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To make traditional Hungarian Goulash you'll need this Hungarian red pepper condiment.
see also corresponding 'Hungarian Goulash Pepper' Sudoku puzzle
 
Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst were a mother-daughter team of these activists for the vote.
 
It is said these 13th Century conquerors of China could live on mare's milk alone when necessary.
see also corresponding 'Mares Milk Survivors' Sudoku puzzle
 
Many of these performing horses are raised at Austria's Piber Stud near Graz.
 
This palindrome is another word for a principle or belief.
see also corresponding 'Palindrome Principle Belief' Sudoku puzzle
 
Some thought this British Tudor would marry Lord Dudley when his wife was found dead after a suspicious accident in 1560.
 
Joe Defries set a Guinness World Record on November 6, 2006 for the World's Longest Marathon Sudoku puzzle, at the Ramada Inn in Abbotsford, B.C. This is present name of that hotel.
see also corresponding 'Marathon Sudoku Abbotsford Hotel' Sudoku puzzle
 
This term for a spectator section goes back at least 70 years before Howdy Doody.
 
In France a woman from Delft or Utrecht is called this.
 
Manuel Patarroyo developed SPf66, a purported vaccine against this tropical disease that still strikes millions of people.
see also corresponding 'Patarroyo SPf66 Vaccine' Sudoku puzzle
 
The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution concerns a revamping of this college.
 
Describing a person who belongs to another region, culture, or group, this also refers to a 1991 Diana Gabaldon novel.
see also corresponding 'Gabaldon Novel' Sudoku puzzle
 
British physicist Stephen Hawking wrote this 1988 bestseller.
 
The site of one of the seven churches of Asia Minor, this city was the wealthiest in Phrygia during Roman times, widely known for its banking, medical school and textile industry. In the Book of Revelation it's referred to as the lukewarm church.
see also corresponding 'Phrygia Wealth' Sudoku puzzle
 
Before this battle, Lord Nelson sent the message to his sailors that England expects that every man will do his duty.
 
People added an 'A' to the end of this man's name to make a nickname for his son Vlad the Impaler.
see also corresponding 'Vlad The Impaler Son' Sudoku puzzle
 
In older movie theaters this worker stood by to change reels every 20 minutes.
 
This little girl lives in the room on the tippy-top floor of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her Nanny, her pug dog Weenie, and her turtle Skipperdee.
see also corresponding 'Skipperdee Turtle' Sudoku puzzle
 
Jack the Ripper terrorized this section of London, England in 1888.
 
A Tokamak Reactor aims to create fusion by heating this state of matter to 15 million degrees Celcius.
see also corresponding 'Tokamak Reactor' Sudoku puzzle
 
These four Canadian provinces' names were derived from Indian words.
 
St. John the Theologian is said to have written the Book of Revelations at the Cave of the Apocalypse on this Greek island in the Aegean Sea.
see also corresponding 'Revelations Creation' Sudoku puzzle
 
This is the largest gorge on Earth.
 
As a noun, it's the edge of a flag that's next to the staff; as a verb, this word means to raise a flag.
see also corresponding 'Flag Raising' Sudoku puzzle
 
David Lean didn't make a film for 14 years after critics attacked this Sarah Miles film set in Ireland.
 
This plant helps bruises and sprains, and even helps knit bones together.
see also corresponding 'Plant Bruise Cure' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1941, a collection of his speeches was published under the title Blood, Sweat & Tears.
 
This dreaded illness, also known as St. Anthony's Fire, was common in the Middle Ages. The cause was poisoning from a fungus that grows on rye grass. The fungus contaminated the rye flour used in making bread.
see also corresponding 'St Anthonys Fire' Sudoku puzzle
 
This city's Moscone Center has over 500,000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space.
 
In English grammar, the main type of these can stand alone as a sentence; the subordinate type can't.
see also corresponding 'Subordinate Grammar' Sudoku puzzle
 
Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this youthful group's 1908 revolution.
 
The word language comes from lingua, Latin for this body part.
see also corresponding 'Latin Lingua' Sudoku puzzle
 
This is Italian for first lady, the leading opera singer in a company.
 
John Philip Sousa was instrumental in the design of the Sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell.
see also corresponding 'Sousaphone Bell' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1965 this island city-state peacefully seceded from Malaysia.
 
As one of these Jim Henson creations Zoot played the sax in Dr. Teeth's band.
see also corresponding 'Zoot Sax' Sudoku puzzle
 
In his 1984 novel Neuromancer, William Gibson coined this term for a virtual reality computer network.
 
This physics term is defined as mass per unit volume.
see also corresponding 'Mass Per Unit Volume' Sudoku puzzle
 
Noah's Ark supposedly came to rest on this mountain in Turkey.
 
This refers to an ancient Greek city-state, or central urban area that controlled the surrounding countrysides - a principal unit in the Greek political system.
see also corresponding 'Greek City State' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1895 this impressionist finished his famous series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral.
 
Newborn gazelles are a favourite prey of the black-backed species of this canine.
see also corresponding 'Gazelle Prey' Sudoku puzzle
 
Jakob Roggeveen discovered this South Pacific island two days after Good Friday, 1722.
 
Born in 1825, Pedro II was the second, last and only native emperor of this country.
see also corresponding 'Pedro Emperor' Sudoku puzzle
 
Born in Corfu in 1921, he's a great grandson of the Danish king Christian IX.
 
This is your second-largest internal organ by weight.
see also corresponding 'Weighty Internal Organ' Sudoku puzzle
 
An adult male of these duck-billed creatures has a poisoned spur in its ankle.
 
