Crossword puzzle clue "without an answer"

Answer to the riddle "What has rivers without water, forests without trees, and cities without houses?"

Answer, when pointing to this answer, to the question "Which letters answer this clue?"

What the start of each starred answer is part of, for a company that intersects that answer

"Did you figure out the answer to this clue?" answer

If you have it, you might know what this answer is without reading the clue

Now you have the answer, one of these, and without leaving the continent in 17-A

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Leaves without an answer