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<b><u>Amherst</b></u>, Massachusetts [accept the “Belle of <b><u>Amherst</b></u>”] (Dickinson corresponded with Susan Huntington.)
<b><u>Dào Dé Jīng</b></u> [or <b><u>Tao Te Ching</b></u> or <b><u>Daode Zhenjing</b></u> or <b><u>Wuqian Wen</b></u> or <b><u>Classic of the Way and Virtue</b></u>]
<b><u>magnetization</u></b> [or <b><u>magnetic polarization</u></b>; prompt on <u>M</u>; reject “polarization”]
<b><u>millennial</u></b> [or <b><u>thousand</u></b> years; accept word forms like <b><u>millennial</u></b>ism or <b><u>millennium</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Millennial</u></b> Praises</em>; accept pre<b><u>millennial</u></b>ism or post<b><u>millennial</u></b>ism; reject “millenarianism”]
<b><u>Japan</u></b> [or <b><u>Nippon</u></b>; or <b><u>Nihon</u></b>]
<b><u>Hull House</b></u> [accept <b><u>Hull House</b></u> neighborhood; accept “Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at <b><u>Hull-House</b></u>”]
<b><u>Somali</u></b> [or <b><u>Soomaali</u></b>; or Af <b><u>Soomaali</u></b>]
<b><u>Endymion</u></b> (“en-DIM-ee-on”) [accept “Before the Statue of <b><u>Endymion</u></b>”]
<b><u><em>arti</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>aarti</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>arati</em></u></b>]
<b><u>empty lattice</u></b> model [or <b><u>empty lattice</u></b> approximation]
Eugène <b><u>Ysaÿe</u></b> (“oo-ZHEN ee-ZYE”) [or Eugène-Auguste <b><u>Ysaÿe</u></b>]
<b><u>5-prime untranslated</u></b> region [or <b><u>5-prime UTR</u></b> or <b><u>leader sequence</u></b> or <b><u>transcript leader</u></b> or <b><u>leader RNA</u></b>; prompt on <u>Shine–Dalgarno</u> sequence by asking “what broader region of the mRNA is that in?”; prompt on <u>5-prime-cap</u> or the <u>5-prime end</u> of mRNA; prompt on <u>untranslated region</u> or <u>UTR</u>]
<b><u>Rhode Island</u></b> [or <b><u>RI</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Funny Girl</b></u></em>
<b><u>flood</u></b>s [accept <b><u>flood</u></b> routing or <b><u>flood</u></b>plains or flash <b><u>flood</u></b>s]
<b><u>moanin</u></b>’ [accept <b><u>moaning</u></b>; prompt on <u><em>Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers</em></u> until read by asking “what is the more common title?”]
<b><u>Jesus</b></u> Christ [or Jesus <b><u>Christ</b></u>; accept “Hope holds to <b><u>Christ</b></u> the mind’s own mirror out”; accept “The Windhover: To <b><u>Christ</b></u> Our Lord”; prompt on <u>God</u>; prompt on the <u>Lord</u>] (The poem in the second clue is “As Kingfishers Catch Fire.”)
<b><u>morphogen</u></b>s
Bernard <b><u>Baruch</u></b> [or Bernard Mannes <b><u>Baruch</u></b>]
<b><u>wine</b></u> [accept wine <b><u>grapes</b></u>; prompt on <u>alcohol</u>]
<b><u><em>Lenna</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Lena</em></u></b>; accept Lena <b><u>Forsén</u></b>; accept Lena <b><u>Soderberg</u></b>]
<b><u>Basidiomycota</u></b> [or <b><u>Basidiomycete</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Agaricomycete</u></b>s]
<b><u>paradox</b></u>es [accept mathematical <b><u>paradoxes</b></u>; prompt on <u>contradiction</u>s; prompt on <u>theorem</u>s during first line]
device <b><u>driver</b></u>s [or Linux device <b><u>driver</b></u>s; accept TTY <b><u>driver</b></u>s or UART (“U-art”) <b><u>driver</b></u>s; prompt on kernel <u>module</u>s until “modules”; reject “kernels”]
