, Claudius.)

beach [accept The Pungapeople of Ninety-Mile Beach; accept On the Beach; reject synonyms]

routers [or routing; accept gateways; accept switches]

Nathan the Wise [or Nathan der Weise]

Java [or Jawa; accept Java Man; accept The Religion of Java] (Ann Dunham was Barack Obama’s mother.)

mental hospitals [or psychiatric hospitals; accept mental asylums or insane asylums; accept mental institutions or psychiatric institutions; accept Funnyhouse of a Negro; prompt on hospitals, institutions, or houses]

orphans [or children or synonyms like kids or youth; accept juvenile delinquents; prompt on beggars; prompt on homeless or unhoused people]

Albert Camus (The stories in the first two lines are “Jonas or the Artist at Work” and “The Renegade,” respectively.)

von Willebrand factor [or vWF]

Ashoka the Great [or Aśoka; or Asoke; accept Santi Asoke, Ashokavriksha, Ashoka tree, Ashoka Vatika, or Aśokāvāṭikā]

Utah [accept UT] (The Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027.)

Gilbert Adair (The latter work is Georges Perec’s A Void.)

Kongo [or BaKongo or Bisi Kongo or EsiKongo or Musi Kongo or Mukongo; accept Kikongo; accept Congolese; prompt on Bantu]

Kate Chopin [or Katherine O’Flaherty]

Bast [or Bastet, Pasht, bst, B’sst, Baset, or Ubasti; accept Ailuros until read; accept Bubastis, Tell Basta, Poubasti, Per-Bast, Pi-Beset, Bubastite dynasty, Bubastite Portal, Petubastis, or Peftjauawybast; prompt on Sekhmet, Sachmis, Saḫmat, or Sakhmi by asking “which form of Sekhmet?”]

Ligeia (“lye-JEE-uh”)

witch trials [accept witch hunts; prompt on trials]

fatwa [or fatawa]

Alan Bennett

adipose tissue [or fat tissue; accept brown adipose tissue or white adipose tissue or brown fat or white fat; accept BAT or WAT]

Claude Lévi-Strauss

zouaves [accept Fire Zouaves, First Fire Zouaves, or First Regiment New York Zouaves]

frets

Bertolt Brecht (“breckt”) [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht] (Ruganda translated The Good Woman of Setzuan.)

“Who killed Boy Staunton?”

simplicity [or being simple; accept “A Simple Heart,” “Un coeur simple,” or “A Simple Soul”]

Gawain [accept Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; accept The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle; accept Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle]

Zora Neale Hurston AND Richard Wright

Jhumpa Lahiri [or Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri] (The story in the first sentence is “Only Goodness.” The story in the third and fourth sentences is “The Third and Final Continent.”)

Barr bodies [or X-chromatin; accept inactivated X chromosomes; prompt on X chromosomes]

Berlin Zoo [or Berlin Zoological Garden; or Zoologischer Garten Berlin; prompt on zoo by asking “in what city?”]

mathematics [or math; accept trigonometry; accept calculus or derivatives; accept infinity; accept set theory or number theory; accept mathematical logic]

Mario Benedetti [or Mario Benedetti Farrugia]

messengers [or dūta; accept The Cloud Messenger or Meghadūta; accept The Wind Messenger or Pavanadūta; accept The Swan Messenger or Haṃsadūta; prompt on clouds, winds, or answers that describe a weather phenomenon until “cloud” is read by asking “what role does that character perform?”]

adhesives [or glues; accept superglues or wood glues or epoxy glues; accept Scotch tape; prompt on thermoplastics; prompt on polymers]

Hadestown [prompt on underworld; reject “Hades”]

Yazilikaya

burn AND drown [or “I burn and drown”; or “I’m on fire and I drown”; or “je me brûle et me noie”]

Kathleen Kenyon [or Kathleen Mary Kenyon]

gravitational waves [or gravitational radiation; reject “gravity waves”]

Isis [or Isis Pelagia; or Isis Pharia]

Covenanters [or Cùmhnantaich; accept the National Covenant; accept The Solemn League and Covenant; accept Covenantism; prompt on the Kirk Party; prompt on Scottish Presbyterians until read; prompt on Whiggamores until read; prompt on Engagers until read; prompt on Scottish royalists until “Robert” is read; reject “Scottish independence”; reject “Scottish Reformation”] (The first clue refers to the Battle of Dunbar.)

“In the beginning was the Act” [or “In the beginning was the Deed”; or “Im anfang war die tat”]

Leaves of Grass

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki [or Tanizaki Jun’ichiro]

anoxic [or anoxia; accept anaerobic; prompt on euxinic or euxinia; reject “hypoxic” or “hypoxia” or “dysoxic” or “dysoxia”]

sparse [or sparsity; accept sparse matrices or compressed sparse row format or sparse principal component analysis or sparse PCA; prompt on SPCA]

Lunar New Year [or Spring Festival or Chūn Jié; accept Chinese New Year; prompt on New Year]

Chauncey Billups [or Chauncey Ray Billups]

Murray Gell-Mann (He popularized V-A theory with Richard Feynman. His book is The Quark and the Jaguar.)

