OT: Test #489B

[wire chief]

14..What nation recently won the Davis Cup after a 79 year drought?

15..The House of Representatives decided that Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson lose to..?.

16..The animal kingdom's monotremes have only 2 species(?).

17..Bing, photos, long discontinued car.

18..Which NFL team has an unprecedented 8 game winning streak following a 5 game losing streak?

19..What was unfinished, when Giacomo Puccini died?

20..It's now a national law(?), but not for 567 Indian tribes.

21..This thoroughfare between 2 states was completed in 1937, doubled in 1945, and a 3rd lane in 1957.

22..In Great Britain to what do "on-licence" and "off-licence" refer?

23..The 1st Prez to address Congress on nationwide radio?

24..Crispr-Cas9 refers to..?

25..If you visit this singer, she'll give you an apple, a plum and apricot too.

You'll have a good time in my house with this, even without candy.
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[Rocket009]

14..Great Britain
16..Egg laying mammals - Duck-billed Platypus is one not sure of the other.
22..Pubs and liquor stores. You can consume on-premises or "on-license" or buy at a store and consume elsewhere "off-license"

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Martin Van Buren
18. Seattle Seahawks
19. Aida
20. Obamacare
21. Lincoln Tunnel
23. Woodrow Wilson
23. Warren G Harding
23. Calvin Coolidge

 

[rbny1]

18. The KC Chiefs. Not to sound bitter, but I'm a Jets fan and, damnitall, the Chiefs had better lose a game or two and let the Jets can make the playoffs.
19. Turandot
25. Rosemary Clooney, I believe, singing "Come on to My House"

 

[hoopingcrane]

14..Great Britain

15..J. Q. Adams

16..platypus

23..Warren G. (Harding)

24..DNA sequence paired with enzymes to do gene editing (at least that's what I thought they were saying in the recent New Yorker article)

 

[pinotbear]

16. echina? (sp?)

 

[wire chief]

17..Pop singing group

20..Oscar Wilde would be sad about that.

 

[rbny1]

20. Based on your hint, same sex marriage?

 

[pinotbear]

17. based on your hint, Crosby, Stills & Nash

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

15 - is JQ Adams, I believe. The next election, Jackson took it.
17 - I'm sure Pinot has it - you outdid yourself on that one!

 

[wire chief]

14..Rocket & hoop select Great Britain, and notice their wisdom in not writing "England", for it was 2 Scots who saved the day.

15..Hoop & knight cry "Nepotism", since there already was a John Adams.

16..Echnida and platypus are all that's left of that ancient classification. They lay eggs and protect their young.
Among Rocket, hoop & pinot, the deed is done.

17..Pinot provides the trio. Knight offers commentary, though by itself, is it praise or condemnation?

18..Hmmm, "Lose a game"? Think that will happen against (giggle) Cleveland?

19..Rbny is right on with the opera that famously includes Nessun Dorma.

20..Rbny again, choosing same sex marriage. Wait, I don't mean rbny chooses it for himself, you understand,
particularly if he's native American.

21..True, VAUC, connecting Manhattan and Weehawken (where grandpa was once WIRE CHIEF).

22..See Rocket (when he's sober and lucid. I mean why should he keep tabs on this, if he didn't have a problem?

23..Gee Willikers, is VAUC thankful I don't insist on "final answers", or what? It is Coolidge.

24..See hoop here, who we are confident escaped DNA tampering himself, though I can't say that for some other posters.

25..Items Rosemary and rbny give out to trick-or-treaters.

It's Christmas, so why don't I score you as 100%? And I wish you much Mistletoe. God bless.