Jeo 37 - 2

Brand Name In Music: In a "Be smooth like Skippy" commercial, Skippy peanut butter uses this song where Bruno Mars mentions the brand?

"Uptown Funk"

"E": Long ago, it had a curved shape, but now it's basically a big oboe?

the English horn

Old Military Abbreviations: During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur was CINCFE: commander-in-chief for this 2-word directional term for the region?

the Far East

FEMA: Let's start with the basics: FEMA is an acronym for this government organization?

the Federal Emergency Management Agency

American History: Established to help 4 million African Americans transition out of slavery, this bureau lasted from 1865 to 1872?

the Freedmen's Bureau

Nicknames: Around the turn of the 20th century, some U.S. Navy battleships were nicknamed this fleet, like a shark?

the Great White Fleet

World Geo: On either side of Indochina are these 2 gulfs that start with the same letter?

the Gulf of Tonkin & the Gulf of Thailand

Euro Peninsula: 2 nations make up this peninsula whose name is related to that of its Ebro River?

the Iberian Peninsula

Around The World: The fourth-most populous of the British Isles is this holiday isle off the south coast of England?

the Isle of Wight

19th Century Lit Creatures: The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion"?

the Jabberwock

European Landmarks: Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners?

the Louvre

Books For Kids: "Merlin Missions" are books in this "Magic" time-traveling series for older readers?

the Magic Tree House

World Geography: 2 important World War I battles were named for this river that joins the Seine near Paris?

the Marne

History: Europe sent goods to Africa; slaves went to the Americas on this agonizing leg of the triangle; & raw materials went back to Europe?

the Middle Passage

Flags: The map on the United Nations flag is centered on this geographical feature?

the North Pole

Science: This distant "cloud" named for an astronomer is thought to be the source of long-period comets?

the Oort Cloud

Churchill Speaks: With his party voted out, Churchill said he couldn't accept this Order after being given "the Order of the Boot"?

the Order of the Garter

Cities On The River: Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana?

the Orinoco

Flags: Mary Hoff, whose husband was shot down over Laos, had the idea for this, the only flag on permanent display in the Capitol rotunda?

the POW flag (MIA flag)

History: Now held in the same host cities as the related games, these international athletic competitions began in 1960?

the Paralympics

"house": Across the street from Ford's Theatre is this residence where Abraham Lincoln died?

the Petersen Boarding House

French Lit: France's premier literary prize, this "Prix" awards a whopping 10 euros to the winner?

the Prix Goncourt

____ of ____: The Arabic Ahramat al-Jizah translates as these ancient wonders?

the Pyramids of Giza

Thomas Paine: Paine defended the French Revolution in this work that was a response to Edmund Burke's hostile "Reflections"?

the Rights of Man

Geo: From its sources in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, this 1,900-mile river flows all the way to the Gulf of Mexico?

the Rio Grande

WWII Europe: U.S. troops marched into Germany through the dragon's teeth of this defensive line named for a legendary German hero?

the Siegfried Line

Anthropology: A theory named for this vast grassland of Europe & Asia says the Indo-European languages originated there?

the Steppe

Medicine: As its name indicates, this heart valve regulates blood flow to the lungs, if it's damaged, the heart gets stressed?

the pulmonary valve

Medical Latin: O.D. can stand for an overdose or for this body part, oculus dexter in Latin?

the right eye

Nonfiction: In her book about this punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson wrote, "Big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink"?

the semicolon

Small Animals: Named for another creature, this bitter, complaining type of mole is the world's smallest, at less than 1/2 an ounce?

the shrew mole

2-Letters, 3-Letters: A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart?

to bed

4 Of The Same Letter: Adjective meaning lacking all moral principles?

unscrupulous

Hand: This twisting action done out of grief or concern can also mean showing an exaggerated amount of those emotions?

wringing your hands

Marine Biology: A brown alga, this largest seaweed can grow 200 feet long & forms forests off the California coast?

(giant) kelp

MacGuffin: After this title object is stolen from Antonio in a classic 1948 Italian film, the hunt to recover it begins?

A Bicycle

Stars With Something You Can Ride: They help waiters in restaurants with resetting tables & other tasks?

A Busboy

British Poetry: Robert Burns described this creature as a "cow'rin tim'rous beastie"?

A Mouse

Not Everyday Words Anymore: A nepheliad was a cloud one; you've probably heard of the dryad, a wood one?

A Nymph

Single Vowel Words: A manufacturing facility, or a person in the audience who's there to help a performer?

A Plant

D Middle OF The Word: It's a French dialect of Louisiana, ma chere?

Acadian

"ad": Home to a species of penguin, this Antarctic land was named by French explorer Dumont d'Urville for his wife?

Adelie

Almost Stupid Answers: In Italian, "erta" is a lookout--the phrase "all'erta", meaning on the lookout, led to this 5-letter term for a warning?

Alert

Knotty: The knot called this hitch or bend is used to ensure your boat's rope stays attached to a certain heavy object?

Anchor

Countries National Anthems: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations"?

Andorra

Pop Culture: Seen here, he played the hot priest who was the object of affection for TV's "Fleabag"?

Andrew Scott

Scientists: This French pioneer of studies in electricity got quite a shock when his father was guillotined in 1793?

André-Marie Ampère

Pop Culture: Ewan McGregor plays the Vatican's Camerlengo in this 2009 film based on a Dan Brown book?

Angels & Demons

Compounds: Amyl nitrite is often used to treat this chest pain, a symptom of coronary artery disease?

Angina

Just Got Real: When the Book of Common Prayer was first issued in 1549, this faith's parting from Roman Catholic tradition was realized?

Anglican

Country: It borders another 6-letter country, Zambia?

Angola

Family Business: In 2006 the new CEO of this beverage company was August IV, great-great-grandson of co-founder Adolphus?

Anheuser-Busch

Pop Culture: An industrious raccoon named Tom Nook runs the in-game business in this Nintendo game: "New Horizons"?

Animal Crossing

Dinosaurs: The Stegosaurus lived 150 million years ago; this even more heavily-armored grade A relative came 80 million years later?

Ankylosaurus

Nebula Award: Later a Natalie Portman film, this novel deals with 4 women who must explore Area X & the odd creatures within?

Annihilation

Nonsense Words: Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word?

Baloney

Base: Some say we should move to base 12, with 6 factors, & away from base this, with 4 factors?

Base 10

Bell: Originally, this 6-letter type of tower was for warfare & had no bells inside--how batty?

Belfry

Country Facts: "La Brabanconne", also known as "The Song Of Brabant", is the national anthem of this country?

Belgium

Ad Slogan: Sony: Make. ____>

Believe

Euro Peninsula: The name of this French region that protrudes into the Atlantic has a name related to the land to its north?

Brittany

"Br"ands: Around since 1928, it now says, "One small dab and it shines, styles and conditions hair"?

Brylcreem

What's In The Envelope: They're seed packets from this Pennsylvania-based company whose name is the same as an exercise move; time to get planting!?

Burpee

Magazines: Now owned by Bloomberg, this financial magazine debuted 7 weeks before the big stock market crash of 1929?

Business Week

Geography: Home to the Piazza Alberica, this Italian city is better known for what it supplied to works by Henry Moore & Michelangelo?

Carrara

Opera: "Porgy and Bess" is set in an area known by this "fishy" name?

Catfish Row

TV Comedy Characters: Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon"?

Chip Baskets

Classic British Novels: The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow"?

D.H. Lawrence

8-Letter Words: As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed?

Dispatch

Failed Amendments: An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985?

District Of Columbia

Lit: The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March"?

E.L. Doctorow

Around The World: Cotopaxi, meaning "shining peak", is an active volcano in this South American nation?

Ecuador

Movies About Movies: As cops roll up mid-scene in this 1994 film about a director, Johnny Depp realizes, "We don't have a permit! Run!"?

Ed Wood

Journalists: Mary Marvin Breckenridge was the only woman among the World War II era correspondents known as this reporter's "Boys"?

Edward R. Murrow

Dresses: Go vintage with the look of this era named for a king from 1901 to 1910?

Edwardian

Base: In 1981 the Shuttle Columbia completed NASA's first flight with a wheeled landing at this California Air Force base?

Edwards

Country Name Origins: Via French & Greek from Hut-ka-Ptah, "temple of the soul of Ptah"?

Egypt

Historical Nonfiction: "1177 B.C." marks the decline of this ancient North African empire following invasions by marauding "sea peoples" that year?

Egypt

US Cities: This city on the Rio Grande is the sister city of Juarez, Mexico?

El Paso

Jimmy Carter: Jimmy cut aid to this Central American country following the murder of Archbishop Romero & 4 U.S. churchwomen?

El Salvador

Languages: In addition to the language of the host country, these 2 are the official languages of the Olympics?

English & French

"E": An example of this, at the grave of Marguerite Daniels: "She always said her feet were killing her, but no one believed her"?

Epitath

Triple: The USA's 3 main credit Bureaus are TransUnion, Experian & this one that began with a grocer listing his credit-worthy customers?

Equifax

Paradox: The liar paradox begins with a contradictory statement: the given "sentence is" this?

False

Human Body: Adipose cell is another name for this cell?

Fat Tissue

Opera: Mephistopheles is a bass in Gounod's opera about this title soul-selling philosopher?

Faust

Month's Celebration: Black History Month?

February

Body Words: Iambs are metrical these?

Feet

Nonsense Words: This hyphenated nonsense word begins with a word for a violin & ends with a word one letter different from the first?

Fiddle-Faddle

Beautiful Vocab: As a noun, it's a monetary penalty paid to a court; as an adjective, it describes a pleasing look?

Fine

Coast: The name of its capital translates to "Freetown" in this coastal nation highlighted here, independent from France since 1960?

Gabon

Bible Place: "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into" this region, now in northern Israel?

Galilee

Business: On January 13, 2021 the stock price of this company opened around $20; on January 29, $380 & by February 5, $54?

Gamestop

Match: A tiger was one of the creatures on the tag that helped kids mix & match items of apparel from this clothing brand that started in 1972?

Garanimals

Credit: The time between the end of a credit card's billing cycle & the due date is this "period"?

Grace Period

Classical Music: "On the Trail" is a movement from this "Suite", Ferde Grofe's most famous?

Grand Canyon Suite

Sound Garden: I heard you coming up the garden walkway due to the crunchy stones called "pea" this I used to line the path?

Gravel

Unusual Islands: More than 300 shipwrecks have earned Canada's Sable Island the nickname this "of the Atlantic"?

Graveyard

Problem Is: In classical mechanics the 3-body problem examines the motion of 3 objects in space affected only by this force?

Gravity

Animals: The sea wasp, a box type of this sea creature, can have tentacles 10 feet long?

Jellyfish

Lit: Beatrix Potter wrote & illustrated "The Tale of" this puddle-duck?

Jemima

Sacred Books: Isa ibn Maryam, a prophet in the Koran, is better known as him?

Jesus, son of Mary

Lit: TB, or not TB, there is no question tuberculosis killed this "Eve of St. Agnes" romantic poet at age 25?

John Keats

Pop Culture: On HBO Jude Law was "The Young Pope" & this actor had no trouble being "The New Pope"?

John Malkovich

Prague: One of many statues on Charles Bridge is of this prophet, a contemporary of Jesus who urged repentance?

John The Baptist

Odd History: Caligula declared himself a god & decreed that a bridge be built between his palace & the temple of this top Roman god?

Jupiter

World Of Empires: In 1747 the Durrani Empire's capital was in this Afghan city once taken by Alexander the Great, who was also called Iskander?

Kandahar

Animal-Named Animals: Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs?

Kangaroo Rat

Pop Culture: To promote his album "The Life of Pablo", this rapper opened a series of pop-up stores around the world?

Kanye West

Science: This disease was first identified due to a 1976 convention in Philadelphia?

Legionnaires Disease

Dresses: For spring, try a dress in the purplish color of this 5-letter spring bloomer, Syringa vulgaris?

Lilac

Investing Terms: Watery term for the ability to convert an asset into cash quickly?

Liquidity

Musicals By Setting: Mushnik's skid row florists?

Little Shop of Horrors

Terms: Magnetite is sometimes referred to as this "stone", also a word for someone or something people are attracted to?

Lodestone

Spanish: "El amor es ciego" is Spanish for this phrase?

Love Is Blind

"mm": This rap artist got his stage name due to his resemblance to a baseball home run king?

MC Hammer

Opera: In this opera, Lt. Pinkerton is already married to Cio-Cio-san when he turns up with an American wife named Kate?

Madame Butterfly

Ends In A Female First Name: Desire to harm; the Supreme Court has said it's necessary for libel?

Malice

Cathay: The merit-based civil servants of old Cathay were called these, from the language they spoke?

Mandarins

Stephen King Title: The name of a shop in Castle Rock where you find the object of your dreams?

Needful Things

Sports: This U.S. pro soccer team sounds like an energy drink?

New York Red Bulls

2 Household Brands: Noxzema came out in 1914, just 3 years after the launch of this snowy white skin cream whose name also starts with "N"?

Nivea

Oceanographic Terms: Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index"?

Niño

Deeper Album Cuts: The 2000 album "Return of Saturn" by this ska-pop band found "Magic's In The Makeup"

No Doubt

Pronouns: In an epic move, Odysseus gave this as his name when asked by the Cyclops?

No One

Midwest: Directions from Minot to Grand Forks in this state: hop on US-2, go east for about 210 miles, stop?

North Dakota

Outside: This mountaineering apparel company began in 1966 in San Francisco's North Beach?

North Face

Myth: A weaver by day & an unraveler by night, she kept suitors at bay during Odysseus' absence by never finishing her shroud?

Penelope

State: The second state to join the Union, it borders the first & third, Delaware & New Jersey?

Pennsylvania

-ologies: It's the branch of criminology dealing with prison management & criminal rehabilitation?

Penology

History: Herodotus claimed that only 192 Greeks were killed but 6,400 of these invading foes died at the Battle of Marathon... hmmm?

Persians

Historic Places: Walk the footsteps of Peter the Great in this Russian equivalent of Versailles meaning "Peter's court"--oddly, in Dutch?

Peterhof

BOURGEOISIE: This French word for "small" is used of small businessmen, civil servants & others aspiring to be haut-bourgeois?

Petite

Female Lit Protagonist: This wife of Theseus had a minor part in Euripides' "Hippolytus" but got her own Racine tragedy?

Phaedra

Summer Movies: Computer & TV screen images are made of these, the title of a 2015 movie about video game characters attacking Earth?

Pixels

Not Doubt: I'm quite confident of the outcome; I'm this, the charge of a cation?

Positive

Lit: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet?

Possession

Musicals: The Senate Finance Committee is part of this 1936 Cole Porter musical whose title plays on the colors of the flag?

Red, Hot and Blue

Garbage: Dregs or leavings; Emma Lazarus had "wretched" precede it?

Refuse

Same First & Last Letters: The chief instigator of a group engaged in an illegal activity?

Ringleader

Authors In Military: Ian Fleming served in British naval intelligence after an undistinguished stint in this U.K. military academy?

Sandhurst

American Revolution: British general Burgoyne's 1777 surrender after the second battle of this New York state site was a turning point in the war?

Saratoga

Skillful Words & Phrases: There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness?

Savvy

Cave: Calcite honeycombing, called boxwork, is a feature almost unique to Wind Cave National Park in this state?

South Dakota

Not A US State: As in the title of a Russell Crowe film, "State of" this refers to "the current situation"?

State Of Play

Supreme Court Decisions: In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, the court said president Truman could not nationalize this industry?

Steel Industry

Chemical Romance: Some evidence indicates that androstadienone found in this human skin excretion boosts women's moods?

Sweat

Plain Name Maladies: Cercarial dermatitis, this type of athlete's "itch", is not caused by chlorine but by a parasite?

Swimmer's

In August: August 1990: Sue Hendrickson discovers a 40-foot-long skeleton of this?

T-Rex

Books: This John Irving character wrote "Procrastination" & "Second Wind of the Cuckold"; mother Jenny wrote "A Sexual Suspect"?

T.S. Garp

Non-Fiction: He tackles Obama's legacy in "We Were Eight Years in Power"?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

World Geography: To visit beautiful Moorea in French Polynesia from the U.S., you'll likely first fly to this larger sister island about 10 miles away?

Tahiti

Countries: Smaller islands under the jurisdiction of this island country include Lyudao & Quemoy?

Taiwan

Green: Cecil Howard Green helped transform a Dallas geophysics company into the electronics giant now known by this name?

Texas Instruments

People From That State: 2 of the 3 states whose final "S" becomes an "N" to describe their residents?

Texas, Kansas & Arkansas

Historic Numbers: In 1815 the Comte de Chabrol coined this numerical term for a period that had actually lasted for nearly 16 weeks?

The 100 Days

Parts Of The Ocean: Near the Antillean Arc, the Milwaukee Depth is the deepest point in this ocean?

The Atlantic Ocean

Island Reads: In this Walter Farley novel, Alec bonds with the title horse when they are shipwrecked together?

The Black Stallion

Did You Read: ... About Daphne working with the Duke of Hastings in "The Duke and I", the first in this book series, now a Netflix fave?

The Bridgerton Series

American History: Due to concerns with how this tally for 1920 was run, Congress was not reapportioned for the decade?

The Census

Poetic Book Titles: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas?

The Dying of the Light

TV Roles: Lee Majors played a stuntman who had a side hustle as a bounty hunter on this 1980s series?

The Fall Guy

German Authors: Hermann Hesse's last novel, "Das Glasperlenspiel" translates to this title in English?

The Glass Bead Game

Bone: The Ilium is the upper part of this big bone?

The Hip Bone

Sea: Known to the ancients as Oceanus Hibernicus, it's connected to the Atlantic within the British Isles?

The Irish Sea

Medicine: The first place nutrients go after they are absorbed by the small intestine is this largest gland in the body?

The Liver

TV: In 1980 Tom Hanks came aboard this ABC show as Rick Martin; hope he tipped Isaac the bartender well?

The Love Boat

Europe Lakes: If you're sailing around the Frisian Lakes like Sneekermeer, you're having fun in this country?

The Netherlands

Thomas Paine: A "Captain America" movie got its title by contrasting this Paine phrase meaning someone who only fights when it's pleasant outside?

The Summer Soldier

Shakespeare's Play: "Let's all sink with the king" is a line from the opening scene of this play?

The Tempest

Throne Out: King Louis-Philippe was ousted in 1848--France never liked him walking around like a British businessman, in a suit & carrying this?

Umbrella

Fiction: This 2009 bestseller from Stephen King comes with a map of the isolated Chester's Mill?

Under The Dome

Marine Biology: One look at the forehead of the genus Naso, & you'll see why it's also known as this fish?

Unicorn Fish

Add An S To The Front: Fermented juice turns into barnyard beasts?