This word means to remove two hydrogen atoms from a compound for each oxygen atom removed.
see also corresponding 'Hydrogen Atom Removal' Sudoku puzzle
 
St. Catherine's monastery at the foot of this biblical mount has a fragment of a 4th century Bible.
 
The initials BMW stand for this region's Motor Works.
see also corresponding 'Motor Works Region' Sudoku puzzle
 
These are the 2 U.S. states with only one consonant in their names.
 
In 1934 Goodpasture and Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands.
see also corresponding 'Paratid Glands Disease' Sudoku puzzle
 
Brandy, creme de cacao, and heavy cream make this drink.
 
Cawker City, Kansas claims the world's biggest ball of this, with around 8 million feet.
see also corresponding 'Cawker City Specialty' Sudoku puzzle
 
Opened in 1897, this gallery of modern British art was named for a sugar merchant.
 
This is the fatty part of milk.
see also corresponding 'Milk Fat' Sudoku puzzle
 
Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Sinatra.
 
In a traditional Japanese home, floors are covered with these straw mats.
see also corresponding 'Japanese Straw Mats' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1988 she went out on a limb to play aging piano teacher Madame Sousatzka.
 
From the Latin for assembly, this refers to a religious community of nuns.
see also corresponding 'Latin Assembly Group' Sudoku puzzle
 
The Beatitudes are found in this sermon by Jesus.
 
A Spanish dictionary defines this country as circulo maximo que equidista de los polos de la tierra.
see also corresponding 'Spanish Dictionary Country' Sudoku puzzle
 
Judith Guest's first novel that was made into 1980's extraordinary Oscar-winner.
 
The Pythagorean theorem is the 47th proposition in the first book of his Elements.
see also corresponding 'Pythagorean Theorem' Sudoku puzzle
 
This was the capital city birthplace of Jane Campion.
 
According to tradition, in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran 25 miles to announce a Greek victory in this battle.
see also corresponding 'Pheidippides Announcement' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol's invasion force of 150,000 men.
 
This is where the term ethnic cleansing originated.
see also corresponding 'Ethnic Cleansing Origin' Sudoku puzzle
 
Bette Davis played a deranged ex-child star in this 1962 film that co-starred Joan Crawford.
 
This is a book in which financial accounts are recorded.
see also corresponding 'Financial Account Book' Sudoku puzzle
 
He wrote 3 books about the Prizzis, Prizzi's Honor, Prizzi's Family and Prizzi's Glory.
 
By area it's the world's largest country that's named for a river.
see also corresponding 'River Named Country' Sudoku puzzle
 
In 1799 this pioneer left Kentucky because it was too crowded.
 
This name of the long-lost daughter in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is from the Latin for Lost.
see also corresponding 'Lost Winter Tale' Sudoku puzzle
 
The Freeway Series pits these 2 West Coast U.S. baseball teams against each other.
 
A free-falling body accelerates at a rate of about 1g, g coming from this word.
see also corresponding 'Accelerating Body' Sudoku puzzle
 
In Brazil, only Sao Paulo has more people than this city.
 
Celebrated on November 9, Lord Mayor's Day honors the mayor of this city.
see also corresponding 'Lord Mayors Day' Sudoku puzzle
 
The U.S. government leasing oil reserves to Mammoth Oil in 1922 caused this scandal the next year.
 
This mixture of lime and cement, with other substances, is used to bond bricks together when building.
see also corresponding 'Building Bonds' Sudoku puzzle
 
This is the largest U.S.-mainland city that is majority Latino.
 
A Greek cave on Philopapus Hill is said to have served as the prison where this philosopher was confined.
see also corresponding 'Philopapus Hill Confinement' Sudoku puzzle
 
West Virginia holds a Heritage Jubilee named for this Confederate General.
 
The name given to a child at this Catholic sacrament is traditionally that of a saint.
see also corresponding 'Catholic Saint Sacrament' Sudoku puzzle
 
They are considered the three precious metals.
 
From the Latin for goatskin, in ancient Greek mythology, this was something that offered physical protection. In some stories, it was the thundercloud where Zeus kept the thunderbolts he used as weapons.
see also corresponding 'Latin Goatskin' Sudoku puzzle
 
Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 animated film.
 
This U.S. President went to band camp in the Ozarks.
see also corresponding 'Ozark Camp President' Sudoku puzzle
 
British people call this an estate car.
 
In 887 Pietro Candiano, doge of this city, was killed fighting pirates.
see also corresponding 'Candiano Doge' Sudoku puzzle
 
May 29, 1453 is significant for this historical event.
 
In 1543 this pioneering Flemish anatomist pointed out that bones support the body and protect organs from injury.
see also corresponding 'Flemish Anatomist' Sudoku puzzle
 
Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887.
 
In 1957 the chemical symbol for this gaseous element was changed from A to Ar.
see also corresponding 'Gaseous Element' Sudoku puzzle
 
The grave of Laura H. Frazer, Mark Twain's childhood friend, also bears the name of this character she inspired.
 
We eat this, even though it contains two types of bacteria: Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus.
see also corresponding 'Streptococcus Thermophilus' Sudoku puzzle
 
Charles Evans Hughes was confirmed in this job February 13, 1994, replacing William Howard Taft.
 
This is the tiny capital of the Mediterranean island nation of Malta.
see also corresponding 'Malta Capital' Sudoku puzzle
 
About 1 in 25 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this disease named for a British physician and an American neurologist.
 
This first U.S. space station was launched on May 14, 1973, two years after the Soviet Union orbited its first.
see also corresponding 'First US Space Station' Sudoku puzzle
 
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