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12 titles in a row : FRA

The title "Fra" (brother) is used to address Italian monks.

15 Feature of the Bush and Johnson White Houses: TEXAS ACCENT

Which states were the birthplaces of most US Presidents? The first three states in this list are:

1. Virginia (8):George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor und Woodrow Wilson.
2. Ohio (7):Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft und Warren Harding
3. New York (5):Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt und Donald Trump

16 Court Visit : LET!

That could be tennis.

17 Fox on TV: AGENT MULDER

The X-Files is a hugely successful science fiction show that originally aired on the Fox network from 1993 to 2002. The stars of the show are David Duchovny (plays Fox Mulder) and the very talented Gillian Anderson (plays Dana Scully). When the series ended, The X-Files was the longest-running sci-fi show in US broadcast history. A reboot of The X-Files aired in 2016, with Duchovny and Anderson reprising their lead roles.

19 Podcast Feed Letters: RSS

Many websites and blogs publish content in a format known as Rich Site Summary (RSS). The "feed" can be read with an RSS reader. The advantage of using an RSS reader is that the user does not have to search the website for new content. This new material will be fed to the RSS reader as it is published.

A podcast is basically an audio or video media file made available for download. The name comes from the acronym "POD" meaning "playable on demand" and "cast" from "broadcasting". So basically, a podcast is a show that you can play on-demand by simply downloading and opening the podcast file.

20 Cell and Venmo: APPS

Cell is a digital payment network that allows users to send and receive money quickly and securely using their mobile devices. Unlike other peer-to-peer payment services like Venmo or Cash App, Zelle has been integrated directly into its partner institutions' mobile banking apps. This allows users to send and receive money directly from their existing bank accounts without having to download a separate app or create a new account.

Venmo is a smartphone payment app now owned by PayPal. The first version of the product was introduced in 2009 by two entrepreneurs who met as freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania. They sold the company for over $26 million in 2012, and then PayPal acquired it for a whopping $800 million the following year. I wonder if PayPal ever buys blogs...

23 One of the 12 popes: PIUS

There were twelve popes named Pius, the last being Pope Pius XII. He led the Roman Catholic Church until his death in 1958.

25 Some Highland Musicians: PIPERS

Bagpipes have been played throughout Europe, parts of Asia and North Africa, and the Persian Gulf for centuries. However, the most famous versions of the instrument today are the Scottish Great Highland bagpipes and the Irish uilleann pipes (my personal favourite; I'm biased!). The bag in the Scottish version is inflated by blowing it in, while the Irish version uses underarm bellows.

28 Salt Lake Bees und Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimps: AAA TEAMS

The Salt Lake Bees are a Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels, who play their home games at Smith's Ballpark in Salt Lake City. The team was formed in 1915 and was called the Salt Lake City Bees. The team went through several name changes over the years, including the Salt Lake City Angels, the Salt Lake City Gulls, the Salt Lake Trappers, and the Salt Lake Buzz. In 2006, the team changed its name to the Salt Lake Bees in honor of Utah's state insect, the honey bee.

The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are a Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins, who play their home games at 121 Financial Ballpark in Jacksonville, Florida. The team is named after the shrimp that are caught in the area.

31 Red choice : CAB

The Cabernet Sauvignon (often just "Cab") grape variety has been around since the 17th century and is the result of an accidental crossing of the Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc grapes in south-west France.

33 2020 Isabel Wilkerson bestseller subtitled The Origins of Our Discontents : CASTE

Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1994. Wilkerson's father was one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen who fought during World War II. Her 2020 book Castes: The Origins of Our Discontents discusses racism in the United States and posits that racial stratification in America is best understood as a caste system similar to that of India and Nazi Germany.

34 Stud Locale: LOBE

Despite what one might read on the internet, people don't fall into two categories, one with bare earlobes and one with attached earlobes. Free and attached earlobes are the extremes of a continuous range.

35 night Class: ESL

English as a Second Language (ESL) is sometimes referred to as English for Speakers of Other Languages ​​(ESOL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

36 gallons, in obsolete slang: MOLLS

The slang term "minor" is used for a gangster's female companion. "Moll" is short for "Molly", which is a nickname for "Mary". In 17th-century England, a minor was a prostitute.

38 Member of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame girl group: SHIRELLE

The Shirelles were a singing group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were the first all-female group to have a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their song "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" in 1961.