Wine & Swine

Dinosaurs: When the first specimen of this horned dinosaur was found in Colorado in 1887, it was mistaken for an extinct buffalo?

a Triceratops

Etymology: The pope delivers blessings from this type of projecting platform, from Italian for "scaffold"?

a balcony

3 Of The Same Consonants: This wide-trunked African tree can live over a thousand years?

a baobab

Thailand: One of the world's tiniest mammals, the bumblebee this is native to Thailand?

a bat

Etymology: Greek for "deep" & "ball" gave us this word for an early deep-sea observation vessel?

a bathysphere

"eet": Term for a newspaper published in a large format, regarded as more serious & less sensational than tabloids?

a broadsheet

Onions: Botanically, an onion includes this type of thickened, underground plant?

a bulb

Mountaintop: One of these stone piles sits atop the summit of High Seat in Northern England's Lake District?

a cairn

5-Letters, 3-Syllables: The central administration of the Catholic church in Rome?

a curia

Birding: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders?

a field guide

Teacup: A house one of these birds enjoys some seeds & rest in a teacup bird feeder?

a finch

7-Letter Animals: In 2020, a Florida zoo saw the birth of an endangererd slender-horned this; we hope the little guy is as graceful as his mom, Clover?

a gazelle

Sense Organ: The respiratory area of the nose has tiny hairlike structures called cilia & this moist alliterative lining?

a mucous membrane

Etymology: Latin for "change" gives us this word for an organism that has arisen from a change in genetic material?

a mutant

What To Wear: The soft underfur of a Tibetan goat gives this cashmere shawl its name, which is partly derived from Urdu?

a pashmina

16-Letter Words: In a 1923 poem Robert Frost described himself as this, now meaning one who advocates for the protection of the natural world?

an environmentalist

Giving Tree: Trees named for Rudolph Hass yield the most popular variety of these?

avocados

3 "r"'s: The blood-brain this is made of tight capillary walls & reduces the danger of mercury poisoning?

barrier

Innovative Woman: In the early 1900s Melitta Bentz used a piece of blotting paper to create this & then a company to make them?

coffee filters

C____D: As an adjective, it means devoted; as a verb, it means perpetrated?

committed

C____D: Referring to its crunch, it's another name for iceberg lettuce?

crisphead

"C" In Science: This field concerned with the effects of low temperatures on organisms derives its name from words meaning "icy life study"?

cryobiology

"toc": Fans of vintage stuff covet old unsold items classed as this inventory with a "mortal" name?

dead stock

Book Words & Phrases: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward?

debunk

Law: Res judicata, "a thing already judged", is the civil law version of this 2-word action banned by the Bill of Rights?

double jeopardy

Skillful Words & Phrases: Latin for "easy" gives us this 6-letter adjective for a display of smooth skill?

facile

3 Consecutive Vowels: Meaning "made up", it also refers in legal terms to any business name that's not the official incorporated one?

fictitious

First To Third: The U.K.'s House of Commons uses this 4-word electoral system where a simple majority of votes determines the winner of the race?

first past the post

Medical Idioms: Your illness has returned? It's one of these that you also might see coming from a sinking ship?

flare-up

Double Double Vowels: Drifting independently heedless of rules, like Bob Dylan in a '63 album title?

freewheelin'

Game: After the Raiders won a 1978 game on a play called "The Holy Roller", the NFL cracked down on offensive advances via these?

fumbles

Anagrams Of Each Other: Slang for a look, as in "take a ____ at this", & the exposure to risk?

gander & danger

No Vowels: BSQS: It's from the Latin for "compliant", perhaps to excess?

obsequious

"over"/"under": To use a literary style that's too elaborate; in word processing, it's also the opposite of insert?

overwrite

"over"/"under": One of few words with the letter sequence "rwr", it means too excited or agitated?

overwrought

"Pat": It's a name derived from one's father, like Johnson from John?

patronym

Safety: Goggles, gloves & masks are considered PPE, short for this?

personal protective equipment

Homophones: A stage of development & to disconcert or disturb?

phase & faze

Science: 18th-century scientists believed all combustible materials contained a substance they called this, from Greek for "burned"?

phlogiston

Stars With An Animal: Bilirubin & carotene are these coloring agents?

pigments

Buckingham Palace: Don't set your beer glass down on the Table of the Great Commanders made with this material, a specialty of Sèvres, France?

porcelain

Americana: The USA's oldest continuously operating one, this building has linked Hinsdale, N.H. with the world since it opened in 1816?

post office

10-Letter Words: Shizuoka is this, a Japanese jurisdiction, partly from the Latin for "before"?

prefecture

Legal: If a judge has ruled against a case & said another lawsuit can't be filed on the same grounds, it's been "dismissed with" this?

prejudice

Losing Your Religion: A type of holy man loses the last letter of his title & does this, snoops into others' business?

pries

Medical Abbrev: With most HMOs, you start by choosing a PCP, this doctor?

primary care physician

Plane: Having more than 2 blades on this is less efficient but also quieter--some have as many as 10?

propeller

Investing Terms: Latin for "distant view", it's a document outlining an investment offering's risks & objectives?

prospectus

-matic: This 13-letter word describes medical conditions that are caused or heightened by one's mental or emotional state?

psychosomatic

Adjective: Whimsical & sly, or resembling a hockey essential?

puckish

Journey: "Hero" this type of searching journey in folklore is the name of a Milton Bradley fantasy game?

quest (HeroQuest)

Angry: This 6-letter word for "to irritate" is properly intransitive: "The insults ____", not "The insults ____ me"?

rankle

Genes: This "re" adjective for a molecule of genetic material means it's been spliced together using DNA from different sources?

recombinant

14-Letter Words: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose?

reconnaissance

Etymology: Washington made one of the first uses of this verb form of "reconnaissance" in English & ended it with an "re" like the British do?

reconnoiter

Monday: Pairing a legume & a grain, this New Orleans specialty is traditionally served on Mondays?

red beans & rice

"S"ix Letter Words: Depending how it's spelled, it can be a small perfumed pouch or to walk with a strut?

sachet/sashay

7-Letter Words: The National Federation of the Blind uses this word, not "unblind"?

sighted

Etymology: This word is an abbreviation of "stammlager", meaning main camp?

stalag

Sci-Fi: In "The Three-Body Problem", the Trisolarans have 3 of these near their world & it's bad for them, so they're coming here?

stars (suns)

Reading Material: Look, nothing's written in this--well, the tablet of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta from the 1200s B.C. is?

stone

Holidays & Festivals: Riverfest is a big annual celebration in Wichita, Kansas & this is the river?

the Arkansas River

History: Established in the 10th century, the Varangian Guard was an elite force of Vikings acting as bodyguards of this empire's monarch?

the Byzantine Empire

History Place: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The gathering called this, which reshaped the map of Europe in 1814 through 1815 was noted for partying as much as negotiating; one highlight was a 33-sleigh convoy of princes & potentates to a ball at Schönbrunn Palace?

the Congress of Vienna

3 D's: The text of this document begins with "When" & ends with "honor"?

the Declaration of Independence

Borders: On the border with Pennsylvania, Narrowsburg, N.Y. got its name because it's on the narrowest part of this river?

the Delaware River

Failed Amendments: In 2017, 35 years after its congressional deadline had passed, Nevada ratified this failed amendment?

the ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment)

US Decade: The Civilian Conservation Corps gets started?

1930s

Capital Hills: Clinton Avenue & Ten Broeck Street run through the Arbor Hill neighborhood of this state capital?

Albany

Licence To: Operators of CB radio have a "license by rule", while operators of this need an FCC amateur operator license?

ham radio

Space: If someone is amazing in your eyes, he or she has done this, maybe like someone putting up an astronomical mobile?

hung the moon

Dresses: brides.com says the stiffer this "T" fabric, the better the quality--doesn't sound comfy?

taffeta

Short Stories: This Pulitzer winner from Mississippi published her first short story in 1936; her classic "The Petrified Man", 5 years later?

Eudora Welty

4-Letter Synonyms: Departure?

Exit

Also Known As: The supercilia are these body parts that you may raise to appear supercilious?

Eyebrows

President's Birth City: Brookline?

JFK

-ington: The Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association is headquartered here?

Lexington

Dresses: This word for a big, billowy skirt is a homophone of a word meaning "disappear"?

Poof

Messy: This 8-letter word for shabby originally described people wearing loose shoes?

Slipshod

Landmarks: Recent research suggests segments of this British landmark were moved 150 miles from Wales--quite a job?

Stonehenge

Globetrotting: The Temple of the Great Jaguar at Tikal in Guatemala was part of the largest city of these people?

The Mayan

Literary Girl, Interrupted: The ambassador's wife, on Anna Karenina: "She brought back with her the shadow of..." him?

Vronsky

Flags: The bold rooster struts on the flag of this French-speaking part of Belgium?

Wallonia

Giving Tree: The leaves of Brazil's carnauba palm yield a type of this used in lipsticks & shoe polish?

Wax

Honorific Titles: The wife of a lord ain't just a lady (though that is a title equivalent), she's a this?

a dame

Pharmaceuticals: To unstuff my nasal passages, please get me this type of drug (a word that's right on the non-drowsy Sudafed box)?

a decongestant

Complete The Idiom: That's a tough choice to make: "On the horns of..."?

a dilemma

Not To Be Confused: Origami is the art of folding paper; gourami is one of these creatures?

a fish

Compounds: In 1839 John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate "to arrest action of light", making it this type of photographic agent?

a fixer (fixing agent)

Dive: Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water?

a gainer (full gainer)

Listen Up: From the 1970s to the 1990s, you wouldn't hear the sound of this device in homes in New York City, where it was banned?

a garbage disposal

Double Double Rhymers: A non-lethal weapon that fires an electric charge, & a 5k engaged in for pleasure?

a stun gun & a fun run

C.G.: In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"?

Crystal Gayle

Film: 1953: "The Beast from 20,000 ____"?

Fathoms

People From That State: Residents of this state are to be called this state "Residents" to differentiate from the native population?

Hawaii

Other Hamiltons: By 7, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had a good grasp on Latin, Greek & this main language of the Old Testament?

Hebrew

Moon: One of Harry Potter's friends at Hogwarts shares her first name with this Roman goddess of the Moon?

Luna

Same Animal: Lippy & Kovu?

2 Lions

Game: An MLB rule change eliminated the "neighborhood play"; fielders now have to touch this base to record an out there?

2nd Base

Set: It's the intersection of the set {3, 4, 5} with the set of prime numbers?

3 & 5

Buddhism: After gaining knowledge of the Four Noble Truths, Buddhists follow a "path" of this many parts in order to reach Nirvana?

8

Shakespeare: Referred to in "Love's Labour's Lost", novum quinque is a dice game where the goal is to roll these 2 numbers?

9 & 5

Hole: General Patton said that for a soldier to dig this is to dig his own grave?

A Foxhole

Old Synonyms: An erring star or a wanderer was one of these?

Planet

"S" Countries: Your plane just touched down at Bandaranaike International Airport--welcome to this country!?

Sri Lanka

Saint Names: Used to treat depression, this plant is named for the man who baptized Jesus?

St. John's wort

Suffix: Answer this suffix that means "speaker of a language"?

-phone

Not Your Everyday Words: In meteorology, an okta is a unit used to describe the cloud cover of this fraction of the sky?

1/8

Veto: The president has this many days to sign a bill--if it runs out when Congress is adjourned, it's called a pocket veto?

10 Days

5-Letter Words: With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock?

A Geode

Colorful Vocab: Once a block of worthless material made to look valuable, it now means to shirk a duty, especially in the military?

goldbrick

-ium: This silvery white metal was first known in compounds like Epsom salts?

magnesium

Food Network: Manischewitz makes a s'mores kit for this unleavened bread?

matzah

Extinct Animals: With feathers once favored in women's hats, the Carolina variety of this bird was widespread in the eastern U.S. until around 1920?

the Carolina parakeet

U.K. 1980s: In 1987 a conference of this entity voted by a huge majority for the ordination of women?

the Church of England (the Anglican Communion)

Beach: This alliterative phrase that mentions the land closest to the sea means that it's safe to proceed & have a great time?

the coast is clear

Brit Boats: This British force, which unlike the USA's is just one word, was founded in 1822 as 3 anti-smuggling services merged?

the coastguard

CDC Says So: Pink eye is an inflammation of this clear membrane lining the inside of the eyelid & the white part of the eyeball?

the conjunctiva

Ends In X: A few millimeters thick, this part of the brain directs motor activity & processes sensory information?

the cortex

African Americans Pre-1860: Richard Allen was honored on a 2016 stamp, 200 years after he founded the church commonly known by these three initials?

AME (African Methodist Episcopal)

Something: On December 31, 2020 this company stopped supporting its once popular Flash Player?

Adobe

Which Cabinet Dept.: Food Safety & Inspection Service?

Agriculture

Movie: The title of this 2007 film starring Saoirse Ronan is a synonym for expiation?

Atonement

Disney Movie Songs: "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"?

Cinderella

Science: This lowest part of the brainstem helps maintain normal blood pressure, among other activities?

the medulla

Not Everyday Words Anymore: Like gin blossoms, grog blossoms refer to this part of the face?

the nose

A____Y: To put to the test, like the composition of a metal?

to assay

Journalists: Matt Bai, Judith Crist & Steve Kroft have been honored as distinguished alumni of this university's School of Journalism?

Columbia

2nd: In 2021 he became the USA's first second gentleman?

Doug Emhoff

Ancient Greeks: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes"?

Draco

Islands: This island has a museum in Napoleon's summer residence, Villa San Martino?

Elba

"E" Books: Gail Carson Levine reimagined "Cinderella" with the heroine under a curse of obedience in this double-"E" title?

Ella Enchanted

20-something: This language, introduced around 1900, has 28 letters, including 6 special ones; you can enable your keyboard to type them?

Esperanto

War: The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country?

Ethiopia

World Flags: The use of red, yellow & green as Pan-African colors began with the flag of this nation, the continent's oldest independent country?

Ethipia

Exodus: "I will smite all thy borders with" these creatures: "and the river shall bring forth" them "abundantly"?

Frogs

Authors: James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor?

From here To Eternity

PBS: "Every story brings you closer to the truth" on this investigative series, winner of more than 90 Emmys since its 1983 debut?

Frontline

5-Letter Words: Candy word meaning to falsify numbers?

Fudge

Pharmaceuticals: The active ingredient in products like Lotrimin for athlete's foot is an "anti-" this?

Fungal

Herbs: While southern Europe embraced this bulb, a late 17th c. British discourse on salads spoke of its "intolerable rankness"?

Garlic

Math Champ: This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians"?

Gauss

Euro History: Once a powerful republic, this Italian city lost 4 wars to Venice in the Middle Ages?

Genoa

Words In Books: This playwright translated the German term "übermensch" & used it in the title of his play "Man and Superman"?

George Bernard Shaw

Guitar: Playing with this Beatle's son Dhani, Paul McCartney repeated the line, "It looks like he stayed young and we all got old"?

George Harrison

Current TV: The April 7, 2021 episode of "The Goldbergs" included a tribute to this late actor who played Pops?

George Segal

Drunk History: The Bols family began distilling Genever, also known as "Hollands" or "Dutch" this liquor, in 1664?

Gin

Geo: The largest of the Mariana Islands, this U.S. territory is in the western Pacific Ocean?

Guam

Interior Dept: Around 1950 Interior assumed jurisdiction over American Samoa & this U.S. territory, said to be "Where America's Day Begins"?

Guam

Broadway Musical By Opening Number: "Opening (Runyonland)", by the ensemble?

Guys & Dolls

Olivier Awards: Dolores Umbridge in the "Harry Potter" films, Imelda Staunton has won several Oliviers, including as Mama Rose in this musical?

Gypsy

1492: In May hungry peasants called the bread & cheese folk briefly seized this Dutch city; you could call it a rage in...?

Haarlem

H____H: A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women?

Hadassah

PBS: A BAFTA-winning series about love & second chances is called "Last Tango in" this place?

Halifax

Biblical Broadway: Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" is based on this "occupational" book of the Old Testament?

Judges

High: The Aswan High Dam controls the floodwaters of the Nile, forcing them into this lake?

Lake Nasser

Lakes: Toronto & Oswego, New York are ports on this Great Lake that reaches a depth of over 800 feet?

Lake Ontario

Shape: When capitalized, this Greek letter looks like an upside down "V"?

Lambda

Henry: King of England from 1399 to 1413, Henry IV was the first of the 3 kings of this ruling house?

Lancaster

Interior Dept: The U.S. Grazing Service was one of the precursor agencies to this bureau that controls 245 million acres?

Land Management

Hurricanes: A hurricane "makes" this when its center, not its outer edge, crosses a coastline?

Land(fall)

Plane: Tandem, tricycle & tailwheel are the 3 main types of this equipment you definitely want on your plane?

Landing Gear

The -ology Studies What?: Glossology?

Languages

Late: This "floral" term refers to someone whose talents flourish after a long span of time?

Late Bloomer

Thicker Than Water: While this substance is the chief source of natural rubber, the kind used in certain paints is synthetic?

Latex

Minneapolis: (Hi, I'm Rena Sarigianopoulos.) Returning to the city sidewalk in 2017 after two years of street construction, the statue of this TV character again reminded residents "You're gonna make it after all"?

Mary Richards

Science: Working according to the same principles as a laser, a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word?

Microwave

Holidays: In Europe, this magical holiday is celebrated the week of the June solstice?

Midsummer

Fight: In addition to knocking out Michael Spinks in the ring, this man knocked out several dinosaurs in a cartoon?

Mike Tyson

Science: The Supreme Court ruled you cannot patent natural genes, like the BRCA1 & BRCA2 ones named for this type of cancer?

breast cancer

Science & Tech: In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it?

Nikola Tesla

Jobs: In Polish: hydraulik?

Plumber

What's In The Envelope: It's a gift card to REI, which stands for this type of Equipment, Inc.?

Recreational

Sun: In 5 billion years, out of hydrogen, the Sun will become this big, colorful type of star & start engulfing planets?

Red Giant

Podcast: Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen teamed up for this podcast whose name means "rebels" & starts with the same 2 letters?

Renegades

Mother: In 2018 Micheál Neeson changed his last name to this in honor of his late mother?

Richardson

Capital Hills: Local legend says this state capital's name was inspired by a view of the James River from atop Libby Hill?

Richmond

Herbs: Eating one seed from the castor bean can be fatal due to the presence of this blood-clumping toxin?

Ricin

Birding: A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song?

Robin

One-Named Authors: German poet Novalis pioneered this passionate literary movement & died young of TB in 1801?

Romanticism

Sleepy Time: An old song says, this personification of sleep, "bring me a dream"?

Sandman

Science: Phrenology was based on the idea that a person's character could be determined by feeling the shape of this body part?

Skull

Ad Slogan: Volkswagen, in the '60s: Think ____?

Small

Lit: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute"?

Speak

Science: Aristotle thought the orbits of the Sun, Moon & planets formed a concentric series of these 3-dimensional shapes?

Spheres

WWII Europe: During the Battle of Britain, brave engineers removed an unexploded bomb that would have devastated this London landmark?

St. Paul's Cathedral

On Speaking: Alan Rickman called this 2-word terror "a gremlin that sits on your shoulder & tries to make you fail"?

Stage Fright

Olmsted: Olmsted teamed with a Boston firm to come up with the final plans seen here for this university in Northern California & here it is today?

Stanford

What College?: Hoover Tower, named after a president?

Stanford

Chosen Few: This "twinkly" tribunal that persecuted Puritans was abolished by Parliament in 1641?

Star Chamber

Garbage: As a verb it means to drink greedily or guzzle; as a noun it's slop for swine?

Swill

3-Ring: "Thr33 Ringz" was a 2008 album from this master of Auto-Tune seen here?

T-Pain

Squad: A Cleveland Browns owner put reserve players on the payroll of his cab company, hence this name?

Taxi Squad

Assam: The Indian state of Assam gives its name to a common type of this, & Assam grows lots of it?

Tea

Nonfiction: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" says this drink kept workers alert & was key to Britain's Industrial Revolution?

Tea

You Lose: 6 days after picking Carly Fiorina to be his vice presidential running mate in 2016, this Texan dropped out of the race?

Ted Cruz

Civil War: U.S. Grant got his "Unconditional Surrender" nickname at the 1862 capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in this state?

Tennessee

Cars: Its Roadster can top 250 mph & has a 620-mile range, sans gas?

Tesla

Sheriff: Daughter of migrant farmworkers, Sheriff Lupe Valdez ran in 2018 to become this state's governor, losing to Greg Abbott?

Texas

Sports: In 2020 California's East Fullerton Little League banned the name of this shamed 2017 World Series champion team?

The Astros

They Go Low: The Elon Musk company aiming to put train & autonomous vehicle tunnels under major cities has this name that sounds pretty blah?

The Boring Company

Computer Speak: Whenever you access a webpage, your browser puts the data in this temporary storage for faster retrieval?

The Cache

This Means War: To come into conflict, as the same-named "Train In Vain" band members certainly did?

The Clash

TV Before & After: Ned Stark faces a trio of women & asks them questions in order to select one for a night out?

The Dating Game Of Thrones

Souvenirs: The Museum of the American Revolution sells a toy this instrument played by 2 marchers in the "Spirit of '76" painting?

The Drum

Pop Culture: Mobster & assassin Frank Sheeran is the title character of this 2019 Martin Scorsese mob epic?

The Irishman

Ancient Math: The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other?

