Season 34 J!Archive (11/15/17-1/22/18)

POE FOLKS Suffering with an affliction that makes him appear dead, a man fears the title of this Poe story

"A Premature Burial"

ALL MY... Paul McCartney said this 1963 song about what "I will send to you" was an oddity in that he wrote the lyrics first

"All My Loving"

AROUND THE PACIFIC If Lennon played the second-largest Japanese city, it'd be the ballad of John & this

"Ballad Of John And Yokohama"

FOR A SONG In an Oasis song "someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide, in a" this title "in the sky"

"Champagne Supernova"

STREET MUSIC In "The 59th Street Bridge Song", Simon & Garfunkel were "kicking down the cobblestones, looking for fun &" doing this subtitle

"Feelin' Groovy"

"HOME" LINES Lady Antebellum has a song called this, also a proverb about an emotional attachment to the place you're from

"Home Is Where The Heart Is"

YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR In the '70s this No. 1 hit by Helen Reddy asked us to "hear me roar"

"I Am Woman"

ON BOXING DAY I feel happy inside that this song was released in the U.S. on the day after Christmas 1963, launching U.S. Beatlemania

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"

"HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT In The Who's "My Generation", "Things they do look awful c-c-cold", which leads to this wish

"I hope I die before I get old"

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS This "wish"ful line from "Brokeback Mountain" is Annie Proulx' entry in Bartlett's

"I wish I knew how to quit you"

HOLIDAY SONGS This title promise was requested by Jim Lovell & Frank Borman during their 14-day space mission in December 1965

"I'll Be Home For Christmas"

MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER A "warlike" Pat Benatar hit meshes with an L. Ron Hubbard novel

"Love Is A Battlefield Earth"

ONE-HIT WONDERS Lou Bega's biggie in 1999 was this song that mentions "a little Monica in my life"

"Mambo No. 5"

MOTOWN LYRICS This Stevie Wonder hit says, "You're the only girl my heart beats for, how I wish that you were mine"

"My Cherie Amour"

POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK "Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today, I want to be a part of it", this song

"New York, New York"

ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS American Humane certifies movies & TV shows with this 4-word trademark in the end credits

"No Animals Were Harmed"

JUST A SITAR "Isn't it good" that this 1965 Beatles song brought the sitar to the attention of rock audiences?

"Norwegian Wood"

I'M AMEN-ABLE TO THAT The 1737 "New England Primer" included the children's prayer that begins with these 7 words

"Now I lay me down to sleep"

FOR A SONG Roy Orbison recorded this song years before Van Halen's 1982 hit

"Oh, Pretty Woman"

THE BRITISH INVASION This song from The Who's "Tommy" tells of a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who "sure plays a mean" arcade game

"Pinball Wizard"

"MORE" THAN A CATEGORY In chapter 2 of a Dickens work, a hungry Oliver Twist says these 6 words

"Please, sir, I want some more"

AMERICAN HISTORY First performed in 1897, this musical work was designated the official march of the United States in 1987

"Stars And Stripes Forever"

GHOSTING This story mentions an apparition "said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper"

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

FOR A SONG Ed Sheeran sang, "I'm in love with" this, the title of the song, "we push & pull like a magnet do"

"The Shape Of You"

"U" LOVE MUSIC This '60s hit tells us, "On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be"

"Under The Boardwalk"

"U" LOVE MUSIC "Don't believe me just watch"--there's an exclamation point on the title of this 2015 smash hit

"UpTown Funk!"

"LIGHT" MUSIC It was Debby Boone's only major hit & the biggest hit of the 1970s

"You Light Up My Life"

I SING THE BODY Some of the anatomy John Mayer lauds in this song: skin like porcelain, candy lips & a bubblegum tongue

"Your Body Is A Wonderland"

YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR At the Grammys in 2014, Sara Bareilles sang this song of hers with Carole King; the pair also sang King's "Beautiful"

"brave"

"HOME" LINES These 5 words follow "be it ever so humble"

"there's no place like home"

WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES This Athens-born political blog runner: "Goldman Sachs shorted my speech"

(Arianna) Huffington

NOTABLE NAMES In addition to his books on baby care, this pediatrician also wrote "Raising Children in a Difficult Time"

(Benjamin) Spock

THE BRITISH INVASION On January 24, 1962 the Beatles signed a contract making this man their manager

(Brian) Epstein

LITERARY CHARACTERS In "The Mysterious Island", a semi-sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", he dies & is buried at sea in his submarine

(Captain) Nemo

CAMP DAVID At over 1,000 pages his "Infinite Jest" may seem like an infinite read

(David Foster) Wallace

NAME THAT WORLD LEADER China: X Marked the spot from the late 1970s into the '90s

(Deng) Xiaoping

JOY TO THE WORLD Following World War II, this man's leadership spurred the recovery of a continent and blocked the spread of Communism

(General George) Marshall

IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT On July 3, 1863 someone thought a "Charge" of this general's division would be a good idea (it wasn't. It really wasn't)

(George) Pickett

20th CENTURY ART Here's "Red Hills with White Shell", a 1938 painting by her

(Georgia) O'Keeffe

QE II's PMs So far, nine Conservative Party prime ministers have served Her Majesty; he was the last of the four Labour prime ministers

(Gordon) Brown

20th CENTURY ART The 2015 movie "Woman in Gold" is about a legal fight over portraits, including the one seen here, by this Austrian

(Gustav) Klimt

THINK PINK Mais oui, in the "Pink Panther" movies, Peter Sellers bumbles through as this detective

(Inspector) Clouseau

ACTORS TV viewers have seen this 3-named actor on "Grey's Anatomy", "The Good Wife", and "The Walking Dead"

(Jeffrey) Dean Morgan

NAME THAT WORLD LEADER Canada: Beginning in 2015

(Justin) Trudeau

A BANNER YEAR Note the tricolor flags as a big city gets a little freedom in this year

(Liberation of Paris.) 1944

MAN MAKES THE CLOTHES Known for his United Colors brand, this man also served as a senator in Italy

(Luciano) Benetton

20th CENTURY ART The basic style of the color field paintings by this Russian-born man is 2 or 3 soft-edged rectangles of color

(Mark) Rothko

MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS At Coachella in 2017, Thundercat did a version of "What A Fool Believes" with this Doobie brother

(Michael) McDonald

BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS The man himself narrates 1972's this painter's "World...an American Dream" & the DVD is sold at his Mass. museum

(Norman) Rockwell

MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN In "Sons", a sequel by this woman, Wang Lung's sons deal with their father's legacy & wealth

(Pearl) Buck

HIS OWN MUSEUM Hats off to his surrealist who has not one but 2 museums in Brussels

(René) Magritte

21st CENTURY FICTION David Lagercrantz wrote "The Girl in the Spider's Web", continuing the story of Lisbeth Salander, created by this author

(Stieg) Larsson

ROSE You can read his book "The Name of the Rose" as just a murder mystery, but there's a lot more to it

(Umberto) Eco

RUSSIA "N" After a 1955 novel brought him wealth, he lived in an elegant Swiss hotel

(Vladimir) Nabokov

NEW ENGLAND In 1883 he settled at Prouts Neck, on the coast of Maine, where he would paint many of his seascapes

(Winslow) Homer

WRITERS & WRITING This author of the letter "J'accuse", which sparked the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, died of carbon monoxide poisoning

(Émile) Zola

BRITISH CABINETRY Most cabinet meetings take place at a residence with this address

10 downing street

BOOKS & AUTHORS Kind of like a Swedish Forrest Gump is the novel called "The 100-Year-Old Man" who did this "& Disappeared"

100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

ELECTRIC The common duplex receptacle that you plug your blow dryer into has 2 outlets, each of this many volts

120

HOW MANY IN YOUR PARTY? A coven (traditionally)

13

NUMBERS AS WORDS A calculator (upside down) can help you get this 4-digit number for Leetspeak

1337

2-DIGIT NUMBERS Any self-respecting buccaneer knows there are this many "men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!"

15

WHERE & WHEN The Thirty Years' War: the century

17th

NUMBERS AS WORDS This number can mean to turn your life around or just turn yourself around

180

CRIME TIME Jack the Ripper's ripping: this decade

1880's

THE MEH DECADE AKA the Edwardian era, according to Virginia Woolf it was the last decade before a basic change in human character

1900s

WHERE & WHEN The Wright Brothers first take off under power: the year

1903

TARZAN Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to play Tarzan on film in this year that also saw the end of a war

1918

CRIME TIME The Watergate break-in: June 17 of this election year

1972

A BANNER YEAR Celebrants stand on a crumbling wall in this year

1989

IT'S ALL FUN & GAMES A treatise on this numerical game states, "The answers in each case must be literally true"

20 questions

A BANNER YEAR The flags and sign take a stand in a referendum held in this year

2016

THEY'RE IN THE BAND Josh Dun & Tyler Joseph take flight with this "Blurryface" band

21 pilots

A DECADE IN THE 20th CENTURY As Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member

30s

THE 300+ In 1996 Baltimore became the first city where dialing this number got you non-emergency info from local government

311

A DECADE IN THE 20th CENTURY For bathing beauties, bikinis are introduced

40s

WAIT WATCHERS U.K. fans braved frigid climes in 2015, hoping this E.L. James film adaptation would raise their temperature

50 shades of grey

THE MEH DECADE This decade that gave us Wally Cleaver & Pizza Hut is seen as just a prelude to the upheavals of the next one

50s

A DECADE IN THE 20th CENTURY Haile Selassie is overthrown & Patty Hearst is kidnapped

70s

NUMBERS AS WORDS To throw out

86

COLORING BOOKS Pete, Georgie & Dim ("Dim being really dim") are "my 3 droogs" in this novel

A Clockwork Orange

SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER Snug, Helena, Oberon

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A GOOD BOOK The title of this John Bunyan work continues, "From This World to That Which is to Come"

A Pilgrim's Progress

THE BEST VOCABULARY Pre-steak sauce, this alphanumeric term meant "first class" for ships at Lloyd's of London

A1

THEIR CONCERT TOUR The $400 million grossing "Black Ice" seen here

AC/DC

____ING ON POETRY "Oh, weep for ____! Though our tears thaw not the frost"

Adonais

BOOKS & AUTHORS He calls himself a "Giant of the Senate" in his memoir detailing his unlikely turn from comedian to politician

Al Franken

LINE CRAFT He took his continuous line drawings into 3 dimensions with sculptures that got him nicknamed "King of Wire"

Alexander Calder

NOTABLE NAMES This Scotsman came to the U.S. in 1871 at the invitation of Sarah Fuller, a teacher at a school for the deaf

Alexander Graham Bell

MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE Around 880 Edred, archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to the pope to tell on this "Great" English king who was harassing him

Alfred (the Great)

JINGLE SELLS "Plop plop, fizz fizz" plopped into existence for this product in the '70s & Sammy Davis Jr. did a version, baby

Alka-Seltzer

FRENCH HISTORY Awarded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, these paired regions became part of France for good in 1945

Alsace and Lorraine

LOGAN In 2017 this company introduced Logan Everett, its first boy doll, and part of the contemporary line

American Girl

ART Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting

American Gothic

SCULPTURE Doctors' offices can have nice art & this organization put a 10-ton Louise Nevelson sculpture outside its D.C. building

American Medical Association

SIKH The Sanskrit words amrta, "nectar of immortality", & saras, "pool", give us this name for Sikhism's holy city

Amritsar

PAINT THE TOWN RED At night, omnipresent lights give a crimson tinge to a certain district in this European city

Amsterdam

TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015

Angela Merkel

HIS WIDOW LIVED ON The USA's first female licensed glider pilot, she died age 94 in 2001, 26 years after her husband

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

POST "AP"OCALYPSE The name of this horse may derive from the name of a river in Idaho & Washington

Appaloosa

HISTORIC DATES Abraham Lincoln was shot on this date, Good Friday of that year

April 14, 1865

COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero

Archie Comics

GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD PAEC is Pakistan this government Commission; it was founded in 1956, 10 years after the American AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI Actor-writer Tracy Letts first mounted this "August" play at Steppenwolf & won a Tony & Pulitzer for it

August: Osage County

LIVE IN TEXAS Live in this city & you too will want to "keep" it "weird"; there's even a festival devoted to that goal

Austin

GOOD CAUSES Supporting the global Jewish community & championing human rights, it's BBI for short

B'nai B'rith

5, 5 Named for a frontiersman, it has a blade curved to a sharp point at the end

BOWIE KNIFE

DOUBLE TALK This resort town has one of the oldest casinos in Germany, but it's better known for its hot springs

Baden-Baden

"B" MOVIES In the 41st century, Jane Fonda fondly seeks out Durand Durand & his positronic ray

Barbarella

GERMAN GEOGRAPHY Of Germany's 16 states, these 2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest

Bavaria & Bremen

VINYL RESTING PLACE One of the first LP records pressed in 1931 was of the Philadelphia Orchestra playing this work

Beethoven's Fifth

SAVED BY THE BELA From 1931, one of this actor's memorable movie lines is "I never drink... wine"

Bela Lugosi

SPEAKING ITALIANS This businessman/PM, unafraid to go big: "I am the Jesus Christ of politics... I sacrifice myself for everyone"

Berlusconi

WORLD CAPITALS Among the many sights to see in this capital is the home where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905

Bern, Switzerland

FIRST-TIME EMMY NOMINEES 2017 Someone finally recognized Robert De Niro's talent, in his performance as this swindler

Bernie Madoff

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT In the final scene of this film, Secondo makes a frittata for brother Primo in the Paradise restaurant

Big Night

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Dunsinane Castle is a few miles away from this wood, the royal forest in the witches' prediction

Birnam Wood

UNPLUGGED Bluesnarfing & bluejacking are different ways of using this wireless technology to hack your phone

Bluetooth

UNTOLD TV STORIES This Fox show was originally supposed to be about a family of cannibals who ran a restaurant

Bob's Burgers

COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER Heading southwest across South America, it's B, B, C--Brazil & these 2

Bolivia and Chile

THE CITY OF NICKNAMES On France's Garonne River, it's the "City of Wine" & has a wine theme park called that

Bordeaux

BIBLICAL ART This Italian had a birth of religiosity late in life and painted works like "Mystic Nativity" in 1500

Botticelli

STREET SMARTS Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" influenced Sting's song "Moon Over" this street

Bourbon Street

5 EXES After this man became an ex-U.N. Secretary-General, he was replaced by fellow African Kofi Annan

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel meets another harsh situation with Max Brooks' tale of a zombie apocalypse

Brave New World War Z

ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS Michael Caine angered Hitch by refusing a killer role in "Frenzy" but slashed away in this director's "Dressed to Kill"

Brian De Palma

STREET MUSIC This man wrote, & then sang, "When Scooter & the big man bust this city in half... Tenth Avenue freeze-out"

Bruce Springsteen

SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES On a special episode of this show, Tara sang "Under your Spell" & Spike did "Rest in Peace"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

THE AGE OF TREASON Adolf Tolkachev gave secrets of Soviet radar to this U.S. spy agency but was betrayed & executed for treason

CIA

ANIMALS IN COMPETITION Every May brings the frog jumping competition at the fair of this county southeast of Sacramento

Calaveras County

SHOES This last name of Signor Salvatore, a theatrical-shoe repairman, has long been on dance shoes

Capezio

NEW ENGLAND This English explorer & captain gave New England its name after exploring the region in the 1600s

Captain John Smith

RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN We'll be brief--this Dav Pilkey title hero just wears a cape & one other very important piece of clothing

Captain Underpants

"U" LOVE MUSIC "Jesus, Take The Wheel" drove this woman all the way to No. 1 on the country charts

Carrie Underwood

FOE PA In "Wuthering Heights" Heathcliff makes his son Linton marry a girl with this first name, just like the girl he loved

Catherine

I LIKE TO BE IN NUMERICAL ORDER Like these first 2 wives of Henry VIII

Catherine and Anne Boleyn

HEALTH & MEDICI When this Medici queen of France was infertile at first, a treatment was to apply manure mixed with ground antlers

Catherine de Medici

STREET SMARTS This street runs from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde

Champs-Élysées

REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE Charles Buchinsky & James Bumgarner in "The Great Escape"

Charles Bronson and James Garner

CHANGING CHANGE A 2017 $1 coin features Sequoyah & writing in this syllabary he created

Cherokee

IN THE CITY The Loop between Lake & Van Buren

Chicago

MY HEART WILL GO ON In 1967 the heart of young Denise Darvall went on as this surgeon performed the first human heart transplant

Christiaan Barnard

NAME THAT WORLD LEADER Venezuela: Leading a Bolivarian revolution from 1998 to 2013

Chávez

KEEP IT DOWN "Rosebud" is whispered by this character shortly before his death in a 1941 movie

Citizen Kane (or Charles Foster Kane)

TV MOVIES "Confirmation", covering a major 1990s event, starred Wendell Pierce as this man

Clarence Thomas

CELEBRITY MEMOIRS It is the title of Loretta Lynn's 1976 autobiography & of her best known song

Coal Miner's Daughter

MILLENNIALS With about 100,000 people, this city was Europe's most populous in 1000; today it's around number 10 in Spain

Cordoba

TRUUUE Released on January 17, 2017, "My Life, My Love, My Legacy" is about this woman, a famed wife & civil rights icon

Coretta Scott King

FRANCE IN YOUR PANTS Mais oui! An original 1967 Carte Bleue from "Credit" this bank!

