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1. This form of top-down cooking is great for making a fish dish, but take away one letter and you have a form of wet cooking which is not so great for making a fish dish.

2. This is one of the first non-yeasted confections of its kind, giving the dessert a soft structure similar to that of a certain undersea creature.

3. The leading fruit-nut in this alliterative dessert exists almost entirely in southern and central US states. It is so rich with corn syrup, one slice by Sara Lee is 450calories and 22grams of fat.

4. Stephen King wrote this distressing psychological thriller because, like the relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist, he felt trapped by fanatics who bemoaned any attempt to expand his horizons.

5. In this Stephen King story, a commercial airplane flies into an alternate dimension, then the passengers need to escape the eponymous timekeepers of eternity or forever languish in oblivion.

6. Robert Redford and a star-studded ensemble were in this 1992 movie, which has nothing to do with footwear.

7. Patrick Dempsey, Dustin Hoffman and Richard Dreyfus are among the actors to portray this gangster, but Ben Kingsley won an Oscar playing the

$300 million man whose gambling empire was bigger than U.S. Steel.

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