The Knuckles

Capital Hills: This capital complex sits atop Borovitsky Hill?

The Kremlin

Bestsellers: This 1956 book about a politician in his final campaign became a phrase meaning any fine or brave farewell performance?

The Last Hurrah

Paper: Joe Jackson: "If you want to know about the bishop & the actress... you can read it in" these weekly editions?

The Sunday Papers

Air Squadrons: The Blue Angels fly in formation for the Navy, while this "loud" squad represents the U.S. Air Force?

The Thunderbirds

Beach: If you're going against popular opinion, you're "swimming against" this; be careful!?

The Tide

Hyphenated: Adjective for carpeting that covers the entire floor?

Wall-To-Wall

City Transpo: In Manila, a jeepney is a mix of Jeep & this small bus both physically & etymologically?

a jitney

Orchestra: Heard here, let's bring this instrument also called a timpani to a boil?

a kettle drum

Chemical Romance: Pheromones of these eel-like fish are used to lure them into traps, helping curb their invasion of the Great Lakes?

a lamprey

Line: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land"?

a lantern

Brit Speak: When part of a 3-piece suit, a waistcoat is this?

a vest

Sociology: In 1837 Harriet Martineau wrote of Americans' this uninterested quality "in citizenship", saying some don't even vote!?

apathy

3 "r"'s: Adjective for a legal judgment made without basis in law?

arbitrary

Animals: German settlers in Texas called this animal "Panzerschwein"?

armadillo

Word Origin: Persian for perfume gave us this word for a fragrant essential oil "of roses"?

attar

"Con" Game: By definition it's the relationship of a circle within a circle within a circle, all sharing the same midpoint?

concentric

-ologies: Malacology is the study of mollusks; this is the specific study of mollusk shells?

conchology

Americana: The state motto of Oklahoma is Labor omnia vincit, "Labor" does this?

conquers all

Ad Slogan: Ajax: Stronger than____?

Dirt

State: It's the Bay State?

Massachusetts

Animal Expressions: "As fine as ____'s hair"?

Frog's

Street Art: This hip-hop artist got his 3-word name from his association with the Brooklyn street art crew the Fabulous 5?

Fab 5 Freddy

Shakespeare & History: Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience?

James I of England (James VI of Scotland) (King of Scotland, had recently become King of England)

Movies: This iconic San Diego hotel was a setting for "Some Like It Hot"?

the Coronado

Repeat: Immigrants brought the first of this type of drum to the U.S. from China in the 1800s?

A Tom-Tom

Ears: The incus bone in the middle ear is also known as this, a blacksmith's implement?

Anvil

Nonfiction: "13 Hours" is a tale of loss & heroism in the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in this Libyan city?

Benghazi

Rhyme Time: A stage play about the Hindu creator god?

Bhrama Drama

Oceanographic Terms: A general term for seawater, it's also a way to prep your holiday turkey?

Brine

Logo: Bill Golden, the creator of this TV network's logo, was inspired by hex signs on shaker barns that looked to him like eyes?

CBS

His VP: Charles Dawes, a man with a plan?

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing: A famous ad of the 1980s asked, "You want to know what comes between me and my" this brand of jeans? "Nothing"?

Calvin's

Science: Percival Lowell thought he saw these on the surface of Venus--some think it was a reflection of the blood vessels in his eye?

Canals

Art: 17th century artist Georges de la Tour was known as the "Master of" this type of illumination?

Candlelight

Compounds: Nickel nitrate is used to make this positive electrode in batteries?

Cathode

7-Letter Words: An airplane's maximum altitude in sustained flight?

Ceiling

"C" In Science: This insoluble plant fiber is found in paper pulp & in the fruits & vegetables that we eat?

Cellulose

Instrumental To The Song: Keyboardist on"You Make Loving Fun" (1977)?

Christine McVie

Biblical Art: This light, crinkled fabric shares a name with a light, crinkly paper?

Crepe

Triple: Similar to a shortstop, the third man is a fielding position in this sport?

Cricket

Aviation: Wind & clouds are 2 things pilots use to determine this "altitude" where they'll level off?

Crusing

Shakespeare: Shakespeare king of ancient Britain?

Cymbeline

History: When he was broke after editing his "Encyclopedie", Catherine the Great bought his library in 1765 & also gave him a salary?

Diderot

"E" Books: It's the third entry in the "Twilight" saga?

Eclipse

Jimmy Carter: One of the 2 cabinet departments created during the Carter administration; both begin with the same letter?

Energy & Education

His VP: Charles Curtis, the first person of Native American descent to be elected vice president?

Herbert Hoover

Myth Run-Ons: The guy who did all the labors now has lots of wounds?

Herculesions

Animal Home: These crustaceans with a "solitary" name seek new shells to live in after outgrowing their old ones?

Hermit Crab

Historic Names: This conquistador & his men reached the coast of Florida in 1539 & the Mississippi River 2 years later?

Hernando De Soto

Lit: This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part?

Horatio Alger

Science & Tech: In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago?

Horse

Jobs: In Italian: giudice?

Judge

Olympic Event: Horse, epee?

Modern Pentathlon

History: Saudi Arabia was changed in 1938 when Max Steineke insisted the 7th of these at Dammam be explored, though 6 had already flopped?

Oil Wells

Historic Groups: You'd think just 46th staters, but folks from Kansas & Texas who went to California from 1933 to 1935 were also called these?

Okies

Clocks: The world has been a more punctual place since this crystal made its timekeeping debut in the 1920s?

Quartz

Queen: The Jordan River Foundation is one of the many causes of this queen?

Queen Rania

First Crossword Puzzle: To govern (4 letters)?

Rule

TV Shows In 2 Words: Sweathogs, school?

Welcome Back, Kotter

Religion: From the Latin for "Come Together", it's the type of sacred agreement made between God & Abraham?

a covenant

"E": This "-ology" is basically the theory of knowledge?

epistemology

Losing U: A device that dispenses water expels its "U", becoming this gem surface?

facet (from faucet)

"F": Spurious synonym (4 letters)?

fake

Homophones: A medieval union & to apply a valuable-looking cover layer?

guild & gild

Adjective: Despite how the first part of it sounds, it describes an unpleasant noise articulated in the throat, not the belly?

guttural

Shirt Shorts: Cilice is another word for this type of "shirt" worn by monks for extra filth & discomfort?

hairshirt

H____H: In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this?

hallelujah

Air Squadrons: India's Sarang team doesn't fly jets or any other type of fixed wing plane, but these aircraft?

helicopters

Science: In addition to its acidity, one reason honey doesn't spoil is that an enzyme in bees helps produce this compound, H2O2, a germicide?

hydrogen peroxide

Psychology: From the Greek for "under the ribs", it's the one-word alternate name for illness anxiety disorder?

hypochondria

Ends in "ado": When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word?

incommunicado

Not Doubt: This 16-letter word is often found before "evidence" when there's no doubt as to the conclusion?

incontrovertible

Unsafe Word: It can refer to one who is fearful & lacking self-confidence, or a password that can be easily hacked?

insecure (or weak)

Assam: These winds whose "season" begins in Assam in June have been known to cause devastation?

monsoons

"mul": To openly proclaim a new doctrine or law?

promulgate

Garden: On a military uniform, this "cluster" denotes further awards of a decoration already received?

the oak leaf cluster

Songs: Art Fleming & Don Pardo were in the video for this Weird Al parody song?

"I Lost On Jeopardy"

China Cultural Revolution: Stripped of his post during the Revolution, he came back to lead China starting in the late 1970s?

(Deng) Xiaoping

Huckleberry: Jailed in 1846 for not paying a poll tax, this writer got out, ran an errand, picked huckleberries & was on the road to "Civil Disobedience"?

(Henry David) Thoreau

Moon Features: There are lakes on the Moon, like Lacus Felicitatis, which NASA translates as the Lake of this?

(Lake of) Happiness

Around The World: Canada's southernmost point lies on Middle Island in this Great Lake?

(Lake) Erie

Books & Authors: In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns?

(Lyman Frank) Baum

Time Traveling Movies: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" had this navigator finding a nuclear wessel called the Enterprise?

(Pavel) Chekov

Nobel-Winning Novelists: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience"?

(William) Faulkner (The county is his famous Yoknapatawpha and the character is Lucas in Intruder in the Dust)

Science & Tech: A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"?

10,000 steps

What Year: Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell?

1894

Drunk History: Prohibition ended in this year?

1933

Ancient Math: An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places?

2

Knights Templar: A Templar church has been called London's first this type of place; Pilgrims would deposit money there & withdraw it in the Holy Land?

A Bank

Boring: The emerald ash borer, a bark-eating type of this insect, has killed 40 million trees just in Michigan?

A Beetle

Animal Home: Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure?

A Chicken Run

Word Origin: Cowboy vocabulary from Spanish includes stockade & this other word for an enclosure for horses or cattle?

A Corral

I'd Like To Buy: Got some caped crusading to do, so I'll need one of these head coverings, from Latin for "hood"?

A Cowl

Singing: In one anecdote Mack Sennett said, I hear that you sing & Bing Crosby replied, "Yes, they call me" this kind of singer?

A Crooner

Poetic Book Titles: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele?

A Farewell to Arms

Novel Vocab: The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title?

A Hat

Boat: The 20th novel in Patrick O'Brian's seafaring saga is called "Blue at the Mizzen", referring to a flag hoisted upon this?

A Mast

Line: T.S. Eliot asked, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit??

A Peach

BOURGEOISIE: An essential part of the 19th century German decor called biedermeier was one of these, ein klavier?

A Piano

Music: In a song by The Who, Boris is one of these, "black & hairy & very small"?

A Spider

Dinosaurs: The "hands" of Iguanodon included 4 "fingers" & a bony spike in place of this?

A Thumb

I'd Like To Buy: I'd like to buy a Flodalen, a terry cloth this from IKEA?

A Towel

Kabul Stones: Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city?

A Wall

Prefix: "Vivi-" derives from a word meaning this in Latin, so vivisepulture means burying something that way?

Alive

Things: This type of acid that makes up protein?

Amino

Terms From History: This country has been accused of irredentism, the reclaiming of old territory, over the Nagorno-Karabakh area in Azerbaijan?

Armenia

Country Name Origins: In central Europe, from Latin for "eastern borderland"?

Austria

WWII Europe: Here's the view from one of these alphanumeric flying fortresses as it unleashed its bombs over occupied Europe in 1943?

B-17

Baseball HOF: "Greatest drawing card in history of baseball"?

Babe Ruth

Orchestra: Featuring works like the "Emperor" concerto, in 2020-'21 the London philharmonic honors this composer's 250th birthday?

Beethoven

African Americans Pre-1860: In an 1843 speech Henry Garnet told slaves to consider "the shedding of" this for freedom; Frederick Douglass disagreed?

Blood

Islands: Sissy Spacek & Sam Shepard ran an inn in the Florida Keys on this "sanguine" Netflix show?

Bloodline

Bands: There "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" for this band with a name that includes a pachyderm?

Cage the Elephant

Hurricanes: When the winds of a tropical storm reach 74 mph, it's classified as this level of hurricane?

Category 1

Descriptive Words: Cretaceous pertains to this soft rock?

Chalk

Also A Body Part: A piece of furniture with drawers?

Chest

Important From Italy: This 7-letter red wine from Tuscany comes from a Sangiovese grape, but its quality varies quite a bit?

Chianti

3-Letter Words: Portugal's national dish is salted this fish?

Cod

Ancient History: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C.?

Cyrus (II the Great)

Pop Music: Luther Vandross emotionally told us he'd "Love, love, love" to do this with his father again?

Dance

Random: Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline?

Dracula

Jargon: "DD" stands for "due" this, something you should spend time on when investing in a stock?

Due Dilligence

Public Transpo: A New York City tramway carries passengers between Manhattan & Roosevelt Island over this river?

East River

Australian History: In an attempt to quell unrest in 2006, Aussie commandos headed to Dili, capital of this island nation?

East Timor

Horse Cents: A 1902 Australian 2-pound coin depicts St. George on horseback on the reverse & this newly minted king on the obverse?

Edward VII

"F": A vestibule (5 letters)?

Foyer

Winning Presidential Campaign Slogans: All together, shout it now: "Happy days Are Here Again"?

Franklin Roosevelt

Leadership: An exhibit of his "Portraits of Courage" paintings was held at his Presidential Center in Texas?

George W. Bush

Declaration Of Independence: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language?

German (then made up about a third of Philadelphia's people, and there is, of course, still that Germantown area in Pennsylvania)

New England Port: The monument seen here in this Massachusetts port has long been sacred to fishermen?

Gloucester

2011: Israel freed 1,027 prisoners in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, 5 years a captive of this group that governs Gaza?

Hamas

Calendar: Every year, Jerusalem has a relay race with torches to celebrate this holiday?

Hanukkah

Magazines: Calling itself the "oldest general-interest monthly in America", this magazine with a famous index turned 170 in 2020?

Harper's

US Cities: Nevada's second-most populous city & one of the country's fastest growing is this community just southeast of Las Vegas?

Henderson

Language Of Food: You "eat" this 2-word non-treat when forced to apologize; a literal version is the viscera & other deer parts?

Humble Pie

Jobs In The Bible: Genesis 10 says Nimrod was "a mighty" this "before the Lord"?

Hunter

Genes: An abnormal gene on chromosome 4 is the cause of this chorea or disease of the nervous system, described in 1872?

Huntington's

Cave: Austria has the largest cave named for this substance that forms on its walls--dress warm, it's freezing in there?

Ice

App: Can't get to Costco or some of your local retailers? Grab the carrot & use this app that sends shoppers for you?

Instacart

World Lit: Written by the 11th century poet, Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" is considered the national epic of this country?

Iran

Bible Babes: This prophet who warns Israel about the Assyrians says "Babes shall rule over" Jerusalem & Judah?

Isaiah

Mirage: The French-made Mirage fighter jet is known as Shahak, or "heavens", in this country that's used it to great effect?

Israel

"It": It can precede greyhound, parsley & sonnet?

Italian

Foreign Newspapers: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character?

Le Figaro (French)

"L": Meaning "the harbor", this French port was the seat of the Belgian government for a time during World War I?

Le Havre

Turtle: The carapace of this sea turtle is softer than others, allowing it to dive deeper than 4,000 feet?

Leatherback

Religion: In Christianity, this holiday comes the day before Lent?

Mardi Gras

Nation's Airlines: Air Indus, K2 Airways?

Pakistan

"P": From a Latin word for "powder", it means to pound or grind something into a powder?

Pulverize

Mountaintop: From the picture seen here, you'd never guess that Cotopaxi in this chain is an active volcano?

The Andies

Roman Emperor: Born in Syria, a 3rd century emperor was known as Philip the this ethnicity?

The Arab

Shades Of Green: This branch of the U.S. military introduced olive drab green & khaki uniforms beginning in 1902?

The Army

Plane: The Seafire was the carrier-based naval version of this World War II fighter plane?

The Spitfire

House Of Burgesses: In 1765 Patrick Henry & fellow Burgesses adopted "Resolves" fighting the legality of this act's Colonial taxation?

The Stamp Act

"mm": First name of 1960s singers Roe & James?

Tommy

Unsafe Word: 2 ships about to hit each other are said to be on this alliterative path, so get the life jackets ready?

a collision course

Christian Glossary: A canticle is one of these performed in a church's public service?

a song

They Go Low: Historically, combat engineers who dug tunnels as part of a siege were called sappers, from an Old French word for this implement?

a spade

10-Letter Words: "A" is for this word meaning "without concealment" , in contrast with gamblers whose hands went under the card table?

aboveboard

"Ad" Latin: This tax term means "in proportion to value"?

ad valorem

"black": A byproduct of sugar refining, it's a dark, viscous variety of molasses?

blackstrap molasses

"C" In Science: In 1970 these artificial sweeteners were banned for good after they were linked to cancer in rats?

cyclamates

3 D's: 2-word term for flawed, unsalable merchandise?

damaged goods

H____O: From the Spanish for "little oven", it's a mound of molten lava?

hornito

Words In A Type Of Storm: Anagram "tornado" & you get this, anything that emits a scent?

odorant

Books For Kids: A chapter in "The Wizard of Oz" is "The Council with" these folks?

the Munchkins

National Flower: A Spanish national flower is this one whose name comes from the Latin for "flesh"?

the carnation

Bell: A fable gives us the phrase "bell" this animal, meaning a very dangerous task (especially for the rats)?

the cat

Word From In The Greek For...: For "first" & "form": the living part of a cell including the nucleus?

the protoplasm

The -ology Studies What?: Brontology ?

thunder

Science: Castor canadensis is the scientific name for this aquatic rodent?

A Beaver

Mother: She was the first woman to be both wife & mom to a U.S. president?

Abigail Adams

Novels: The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster?

(George) Babbitt

Deuce: Robert Wood Johnson II ran his family co. for 30 years, with special care for this product down to the sprinkle holes' size?

Baby Powder

Saint Names: Gâteau St-Honoré is a dish named for the patron saint of these workers who make them?

Bakers

Noble: If you watched "Downton Abbey", you know the wife of an English lord with this title is a countess?

Earl

"Pic": These jars used by Ancient Egyptian embalmers got their name from an ancient city?

canopic

Things: The word Bicentennial has the letters for this water source for a soldier or hiker?

canteen

Anthropology: Anthropologists study these Melanesian "cults" that live in anticipation of the arrival of goods on Pacific islands?

cargo cults

Scavengers: A 2013 study said these fish are more likely to scavenge than hunt when they are longer than 14 feet?

great white sharks

British Poetry: Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" at age 80 & made this request to all future publishers?

put it last in his books

Fine Arts: This Italian word means an often winged cherubic moppet seen especially in Renaissance paintings?

putti (putto)

Science: This type of supercomputer uses subatomic particles to help processing go quickly; Honeywell is making a really fast one?

quantum

-ologies: From the Greek for "death", it's the study of death & dying?

thanatology

Kiss: In Spanish churches, besamanos & besapiés are the customs of kissing these 2 parts of religious statues?

the hands & the feet

Psychology: In psychoanalysis, this term refers to a patient projecting emotions from a previous relationship onto the therapist?

transference

Rivers: This headstream branch of the Nile that originates in Ethiopia is the source of almost 70% of its water?

the Blue Nile

Globetrotting: Jersey is the largest of these islands between France & Great Britain?

the Channel Islands

Painting: You can make good money if you're up for climbing 600-foot towers of this bridge over the Hudson to keep it looking good?

the George Washington Bridge

Quotations: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" is from the end of this brief but powerful speech?

the Gettysburg Address

Ghosts: "Ghost shirts" that were supposed to protect believers were part of this 19th century Native American movement?

the Ghost Dance movement

Mediterranean Geo: 8 miles wide at its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Africa?

the Strait of Gibraltar

Strait: This strait at one end of the Persian Gulf carries 1/3 of the world's seaborne oil & was the scene of international tensions in 2019?

the Strait of Hormuz

On The Map: To sail from the Bahamas to the U.S. mainland, you cross these straits?

the Straits of Florida

Ancient History: The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river?

the Tigris

Idiom: In the 17th century it was a feather & a horse; today we use this idiom for one more burden you just can't take?

the straw that broke the camel's back

Math: When the NBA's Steph Curry puts up a 3-point shot, this point, the apex of a parabola, is about 16 feet above the floor?

the vertex

Science: As Homer Simpson said, "In this house we obey the laws of" this relationship between heat & mechanical energy?

thermodynamics

Dumb Answers: Also a Jethro Tull album title, this 4-word rhyming phrase includes a building material?

thick as a brick

Genes: It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA?

thymine

"Time": 2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof?

time immemorial

Important From Italy: The San Marzano type of this is prized because it grows in the rich volcanic soil of Mount Vesuvius?

tomatoes

Just Got Real: Pres. Buchanan & Queen Victoria sent greetings after this, including the name of an ocean, had been laid successfully in 1858?

transatlantic cable

Nerve: "V" shall see if you can identify this nerve that runs from your brain to your abdomen & controls many bodily functions?

vagus

Time: The 1956 movie "Written on the Wind" introduces a flashback with the wind blowing pages off this?