<b><u>Harappa</u></b> [accept <b><u>Harappa</u></b>n Civilization]
<b><u>T</u></b> cells [accept cytotoxic <b><u>T</u></b> cells or helper <b><u>T</u></b> cells]
<b><u><em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</b></u></em>
<b><u>Friday</u></b> [accept Good <b><u>Friday</u></b> or Holy <b><u>Friday</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>jumu’ah</em></u></b> until read]
John <b><u>Milton</b></u> (The first poem is “On Shakespeare. 1630.”)
<b><u>fireflies</u></b> [or <b><u>firefly</u></b> or <b><u>lightning bug</u></b>s or <b><u>Lampyridae</u></b>; accept <b><u>Hotaru</u></b> until read; accept “Grave of the <b><u>Fireflies</u></b>”; accept <b><u><em>Hotaru</u></b> no Haka</em> until “Hotaru” is read; accept <em>A Net of <b><u>Fireflies</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>glowworm</u>s] (<em>The Great Mirror of Male Love</em> is by Ihara Saikaku.)
<em>La <b><u>Princesse de Clèves</u></b> </em>[or <em>The <b><u>Princess of Cleves</em></u></b>]
<b><u>piano trio</u></b> [prompt on <u>trio</u>]
<b><u>bird</u></b>s [or <b><u>avian</u></b>s or <b><u>Aves</u></b>; accept <b><u>Neoaves</u></b>; accept e<b><u>Bird</u></b>; prompt on <u>boid</u>s; accept any specific type of bird, such as <b><u>geese</u></b> or <b><u>sparrow</u></b>s]
<b><u>femto</u></b>second [or <b><u>femto</u></b>chemistry; accept <b><u>femto</u></b>second transition-state spectroscopy; accept <b><u>ten to the negative 15</u></b> seconds; prompt on <u>ultrafast</u> or <u>ultrashort</u>]
<b><u>r</b></u> [accept guttural <b><u>r</b></u>; accept linking <b><u>r</b></u> or intrusive <b><u>r</b></u>; accept <b><u>r</b></u>-colored vowel; accept <b><u>rhotic</b></u>ity until “non-rhotic” is read]
the <b><u>Sun</u></b> [accept <b><u>solar</u></b> myth theory or <b><u>Sol</u></b> Invictus]
Stafford <b><u>Beer</u></b> [or Anthony Stafford <b><u>Beer</u></b>]
<b><u>siege</b></u>craft [or <b><u>siege</b></u>s or be<b><u>sieging</b></u> or <b><u>siege</b></u> engineering; accept <b><u>iege</u> </b>of Tyre; accept <b><u>Siege</b></u> of Rhodes; accept <b><u>siege</b></u> tower; accept <em>How to Survive under <b><u>Siege</b></u></em>; accept <b><u>poliorcetic</b></u>s or <b><u><em>Poliorcetes</u></em> </b>or <em>Parangelmata<b> <u>Poliorcetica</b></u></em> until “<em>Poliorcetes</em>” is read; prompt on <u>war</u>fare, <u>conflict</u>, <u>battle</u>, <u>tactic</u>s, military <u>strategy</u>, <u>artillery</u> firing, military <u>engineering</u>, or similar answers by asking “for what specific type of engagement?”] (It should be “Aeneas Tacticus,” meaning “Aeneas the Tactician.” The <em>sambuca </em>was used in the Roman siege of Syracuse. The equipment from Demetrius I’s failed siege was sold to finance the Colossus of Rhodes.)
Ernest <b><u>Hemingway</b></u> [or Ernest Miller <b><u>Hemingway</b></u>] (The first line is from “The Battler.”)
<b><u>Malebo</u></b> Pool [or Pool <b><u>Malebo</u></b>, <b><u>Stanley</u></b> Pool, <b><u>Mpumbu</u></b>, or Lake <b><u>Nkunda</u></b>; prompt on, but DO NOT REVEAL, the <u>Congo</u> River or <u>Congo</u> Basin]
<b><u>octopus</u></b>es [or <b><u>octopi</u></b>; or <b><u>octopodes</u></b>]
<b><u>Timor-Leste</u></b> [or Democratic Republic of <b><u>Timor-Leste</u></b>; or <b><u>East Timor</u></b>; or <b><u>Timor Timur</u></b>; or <b><u>Timór Lorosa’e</u></b>; prompt on <u>Timor</u>]
