Here are 10 clues from the 12-26-2018 Jeopardy! match.

The players got all the clues in SOME FILLER, except the last one (*):

($400) “You never miss the water till the ____ runs dry”
($800) “To err is human, to forgive ____ “
($1200) “If you play both ends against the ____ , the ____ will soon fold up”
($1600) ” ____ corrupts, and absolute ____ corrupts absolutely”
*($2000) Per Shakespeare, “What’s past is ____”

ANSWERS: show

The players got all the clues in “W”RITERS”

($400) His first published book was a biology text; his first novel was “The Time Machine”
($800) “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, a comedy of manners, is by this Irish wit
($1200) This playwright hit a homer with “Fences” which won a Pulitzer
($1600) Jonathan Franzen eulogized this 3-named author as having “produced a thousand pages of world-class jest”
($2000) Her first collection of stories, “In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women”, was released in 1973

ANSWERS; show

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