A Calendar

Broadway Musical By Opening Number: "I Hope I Get It"?

A Chorus Line

Poetry: A poem by Wordsworth begins, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills"?

A Cloud

History Books: In "The Moth and the Mountain", the Moth is a Gipsy Moth, one of these Maurice Wilson used to get to Everest in the 1930s?

A Plane

Shape: A tetrahedron is sometimes described as a triangular one of these?

A Pyramid

Homonyms: A lively folk dance & a cylinder on which film is wound?

A Reel

What To Wear: Similar to a jumpsuit, a one-piece women's garment combining a short-sleeve top & loose shorts has this lively name?

A Romper

What To Wear: This short jacket shares its name with a movement of the shoulders?

A Shrug

"S"ummer: Piñata Colada is a flavor of this frozen 7-Eleven refresher?

A Slurpee

Animals: If you see a cotton-ball-colored flash moving at 40 miles per hour, you may have scared this deer named for an appendage?

A White Tail

Family Business: In some Decembers, 2,000,000 have found themselves, like in the song, walking in this destination in London's Hyde Park?

A Winter Wonderland

Knights Templar: Accusing the Templars of heresy, Philip IV of this country suppressed & destroyed the group beginning in 1307?

France

Colors & History: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war?

France & Prussia

Veto: Russia, China & the U.S. regularly use their U.N. security council veto but these 2 other perm. members haven't used theirs since 1989?

France & the U.K.

Name: The "F" in F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Francis

Megaliths: This 5-letter word for a circle of stones is a back-formation from the name of a famous one on Salisbury Plain?

Henge

Secret: The motto of the British circle of these performers is "Indocilis Privata Loqui" ("not apt to disclose secrets")?

Magicians

Air Squadrons: Canada's demonstration squadron has this name & no, they don't vacation in Florida for the winter?

Snowbirds

The Ancients Speak: Augustus Caesar said he "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of" this, which was much nicer!?

Marble

Lightning: Florida is a good place to find a fulgurite, most commonly formed when lightning hits this substance?

Sand

TV Show Siblings: Sisters Kara & Alex Danvers, one with extraordinary abilities?

Supergirl

Water: Blommestein Lake is the largest reservoir in this South American nation?

Suriname

Churchill Speaks: "Darkest Hour" & "Dunkirk" highlight Churchill's speech that says, "We shall fight in the hills; we shall never" do this?

Surrender

Animal Expressions: "One ____ does not make a summer"?

Swallow

Ends in "gh": It's a 12-letter word for a sudden advancement or development, especially in science?

a breakthrough

Ends In A Female First Name: Spanish word for a saloon of the southwestern United States?

a cantina

8-Letter Words: One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot"?

a cauldron

Fine Arts: The Queen's this small house of worship is a masterpiece of British Palladian architecture?

a chapel

BOURGEOISIE: This relaxing residence is a common bourgeois possession; the film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" is set in one?

a chateau (country home)

12-Letter Words: Once with 20,000 people watching from all around, this type of arena in Pompeii is the oldest surviving one in the Roman world?

an amphitheater

So Close: We're so close, we're separated by one of these tiny units equal to .1 nanometer & named for a Swedish physicist?

an angstrom

Science: One zygote becomes two & so on & before you know it, you have one of these, the result of fertilization?

an embryo

Genes: Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count?

anemia

Asian Lit & Drama: Also called "Lunyu", this work is a collection of the sayings & teachings of the philosopher Confucius?

the Analects

Also A Dog Breed: Nationality-wise it would describe the wonderful Vitus Bering or the super Jorn Utzon?

great Dane

Tennessee: Near where Tennessee borders Kentucky & Virginia, the Cumberland Gap passes through these mountains?

the Appalachians

Art Movements: Led by Robert Henri, "The Eight" were a group of artists who tried to show a grittier side of city life in this "rubbish" movement?

the Ashcan School

Faith: Founded in Iran in the mid-19th century, this faith has no priesthood & believes in the unity of humanity?

the Baha'i faith

Water: The mighty MacKenzie flows into this sea that's north of Alaska & Canada & part of the Arctic Ocean?

the Beaufort Sea

Sea: Nunivak & the Pribilof Islands are among the largest in this sea?

the Bering Sea

Top British Baby Names: This boy's name popular in Wales belonged to Welsh national hero Glendower?

Owen

Drink: The Inklings, including Tolkien & Lewis, were known to "draught" at the Eagle & Child Pub in this city?

Oxford

Music!: She released the album "Hurts 2B Human" in 2019?

P!nk

"out": "We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang the Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit?

"We Can Work It Out"

Musical: The rapper Desiigner thought a white BMW with tinted windows looked like a certain animal, hence this title of his No. 1 hit?

"panda"

Federal Crime: For writing a check for less than this listed amount of money, you can be fined or "imprisoned not more than six months, or both"?

$1

On Life: Always figuring the odds, this "Guys and Dolls" scribe noted, "All life is 6 to 5 against"?

(Damon) Runyon

Lit: In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!"?

(Franz) Kafka

France: Paris had not had a mayor for more than a century when this future French president with a euphonious name was elected in 1977?

(Jacques) Chirac

19th Century Americans: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today?

(John) Muir

Looking Over: In Norwich, England it's Norwich Castle, which for 500 years was repurposed as this type of institution, for sure using its keep?

A Prison

What Year: John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars?

2004

Navy Bases: Commissioned in 1921 & a major training site, an Australian naval base near Melbourne bears the name of this mythic canine?

Cerberus

TV Comedy Characters: Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives?

Claire Dumphy

Giving Tree: Pull out the stopper & let's celebrate this live oak species that produces a useful spongy lightweight product?

Cork

2-Letter Words: The farming equivalent of Big Pharma is not Big Farm but big this?

Ag

Bordering The USA: Montana's Wild Horse port of entry sees you through to this Canadian province on your way to Medicine Hat, eh??

Alberta

Match: In 2016 "Match Game" was brought back to TV with this man as the host?

Alec Baldwin

"Al" Arabic: This plant is widely cultivated as feed, but can also be found growing wild?

Alfalfa

Recent News: The first-ever papal visit to Iraq included a sit-down with this grand Ayatollah, spiritual leader to millions of Shiite Muslims?

Ali al-Sistani

5-Letters, 3-Syllables: An assumed persona, perhaps when undercover?

Alias

Constellations: Congrats, Sagitta! As one of these projectiles used by Hercules or Cupid, your place in the heavens is secured?

Arrow

Body Words: Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word?

Artery

Party: I'm busting out my spinach & this veggie dip--it's a version of the one at Applebee's?

Artichoke Dip

Big: 2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent?

Australia

Book Words & Phrases: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export?

Banana Republic

Around The USA: Boise, Idaho has an alliterative "Block" for these people of the Pyrenees, dedicated to preserving their culture?

Basque

Fungi: A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves?

Bats

Canada: Almost 100 billion tons of seawater comes & goes daily in this top vote getter in a CBC poll to determine the 7 Wonders of Canada?

Bay of Fundy

Cinema: Paige O'Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film?

Beauty and the Beast

Art: A pioneer of the multimedia events called Happenings, Al Hansen was also the grandfather of this innovative alt-rock musician?

Beck Hansen

Book Words & Phrases: The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair"?

Becky Sharp

Double Double Letters: In retirement Sherlock Holmes devotes his time to this hobby?

Beekeeping

Train Stations: More than 3 billion riders a year use this city's subway system, with stops at Gucheng & Dongdan stations?

Beijing

Lit: Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States?

Being There

Drunk History: This liqueur dates back to the 16th century; in the 20th, it was bottled with brandy as B&B?

Benedictine

James Beard Chef Of The Year: Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town?

Berkeley

Bible Place: "Hath not the scripture said, that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of" this, "where David was?"?

Bethlehem

Essays: Joan Didion stole from Yeats for the title of her essay collection "Slouching Towards" this place?

Bethlehem

Winning Presidential Campaign Slogans: "Building a Bridge to the 21st Century"?

Bill Clinton

2019: A January bill ended a 35-day U.S. federal government shutdown without funding for this, over which the shutdown began?

Border Wall

Cooking Verbs: To pané a food is to coat it in these?

Bread Crumbs

Medical Idioms: Known to happen with fires & crafty inmates, you don't want to have it happen with your hives?

Breakout

Jargon: Named for an earl, a Yarborough in this game is a hand of 13 cards in which no card is higher than 9?

Bridge

Jobs In The Bible: Skeptical folks in a synagogue ask, "Is not this the"____,the son of Mary...?

Carpenter

R & B: "Tell Me Something Good", like the name of this singer whose solo hits include "I Feel For You"?

Chaka Khan

Messy: I'd invite you in, but my place is in total this, the primeval formlessness of the ancient Greek cosmos?

Chaos

Train Stations: The monument to Queen Eleanor depicted here, gave this London neighborhood & rail station its name?

Charing Cross

Journalists: Before her career at PBS, NPR & CNN, she just went by her last name Hunter when she desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961?

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Throne Out: Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the 2 kings of this name ended the English Civil Wars?

Charles

Classic British Novels: Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell?

Charlotte Brontë

Problem Is: Directmates & helpmates are types of problems based on this game?

Chess

Thomas Paine: Paine wrote, "I do not believe in" the Catholic or the Protestant creeds; "my own mind is my own" this?

Church

Shakespeare: "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life?

Cleopatra

Faith: Southeast Asia has many temples of Cao Dai, which blends Buddhism, Taoism & this other ancient East Asian system?

Confusionism

Definitions: Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with "C"?

Craven

Hot Stuff: chilipeppermadness.com says the phaal type of this dish is the world's hottest, beating vindaloo?

Curry

Nautical Words & Phrases: This 3-word phrase for a quick exit implies you sliced off your anchor rope to get away?

Cut And Run

Pop Culture: The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages?

Dan Brown

US Cities: Once a hat-making center, today this Connecticut city is known for its federal low-security facility housing female inmates?

Danbury

Recent News: In a needed upgrade to Penn Station, a $1.60 billion train hall named for this longtime New York senator, opened in 2021; take a look?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Sound Garden: The garden object known as the shishi-odoshi translates as scarer of these skittish ruminants who are thought to flee at the noise?

Deer

African-American: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech trying to integrate the Miss. delegation at this 1964 gathering made LBJ scramble to get her off the air?

Democratic National Convention

Not A US State: The third book Bob Woodward wrote about the Bush administration's Iraq War failings is called "State of" this?

Denial

Science & Tech: Topped a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation?

Denmark

Midwest: Cities along this river that shares its name with a state capital include Ottumwa & Fort Dodge?

Des Moines

Talk Shows: 50 years on, episodes of his ABC talk show, like Janis Joplin's last TV appearance, have a new life on YouTube?

Dick Cavett

6-Letter: To sell off all shareholdings from your portfolio, as people did to protest apartheid in South Africa?

Divest

Nations: France has a major overseas naval base in this small Horn of Africa country that was a French territory until 1977?

Djibouti

Stock Symbols: DLTR: The buck stops at this retailer?

Dollar Tree

Potpourri: A cloak called the scapular is worn by this order of monks established by a papal bull in 1216?

Dominicans (Dominican Order)

Songs That Give Advice: Therapists may chafe at this Melissa Manchester song that advises, "Just keep it inside & learn how to hide your feelings"?

Don't Cry Out Loud

Beach: The beach Matthew Arnold was talking about must not have been this sunny spot on Barbados' south coast; it's no darkling plain?

Dover Beach

E____E: You won't see this event if you're standing on the Moon, but you can if you're orbiting it, like the Apollo 8 astronauts did?

Earthrise

Sci-Fi: Ursula K. Le Guin delighted audiences with her tales of Ged, a wizard of this archipelago?

Earthsea

Old Synonyms: Sunrist was this direction?

East

Classical Music: Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer?

Edvard Grieg

Authors In Military: This 18th century historian served as a captain in the Hampshire militia & wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"?

Edward Gibbon

Non-Alcoholic Category: Fra Angelico created many of these plaster wall paintings, but none were done using hazelnut liqueur?

Frescos

Toys: Seen here is a tin from this pie company; Yale students repurposed it later?

Frisbee

Canal: Running from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, this country's Kiel Canal is 250 miles shorter than going around Jutland Peninsula?

Germany

Literary Girl, Interrupted: Heidi, at home in the mountains: "I want to go about like the light-footed..." these animals?

Goats

Arabia: Animals in the region include camels, a main mode of transport, & these 2 farm animals known there as khiraf & ma'iz?

Goats & Sheep

Biblical Broadway: John the Baptist & Judas are played by the same actor in this 1970s Broadway musical with a one-word title?

Godspell

TV Animation: Launched in 1961, "Davey &" this dog was originally produced by the United Lutheran Church?

Goliath

Top British Baby Names: "How sweet the sound" of this name meaning a divine favor or blessing?

Grace

Salad: Parsley, tarragon & chives give this salad dressing the color that's in its name?

Green Goddess

Protest: On February 1, 1960 a Woolworth's lunch counter in this North Carolina city was the site of nonviolent protest?

Greensboro

Huckleberry: If picking huckleberries in Montana, be safe--it's estimated that in summer they make up half the diet of these animals?

Grizzly Bears

Compound Words: A woodchuck is one of these giant squirrels, also a compound word?

Groundhog

Fight: With 70 knockouts, Roberto Duran earned the nickname "Manos de Piedra", which translates to this?

Hands Of Stone

Helen: Her staining technique set her apart from other abstract expressionists & influenced younger artists?

Helen Frankenthaler

Train Stations: Among Eliel Saarinen's prominent works is the railway station in this capital?

Helsinki

Poetry: Eliot's poem about these title men says, "We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw"?

Hollow Men

1930s America: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark?

Hoover Dam

Americans: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice?

Horace Greeley (Go West Young Man)

Ancient Math: Some think Ancient Egyptians represented fractions using symbols from the eye of this falcon god?

Horus

Familiar Phrase: Temperature-based phrase for information that's just been printed in a newspaper?

Hot Off The Presses

TV: Barbara Eden could literally grant Larry Hagman any wish he could think of in this 1960s sitcom... but he wouldn't let her!?

I Dream Of Jeannie

Transportation: This 1,900-mile-long interstate travels by Jacksonville, Florida, Washington, D.C. & Portland, Maine?

I-95

Logo: The blue & white striped logo for this tech company hasn't changed since Paul Rand designed it in 1972?

IBM

International Business: The "effect" named for this company founded in 1943 refers to increased value of a product to a consumer whose own labor is needed?

IKEA

Myth: The Egyptian god Thoth was often depicted with the head of this bird?

Ibis

Rock Bands: Fans of this current band are known as Firebreathers?

Imagine Dragons

Anagrams Of Each Other: A small unit of measure & a lower part of your face?

Inch & Chin

Wild Things: Now found mostly in a single national park, the Kashmir stag used to roam these 2 countries?

India & Pakistan

Pop Culture: A doctor at 221B Baker Street puts this title group of youths to work in a recent Netflix show?

Irregulars

3 Consecutive Vowels: He's the Old Testament prophet most quoted in the New Testament?

Isaiah

Game: Make "room" for Change Seats! & Wink Murder, 2 of Mental Floss' 14 of these kind of "games to bring back" for the holidays?

Parlor Games

Toys & Games: The name of this block-stacking game comes from a Swahili word for "build"?

Jenga

Terms Of Service: The father & son seen here, they served a total of six terms as California's governor?

Jerry & Pat Brown

Shirt Shorts: A Channel Island lends its name to this athletic shirt?

Jersey

Popes: Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have been a member of this religious order that pope Clement XIV abolished in 1773?

Jesuits

Party: Spurned by the Whigs & Dems, this sitting president welcomed himself in 1844 to a new party, which he created!?

John Tyler

Playing Pope: In 2003 Bob Hoskins was "The Good Pope", this name XXIII, who served from 1958 to 1963?

John XXIII

Aria: This tenor who died in 2007 sang the aria "Nessun dorma" for the 2006 Winter Olympics?

Pavarotti

Pop Culture Relatives?: The 2 "Property Brothers" could help Steve Carell's "Office" role set up a new plasma TV in his condo (we need all 3 names)?

Jonathan, Drew & Michael Scott

American Rock Bands: In 2020 their Greatest Hits, with an optimistic '80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200?

Journey

Drunk History: Before the Rothschilds bought it, Chateau this was one of 4 top-rated wineries in France's 1855 official ranking?

Lafite

Geographic aka: In German this country is Lettland?

Latvia

Songs: In 2020 Drake & Lil Durk decided to do this "Now Cry Later"?

Laugh

17th Century Writing: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them"?

Leviathan

Biblical Art: Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020?

Marc Chagall

Songs That Give Advice: Corinne Bailey Rae says to be yourself: "Girl", do this, "Tell me your favorite song, you go ahead, let your hair down"?

Put Your Records On

Hurricanes: Especially awful hurricanes have their names replaced; in 2018 Margot became the replacement for this one?

Maria

Pop Culture Relatives?: The diva who sang "Love Takes Time", comes on down! & hangs out with the host of "The Price is Right"

Mariah Carey & Drew Carey

Movies About Movies: In 2020's "Mank", about the writing of "Citizen Kane", Amanda Seyfried plays this actress?

Marion Davies

US Authors: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author?

Mark Twain (The book was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)

MLB Mascots: Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin?

Marlins

Grab Bag: TV's "That Girl", today she's the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Hospital?

Marlo Thomas

Essays: In 1972 John McPhee contrasted the game of Monopoly with a deteriorating Atlantic City in his essay "The Search for" this property?

Marvin Gardens

They Played 2 Comic Book Characters: Ramona Flowers & Huntress?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

R & B: In one of his early hits, Chuck Berry asked this girl, "Why can't you be true?"

Maybellene

Big: With almost 2 miles of paths, Longleat is the largest of these in Britain; allow about 2 hours?

Maze

Women's In Myth: She helped Jason with a seemingly impossible task--getting the Golden Fleece (which required her to fleece her own dad)?

Medea

American Rivers: This word comes before "Bow" in a Wyoming river & before "Lodge" in a Kansas river?

Medicine

Business: The National Union Life & Limb Insurance Company evolved into this one with a snappier name that still includes "Life"?

Met Life

Witch: In a Roald Dahl book, the title witches get "smashed and bashed and chopped up" after being turned into these creatures?

Mice

1492: This Floren-teen gave us "Battle of the Centaurs", a relief now in Casa Buonarrotti?

Michelangelo

Playing Pope: In "The Agony & the Ecstasy" Rex Harrison played Pope Julius II taking on Charlton Heston as this artist?

Michelangelo

State Licence Plates: This state's "Chile Capital of the World" plate won America's Best License Plate Award for 2017?

New Mexico

Film: 2002: "8 ____", featuring music?

Mile

Kabul Stones: In Kabul & the rest of Afghanistan, rocks painted red & white warn of danger in these fields; stay on the white side?

Minefields

Repeat: In this fairy-tale-influenced Gregory Maguire novel, the vain stepmother is Lucrezia Borgia?

Mirror, Mirror

Essays: Running up debt in New York City is the subject of Meghan Daum's fittingly titled personal essay "My" this kind of "Youth"?

Misspent

Character Titled Novels: This title Defoe heroine has 5 weddings but no funeral?

Moll Flanders

Place: Isak Dinesen wrote this Kenyan seaport is like "a picture of paradise... the deep sea-arm round the island forms an ideal harbour"?

Mombasa

Geography: Aka Tahoma, this 14,400-foot active volcano is about 60 miles southeast of Seattle?

Mount Rainier

Inventions: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action?

Mousetrap

Music: "Heart Of A Champion" is the opening track on this one-named hip-hop star's 2004 album, "Sweat"?

Nelly

Rejected Element Names: William Ramsey's son suggested novum for this noble gas, but William wanted a Greek name & called it this?

Neon

Turtle: To stop turtles from being bycatch, L.E.D. lights visible to turtles but not to fish have been put on these?

Nets

Cliches: A feeling of relief or rebirth is a "new" this phrase that mentions a rental agreement?

New Lease On Life

American Music: At the beginning of the 20th century, jazz flourished in Storyville, the red light district of this southern city?

New Orleans

Poet: The poet laureate of this state, like Marie Howe, receives the Walt Whitman Citation; Walt was from that state?