42 “Q: Aren't we human? A: We are __!“: 1978 album: DEVO

Devo is a band from Akron, Ohio that was formed in 1973. The band's biggest hit is "Whip It", released in 1980. Devo have a gimmick: wearing red, terraced, plastic hats dubbed "energy domes." Why? I have no idea …

45 Evil computer saying, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't” : HAL

In Arthur C. Clarke's A Space Odyssey (famously adapted for the big screen as 2001: A Space Odyssey), the computer system that went rogue was called the HAL 9000, or simply "HAL." HAL stands for "Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer". Although Clarke denied this, it is arguable that the acronym HAL is a veiled reference to IBM, the big player in the computing world at the time of the novel's publication (1968). The acronym HAL is just a one letter shift from the initials "IBM".

53 actor who played Tony Rodriguez in NYPD Blue: ESAI MORALES

Esai Morales is an American actor and skilled musician who can play multiple instruments. Originally interested in a career in music, Morales played in a band called The Plan before turning to acting. He has channeled his musical talent into some of his acting roles. For example, in the film "La Bamba," which tells the story of the late musician Ritchie Valens, Morales played Valens' half-brother Bob, playing guitar and singing in several scenes.

NYPD Blue is a police drama series that aired on ABC from 1993 to 2005. The show was created by David Milch and Steven Bochco, the same team behind the hit 1980s cop drama Hill Street Blues. NYPD Blue was one of the network's first television shows to use profanity and partial nudity.

54 Some corporate IP: TMS

Trademark (TM)

55 display that can have rotating shelves: DESSERT CASE

Our word "dessert" comes from the French verb "desservir" and means "to clear the table". The idea is that dessert is usually the last course to be cleared from the table.

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1 Nicola Yoon's "The Sun Is Also A __" : STAR

Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author known for her young adult novels. Her debut novel Everything, Everything was made into a film in 2017. When Yoon started writing this first book, she was on maternity leave from her job as a finance specialist. She completed the first draft of Everything, Everything in just three months, and the book became a New York Times bestseller.

2 cribbage pieces: HEGEL

Cribbage is one of my favorite card games. There was always a certain mystique to me growing up seeing people playing it in local pubs, sitting with cards and the intriguing cribbage board with its pins for score markers. Apparently, cribbage was invented in the early 1600s by an English poet named John Suckling, who based it on a long-gone game called Noddy. Cribbage is often referred to simply as "crib," and the name "cribbage" likely derives from that term. The "Crib" is a deck of cards that appears in the game.

4 All-Clad Product: PAN

All-Clad is a premium cookware brand founded in 1971 by John Ulam, who was a metallurgist by trade. He was working in the aerospace industry in the 1960s when he began experimenting with joining different metals to create a more efficient conductor of heat. He applied this knowledge to cookware and developed a unique process for joining multiple layers of metal, including stainless steel and aluminum, to create cookware that heats evenly and holds heat for a long time.

5 "Steps in Time" memoirist: ASTAIRE

Dancer, actor and singer Fred Astaire never won an Oscar competition and received only one nomination: for Best Supporting Actor in 1974's The Towering Inferno. However, in the 1949 season he was recognized "for his unique artistry and contributions to technique musical images” was awarded an honorary Oscar. This honorary Oscar was presented by his longtime film and dance partner Ginger Rogers.

7 Keurig Shots: K-CUPS

A K-Cup is a single-serving cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate in which the drink is prepared on the spot. K-Cup packs are used with brew machines made by Keurig, a coffee maker manufacturer based in Reading, Massachusetts. I personally use a Nespresso machine...

8 Concerns of some orthopedic surgeons, initially: ACLS

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of four main ligaments that support the knee. It is located in the middle of the knee and connects the femur (thigh bone) to the tibia (shin bone).

9 HS aptitude test: GED

The General Educational Development (GED) tests are a series of four tests designed to demonstrate that a student has the academic ability of someone who graduated from an American or Canadian high school.

10 Juice: ENERVATE

To unnerve means to withdraw energy. "Enervare" is the Latin word for "weaken".

11 Doja Cat hit with the lyrics "Send your location, come through": STREETS

Doja Cat is a singer and rapper who first rose to fame with her hit song 'Mooo!' in 2018. Her real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini.

13 Scrooge, finally: REDEEMABLE

Ebeneezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol. As the story progresses, Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, showing him the consequences of his stingy behavior. His name "Scrooge" has become part of the English language to describe someone stingy and mean with money.

22 One of the “black” parents: DRE

Black-ish is a sitcom starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross that premiered in 2014. The main characters play Dre and Rainbow Johnson, a married couple who raise an upper-middle-class black family. The show is known for tackling difficult issues such as racism, police brutality, attitudes towards the LGBT community and the 2016 US presidential election.