Johann Gottlieb<b> <u>Fichte</u></b> (“FICK-tuh”)
<b><u><em>Rhapsody in Blue</b></u></em>
William <b><u>Hogarth</b></u>
train <b><u>station</u></b>s [or railway <b><u>station</u></b>s or <b><u>subway</u></b> station; or <b><u>eki</u></b>; accept <em>Tokyo Ueno <b><u>Station</em></u></b> or <em>JR Ueno-<b><u>Eki</u></b> Kōenguchi</em>]
Paul <b><u>Celan</u></b> [or Paul <b><u>Antschel</u></b>]
<b><u>Jeju</u></b> Island [or <b><u>Jeju</u></b>do; prompt on <u>Korea</u> or <u>Korea</u>n Peninsula]
<b><u>Zhāng</u></b> [accept <b><u>Cheong</u></b> Fatt Tze or <b><u>Zhāng</u></b> Bìshì or <b><u>Chang</u></b> Chin Hsun; accept <b><u>Zhāng</u></b> Zhīdòng]
<b><u>racemic</u></b> mixtures [or <b><u>racemate</u></b>; accept quasi-<b><u>racemic</u></b>; accept <b><u>racemic</u></b> crystallography; prompt on opposite <u>chiral</u>ity, mixed <u>chiral</u>ity, <u>handed</u>ness, or <u>achiral</u>ity until “chiralities” is read; prompt on <u>optically inactive</u> or equivalents until “optical” is read]
<b><u>social capital</u></b> [prompt on <u>capital</u>]
<b><u>Peru</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Peru</u></b>; or <em><b><u>Perú</u></b></em>; or <em>República del</em> <em><b><u>Perú</u></b></em>]
<b><u>Jersey</u></b> [accept HMS <b><u><em>Jersey</em></u></b>; accept New <b><u>Jersey</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Her Body and Other Parties</b></u></em> (The first two stories are “The Resident” and “Real Women Have Bodies.”)
Mount <b><u>Fuji</u></b> <u>[</u>or <b><u>Fugaku</u></b> or <b><u>Fuji</u></b>-san]
<b><u>Namibia</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Namibia</u></b>]
<b><u>cooperativity</u></b> [or <b><u>cooperative</u></b> games; accept <b><u>cooperation</u></b>; accept <b><u>coalition</u></b>al until “coalition” is read]
<b><u>accusative</b></u> case [or <b><u>ACC</b></u>]
<b><u>Catalan independence</b></u> [or <b><u>Catalonia</b></u> independence or <b><u>Catalonian independence</b></u>; accept <b><u>Catalan separatism</b></u> or <b><u>Catalan secession</b></u> or <b><u>Catalan self-determination</b></u>; prompt on <u>Catalanism</u> or <u>Catalan nationalism</u> by asking “for what specific goal?”]
<b><u>Hispania</b></u> [or <b><u>Iberia</b></u> or <b><u>Iberian</b></u> Peninsula until mention; accept <b><u>Hispania Citerior</b></u>; or <b><u>Hispania Ulterior</b></u>; accept Hispania <b><u>Baetica</b></u>; or Hispania <b><u>Tarraconensis</b></u>; or Hispania <b><u>Lusitania</b></u>; accept <b><u>Spain</b></u>; accept <b><u>Portugal</b></u>; prompt on <u>Tartessos</u>] (That legendary ruler was Arganthonios of Tartessos.)
<b><u>Rossetti</b></u> [accept Christina <b><u>Rossetti</b></u>; accept Dante Gabriel <b><u>Rossetti</b></u>; accept Reto <b><u>Rossetti</b></u>; accept Cezaro <b><u>Rossetti</b></u>]
<b><u>water</u></b> [or <b><u>H2O</u></b>, light <b><u>water</u></b>, <b><u>water</u></b> vapor, or <b><u>steam</u></b>; accept pressurized <b><u>water</u></b> reactors, light <b><u>water</u></b> reactors, supercritical <b><u>water</u></b> reactors, <b><u>water</u></b>–water power reactors, <b><u>vodo</u></b>–vodyanoi energetichesky reaktor; prompt on <u>coolant</u>s until “coolant” is read; prompt on <u>moderator</u>s until “moderator” is read; reject “heavy water”]