New York

UK Places: Doing something redundant is like "carrying coals" to this city, formerly a coal-mining center?

Newcastle

Reading Material: Combine 2 words in the New York Times' slogan & get the name of this light, pulpy paper it comes on?

Newsprint

Music: "Look at how you winning now", says her 2012 track, "Champion"?

Nicki Minaj

Sports Awards: College football rivalries can have their own trophies; the Ireland Trophy goes to the winner of Boston College vs. this school?

Notre Dame

Spell: These 2 letters are between M & F in a word from the French for the use of disguise in the military?

O & U (camouflage)

Mirage: A mirage in which the Sun appears to have another sun below it is called this type, after the Greek letter it resembles?

Omega

TV Finales: Regina sets out to reunite all the realms in Storybrooke?

Once Upon A Time

Role In Common: Matthew Perry, Walter Matthau?

Oscar Madison

History: George Catlin sketched this Seminole war leader after he'd been captured by U.S. soldiers who had violated a truce?

Osceola

Don't Live On Sesame Street: Big birds of the world include the 6-foot, 30-pound Dalmatian variety of this avian with a large bill & an elastic throat pouch?

Pelican

In A Bottle: Sourced in the Alps, this brand of Italian mineral water refers to the shape of the bottles it has used since 1899 as "Vichy"?

Pellegrino

"P": Of the 3 traditional birthstones for August, it's the green one?

Peridot

Something: At its peak, usually in mid-August, you can see more than 60 shooting stars an hour during this meteor shower?

Perseids

Hybrid Animals: The ferocious pizzly?

Polar Bear & Grizzly Bear

Jargon: Named for a Russian navigator, this Alaskan island group in the Bering Sea is also known as the Fur Seal Islands?

Pribilof

Podcast: At the end of their 2020 Archewell Holiday podcast, they got little Archie to wish royal fans a "Happy New Year"?

Prince Harry & Meghan Markle

Poetry: "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" & "Little Gidding" make up the group of Eliot's poems called "Four" these?

Quartets

Border Town: Derby Line, Vermont & Stanstead in this province form a single municipality bisected by the U.S.-Canada border?

Quebec

21st Century Monarch: The few reigning queens include the United Kingdom's Elizabeth II & this queen of Denmark?

Queen Margrethe

Rejected Element Names: This dangerous radioactive gas found in homes was once called emanation?

Radon

Stars With Something You Can Ride: Raise high these wooden beams that support your roof?

Rafters

"Time": Louis Chauvin & Thomas Turpin were pioneers of this syncopated forerunner of jazz?

Ragtime

Sci-Fi: Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with" this isn't about a Hindu god but rather a spooky craft that's entered our galaxy?

Rama

Same First & Last Letters: One who wanders aimlessly, or the classic American Motors car seen here (50's car with a high roof)?

Rambler

"mm": Till Lindemann is the frontman of this metal band that doubles the "M" of a U.S. Air Force base in Germany?

Rammstein

Beach: Didn't use sunscreen? You could be described this way, a phrase using a color & a crustacean?

Red As A Lobster

Bones: Men do not have more of these bones than women, but some people have extra cervical ones near the collar bone?

Ribs

Richard: His autobiography was titled "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way"?

Richard Branson

Non-Fiction: "Metamorphosis" covers the storied career of this Hollywood makeup legend seen here (An American Werewolf In London)?

Rick Baker

Oceanographic Terms: Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes?

Ring of Fire

Cave: A cave system in the Philippines has a 5-mile-long underground one of these flowing into the South China Sea?

River

Geo: We'll jet to the middle of a vast desert & find ourselves in this wealthy capital with a name meaning "a place of gardens"?

Riyadh

Illustrators: Around 1890, Kate Greenaway illustrated the pages of a children's story by this British poet?

Robert Browning

Poetry In Film: In "The Outsiders" C. Thomas Howell recites this poet's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?

Robert Frost

Random: This app that took a wild ride in 2021 with stocks like AMC Theatres was formed in 2015 to democratize investing?

Robinhood

Musical Landmarks: A cleft in limestone in England sheltered Reverend Augustus Toplady from a storm & inspired this popular hymn?

Rock Of Ages

1920s Good Read: Hercule Poirot must solve "The Murder of" this man found stabbed to death in his study?

Roger Ackroyd

Talk Shows: In this segment that began with Tom Hanks on James Corden's first "Late Late Show", an actor does a fast sequence of parts he's played?

Roll Call

Clocks: Time was up for Joan of Arc in this French city that's also home to the magnificent astronomical clock seen here?

Rouen

Author's Road Trip: Mark Twain's trip from Missouri to Nevada included being "avalanched" inside a stagecoach --no wonder he called the book this?

Roughing It

Art: In this French artist's primitive painting of "The Sleeping Gypsy", a lion lurks nearby?

Rousseau

3-Letter Words: The British use this booze to mean "strange"?

Rum

Lit: In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title?

Rumble Fish

3-Letter Words: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto?

Sic (emper tyrannis)

Geo: These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy?

Sicily & Sardinia

Glass: The main ingredient in most glass is this 6-letter compound, also known as industrial sand?

Silica

Garden: This 2-word phrase refers to something unimportant, probably referring to a tuber that wasn't worth peeling?

Small Potatoes

Safety: FEMA says to replace the 9-volt battery at least once every year in this home device; some even include carbon monoxide sensors?

Smoke Detector

Game: (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) The PlayStation 5 is kitted with an ultra-high speed SSD, this kind of hyphenated drive that makes iconic characters like Sackboy really move?

Solid-State Drive

Midwest: Directions from Sioux Falls to Box Elder in this state: hop on I-90, go west for about 300 miles, stop?

South Dakota

Not Everyday Words Anymore: An archiloquy was the initial part of one of these?

Speech

Pronouns: It's the last word of "O Canada"?

Thee

Stars With Something You Can Ride: It's the leading segment of an army's forces, as Mom & her soccer kids know?

a vanguard

Born During Civil War: This president's first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861?

Theodore Roosevelt

Atlanta: Yang Yang & Lun Lun became some of the most popular residents of Zoo Atlanta when they arrived in 1999; the pair of pandas were delicately airlifted here from China by this package delivery service?

UPS

Base: A video game called "Zero Wing" gave us the meme "All your base are" these 3 words, a poor translation from Japanese?

belong to us

Famous Americans: This man divided his library into history, philosophy & fine arts; the Library of Congress kept the system when it took it over?

Thomas Jefferson

Dinosaurs: In the name of the biggest dinosaurs discovered to date, this word for a giant early Greek god precedes "-osaur"?

Titanosaur

Stars With Something You Can Ride: To discard an object to lighten a craft, perhaps a really fast plane?

To Jettison

Newspaper Names: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people's interests?

Tribune

National Flower: Turkey's national flower is this one also prominently associated with a Western European country?

Tulip

Mediterranean Geo: Smaller than its neighbors, this northernmost African nation has a coastline that long attracted conquerors?

Tunisia

Z In The Middle: C6H6, this aromatic hydrocarbon typically derived from petroleum, is used in the manufacture of detergents & fuels?

benzene

U.S. History: This body convened for the first time on March 4, 1789, but only 8 members--4 short of a quorum--showed up?

U.S. Senate

Country Facts: In Central Africa, it's been led since 1986 by Yoweri Museveni, elected to a sixth term in 2021?

Uganda

SEC: Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963?

University Of Alabama

Kiss: It's traditional at this venerable state university to streak across the space known as the Lawn & kiss the Homer statue?

University of Virginia

Lost & Found: Anne & Helge Ingstad rediscovered this North American Viking settlement thought to have been named for grapes?

Vinland

Typical Jason: Jason lives in this kind of 5-letter area, like 5% of Americans in the 1790 census but 75% in the 1990 census?

Urban

Music: "Poetic Champions Compose" is a 1987 album by this Irish rock & R&B legend who was knighted in 2016?

Van Morrison

80s: Coming over from England, in 1984 Tina Brown took over as editor of this magazine & turned it into a success?

Vanity Fair

CDC Says So: In 2020 the CDC reported there had been nearly 3,000 cases including many deaths due to EVALI, a lung injury caused by this activity?

Vaping

Spiders: The spider family Uloboridae lacks these glands, so if you want a pet spider, maybe get one of them?

Venom

Holidays: In 1996 the NYC parade for this fall day was down to 15 blocks & a few spectators; in 2009 30,000 participants marched 34 blocks?

Veterans Day (There was more patriotism after 9/11)

Mountain: Billed as the world's smallest mountain, Mount Wycheproof rises a majestic 141 feet in this Aussie state fit for a queen?

Victoria

Vice: A 1998 study showed release of dopamine, a pleasure-bringing neurotransmitter, in subjects during a tank-driving one of these?

Video Games

2 "i"s: A period of intentionally staying awake to keep watch or to pray?

Vigil

Finish Poetry Line: From Milton's sonnet on his blindness, "They also serve who only stand and" this?

Wait

Water: The Bristol Channel separates the southern part of this U.K. country from England?

Wales

Pop Culture: Scandal sang, "Shooting at the walls of heartache, bang bang, I am" this?

Warrior

Animal-Named Animals: Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name?

a mule deer

TV Show Episode Title: "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship","She Was Killed by Space Junk"?

Watchmen

Get While It's Cold: Try the yellow kind of this with varieties like yellow doll & crema Saskatchewan?

Watermelon

Shirt Shorts: The guayabera is also known as the Mexican this festive event shirt?

Wedding Shirt

Never Enough: Industry needs more of these skilled workers, like the arc type, who are similar to brazers?

Welders

Group Of 12: Pauly Shore plays a loser who becomes this spokesman for a group of 12 in "Jury Duty"?

the foreman

TV Title Pairs: NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman & Adler?

Will & Grace

Descriptive Words: While you're looking out one of these, contemplate that the word fenestral refers to them?

Windows

Europe Lakes: The shores of Hungary's Lake Balaton have been used for this type of agriculture for 2,000 years?

Wine

Tom: The neuralyzer used by Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black" fools you by doing this to you?

Wipes Your Memory

Names In Lit: In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms?

Yahoos

20th Century: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea?

Yalta

3-Letter Words: It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course?

Yaw

Science: Used to make nuclear fuel, impure uranium oxide is known by this "colorful" name?

Yellowcake

Nonfiction: "The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making?

Yemen

Ash Tree: In Norse myth, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages up & down this ash tree that supports the world?

Yggdrasil

Cookbooks: Better digestion is promised with the cookbook called "Go with" this synonym for the stomach?

Your Gut

In The Past: Mobutu Sese Seko amassed a $5 billion fortune ruling what's now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which he renamed this?

Zaire

Same Animal: Marty & the San Diego Zoo's Robert?

Zebra

Word From In The Greek For...: For "over" & "carry": a common figure of speech?

a metaphor

Double Double Vowels: This transparent feature first debuted for Ford on the 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV?

a moonroof

Civil War: The Dictator, an enormous one of these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg?

a mortar

Garbage: "The Pilgrim's Progress" gave us the man with this rake, determined to keep working away in the filth?

a muck rake

Waking Up: A new mixing valve in this could be the key to preventing scalding due to an ill-timed toilet flush?

a showerhead

Messy: Shambles is an old word for one of these workplaces, a literal scene of carnage?

a slaughter house

Idiom: A course of action with the potential for greater difficulties is this alliterative downhill course?

a slippery slope

Lit: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series?

a snake (After Salazar Slytherin)

Line: Edward Lear's owl & pussy-cat "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" this?

a spoon

Knotty: Improperly tied, this type of knot is called a granny knot?

a square knot

Small Animals: A fanged mammal from the age of the dinosaurs has been widely called a sabertooth this, like Scrat in the "Ice Age" movies?

a squirrel

"ib": This sub type of vehicle used for exploring the deep is less wide-ranging & autonomous than a submarine?

a submersible

Additives: An emulsifier is an additive that encourages this process in which particles mix but don't dissolve?

a suspension

In The Dictionary: This portmanteau word for a women's 2-piece bathing suit that provides more coverage than a bikini dates to 1985?

a tankini

3 "r"'s: A transparent container for keeping reptiles indoors?

a terrarium

Lightning: When Michael Corleone first sees his future bride, he's "hit by" this, lightning with accompanying sound effects?

a thunderbolt

At Home: At home, we like varietals at different temperatures, so we've invested in a dual zone one of these?

a wine refrigerator

Ones & Zeroes: 0 K, not to be confused with OK, is also known by this phrase?

absolute zero

This adjective refers to the ability to soak up water or heat?

absorbent

Business Abbrev.: Obligations to vendors or creditors are these, A.P.?

accounts payable

"Ad" Latin: This type of attack goes after the speaker rather than the idea?

ad hominem

"Ad" Latin: Meaning to improvise, it comes from Latin meaning "at one's pleasure"?

ad-lib

"Al" Arabic: A set of rules to be followed in computer calculations, it comes from the name of a 9th century mathematician?

algorithm

Science: The nuclear research organization CERN has made this stuff & kept it around for 15 minutes, leading to fears of Armageddon?

antimatter

A____Y: Essential oils extracted from plants are integral to this practice that is meant to improve physical & mental health?

aromatherapy

History: A tool of mariners by the 1400s, this instrument aided navigation by determining the position of the Sun & other stars?

astrolabe

"A" Vowel: Lady fingers & thousand fingers are varieties of this fruit?

bananas

Homonyms: The tilt of an aircraft when turning & the land alongside a river?

bank

Oceanographic Terms: Underneath all that sediment, the ocean floor is primarily made of the pillow type of this substance?

basalt (lava)

Bell: A Roman Catholic excommunication rite famously involved this trio?

bell, book & candle

"Bi": From Latin for "two-forked", it means to divide into 2 branches, like a river?

bifurcate

CIA Factbook: Niger leads the world with 47.5 of these happy events per 1,000 people?

births

Computer Speak: An old external modem not communicating fast enough? You may need to increase this measure of speed, bps for short?

bits per second

Medicine: The periosteum is a membrane of connective tissue that surrounds these body parts?

bones

Science: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science?

botany

Line: "Endymion" says, "The Centaur's arrow ready seems to pierce / Some enemy: far forth his" this "is bent"?

bow

Serious: In the 1700s, opera was dominated by 2 major forms: the more prestigious opera seria & opera this, Italian for comic opera?

buffa

Cartels: In 1920s France, the radicals & the Socialist Party made up the Cartel des Gauches, meaning coalition of this?

coalition of the Left

Chosen Few: Latin for "with a key" gives us this select group of holy men responsible for picking a new pope?

conclave

"Con" Game: It's a group of voters in a district, or the district itself?

constituency

Thomas Paine: Paine apprenticed to his father for 7 years making these tight-fitting, shaping undergarments for women?

corsets

Waking Up: Lacrimal gland production is lowest during sleep, so this rhyming disorder is often worse when waking?

dry eye

The Human Body: The "dur" in epidural refers to this 2-word tough lining of the spinal cord & the brain?

dura mater

Not Everyday Words Anymore: Betimes meant this, as in "I must get up betimes or verily, I shall miss the bearbaiting"?

early

FEMA: FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey are 2 of the 4 groups in the Natl. Hazards Reduction program for this type of disaster?

earthquakes

Group Of 12: In song, the 12 days of Christmas gifts include this gift on the eighth day?

eight maids a-milking

Separated: It's the laboratory process of passing a current through water to separate it into hydrogen & oxygen?

electrolysis

Scientists: When asked about his proof of the existence of these waves, Heinrich Hertz said, "It's of no use whatsoever"?

electromagnetic waves

Stock Market: Like the mutual kind, an ETF is a this, which trades like a stock?

exchange-traded fund

Parade: This 2-word military-sounding job is the ceremonial head of a parade?

grand marshall

U.S. Military Equipment: The U.S. Army's tradition of naming these began with the Sioux, used in the Korean War?

helicopters

"H": This feeling of being utterly forlorn has 2 sets of double "S"?

helplessness

Fowl Language: A true lack of something is said to be "as scarce as" these (of which there are actually none)?

hen's teeth

Honorific Titles: In German forms of address, traditionally this word goes before "doktor" if the doktor is a dude?

herr

H____O: This adverb means up until the present moment?

hitherto

Science: Rhinolophus is the genus name for this lucky type of bat seen here?

horseshoe (bat)

Before & After: The "IT" in finance's REIT tips over backward, believing that it'll be caught?

investment trust fall

African Americans Pre-1860: Dave the Potter engraved his work with poetry but not in part of the 1840s when this ability was extra dangerous for the enslaved?

literacy

____ & ____: Beginning with a 2-letter interjection, this phrase tells you to look, really look?

lo & behold

Up: "Up" is placed before an emotion to give us a word for "snobbish"?

pity & uppity

Ends In B: Verb meaning to examine thoroughly, or to connect a building's water pipes?

plumb

Medical Abbrev: Since 2000 the vaccine given in the U.S. for this is the IPV or inactivated one?

polio

Medicine: A combination of lime juice & the Sun can cause a painful skin rash nicknamed this tequila cocktail dermatitis?

margarita

Wild Things: General term for a ground squirrel, such as a woodchuck; in Vancouver Island, one is found only in Canada, pita?

marmot

Asian Lit & Drama: The traditional Korean form of drama known as talchum involves singing, dancing & the donning of these?

masks

Not A US State: States of it include plasma & the Bose-Einstein condensate?

matter

"Me": This word precedes "mouthed" to mean indecisive in speech?

mealy

Other Hamiltons: Secretary of State Hamilton Fish made this, the settling of disputes by a third party, a standard part of diplomacy?

mediation

This Means War: This 5-letter word borrowed from French describes hand-fighting done by scores of people?

melee

Nurses: Civil War nurse Dorothea Dix also worked to help people with this condition, often kept in "cages, closets, cellars"?

mental illness

Hand: She was lookin' kinda dumb with her fingers & her thumb connected to her wrist by these 5 long palm bones?

metacarpals

Same First & Last Letters: The product of a body's mass & velocity?

momentum

Jargon: It's from Latin for "disease"; put "co" before it to get medical speak for 2 or more diseases afflicting a patient?

morbidity

Egrets: The "P" is silent in the white-tailed this bird, but in courtship, a male's call is not; also, the red combs swell over its eyes??

ptarmigan

Shell Game: Flex your... mind & show us you know that the freshwater types of this bivalve mollusk are called naiads?

mussels

Science: Here's the crepe type of this tree in full bloom?

myrtle

Not A US State: A government too full of advice or laws is said to be this household worker's "state"?

nanny

Shell Game: Cephalopods with external shells include the chambered species of this?

nautilus

Medical Prefix & Suffix: The trigeminal nerve is shown here; you do not want trigeminal this, a word using a suffix for pain?

neuralgia

Science: Discovered in 1956, this subatomic particle with no charge & very little mass is part of a family of particles called leptons?

neutrinos

Spiders: Many garden spiders are among those classed as these "weavers" of round webs?

orb weavers

Med School: As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine?

osteopathic doctors

Etymology: The original definition of this 6-letter word was a criminal stripped of legal protection--anyone could kill them?

outlaw

Too Much: A lethal verb ends this compound word referring to too much of something?

overkill

Honorific Titles: An abbot is referred to as right this; a Roman Catholic bishop, most this?

reverend

First Crossword Puzzle: A daydream (7 letters) we'll spot you the first letter,"R"?

reverie

On Speaking: There's a silent "H" in this art form that served the Greeks & Romans well in speaking & writing?

rhetoric

4 Of The Same Letter: From old words for "one & all", today it means disreputable or undesirable people?

riff-raff

Med School: Third-year students typically begin clinical these to gain experience in many specialties for a few weeks to a few months?

rotations

Losing U: A synonym for "way" loses its "U", becoming this repetitive way of doing things?

rote (from route)

Wisdom Words: This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man?

sapiens

Wisdom Words: Often seen before "faire", this word creates a phrase meaning "knowing how to live" when it comes before "vivre"?

savoir

"S"ix Letter Words: This word borrowed from German means to ski straight downhill at high speed?

schuss

Misc.: Looking like they're sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together?

sea angel

Lock: The U-shaped part of a padlock that fits around an item to be locked is called this, also a word for a manacle or leg iron?

shackle

American Music: A type of choral music is called this-note singing, where the notes are printed as ovals, triangles, diamonds & rectangles?

shape-note singing

Losing U: An artificial water channel drops its "U" & turns into this perfect pie portion?

slice (from sluice)

Ends in "gh": It's a synonym for molt?

slough

Knotty: A type of double overhand knot used in fishing is named for this kind of doctor?

surgeon

Sense Organ: Listen up! Myringoplasty is surgery to repair a perforation in this body part?

the eardrum

New To OED: The last 4 months of the year are called these 5-letter "months", like the last piece of wood in a fire?

the ember months

Boat: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this ship area, seen here?

the forecastle (fo'c'sle)

Science: Newly created nihonium is classified as a "trans-" this element?

transuranium

Parts Of The Ocean: Depressions called "deep-sea" these usually form where tectonic plates meet?

trenches

"T": This disorder often caused by eating undercooked pork can cause joint pain & painful breathing?

trichinosis

Starts & Ends in T: It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it?

troubleshoot

"mul": This 6-letter word denotes a riot or turmoil?

tumult

Tough Talk: This hyphenated numerical adjective can mean tough or holding booze in both hands?

two-fisted

Hand: The nerves providing sensation to the hand are the median, radial & this one that enters the hand via Guyon's canal?

ulnar

Homophones: A wind indicator & part of the circulatory system?

vane & vein

They Go Low: 5-letter type of diving, specifically to targets like the USS Spiegel Grove?

wreck diving

Skillful Words & Phrases: From the French for "right", you're skillful in mind or body if you're deemed it?

adroit

"ad": Here are some of these Asian beans?

adzuki beans

All 5 vowel Words: Neil Armstrong got his degree in this type of engineering concerning all things aircraft related?

aeronautical

"Al": The edible seed of Prunus dulcis?

almond

Legumes: The drought-resistant moth bean is high in this, from the Greek for "first"?

