Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Here we go.

Note: I'm not going to be around much over the next few days. I'll post each day's clues, but Instant Replays will be not quite so instant.

Thank you for your patience.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS

2: Mathematician Charles Dodgson wrote children's works, including “The Hunting of the Snark,” under this pseudonym.

4: This author of The Giving Tree also wrote the Johnny Cash hit “A Boy Named Sue.”

6: In her “World,” the latest book in Beverly Cleary's series featuring this protagonist, the heroine is in fourth grade while her sister Beezus starts high school.

8: In 1999 this author released Ender's Shadow, the first book in a trilogy that occurs alongside another book series that debuted fourteen years earlier.

10: This author of the Percy Jackson series has the same name as the mayor of Los Angeles who replaced Tom Bradley in 1993.

CONSORTS OF THE GODS

3: Zeus first appeared to this Phonecian princess after whom a continent is named in the form of a white bull.

6: According to Matthew 27:32, a man from a North African region named for this consort of Apollo carried Jesus' cross to Golgotha.

9: For every pomegranate seed she ate, this daughter of Zeus and Demeter was forced to spend one month per year in the underworld with Pluto.

12: This Egyptian cow goddess associated with the Milky Way is at various times said to be the consort of Sobek and Horus.

15: In the Mahabharta, Princess Kunti inadvertently summons this Hindu sun god to conceive a child with her.
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Spoiler thingy. Type your responses, tag the end, and you're good to go.
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS

2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona Quimby
8: Orson Scott Card
10: --

CONSORTS OF THE GODS

3: Europa
6: --
9: Persephone
12: --
15: --
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Spoiler
2. Lewis Carroll
4. Shel Silverstein
6. Ramona
8. Orson Scott Card
10. Rick Riordan

3. Europa
6. CLAM
9. Persephone
12. CLAM
15. CLAM
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS

2: Lewis Carroll

4: Not a clue

6: Nope

8: Orson Scott Card

10: Riordan

CONSORTS OF THE GODS

3: Europa

6: CLAM

9: Persephone

12: CLAM

15: CLAM
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS

2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Clamina
8: Orson Scott Card
10: clamogosa

CONSORTS OF THE GODS

3: Europa
6: clambia
9: Persephone
12: clamiris
15: clamiva
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Spoiler
2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona
8: Orson Scott Card
10:
3: Europa
6:
9: Persephone
12:
15:
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS
2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona Quimby
8:
10: Richard Riordan

CONSORTS OF THE GODS
3: Europa
6: Cyrene
9: Persephone
12:
15: Surya
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Spoiler
2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona
8: Orson Scott Card
10: Riordan

3: Europa
6: Cyrene
9: Persephone
12: CLAM
15: CLAM
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Spoiler
2. Lewis Carroll
4. Shel Silverstein
6. Ramona Quimby
8. Orson Scott Card
10. clam

3. Europa
6. clam
9. Persephone
12. Hathor
15. clam
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Spoiler
2: Lewis Carrol
4: Shel Silverstein
6:
8: Orson Scott Card
10:

3: Europa
6:
9: Persephone
12:
15:
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Spoiler
2: Carroll
4: Sliverstein
6: Ramona Quimby
8: Card
10:

3: Europa?
6: Cyrene
9: Persephone
12:
15:
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS

2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6:
8:
10:

CONSORTS OF THE GODS

3: Europa
6:
9:
12:
15:
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Spoiler
2. Lewis Carroll
4. Shel Silverstein
6. Ramona Quimby
8. Orson Scott Card
10. clam

3. Europa
6. clam
9. Persephone
12. Hathor
15. clam
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Spoiler
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AUTHORS
2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona
8: Orson Scott Card
10: Rick Riordan

CONSORTS OF THE GODS
3: Europe
6: Cyrene?
9: Persephone
12: Clam
15: Surya
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Spoiler
2: Lewis Carroll
4:
6:
8:
10:

3: Europa
6: Cyrene
9:
12:
15: Vishnu?
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Spoiler
2. Lewis Carroll
4. Shel Silverstein
6. Ramona
8. Orson Scott Card
10. Richard Riordan

3. Europa
6. CLAM
9. CLAM
12. CLAM
15. CLAM
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Hi,
Spoiler
2: Louis Carrol
4: Shell Silverstein
6:
8: Orson Scott Card
10:

3: Europa
6:
9: Persephone
12:
15:
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 3

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Spoiler
2: Lewis Carroll
4: Shel Silverstein
6: Ramona
8: Orson Scott Card
10: CLAM

3: Europa
6: CLAM
9: Persephone
12: CLAM
15: CLAM
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