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6 Italian wine for cooking: MARSALA

Marsala is a port city in western Sicily. If you visit Marsala, you will find the so-called "vintage" Marsala wine, a "common" red wine. However, if you buy a bottle of Marsala from your local store, it is a "fortified" wine, a wine with a higher alcohol content.

17 The 4,080 piece Disney Castle, e.g. : LEGO SET

Lego makes some wonderful specialty sets that you can use to build models of famous structures, including:

• The Statue of Liberty (2,882 pieces)
• The Sydney Opera House (2,989 pieces)
• The Eiffel Tower (3,428 pieces)
• Tower Bridge (4,295 pieces)
• The Taj Mahal (5,922 pieces)

18 Protest song? : COME HURRY UP

"Come on Eileen" is a great song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners, released in 1982. Astronauts on one of the Space Shuttle Discovery missions were woken up to the sound of "Come on Eileen" by NASA on the final day. The mission commander was astronaut Eileen Collins.

20 boys in the previous "Star Wars" films: ANI

Anakin "Ani" Skywalker is the main character in the first six Star Wars films. Their progression chronologically through the film series is:

• Episode I: Anakin is a 9-year-old slave boy who was promised Jedi training by young Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Episode II: Anakin is 18 years old and goes on a killing spree to avenge his mother's death.
• Episode III: Anakin is 21 years old and a Jedi Knight, but turns to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader. His wife Padme gives birth to twins Luke and Leia Skywalker.
• Episode IV: Darth Vader clashes with his children Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.
• Episode V: Darth Vader tries to persuade his son Luke to turn to the dark side and reveals to Luke that he is his father.
• Episode VI: Luke learns that Leia is his sister and takes on the task of bringing back Darth Vader from the dark side to save the galaxy. Vader saves his son from the Emperor's evil clutches and dies in the process, but his spirit ends up alongside the spirits of Yoda and Obi-Wan. Everyone lives happily ever after...

22 Short Mission? : ENLIGHTENMENT

A reconnaissance is a preliminary investigation conducted to gather information. The term "recognition" came into English from French in the early 19th century, whence it literally means "recognition".

26 Alexander from "Rizzoli & Isles" : SASHA

"Sasha Alexander" is the stage name of Suzana Drobnjaković, a Serbian-American actress. Alexander is perhaps best known to television audiences for teaching Dr. Maura Isles in the crime drama Rizzoli & Isles and for the role of schoolteacher Helene Runyon in the American version of the excellent comedy-drama Shameless. Alexander married Edoardo Ponti in 2017. Ponti is the son of actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti.

30 msg for the entire squad: APB

An All Points Bulletin (APB) is a transmission from one US law enforcement agency to another.

33 playback? : HELP ME, RHONDA

"Help Me, Rhonda" is a Beach Boys hit written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love and released in 1965. When the song first appeared as a track on Today! .") When the song was released as a single a month later, the title used the spelling we're familiar with: "Help Me, Rhonda."

37 Twix ingredient: CANDY

The confection known as caramel is made by heating sugar. The caramelization process requires slowly heating the sugar to around 170ºC. Heating causes the sugar molecules to break down and turn into the compounds that give caramel its distinctive color and flavor.

I remember Twix bars from 1967 when they were introduced in the UK and Ireland. Twix bars came to the United States more than a decade later, in 1979. The name "Twix" is a portmanteau of "Twin Bix", short for "Twin Biscuit".

41 opening number? : DEAR PRUDENCE

"Dear Prudence" is a 1968 song released by The Beatles on The White Album. When the four band members were in India on a meditative retreat, they stayed at the ashram at the same time as Mia Farrow and her sister Prudence Farrow. Prudence took her meditation routine very seriously and stayed in her bungalow for days. John Lennon wrote Dear Prudence to lure Farrow out of seclusion.

44 "Hey, that's enough!" : TMI!

Too much information (TMI)

51 „__ Dalloway“ von Virginia Woolf: MRS

"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1925. The story tells of a day in Clarissa Dalloway's life, a day when she is preparing for a party that she is organizing. The novel has been compared to Ulysses. by James Joyce, a story about a day in the life of Leopold Bloom.