<b><u>old</u></b> people [or <b><u>elder</u></b>ly, <b><u>senior</u></b>s, <b><u>geriatric</u></b>, <b><u>long-lived</u></b>, or super<b><u>centenarian</u></b>s; accept <b><u>grandparent</u></b>s, <b><u>dementia</u></b> patients, <b><u>Alzheimer</u></b>’s patients, <b><u>retiree</u></b>s, <b><u>pensioner</u></b>s, or equivalents of any; accept <b><u>toshiyori</u></b>, <b><u>oi</u></b>, <b><u>uba</u></b>, <b><u>obāsan</u></b>, or <b><u>ojīsan</u></b>; accept <b><u>rou</u></b>jin or <b><u>rou</u></b>jo or <b><u>rou</u></b>fu until “rougai” is read; accept Respect for the <b><u>Aged</u></b> Day or <b><u>Keirō</u></b> no Hi or <b><u>Toshiyori</u></b> no Hi; prompt on <u>patient</u>s, <u>sick</u>, <u>ill</u>, or equivalents by asking “with what other trait?”; prompt on <u>parent</u>s] (Clues include the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative and long-term care insurance.)
<b><u>soldier</b></u>s [accept <b><u>military</b></u> officials; accept <b><u>sergeant</b></u>s; accept U.S. <b><u>Army</b></u> or <b><u>G.I.</b></u>s; accept <b><u>Marine</b></u>s or U.S. <b><u>Marine</b></u> Corps; accept <em>A <b><u>Soldier</b></u>’s Play</em>; prompt on <u>officer</u>s or <u>captain</u>s] (The John Guare play is <em>The House of Blue Leaves</em>.)
<b><u>Google</u></b> LLC [or <b><u>GOOG</u></b>L; accept <b><u>Alphabet</u></b> Incorporated]
Bracha L. <b><u>Ettinger</u></b> [or Bracha Lichtenberg <b><u>Ettinger</u></b>]
<b><u>Malan</u></b> [accept Sailor <b><u>Malan</u></b>, Adolph Gysbert <b><u>Malan</u></b>, D. F. <b><u>Malan</u></b>, Daniël François <b><u>Malan</u></b>, or Rian <b><u>Malan</u></b>]
thermodynamic <b><u>ensemble</u></b>s
<b><u>Wolff rearrangement</u></b> [prompt on <u>rearrangement</u>]
<b><u>castrato</u></b> [or <b><u>castrati</u></b>; accept <b><u>evirato</u></b> or <b><u>evirati</u></b>; prompt on <u>eunuch</u>s]
<b><u><em>ahu</em></u></b> [accept <b><u>Ahu</u></b> A Kivi]
<b><u>Zenobia</u></b> [or al-<b><u>Zabba</u></b>’; or Septimia Bat-<b><u>Zabbai</u></b>] (The first clue refers to Firmus’s revolt.)
<b><u>cyclotron</b></u> motion [accept <b><u>cyclotron</b></u> radiation; accept isochronous <b><u>cyclotron</b></u>s; accept electron <b><u>cyclotron</b></u> resonance or ion <b><u>cyclotron</b></u> resonance; until “circular motion” is read, prompt on descriptions of a charged particle <u>circling</u> magnetic field lines or <u>orbit</u>ing magnetic field lines; reject “synchrocyclotrons” or “synchrotron radiation”]
<b><u><em>Love in the Time of Cholera</em></u></b> [or <em>El <b><u>amor en los tiempos del cólera</em></u></b>]
pseudo<b><u>random number generation</u></b> [or P<b><u>RNG</u></b>; accept descriptions of <b><u>creating</u></b> sequences of pseudo<b><u>random number</u></b>s; accept deterministic <b><u>random bit generation</u></b>, D<b><u>RBG</u></b>, non-deterministic <b><u>random bit generation</u></b>, or N<b><u>RBG</u></b>; accept pseudo<b><u>random string generation</u></b> or pseudo<b><u>random bit string generation</u></b>; prompt on <u>random</u>ization or word forms of <u>random</u>ness]
Maurice <b><u>Papon</b></u>
<b><u>Hellenistic</u></b> period [reject “Hellenic period”]
<b><u>terra nullius</u></b> [accept <b><u>terrae nullius</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Terra Nullius</u></b>: A Journey Through No One’s Land</em>]
<b><u>trumpet</b></u>
<em>The <b><u>Village Voice</em></u></b> (At the time, its offices were on the same block as the Stonewall Inn.)
