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1. The requirement that the answers be words constructed of the two-letter abbreviations, alone or strung together, means that they will be 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 letters long. The first word is one that means charity; it brings to mind the call of beggars in old movies.
2. The next word is a kind of military clothing fabric in fashion for teenage boys, but they may still seem all too visible. Don't rely on an old dictionary for this one.
3. Bomber's bane. Old movies again come to mind, this time about World War Two.
4. You may well have some of these colorful, potentially messy, substances in one of your computer accessories.
5. It may make dad hurt to learn that this is a proteolytic enzyme found in a juicy tropical fruit and used in medicines and meat tenderizers.
6. Speaking of fruit, this one is a kind of orange, not necessarily reserved for a Chinese official.
7. OK (Oklahoma), this is a tough one, but we are already talking oranges and this is a great word for these quizzes. This is a small tree (Citrus mitis) of the Phillippines, often used as a house plant and with small, tart, mandarinlike fruit. It's name comes from the Tagalog word "kalamunding," but you just need an English dictionary to figure it out.
8. The next answer is said to be the most recognized product in the world.
9. The Roaring Twenties may be the most famous one of these.
10. They say rules are made to be broken and the only way I have figured out to use one state's abbreviation is to bring in the one for American Samoa (AS). The answer is a common material used in camping and sailing.
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