55 Revived Game Show hosted by Jane Krakowski, which is also an apt title for this puzzle: NAME THIS MUSIC

Name That Tune is a TV game show that originally aired on the radio in 1952. The show was hugely popular in the mid '70s but went off air in 1981. There was a brief revival from 1984 to 1985, and then a reboot hosted by actress Jane Krakowski hit screens in 2021. The first season of the reboot featured American contestants but was filmed in Australia. Australia was chosen so that a live studio audience could be included (Australia had a much lower COVID spread rate than the US at the time).

64 Member of the buttercup family: ANEMONE

The name "anemone" means "daughter of the wind" in Greek, and it was once believed that the wind really made the flower bloom.

65 array for target practice with BB guns, maybe: TIN EDGES

A BB gun is an air pistol or rifle that fires bird shots known as BBs. Birdshot is available in a variety of sizes, ranging from size 9 (0.070″ diameter) to size FF (0.230″). BB-sized (.180″ diameter) Birdshot gives the airgun its name.

66 Broadway Props? : TONY nod

The Tony Awards are better known as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Broadway Theater. The awards are named after Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry, co-founder of the American Theater Wing.

"Props" is American slang for "due respect".

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1 climbing summit: PITONS

A climbing hook is mountaineering gear, an anchor designed to protect a climber in the event of a fall. It is a metal spike driven into a crack in the rock face with a hammer. Pitons have eye holes through which a rope is attached with carabiners. "Piton" is a French word for "hook".

2 Low hemoglobin status: ANEMIA

The term 'anemia' (or 'anemia' as we spell it in Ireland) comes from a Greek word meaning 'lack of blood'. Anemia is a lack of iron in the blood or a low red blood cell count. Fatigue is a symptom of disease and so we use the term 'anaemic' figuratively to mean 'lack of vitality or substance'.

3 __ Therapy: GEN

Gene therapy is an experimental technology to treat diseases. The basic principle is to transplant genes into a patient's cells to cure a disease caused by the lack of those genes.

4 Exxon, in Canada and Europe: ESSO

The Esso brand has its roots in the former Standard Oil company, as it uses the initials of "Standard" and "Oil" (ESS-O). The Esso brand has been replaced by Exxon in the US, but ESSO is still used in many other countries.

6 Multilegged Arthropod: Centipede

Centipedes and millipedes are multi-legged arthropods. Centipedes can have a varying number of legs depending on the species, from about 30 to about 350. Centipedes have segmented bodies with two pairs of legs on each segment. Depending on the species, centipedes have between 80 and 750 legs.

Arthropods are invertebrates with an external skeleton, a segmented body, and articulated appendages. The list of arthropods includes animals such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and crabs. More than 80% of the animal species on the planet are arthropod species.

7 Outfielder Tommie no NY Mets Hall of Fame: AGEE

Tommie Agee was a major league baseball player who played primarily for the Indians, White Sox, and Mets. He was one of the "Amazin' Mets" and famously made two phenomenal catches in the third game of the 1969 World Series, which potentially saved him five runs. Agee was also the first Mets outfielder to win a Gold Glove in 1970.

9 "La La Land" Oscar winner Emma: STEIN

Actress Emma Stone is from Scottsdale, Arizona. Stone really came to prominence in 2010 with her performance in the high school film Easy A. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 2016 film La La Land. One of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses today, Stone values ​​her privacy and works hard to keep a low profile. Good for her I say...

La La Land is a 2016 musical romantic film starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as musicians and actors who fall in love with "La La Land" (Los Angeles, i.e. "LA"). The film was written and directed by Damien Chazelle, who had hit the musical drama Whiplash two years earlier. "La La Land" won a record seven Golden Globes and tied a record number of Oscar nominations at fourteen, winning six.

11 Romance Harper: READ

Nelle Harper Lee was an author from Monroeville, Alabama. For many years Lee had only published one novel under his name, To Kill a Mockingbird. This contribution to the literary world was enough to earn him the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Pulitzer Prize. Harper Lee was a close friend of fellow writer Truman Capote, who served as the inspiration for the character named "Dill" in his novel. Lee was in the news in 2015 when he published a second novel called Go Set a Watchman. Experts seem to agree that Go Set a Watchman is actually the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee died less than a year after Go Set a Watchman hit stores.