<b><u>Outer Banks</b></u> [prompt on <u>North Carolina</u>; prompt on <u>Nag’s Head</u>, <u>Ocracoke</u>, Cape <u>Hatteras</u>, or <u>Roanoke</u> by asking “what larger island chain is that a part of?”] (The Goatman is from Nag’s Head. The palatine ship is from Ocracoke. Blackbeard died in Hatteras.)
<b><u><em>Mrs. Warren’s Profession</b></u></em>
<b><u>Santa Fe</u></b>, New Mexico [accept <b><u>Santa Fe</u></b> Opera, <b><u>Santa Fe</u></b> Chamber Music Festival, or <b><u><em>Santa Fe</u></b> Songs</em>]
<b><u>Damascus</u></b> [or <b><u>Dimašq</u></b>; accept al-<b><u>Shām</u></b>; accept “<b><u>Damascus</u></b>, What Are You Doing to Me?” or “The <b><u>Damascene</u></b> Collar of the Dove” or <em>Songs of Mihyar the <b><u>Damascene</em></u></b>] (<em>The Butterfly’s Burden</em> is by Mahmoud Darwish.)
<b><u><em>Utopia</b></u></em>
Thornton <b><u>Wilder</u></b> [or Thornton Niven <b><u>Wilder</u></b>]
<b><u>ubiquitin</b></u> [or <b><u>Ub</b></u>; accept <b><u>ubiquitin</b></u>ation or <b><u>ubiquityl</b></u>ation]
John <b><u>Bowring</u></b> [accept <b><u>Bowring</u></b> Treaty]
<b><u>fù</u></b> [accept <b><u>rhapsody</u></b>, rhyme-<b><u>prose</u></b>, <b><u>prose</u></b>-poem, or poetic <b><u>exposition</u></b> until read; accept <em>Zǐxū <b><u>fù</em></u></b>, <em>Shàng lín <b><u>fù</em></u></b>, or <em>Wén <b><u>fù</em></u></b>; accept Dù <b><u>Fǔ</u></b>] (Wén fù is by Lù jī.)
<b><u>Sundiata</u></b> [or <b><u>Sundiata</u></b> Kieta or <b><u>Sunjata</u></b>; accept the <em>Epic of <b><u>Sundiata</em></u></b>]
<b><u>GHZ</u></b> state [or <b><u>Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger</u></b> state]
<b><u>Dutch</b></u> [or <b><u>Nederlands</b></u>, <b><u>Netherlandic</b></u>, or <b><u>Netherlandish</b></u>] (The third line refers to Anton de Kom’s <em>We Slaves of Suriname</em>; <em>Max Havelaar</em> is also in the Canon of the Netherlands.)
<b><u>Fermi</u></b>–Dirac distribution [or <b><u>Fermi</u></b>–Dirac statistics; prompt on <u>logistic</u> function or <u>sigmoid</u> function] (The numerical factor in the first line is the spin multiplicity.)
<b><u>oracle bone</b></u>s [or <b><u>jiǎgǔ</b></u>; accept <b><u>oracle shell</b></u>s; accept <b><u>dragon bone</b></u>s; prompt on ox <u>scapulae</u> or turtle <u>plastron</u>s until read; prompt on <u>bone</u>s; prompt on <u>shell</u>s]
<b><u>Russia</b></u> [or the <b><u>Russia</b></u>n Federation or <b><u>Rossiya</b></u> or <b><u>Rossiyskaya</b></u> Federatsiya; accept <b><u>USSR</b></u> or <b><u>Soviet Union</b></u>]
<b><u>bound</u></b> morphemes
<b><u>HAT</u></b> medium [or <b><u>hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine</u></b> medium]
<b><u>suspension</u></b>s [or <b><u>suspended</u></b>; accept <b><u>suspended</u></b> chord, <b><u>sus</u></b> chord, <b><u>suspended</u></b> second, <b><u>suspended</u></b> fourth, <b><u>sus</u></b>2, or <b><u>sus</u></b>4; accept 7–6 <b><u>suspension</u></b>; prompt on <u>ligature</u> until read; prompt on <u>syncope</u> until read; prompt on intervals like (perfect, major, or minor) <u>second</u>, <u>fourth</u>, <u>seventh</u>, or <u>ninth</u> by asking “what non-chord tone was that dissonance used in?”; reject “sustain” or word forms]
Friedrich <b><u>Gulda</b></u>
Norman <b><u>Mailer</u></b> [or Norman Kingsley <b><u>Mailer</u></b>; or Nachem Malech <b><u>Mailer</u></b>]