Protein

Classical Music: Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor is better known as this, after the inscription on the autograph score?

"Für Elise"

Hit Songs: Written in 1930, this song was a No. 1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate?

"Georgia On My Mind" (Jimmy Carter)

No. 1 Lyrics: In Billboard's top single of 2018, this 2-word Drake title precedes "I can't do this on my own"?

"God's Plan"

Pop Culture: "I Can't" do this by H.E.R. won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 2021?

"I Can't Breathe

"out": Bruno Mars sang, "You make me feel like I've been" this title "for too long"?

"Locked Out Of Heaven"

Songs That Give Advice: Stephen Stills suggested, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey" do this?

"Love The One You're With"

Classical Music: "An der schönen blauen Donau" is the German name of this waltz?

"The Blue Danube"

First To Third: In a holiday song, this title precedes "the angels did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay"?

"The First Noel"

Numbers: Number of "questions" traditionally asked by the youngest child at Passover?

4

Sleepy Time: A joke about how dull the Anglican 39 Articles are is an early reference to this phrase for a short doze?

40 winks

15 Min Or Less: A fighting penalty in the NHL can net you this much time in the penalty box--just like in the name of a band!?

5 Minutes

Dice Roll Names: Jimmy Hicks?

6

Numbers: To the nearest million miles, it's the equivalent of 1 astronomical unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun?

93 million

Marine Biology: The polyp is the body of this creature whose name also refers to its skeleton; masses of them form reefs?

A Coral

Science: A 1950s patient who got grafts of this eye part had depth perception issues & thought he could touch ground from his window 60' up?

A Cornea

U.K. 1980s: The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut?

A Flock of Seagulls

Animals: A digging carnivore, the ratel is also known by this sweet name?

A Honey Badger

Horse Cents: Cameroon produced a commemorative 500-franc "Happiness" coin in the shape of one of these, with a 4-leaf clover on the back?

A Horseshoe

Green: In 1836 Charles Green set a record by traveling 480 miles via this conveyance from London to Germany in under 18 hours?

A Hot Air Balloon

Homonyms: A sharp protruding edge & a fit of emotion, like a crying one?

A Jag

Bestsellers: Madeline Miller had bestsellers with "Circe" & "The Song of" him?

Achilles

Tunnel: A tunnel named for late House Speaker Tip O'Neill carries the route known as the Central Artery under this city's downtown?

Boston

USA: One of America's earliest subways was this city's Tremont Street subway; it's still used to get to Boylston?

Boston

Wisdom Words: It's "A" 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business?

Acumen

Game: The ABC game show, "Don't", had this "Piranha 3D" star, asking the contestants to do ridiculous tasks?

Adam Scott

Constellations: Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer?

Aesculapius

Detective Fiction: "The Secret Adversary" was one of her many mysteries with detectives Tommy & Tuppence Beresford?

Agatha Christie

Euro History: On October 25, 1415 an English army won this battle over a much larger French force?

Agincourt

Opera: Her beloved Radames is sentenced to be buried alive; she joins him so the pair can die together?

Aida

TV Comedy Characters: Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men?

Alan Harper

Borders: About a quarter of Canada's border with the U.S. is with this state?

Alaska

Mediterranean Geo: This nation of the western part of the Balkan Peninsula sits opposite Italy on the Strait of Otranto?

Albania

Current TV: Charm, scenery & cow anatomy are features of this adaptation of James Herriot's veterinary memoir seen on PBS?

All Creatures Great and Small

Compound Words: It gets its name because it's said to combine the flavors of cinnamon, clove & nutmeg

Allspice

Cold Words: Originally a nautical term meaning closer to the wind, it means to be unfriendly or reserved, distant & uninvolved?

Aloof

Aria: In "La Traviata" Violetta's aria "Sempre libera" positively translates to this?

Always Free

Before & After: Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month from Aristotle's entity that causes all motion?

Amazon Prime Mover

TV: "AGT" is short for this show & also for agent, which you'll need if you make the finals?

America's Got Talent

Protest: In 2008 a Guy Fawkes mask became a symbol of this shadowy 9-letter protest group?

Anonymous

Canal: Buildings on the Prinsengracht Canal in this city include one with a secret annex?

Amsterdam

Myth: The Egyptian sun god Re became identified with this god of Thebes & their names were joined together?

Amun

Boring: One of the many uses of this drilling tool is making the hole to go ice fishing?

An Auger

Sea: James Weddell tried to name a sea indenting this continent's coastline for his king, but it ended up named for him?

Antarctica

5-Letter Words: A block of precious metal of a standard shape & weight?

An ingot

Academy: An educator of multiple presidents, the prestigious boarding school Phillips Academy is found in this Massachusetts town?

Andover

Supreme Court: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair?

Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh

Historic Places: 8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit?

Antietam

Biblical Art: Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man"?

Ecce Homo

Things: Winesap is a variety of one?

Apple

Month's Celebration: National Humor Month & in New England, Patriots' Day?

April

WWII: Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on the last day of this 1945 month; 9 days later, the war was over in Europe?

April

Alphabetically First: Of the 12 signs of the zodiac?

Aquarius

Music & Geography: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name?

Botany Bay

Fashion: I say, old chap! Wide neckties include the cravat & this one suitable for wear at the British racecourse of the same name?

Ascot

This Means War: TLegally, lifting a fist in a threatening way can be this; battery takes things to the next level?

Assault

Logo: The logo for this video game company that ruled the '80s is a stylized "A"; it is also based on the Pong screen?

Atari

Navy Bases: Germany maintains naval bases on this sea, including at Kiel & Rostock, both bombed by the RAF in World War II?

Baltic Sea

Curve: In this curve with a musical instrument in its name, a "C" grade is typically the center of the distribution?

Bell Curve

Death Of A Literary Character: "On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty"?

Beth (March)

Deeper Album Cuts: Appropriately, the last track of her "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is "Goodbye"

Billie Eilish

Montana: With only about 109,000 people, this city is Montana's most populous?

Billings

Literary Girl, Interrupted: A variety of this fruit was named for Ah Bing, a Chinese orchard foreman in Oregon?

Bing

Baby: A pregnancy with twins or triplets can be complicated by the A1 gestational type of this condition?

Diabetes

American History: The Great Sioux War of 1876 is also called this war, after the sacred region the Sioux were fighting for?

Black Hills War

Director's First Feature: 1969's "Sweet Charity"?

Bob Fosse

BOURGEOISIE: David Brooks dubbed those who combine nice possessions & hippie values "Bobos", short for bourgeois these?

Bohemians

Squad: This part of the LAPD dates back to explosives expert DeWayne Wolfer joining the department in 1950?

Bomb Squad

Booze: I say this booze, you're a fine booze, what a good booze you would be, in a Sidecar with triple sec, lemon juice & a lemon wedge?

Brandy

Connection: Lenny____ ____Greenwood?

Bruce Lee

Fashion: This typically red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas is said to be named for a herd of animals?

Buffalo Plaid

Presidential Election: In the 1912 election these 2 parties on the left of the political spectrum finished 2nd & 4th, totaling 1/3 of the votes?

Bull Moose Progressive & Socialist

Clothing & Fabrics: Made from hemp or jute, it's the 6-letter type of canvas seen here?

Burlap

New England Port: The band Phish was formed in this Vermont city, a port on Lake Champlain?

Burlington

Pitch: In a recent ad Chipotle asked if one of these handheld items could change the world?

Burrito

Countries: Like its neighbor to the north Rwanda, this landlocked country is home to Hutus & Tutsis?

Burundi

Ancient History: Secretary to emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & wrote "The 12" these rulers?

Caesars

Lit: Seen here is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this?

Calendar

FEMA: FEMA declared major disasters due to wildfires in these 2 neighboring western states about a month apart in 2020?

California & Oregon

"out": In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name"?

Call Out

Geography: The story goes that Queens' College at this U.K. university has the apostrophe at the end, as it was founded by 2 monarchs?

Cambridge

Where's That Dish: Taken from the loin, this "international" breakfast meat traditionally comes in cylindrical form?

Canadian bacon

Captain: It's yo ho ho & a bottle of rum for this Welsh buccaneer who ransacked Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1668?

Captain Morgan

Director's First Feature: 1967's "Enter Laughing", here he is, around that time?

Carl Reiner

Sci-Fi: Earth & Mars are factions in "The Expanse", as are Belters, many of whom live on this largest rock in our asteroid belt?

Ceres

Tunnel: In 1920, work began on a NYC-NJ tunnel named for him; it was said he could make you think of a tunnel as a mole thinks of a burrow?

Clifford Holland

TV Title Animals: From 2000 until 2003 John Ritter was the voice of this colorful canine on PBS?

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Calendar: In the anniversary year 1892, Benjamin Harrison urged observance of a holiday honoring this "pioneer of progress"?

Christopher Columbus

Actor: I played Count Rugen & yes, I know your name is Inigo Montoya!?

Christopher Guest

Lit: Gandhi said this 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau "left a deep impression upon me"?

Civil Disobedience

Glass: In 1879 glassblowers at this N.Y. glass company created the first bulbs for Edison's new electric light?

Corning

Cave: In 1991 a Vietnamese forager discovered a cave so big that these form within it; he saw them billowing out?

Clouds

Americana: Unusually, one building of the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia is made of this flammable mineral?

Coal

Paradox: William Stanley Jevons' 19th century paradox stated if you increase this fuel's efficiency, consumption of it will rise?

Coal

Vocab: Alone or preceded by "molly", this verb means to treat in an overindulgent way?

Coddle

Old Synonyms: Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later?

Coffee

Food & Drink Phrases: A 1951 Time article said, "Since the war," this 2-word term for a period of time "has been written into union contracts"?

Coffee Break

3-Letter Words: A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South"?

Col

Get While It's Cold: The Dutch word "kool" doesn't mean cool, it means cabbage & led to the name of this chilled salad?

Cole Slaw

I'd Like To Buy: Guess it's time I got around to reading "My American Journey", the 1995 autobiography of this Secretary of State?

Colin Powell

Mountain: The highest peak in the Rocky Mountains is 14,400-foot Mount Elbert in this state?

Colorado

Boots: Prada makes a lug-sole canvas version of these boots that sound fit for the army?

Combat Boots

Gladiators: Emperor from 177 to 192, this madman did fight as a gladiator, though his bouts were likely fixed?

Commodus

Curve: Many roadways in America have a curve known by this morbid name as in the 1964 song; the California one seen here is no longer used?

Dead Man's Curve

UK TV: Jack Davenport & Sarah Alexander were 2 of the 6 stars of this Britcom, a sort of U.K. version of "Friends"?

Coupling

Architects: In the 1600s, Inigo Jones introduced town planning to London by creating this "Garden", considered London's first city square?

Covent Garden

Lesser-Known Artist: Jean Metzinger has been called the third artist in this movement & his 1912 treatise on it was one of the first?

Cubism

Anthropology: Begun in 2005, the Genographic Project to track historic migration aimed to use 100,000 samples of this from indigenous peoples?

DNA

On Speaking: Influencing people for years, this pioneer in public speaking wrote, "Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident"?

Dale Carnegie

Biblical Art: Tintoretto painted "The Conversion of Saint Paul" on his way to this city?

Damascus

2 Household Brands: Brands of dish soap with female names include Joy & this one that touts its use to clean wildlife affected by oil spills?

Dawn

Interior Dept: Though her last name sounds like a European country, this Interior Secretary is the first Native American to head a cabinet department?

Deb Haaland

Lit: Longfellow's narrative poem named for this woman is "A Tale of Acadie"?

Evangeline

Terms: This hyphenated term refers to an experiment where both the subject & the tester are unaware of who is getting treatment?

Double-Blind

Jargon: In music, players of these may do a paradiddle, a pattern alternating hands: R-L-R-R,L-R-L-L?

Drums

"Dr": A fleshy fruit with a single seed, like a cherry?

Drupe

U.S. Govt. Buildings: Our ambassadors such as JFK's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, have lived in the little place seen here on 62 acres in this city?

Dublin

Dumb Answers: Opposite of keen, it's often found compared to "dishwater"?

Dull

"D": "To become smaller and smaller... decline", & it's not far from dvandva?

Dwindle

Spell: It's the missing letter in "ouvre", describing an artist's lifetime body of work?

E

Monday: We're used to the Sunday holiday but in the British Commonwealth, this "Monday" is a holiday?

Easter Monday

Family: Maria Clemm was this poet's aunt &, after he married Maria's daughter Virginia, his mom-in-law; quoth the host... uuuuugh?

Edgar Allen Poe

Limerick: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard"?

Edward Lear

____l____m____n____: Yes, my dear Watson, this adjective refers to carbon, or even potassium?

Elementary (elemental)

"E" Sports: Headquartered in Nepal, the WEPA is the World this animal Polo Association?

Elephant

Sacred Books: The Hindu Vedas praise Agni, god of this fundamental force; "agni" is related to our word "ignite"?

Fire

Auction: Someone laid down $960,000 for his "Blackie" guitar, which he played on "Lay Down Sally"?

Eric Clapton

World Flags: The use of red, yellow & green as Pan-African colors began with the flag of this nation, the continent's oldest independent country?

Ethiopia

First Crossword Puzzle: To elude (5 letters) also starts & ends with "E"?

Evade

Ladders: Many dive boats use open sided ladders so divers can go up & down while wearing these?

Fins

Old Music: Handel's 5-movement orchestral suite, "Music for the Royal" these, premiered in 1749 & naturally preceded a display?

Fireworks

Rome: The Colosseum is aka this amphitheater, named for the dynasty begun by Vespasian in 69 A.D. but over by 96--good run, guys!?

Flavian

Ranks: With great power, Peter Parker held the Royal navy title admiral of this from 1799 to 1811?

Fleet

American Revolution: The areas called East & West this were southern outposts of loyalty to the crown--especially St. Augustine?

Florida

Jobs: In Swedish: blomsterhandlare?

Florist

College Conference: Patriot League football: this Jesuit university in the Bronx became fully co-ed in 1974?

Fordham

Character Titled Novels: At 6'6" & 242 pounds this Alabaman is bigger on the page than on the screen but the near-70 I.Q. is about right?

Forrest Gump

Tournaments: Just like soccer, in July 2019 this video game had a World Cup, in NYC's Arthur Ashe Stadium with a $3 million grand prize?

Fortnite

Science: In photosynthesis, green plants use sunlight & carbon dioxide to produce this simple sugar as an energy source?

Glucose

1500s: A landmark of mannerism inside & out, the Palazzo Te was built for this ruling family of Mantua, not of Spokane?

Gonzaga

Colorful Vocab: Preceding "eminence", it means someone who exercises power behind the scenes?

Gray

Nonsense Words: Originally it referred to the slop used as food for pigs; now it's a term for a meaningless sentiment?

Hogwash

Finish Poetry Line: An apocalyptic vision by W.B. Yeats says, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot" this?

Hold

African Cities: Mombasa is a major port city of Kenya on this body of water?

Indian Ocean

Big: The term "juggernaut" comes from a massive vehicle pulled by thousands of pilgrims to honor this avatar of Vishnu?

Jagannath (Krishna)

Alt History Novels: In "Ruled Britannia", the Spanish Armada was victorious & this Spaniard rules England alongside Bloody Mary Tudor?

King Philip II

Name The Movie King: Patrick Stewart in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"?

King Richard the Lion-Hearted

London Monopoly Geography: This 2-word "royal" train station has been suggested as the spot where Queen Boadicea was buried in 60 A.D.?

King's Cross

Weekly Conference Call: The P.R. department says we need a new this, a catchy 6-letter musical ad slogan like "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz"?

Jingle

Joan: In 2017 this singer of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Joan Baez

Current TV: If you've filled up on Chip, turn to this half of a famous couple & her cooking show "Magnolia Table"?

Joanna Gaines

2011: This Ohio Republican took over as Speaker of the House of Representatives?

John Boehner

Aviation: Around 1295 Marco Polo reported witnessing these used to carry men aloft in China?

Kites

Familiar Phrase: To the phrase "Safe as" these little creatures, James Thurber added "under a cookstove"?

Kittens

Medical Prefix & Suffix: -desis indicates a binding or fusing & arthrodesis is when it's done to one of these?

Joint

Pop Culture: "Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season?

Joker

Nonfiction: "Over the Top" is a memoir by JVN, short for this grooming expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye"?

Jonathan Van Ness

Truce: A 1949 ceasefire brought an end (for a while) to a war between India & Pakistan over this territory?

Kashmir

Shape: This singer's Purr & Meow! fragrances come in cat-shaped bottles?

Katy Perry

Books Of 1900: 1990 saw the release of "Postmortem", Patricia Cornwell's first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner?

Kay Scarpetta

Songs: This country superstar, seen here, added to his hit parade in 2020 with "Happy Does"?

Kenny Chesney

Safety: DuPont says this ballistic body armor product provides tensile strength 10 times that of steel on an equal weight basis?

Kevlar

Constellation: A group of 4 stars near Lyra is called this, like the center piece that holds an arch together?

Keystone

Mountains: Here's the crater of this Hawaiian volcano with a one-word name?

Kilauea

Safety: Also known as an emergency stop, you hit this "lethal" 2-word device to turn off a machine immediately?

Kill Switch

Silent-Letter Words: A dorsal prominence of a finger joint?

Knuckle

R & B: 40 years later & partygoers still like to get on the dance floor & "celebrate good times" to a hit by this group?

Kool & The Gang

Fiction: In 2021 her "Firefly Lane", about a lifelong friendship, became a Netflix series?

Kristin Hannah

Quintuple: This Pakistani-American comic says spell-check wants to change his first name to "Camel"?

Kumal Nanjiani

Women's Hall Of Fame: This Swiss-born American psychiatrist who identified the 5 stages of grief?

Kübler-Ross

Cannes: Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a Cocker Spaniel for Christmas in this animated film?

Lady and the Tramp

Mountain: There's great skiing at places like Tremblant in these mountains, the Quebec portion of the Canadian Shield?

Laurentians

American Nicknames: Legendary folks blues singer & guitarist Huddie Ledbetter, seen here, was better known by this nickname?

Lead Belly

Familiar Phrase: Travis McGee observes, "People who become" these "in their own time usually have very little time left"?

Legends

Awards: In France, the Croix de Guerre is automatically awarded to those who receive this 3-word decoration for war services?