23 NOLA cages: FUR

The New Orleans Hornets joined the NBA in 1988 as an expansion team originally based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was supposed to be named Charlotte Spirit, but the name was changed after a local "Name the Team" contest. During the Revolutionary War, Lord General Cornwallis had dubbed Charlotte a 'true hornet's nest' due to the town's resistance to British occupation, which explains local fans' fondness for the 'Hornets' name. The franchise was moved to New Orleans for the 2002 season as attendance was not large enough to support the Charlotte team. The team was forced to play two seasons in Oklahoma City due to damage from Hurricane Katrina and played as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. After a few years in New Orleans, the franchise was renamed the Pelicans, a nod to the Brown Pelican, Louisiana's state bird.

24 Brewery Equipment : OASTS

A roaster is an oven used to dry hops as part of the brewing process. Such a structure could also be referred to as an "Osthaus" or "Hopfendarre". The term "roasting" can also refer to an oven used to dry tobacco.

26 Mudslide Element: IRISH CREAM

A "cream liqueur" is one that contains milk cream. The best-known example is Baileys Irish Cream, which is made from cream and Irish whiskey. A "cream liqueur," on the other hand, is a liqueur that has a lot of added sugar but no cream. Examples are crème de cacao (chocolate flavored), crème de menthe (mint flavored) and crème de cassis (black currant flavored).

The mudslide cocktail is basically a white Russian with Baileys Irish Cream added.

A White Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, kahlua or tia maria and cream, served in an old-fashioned glass with ice. The White Russian is similar to a Black Russian, i.e. the same drink without the cream. Both cocktails are called "Russian" because they're based on vodka, and both have been around since the late 40's, although no one seems to know which drink came first.

28 Target section: GANG

Target Corporation was originally founded in 1902 as a haberdashery called Goodfellow's by George Dayton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It wasn't until 1962 that the first Target store opened, designed as a discounter with a modern, upscale atmosphere.

37 The Lascaux bulls, e.g. : CAVE ART

The cave paintings in a cave complex near the village of Lascaux in south-west France are perhaps the best-known examples in the world of Upper Palaeolithic art. The paintings are around 17,300 years old, number around 2,000 and mostly depict large animals and human figures. The cave complex was discovered by an 18-year-old man in 1940 and opened to the public in 1948. However, public access has caused many problems with damage to the paintings caused by carbon dioxide, fungus and mold. Currently, human access to the caves is extremely limited.

40 shower element : METEOR

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body traveling through space. Once in the atmosphere, the meteoroid is referred to as a "meteor" or "shooting star." Almost all meteoroids burn up, but if one is big enough to survive and reach the ground, we call it a meteorite. The word "meteor" comes from the Greek "meteōros" and means "high in the air".

42 Actor Jean-Claude Van __ : DAMME

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a Belgian actor and martial arts expert. Due to his origin he is nicknamed "The Muscles from Brussels". He even competed in bodybuilding and won Mr. Belgium in 1978.

45 Old-style dance: DANCE

The hula is an indigenous Hawaiian dance that uses arm movements to tell a story. The hula can be performed seated (a Noho dance) or standing (a Luna dance).

The term "hula kahiko" is reserved for more traditional hula dances composed before 1900 that do not use modern instruments (like guitars and ukuleles).

46 Trojan God of War: ARES

The ancient city of Troy was located on the west coast of present-day Turkey. The Trojan War of Greek mythology was sparked by the flight of Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, with Paris from Troy. The war itself consisted largely of a nine-year siege of Troy by the Greeks. We know most about the last year of this siege because it is detailed in Homer's "Iliad." The city eventually fell when the Greeks hid soldiers in the Trojan horse, which the Trojans brought inside the city walls. Beware of Greeks with gifts...

47 __ Majesty: READ

"Late to Majesty" is the crime of offending the dignity of "Majesty" or the sovereign or the state. The term 'Lesse to Majesty' originated in French law and derives from the law of ancient Rome. In Latin "laesa maiestas" means "damaged majesty". The term has no relevance in the United States, but the law is occasionally cited in other countries, including many in Europe.

51 Pollenhalter: SAC

The stamen is the male reproductive organ of a flower. The part of the stamen known as the anther sits on a stalk called the filament, which carries the pollen. The pollen is ingested by insects, particularly bees, which then transfer pollen from flower to flower. The pistil is the female reproductive organ and takes in the pollen.