Amherst, Massachusetts [accept the “Belle of Amherst”] (Dickinson corresponded with Susan Huntington.)

Dào Dé Jīng [or Tao Te Ching or Daode Zhenjing or Wuqian Wen or Classic of the Way and Virtue]

magnetization [or magnetic polarization; prompt on M; reject “polarization”]

millennial [or thousand years; accept word forms like millennialism or millennium; accept Millennial Praises; accept premillennialism or postmillennialism; reject “millenarianism”]

Japan [or Nippon; or Nihon]

Hull House [accept Hull House neighborhood; accept “Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House”]

Somali [or Soomaali; or Af Soomaali]

Endymion (“en-DIM-ee-on”) [accept “Before the Statue of Endymion”]

arti [or aarti; or arati]

empty lattice model [or empty lattice approximation]

Eugène Ysaÿe (“oo-ZHEN ee-ZYE”) [or Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe]

5-prime untranslated region [or 5-prime UTR or leader sequence or transcript leader or leader RNA; prompt on Shine–Dalgarno sequence by asking “what broader region of the mRNA is that in?”; prompt on 5-prime-cap or the 5-prime end of mRNA; prompt on untranslated region or UTR]

Rhode Island [or RI]

Funny Girl

floods [accept flood routing or floodplains or flash floods]

moanin’ [accept moaning; prompt on Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers until read by asking “what is the more common title?”]

Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ; accept “Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out”; accept “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”; prompt on God; prompt on the Lord] (The poem in the second clue is “As Kingfishers Catch Fire.”)

morphogens

Bernard Baruch [or Bernard Mannes Baruch]

wine [accept wine grapes; prompt on alcohol]

Lenna [or Lena; accept Lena Forsén; accept Lena Soderberg]

Basidiomycota [or Basidiomycetes; accept Agaricomycetes]

paradoxes [accept mathematical paradoxes; prompt on contradictions; prompt on theorems during first line]

device drivers [or Linux device drivers; accept TTY drivers or UART (“U-art”) drivers; prompt on kernel modules until “modules”; reject “kernels”]

Harappa [accept Harappan Civilization]

T cells [accept cytotoxic T cells or helper T cells]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Friday [accept Good Friday or Holy Friday; accept jumu’ah until read]

John Milton (The first poem is “On Shakespeare. 1630.”)

fireflies [or firefly or lightning bugs or Lampyridae; accept Hotaru until read; accept “Grave of the Fireflies”; accept Hotaru no Haka until “Hotaru” is read; accept A Net of Fireflies; prompt on glowworms] (The Great Mirror of Male Love is by Ihara Saikaku.)