Credit Lyonnais

BRITISH AUTHORS Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth"

D.H. Lawrence

DOONESBURY POLITICAL SYMBOLS Rather than draw a caricature, Garry Trudeau used a feather in place of this one-term vice president

Dan Quayle

CAMP DAVID In 1866 this officer who damned the torpedoes was named the first full admiral of the U.S. Navy

David Farragut

CAMP DAVID We presume you know this man was born in Blantyre, Scotland in 1813 & died in Chitambo, Africa in 1873

David Livingstone

TV SETTINGS A South Dakota town where there is no law as of July 1876

Deadwood

MAIN STREAM MEDIA Hercule Poirot is on vacation in Africa in this mystery mainstay

Death on the Nile

LITERATURE James Dickey is best remembered for this novel about a harrowing canoe trip

Deliverance

PRISONS Alfred Dreyfus spent a hellish 4 years & change in captivity on this island

Devil's Island

NOTABLE WOMEN Her fight against gorilla poachers intensified in 1978 after the killing of Digit, one of her favorite animals

Dian Fossey

YOU SHALL FIND "Find a Way" is a memoir by this woman about her grueling 52-hour swim from Cuba to Florida

Diana Nyad

MY HEART WILL GO ON Donated hearts have extended the lives of Democrats like Governor Robert Casey & Republicans like this vice president

Dick Cheney

NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ Close, but despite the sweetness of his guitar, this Belgian-born Gypsy wasn't known as Mango Seinfeld

Django Reinhardt

THE SHOE MUST GO ON This "physician" is in with its 8-eye boots

Doc Martens

IN THE "D" TALES The full title of this novel includes "El Ingenioso Hidalgo"

Don Quixote (de la Mancha)

REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE Roy Scherer Jr. & Doris von Kappelhoff in "Pillow Talk"

Doris Day and Rock Hudson

ADVERTISING CHARACTERS This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials

Dos Equis

"DOUBLE" FEATURE This film noir classic is named for a clause in an insurance policy

Double Indemnity

"DOUBLE" FEATURE This hotel chain is known for its warm chocolate chip cookies

DoubleTree

THE AGE OF TREASON 17 when convicted of treason in the death of this man, Vaso Cubrilovic went on to be Yugoslavia's Minister of Forests

Duke Franz Ferdinand

____ & ____ In 2014 this classic role-playing game celebrated its 40th anniversary with a new logo & a new "Player's Handbook"

Dungeons & Dragons

FRENCH CITIES The name of this city in the Département du Nord comes from the Flemish for "church of the dunes"

Dunkirk

THE BRITISH INVASION She had a string of hits in the U.S. beginning with "I Only Want To Be With You"

Dusty Springfield

TARZAN For $125,000, this author bought 550 acres in the San Fernando Valley; the area is now called Tarzana

Edgar Rice Burroughs

WRITERS & WRITING Born in 1812, this writer of limericks was the 20th of 21 children

Edward Lear

LITERATURE Published posthumously in 1870, Dickens' only true mystery novel was "The Mystery of" him

Edwin Drood

CAMP DAVID Here's this future president with his grandson David, for whom the retreat would be renamed

Eisenhower

CAMPBELLS George Bernard Shaw wrote this role in "Pygmalion" for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who played her in 1914

Eliza Doolittle

NOTABLE NAMES When she married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, she insisted that the word "obey" be dropped from the vows

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

SENATORS The last names of these 2 current senators, one from Virginia & one from Massachusetts, are anagrams of each other

Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner

5 EXES When Paula Abdul became an ex-judge on "American Idol", this talk show host was brought in to fill her shoes

Ellen DeGeneres

THE BUSINESS OF CELEBRITY This daytime host did well with funny clips on YouTube, so she created her own "Tube", a website with exclusive clips

Ellen DeGeneres

THE DONALD Remember the Bugs Meanie category? Bugs bullied this supersmart boy detective created by Donald Sobol

Encyclopedia Brown

POP CULTURE 2000 Her acclaimed album "Mama's Gun" featured the protest song "A.D. 2000"

Erykah Badu

FORBES WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN THE U.S. Nearly $18 billion in cosmetics money is shared by the heirs of this New Yorker with a French-sounding name

Estee Lauder

GREEK LETTER PHRASES NASA intently studies the changing luminosity of this most massive star system within 10,000 lightyears of Earth

Eta Carinae

MILLENNIALS Fearing a coup, in 1002 A.D. this "unready" English king ordered that all men from Denmark be slain

Ethelred

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS "Rainbow Tour" & "Buenos Aires"

Evita

STREET MUSIC "Tumbling Dice" & "Happy" were 2 of the 18 tunes released in 1972 when the Rolling Stones faced "Exile" here

Exile on Main St.

GAME OF DRONES You must register your drone with this federal agency--if it's under 55 pounds, you can do it online

FAA

GULP FICTION In "Henry IV, Part 2", this knight says if he had a thousand sons, he'd teach them "to addict themselves" to wine

Falstaff

YOU SHALL FIND These 2 words precede "And Where to Find Them" in the title of a 2016 movie

Fantastic Beasts

THEY'RE IN THE BAND Public Enemy's William Drayton is better known by this "tasty" name

Flavor Flav

THE SHOE MUST GO ON Comfortech is a line from this family-named men's shoe brand that began in Chicago in 1892

Florsheim

PAINT MISS, BEHAVING Just after Botticelli in art dictionaries comes this French Rococo master who also painted goddesses

Francois Boucher

WORLD LITERATURE In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude"

Gabriel García Márquez

TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE Erse, AKA Gaeilge

Gaelic (or Irish)

EUROPEAN HISTORY He formed the Redshirts while fighting in South America before leading the group to Italy

Garibaldi

REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE Susan Tomalin & Virginia Davis in "Thelma & Louise"

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon

NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ So close--Benny Goodman's percussive prince wasn't Dean Cooper but rather this

Gene Krupa

NAME THAT WORLD LEADER France: General-ly in charge from 1958 to 1969

General de Gaulle

VICE PRESIDENTS This former New York governor was funky enough to be veep under 2 presidents, Jefferson & Madison

George Clinton

DOONESBURY POLITICAL SYMBOLS An asterisk under a Roman warrior helmet indicated this president

George W. Bush

THE BRITISH INVASION This group made a film as well as a hit song called "Ferry Cross The Mersey"

Gerry and the Pacemakers

NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS In 2014 scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur & named it Zuul after a demon in this 1984 movie

Ghostbusters

WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES This "X-Files" star, 2017 Best Actress: "I would like to thank..."

Gillian Anderson

SPEAKING ITALIANS He told GQ, "I made the jacket unstructured because I wanted to accentuate the body. See the sensuality"

Giorgio Armani

JOHNNY GILBERT, TOUGH GUY "Let's talk about something important. Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only"

Glengarry Glen Ross

MUSIC DOC SUBJECTS "I'll Be Me", a country legend struggling with Alzheimer's on a farewell tour

Glenn Campbell

THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? A feminist: "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry"

Gloria Steinem

TITANIC The only 3 of the 14 Oscar nominations "Titanic" didn't convert were for makeup, Kate Winslet & this actress

Gloria Stewart

HISTORICAL FICTION This 1936 novel was inspired by an aunt's scrapbook of the Civil War & its aftermath

Gone With the Wind

WORLD FACTS Approximately 78% of Cypriots are of this religion

Greek Orthodox

FRANCE IN YOUR PANTS Pardon me... would you have any of this Dijon mustard brand from Kraft Heinz? Oh, it's in your pocket? Never mind

Grey Poupon

SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES On this drama, Seattle Grace staffers sang tunes like "How We Operate" & "How to Save a Life"

Grey's Anatomy

TARZAN Tarzan is lord of the jungle & also "Lord" this colorful noble family name

Greystoke

AT THE YARD SALE Ah! A copy of this book that Jonathan Swift published "to vex the world rather than to divert it"

Gulliver's Travels

BOOKS & AUTHORITIES "Madame Bovary" provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges

Gustave Flaubert

HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH She was first naked in the world sometime around 1912; getting naked later led to a 1959 Broadway musical based on her life

Gypsy Rose Lee

GDANSK Born in Gdansk in 1927, he's shown here, next to his most famous character, Oscar, who's playing the tin drum

Günter Grass

ALL MY...He adapted his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" for "Monday Night Football" in 1989

Hank Williams, Jr.

FEARLESS GIRL This Louise Fitzhugh heroine isn't a secret agent, she just documents the actions of her schoolmates

Harriet the Spy

WAIT WATCHERS Tom Felton, AKA Draco Malfoy, brought pizza to some campers who came to see this final film in the Potter franchise

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

STATE CAPITAL HAIKU Mark Twain called it home / Founded 1635 / Knows Courant events

Hartford

NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS This heroine of "The Fault in Our Stars" excitedly buys the sequel "Requiem for Mayhem"

Hazel Grace Lancaster

ABRUPT ABBREV. On a boat, HMS

Her Majesty's Ship

PRESIDENTIAL HOMES Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat"

Hermitage

"HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT Sandra Bullock says the "Hope fl--" line that gives this 1998 film its title

Hope Floats

SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES Neil Patrick Harris musically chose suits over female companionship during an episode of this sitcom

How I Met Your Mother

MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN Ayn Rand is the architect of this architect at the center of "The Fountainhead"

Howard) Roark

A GOOD BOOK It's the first letter in Robert Graves' 1934 historical novel of a Roman emperor

I, Claudius

ORIGINAL LINEUPS John Farriss, Tim Farriss, Andrew Farriss, Garry Beers, Kirk Pengilly, Michael Hutchence

INXS

TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE Islenska

Icelandic

POE FOLKS In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", this sleuth is said to come from an illustrious family

In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", this sleuth is said to come from an illustrious family

TECH CRUNCH QuickBooks FAQs at the site of this co. include "How much accounting do I need to know?" (Not much, apparently)

Intuit

LITERATURE Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man

Invisible Man

TURKEY WITH THE TRIMMINGS Of the 8 countries that border Turkey, these 2 extend the farthest east & west

Iran and Greece

FEARLESS GIRL A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in . "Daughter of Fortune" by this author

Isabel Allende

WORLD WAR II The book "From the Volcano to the Gorge" tells the story of this World War II battle

Iwo Jima

DETECTIVE FICTION Under the name Robert Galbraith, she's taken to writing detective novels featuring Cormoran Strike

JK rowling

BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS He produced the 1959 winner "The Golden Fish", 9 years before entering his "Undersea World"

Jacques Cousteau

POLITICAL QUOTES In May 2017 this man soon to be fired said he was "mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election"

James Comey

TWO-WAY ADJECTIVES This word refers to works of William in psychology or brother Henry in literature

Jamesian

CELEBRITY MEMOIRS Chapters in her "My Life So Far" include "Vadim", "Leaving My Father's House" & "Coming Home"

Jane Fonda

WOMEN'S FIRSTS In 2014, she began her tenure as the first female chair of the Federal Reserve system

Janet Yellen

BIBLE STUDY Rembrandt painted this prophet, sad that his book says all the houses of Jerusalem were burned

Jeremiah

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE In June 2017 "The Fantasticks" had its last show in a theater named for this "Law & Order" star who opened the show in 1960

Jerry Orbach

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Margaret Coit won for an "American Portrait" of this South Carolinian veep who resigned after the Eaton affair

John C. Calhoun

THE BOSTON TANGLER This great 19th-century bare-knuckle heavyweight champ was known as the "Boston Strong Boy"

John L. Sullivan

THEY NAMED A SHIP FOR ME The first Vietnam war vet in the House, this long-serving Pennsylvanian had a ship christened in his name in 2015

John Murtha

VICE PRESIDENTS This three-named vice president for FDR, who didn't think much of the job, lived to be 98, the oldest ex-veep ever

John Nance Garner

CHIEF JUSTICES Before becoming the 17th chief in 2005, he argued before the Court 39 times, his side winning 25

John Roberts

BIBLE STUDY Many find this N.T. figure foretold in Malachi: "I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way"

John the Baptist

EMMY-WINNING WOMEN Her first performing Emmy, 1996's Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy went to this woman as Elaine

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY The first Pulitzer for Biography went to a book about this woman who wrote "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"

Julia Ward Howe

STATE CAPITAL HAIKU No roads lead to it / Named for a gold prospector / It gets quite cold there

Juneau

THEY NAMED A SHIP FOR ME A ship is named for this shipbuilder & health insurance pioneer who had a factor in Permanente, California

Kaiser

BRITISH AUTHORS His first literary success, "Eye of the Needle" was originally published as "Storm Island"

Ken Follett

POP CULTURE 2000 Long before he took us to "Manchester by the Sea", he made his feature directing debut with "You Can Count on Me"

Kenneth Lonergan

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY A still is seen here in the McCreary County Museum in this state, perhaps most associated with moonshining

Kentucky

EUROPEAN HISTORY In 1967, after a military takeover by Colonel George Papadopoulos, this Greek king fled to Italy

King Constantine

"K"9 Literally "coiled", this concept envisions latent energy coiled at the base of the spine until activated by yoga

Kundalini

DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES The dead Leon, son of Kilgore Trout, recounts this author's 1985 "Galapagos"

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

GRIDIRON GREATS At his Hall of Fame induction in 2017, this Chargers RB known as LT compared America to a football team working together

LaDainian Tomlinson

JANE Briefly Queen of England in 1553--9 days brief

Lady Jane Grey

PLAYWRONGS "Lady Windermere's Farm"

Lady Windermere's Fan

EUROPEAN HISTORY In 1830 at age 72 this hero of the American Revolution played a key role in France's July Rev. that changed kings

Lafayette

ONLY THE LONELY "The Loneliest Place in North America" is Stannard Lighthouse, sitting on a rock in this western Great Lake

Lake Superior

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch"

Lawrence of Arabia

WORLD FLAGS & THE BIBLE The central image on the flag of this nation is a symbol of strength in Psalm 92 & a prized building material in I Kings 5

Lebanon

KILLING GARY OLDMAN It is far from a spoiler to say this man played by Gary Oldman in "JFK" does not live to see the end of the film

Lee Harvey Oswald

AUTHORS A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new"

Lewis Carroll

"L" ON THE MAP This gulf was the site of a naval action also called the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea

Leyte Gulf

MAIN STREAM MEDIA Mark Twain talks about his career as a steamboat pilot in this memoir

Life on the Mississippi

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, was succeeded on the throne by this sister

Lili'uokalani

LITERARY CHARACTERS Computer hacker & cyber genius, she's the girl with the wasp tattoo as well as the dragon one

Lisbeth Salander

ONLY THE LONELY A misheard Joe Cocker lyrics is the name for this guidebook empire started by Tony & Maureen Wheeler

Lonely Planet

ONLY THE LONELY This 12-letter word often followed "Miss" in romantic advice column titles

Lonelyhearts

WORLD THEATER In 1970, the year this actor was made a baron, he played Shylock at the Old Vic

Lord Laurence Olivier

MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN This foppish lord began solving crimes for Dorothy Sayers in 1923

Lord Peter Wimsey

HEALTH & MEDICI This "Magnificent" Medici died in 1492, afflicted with "fevers" in his "veins...limbs, intestines, nerves, bones & marrow"

Lorenzo (the Magnificent)

SHOES He apprenticed at the Folies Bergere before enriching his signature line of shoes with red lacquer soles

Louboutin

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES "Eden's Outcasts" tells how her dad's transcendentalist utopia failed and how her writing paid the bills

Louisa May Alcott

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK The princess of France must be admitted into the king of Navarre's park in this comedy where romance is actually found

Love's Labour's Lost

WORLD FACTS Letzeburgisch is the national language of this European country

Luxembourg

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES Stonewall, Texas

Lyndon Johnson

JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs The Tech, a newspaper at this eastern college, maintains the first online edition of Shakespeare's works & we love it

MIT

REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE Margaret Smith & Maurice Micklewhite in "California Suite"

Maggie Smith and Michael Caine

THE MOVIES It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service

Manchester by the Sea

THE SHOE MUST GO ON On an episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie's shoes are stolen--a brand new pair by this ultra-pricey designer

Manolo Blahnik

CRIME TIME The Gardner Museum heist: this day in 1990,as Boston was sleeping off St. Paddy's Day

March 18

NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS In this author's "The Blind Assassin", Laura dies in Toronto on page 1 but leaves a novel, yes, "The Blind Assassin"

Margaret Atwood

PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series

Mariska Hargitay

BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN After his 1906 death, the Chicago Board of Trade shut down to remember this merchant

Marshall Field

THE FLOOR IS LAVA Mount Pelee, on this French territory of the West Indies

Martinique

DOONESBURY POLITICAL SYMBOLS Reagan was depicted as Ron Headrest, a play on this virtual '80s character played by Matt Frewer

Max Headroom

MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE He was just a candidate for president when William Dickey renamed an Alaska mountain for him

McKinley

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! This king of Sparta & brother of Agamemnon lost his wife Helen to Paris, leading to the Trojan War

Menelaus

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Naturally, Act V, Scene ii of this play is set in Windsor Park

Merry Wives of Windsor

CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN Edmund Gwenn was the real deal as Kris Kringle, working as a department store Santa, in this delightful 1947 film

Miracle on 34th Street

EMMY-WINNING WOMEN Gail Mancuso won back-to-back trophies in 2013 & '14 for directing the Pritchetts & Dunphys on this sitcom

Modern Family

A DEDICATED COMPOSER Rimsky-Korsakov dedicated his Russian Easter Overture to Borodin & this alliterative composer

Modest Mussorgsky

A MIGHTY LONG-NAMED RIVER This one of Pittsburgh's three rivers rises in West Virginia and has a National Forest named for it

Monongahela

WORLD CAPITALS This capital is just a 3-hour voyage cross the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires

Montevideo

STATE CAPITALS A state capital since 1805, its name begins with the last 4 letters of the state's name

Montpelier

FAMOUS NAMES She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"

Mother Teresa

TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS Original star Tori Spelling was also in the 2016 remake of this cult classic, a staple of the Lifetime Movie Network

Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

IT'S ALL FUN & GAMES The name of this maternal version of Simon Says is asked by the players

Mother, May I?

ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS As president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs built a more inclusive AMPAS, short for the Academy of these

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

MOUNTAINS Let's put our 4 big heads together & come up with the name of this landmark just SW of Rapid City

Mount Rushmore

THE CALENDAR November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure

Muhammad

TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS Sidekicks Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo still watch bad movies, but with new host Jonah, on this series: "The Return"

Mystery Science Theater 3000

GETTING POSSESSIVE With symptoms like dizziness & ringing in the ears, it's named for a 19th century French physician

Ménière's disease

IN THEIR LEAGUE The Arizona Cardinals

NFL

BOOKS & AUTHORITIES For openly dealing with apartheid, some of this woman's novels were banned in her native South Africa

Nadine Gordimer

HISTORIC WORLD BUILDINGS Rome's Colosseum may have gotten its name because of a colossal circa 65 A.D. statue of this emperor erected nearby

Nero

NEW ENGLAND In 2003, after years of erosion, this state's iconic Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to the ground

New Hampshire

DOONESBURY POLITICAL SYMBOLS Here's this 1990s Speaker of the House, funny pages style

Newt Gingrich

BRITISH AUTHORS "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies

Nick Hornby

RUSSIA "N" He leapt to fame at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1907

Nijinsky

BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS 2011 winner "The Shore" tells of a friendship shattered by "The Troubles" in this U.K. country

Northern Ireland

RUSSIA "N" It follows "Nizhny" in the name of the Russian city formerly known as Gorky

Novgorod

HIS OWN MUSEUM In Austin, there's a museum devoted to short story writer William Sydney Porter, better known by this pen name

O. Henry

NATIONAL DAYS Because of the label tucked into the character's hat band, National Mad Hatter Day is on this date

October 6th

THE STATE UNIVERSITY IN... Oxford

Ole Miss (or Mississippi)

LITERATURE Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman

Olive Kitteridge

NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins

Oliver Twist

MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe

Olivia Newton-John Grisham

POP CULTURE VILLAINS When this TV drama premiered in 2011, Regina was innocent, but Rumplestiltskin helped turn her into the evil queen

Once Upon a Time

ARRIBA ARUBA! This "colorful" seaport & tourist spot is Aruba's administrative center

Oranjestad

SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER Bianca, Roderigo, Desdemona

Othello

WORLD CAPITALS It's the only world capital whose name is derived from an Algonquin word

Ottawa

THE THEATER In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre

Our American Cousin

THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR At the fair, people got their first taste of Aunt Jemima pancakes & this beer that won a prize that became part of its name

Pabst Blue Ribbon

CHARGING BULL This city has a sharp right turn from Mercaderes Street onto Estafeta; easy for a running man, less for a bull

Pamplona

THE FOOD CHAIN Orange chicken (since 1987), honey walnut shrimp (2010)

Panda Express

AROUND THE PACIFIC Mount Wilhelm, named for the son of Otto von Bismarck, is the highest peak in this country on New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

UNTOLD TV STORIES Jay Jackson, who played Perd Hapley on this sitcom, is actually a real reporter, though in L.A., not Indiana

Parks and Recreation

THEY PLAYED JFK In 1993 he was "JFK: Reckless Youth"; by 2005 life was McDreamy for him on ABC

Patrick Dempsey

NEW ENGLAND The only home on Boston's Freedom Trail belonged to this silversmith

Paul Revere

MYCOLOGY & MYTHOLOGY Psychedelic mushrooms may have been used by the cult of Demeter & this abducted daughter

Persephone

UNREAL MINISTRIES Before he was the 12th Doctor, this actor tormented the staff of the Minister for Social Affairs on "The Thick of It"

Peter Capaldi

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD This czar was known as the "Father of the Russian Navy"; the birth happened at the end of the 1600s

Peter the Great

ALL-AMERICAN FOOD Kraft's no-bake cheesecake is made with 2 8-oz. packages of this Kraft brand, softened

Philadelphia cream cheese

FOOD STUFF "Nothing says lovin' like something from the oven" is a classic slogan of this food company

Pillsbury

BOOKS & AUTHORS It begins, "How it happened that Maestro Cherry, Carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept & laughed like a child"

Pinocchio

THE FIRST CENTURY A.D. Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar

Pliny the Younger

VIDEO GAMES The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game

Pokémon

A BANNER YEAR A Bohemian city has a memorable spring in this year

Prague Spring.) 1968

OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS Favorite subjects of this royal highness include Beinn a' Bhuird, a mountain near Balmoral

Prince Charles

STATE CAPITAL HAIKU South of Pawtucket / Founded 1636 / Best-loved color? Brown!

Providence

MYCOLOGY & MYTHOLOGY This Welsh queen of mythical creatures rules over the Ellyllon, elflike creatures that eat toadstools

Queen Mab

ABRUPT ABBREV. In a British courtroom, QC

Queen's Counsel

BOOKS & AUTHORS "The Encircling Sea" is a chapter in her nonfiction book "The Sea Around Us"

Rachel Carson

BAND STANDS In 1997 activist Tom Morello lived up to this, his band's name, by getting arrested for protesting sweatshops

Rage Against the Machine

I'M AMEN-ABLE TO THAT This singer got a No. 1 country single & CMA Award for "Forever And Ever, Amen"

Randy Travis

JUST A SITAR This sitar master got four Grammys, influenced John Coltrane & Philip Glass & still had time to father Norah Jones

Ravi Shankar

PRISONS Oscar Wilde pled for prison reform in his last published work, "The Ballad of" this place

Reading Gaol

CANINE COMPANIONS Billy West voiced Stimpson J. Cat & later in the series, this canine companion

Ren

U.S. PRESIDENTS He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri

Richard Nixon

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE As this show ended in 2017 after 146 years, ringmaster Johnathan Iverson said, "Keep the circus alive inside you!"

Ringling Bros. Circus (Barnum & Bailey)

IN THE CITY 79,000-seat Maracana Stadium

Rio de Janeiro

TITLES FROM POETRY The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men"

Robert Burns and John Steinbeck

ROBERTS' RULES His rule of Scotland had ups & downs, like being forced into hiding on Rathlin Island off Ireland

Robert the Bruce

REFERENCE BOOKS This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting

Robert's Rules of Order

TV NICKNAMES Mac on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has this for a real name, just like a fast food icon

Ronald McDonald

PLAYWRONGS "Rosencrantz and Morgenstern Are Dead"

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

COOKBOOKS 4-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan provides nourishing recipes for athletes in "Run Fast. Eat" this way

Run Fast. Eat Slow.

TRUUUE "My Own Words" is her first book since joining the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

FIRST-TIME EMMY NOMINEES 2017 After 7 years on this show, Vanessa Bayer got a nomination for her final year

SNL

ANCIENT TIMES These foes of the Pharisees were so into the Jerusalem temple that its destruction destroyed them

Sadducees

MOZART Mozart was born in this city in 1756; his birthplace has been a museum there since 1880

Salzburg

SPEECH OF PARTS "Tony here is your quarterback, all right? You protect his blind side. When you look at him, you think of me"

Sandra Bullock

NOTABLE WOMEN An assistant attorney general in Arizona in 1965, she got a nifty promotion in 1981: Supreme Court justice

Sandra Day O'Connor

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE He's the classical music-obsessed tyke in "Peanuts"

Schroeder

CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN I found the laughs mild & sparse in this reworking of "A Christmas Carol" starring Bill Murray as a vernal TV executive

Scrooged

THEY MADE THE CABINET Post held by Robert McNamara & Chuck Hagel

Secretary of the Defense

A BIT OF LIT Featuring sisters Elinor & Marianne, it was Jane Austen's first published novel

Sense and Sensibility

NIKOLA TESLA These 2 Balkan nationalities claim the great inventor; in a 1936 telegram he said he was proud of both

Serbia and Croatia

BROTHERS Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn & their 5 male siblings yearn for wedlock in this 1954 MGM musical

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

CLASSIC ALBUMS Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

LITERARY SETTINGS "Lost Horizon": This utopian lamasery in Tibet

Shangri-La

MYOPIC BIOPICS When asked what the makers of this 1986 movie got right, Johnny Rotten said,"Maybe the name Sid"

Sid and Nancy

CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Buddha's personal given name (10)

Siddhartha

MOUNTAINS "Mountain range mother" in Spanish, it's the collective name of 3 mountain ranges in Mexico

Sierra Madre

PLAYWRONGS "Stock Characters in Search of an Author"

Six Characters in Search of an Author

GDANSK Originally designed to house royalty, Zielona Brama, also known as Green Gate, once served as offices for Lech Walesa, who formed this first Polish independent trade union

Solidarity

BOOK SERIES Played on TV by Anna Paquin, she's the telepathic barmaid & heroine of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels

Sookie Stackhouse

AFRICAN LITERATURE Alan Paton's novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" focused on the fight for freedom & justice in this country

South Africa

MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE Deposed as ruler of Granada in this country, Ibn Buluggin wrote an autobiography--no word on the size of his advance

Spain

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST Ernest Borgnine voiced Mermaid Man, a semi-retired superhero living in Bikini Bottom, on this series

Spongebob Squarepants

ANNUAL EVENTS At the Duke University Chapel, the blessing of the animals is timed to be near the feast day of this saint

St. Francis

MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE Despite its title, this saint's "Summa Contra Gentiles" was partly meant as an argument against Jews

St. Thomas Aquinas

HISTORICAL ODD PAIRS At a 1984 party at the Dakota, he taught Andy Warhol how to draw on a brand new Macintosh

Steve Jobs

LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER E.B. White's diminutive rodent visits Dickens' friend William in Marshalsea Prison

Stuart Little Dorrit

SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES Grant Gustin & Melissa Benoist sang "Super Friend" when these 2 heroes met in a 2017 TV episode

Supergirl & the Flash

THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST New Glarus, Wisconsin, known as "Little" this country, has a Heidi festival every June

Switzerland

MUSICAL GROUP NAMES DEFINED In 3 letters, what your mom gives you when you're sick

TLC

AVIATION In 1961 this "Across the Globe" airline initiated in-flight movie service with "By Love Possessed" with Lana Turner

TWA

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST This country singer of "Sixteen Tons" & "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" was indeed born in the 16th state

Tennessee Ernie Ford

PLAYWRONGS "The 25th Annual Putnam County Quilting Bee"

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR Granny could tell you this hayseed hit had 3 black-&-white seasons & 6 in color

The Beverly Hillbillies

"COMMON" KNOWLEDGE This Anglican liturgical text was first authorized in 1549

The Book of Common Prayer

"B" MOVIES Someone sinister is creating clones of Hitler

The Boys from Brazil

BROADWAY Following a show's success in 2011, this group began advertising, "You've seen the play...now read the book"

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR This bestseller by Erik Larson tells the true story of a serial killer who used the 1893 fair to lure his victims

The Devil in the White City

STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS Jim Casy, an ex-preacher, & Tom Joad, an ex-con

The Grapes of Wrath

"HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT James Earl Jones earned his first Tony as boxer Jack Jefferson, who fights the title Caucasian in this play

The Great White Hope

ONLY THE LONELY This 1940 novel was originally called "The Mute"

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC Benjamin Montmorency Tench III goes by Benmont as keyboardist in this band backing up Tom Petty

The Heartbreakers

COLORING BOOKS Tom Clancy had the U.S. take a sub tot go in this 1984 "Book of the Month"

The Hunt for Red October

PLAYWRONGS "The Lady's Not for Beaming"

The Lady's Not for Burning

A BARREL FULL OF COOPERS James Fenimore Cooper's most famous novel, it was the first prequel to "The Pioneers"

The Last of the Mohicans

PHILIP K. DICK This novel takes place in an alternate universe where the Axis won World War II

The Man in the High Castle

MOZART Count Almaviva invites everyone to a wedding banquet at the end of Act III of this comic opera

The Marriage of Figaro

THE BOOK OF PALMS Palm trees & insects feature in this Paul Theroux novel, a name of a region of Honduras & Nicaragua

The Mosquito Coast

SERIAL KILLERS Charles Dickens dragged out the death of Little Nell over installments of this "Old" novel

The Old Curiosity Shop

HISTORICAL FICTION A young woman steps aside so her sister can marry a king in this Philippa Gregory novel

The Other Boleyn Girl

STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS Jody Tiflin, a young boy, & Gabilan, a young colt

The Red Pony

POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK Theodore Bikel played the Soviet captain who runs his submarine aground off New England in this 1960s comedy film

The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming

COLORING BOOKS A quote from this 19th century novel: "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!"

The Scarlet Letter

MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band

The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay

LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER A shipwrecked clan from a neutral country meets up with a shipwrecked 18th century character

The Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe

SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER Baptista Minola, Gremio, Lucentio, Hortensio, Petruchio

The Taming of the Shrew

HISTORICAL FICTION This classic began in 1844 as a serial for the magazine Le Siecle but later became a book, one for all of them

The Three Musketeers

TV MOVIES Laurence Fishburne led the first unit of African-American fighter pilots in this HBO movie named for them

The Tuskegee Airmen

BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS 1963's winner, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", aired on U.S. TV as an episode of this show

The Twilight Zone

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS "Ease On Down The Road" & "If You Believe"

The Wiz

____ & ____ "Off the Cliff" is a recent book about the making of this 1991 film

Thelma & Louise

NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ Not quite--this pianist's name isn't Felonious Funk

Thelonious Monk

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! In 480 B.C. King Leonidas & his men perished to the last Spartan defending this mountain pass from invasion

Thermopylae

POLITICAL QUOTES In a letter to James Madison, he wrote that "a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing"

Thomas Jefferson

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE This Pennsylvania power plant has had only one partial reactor meltdown in 40+ years but will close in 2019

Three Mile Island

KNOTTY BY NATURE A type of sandpiper, the red knot, makes its nest in the Arctic tundra, migrating 9,300 miles from its winter home at the southern tip of Argentina in this fiery province

Tierra del Fuego

GRIDIRON GREATS It was the feline nickname of Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Bob Lilly, who was no Peter Pan

Tiger Lilly

GETTING POSSESSIVE This Canadian coffee & donut franchise is named for the pro Gordie Howe called "hockey's strongest man"

Tim Hortonsv

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK In this revenge play, Marcus says he found Lavinia "straying in the park, seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer"

Titus Andronicus

TV MOVIES This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day"

Tom Selleck

2.0 In 2017 this Uber CEO took a leave of absence so he could work on "Travis 2.0"

Travis Kalanick

SNACK FOODS The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times

Triscuit

EMMY-WINNING WOMEN Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series

Two and a Half Men

SAY UNCLE! Luke Skywalker

Uncle Owen

CRIME TIME The 1929 massacre of 7 of Bugs Moran's guys: this day

Valentine's Day

MERCURY, VENUS OR MARS A 5-time winner of a trophy called the Rosewater Dish

Venus Williams

STREET SMARTS The name of this Jerusalem street means "way of sorrows"

Via Dolorosa

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS The shield on Zambia's coat of arms features black & white stripes representing this natural wonder

Victoria Falls

NOVELISTS A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941

Virginia Woolf

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR The Karmann Ghia, 1955 to 1974

Volkswagen

FRANCE IN YOUR PANTS "V" love the '80s, so don't sit on your glacier sunglasses from this brand

Vuarnet

MAIN STREAM MEDIA Mistakes in this painting of a 1776 event: wrong size boat, wrong flag, wrong time of day & the gen. probably wouldn't stand

Washington Crossing the Delaware

IN THE CITY The National Cherry Blossom Festival

Washington, D.C.

THE FOOD CHAIN The 1,090-calorie Dave's Triple

Wendy's

ANIMALS IN COMPETITION In 2017 Rumor had it--Rumor being a canine, & "it" being named Best in Show at this competition in New York

Westminster

PAINT MISS, BEHAVING After painting good ol' Mom in 1871, he soon rendered "Miss Cicely Alexander: Harmony in Grey and Green"

Whistler

BOOKS & AUTHORS This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice

Who Moved My Cheese?

JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs For legends & suspect claims, the writers may check snopes.com, named for a family in this man's novels

William Faulkner

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE This future starship captain freaks out on an airplane flight when he thinks he sees someone on the wing

William Shatner

THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER Inspiring poets like this Romantic whose heart filled with pleasure at the sight of daffodils

William Wordsworth

LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS A duet: "To all the girls we've loved before, who traveled in & out our doors, we're glad they came along"

Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias

ON THE "GO" A large Wisconsin lake, or something that belongs in the transportation category

Winnebago

HELP! TV POLICE! Cheers! As Marty Hart on "True Detective", this actor had to make some sense of Matthew McConaughey

Woody Harrelson

NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ Brother of Branford, this trumpet legend doesn't go by Clinton, but by this name

Wynton Marsalis

NOVELS OF THE 1960s The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film

You Only Live Twice

MAN MAKES THE CLOTHES Known for his A-line silhouette, this Frenchman also had a sense of smell, with a 1964 fragrance simply called "Y"

Yves Saint Laurent

WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES This comic & "Baskets" clown: "How am I on time?"

Zach Galifianakis

"B"REEDS The second part of this little dog's name refers to its curly hair

a Bichon Frise

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF Who's a good boy? This Maryland state dog, named for a nearby body of water--yes, you are

a Chesapeake Bay retreiver

CEREMONIES Chabana is the style of flower arrangement used during this ceremony

a Japanese tea ceremony

"M"MMM! This sandwich of turkey, ham & Swiss cheese is dipped in egg & fried--what could be more delicious?

a Monte Cristo

TREES Alaska's state tree is this alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city

a Sitka spruce

DOGS IN HATS A county of northern England lends its name to this breed

a Yorkshire Terrier

THE BODY HUMAN The hip is this type of joint, meaning that a rounded surface of one bone moves with the depression of another bone

a ball and socket joint

IT'S HYPHENATED If you need to beat metal, use this tool

a ball-peen hammer

A PERCUSSION DISCUSSION The Yamaha Phoenix, this type of drum, provides a lot of kick, & it better, 'cause it costs more than 3 grand

a bass drum

DOGS IN HATS With a nose second only to the bloodhound's in keenness, this breed was developed as a hunter, I reckon

a basset hound

RHYME TIME FASHION A superior knitted pullover

a better sweater

SHOES This word for an Irish accent is also the name of an oxford-style shoe

a brogue

TYPES OF MOVIES Films about male duos like Bill & Ted or Harold & Kumar aren't "pal movies" or "bro movies" but these

a buddy movie

3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS A division of a government department or a chest of drawers

a bureau

BEASTLY GLOSSARY For nesting, the horned puffin uses its feet & bill to dig & excavate one of these, just like a rabbit

a burrow

DASH When you are operating this old-timey kitchen device, the dash is the plunger you pull up & down to agitate the cream

a butter churner (or butter churn)

WORLD THEATER This gentleman was a typical character in the 17th century's golden age of Spanish theater; Disney had 3 of him

a caballero

19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS It was one of the 2 main products sold by a tallow maker

a candle or soap

CEREMONIES In June 2013 Kate Middleton smashed a big bottle of champagne at this type of ceremony to name & launch a ship

a christening

MORE THAN ONE MEANING This word describing a shape can also refer to an ad or notice left in your mailbox

a circular

THAT'S OXYMORONIC Type of internal conflict that consumed England in the 1640s

a civil war

CEREMONIES This other name for a graduation ceremony implies that it's the start, not the end, of something

a commencement

MIND YOUR GRAMMAR Parataxis is the joining together of phrase or clauses without the use of these grammatical uniters

a conjunction

CONTRONYMS To delay a trial you ask for one of these, but it can also mean to just keep going

a continuance (or stay)

