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Before that, Arizona was part of the New Mexico Territory.\t14A Colored ring : AREOLA\t\r\nAn areola (sometimes “areole”) in anatomy is a small ring of color, as in the areola surrounding the nipple, and the areola surrounding the pupil of the eye. “Areola” (plural “areolae”) comes from Latin, meaning “small open space”, and is a diminutive of the Latin word “area”, meaning “open space”.\t19A High-five, e.g. : SLAP\t\r\nThe celebratory gesture that we call a “high five” is said to have been invented by former baseball players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke when they were both playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1970s.\t20A HP supply : INK\t\r\n“Inkjet” is a very accurate and descriptive name for the type of printer. Printing is accomplished by shooting extremely fine jets of ink onto the page.The giant multinational HP (originally “Hewlett-Packard”) was founded in 1939 with an investment of $538 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. The company name would have been Packard-Hewlett, if Dave Packard had won a coin toss!\t22A Airport serving Tokyo : NARITA\t\r\nPlans were put together for the construction of Narita International back in 1966. However, the airport was not a popular addition to the metropolis in some quarters and demonstrations, often violent, delayed the project. Originally planned for completion in 1971, the airport didn’t open until 1978. The opening ceremony was attended by about 6,000 protesters and 14,000 security police.\t26A Buttonlike flower : TANSY\t\r\nThe tansy is a flowering plant of the aster family, native to Europe and Asia. It is found in other parts of the world, but there it is often considered to be invasive.\t27A Silky material : SATIN\t\r\nThe material known as “satin” takes its name from “Zayton”, the medieval Arabic name for the Chinese port city of Quanzhou. 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When the Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel on 4 September 1957, Ford proclaimed the day to be “E Day”.\t56A Kin of ad hoc : PRO TEM\t\r\n“Pro tempore” can be abbreviated to “pro tem” or “p.t.” “Pro tempore” is a Latin phrase that best translates as “for the time being”. It is used to describe a person who is acting for another, usually a superior. The President pro tempore of the US Senate is the person who presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President of the US. It has been tradition since 1890 that the president pro tem is the most senior senator in the majority party. The president pro tem ranks highly in the line of succession to the presidency, falling third in line after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.The Latin phrase “ad hoc” means “for this purpose”. An ad hoc committee, for example, is formed for a specific purpose and disbanded after making its final report.\t67A Perfect examples : EPITOMES\t\r\nThe more common meaning of “epitome” is “perfect example of a group, quality, type”. An epitome is also an abstract or summary of a book or article.\t69A Champagne label word : SEC\t\r\nSparkling wines can be classified according to sweetness. 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Hanna is one of a group of children who were born with deliberately enhanced DNA in order to create a cadre of super-soldiers. Good stuff …\t25D Peruvian metropolis : LIMA\t\r\nLima is the capital city of Peru. It was founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, who named it “la Ciudad de los Reyes” (the City of Kings). He chose this name because the decision to found the city was made on January 6th, the feast of the Epiphany that commemorates the visit of the three kings to Jesus in Bethlehem. Lima is home to the oldest university in all of the Americas, as San Marco University was founded in 1551 during the days of Spanish colonial rule.\t29D Early DVR : TIVO\t\r\nTiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) that revolutionized the way we watch television. The first TiVo devices were installed in homes in 1999, when they were the first consumer DVRs to hit the market. TiVo was originally marketed as a way to “pause live TV.” It quickly became known for its ability to record TV shows and movies, allowing viewers to watch them at their convenience.\t31D Birthplace of 2021 AL Rookie of the Year Randy Arozarena : CUBA\t\r\nRandy Arozarena is a Cuban-born Mexican MLB player. He defected from Cuba at the age of 19 in 2015, after his father’s sudden death. He fled the island in 2015 on a small, eight-person boat, spending eight hours in the shark-infested Gulf of Mexico before reaching safety in the Yucatán Peninsula. 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The bestseller was adapted into an award-winning Broadway play “Auntie Mame”, starring Rosalind Russel in the title role. A 1966 Broadway musical version followed, with Anglea Lansbury playing the lead. I am guessing that we are more likely to have seen the 1974 big screen musical adaptation “Mame”, starring Lucille Ball as the title character.\t60D Aspire laptop maker : ACER\t\r\nAcer’s Aspire line is a series of personal computers, both desktops and laptops, that were introduced in 1999.\t61D Predatory seabird : SKUA\t\r\nSkuas are a group of about seven species of seabird. Some of these species are known as jaegers in the Americas. The skua takes its name from the island of Skúvoy in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. The name “jaeger” comes from the German word for “hunter”.\t64D Lost Tribes number : TEN\t\r\nThe Twelve Tribes of Israel originated from the twelve sons of Jacob (later named “Israel”) and his wives, Leah and Rachel, and their handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah. 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