La Princesse de Clèves [or The Princess of Cleves]

piano trio [prompt on trio]

birds [or avians or Aves; accept Neoaves; accept eBird; prompt on boids; accept any specific type of bird, such as geese or sparrows]

femtosecond [or femtochemistry; accept femtosecond transition-state spectroscopy; accept ten to the negative 15 seconds; prompt on ultrafast or ultrashort]

r [accept guttural r; accept linking r or intrusive r; accept r-colored vowel; accept rhoticity until “non-rhotic” is read]

the Sun [accept solar myth theory or Sol Invictus]

Stafford Beer [or Anthony Stafford Beer]

siegecraft [or sieges or besieging or siege engineering; accept iege of Tyre; accept Siege of Rhodes; accept siege tower; accept How to Survive under Siege; accept poliorcetics or Poliorcetes or Parangelmata Poliorcetica until “Poliorcetes” is read; prompt on warfare, conflict, battle, tactics, military strategy, artillery firing, military engineering, or similar answers by asking “for what specific type of engagement?”] (It should be “Aeneas Tacticus,” meaning “Aeneas the Tactician.” The sambuca was used in the Roman siege of Syracuse. The equipment from Demetrius I’s failed siege was sold to finance the Colossus of Rhodes.)

Ernest Hemingway [or Ernest Miller Hemingway] (The first line is from “The Battler.”)

Malebo Pool [or Pool Malebo, Stanley Pool, Mpumbu, or Lake Nkunda; prompt on, but DO NOT REVEAL, the Congo River or Congo Basin]

octopuses [or octopi; or octopodes]

Timor-Leste [or Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste; or East Timor; or Timor Timur; or Timór Lorosa’e; prompt on Timor]

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (“FICK-tuh”)

Rhapsody in Blue

William Hogarth

train stations [or railway stations or subway station; or eki; accept Tokyo Ueno Station or JR Ueno-Eki Kōenguchi]

Paul Celan [or Paul Antschel]

Jeju Island [or Jejudo; prompt on Korea or Korean Peninsula]

Zhāng [accept Cheong Fatt Tze or Zhāng Bìshì or Chang Chin Hsun; accept Zhāng Zhīdòng]

racemic mixtures [or racemate; accept quasi-racemic; accept racemic crystallography; prompt on opposite chirality, mixed chirality, handedness, or achirality until “chiralities” is read; prompt on optically inactive or equivalents until “optical” is read]

social capital [prompt on capital]

Peru [or Republic of Peru; or Perú; or República del Perú]

Jersey [accept HMS Jersey; accept New Jersey]

Her Body and Other Parties (The first two stories are “The Resident” and “Real Women Have Bodies.”)

Mount Fuji [or Fugaku or Fuji-san]

Namibia [or Republic of Namibia]

cooperativity [or cooperative games; accept cooperation; accept coalitional until “coalition” is read]

accusative case [or ACC]

Catalan independence [or Catalonia independence or Catalonian independence; accept Catalan separatism or Catalan secession or Catalan self-determination; prompt on Catalanism or Catalan nationalism by asking “for what specific goal?”]

Hispania [or Iberia or Iberian Peninsula until mention; accept Hispania Citerior; or Hispania Ulterior; accept Hispania Baetica; or Hispania Tarraconensis; or Hispania Lusitania; accept Spain; accept Portugal; prompt on Tartessos] (That legendary ruler was Arganthonios of Tartessos.)

Rossetti [accept Christina Rossetti; accept Dante Gabriel Rossetti; accept Reto Rossetti; accept Cezaro Rossetti]

water [or H2O, light water, water vapor, or steam; accept pressurized water reactors, light water reactors, supercritical water reactors, water–water power reactors, vodo–vodyanoi energetichesky reaktor; prompt on coolants until “coolant” is read; prompt on moderators until “moderator” is read; reject “heavy water”]

old people [or elderly, seniors, geriatric, long-lived, or supercentenarians; accept grandparents, dementia patients, Alzheimer’s patients, retirees, pensioners, or equivalents of any; accept toshiyori, oi, uba, obāsan, or ojīsan; accept roujin or roujo or roufu until “rougai” is read; accept Respect for the Aged Day or Keirō no Hi or Toshiyori no Hi; prompt on patients, sick, ill, or equivalents by asking “with what other trait?”; prompt on parents] (Clues include the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative and long-term care insurance.)

soldiers [accept military officials; accept sergeants; accept U.S. Army or G.I.s; accept Marines or U.S. Marine Corps; accept A Soldier’s Play; prompt on officers or captains] (The John Guare play is The House of Blue Leaves.)

