Current Goos
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publication date: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 (part of September 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, September 10
category: 
Business
clue: From its humble start in Australia, she built her eponymous company into a weight-management empire whose hundreds of centers spanned North America in the 1980s and 1990s.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 (part of September 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, September 9
category: 
Stunts
clue: This basketball fan brought her balancing act to both American and British televised talent competitions, but she's a native of China, just like the furry forest animal that inspired her performing name.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Monday, September 1, 2025 (part of September 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Monday, September 8
category: 
Crime
clue: This formative friend of pre-Apple Steves had a freaking great reputation for navigating complex telecom systems so deftly that it was like he ate phone networks for breakfast.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, August 31, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, September 7
category: 
Journalism
clue: This chronicler of the WWII troop experience was neither private like his TV namesake, nor a goober like that man's cousin.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Saturday, August 30, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, September 6
category: 
Controversy
clue: Millennials have gotten used to being told that they're lazy and entitled for yelping about minimum wage and not bootstrapping themselves, but they don't expect the criticism to come from their own, like this one at the wizened, world-weary age of 29.
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by player Steve West.
Scott Hardie made minor changes to the clue provided by Steve.
publication date: Friday, August 29, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Friday, September 5
category: 
Government
clue: Not only was he a fashion pioneer, he was also hand-picked to be his country's first prime minister.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, September 4
category: 
Sports
clue: It's tempting to say that this pro wrestler was a lover and not a fighter, but he put away so many opponents that he gained an assassin's nickname.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
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Eduard Khil
Eduard Khil, sometimes Anglicanized as Edward Hill, was a Russian singer. His wordless 1976 performance of "I Am So Glad I'm Finally Returning Back Home" became an Internet fad in 2010, earning him the nickname Mr. Trololo. He passed away suddenly in 2012. Go »
Kevin Roberts
Roberts is the president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the most influential conservative public policy organizations in the United States. During his tenure over the last few years, the organization has focused on Project 2025, a plan to staff Donald Trump's second administration with loyalists in order to pursue specific policy outcomes. Roberts, called "the mastermind of Project 2025," took it over in the summer of 2024 from its previous leader, Paul Dans. Go »
Blake Mycoskie
Mycoskie, a onetime contestant on the reality TV series The Amazing Race, founded Toms, a company that donates a pair of shoes to disadvantaged children for every pair purchased by a customer. Go »
Enrico Fermi
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Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark portrayed Jim Bowie in 1960's The Alamo. In his first movie role as the psychopathic gangster Tommy Udo in 1947's Kiss of Death, he pushed an old lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs to her death. Go »
Jo Stafford
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Dick Turpin
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