13. Pixar film that lost the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature to "Encanto": LUCA

Luca is a 2021 animated film from Pixar. The title character is a sea monster boy who can assume human form on land.

Encanto is a 2021 Disney animated film about a Colombian family named Madrigal who has magical powers that help people in their community (Encanto).

19 Authority of the Mosque: IMAM

An imam is a Muslim leader and often the person in charge of a mosque and/or perhaps a Muslim community.

23 Word with candy or sugar: … CANA

Apparently, candy canes were made at the behest of the choirmaster of Cologne Cathedral in Germany in 1672. Candy canes were essentially used as a bribe to keep children quiet during church services. The conductor specified that the candy canes should have a crease at the top to remind the children of the three shepherds who visited baby Jesus shortly after his birth.

When sugar cane is processed to extract sugar, it is crushed and crushed to produce a juice. The juice is boiled to produce a sugary concentrate called cane syrup, from which the sugar crystals are extracted. A second boil of the remaining syrup produces a second molasses from which more sugar crystals can be extracted. The third boiling produces the so-called black molasses.

27 __-Pei: Dog breed from China: SHAR

The Shar Pei dog breed has a wrinkled face and a very dark tongue. The breed is originally from China, with "Shar-pei" being the British spelling of the Cantonese name.

28 Natural rope fiber: HEMP

Also known as "cannabis," hemp is a hardy, fast-growing plant that has many uses, largely due to the strength of the fibers in the plant's stems. Hemp is used to make rope, paper and textiles. The term "hemp" is sometimes reserved for varieties of the plant that are grown for non-medical purposes.

31 „24K Magic“ Kantor Mars : BRUNO

Bruno Mars is a Honolulu-based singer-songwriter who has been in the music business since 2006. "Bruno Mars" is a stage name since Mars was born "Peter Hernandez".

36 "A Prayer for __ Meany" by John Irving: OWEN

A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel by John Irving, first published in 1989. Although Irving's work is a story in its own right, it is written as an homage to Günter Grass' The Tin Drum.

37 USN officers: CDRS

Commander (Cd.)

38 Many millennia: AEON

Geological time is divided into several units of different lengths. These are, starting with the largest:

• supereon
• Aeon (also "Aeon")
• Eras
• Period
• Eras
• Alter

46 Referring to the eyes: OCULAR

"Oculus" (plural "oculi") is the Latin word for "eye" and gives us the term "ocular", which means something like "belonging to the eye".

50 home detector target: RADON

The element radon (Rn) is a radioactive gas and a by-product of the natural decay of uranium in the earth. Radon gas can accumulate in particularly well-insulated buildings and rooms with very little air exchange. The danger is very real as radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoke.

57 __ Kate Dillon from "Billions": ASIA

Asia Kate Dillon is an actress perhaps best known for playing Brandy Epps on the comedy-drama Orange Is the New Black and Taylor Mason on the drama Billions.

Billions is a Showtime drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. It's about a federal prosecutor hunting a hedge fund manager in New York. Excellent show…

60 "The Women of Troy" romancista Barker: PAT

Pat Barker is an English author perhaps best known for her Regeneration series of novels, set during World War I. Barker's work generally focuses on memory, trauma and recovery.

61 Cantora de „Frauenpower“ Yoko: ONO

"Woman Power" is a 1973 song written and published by Yoko Ono. Her husband John Lennon plays a guitar solo on the recording and is credited as "John O'Cean". Lennon is believed to have chosen this pseudonym because the Japanese name "Yoko" translates to "ocean child".

62 "__ Burns: America": KEN

Ken Burns directs and produces epic documentaries, often making creative use of archival footage. Recent works include the sensational The War and the grandiose The National Parks: America's Best Idea and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History in 2014. Burns' offer in 2017 was The Vietnam War, which he co-directed with Lynn Novick.