SHORT STORIES In an 1863 tale Philip Nolan wishes to never hear of the U.S. again & becomes "The Man Without" this

a country

RHYMING PHRASES A full-length monster movie

a creature feature

LET'S GET ORGANIZED "Clemens, Samuel: see Twain, Mark" is one of these hyphenated notes that directs readers to info in an another place

a cross-reference

THRILLERS & MYSTERIES In "The Woman in Cabin 10", a travel writer on assignment on one of these hears a possible murder

a cruise ship

LET THERE BE LIGHTING! A resistor called a rheostat was used in the first of these switches that adjust illumination gradually

a dimmer switch

GET "INN" HERE Tuxedo's 2-word synonym, & not just at mealtime

a dinner jacket (or dinner coat)

DASH A blue-dash charger is not a muscle car but a ceramic type of this made in the United Kingdom

a dish (or a plate)

EPONYMS This ornamental mat or napkin is named for an 18th century London draper

a doily

PARTS OF THE "HOLE" Flour, vegetable oil, glaze

a donut hole

TAKE ME "DOWN" A native of Maine

a down easter

WEATHER IDIOMS A pal who supports you only when it's easiest to do so

a fair-weather friend

MYCOLOGY & MYTHOLOGY This circle of mushrooms is named for the magic creatures said to dance there

a fairy circle (or fairy ring)

MUMMY DEAREST Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists

a fen (or a bog)

THAT'S AMAZING! Thanks to a phenomenon known as total internal reflection, you can trap a laser beam inside a stream of water, the same principle that enables this type of cable to carry your internet or TV signal

a fiber optic cable

A WOOLLY CATEGORY This word for a sheep's coat can also mean a warm woolen pullover

a fleece

"G" STRING An embarrassing mistake made in public

a gaffe

RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN The U.S. went to the polls for one of these on Nov. 8, 2016

a general election

ETIQUETTE Anna Post says sending a wedding invitation means you expect this, so it's not nice to invite people you know can't come

a gift

PORTMANTEAU WORDS It's an approximate prediction without solid facts or figures

a guesstimate

"HAND" IT OVER Proverbially, someone on the wrong road might be traveling to Hades via this transport

a handbasket

STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" For lunch, how about this 2-word filler-upper?

a hero sandwich

DOWN HOME TALK A Trace Adkins hit is called this type of country music bar "Badonkadonk"

a honky tonk

"H"2"O" Folk singers' performances

a hootenanny

CLICHES MADE FANCY "One equine unconventional in hue"

a horse of a different color

IT'S HYPHENATED This instrument has a name that is hyphenated and rhyming

a hurdy-gurdy

BEASTLY POETRY FILL-IN "The time to tickle a ____, is before, or right after, a blizzard"

a lizard

FAMILIAR PHRASES In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it's an extreme group on the edge of a cause

a lunatic fringe

PUBLISHING Abbreviated MMP, it's an inexpensive softcover book sold in multiple outlets

a mass market paperback

MOZART Mozart wrote 41 symphonies, just 2 in this type of key that tends to connote sadness & seriousness

a minor key

"MORE" THAN A CATEGORY The Constitution was established "to form" this, "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility"

a more perfect union

"M"MMM! The weird-looking cap tells you it's this kind of mushroom

a morel

THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS The H110MX-S is this product from Foxconn

a motherboard

SPOT CHECK A poisonous red variety of this with white spots is called fly agaric because it was once used to kill flies

a mushroom

MORE THAN ONE MEANING A coffin, or the gloomy feeling that comes upon you as it's being carried

a pall

RHYME TIME FASHION A detachable shirt front once worn with tuxedos that was perplexing & difficult to deal with

a picky dickie (or tricky dickie)

LETHAL WEAPON In U.S. military slang, this fruit becomes a hand grenade

a pineapple

IN THE JUNGLE This jungle helmet is made from the heartwood of the sola plant, hence the name

a pith helmet

VOTE-CABULARY You'll find the common people of ancient Rome at the start of this word for a direct popular vote on an issue

a plebiscite

BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER This type of drill is run by compressed air

a pneumatic drill

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES From the Latin for "porridge", it's a soft, warm mass placed on an aching or injured body part

a poultice

"P" IN PHYSICS It's any object that after being given an initial velocity is allowed to fall under the effects of gravity alone

a projectile

COLORING BOOKS Harold is the shockingly powerful tyke who uses this title drawing implement to alter reality

a purple crayon

BALTIC BELIEFS Originally, no traditional church services were performed at St. Petersburg's Church on the Spilled Blood, but these religious memorial masses conducted for the assassinated Tsar Alexander II attracted large numbers of worshippers

a requim

TOTALLY '80s WORDS! This Biblical word for morally good had a strong decade; Ferris Bueller was described as that kind of "dude"

a righteous dude

MOTOWN LYRICS According to The Temptations, "Papa was" this, "wherever he laid his hat was his home"

a rolling stone

3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS French term for a licentious man; 3 of its 4 letters are vowels

a roue

RHYMING PHRASES In a farm idiom a problematic situation is a "tough" one

a row to hoe

IN THE JUNGLE We've high hopes for the ficus elastica, this jungle tree, whose latex was once a valuable commodity

a rubber tree

"ICE" PACK Intentionally allowing a chess piece to be captured for strategic reasons

a sacrifice

CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Jack-tar (6)

a sailor

HANDY ADVICE This device that zaps away paint or rust can be filled with a non-silica type of the main material to avert silicosis

a sand blaster

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS Diacritical mark used to represent vowel sounds like the A in ago

a schwa

CZECHNOLOGY Josef Ressel really made this simple machine work for him--he applied it to a ship's propeller & a wine-press roller

a screw

ABRUPT ABBREV. Included in a letter, SASE

a self-addressed stamped envelope

TREES The tallest living tree, the coast redwood, loses its lower branches as it grows, revealing the slender trunk that distinguishes it from this giant tree with an immense trunk

a sequoia

FAUX PAS Avoid giving this when unsolicited, like George W. Bush did to Angela Merkel at a conference in 2006

a shoulder massage

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS 1979: "Have a Coke and" one of these

a smile

"SOCIAL" An assistant who handles someone's correspondence & plans appointments; doesn't everybody have one?

a social secretary

TYPES OF MOVIES "Le Pistole Non Discutono", AKA "Bullets Don't Argue", is this type of low-budget western

a spaghetti western

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS South Africa's coat of arms has a club called a knobkierie & this pointed weapon, shown peacefully lying down

a spear

THE AGE OF TREASON In 1844 American Thomas Dorr argued that you can't be convicted of treason against one of these, but he was

a state

NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE Hawaiian has a glottal one & so does British English, as in "right-oh"

a stop

SPOT CHECK The umbra, the dark center of one of these phenomena, can be many times larger than the Earth

a sunspot

I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU I like a good glass of wine or 2; you are this type of 10-letter nondrinker

a teetotaler

CLICHES MADE FANCY "One ziggurat as an incarnation of brawn"

a tower of strength

PUBLISHING An unsolicited manuscript is said to have come in "over" this bar above a door

a transom

BUGS MEANIE This double-talk fly carries parasites that can cause nagana, a disease fatal to horses & cattle

a tsetse fly

FOOD STUFF Mom gives you some TLC with this beloved comfort food with the initials TNC

a tuna noodle casserole

AT THE YARD SALE In 1832 Eugene Lami designed a prototype of this for female dancers & at the 2017 yard sale, a used one is yours for a buck

a tutu

"IM" THE LAW 2 "IM"s in a row are in this sentencing statement regarding the awful results of a crime

a victim impact statement

CHAPELS SHOW The Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, Arizona is on this type of energy hub for which the city is known

a vortex

PORTMANTEAU WORDS One installment of an internet TV show like "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"

a webisode

9-LETTER WORDS A crime similar to kidnapping, or, medically, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body

abduction

IT'S HYPHENATED This military command is used to mean a sudden change in direction

about-face

FROM A TO Y All of a sudden

abrubtly

GULP FICTION In "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Robert Jordan says of the taste of this liquor before gulping it, "That's the wormwood"

absinthe

WORDS FROM THE GREEK Perhaps Wile E. Coyote knows it's from the Greek for "highest point"

acme

THE SHOE MUST GO ON "A" is for Alphabounce & this company that makes Alphabounce engineered mesh running shoes

adidas

PUBLIC ANEMONE Greek myth says red anemones popped up from the blood of this really good-lookin' youth after his death

adonis

WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! In the English lyrics of "Adeste Fideles", "O come let us" this word meaning to love

adore

A TRIP TO ITALY Italy's longest river, the Po flows 405 miles east to this sea

adriatic

THE MEDITERRANEAN From the Italian port of Pescara to Dubrovnik in Croatia, it's about 200 miles across this arm of the Mediterranean

adriatic

PARTS OF SPEECH The horrible realization struck Melvin far too late: too

adverb

FOLKLORE The less profound moral of this man's "The Boy & the Filberts": grab fewer nuts & your hand won't be stuck

aesop

NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS She created fictional mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, author of "The Affair of the Second Goldfish"

agatha christie

ETYMOLOGY A ghost sighting was originally what made people this, 1 letter different from the first line of the clue

aghast

PAINT THE TOWN RED The blushing walls of Red Fort can be found in this Indian city, also home to the Taj Mahal

agra

EARLY AMERICA This 1798 law aimed at Frenchmen & Irishmen in the U.S. was passed about 3 weeks before the Sedition Act

aien act

COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE A neurosurgeon's bestselling memoir of his battle with lung cancer: "When Breath Becomes ____"

air

AUTHORS AT WAR Having served in Britain's RAF may have helped Arthur Hailey write this bestselling 1968 thriller

airport

VICE PRESIDENTS After serving in Vietnam, he became a reporter at a Tennessee newspaper

al gore

HISTORIC OBJECTS The club he used to whack a golf ball over 200 yards on the moon in 1971 is today in the USGA Museum

alan shephard

TWO-WAY ADJECTIVES This adjective can describe someone who lives in an eastern U.S. state capital, or in an Adriatic nation

albanian

____ING ON POETRY "With his cruel bow he laid full low the harmless ____"

albatross

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS Bartlett's quotes this author: "Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday"

albert camus

EUROPEAN HISTORY During World War I, the fact that this wife of the tsar was a German princess by birth helped make the royals unpopular

alexandra

WHAT "A" COUNTRY? It became independent of France in 1962

algeria

ALL MY... This ABC series started in 1970 & ran all the way until 2011

all my children

TITLES FROM POETRY "Humpty-Dumpty" gave this Robert Penn Warren novel about a Southern politician its title

all the kings men

MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC "The Man" singer Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III goes by this name that contains Aloe for smoothness

aloe blacc

6-LETTER WORDS The vicuña is closely related to this South American animal, prized for its fleece

alpaca

A WOOLLY CATEGORY Wool from this llama relative comes in 22 natural colors, the most of any wool-producing animal

alpaca

MUMMY DEAREST Otzi the Iceman died more than 5,000 years ago in the Tyrolean range of these mountains

alps

A TRIP TO ITALY You'll do lots of climbing just walking the streets of Positano on this coast on the Gulf of Salerno

amalfi

GDANSK Found in 40-million-year-old Baltic sands, this Baltic gold is used to make treasures for which Gdansk is famous

amber

IT WAS SO COLD... A member of this 5-letter "Old Order" religious group purchased an electric blanket

amish

PAINTERS ON FILM In "Big Eyes", this actress played Margaret Keane, a painter whose husband took credit for her work for years

amy adams

"INSTA"! This Kodak camera used an easily loaded drop-in film cartridge

an Instamatic

PUBLISHING Money paid upfront to an author to write a book

an advance

FROM A TO Y "Pilgrim's Progress" is a noted one

an allegory

YOU SHALL FIND Swampy is this type of animal looking for the water for his shower in the app "Where's My Water?"

an alligator

ANGELS IN AMERICA It looks like a ray, but between the category title & its tail, you should know it's called this

an angel shark

LET THERE BE LIGHTING! The first electric street lights were Yablochkov candles, a type of this 3-letter lamp

an arc lamp

WHAT IN TARNATION? "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot" is a famous one

an aria

PARTS OF SPEECH She got an honorary degree in anthropology at Stanford: an

an article

DOCUMENTS 1965's "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" came out of the second of these church gatherings

an ecumenical council

"IM" THE LAW This type of expert witness is appointed by the court & is expected not to take sides

an impartial witness

NIKOLA TESLA In 1891 Tesla invented this induction device that can transmit electric power without wires

an induction coil (or the Tesla coil)

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS "To sob loudly" is the type of "phrase" named for this verb form

an infinitive

BAND STANDS Roger Waters, known for using a huge inflatable one of these to convey political messages, had one fly away in 2008

an inflatable pig

PARTS OF SPEECH Fraznat! I stubbed my toe on that statue of George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979!: fraznat

an interjection

PUT A "LID" ON IT In the 19th c. a medical journal defined a chronic one as having been incapacitated by disease for the duties of life

an invalid

MOVIES BY OSCARS 1982: Supporting actor Louis Gossett Jr. & Song, "Up Where We Belong"

an officer and a gentelman

BILL'S BILL OF RIGHTS RIGHTS According to the first amendment, the government can't establish this, but Bill is allowed to start the Billitarians

an official church (or religion)

CHAPELS SHOW With the bones of 40,000 souls, the Czech chapel seen here is also called this, from the Latin for bones

an ossuary

FITNESS Sprinting & powerlifting are examples of this type of exercise that means "without oxygen"

anaerobic

PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS This Georgia facility was designed for 10,000 men but held as many as 32,000 by the end of the Civil War

andersonville

PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS The only president who had been a P.O. W., he was held in Camden, S.C. by the British while just a teenager in 1781

andrew jackson

POTPOURRI Of joy, anger, thanks or begging, it's the usual tone of the piece of writing called a screed

anger

WHAT "A" COUNTRY? Its capital is Luanda, formerly São Paulo de Luanda

angola

THEY PLAYED JFK Tim Matheson was hubby to "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis" in 2000; you otter know Tim was Eric Stratton in this 1978 film

animal house

JOY TO THE WORLD People with allergies could breathe easier in 1937 when Swiss doctor Daniel Bovet discovered the first of these

antihistamine

NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS A recently discovered dog-like carnivore from prehistoric Egypt was named for this canine-headed god

anubis

HAMMER Judas Priest's song "Between The Hammer &" this is an idiom for equally unpleasant choices

anvil

EUROPEAN HISTORY After landing at this town south of Rome in Jan. 1944, Allied troops were pinned in the area until they broke through in May

anzio

WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! Clothing or garments, donned with the "fa la la"-ing & so forth

apparel

THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING Yielding to belligerent demands of a foe, like Britain's 1938 policy toward Hitler

appeasement

POST "AP"OCALYPSE This French word describes a fabric design that is fastened to another piece of material

appliqué

HODGEPODGE Flat feet are also referred to as fallen these

arches

JOBFUSCATION Miesian & Corbusian are adjectives used in this field

architecture

THINK PINK The Casa Rosada, or Pink House, is the president's mansion in this second-largest South American country

argentina

LIVE IN TEXAS In this city near Dallas you can see your Cowboys & Rangers play home games

arlington

WHAT "A" COUNTRY? Its provinces include Aragatsotn & Ararat

armenia

SPECIAL DAYS A 1954 act amended a 1938 one by striking out this word & replacing it with "Veterans"

armistice

ANIMAL GROUPINGS When not destroying their way through the forest, these ants fittingly form temporary camps called bivouacs

army ants

ALL MY... In 1947 Karl Malden & Ed Begley, Sr. stared in this playwright's first success, "All My Sons"

arthur miller

KNOTTY BY NATURE Knotroot is another name for Chinese this, though it's no relation to the globe or Jerusalem type

artichokes

ANSWER THE HOMOPHONE! The act of aiding, & the personal errand runners for a movie star

assistance/assistants

11-LETTER WORDS In this visual defect of the eye, light is unable to focus clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision

astigmatism

WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! Merry gentlemen, it means away from the correct path, as in "to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone" this

astray

CANINE COMPANIONS He was the Jetsons' family dog

astro

WOMEN'S FIRSTS It was the field of Maria Mitchell, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

astronomy

TEAM MASCOTS Orbit circles the field for this Texas team

astros

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! Like its main rival city, Sparta had an acropolis with a temple dedicated to this goddess

athena

DOC TALK I've got tinea pedis, this condition, so stop calling me a couch potato

athletes foot

DISNEY PRINCESS NAMES From the Latin for "dawn", just like a Roman goddess

aurora

A WOOLLY CATEGORY With about 25% of the global total, this commonwealth nation leads the world in wool production

australia

BOATY McBOATFACE Boaty is defined as this kind of ship, from the Greek for "self-ruled", & can travel far from its parent vessel

autonomous

WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! It's Latin for "hail", Maria

ave

ROBERTS' RULES Robert the Wise was King of Naples but spent 1319 to 1324 in this French town then allied with the papacy

avignon

WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! To another place, like "In A Manger", title-wise

away

NON-AMERICAN GODS In the Bible Elijah got the better of prophets of this Canaanite fertility deity

baal

FEAR FACTOR No way you are getting someone with pediophobia, fear of these, to watch the movie "Child's Play" or "Annabelle"

baby dolls

THE PERSIAN PAST One story says the Persians diverted the Euphrates to help them take this great city in 539 B.C.