Google LLC [or GOOGL; accept Alphabet Incorporated]

Bracha L. Ettinger [or Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger]

Malan [accept Sailor Malan, Adolph Gysbert Malan, D. F. Malan, Daniël François Malan, or Rian Malan]

thermodynamic ensembles

Wolff rearrangement [prompt on rearrangement]

castrato [or castrati; accept evirato or evirati; prompt on eunuchs]

ahu [accept Ahu A Kivi]

Zenobia [or al-Zabba’; or Septimia Bat-Zabbai] (The first clue refers to Firmus’s revolt.)

cyclotron motion [accept cyclotron radiation; accept isochronous cyclotrons; accept electron cyclotron resonance or ion cyclotron resonance; until “circular motion” is read, prompt on descriptions of a charged particle circling magnetic field lines or orbiting magnetic field lines; reject “synchrocyclotrons” or “synchrotron radiation”]

Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cólera]

pseudorandom number generation [or PRNG; accept descriptions of creating sequences of pseudorandom numbers; accept deterministic random bit generation, DRBG, non-deterministic random bit generation, or NRBG; accept pseudorandom string generation or pseudorandom bit string generation; prompt on randomization or word forms of randomness]

Maurice Papon

Hellenistic period [reject “Hellenic period”]

terra nullius [accept terrae nullius; accept Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One’s Land]

trumpet

The Village Voice (At the time, its offices were on the same block as the Stonewall Inn.)

Outer Banks [prompt on North Carolina; prompt on Nag’s Head, Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras, or Roanoke by asking “what larger island chain is that a part of?”] (The Goatman is from Nag’s Head. The palatine ship is from Ocracoke. Blackbeard died in Hatteras.)

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Santa Fe, New Mexico [accept Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, or Santa Fe Songs]

Damascus [or Dimašq; accept al-Shām; accept “Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?” or “The Damascene Collar of the Dove” or Songs of Mihyar the Damascene] (The Butterfly’s Burden is by Mahmoud Darwish.)

Utopia

Thornton Wilder [or Thornton Niven Wilder]

ubiquitin [or Ub; accept ubiquitination or ubiquitylation]

John Bowring [accept Bowring Treaty]

fù [accept rhapsody, rhyme-prose, prose-poem, or poetic exposition until read; accept Zǐxū fù, Shàng lín fù, or Wén fù; accept Dù Fǔ] (Wén fù is by Lù jī.)

Sundiata [or Sundiata Kieta or Sunjata; accept the Epic of Sundiata]

GHZ state [or Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state]

Dutch [or Nederlands, Netherlandic, or Netherlandish] (The third line refers to Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname; Max Havelaar is also in the Canon of the Netherlands.)

Fermi–Dirac distribution [or Fermi–Dirac statistics; prompt on logistic function or sigmoid function] (The numerical factor in the first line is the spin multiplicity.)

oracle bones [or jiǎgǔ; accept oracle shells; accept dragon bones; prompt on ox scapulae or turtle plastrons until read; prompt on bones; prompt on shells]

Russia [or the Russian Federation or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; accept USSR or Soviet Union]

bound morphemes

HAT medium [or hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine medium]

suspensions [or suspended; accept suspended chord, sus chord, suspended second, suspended fourth, sus2, or sus4; accept 7–6 suspension; prompt on ligature until read; prompt on syncope until read; prompt on intervals like (perfect, major, or minor) second, fourth, seventh, or ninth by asking “what non-chord tone was that dissonance used in?”; reject “sustain” or word forms]

Friedrich Gulda

Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]