Legion Of Honor

Spiders: Each of a spider's these contains 7 segments, so that's 56 segments per spider?

Legs

Catch: 1950s race horse Silky Sullivan once caught the leaders & won after trailing by 41 these, the distance from his nose to his tail?

Lengths

Noble: Becoming a "life" one of these in Britain gets you a title, but it can't be passed on to your children?

Life Peers

2020: Taking a leap on Leap Day to support low-income people, this grand duchy became the first nation with free public transport?

Luxembourg

Medical Abbrev: A traumatic brain injury may damage LTM, short for this?

Long Term Memory

Colonial America: Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men?

Lord Baltimore & William Penn

Auction: Christie's recently offered art, objects &, of course, photos from this late former husband of Princess Margaret?

Lord Snowdon

You Can't: ...go boating in Owens Lake near the California-Nevada border; it dried up in the 1920s after its water was sent to this city?

Los Angeles

TV Before & After: The Robinson family can't find the way home in the cosmos but are helped by a galactic cartoon hero & his sidekicks Jan & Jayce?

Lost in Space Ghost

Buddhism: The plant called the sacred or Indian this is a symbol of the true nature of beings & of Buddha's throne?

Lotus

Name Calling: France's fifth king with this name, the last Carolingian monarch, was "The Do-Nothing", & that's saying something?

Louis V

"L": This city's port on the Ohio River is just southwest of Churchill Downs?

Louisville

Quotations: In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus quotes this gospel's "Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy"?

Luke

Rock Bands: The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman?

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Additives: This substance, seen here, that's added to beer & milkshakes, comes from cereal grain that's allowed to undergo germination?

Malt

Essays: This economist's "Essay on the Principle of Population" from 1798 predicted "gigantic inevitable famine"?

Malthus

Sting: (Sting presents the clue.) My new album "Duets" features collaborations with Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock & this woman whose "What's the 411?" pioneered the fusion of soul music & hip-hop?

Mary J. Blige

American History: John Winthrop led many followers to this colony in 1630 & gave us the image of the "city upon a hill"?

Massachusetts Bay Colony

First Names In Dictionary: An old song says "A pretty girl is like" this, a pleasing tune?

Melody

No. 1 Lyrics: These "light the corners of my mind" in the theme from "The Way We Were"?

Memories

Tennessee: A sanitation workers' strike in this Tennessee city began in February 1968 & ended on April 16 after a tragic event?

Memphis

Constellation: An organization for the brilliant, or a constellation named for South Africa's Table Mountain?

Mensa

Herbs: Oil of peppermint is almost half this chemical that flavors cigarettes but can also aid digestion & ease cramps?

Menthol

Olmsted: Olmsted's plans for a reservoir for Mt. Royal Park were dashed by an 1870s depression in this city whose name sounds like the park?

Montreal

Sculpture: Several cities have Lorenzo Quinn's hurricane-inspired sculptures of this not-so-maternal figure hurling a globe?

Mother Nature

Buttle: Elephant Butte, seen here, is one the tall sandstone pinnacles that give this scenic valley of the Southwest its name?

Monument Valley

Songs: This word preceded "Swings" in a 2020 hit by Pop Smoke; just this word was the title of a No. 1 hit by 24kGoldn?

Mood

Train Stations: The domes & minarets at Kuala Lumpur Railway Station are in this architectural style named for a people of North Africa?

Moorish

Mirage: This half sister & adversary of Arthur in "Le Morte d'Arthur" gave her name to a type of mirage?

Morgan le Fay

Role In Common: Carolyn Jones & Anjelica Huston?

Morticia Addams

Law: Sir Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this laid the foundation for classical mechanics?

Motion

Canada: Around the year 1000, the Vikings established a small camp on this large eastern island?

Newfoundland

Around The USA: A live type of this tree is a must-see for visitors to Johns Island, South Carolina?

Oak

CDC Says So: If your BMI is between 25 & 30, it falls within the overweight range; if it's higher than 30, it's considered this?

Obese

Shape: The Earth is generally considered to be this 6-letter type of spheroid, as it is flattened at the poles?

Oblate

Additives: STP has a fuel additive that boosts this, from the Latin for "eight"?

Octane

Rivers: In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia?

Ohio River

College Conference: Mid-American: the main campus of this university is in Athens, with a branch in Zanesville?

Ohio University

American History: The 1859 discovery of this near Titusville set off a boom in Pennsylvania?

Oil

Countries: First found in Nigeria in 1956, it's the nation's most important source of government revenue?

Oil

Age: Some of the oldest paleolithic hand axes were found in this gorge near Serengeti National Park?

Olduvai Gorge

Reading Material: The nearly translucent paper called this kind of "skin" was once popular for air mail, where every ounce counted?

Onion Skin

Egg: This brand, a chocolate malt mix that's added to milk, got its name from the Latin for "eggs"?

Ovaltine

The Human Body: Sometimes done to treat cysts, an oophorectomy is the removal of this body part?

Ovaries

Hot Stuff: Stefano Ferrara is a famous maker of these, which can reach a temperature of 800 degrees inside?

Ovens

Too Much: This idiom for an overacted performance comes from World War I soldiers charging up out of their trenches?

Over The Top

Poetry In Film: This South American poet is a character in "Il Postino" & his poems like "Ode to the Sea" are featured in it?

Pablo Neruda

Science: This "ancient life" geologic era ended about 250 million years ago as most species on Earth died out?

Paleozoic

Lighthouse: Honoring the coast watchers who helped the Allies during WWII, Kalibobo Lighthouse is in this island country, PNG for short?

Papua New Guinea

Today I Learned: This Vermont senator is not only 3rd in the succession line to the presidency, he was born blind in one eye & has been in 5 "Batman" movies?

Patrick Leahy

Cake: This make-up, a trademark of the Noxell Corporation, is applied with a damp sponge & used as a foundation?

Pan-Cake make-up

Fictional Places: Introduced to readers in 2008, its name comes from a Latin phrase for "bread & circuses", offerings used to appease the masses?

Panem

Music!: We have high hopes that you'll know that this emo-punk band has a song called "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"?

Panic! At The Disco

7-Letter Animals: You can find this wild cat, also called a puma, from Canada to Argentina?

Panther

1984 TV Show Debuts: In addition to "Jeopardy!", that year saw a new "Super" version of this game show that used one-word clues between players?

Password

"Pat": This classic touch-&-feel book that Dorothy Kunhardt created for her daughter turned 80 in 2020?

Pat The Bunny

Body Words: This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head?

Patella

Gershwin Music Prize (Lifetime Award): Created in 2007 by the Library of Congress, the first prize went to this "One Trick Pony" singer?

Paul Simon

3-Letter Words: This verb means to handle something roughly, like an animal would?

Paw

International Food & Drink: Aromatics, like garlic & fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name?

Pilaf

Jumble Gym: Low-impact exercise program that can use the wunda chair: TEA LIPS?

Pilates

Film Wedding: Amid swashbuckling, Barbossa officiates Will & Elizabeth's wedding, not just offshore but "At World's End", in this movie?

Pirates of the Caribbean

19th Century Music: The orchestra known as the Berlin this, meaning "lover of music", debuted in 1882?

Philharmonic

Marine Biology: A major type of these free-floating ocean organisms, with a name from Greek for wandering, dinoflagellates can cause red tides?

Plankton

Hair: It was the 2-word title of a 1931 film starring Jean Harlow, as well as her hair color?

Platinum Blonde

Psychology: In 1986 Janet Jackson sang about this Freudian "Principle"?

Pleasure Principle

Jargon: A legal metaphor warns against the "fruit of" this kind of tree, as it deals with evidence illegally obtained?

Poison

Pony: Ponyta evolves into the fiery Rapidash in this Nintendo game series?

Pokémon

European Borders: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore?

Poland

Fred: A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country?

Poland

Art: A highlight at the Musee d'Orsay is "Ours Blanc", a sculpture of this predator of the north?

Polar Bear

Nurses: The Kenny method of treating paralysis caused by this viral disease was developed by Sister Kenny, an Australian nurse?

Polio

Fine Arts: Choreographer Eliot Feld turned the music of Johann Strauss Jr. into these "dotty" dances?

Polkas

Game: Handicaps & divots are in this sport, but don't say golf; there is also penalty 3, a free hit from 40 yards to an open goal?

Polo

"Y" In The Middle: A triangle is the simplest form of this type of closed plane figure bounded by straight lines?

Polygon

Languages: In 2013 he added Latin to the 8 still-living languages of his Twitter account?

Pope Francis

Magazines: This magazine once known for featuring cars & boats has a breakthrough award for innovations like bacteria-powered batteries?

Popular Mechanics

International Food & Drink: Similar to a latte is a galao, a coffee drink that originated in this country?

Portugal

-ium: Kalium is another name for this element?

Potassium (Chemical symbol K)

Bible Books: Its last chapter includes wisdom from King Lemuel, taught to him by his mother, as well as the famous "Virtuous Woman" passage?

Proverbs

Bible Babes: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings", says this Old Testament book of sacred songs?

Psalms

Anthropology: Elsie Clews Parsons covered the Zuni & Hopi in her landmark book on the religion of these peoples of Arizona & New Mexico?

Pueblo

Arabia: This emirate, a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast, has taken a more independent line than its neighbors in recent years?

Qatar

Scavengers: Thriving in urban areas, these carnivores also called ringtails are really scavengers & willingly share food?

Raccoons

Essays: An essay that she wrote about marine life called "World of Waters" was published in 1937 as "Undersea"?

Rachel Carson

Islamic History: After winning the 1187 Battle of Hattin, this sultan personally beheaded a crusader who had broken a Muslim-Christian truce?

Saladin

Mirage: Mirages are a common sight in Namibia's Etosha pan, a vast, dry plain mainly covered in this mineral?

Salt

American Rivers: The "rap" on this river: it's entirely in Virginia & its name is from Algonquian for "stream with quick rising waters"?

Rappahannock

Lit: O. Henry told of "The Ransom of" this title kid, so troublesome his kidnappers pay dad to take him back?

Red Chief

Knights Templar: Knights of the Templar order wore a distinctive style of dress, a white surcoat emblazoned with this symbol?

Red Cross

July: Upon reaching this valley in July 1847, Brigham Young reportedly said, "This is the right place"?

Salt Lake Valley

"S"ix Letter Words: This member of the Greyhound family seen here is one of the oldest dog breeds?

Saluki

American Revolution: A British gov. of Massachusetts called him the "chief incendiary" but unlike cousin John, his contributions faded after 1776?

Sam Adams

Emmy: 2011: This song gave it all to Adele--Record of the Year, Short Form Music Video & Song of the Year?

Rolling In The Deep

Party: In 1962 this future president said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me"?

Ronald Reagan

R & B: He's remembered for hits like "You Send Me" & "Twistin' The Night Away"?

Sam Cooke

Computer Speak: A computer running in this 4-letter diagnostic "mode" uses a minimum of files to help decipher where a problem might be?

Safe Mode

Jobs In The Bible: Jesus calls these old-time copyists hypocrites & tells them, "Woe unto you"?

Scribes

Moon Features: The darker areas on the Moon are called maria, Latin for these?

Seas

First To Third: F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "There are no" these "in American lives"?

Second Acts

Podcast: Guests reveal discoveries they've made about their families' past on Dani Shapiro's podcast called "Family" these?

Secrets

New To OED: The Henriad refers to 4 plays by this man?

Shakespeare

Clay: Formed by a consolidation of clay, this 5-letter rock makes up around 70% of the sedimentary rock on the Earth's crust?

Shale

Painting: Matte, satin & eggshell are types of this, one vowel sound different from "shine"?

Sheen

Important From Italy: Any Pecorino cheese, like Pecorino Romano, comes from the milk of this animal?

Sheep

Business: This gas company added an apostrophe to make its name a contraction for International Women's Day in 2020?

Shell (She'll)

Assam: Sericulture, the farming of these textile-producing creatures is a large part of the economy in Assam?

Silkworms

Colony Collapse: Churchill described the fall of this future city-state to the Japanese in 1942 as the "worst disaster... in British history"?

Singapore

Constellation: The Winter Triangle spans stars in constellations from Betelgeuse to Procyon to this bright star in Canis Major?

Sirius

People In History: A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government?

Sitting Bull

Limerick: In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix"?

Ski

World Geography: More than half of this city that's now the capital of North Macedonia was destroyed in a 1963 earthquake?

Skopje

Gods: A top Mayan deity, Kukulkan is sometimes depicted as a feathered one of these real-life creatures, also the meaning of his name?

Snake

World's Fair: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era?

Space Age

Beach: Brits call beach vacations a "bucket-&-" this shovel synonym holiday?

Spade

Truce: The 12 years' Truce of 1609 to 1621 interrupted the Netherlands' lengthy struggle with this country?

Spain

History: Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this?

Spartacus

Tough Talk: A tough guy from ancient Greece, or a synonym for spare or frugal?

Spartan

One-Named Authors: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church?

Stendhal

TV: Play Randall Pearson on TV?

Sterling K. Brown

"i": I can host "Morning Edition" on NPR, & now you can see what I look like after listening to my voice for all these years?

Steve Inskeep

Corporate Mascots: The Ticket Oak was a very giving magical tree for this rhyming company?

StubHub

Cars: A status symbol of the time, some say this company's Bearcat put the "roar" in the Roaring Twenties?

Stutz

Cars: Its Legacy is on the line every day?

Subaru

In The Dictionary: There's a silent "B" in this adjective meaning mysterious & faint, like the Mona Lisa's smile?

Subtle

Islamic History: The Arabic word for this Mystic form of Islam is Tasawwuf, "to dress in wool", as early adherents are thought to have done?

Sufism

Mountain: This "sweet" mountain in Maine's Carrabassett Valley is one of New England's premier ski resorts?

Sugarloaf

Unusual Islands: Miyake islanders have worn masks to thwart this element, atomic No.16, prevalent in the air due to gassy Mount Oyama?

Sulfer

Bay: Named for a local titan of dredging, Ben T. Davis Beach is on this big bay of West Florida?

Tampa Bay

Repeat: Only a dental professional can truly remove this mineral deposit also called calculus that forms along & under the gumline?

Tartar

South: These are a tradition on Tahiti; after months there, Fletcher Christian appeared before Captain Bligh covered in them?

Tattoos

Zodiac Rhyme Time: A new breed of dinosaur whose name means "bull lizard"?

Taurus-asaurus (Taurusaurus)

"Tender": If you've been "left to" someone's this 2-word idiom, you have no protection from whatever they wish to do with you?

Tender Mercies

Events Of The 1850s: 70 years after the highest peak in these mountains was 1st climbed, a group conquered 15,200' Dufourspitze, the second-highest?

The Alps

Journalists: In 1833 this "shining" New York newspaper established the penny press & George Wisner was its first reporter?

The New York Sun

3-Letter Words: This term for flax fiber goes before "headed" to describe kids with very light blond hair?

Tow

Laughs: We'll have a side of Beef Tobin, a single dad in Alaska voiced by Nick Offerman in this Fox cartoon?

The Great North

South: This fault running down East Africa divides in Zambia, the western arm becoming the Luangwa Valley?

The Great Rift

NYC: Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname?

The Great White Way

World Literature: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus"?

The Gulag Archipelago

1980s Bestsellers: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work?

The Handmaid's Tale

Literary Antagonists: In this dystopian tale, the title narrator plays Scrabble with a commander whose name we can assume is Fred?

The Handmaid's Tale

Novel Reviews: "Characterization in general is weak... nor is the commander strongly drawn. Again, the aunts are best... it lacks imagination"?

The Handmaid's Tale

Separated: Protecting the hand, a quillon is the crosspiece that separates the blade of a sword from this, the handle?

The Hilt

90s Non-Fiction: USA Today called this Richard Preston bestseller about the Ebola virus "more terrifying than any sci-fi nightmare"?

The Hot Zone

July: War costs money, so in July 1862 what's now this federal government service came into being?

The IRS

Cold Words: A poem by William Carlos Williams begins, "I have eaten the plums that were in" this, not the refrigerator--it was 1934?

The Icebox

Misc.: W.S. Gilbert said the short stature of the trio of actresses seen here suggested the "Three Little Maids" song in this operetta?

The Mikado

Did You Read: ...this classic W.W. Jacobs short story that warns us, "The first man had his three wishes... the third was for death"?

The Monkey's Paw

Losing Your Religion: Losing the second letter in a word for a sacred Bible hymn gets you this body part?

The Palm

Jimmy Carter: Carter was criticized for his return of this territory to the surrounding country?

The Panama Canal

Author's 3rd Book: In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run?

The Pelican Brief

Teams In Spanish: Los Cuervos?

The Ravens

Family Business: The Piëch-Porsche family has the largest stake in this automaker that owns Audi, & yes, Porsche?

Volkswagen

Plays: In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox"?

Volpone

Eponymous Legislation: 1920's National Prohibition Act was named for this Minnesota congressman?

Volstead

Musicals: In "West Side Story" Maria's brother is in this gang, the rivals of her new boyfriend's?

The Sharks

TV: Shane Vendrell dies & Vic Mackey is, even worse, forced into a desk job on the finale of this FX drama?

The Shield

American History: Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala branch of these people, was at the battle of Little Bighorn & lived until 1950?

The Sioux

Books For Kids: This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism?

The Snowy Day

Mountaintop: You'd celebrate too if you'd reached the summit of a peak in this Wyoming range, with a name from the French?

The Tetons

Geo: The widest part of this river seen here is 18 miles at its mouth between Whitstable & Foulness Point?

The Thames

Also Known As: Due to its conservative leanings, Britain's daily telegraph is sometimes called the Daily this -graph?

The Torygraph

Spaced Out: In 1860 astronomer Le Verrier announced a new planet he called this, also a "Star Trek" planet; it doesn't exist?

Vulcan

Stocks: This mega-retailer that joined the Dow Industrials in 1997 is near the bottom of the list alphabetically?

Walmart

Plant: Shells of the black type of this nut aren't good for composting; they contain a chemical that can inhibit plant growth?

Walnuts

Spaced Out: Term for the first stage of a rocket; it refers to the extra power needed during liftoff?

a booster

Boat: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this petty officer whose pipe is heard here?

a bosun (boatswain)

Geo: At only about 250 feet, this tiny state has the lowest high point of any country in Europe?

The Vatican

History: Jonathan Clements' "Brief History of" this group asks, were they "the last pagans or the first modern Europeans?"?

The Vikings

Time Lines: "The time has come", this character says, "to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--of cabbages--and kings"?

The Walrus

"ae": Fog & mist are considered types of this, though they don't come out of a can?

an aerosol

Math Champ: Henri Poincaré pioneered this math branch that studies the deformation of objects into new shapes without any cutting or pasting?

Topology

MLB Mascots: Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta?

Toronto Blue Jay

"Al": An alternative form of a gene occurring at a particular locus on a chromosome?

an allele

Barns: The big barn seen here in Lexington, Kentucky was built to house this breed named for their unmixed stock?

Thoroughbreds

Roman Emperor: Maximinus Thrax got his heavy metal name because he was born in this ancient region spanning Greece, Turkey & Bulgaria?

Thrace

Tom: In "Inception" he plays Eames, a forger trying to plant an idea in the target's subconscious?

Tom Hardy

Grammy-Winning Directors: Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band?

Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)

Plain Name Maladies: A type of glossitis, "geographic" this sense organ gives it a map-like appearance?

Tongue

Authors When Young: Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua?

Toni Morrison

Football: In 2002, when he was a senior at Eastern Illinois University, this QB won the NCAA's Walter Payton Award?

Tony Romo

Island Reads: One of Captain Flint's crew, Ben Gunn is marooned on this title island for 3 years?

Treasure Island

Quintuple: This cabinet secretary is 5th in the line of presidential succession, between the Secretaries of State & Defense?

Treasury

World Lit: The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country?

Turkey

Words In Books: We use this word to describe a boy or girl of 11 or 12; Tolkien used it to mean a Hobbit not yet an adult?

Tween

TV: This actor played lovable Phil Dunphy on "Modern Family"?

Ty Burrell

History: In the 600s B.C. Cypselus of Corinth seized power with this title related to a dino name, but was so popular he had no bodyguard?