babylon

EXILED! The Diaspora refers to the movement of Jews among Gentiles after the exile named for this Mideast empire

babylonian empire

CARD GAMES Chapter 9 of Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale" is called "The Game is" this

baccarat

ONE-HIT WONDERS Daniel Powter had this 2006 hit, also used as a kiss-off song on "American Idol"

bad day

ASIAN CULTURE The woman here is performing the legong, a traditional dance of this Indonesian island

bali

DROP THE MIC Drop it from the end of a type of vinegar to get this light wood

balsa

THE JOY OF SLUGS The mascot of UC Santa Cruz, this large slug with an edible name can reach 10 inches in length & live for 7 years

banana slug

POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK Jessie J, Nicki Minaj & Ariana Grande collaborated on this catchy 2014 hit

bang bang

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Bela Fleck

banjo

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature

barcelona

HALLS OF FAME Wade Boggs, Satchel Paige

baseball

SPORT'S STUFF Chest protector, stirrups, mask

baseball

HISTORIC DATES On July 14, 1789 a French mob demanded arms & munitions from this prison; the guards resisted & the rest is history

bastille

TRANSPORTATION It's what the B-A stands for in BART, the rapid transit system

bay area

SOUP Pasta e fagioli is a hearty Italian soup of pasta & these

beans

SOUNDS LIKE A LIQUOR BRAND A carnivore, or a yeoman warder at the Tower

beefeater

GET "INN" HERE You got a hole in one the first time you golfed? & that deflected in off a tree?! Talk about this 2-word phrase

beginner's luck

CHEESY NAME ORIGINS A soft, creamy cheese: Italian for "beautiful country"

bel paese

COUNTRY NICKNAMES 'White Russia"

belarus

"B"REEDS The Brabant is also known as this nationality's draft horse

belgian

ASIAN CULTURE The first non-European to win a Nobel Literature Prize, Rabindranath Tagore wrote mostly in this Asian language

bengali

DOUBLE TALK It bears repeating that this disease with a name from Sinhalese is caused by a lack of Vitamin B1

beriberi

PHILIP K. DICK Both PKD & Ursula K. Le Guin were class of 1947 at the same high school in this university city near Oakland

berkeley

IN THE CITY The Tiergarten & Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

berlin

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN Widely used on football fields, this grass named for a British dependency is native to the African savannas

bermuda grass

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE Cooper is the last name of this Archie Comics blonde

betty

TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR This show made the upgrade & later changed Darrin's too

bewitched

THEIR CONCERT TOUR "I Am..."; "The Mrs. Carter Show"

beyonce

FIRST-TIME EMMY NOMINEES 2017 Reese Witherspoon & Shailene Woodley got their first nominations for roles in this HBO miniseries

big little lies

NATIONAL DAYS Amy Schumer made waves with the photo she posted in honor of this swimsuit's day, July 5, its 71st anniversary

bikini

5 EXES Seen here is this ex-top cop of Boston, Los Angeles and New York City--twice

bill bratton

STREET MUSIC In 1978 this singer-songwriter parked "Big Shot" & "Honesty" on "52nd Street"

billy joel

"B" MOVIESA washed-up superhero actor plots a stage comeback in this 2014 film

birdman

IN THE JUNGLE Hawaii's forests have many types of these, including the apapane & the honeycreeper

birds

TRADITIONS This list of 12 may have been inspired by a Biblical garment decorated in 4 rows, the top being sardius, topaz & carbuncle

birthstones

SILVER & GOLD In 2010 German Winter Olympian David Moeller injured himself doing this to his silver medal

biting it

FROM B TO C This temporary military encampment is often set up without shelter or protection from enemy fire

bivouac

TYPES OF MOVIES 1970s genre of film depicting African Americans in unrealistic & often violent situations

blaxploitation

AMERICANA In 2016 the Wingfoot Two, one of these, was christened near Akron

blimp

"LIGHT" MUSIC Manfred Mann topped the charts with this Bruce Springsteen-penned song

blinded by the light

TEAM MASCOTS The Seattle Seahawks' mascot is named this, a football term for an assault on the opposing quarterback

blitz

ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS Hitchcock hated eggs & said this liquid was "jolly" compared with runny yolk

blood

CZECHNOLOGY In the early 20th century, Jan Jansky discovered there were 4, not 3, of these types in humans

blood types

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE It was the home of Milo & of Bill the cat

bloom county

PARTS OF THE "HOLE" Nasal plug, phonic lips, air sacs

blowhole

HALLS OF FAME Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell

blues

I SING THE BODY This Top 10 hit by Sam Hunt says, "Could drive it with my eyes closed, I know every curve like the back of my hand"

body like a back road

UNPLUGGED Vivalnk makes a patch you put below your little one's armpit so you can wirelessly monitor this

body temp

AUTHORS AT WAR At the age of 40, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle volunteered as a military doctor during this war in Africa

boer war

STATE CAPITAL HAIKU The "City of Trees" / & potatoes! Potatoes! / Potatoes! 'Taters!

boise

DETECTIVE FICTION Kathy Reichs' novels featuring Temperance Brennan include "Bare" these & "Cross" these

bones

FITNESS With this kind of workout, it sounds like a drill instructor will tell you to drop & do 40 push-ups, but not so at Barry's

boot camp

ASIAN RIVERS Indonesia's longest river, the Kapuas, flows around 700 miles on this, the world's third-largest island

borneo

ALL-AMERICAN FOOD You'll cover several food groups dining on this city's lettuce, baked beans & cream pie

boston

MUSICAL GROUP NAMES DEFINED Home to Fenway Park

boston

"COMMON" KNOWLEDGE Just over 100 years old, Parkman Bandstand is one of the newer editions to this great American open space

boston commin

HISTORIC DATES American patriots dressed as Mohawks for this festive event on December 16, 1773

boston tea party

SPORT'S STUFF The pocket, 5-step approach, hook

bowling

EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY n 1900 Herbert Hoover was 25 & living in China during this event led by the Righteous & Harmonious Fists

boxer rebellion

OF THE TIGER Here's the story of a dog named Tiger who was a family pet on this TV show

brady bunch

POTPOURRI It's the traditional liquor you add to make a coffee Alexander

brandy

PLUMBING FOR CLUES This metal alloy is used as a slang term for faucets & other fittings, regardless of the real material used to make them

brass

UNREAL MINISTRIES The Ministry of Information Retrieval may or may not be in South America in this 1985 dystopian film

brazil

COMPOUND WORDS They were like GPS for Hansel & Gretel

breadcrumbs

VICE PRESIDENTS The Constitution mandates that the vice president preside over the Senate & do this if necessary

break a tie

POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK In CB slang it's what a trucker says to interrupt a conversation or request to use a channel

breaker, breaker

ANSWER THE HOMOPHONE! Multiple beers, & the minor injury you got when you fell after multiple beers

brews/bruise

KEEP IT DOWN On "The Middle" Atticus Shaffer plays this kid in the Heck family known to whisper into his shirt

brick heck

HIS WIDOW LIVED ON The author of "Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in Bondage" had the satisfaction of outliving this Mormon by 40 years

brigham young

FROM B TO C In the name of a rodeo riding event, it follows saddle

bronc

SCULPTURE Though the metal came from Europe, some African sculpture has the alliterative term "Benin" this material

bronze

STAGE NAME'S THE SAME Funnyman directory Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein

brooks

HIP-HOP & R&B 2017 A lot of people liked "That's What I Like", a chart-topper for this "Planetary" singer

bruno mars

____ & ____ Cabbage & potatoes are part of this old-time English dish named for the sound it makes as it cooks

bubble and squeak

"B"REEDS Ohio's Nettie Metcalf put her state's nickname on this chicken breed she developed

buckeye

SCULPTURE The "Seated Sakyamuni" from around 100 A.D. shows this figure on a throne meditating in the lotus position

buddha

HIS WIDOW LIVED ON In Feb. 2009 the former Maria Elena Santiago, married to this Texan musician for 6 months, marked 50 years as his widow

buddy holly

ALL-AMERICAN FOOD The Anchor Bar says it's the home of the original this deep-fried chicken dish with hot sauce & bleu-cheese dressing

buffalo wings

ANSWER THE HOMOPHONE! To construct, & what the contractor did to the customer after construction was completed

build/billed

THE SPANISH INQUISITION When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way

burned in effigy

ETIQUETTE U.S. flag code says a flag in bad shape should be "destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by" this method

burning

ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS After metal has been cast, cut or drilled, this ragged edge remains

burr

SOUNDS LIKE A LIQUOR BRAND Australian wilderness grain-grinding buildings

bush mills

TV NICKNAMES In one episode of "South Park" this character goes south of the border & is referred to as Mantequilla

butters

JOBFUSCATION Stevedores deal with reefers, containers named for protecting perishables this way

by refrigeration

BYE, PHOENICIA! The word for the good book comes from this Phoenician town that was captured by Crusaders, who named it Gibelet

byblos

SOUP The 1950s saw the introduction of a diet based on this soup; eat as much of it as you can stomach, but just for a week

cabbage

JANE It was the nickname of the Wild West's Martha Jane Canary

calamity jane

ALL-AMERICAN FOOD See the avocado peeking out of this sushi staple, said to have been created by chef Hidekazu Tojo

california roll

RELIGION In 762 the Muslim world was small enough to have a single ruler, with this title; Baghdad was founded as that ruler's home

caliph

BOOK SMARTS This 1759 Voltaire work opens, "In the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh in Westphalia there lived a youth"

candide

STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS Doc, owner of a biological lab, & Dora, madam of a brothel

cannery row

THE CITY OF NICKNAMES Guangzhou, China, which is also known by this English name, is "The City of Five Goats"

canton

ALL "CAP"s Italian name for the pasta seen here

capellini

ALL "CAP"s Adjective meaning involving the loss of the head

capital

ALL "CAP"s To yield

capitulate

ALL "CAP"s Impulsive or unpredictable

capricious

ACID Not carbonic acid but this is the simplest of the phenol family of disinfectants

carbolic acid

JANUARY One of the traditional flowers of January is this one, seen here

carnation

"C" IN COOKING It's Spanish for meat; when followed by "asada", it means it's been roasted

carne

NOTABLE NAMES He's seen here a few years after selling out to J.P. Morgan's U.S. Steel

carnegie

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS To sing joyously, like Ms. Kane might at Yuletide

carol

HISTORIC OBJECTS The ancient Persian artifact called the "Spring of Khosrow" was this, reputedly covering 40,000 square feet

carpet

HOME SWEET HOME Her last home was a 14-room boardinghouse in Arkansas known as Hatchet Hall

carrie nation

"C" IN COOKING This yellow-skinned melon is named for the Turkish town that exported it

casaba

SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE Dooley Wilson, Claude Rains & Peter Lorre

casablanca

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY "Let him who is without sin" do this

cast the first stone

BEASTLY POETRY FILL-IN "The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious ____"

cat

ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS The Paley Center for Media is named for William Paley, longtime honcho of this network

cbs

IOWA HISTORY In 2011 Iowa got its first whitewater rafting park, naturally on this river with well-known rapids

cedar river

IT'S RAINING "MEN" A mob informant who gets found out is said to wear this non-buoyant footwear

cement shoes

THRILLERS & MYSTERIES In "Apprentice in Death", the HYPD's Eve Dallas probes the sniper killings of 3 skaters at this area's Wollman Rink

central park

GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD General secretary is considered China's most powerful post since this title held by Mao was abolished in 1982

chairman

NOTABLE WOMEN Ooh la la! The little black dress first got put on--& put out--by this designer in the 1920s

chanel

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS To pursue, like NASCAR's Mr. Elliott does to make the Sprint Cup round of 16

chase

-ISMS & -OLOGIES Extreme partiality to one's own country, gender or race, it may come from the name of a character in an 1830s play

chauvinism

MUSICAL GROUP NAMES DEFINED A shoddy joke to pull on someone

cheap trick

TV WATERING HOLES Hurray for some guy named Alex who once visited this Boston bar

cheers

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT Danny Aiello awkwardly proposes to this actress in an Italian restaurant in "Moonstruck"

cher

SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES Would you "believe" she was born with the last name Sarkisian?

cher

CHEESY NAME ORIGINS It's made from goat's milk: French for "goat"

chevre

MOVIES BY OSCARS 2001: Supporting actress Catherine Zeta-Jones & Costume Design, Colleen Atwood

chicago

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE Granddad, a lungfish that had been at this city's Shedd Aquarium since 1933, passed away in 2017

chicago

____ & ____ If you're in L.A. & can't decide between breakfast & lunch, have both at Roscoe's famous "House of" these 2 foods

chicken and waffles

"CHRIS"TENING In 1935 Mr. & Mrs. Javacheff of Bulgaria named their little future artist this

chisto

A DEDICATED COMPOSER This Polish-born master dedicated a concerto to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, whom he called Europe's best pianist

chopin

"CHRIS"TENING IMF head Lagarde

christine

THIRSTY The dried bark of this spice makes an appearance on the label of Fireball whisky

cinnamon

TYPES OF MOVIES The 1961 documentary "Chronicle of a Summer" is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style

cinéma vérité

HARD "C" A pale blue porcelain glaze is called this, a French phrase meaning moonlight

clair de lune

HARD "C" It's the name for the white siding on the house seen here

clapboard

TV SETTINGS A Florida nail salon

claws

5, 5 In a recording studio, it's an electronic cue to help the musicians keep time

click track

IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD When someone dies in Denmark, he is said to have taken off these wooden shoes

clogs

GAME OF DRONES Nevada officials released silver iodide from drones in attempts to make rain via this process

cloud seeding

NATIONAL DAYS Aug. 4 honors this military branch whose forebear, the Revenue Cutter Service, was founded on that day in 1790

coast guard

19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS Once cordwainers made shoes & these guys fixed them

cobbler

IT'S HYPHENATED This Scottish soup has 2 hyphens & an onion relative in its name

cock-a-leekie

"C" IN COOKING Copra is the dried meat of this

coconut

MIND YOUR GRAMMAR Like "crowd" or "troop", it's a noun that is singular in form but denotes a group

collective

PENCIL IT IN In 1908 Faber-Castell, one of the oldest pencil brands, introduced the Polychromos line of these

colored pencils

THE ATHLETE'S COLLEGE Lou Gehrig, who ended up playing professionally not far away

columbia

"HOME" LINES A familiar saying is "curses", like chickens, "always" do this

come home to roost

SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL "Green Card" was not a sequel to this film in which Eddie Murphy's Prince Akeem looks for a wife in Queens, New York

coming to america

"COMMON" KNOWLEDGE On January 8 the Mariana Islands celebrate this day; Kentucky & Pennsylvania could do the same

commonwealth day

GETTING POSSESSIVE Stoddard's Way was a religious innovation in 17th c. New England allowing anyone to receive this during mass

communion

POLICE YOUR AREA The LAPD "strongly embraces" this kind of policing that emphasizes working with the citizenry

community policing

STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY Created in 2009, the AVC is the department bureau that deals with "Arms Control, Verification &" this

compliance

MIDDLE "P" This treat is fruit stewed or cooked in syrup

compote

ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY "Parental" this is "given on a minor's behalf... for the minor to engage in or submit to a specified activity"

consent

CZECHNOLOGY In 1963 Czech chemist Otto Wichterle used new HEMA plastics to make the first soft type of these

contact lenses

STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY After WWII the U.S. adopted this policy of controlling Soviet expansion, a term used by dept. official George Kennan

containment

9-LETTER WORDS It's the branch of astronomy that studies the origin & structure of the universe

cosmology

WORDS FROM THE GREEK From Greek for "world citizen", it describes someone who is worldly & sophisticated

cosmopolitan

A MANIA FOR MANIAS Similar to TV detective Monk, you have a compulsive desire to do this if you have arithmomania

count objects

OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS JFK published "Profiles in" this; in 2017 W. published "Portraits of" this, his tribute to America's warriors

courage

3-LETTER RESPONSES A "tax"ing job, maybe at Ernst & Young

cpa

HARD "C" One gardening encyclopedia says it's a name for generally obnoxious weeds, particularly in lawns

crabgrass

"JACK" The name of this snack brand is 1890s slang for "excellent"

cracker jack

SOMEONE LOSES AN I If the lead actor from TV's "Coach" misplaced an "I", he would be this type of rocky peak

crag

STAGE NAME'S THE SAME Screen legend Lucille LeSueur & Broadway legend Michael Dumbell-Smith

crawford

MUSICAL GROUP NAMES DEFINED The fatty part of milk

cream

REGULAR WORD & ACRONYM Regular: an obnoxious person; acronym: hired Nixon's "plumbers"

creep

PLACES IN 1950s NEWS Pravda reported that Khrushchev, on his way to lunch, announced his decision to give this region to Ukraine

crimea

WAR IS OVER A treaty is signed March 30, 1856

crimean war

THE SHOE MUST GO ON This "reptilian" brand wants you to know you can also get its clogs & other shoes without holes

crocs

4-LETTER WORDS To clip an animal's ears, or to trim a photo

crop

THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT Resembling a shepherd's crook, it's the pastoral staff carried by a bishop

crosier

JOBFUSCATION Pilots tell flight attendants, "Doors for arrival &" this, meaning have your work verified by someone else

cross check

THEY SAY IT KEEPS YOU SHARP If you're a cruciverbalist, you probably already know that working on these improves brain function

crosswords

"C" IN COOKING It's the plural French word for an appetizer of raw vegetables; it just means "rawness"

crudites

HOLIDAY SONGS You better not do these 2 things because "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"

cry and pout

MILLENNIALS Around 1000 A.D. Russia began using this alphabet and still uses a version of it today

cryllic

OF THE TIGER The Jersey boys who play sports for this university are the Tigers

cub scouts

COME UP TO THE LAB From the Latin for "growing plants", it's a lab specimen proliferated to identify the possible source of a disease

culture

THE ELEMENT NAMED FOR... A married couple with some Nobel Prizes between them

curium

YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING Some say résumé, some say CV, short for this Latin phrase

curriculum vitae

HIS WIDOW LIVED ON His widow Elizabeth was lobbying Congress for a Little Bighorn museum when she died in 1933 at 90

custer

TREES The bald type of this flourishes in swamps

cypress trees

THE PERSIAN PAST Around 550 B.C. this great king founded the Persian empire by overthrowing Astyages, king of the Medes

cyrus

9-LETTER WORDS Got milk? One of Wisconsin's nicknames is "America's" this

dairyland

EXILED! The man holding this title has said that the 15th & next to hold it could be discovered in exile

dalai lama

IN THE DICTIONARY Tarantism, once attributed to a tarantula bite, is a disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to do this

dance

IN THE "D" TALES In this novel by George Eliot, the title character discovers that he is Jewish

daniel deronda

FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD Rosario Murillo is now First Lady & vice president of her country, standing beside this husband, a fellow Sandinista

daniel ortega

TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE Dansk

danish

ACTORS On the wrong side of the law in his youth, he changed his ways and has starred in films like "Machete"

danny trejo

SCULPTURE In 1622 Cardinal Borghese commissioned Bernini to sculpt "Apollo and" this river nymph for his gallery

daphne

CAMP DAVID In "A Treatise of Human Nature", he wrote, "The errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous"

david hume

FRENCH HISTORY As France fell in 1940, this general escaped to Britain, where he rallied the French people in a series of radio broadcasts

de Gaulle

SHARKS & JETS The first jetliner, the Comet, came in 1949 from this British company that could be in the cast of "Gone With the Wind"

de havilland

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN Santa hops off I-90 & onto Route 85 to go to this S.D. city where Wild Bill Hickok was stopped from being a good boy permanently

deadwood

IN THE "D" TALES This Thomas Mann novella mentions the "airy splendor of the...Bridge of Sighs, the columns of lion and saint on the shore"