Sekhmet [prompt on Hathor until read]

snake charming [accept snake charmers; accept serpent charming; prompt on charming by asking “of what?”; prompt on answers like playing music or playing a flute by asking “for what purpose?”] (The Sol Bloom song is also often called “The Streets of Cairo.”)

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Woodrow Wilson [or Thomas Woodrow Wilson]

South Africa [or Republic of South Africa, RSA, Republiek van Suid-Afrika, iRiphablikhi yoMzantsi-Afrika, or iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika] (The fourth clue describes the Jazz Epistles.)

herbs [or plants; or flowers; or leaves; or parsley; or herbal medicine; prompt on medicine by asking “made from what natural objects?”]

Maldives [or Republic of Maldives; accept Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa until “Dhivehi” is read]

Lowell [accept Robert Lowell or Robert Traill Spence Lowell; accept Amy Lowell or Amy Lawrence Lowell]

Charles W. Mills [or Charles Wade Mills]

rational emotive behavior therapy [or rational therapy; or REBT]

Satyendra Nath Bose [accept Bose gases or bosons]

mirrors [accept Sky Mirror]

Vyāsa (“V’YAH-suh”) [or Veda Vyāsa; or Krishna Dvaipayana] (That work is the Mahābhārata.)

Montana [or MT]

Milan [or Milano; accept Duchy of Milan] (Filippo Maria Visconti lost the Battle of Anghiari.)

miracles [accept no miracles argument]

Charlie Parker [or Charles Parker Jr.; accept Bird or Yardbird or Birdland]

CPUs [or central processing units; accept CPU cores; accept (computer) microprocessors; prompt on cores by asking “cores of what devices?”; prompt on SoCs or systems on a chip or system-on-chips by asking “what components of an SoC?”; prompt on computers; reject “(integrated) circuits” or “ICs”; reject “chips”] (Reorder buffers are used to implement precise exceptions. VLIW and Tomasulo’s algorithm aim to maximize instruction-level parallelism.)

criminal law [accept criminal conversation; prompt on criminology; reject “tort law”]

Irish potato famine [or Great Irish Famine; or Great Famine; or An Gorta Mor; prompt on Great Hunger]

maqāma [or maqāmāt; reject “maqām”]

nucleotide excision repair [or NER; prompt on DNA repair; reject other DNA repair mechanisms, such as “base excision repair” or “mismatch repair”]

a lion hunt [accept Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal; prompt on hunt by asking “of what animals?”]

calypso (The title of “Calypso King” is now “Calypso Monarch” due to the success of Calypso Rose, who won it in 1978.)

baldness [or being bald; accept word forms such as not having hair or a lack of hair; accept a shaved head]

Saint Germain (“san jer-MAN”) [accept Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Edict of Saint Germain, Comte de Saint Germain, Count of Saint Germain, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Germain of Paris, Saint Germanus, or Germain d’Autun] (The librarian was Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples.)

Vera Mukhina (“MOO-kin-uh”)

Lǐ Bái [or Li Po or Li Bo or Taibai]

blues [accept “Sonny’s Blues”; accept “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”; accept Dirty Bird Blues; reject “blue”] (Dirty Bird Blues is by Clarence Major.)

Japan [or Nippon; or Nihon] (The philosophers clued are Keiji Nishitani and Kitaro Nishida, from the Kyoto School. The principles in the penultimate sentence are mono no aware and wabi-sabi.)

Clement Vallandigham (“vuh-LAN-dig-um”) [or Clement Laird Vallandigham]

independence of Norway [or secession of Norway from Sweden; accept Norwegian independence from Sweden; accept descriptions of Sweden and Norway disuniting; accept Norge, Noreg, Norgga, or Vuona in place of “Norway”; prompt on independence or secession or equivalents by asking “of which country?”]

Dayton Accords [or Dayton Peace Agreement; or General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Denmark [or Kingdom of Denmark; or Danish Realm; or Kongeriget Danmark; or Kongsríki Danmarkar; or Kunngeqarfik Danmarki; accept Danish Empire] (Christian Matras is from the Faroe Islands.)

rhyme [or word forms like rhyming; accept end rhymes; accept Rhyme’s Rooms]

networks [or network graphs; or economic networks; or social networks; or social graphs; accept network externalities or network effects; prompt on nodes or vertexes or vertices or edges by asking “what larger structures are those components of?”] (Editors’ note: Pairwise stability was popularized by Stanford economics professor Matt Jackson.)

phosphofructokinase [or PFK; accept PFK-1 or PFK-2]