Tyrant

Popes: Pius XI revived the custom of giving this blessing whose Latin name means "to the city and to the world"?

Urbi et Orbi

Words In A Type Of Storm: Blowing out from "hurricane" is this 6-letter word that can mean a sea creature or a small child?

Urchin

Fictional Places: A savage people called Zapoletes are contrasted with the inhabitants of the title place of this 16th century work?

Utopia

Official State Fossils: The official fossil of this state is a bivalve called Chesapecten jeffersonius?

Virginia

Good News: A therapy dog named Moose got an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine from this school based in Blacksburg?

Virginia Tech

Aristocrats: Not count but this slightly lower British title was as noble as Horatio Nelson got?

Viscount

Vegetabels: Necessary for healthy eyesight, this vitamin can be obtained from the carotenes in vegetables like carrots & kale?

Vitamin A

Golden Age Actresses: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams?

Vivian Leigh

TV: Ava DuVernay created this Netflix limited series about 5 Harlem teens falsely accused of an attack in Central Park?

When They See Us

You Lose: Putting the 1908 & 1912 presidential races in Olympic terms, he went from gold to bronze, going from 51% to 23%?

William Howard Taft

Comedy: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?"?

Where & When

Important From Italy: It's no surprise that Alba in Piedmont is the name of the town that this color truffle comes from?

White Truffle

Stand Up: Seen here is this comedian, not the robot version of her that joined her on a 2019 Netflix special?

Whitney Cummings

Stocks: WFM was once the stock symbol for this company, but Amazon bought it?

Whole Foods

Book Characters: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how"?

Wilbur

Print: The first published novel by this author of "The Moonstone" was 1850's "Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome"?

Wilkie Collins

History: In 1837, Queen Victoria succeeded this man seen here, the fourth of his name?

William

American History: His assassin was an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz, who said, "I am not sorry for my crime"?

William McKinley

Podcast: This podcast company is behind such shows as "Dr. Death", "Dirty John" & "American Scandal"?

Wondery

The -ology Studies What?: Xylology?

Wood

President: In asking for a declaration of war against the imperial German government, he said, "The world must be made safe for democracy"?

Woodrow Wilson

Winning Presidential Campaign Slogans: "He Kept Us Out of War"?

Woodrow Wilson

Cave: It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave?

Wooly

Words In Books: This word for someone with a need to toil all the time was popularized in the title of a 1971 book about addiction?

Workaholic

Buddhism: The master known as Bodhidharma was said to have founded this type of meditative Buddhism in China?

Zen

Wall: The site seen here is known as Great this, a name that replaced Rhodesia?

Zimbabwe

-isms: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860?

Zionism

Popes: One theory says the first pope, St. Peter, had nerve damage that led to the traditional gesture of this with 2 fingers curled in?

a blessing

Landforms: Waves force water & air to spout through a rock fissure with this 8-letter name; here's one in Hawaii?

a blowhole

Author's Road Trip: A 2019 book tells the true tale of a 1927 road trip by this woman & Langston Hughes, including a Bessie Smith show in Macon?

Zora Neale Hurston

Novellas: In English, "Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez is titled "Chronicle of" this?

a Death Foretold

Nautical Words & Phrases: This term for a leader without power comes from a part of a ship?

a Figurehead

Messy: This newspaper word game with mixed-up letters is also a word meaning a disorderly mixture?

a Jumble

"Con" Game: This synonym for a magician comes from Latin for "swear together"?

a conjurer

Financial Terms: No matter the temperature, this is a 3-day period after certain purchases when the FTC says you can change your mind?

a cooling-off period

19th Century Music: Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen here gets its name from the Latin for "horn?

a cornet

Music "C": A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word?

a countertenor

Landforms: Climbers, beware of these French-named fissures that score the surface of glaciers?

a crevasse

____l____m____n____: It's the highest or utmost point of something?

a culmination

"Dr": It's the name for the fancy silver ball seen here decorating a cupcake?

a dragée

Z In The Middle: Suction cups are a tool of this professional?

a glazier

Small Animals: Also known as the scaly anteater, this mammal gets its name from Malay for rolling up--what it does when threatened?

a pangolin

Neck: Neck ribs on the cobra expand to form a formidable one of these, named for head coverings?

a hood

12-Letter Words: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea?

a househusband

Old Jobs: A rector is a university head; one letter different is this person from Latin "to read", who would read to factory workers?

a lector

Double "ou": An offensive person who says a lot of annoying & noisy things?

a loudmouth

Fruit: Langoustine is a shellfish; this similar word is a tropical fruit?

a mangosteen

This & That: The name of this type of umbrella is from words meaning "protecting against" & "sun"?

a parasol

Alliterative Jobs: This final gatekeeper at a stadium or movie theater may tear off a stub for the patron?

a ticket taker

Starts & Ends in T: Don't place your hot dishes directly on the table; put them on this little stand?

a trivet

"A" Vowel: A defacer of property, or a member of King Gunderic's 5th century tribe?

a vandal

Shades Of Green: Crayola has as green marker named for this reptile?

an iguana

Double Double Letters: Hosteler is an archaic synonym for this person?

an innkeeper

14-Letter Words: It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired?

an understatement

Pieces Of Games: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game?

backgammon (shesh besh)

In The Dictionary: Tilt, prejudice & diagonal are synonyms of this 4-letter word?

bias

Drinking: Well brands are used if one does not specify liquor in cocktails; this word also ending in "ll" is used for specific brands?

call

Adjective: As an adjective, it means hardened or feeling no sympathy; as a noun, without the "O", it is a hardening on your skin?

callous

Drink: Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy is famed for bellinis & this dish of thinly sliced beef, also named for a famed Venetian artist?

carpaccio

Musicals By Setting: A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball?

cats

"C" In Science: Numbers 55 & 58 on the periodic table are these 2 elements that differ by a letter?

cesium & cerium

Christian Glossary: A cathedra is one of these objects used by a bishop?

chair (throne)

-"io": A Brit might bid farewell to an "old chap" using this word?

cheerio

Suffix: Add -er to one-syllable adjectives like "big" or "hot" to get adjectives of this degree?

comparative

Sociology: From the Latin for "turning aside", it's departing from usual or accepted societal norms?

deviance

Too Much: The overlarge figures painted by Henri Rousseau as in "To Celebrate the Baby" are often described with this 16-letter word?

disproportionate

10-Letter Words: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman?

compatriot

Guy Fawkes Day: Father Garnet tried to dissuade the plot leader, Robert Catesby, after the secret slipped during this Catholic sacrament?

confession

Medicine Cabinet: The "D" in Claritin-D stands for this, which is what pseudoephedrine is?

decongestant

Coyote: Coyotes prey on the snowshoe hare & the white-tailed this ruminant?

deer

Medical Latin: When induced by alcohol, this condition of mental disorder is "tremens" or quaking?

delirium

Math: In calculus this is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function, so for a constant function (no change) it's 0

derivative

Not To Be Confused: Thermal pertains to heat; this 6-letter word means referring to the skin?

dermal

4 Of The Same Letter: Collective name for strategic measures taken by a nation to discourage hostile action by another?

deterrence

Purple Heart: World War I Sergeant Stubby, who warned soldiers of gas attacks, is seen here with his medals & of course, these around his neck?

dog tags

Science: Bionomics is another name for this -ology?

ecology

Math: Homotopy is when one shape can be continuously deformed into another; a circle is homotopic to this oval closed curve?

ellipse

Boots: Despite their name, these pull-on boots with adjustable buckles won't help you become a train or a mechanical one?

engineer boots

Fungi: LSD was created from this fungal disease of cereals known to create its own hallucinations?

ergot

Tough Vocab: It was a music education system developed by a Swiss composer before it was a pop duo?

eurythmics

Too Much: A 2019 Supreme Court ruling on excessive fines also used this other "ex" word for a too-high cost?

exorbitant

Bartlett's Quotes: Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words?

jumps over the lazy dog

CIA Factbook: China is the top consumer of electricity, in 2016 using more than 5 trillion of these units?

kilowatt hours

Clothing & Fabrics: Threads of metal are woven into this 4-letter fabric with a French name?

lamé

Tough Vocab: This word containing a synonym for "big" means "generosity" & was shouted in France when lords were giving gifts to the people?

largesse

Silent-Letter Words: It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy?

league

Pies: 19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America?

lemon meringue pie

Legumes: In the King James Bible, the fates of Esau & Jacob turn on a pottage of these legumes?

lentils

Ash Tree: Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard?

lichen

Hand: Ambrose Bierce defined this divination practice as "the 947th method... of obtaining money by false pretences"?

palmistry

Losing U: A truly destitute person divests himself of "U", becoming this tree product?

paper (from pauper)

"ae": They're those tiny little bumps on the surface of your tongue?

papillae

Math Champ: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry?

non-Euclidean

-"io": From the Latin for "messenger", it's a papal ambassador to a foreign government?

nuncio

Nurses: An 1951 Life Magazine piece on Maude Callen gave prominence to the combined job "nurse" this, created around 1930?

nurse-midwife

Up In The Air: The 2 most abundant elements in the Earth's atmosphere are these 2 gases?

oxygen & nitrogen

Science: A mother's levels of this "hormone of love" may influence the intensity of the bond between her & her child?

oxytocin

Idioms In Other Words: Propel by oar one's personal dugout?

paddle your own canoe

Curve: "P" is for this type of curve, which lends its name to a type of mirror or antenna?

parabolic

Journey: An epic poem that begins by talking about a hero's travels gave us this word for a journey?

odyssey

No Vowels: VR: French term describing the overall lifework of a writer?

oeuvre

Garden: In a Simon & Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?"?

parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

Old Military Abbreviations: To sailors in the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, PBR wasn't beer, but this 2-word vessel proceeding "river", many on the Mekong?

patrol boat

State Parks: Bothe-Napa Valley in California has the farthest inland groves of the giants called "Coast" these of any state park?

redwoods

Fungi: The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain 7 trillion?

puffball

Emotional: "The colonel was" this might mean that he no longer felt distressed, or that his command was taken away?

relieved

Pharmaceuticals: Central nervous system depressants include tranquilizers for anxiety & these sleep inducers, from Latin for "calm"?

sedatives

"T": When caused by heart or lung disease, chest pain can accompany this, a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute?

tachycardia

3 Of The Same Consonants: This adjective means "equivalent", as in "Sir, the accusation you have made is ____ to libel!"?

tantamount

Souviners: When you visit the country just south of Kenya, you can bring home some of this mineral named for it?

tanzanite

Shakespeare: In "Henry V" a French envoy insults the English king as a mere gamester by giving him a gift of these "courtly" balls?

tennis balls

Supreme Court Decisions: The 1995 Thornton decision said these are unconstitutional for Congress, as the people have the right to choose their lawmakers?

term limits

Historic Numbers: It rode to disaster on June 25, 1876?

the 7th Cavalry

Looking Over: The cliffs of the Dodecanese Islands, a popular place for rock climbers, loom over this sea?

the Aegean

Eponymous Legislation: The Lilly Ledbetter Act resets this time period whenever an employee receives a paycheck based on discriminatory pay?

the statute of limitations

Drinking: When ordering a martini dry, you're asking the bartender to use less of this?

vermouth

Canada: Hog cholera prompted the founding of North America's oldest of these colleges, at the University of Guelph in Ontario?

veterinary medicine

Singing: Giovanni Rubini was a master of this vocal effect, the natural wavering of pitch while singing a note?

vibrato

Ends In The Same Vowel Twice: Likely from Portuguese words meaning "wine" & "garlic", it's a spicy hot Indian curry?

vindaloo

Coyote: To avoid detection, coyotes may practice "digit-grading", which humans call walking this?

walking on tiptoes

Hard Hitting Words: Only one letter different from "gallop", this word for a heavy blow used to mean to ride at a gallop?

wallop

Vegetables: The bird hero of "The Trumpet of the Swan" orders 12 sandwiches of this veggie from room service?

watercress

Hard Hitting Words: In a traditional rhyme, Lizzie Borden gave family members a total of 81 these?

whacks

Ones & Zeroes: ZIRP is short for this banking "policy" that encourages low-cost credit to companies & individuals?

zero interest-rate policy

19th Century American Women: 2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020?

(2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton

Wire: On March 7, 1876 he was granted one of the most valuable patents ever--a method of transmitting sound over a wire?

(Alexander Graham) Bell

Gershwin Music Prize (Lifetime Award): In 2012 this man was honored along with songwriting partner Hal David?

(Burt) Bacharach

Lighthouse: The lighthouse at this North Carolina national seashore protects the waters where the gulf stream meets with the Virginia drift?

(Cape) Hatteras

Philosophy: I was born in Edinburgh in 1711, 28 years before I published the first volumes of "A Treatise of Human Nature"?

(David) Hume

Science: Let's take a long, "constant" look at this man's law that states the greater the distance to a galaxy, the faster it recedes?

(Edwin) Hubble

F Is For Family: In 2015 Piero, son of this late car magnate, zoomed to billionaire status when the co. listed on the New York Stock Exchange?

(Enzo) Ferrari

Nobel Winning Writer: This German-Swiss author's 1919 novel, "Demian", was published under the pen name Emil Sinclair?

(Hermann) Hesse

Historic Businessmen: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784?

(John Jacob) Astor

Folk Music: 2018's "The Tree of Forgiveness" was the final album from this beloved folk icon who passed away in 2020?

(John) Prine

Reference Books: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion"?

(Noah) Webster

Richard: This British evolutionary biologist wrote the controversial book "The Selfish Gene"?

(Richard) Dawkins

____ & ____: These 2 blacksmith's tools are in an idiom that describes something done with great vigor?

Hammer & Tongs

College: This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version?

Hasty Pudding

Geographically Next: State capitals: Harrisburg, Hartford...?

Helena

Americana: This single optimistic word is the official state motto of Rhode Island?

Hope

Extinct Animals: Seen here is a fossil of one of these prehistoric fish lizards?

Ichthyosaurus

Poetry: This Kipling poem ends, "You'll be a man, my son!"?

If

Business: The current CEOs of Adobe & MasterCard went to the same high school in Hyderabad in this country?

India

World Lit: Russian characters can be confusing & Gogol didn't help with a story about a quarrel by 2 men who both had this common first name?

Ivan

Author's Road Trip: One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago?

Jack Kerouac

American Nicknames: Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling"?

Jack London

Boys: The son of actors Dennis & Meg, he battles abusive superheroes on TV's "The Boys"?

Jack Quaid

Eponymous Legislation: A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors?

Jackie Coogan

American Rivers: Before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, the Pearl River flows through this capital?

Jackson, Mississippi

Art: Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown"?

James Whistler

Constitution: The 20th Amendment specifies this day for the Congress to be sworn in, giving it 17 days to choose a president if that becomes necessary?

January 3rd

21st Century Monarch: The monarchy of this Asian nation of 125 million has a legendary history dating back to the 7th century B.C.?

Japan

Country Name Origins: From the Chinese pronunciation of characters meaning "sun" & "origin"?

Japan

National Flower: Tunisia's national flower is this fragrant white one, also the name of a revolution that started there in 2010?

Jasmine

Around Los Angeles: When Quincy Jones came to L.A., he didn't know Sunset but knew of Central Ave., hub of this music style & now of a festival for it?

Jazz

Movies: 1942: A British woman & her family work together to survive at the outbreak of World War II?

Mrs. Miniver

2020: The first nest found in the U.S. of the 2-inch insects with this scary name was discovered in October?

Murder Hornets

The Comics: Patrick McDonnell's comic strip has this canine name even though Mooch the cat is often seen with Earl the dog?

Mutts

Drama Winning Emmy: In 1994, all 5 nominees were for episodes of this police series set in the fictional 15th Precinct in Manhattan?

NYPD Blue

Books Of 1990: "Barbarians at the Gate" is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz?

Nabisco

The Comics: A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introduced this 8-year-old girl?

Nancy

Medical Prefix & Suffix: These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life & there's often talk of a surplus of one & a shortage of the other?

a pediatrician & a geriatrician

Alliterative Jobs: If your job involves a great deal of bureaucracy, you're one of these, colloquially?

a pencil pusher

Compounds: Potassium sorbate, which inhibits the growth of molds & yeasts, is mainly used in foods as this?

a preservative

Science: This scientific instrument records P waves, S waves & surface waves?

a seismograph

"toc": The name of this cloud layer means "high heap"?

altocumulus

Napoleon: Baron Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon, is credited with pioneering this type of medical service, from French for "walking"?

ambulance service

Can't Have Just One: These acts of restitution in steps 8 & 9 of Alcoholics Anonymous are always plural?

amends

Animals: Generally batting leadoff alphabetically, this "earth pig" has a foot-long tongue?

an aardvark

"toc": Labs & hospitals sterilize equipment in these pressure cookers?

an autoclave

Geography Words: From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag?

an enclave

Idioms In Other Words: Present another with the very blouse one has on?

give them the shirt off your back

Potpourri: To keyboard players a "smear" is this finger-sweeping action, from a word meaning to slide?

glissando

Brit Speak: The OED's definitions for this 10-letter slang word include "flabbergasted" & "speechless"?

gobsmacked

Not A US State: In the Catholic church, one free from mortal sin is said to be in a "state of" this?

grace

Tough Talk: There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded?

hard-nosed

____ Of The ____: Arteriosclerosis is the medical name for what is commonly called this?

hardening of the arteries

Green: In 1864 at Caledonia, New York, Seth Green built the USA's first of these places for fish to be born?

hatcheries

Sci-Fi: A 1962 Brian Aldiss sci-fi work about a warming Earth isn't called "Greenhouse" but this similar structure?

hothouse

Invention: Christopher Cockerell invented these air-cushioned English Channel ferries?

hovercrafts

What To Wear: The song "Surfin' U.S.A." mentions these sandals with a Mexican Spanish name?

huaraches

"Y" In The Middle: It's sometimes referred to as a long-horned grasshopper?

katydid

Investing Terms: It's the commission or sales fee you pay when buying shares; some mutual funds are "no"-it?

load

Boat: You're in a big argument with someone when you're "at" these, also posts found on 19th century whaling boats?

loggerheads

Alliterative Jobs: On 1970s sitcoms Schneider & Bookman were building superintendents, also known as these?

maintenance men

Important From Italy: Barene are salt marshes in this lagoon where Barena honey is made?

the Venetian Lagoon

TV To Film: Will Smith took over Robert Conrad's role in this 1999 adaptation of a 1960s series?

the Wild Wild West

Quotations: The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this?

the Wind

African American Memoirs: Framed as a letter to his son, "Between" these 2 things won Ta-Nehisi Coates a National Book Award?

the World and Me

Congress Acts: An 1872 act established a park in the territories of Montana & Wyoming "near the headwaters of" this river?

the Yellowstone

Human Body: These endocrine glands secrete the hormones epinephrine & cortisol?

the adrenal glands

"toc": The gentlefolk of a society?

the aristocracy

Toys & Games: In Clue, this weapon may be found in the dining room but can be used to illuminate any room of the mansion?

the candlestick

"C"at: Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat?

the clouded leopard

Eye: Dehydration of this transparent eye part can cause vision changes; swab the lower lid to stimulate tears & hydrate it?

the cornea

Calendars: Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.?

the creation of the Earth

Awards: The FiFi Awards are bestowed in this industry, with recent winners like Coty & Givaudan?

the fragrance industry

Neck: "Go for" this main vein in the neck that drains blood from the brain?

the jugular

Idioms In Other Words: Illumination bulbs are electrified, yet the house remains empty?

the lights are on but nobody's home

Lost: The biblical Asher & Zebulun were 2 of these that, despite the name, reached the Promised Land?

the lost tribes of Israel

Problem Is: The topological problem of making these with 4 colors so that no 2 adjacent areas are the same color was solved in the 1970s?

the map problem

Nerve: The name of this nerve that runs down the middle of your arm is from Latin for "middle"?

the median

Bones: Sesamoid bones are found in tendons; the best known is this bone at the lower end of the quadriceps tendon?

the patella

18th Century: Seen here as a model, the post--this word from the French--was the first comfortable wheeled land transport?

the post chaise