death in venice

NONSENSE & STUFF It means nonsense; put "de" before it & you expose false claims

debunk

NEW TO THE OED This verb meaning to remove a tooth from a snake or a vampire

defang

STATE FLAGS The sailing ship on its flag represents the shipbuilding industry of New Castle County

delaware

GREEK LETTER PHRASES This transport business began as a crop-dusting operation in 1924

delta airlines

THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS Title for a female adult leader of a small group of Cub Scouts

den mother

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! The Eider program called for the incorporation of Schleswig-Holstein into this Scandinavian country

denmark

THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST Elk Horn, Iowa, known as "Little" this country, hosts the Tivoli Fest

denmark

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY Clyfford Still left 2,000 artworks to any city that would give him his own museum; this city put it near the Molly Brown House

denver

ALL-AMERICAN FOOD This city's signature dish has ham, green peppers, onion &, of course, scrambled eggs

denver omelet

VICTIM OF GRAVITY In a Marcel Duchamp title, it's how a nude is coming down a staircase

descending

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES God bless us, every one who reads "The Man Who Invented Christmas", about this author

dickens

WORDS FROM THE GREEK A synonym for predicament, it's made up of 2 words that together mean "two propositions"

dilemma

IT'S RAINING "MEN" Give me these measurements: length, width & height

dimensions

JOBFUSCATION If you start out your new job at the diner as a "bubble dancer", you've scored a gig as this

dishwasher

"DIS" IS IT This contagious & often fatal disease affects both dogs & cats; in cats, it's also known as panleukopenia

distemper

IN THE "D" TALES This epic poem in Italian begins on Good Friday 1300

divine comedy

MUSIC DOC SUBJECTS "Shut Up & Sing", from a group not ready to make nice

dixie chicks

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT Mookie throws a trash can through the window of Sal's famous pizzeria in Brooklyn in this 1989 film

do the right thing

ALLITERATION ALL AROUND This phrase for the hottest part of summer comes from the Latin caniculares dies

dog days

MOUNTAINS The trio seen here tops out just around 10,000 feet in this range of the Alps with the same name as a mineral

dolomites

THE DONALD With college friend Walter Becker, he founded Steely Dan

donald fagen

THE DONALD In "Singin' in the Rain", this song-&-dance man made us laugh with "Make 'Em Laugh"

donald oconnor

'TIS THE SEASON This disco queen was No. 1 in 1979 "Lookin' for some hot stuff, baby this evenin'"

donna summer

"DOUBLE" FEATURE George Orwell called it "a vast system of mental cheating"

double think

LINE CRAFT Picasso made many line drawings of this bird whose Spanish name Paloma he gave to one of his daughters

dove

TAKE ME "DOWN" To put in a lower gear

downshift

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES Chapter 5 of Philip Nel's book about this author is "The Disneyfication of" him: "Faithful to Profit, One Hundred Percent?"

dr seuss

KILLING GARY OLDMAN In 1992 Winona Ryder took a big bite out of Gary, who got stabbed in the heart & then beheaded as this title guy

dracula

TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR The story you are about to hear is true; this cop show had a B&W run in the '50s, then came back in the '60s in color

dragnet

CHIEF JUSTICES In 2017 Charlie Taney apologized to the family of this slave for the terrible decision made under his ancestor Roger

dredd scott

COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE Carrie Fisher's first memoir: "Wishful ____"

drinking

JUST A SITAR Most sitars have 5 melody strings & one or 2 of this type that produces low sustained tones

drone strings

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Tommy Lee & Gina Schock

drums

ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES James Joyce's 15 stories about the metropolitan Irish around 1900

dubliners

SHOES L.L. Bean sells these webbed-looking waterproof boots with an avian name

duck boots

IN THE "D" TALES This Frank Herbert novel grew out of a proposed article on stabilizing the shifting sands of Oregon's coast

dune

FORBES WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN THE U.S. At No. 15, this Delaware family shares $14.3 billion in chemical money--but they share it among more than 3,500 members

dupont

LOOKS LIKE WE MADE IT This company took a shot at making Kevlar aramid fiber

dupont

ARRIBA ARUBA! Aruba's official languages are Papiamento, a Creole language, & this language of the kingdom to which it belongs

dutch

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF Utah has an official cooking pot, this national-named item

dutch oven

FINANCIAL GOBBLEDYGOOK An unregulated statement of profit, EBITDA stands for these before interest, tax, depreciation & amortization

earnings

STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS Twin brothers Aron & Caleb Trask

east of eden

AROUND THE PACIFIC Almost all of this country's imports flow through the Gulf of Guayaquil to its largest port

ecuador

MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC Edward Louis Severson III, seen here, is better known as this impassioned singer

eddie vedder

4-LETTER WORDS It's a small whirlpool

eddy

EMMY-WINNING WOMEN In 2001 the Emmys were singing "Soprano" as she won Best Actress in a Drama

edie falco

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland

edinburgh

JOY TO THE WORLD A year before the Lumiere bros.' first film, this man's Kinetoscope put moving pictures on a screen during a vaudeville show

edison

IN THE DICTIONARY Anguilliform means resembling one of these aquatic creatures

eel

THE 19th CENTURY After this project was completed in 1825, freight rates from Buffalo to New York City dropped from $100 to $10 a ton

eerie canal

AFRICAN COUNTRIES With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert

egypt

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD Fuad I was the first modern-day king of this country following its independence from Great Britain

egypt

CAMP DAVID In 1978, Jimmy Carter welcomed the leaders of these two countries to Camp David for historic peace talks

egypt and israel

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES Abilene, Kansas

eisenhower

"ELECTRIC" DREAMS The Flying V & the Jazzmaster are these

electric guitars

"ELECTRIC" DREAMS In 1976 Ric Silver created this line dance

electric slide

AM I BLUE? Jamie Foxx seemed to get a charge out of playing this Peter Parker foe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"

electro

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS This animal adorns the coat of arms of the Ivory Coast

elephant

TARZAN In "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar", Tantor, this mighty beast, goes into Musth & tries to crush Tarzan

elephant

LITERARY SETTINGS "The Wizard of Oz": It's the capital of Oz

emerald city

BILDUNGSROMAN A bildungsroman can tell of the rise & education of a man or a woman, like this Austen title heroine

emma

BILDUNGSROMAN Orson Scott Card took the concept to space, telling the story of Andrew Wiggin in this 1985 sci-fi classic

enders game

FOOD STUFF Chicory is the British term for what we call Belgian this leafy plant

endive

CURRENT EVENTS A hack of this credit reporting agency potentially compromised the information of 143 mil. Americans

equifax

THERMODYNAMICS Classical thermodynamics focuses on this state of balance & on changes from one such state to another

equilibrium

PENCIL IT IN Called plugs by manufacturers, these were first attached to pencils in 1858

eraser

LITERARY SETTINGS In a Samuel Butler satire: Colleges of Unreason are found in this title land

erewhon

STREET MUSIC On "461 Ocean Boulevard", his album & onetime address, this blues master went reggae with "I Shot The Sheriff"

eric clapton

MEDICAL HISTORY This compound has had many uses, like starting engines & as a popular drink among Catholics when the Church frowned on alcohol, medically it was used as an anesthetic starting in the 1840s & is still used in places where up-to-date equipment isn't available

ether

OREGON The Oregon Bach Festival takes place yearly in this city with a man's name

eugene

BRITISH CABINETRY The equivalent to our Treasury secretary is chancellor of this French-derived word

exchequer

CZECHNOLOGY Semtex, a very dangerous type of this, was created in the Czech town of Semtin

explosive

POLITICAL QUOTES In 1964 Barry Goldwater said, "I would remind you that" this -ism "in the defense of liberty is no vice"

extremism

TECH CRUNCH In 2013 this .com had the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500 when it debuted on the list at 482

facebook

RHYME TIME An artificial New York strip or sirloin

fake steak

'TIS THE SEASON To go out of consideration, or collapse next to a Longfellow inn

fall by the wayside

ON THE "GO" A lively Spanish dance, or a website for moviegoers

fandango

"ICE" PACK This original "Funny Girl" played Baby Snooks on radio

fanny brice

COLD PLACES Oh yah, this seat of Cass County, North Dakota got down to minus 31 in January 2008, dontcha know

fargo

JINGLE SELLS "We are" this insurance company whose ads feature J.K. Simmons & a snappy 7-note riff

farmers

"F"OOD FOR THOUGHT Often confused with salt pork, it runs along the upper regions of a pig & is used to make lard & cracklings

fatback

SOME CHOICE WORDS What a parent does to a better-loved child, or what a person limping is doing to the bad leg

favoring

ANSWER THE HOMOPHONE! To cause to be disconcerted, & a stage in a process of development

faze/phase

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Joseph Lash won for a dual biography of this presidential couple

fdr and eleanor

FEAR FACTOR Sometimes I accuse the writers of ergophobia, or fear of this--but it is a serious anxiety condition

fear of work

VOTE-CABULARY To express your opinion of a place by leaving it is to "vote with your" these body parts

feet

HAMMER The hammers on most pianos are covered with this soft 4-letter material

felt

THE ELEMENT NAMED FOR... An Italian-American physicist

fermium

CHEESY NAME ORIGINS It's often made from ewe's milk: from the Modern Greek for "slice"

feta

FEELING YOUR OATHS Financial advisors may take this type of oath that also starts with "fi" stating they will act in good faith

fiduciary

OPERA This character's famed entrance aria actually introduces him as a handyman, repeats his name & adds "la-la-la-la-las"

figaro

"F"OOD FOR THOUGHT Essential to Cajun cooking, this seasoning is made from the ground, dried leaves of the sassafras tree

filé powder

BEASTLY GLOSSARY Mud skipper don't need water all the time; it gets around on land just fine using two souped-up pectoral these

fins

TV SETTINGS 500 years in the future aboard the transport ship Serenity

firefly

CLICHES MADE FANCY "Vigorous like one violin"

fit as a fiddle

LETHAL WEAPON In 1978 the U.S. military stopped using this, which can produce a 2,000-degree wall of fire

flamethrower

"F"OOD FOR THOUGHT Collective term for species like flounder & halibut with one side of their bodies facing down

flatfish

THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING They say this synonym for fawning "will get you nowhere" but right now that's not true at all

flattery

HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS When this leaping insect can't pay rent, he just gets the heck out of Dodge

flea

PAINT MISS, BEHAVING Rembrandt liked to depict his wife as this goddess of blooming plants--note the garland

flora

EXILED! After being exiled from this city in 1302, Dante wrote, "Bitter is the taste of another man's bread"

florence

STATES BY LAKES Lake Seminole, Lake June in Winter

florida

BOOK SERIES V.C. Andrews is best remembered for her series about the Dollanganger kids, which began with this 1979 book

flowers in the attic

IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... Beef & dairy shortages? Bees are crucial for plants like alfalfa, used as this 6-letter type of food for cattle

fodder (or forage)

STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY This nickname for the State Department comes from its once nebulous location

foggy bottom

ACID Leafy green vegetables are a good source of this B vitamin whose name is from the Latin for "leaf"

folic acid

PRISONS This prison is in the title of Johnny Cash's song that says, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"

folsom

WHOSE ALBUM? "Sonic Highways", also an HBO miniseries

foo fighters

4 O's This adjective means not confined by responsibilities; kick off your Sunday shoes!

footloose

LIVE IN TEXAS If you like the sound of living near the Trinity River, try this town that began as an Army outpost in 1849

fort worth

"F"OOD FOR THOUGHT It's basically a thin, sweet wafer that's folded around a small piece of paper

fortune cookie

2-DIGIT NUMBERS As in the title of a Judd Apatow comedy, "This is" the only 2-digit number whose letters are in alphabetical order

forty

YOU SHALL FIND "Paranormal Activity" is an example of this alliterative genre that implies everything you see was discovered

found footage

BOOK SERIES In 1966 this series that Isaac Asimov wasn't yet finished with won a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series

foundation

PARTS OF THE "HOLE" Camouflage, shovel, grenade trap

foxhole

STAGE NAME'S THE SAME 70s TV star John Sanford & "Beat Shazam" host Eric Bishop

foxx

AMERICAN HISTORY The U.S. got involved in Vietnam by helping this nation try to regain control of its former colony

france

SOMEONE LOSES AN I If explorer Drake dropped the "I" overboard, he would become these units of currency

francs

THIRSTY A white cord adorns bottles of this hazelnut liqueur whose name begins with the Italian for "brother"

frangelico

HOME SWEET HOME It was for department store owner Edgar Kaufmann & his wife that this architect designed Fallingwater

frank lloyd wright

MERCURY, VENUS OR MARS Singer who moved to England from his native Zanzibar in 1964

freddie mercury

THAT'S OXYMORONIC Stonewall Jackson is one of the best-known victims of this alliterative event

friendly fire

"F"OOD FOR THOUGHT Spanish for "beans", they are often served "refritos"

frijoles

THE BOOK OF PALMS One cover of this James Jones book depicts burning wreckage beyond some palms

from here to eternity

HOLIDAY SONGS This "jolly happy soul" with a corncob pipe was first brought to life in song by Gene Autry in 1950

frosty the snowman

NEW TO THE OED This 3-word term for a bullet with a hard casing, also a 1987 movie title

full metal jacket

SECURITY! No, pocketing 2 company pens does not call for a "full" this with your hands locked behind the offender's neck

full nelson

RHYMING PHRASES Try not to laugh at this, the output of a currency counterfeiter

funny money

ETYMOLOGY This adjective meaning angry may come from the name of 3 avenging goddesses of ancient myth

furious

ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS Soft down, or a slang term for the police

fuzz

CAMP DAVID In 2012 President Obama hosted a giant sleepover for this octet of world leaders

g8

20/20 AT 40 The words mad & unstable came up when Barbara Walters interviewed this Arab leader in 1989

gaddafi

SPEECH OF PARTS In 2017 this actress asked, "How can a woman fight in this?"

gal gadot

SPEAKING ITALIANS Bartlett's attributes "But it does move!" to this 16th century astronomer

galileo

FORBES WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN THE U.S. The only California family in the top 25 are these winemakers, No. 25 with $10.7 billion

gallo

IT WAS SO COLD... One of these pointed hat-wearing ceramic dwarves knocked on my door & asked to come in

garden gnome

NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS The novel "My Father's Illusions" is part of "The World According to" this John Irving character

garp

STAGE NAME'S THE SAME Tall comedian Brad Gerstenfeld & '70s teen idol Leif Per Nervik

garrett

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA This French word for "left" means clumsy or awkward to us

gauche

MAKES SENSE August 2017 marked 40 years for Leslie Charleson playing a doctor on this TV show

general hospital

OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS Novelist-artist Douglas Coupland popularized this term for the post-Baby Boom generation

generation x

AUTHORS AT WAR He fought & was wounded in the Spanish Civil War & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia"

george orwell

STATES BY COUNTIES Bibb, Cobb, Oglethorpe

georgia

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES Grand Rapids, Michigan

gerald ford

LITERARY SETTINGS "The Handmaid's Tale": The repressive Christian republic of this

gilead

SHARKS & JETS Most sharks have 5 pairs of these--those with 7 are among the oldest shark species in existence

gills

THIRSTY Tanqueray suggests this libation from a 1993 Snoop Dogg song should include orange & pineapple

gin and juice

JANE In 2001 Jane Swift of Massachusetts became the first U.S. governor to do this while in office

give birth

BROTHERS Finn & Kurt became stepbros on this TV show after their parents got hitched; at the wedding, the cast sang & sang

glee

YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING AGW is anthropogenic this phenomenon, meaning "caused by humans"

global warming

DIETS Elisabeth Hasselbeck wrote "The G-Free Diet", a survival guide to being free of this G

gluten

"G" STRING There are about 20 different varieties of this large, Australian monitor

goanna

REGULAR WORD & ACRONYM Regular: an athlete who cost his team a win; acronym: an athlete who will be forever honored

goat

THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS A female sponsor for a child at baptism

godmother

ARRIBA ARUBA! One tradition says Aruba's name comes from oro huba, Spanish for "there was" this (they hoped)

gold

HISTORY TIME Hurry up & name this westward movement sparked by an 1848 by James Marshall

gold rush

MONGOLIAN Daisy Ridley narrated the feel-good Mongolia movie of 2016, about a girl learning to hunt using this bird

golden eagle

NEW GAME VERSIONS In the Clue edition based on this sitcom, you need to find who ate the last piece of cheesecake--I suspect Rose!

