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Clue
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Place
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A
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Country in western Asia
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Armenia
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B
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Large river port in northern Germany
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Bremen
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C
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Common Hispanic place name; also an opera, and description of garage mechanics
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Carmen
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D
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S.E. Norwegian city where sheep can be found
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Drammen
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E
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Dutch locale where Van Gogh once resided, in the eastern province of Drenthe
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Emmen
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F
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Town in Veracruz, Mexico; if P. Cunk changed gender and married midfielder Juan, this might be her new name
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Filomeno Mata
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G
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Starting at Geneva, north goes east and velocity vanishes, to end up in D.R. Congo (perhaps due to Large Hadron Collider?)
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Gemena
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H
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Wisconsin town for old men
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Holmen
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I
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German town where we hear the sick fellows cry of pain
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Ilmenau
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J
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Cuban cocktail of Christ Almighty and a parent-killing brother
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Jesus Menendez
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K
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The port again, and a friend, seen mostly in Ukraine
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Kremenchuk
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L
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Delivery of our woman to Brazil
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Livramento de Nossa Senhora
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M
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Sleepy-sounding World Cup host city in the Andes of Argentina
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Mendoza
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N
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The capital of Chad
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N'Djamena
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O
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Dutch town with a population of a thousand
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Ommen
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P
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Opera-singing mechanics return, this time on the beach in a Mexican resort
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Playa del Carmen
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Q
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Maltese grandmaster in compressed state with standing stone
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Qasam Tal-Menħir
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R
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Moscow suburb where I agree there's nothing in the air
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Ramenskoye
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S
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The state capital of California
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Sacramento
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T
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Country in Asia
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Turkmenistan
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U
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Ford written off on outskirts of Bavarian town
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Ummendorf
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V
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Yet more operatic automobile techs appear at the house in Nicaragua
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Villa El Carmen
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W
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Fort Worth suburb, so-called because it was founded by people of European origin amid Native American villages; also famous for its cat, Browser, who the municipality tried to evict from the library, but who was eventually allowed to go on living there
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White Settlement
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X
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Chinese megacity on the Taiwan strait
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Xiamen
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Y
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Mysterious Chinese place in Gansu, initially listed by one database as a city of 350,000 population, yet a Google search for it has no results for such a place and the Maps entry for its name and Gansu province indicates a spot where no roads lead to
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Yingmen
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Z
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Say no prayers for this closed town in Russia, off-limits due to its missile testing site
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Znamensk
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