golden girls

MAKES SENSE A man named Auric is the title villain in this 1964 James Bond film

goldmember

CAMP DAVID On or off the course, these vehicles are the main mode of transportation at Camp David

golf carts

TRANSPORTATION Not quite as romantic, public ferries called vaporetti have largely replaced these

gondolas

21st CENTURY FICTION The last chapter of this thriller is "Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Months, Two Weeks, Six Days After the Return"

gone girl

COLLEGE HOOPS This Spokane, Wa. Jesuit school made its first appearance in the NCAA final game in 2017, but came up a tad short

gonzaga

HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS This big ape sometimes joins the indigenous military to harass the enemy

gorilla

WRITERS & WRITING 1820's "Melmoth the Wanderer" by a great-uncle of Oscar Wilde was in this spooky genre of the Romantic novel

gothic

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS To favor or to adorn, like Ms. Slick did with her vocal presence for Jefferson Airplane

grace

MOVIES BY OSCARS 2013: Cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki & director Alfonso Cuaron

gravity

PENCIL IT IN AKA china marker, this waxy-tipped pencil is said to be what the Soviets used in space because ballpoints require gravity

grease pens

PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN Dating back to the 1600s B.C., this long fortification used smoke mounds to send military communications

great wall of china

"G" STRING A butcher may trim away this unpleasantly chewy part of meat

gristle

TOTALLY '80s WORDS! Whether to the max or not, this word for disgusting comes from "grotesque"

grody

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES With a masculine suffix, it's the male counterpart of bridesmaid

groomsman

MAMMAL PLANET The heart rate of this animal AKA a woodchuck decreases from 75 beats a minute to 4 during hibernation

groundhog

FINANCIAL GOBBLEDYGOOK CAGR, short for an investment's compound annual this rate, basically just averages what it did over time

growth

SCIENCE & NATURE Of DNA's 8 bases, this one was first discovered in animal dung, hence its name

guanine

TV WATERING HOLES As this "Next Generation" alien bartender, Whoopi Goldberg worked in the Ten-Forward Lounge

guinan

STATELY BODIES OF WATER Prince William Sound is a large inlet of this even larger inlet of the Pacific

gulf of alaska

TV WATERING HOLES Miss Kitty poured suds at the Long Branch Saloon on this long-running western

gunsmoke

BUILDING, ROMAN Everyone knows about this emperor's wall in Britain, but he also built a library in Athens

hadrian

GETTING POSSESSIVE In the 120s A.D. the Romans built this structure that extended from Solway Firth to the River Tyne

hadrians wall

KEEP IT DOWN In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", Garry Shandling whispers "hail" this to a conspirator

hail hydra

UNPLUGGED The Kérastase Hair Coach, a wireless this beauty item, can help Marcia Brady count to 100 maintaining her lustrous locks

hairbrush

EXILED! Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of this country, was ousted after a 2004 rebellion & spent years in South Africa

haiti

STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" Barely having enough money for food & basics is living this-to-this

hand to mouth

"HAND" IT OVER If you're a scratch golfer, this is zero

handicap

"HAND" IT OVER A balustrade

handrail

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS 2009: "Open" this

happiness

5, 5 A quiet beach or Grandma's kitchen might be this mental refuge in times of stress; find yours

happy place

AFRICAN LITERATURE Joseph Mbele's "Matengo Folktales" includes a story about one of these long-eared beasts outwitting a lion

hare

PUBLISHING After buying Harper & Row, Rupert Murdoch made another merger & turned it into this giant

harper collins

ON THE "GO" Colloquially, it's Spanish for "see you later"

hasta luego

TO THE SALT LAKE CITY In 1982 the Univ. of Utah Hospital was where the first permanent artificial this organ was implanted

heart

THERMODYNAMICS Thermodynamics originated around 1800 when it was noticed that work done generates a proportionate amount of this

heat

DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES The Blue Man is the first person Eddie hears from in Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet" here

heaven

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS "It Only Takes A Moment" & "Before The Parade Passes By"

hello dolly

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST Before they met, Fitzgerald read this writer's "In Our Time" & praised him as "the real thing"

hemingway

SCULPTURE Paul Cezanne's art such as "Large Bathers" featuring reclining nudes was a major influence on this British sculptor

henry moore

FAUX PAS An actress from Texas sued imdb.com for revealing this bit of information; social faux pas, imdb

her age

ONLY THE LONELY "The Lonely Bull" was the hit debut for this man & his band

herb alpert

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! Kings of Sparta traced their descent from this mythic strongman considered by them the greatest warrior of all time

hercules

THE SPANISH INQUISITION The Inquisition was formed in Spain to combat this 6-letter type of thought at odds with orthodox doctrine

heresy

NON-AMERICAN GODS Getting busy literally on day one, as an infant this Greek messenger of the gods stole his bro Apollo's cattle

hermes

20/20 AT 40 Some stories we bring you are particularly troubling; in 2016 I reported on a growing epidemic in America, the rise in use of this illegal & deadly opioid, the majority of users having started with prescription pain medications

heroin

GHOSTING "The Haunting of" this title residence includes inexplicable noises & doors that shut by themselves

hill house

GET "INN" HERE Bred from a male horse & a female donkey, it's smaller and has smaller ears than a mule

hinny

I SING THE BODY It's the truth that Shakira had one of the biggest hits of summer 2006 with this No. 1 song

hips dont lie

POLICE YOUR AREA 4-letter word for the area a cop regularly covers

his beat

SPORTS RECORD HOLDERS Don Baylor took 267 for the team to set the A.L. mark for HBP, this

hit by pitch

MONSTER MASH Ralph Waldo Emerson called "a foolish consistency" this monster "of little minds"

hobgoblin

A 1- THROUGH 5-STAR RATING A deal made by Conn Smythe led to this sport's "three stars" of each game, sponsored by Three-Star gasoline

hockey

I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU You turn your nose up at this sport that gives Calder & Lady Byng trophies, so thanks, but no thanks

hockey

PENINSULAS Oshima Peninsula is the southernmost part of this northernmost of Japan's 4 main islands

hokkaido

CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN Bing Crosby introduced the timeless song "White Christmas" in this 1942 film about a hotel in the country

holiday inn

THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST Delftware & wooden shoes are made in the DeKlomp factory in this Michigan town

holland

WORDS FROM THE GREEK This adjective meaning having the same property throughout is from the Greek for "of the same kind"

homogenous

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR The Prelude, 1978 to 2001

honda

EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY 1842's Treaty of Nanjing gave the U.K. control of this island, which had a lot fewer people than its 7.3 million today

hong kong

BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER The book of Matthew says, "A prophet is not without" this, "save in his own country"

honor

"H"2"O" It's what Granny's making in her still

hooch

NONSENSE & STUFF I say "phooey!" to this word for nonsense that rhymes with phooey

hooey

"H"2"O" Being a truant involves "playing" this

hooky

"H"2"O" Football firm is a term for a group of these British ne'er-do-wells

hooligans

BILDUNGSROMAN In 1867 he published a novel about "Ragged Dick", who isn't so ragged by book's end

horatio alger

GIRAFFES What we think of as these on giraffes are technically ossicones covered with skin

horns

TV NICKNAMES On "Bonanza", Ben Cartwright was father to Adam, Little Joe & this big fella

hoss

LIVE IN TEXAS Baytown & Sugar Land are in the metro area of this big city

houston

HANDY ADVICE Paraffin wax on the hinges

how do you fix a squeaky door

MUMMY DEAREST He discovered the grandmummy of them all & soon wrote a book called "The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen"

howard carter

LITERATURE This Allen Ginsberg poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

howl

NEW GAME VERSIONS You wouldn't like this hero when he's angry, so be careful pulling things out of him in Operation--his eyes glow green

hulk

DOUBLE TALK He has a thing for Lolita

humbert humbert

STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" We have a feeling you might know that Merv Griffin once hosted a game show called "Play Your" this

hunch

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS The double white cross on its coat of arms represents Stephen I, the country's first king

hungary

IN THE DICTIONARY Helen & Gregory, or the inexpert method demonstrated here

hunt and peck

STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" Grown from bulbs, this colorful spring flower was named for a youth Apollo loved

hyacinth

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS According to Oxford, the superscript dot is the term for the mark that goes over these 2 letters

i and j

PAINTERS ON FILM Lili Taylor played a militant feminist who commits the title crime against a popular pop artist in this film

i shot andy warhol

YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR Gloria Gaynor called her autobiography this, also the name of her signature song

i will survive

"I" LOVE OPERA This role in "Otello" is a baritone

iago

ANNUAL EVENTS One of the top professional rodeos in the U.S. is the annual Snake River Stampede in Nampa in this state

idaho

COLD PLACES In Pocatello in this state, the average low temp in January is a not-so-sweet 16

idaho

MADE IN THE USA Named for a type of dwelling found much farther north, these coolers are made in Katy, Texas

igloo

BLANK "UM" The ancient city of Troy was also known by this Latin name, similar to a Homer title

ilium

TOTALLY '80s WORDS! In 1986 Run-DMC & the Beastie Boys were using this sick adjective as a verb for "to behave badly"

ill

STATELY BODIES OF WATER This river is formed by the junction of the Des Plaines & Kankakee Rivers

illinois river

CONGRESSIONAL POWERS Congress has the power to subpoena, hold a witness in contempt & grant this freedom from prosecution

immunity

"IM" THE LAW If you do it to a witness, you attack his credibility; Congress can also do it to a president

impeach

3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS This word for impulsive behavior also begins with "imp"

impetuous

"IM" THE LAW The court might do this, take your stuff as evidence; hopefully, you'll get it back after the trial

impound

CONTRONYMS Used of a fortress, it means no attacker can get in; used of a female's egg, it means something can get in

impregnable

14-LETTER WORDS You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced

impressionable

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA Lurz, an Old German word for "left", led to this phrase for being stuck in a difficult situation

in the lurch

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES "Kipling Sahib" details the author's birth in this country, being sent to England, hating it there & going back

india

CHANGING CHANGE If you keep 25-paise coins from this country on your nightstand, you are out of luck--they were demonetized in 2011

india

YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING IPA, to a bartender

india pale ale

MADE IN THE USA The RV Museum & Hall of Fame is in Elkhart in this state; half the RVs on the road today were made in the surrounding area

indiana

STATES BY LAKES Tippecanoe Lake, Cagles Mill Lake

indiana

IN THE JUNGLE A rainforest recently explored in this 4th-most populous country revealed new & unknown species of kangaroos

indonesia

THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING "I" know this 7-letter verb means to be permissive with a child's whim

indulge

ASIAN RIVERS This river's most notable tributaries, including the Ravi & Sutlej, are located in the Punjab plain

indus

MEDICAL HISTORY Now heart disease & cancer are the most common ways to die; in 1900 it was pneumonia or this malady ending in "A"

influenza

PICK A POPE Was guilty of excommunicating the heretic Pelagius

innocent

I SING THE BODY "Look but don't make your eyes strain", raps Cypress Hill in a Top 20 tune about going this

insane in the brain

"INSTA"! Now common, this TV sports innovation was first used in the 1963 Army-Navy college football game

instant replay

"INSTA"! It's the ceremonial process of placing a new official in a job

instating (or installation)

"I" LOVE OPERA This Italian synonym for interlude is the name of an opera Strauss based on his own life

intermezzo

WRITERS & WRITING Paula Hawkins' follow-up to "The Girl on the Train", it concerns a creepy "drowning pool"

into the water

HALLS OF FAME Samuel Morse, Elisha Otis

inventors

ALL "IZE" ON YOU Endemic goiter is reduced when you do this to salt

iodize

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state

iowa

SOMEONE LOSES AN I It wouldn't be so bad if lyricist Gershwin lost his "I"--it would make him this Egyptian god

ira

STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY In 1980 Secretary Cyrus Vance resigned over the decision to order an ultimately failed military op in this country

iran

AROUND THE WORLD The city of Kirkuk is a center of this country's oil industry

iraq

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS Adopted in 1921, Canada's coat of arms bears the symbols of four of its founding nations--three lions for England, one lion for Scotland, the fleur-de-lis for France & the harp of Tara for this country

ireland

THAT ISLAND IS OURS! Clare Island (an island country itself)

ireland

THE ELEMENT NAMED FOR... The rainbow

iridium

THE EYE Unlike retinal scans, biometrics using this eye part take 2 seconds and show more than 200 unique characteristics, about 6 times more than fingerprints

iris

RECORD LABELS This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling

island records

"I" LOVE OPERA Here are the leads in the original 1865 production of a Wagner opera; I believe the line is, "Me, Tristan, you" her

isolde

THE "IS" STORM This adjective is from the Greek for "equal-legged"

isosceles

BEFORE THE EURO Seen here is an example of the former currency of this European nation

italy

THAT ISLAND IS OURS! Elba

italy

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS 1969: These 4 words, also heard in a jingle

its the real thing

"I" LOVE OPERA Sir Arthur Sullivan composed operettas like "Iolanthe" but only one grand opera, this one based on a Walter Scott book

ivanhoe

UNTOLD TV STORIES When it was decided not to kill off this "Lost" doc in the pilot, Michael Keaton bowed out & Matthew Fox took over

jack

"JACK" The personification of icy cold

jack frost

VINYL RESTING PLACE A recent vinyl resurgence has been aided by this musician, who built a pressing plant in his Detroit hometown

jack white

FRENCH HISTORY The Jacobites were Scottish; this similar-sounding group were extremists during the French Revolution

jacobins

19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS A turnkey was a person who worked here

jail

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia"

james ellroy

JANUARY Every year on this date U.S. Christians celebrate Epiphany, a holy day commemorating the arrival of the 3 wise men

jan 6th

JANE In 1915, this Chicago social reformer organized the Woman's Peace Party and became president of the International Congress of Women

jane addams

JANE Her books like "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" argued for local planning & vibrant neighborhoods

jane jacobs

COOKBOOKS Part cookbook, part travel guide, "Rice, Noodle, Fish" is Matt Goulding's experience of the food culture of this country

japan

FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD Akie Abe is the First Lady of this country

japan

THE MEH DECADE Though some, like Michael Crichton, raised fears of its economic might, the 1990s were stagnant in this Asian country

japan

THE BUSINESS OF CELEBRITY "4:44", the 2017 album by this rapper, debuted exclusively on the Tidal music service also owned by this rapper

jayz

NEW GAME VERSIONS Mario needs to climb the blocks in the Donkey Kong edition of this precarious game

jenga

A WOOLLY CATEGORY This term for an athletic shirt originally meant fabric made from the wool of that island

jersey

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS "Dawn (Go Away)" & "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)"

jersey boys

IOWA HISTORY In 1873 near Adair, Iowa, this outlaw & his gang hit the Rock Island line in the "first train robbery in the West"

jesse james

THE SPANISH INQUISITION In 1478 Sixtus IV named inquisitors to deal with Marranos, people who were formerly of this faith

jewish

FEARLESS GIRL Mark Twain said his favorite book of all those he had written was his fictional biography of this French lass

joan of arc

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS This comedian has 2 quotes in Bartlett's, both catchphrases: "Can we talk?" & "Who knew?"

joan rivers

6-LETTER WORDS Profession of George Woolf, sadly killed in a fall at Santa Anita

jockey

ON BOXING DAY The 1946 rematch of this "Brown Bomber" & Billy Conn was the first world heavyweight title fight available on TV

joe louis

POP CULTURE VILLAINS As Victor Kiriakis on "Days of Our Lives", this father of a TV star has put in 30-plus years of all kinds of villainy

john aniston

OREGON Around 1836 Washington Irving wrote a history of this man's successful fur trading business in Oregon

john jacob astor

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Samuel Eliot Morison won a 1960 Pulitzer for his bio of this reformed slaver & 18th c. American naval hero

john paul jones

POPCORN In 1914 America got its first commercial popcorn brand, this one with an upbeat name

jolly time

OLD TESTAMENT TRANSPORTATION This prophet gets no refund when he's thrown overboard while trying to flee to Tarshish by ship

jonah

EARLY AMERICA His sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" helped fire the 18th century's Great Awakening religious movement

jonathan edwards

SERIAL KILLERS Mistah Kurtz--he dead; in the April 1899 issue of Balckwood's Magazine thanks to this author

joseph conrad

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS To banter in a good-natured way, like Mr. Gad in a film comedy

josh

TREES In 2017 U2 celebrated the 30th anniversary of its album named for this plant by playing all of its songs on tour

joshua tree

ANATOMY? ANATO-YOU! The internal these veins help bring blood from the vein to the heart

jugular veins

CEREMONIES In an African-American wedding tradition, the bride & groom do this to symbolically sweep away the past

jump the broom

POTPOURRI 1970s TV writer Fred Fox Jr. asks about this phrase, "Then why did the show stay on the air for six more seasons?"

jumping the shark

ASIAN CULTURE After women were banned from performing in 1629, men took over in this traditional Japanese dance drama

kabuki

HODGEPODGE There's a word for a Central European monarch in the name of this type of roll

kaiser

4-LETTER WORDS Darn! None of my numbers came up in this game

keno

STATE OF THE COLLEGE Transylvania University, Murray State

kentucky

POPCORN This product from Orville Redenbacher's is "a little sweet, a little salty--and a whole lot of yummy"

kettle corn

DROP THE MIC From the start of a doctored drink to get this opener

key (For mickey)

SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES Robinson is the last name of this R&B singer with the 2017 hit "Location"

khalid

ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES In 18th century Scotland, David Balfour seeks the return of his stolen inheritance

kidnapped

BAND STANDS Run the Jewels, featuring El-P and this Atlanta activist, teamed with the New York Times for a Top 10 list of protest songs

killer mike

FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD In 2012 this man's wife was listed as comrade Ri Sol Ju, but that is thought to be a made-up name

kim jong un

SCIENCE VOCABULARY This adjective from the Greek for "moving" describes the mechanical energy of an object due to motion

kinetic

SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER Doctor, Duke of Cornwall, Goneril

king lear

"K"9 A person who has the power to influence the selection of someone for higher office

kingmaker

BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER A male servant; the word has been used to mean a rascal since around 1200

knave

BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER These breeches named for a body part were all the rage in late 18th-century men's fashion

knee breeches

MOZART This scholar put together the most complete catalog of Mozart's work in chronological order, the source of the K. numbers

kochel

SHARKS & JETS The first aerial victories for American military jets came during this war

korean war

ONLY "U" Introduced from Asia, this vine used to control erosion in the 1930s is now a menace in the southern U.S.

kudzu

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! The New Horizons probe, part of NASA's New Frontiers program, investigated this belt of dwarf planets that includes Pluto at the edge of the solar system

kuiper

THE CITRUS BOWL The bite-sized Nagami & Meiwa

kumquat

ON BOXING DAY In 1966 Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies, gave the world this celebration

kwanzaa

FAUX PAS Time magazine published a 2009 article about why it's uncouth to wear white after this holiday

labor day

SPOT CHECK This Shakespeare character cries, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

lady macbeth

THE 300+ U.S. Route 322 traverses New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Ohio, from the Atlantic Ocean to this lake

lake eerie

DOWN HOME TALK Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good

land office

A WOOLLY CATEGORY Many moisturizers contain this fatty substance extracted from sheep wool

lanolin

MAPPING OUT ASIA One of the lands that lock in this landlocked country is Myanmar, to its west

laos

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN Mr. C is flying down I-15 to a 5,000-room hotel in this seat of Clark County, 'cause Santa's feelin' lucky!

las vegas

BOOK SERIES "Kingdom Come: The Final Victory" is the 16th & final novel in this religious series about the rapture

left behind

THE CITRUS BOWL Eureka & Meyer

lemon

BOOK SERIES When it comes to his "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books, Daniel Handler is better known by this pen name

lemony snicket

NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS John Cleese is "absurdly fond" of these Madagascar animals, works to conserve them & got one named for him

lemurs

HELP! TV POLICE! As Frank on "Police Squad", he said to a grieving widow, "We would've come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then"

leslie nielson

EXILED! The man holding this title has said that the 15th & next to hold it could be discovered in exile

leviathan

MONSTER MASH The artwork here depicts Behemoth & this aquatic monster also mentioned in the Bible

leviathan

"L" ON THE MAP Henry Clay & Citation are buried in this city

lexington

MOVIE SPOILERS Attorney Ransom Stoddard wasn't "The Man Who Shot" this Lee Marvin villain--it was John Wayne's Tom Doniphon

liberty valanace

THE MEDITERRANEAN The ancient region of Tripolitania forms the northwest part of this modern Mediterranean country

libya

"LIGHT" MUSIC In a song title The Doors wanted you to do this

light my fire

RECENT KIDS' BOOKS In the fantasy world of "Red Queen", a young peasant woman discovers she has the power to wield this, like Zeus

lightning

MOTOWN LYRICS "Could it be the devil in me or is this the way love's supposed to be? It's like" one of these

like a heat wave

I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY Phew! As a boy on the Indiana frontier, this president was kicked unconscious by a horse but survived

lincoln

WORLD CAPITALS Its monument to the discoveries on the Tagus depicts several explorers with Henry the Navigator leading the way

lisbon

FEARLESS GIRL Marlee & Liz are 12-year-old girls whose 1950s friendship helps fight segregation in "The Lions of" this state capital

little rock

WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS Absolutely furious!

livid

RECENT KIDS' BOOKS In Anna Dewdney's last book about the quadruped with this double name, he visits his gram and grandpa

llama llama

"L" ON THE MAP It's Italy's most populous region & a center of both agriculture and industry

lombardy

WHERE & WHEN The building of the white tower begins around 1078: the city

london

4 O's Hyphenated term for one who lingers at the scene of an accident

lookie-loo

THE BOOK OF PALMS Boys in this William Golding novel create a "rude shelter" of "palm trunks and leaves"

lord of the flies

GHOSTING The ghosts that live in the paths of the dead in this series must never rest until they fulfill their oath made to Isildur

lord of the rings

FEAR FACTOR The grouping of holes on the seed pod of this sacred water plant, can break out those with trypophobia, the fear of holes

lotus

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF In 1986 the beignet became the official doughnut of this state

louisiana

"L" ON THE MAP Muhammad Ali & Hunter S. Thompson were born in this city

louisville

____ING ON POETRY "And, if God choose, I shall but ____ thee better after death"

love

MAKES SENSE Mr. O'Neal of NBA fame went on "Lip Sync Battle" & chose this B-52s song

love shack

THE TV DEVIL This Fox show claims it is about "the original fallen angel"

lucifer

HANDY ADVICE Use a torque wrench & tighten in an alternating pattern when reinstalling these after changing a tire

lug nut

ON THE "GO" Ow, my aching back! Or, medically, this

lumbago

"JACK" The sport of birling developed in the camps of these people

lumberjacks

THE FLOOR IS LAVA Mount Pinatubo on this island of the Philippines

luzon

BUGS MEANIE This tick-borne disease named for a Connecticut town can include M.S.-like symptoms & terrible arthritis

lyme disease

HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS When this cool cat is out of dough, he becomes different parts of a chain

lynx

ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF I've done interviews about the craft of acting with giants from George Clooney to Stacy Keach; I fed Stacy the line "The queen, my lord, is dead" & he recited a speech from this tragedy

macbeth

SECURITY! When you told Eric to bring this to work, I think you meant a deterrent spray, not a spiked club

mace

14-LETTER WORDS The Great Depression gave rise to this, the study of income & output on a national scale

mactoeconomics

AFRICAN ISLANDS The protected southwest remains mostly arid from January to March, when monsoons typically hit the east and northeast of this nation

madagascar

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES "Father of the Bill of Rights"

madison

OF "ORDER" A Postal Museum article on these women says that the term "correspondence courtship" was also used

mail order brides

DOCUMENTS All about lumber, the Aroostook War between New Brunswick & this state was settled by 1842's Webster-Ashburton treaty

maine

STATE BY COUNTIES Where's Waldo? & Androscoggin & Kennebec, too!

maine

RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN A 96-mph-throwing Cleveland Indian had to work on his control "before he kills somebody" in this 1989 movie

major league

CARD GAMES Recently celebrating its 50th anniversary, Skip-Bo is a variation of the card game known as Spite & this

malice

AROUND THE WORLD Oddly, the national dog of this Mediterranean island nation is the pharaoh hound & not the toy breed that's named for it

malta

WORLD CAPITALS Valletta, this island country's capital, was planned as a refuge for injured soldiers & pilgrims in the Crusades

malta

PAINT MISS, BEHAVING 1929's "The Woman and the Roses" has one of the floating females of this Belorussian-born painter who settled in France

marc chagall

OF "ORDER" Whether in cadence or not, if you are "given" these military documents, it means "get lost!"

marching orders

THEIR CONCERT TOUR "Sweet Sweet Fantasy"; "Adventures of Mimi"

mariah carey

GHOSTING Stave 1 of "A Christmas Carol" is called his "Ghost"

marley

WORLD THEATER About 220 years before Goethe's came this English playwright's version of the Faust legend

marlowe

PICK A PLANET It rotates on its axis every 24 hours, 37 minutes

mars

THE 19th CENTURY Tradition said the Liberty Bell cracked when it tolled in 1835 for this chief justice's funeral

marshall

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES Kinderhook, New York

martin van buren

DOUBLE TALK Polka-dot jacket, pants, shirt & tie? It's this type of fashion folly

matchy-matchy

PLACE "MAT"S John Sayles titled a movie about a violent labor dispute after this coal-mining town

matewan

FOE PA In this Roald Dahl book, Mr. Wormwood calls his daughter "a cheat and a liar"

matilda

PLACE "MAT"S The name of this state of central Brazil is Portuguese for "thick forest"

mato grosso

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir

maya angelou

TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR People must have gotten a shock when this town and its folks like Barney went from black & white to color

mayberry

ASIAN RIVERS 15 million Vietnamese live in this river's delta

mekong

COOKBOOKS For her fans, this actress wrote "My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food From My Little House to Yours"

melissa gilbert

SOUP Tripe and calf's feet go into this spicy Mexican soup that shares its name with Ricky Martin's former band

menudo

PICK A PLANET In ancient Greece it was called Apollo

mercury

SPEECH OF PARTS "Details of your incompetence do not interest me. Tell Simone I'm not going to approve that girl...for the Brazilian layout"

meryl streep

POE FOLKS Tiny "Hop-Frog" is one of these royal amusers who gets revenge upon an abusive king & his court by setting them all on fire

mesmerism

BARBECUE This shrub produces an aromatic wood used in Texas barbeque, like in the Dallas suburb of the same name

mesquite

TEAM MASCOTS In 2017 this New York team found a new "Mr." after the old one made a colorful gesture to a fan

mets

FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD "Destilando Amor" & "Huracán" are telenovelas featuring Angélica Rivera de Peña, First Lady of this country

mexico

WHERE & WHEN The 1847 Battle of Buena Vista: the country

mexico

STATE FLAGS On its flag, an elk & a moose stand beside a shield depicting a lake & a peninsula

michigan

STATES BY LAKES Lake Cadillac, Lac Vieux Desert

michigan

A TRIP TO ITALY 2.8 million Romans make Rome Italy's most populous city; this northern city is second with about 1.4 million

milan

DOCUMENTS 313's edict of this Italian city granted religious freedom to Christians throughout the Roman Empire

milan

A TRIANGLE SCHEME Longfellow detailed a love triangle between Priscilla Mullins, John Alden & this guy in "The Courtship of" him

miles standish

WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS A paper factory

mill

WEIGHTS & MEASURES Pharmacists know that a grain equals about 65 of these, a more typical unit for pill doses

milligram

WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS To imitate playfully

mimic

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE From Rod Serling's opening: "You're traveling through another dimension...not only of sight & sound, but of" this

mind

-ISMS & -OLOGIES Steve Reich is a leader in this music style marked by simple & austere compositions

minimalism

BRITISH CABINETRY The modern British cabinet contains 15-25 people with this religious-sounding title

minister

MADE IN THE USA Duluth Pack "has continuously handcrafted hunting, shooting and outdoor gear" in this state since 1882

minnesota

EXODUS The painting showing the celebrations after the crossing from Egypt is titled "The Song of" this sister of Moses

miriam

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN On I-59 out of Hattiesburg, Santa's confused! Route 15 goes from Louisville to Philadelphia all within this state?!

mississippi

STATES BY LAKES Mark Twain Lake, Blind Pony Lake

missouri

STATE SEALS Nebraska's state seal has a steamboat on this river with the Rocky Mountains in view

missouri river

MICROBIOTA Demodex folliculorum is one of these tiny parasitic arachnids that live on you in or near your hair follicles

mites

HALLS OF FAME Electronic music and animal rights are among the passions of Richard Melville Hall, better known as this

moby

LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS Reviews at the time said this novel wasn't "a treatise on cetology" but "the plot is meagre beyond comparison"

moby dick

"M"MMM! "M"mm good flavors of Dreyer's ice cream include mint chocolate chip & this almond fudge

mocha

MIND YOUR GRAMMAR "We saw the Grand Canyon flying over the USA" contains a misplaced one of these

modifier

"M"MMM! This sweet yeast bread is made by arranging small clumps of dough in a pan

monkey bread

LOGAN Located on the Continental Divide, Logan Pass is a real high point of this state's Glacier National Park

montana

SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt & John Legend...no, I'm sorry! I mean Naomie Harris, Patrick Decile & Andre Holland!

moonlight

"MORE" THAN A CATEGORY Martin Luther King Jr. attended this historically black college in Atlanta

morehouse

DETECTIVE FICTION "You incommoded me" is one of the sinister utterances of this Sherlock Holmes archfoe

moriarty

ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF I was NPR's first journalist based overseas, sent to London in 1979 not for "All Things Considered" but to prepare for the launch of this show at the other end of the day

morning edition

FLAGS Not the Star of David, but a pentagram associated with King Solomon is on the flag of this north African monarchy

morocco

THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS Nacre

mother of pearl

SCIENCE STUFF Lepidoptera is the order of insects that includes skippers & these 2 familiar groups

moths and butterflies

PAINTERS ON FILM This 1952 study of Toulouse-Lautrec bears the name of the burlesque hall where he spent a lot of time

moulin rouge

MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE The name of this Oregon mountain honors a British admiral

mount hood

A DEDICATED COMPOSER In 1785 he dedicated a set of 6 string quartets to the much older Joseph Haydn

mozart

TV NICKNAMES On "Sex and the City", Chris Noth played Carrie's elusive flame known as this

mr big

SERIAL KILLERS Stephen King senselessly snuffed out this mouse in part 3 of "The Green Mile"... he'd be back

mr jingles

FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD In 2017 Zimbabwe's controversial First Lady said this nonagenarian husband of hers could run again even after he dies

mugabe

POTPOURRI This alliterative quality is the reason that, as they say, once you learn to ride a bike, you'll never forget

muscle memory

A CLUE OF GAME In Romania, this classic kids game with songs is called "Birdie, Move Your Nest"

musical chairs

WET SCIENCE The zebra type of this mollusk is so successful at filtering the Great Lakes, water clarity is causing algae blooms

mussel

6-LETTER WORDS The mouth of a gun, or the mouth & nose of a dog

muzzle

A GOOD BOOK Karl Ove Knausgaard's 6-volume autobiographical novel is "Min Kamp" in Norwegian, this in English

my struggle

EARLY AMERICA After he died in 1656, Josiah Winslow succeeded him as the commander of Plymouth Colony's military forces

myles standish

MAIN STREAM MEDIA This 2001 Dennis LeHane mystery centers on the effects of a killing in a blue-collar Boston neighborhood

mystic river

SOMEONE LOSES AN I If gymnast Comaneci forgot the "I" in her first name, she would be nothing--this word for nothing

nada

WORLD CAPITALS Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident Nov. 24, 1982 in this city

nairobi

AIRPORT CODES Oh my God! The OMG belongs to Omega Airport in the Kavango region of this African nation

namibia

AIRPORT CODES When Bill the Cat says, "ACK!" , he may mean the airport on this Massachusetts island

nantucket

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS In 1798 he told his men, "From the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you"

napolean

THE AGE OF TREASON In 1815 France's monarchy shot Gen. Michel Ney for serving this man who called him "bravest of the brave"

napolean

CURRENT EVENTS A spike in overdoses has made this drug a common lifesaver as it reverses the effects of opiods

narcan

YOU SHALL FIND Some of the best photography in the last 120-plus years can be found at this magazine's "Found" Tumblr site

national geographic

GOOD CAUSES Here's the logo of the NRDC, this Defense Council

natural resources

WEIGHTS & MEASURES Ahoy! it's equal to 6,076.11549 feet

nautical mile

TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE Diné Bizaad

navajo

NAME THAT WORLD LEADER India: Teaching & leading from 1947 to 1964

nehru

GDANSK Legend says this Roman god, a symbol of Gdansk's ties to the sea, was angered by coins in his fountain, so he lashed out, and shards from the coins are now part of the local beverage Goldwasser

neptune

PICK A PLANET It was discovered in 1846

neptune

MIND YOUR GRAMMAR Nouns not masculine or feminine are termed this gender

neuter

STATE BY COUNTIES We dig Mineral, Elko & Clark & bet you do, as well

nevada

RECENT TV EPISODES "Bob & Carol & Nick & Schmidt" & "Jeff Day"

new girl

MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE The presidential range in the White Mountains, mainly in this state, has peaks named for Washington, Jefferson & Adams

new hampshire

REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE In 1884, 14 years after Robert E. Lee died, this city put up his statue; to Mayor Landrieu's approval, it was removed in 2017

new orleans

STATES BY LAKES Seneca Lake, Keuka Lake

new york

MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE Aoraki is another name for Mount Cook on this country's South Island

new zealand

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront

new zealand

EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY This northeastern English town "Upon Tyne" gave its name to a famous brown ale

newcastle

MILLENNIALS A European first, Leif Ericson may have landed around 1000 A.D. at L'Anse aux Meadows on this Canadian island

newfoundland

DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES The spirits of Heisenberg & this Danish mentor remember the A-bomb in the play "Copenhagen"

niels bohr

SHOES This shoe brand that expanded into handbags & other accessories was named for its original address on 57th St. in NYC

nine west

ANGELS IN AMERICA In 1973 this Angel fanned Rich Reese for this 383rd strikeout of the season, still the modern record

nolan ryan

MONGOLIAN The traditional life of pastoral these wanderers herding flocks is losing out as thousands move to cities

nomads

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN Santa hops on Route 12 to hit Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head & perhaps to enjoy a night in Rodanthe in this state

north carolina

EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY The Rhine River makes its way to this sea

north sea

CLICHES MADE FANCY "Insufficient space for twirling one expired feline"

not enough room to swing a (dead) cat

RUSSIA "N" Soviet foreign minister Molotov was famous for heavy use of this 1-syllable Russian word

nyet

COME UP TO THE LAB This national laboratory in Tennessee is the Dept. of Energy's largest & a world leader in nuclear energy research

oak ridge

BILDUNGSROMAN Philip grows up in this novel by W. Somerset Maugham & the "Bondage" is his passion for a not very nice waitress

of human bondage

STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS George, a farm laborer & Curley, son of a ranch owner

of mice and men

AIRPORT CODES Don't get confused by this airport's ORD abbreviation--it stands for the previous one, Orchard Field

ohare

STATE SEALS Each ray of the large star on its state seal has an emblem of one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

oklahoma

SILVER & GOLD At the first Olympics in 1896, winners received a silver medal & this natural symbol of peace

olive branch

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE Before Popeye, she had a boyfriend named Ham Gravy

olive oyl

4 O's This Spanish sherry is "O" so good

oloroso

HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH "O" my, said viewers at the Salon of 1865 on seeing this very un-romanticized nude by Manet

olympia

MOUNTAINS In 1938 Greece created its first national park around this famed peak

olympus

A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN The "O" in Adelaide's track-guided O-Bahn Busway came from this word

omnibus

IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD In the U.S. someone frantic has his hair in this state; in China the same thing happens to the eyebrows

on fire

THEY'RE IN THE BAND Zach Filkins & Ryan Tedder met in Colorado & play in this band

one republic

THAT'S OXYMORONIC Like my love affair with Vanna, it's a supposedly hidden fact that everyone really knows about

open secret

ANNUAL EVENTS A Santa Barbara show devoted to this flower presents several awards including Grand Champion Cymbidium of Show

orchid

THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER Getting to live in Hawaii, like a Vanda sanderiana one of these

orchid

STATE OF THE COLLEGE Reed College, Lewis & Clark College

oregan

MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN The title character of this 1928 Virginia Woolf novel is male in the beginning, but that doesn't last...

orlando

DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES The Stage Manager says, "Doc Gibbs died in 1930", but a minute later the doc is chatting away in this play

our town

CAMPBELLS Colum Ban Campbell MacKenzie is laird of Castle Leoch, where Claire Randall ends up living in 1743 in this 1991 novel

outlander

LITERARY CHARACTERS At the beginning of Fredrik Backman's "A Man Called" this, we learn that he's 59, drives a Saab & also points at people

ove

SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES A variety show on this HBO prison series found one inmate covering "I Wanna Be Free" by the Monkees

oz

WEIGHTS & MEASURES Also used to measure off the distance between duelists, as a unit of measure it equals 30 inches

pace

SPEAKING ITALIANS This 19th century virtuoso: "When women hear me play (the violin), they come crawling to my feet"

paganini

CAPITALS IN OCEANIA Only about 3,700 people live in this capital capital of American Samoa Samoa

pago pago

HISTORY TIME The ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro lies on the Indus River in what's now this country

pakistan

'TIS THE SEASON Frank Sinatra Dr., Gerald Ford Dr. & Dinah Shore Dr. are a short drive from the airport of this California resort city

palm springs

DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS An incompetent prizefighter, or boxer Joe of comic strip fame who hung up his gloves in 1984

palooka

REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE John J. Pershing's foray into Mexico didn't get this rebel general, but a hail of gunfire a few years later in 1923 did the trick

pancho villa

LITERARY SETTINGS "The Hunger Games": This country with 12 districts

panem

CAPITALS IN OCEANIA This capital of French Polynesia has over half the population of the island of Tahiti

papeete

MISCELLANY Traditionally, a first year wedding anniversary gift is either a clock or something made of this

paper

COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE For job hunters: "What Color is Your ____?"

parachute

THE BEST VOCABULARY This "P" word can mean an example of excellence--like one "of virtue"

paragon

ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY "The act...of officially nullifying punishment or other legal consequences of a crime"

pardon

TIME FOR SECONDS In 1900 it became the second city to host the modern Olympics & the first games with female competitors

paris

GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD This name for a legislature comes from a word meaning discussion & was first used for after-dinner talks of monks

parliament

THAT'S OXYMORONIC Nonviolent activism for political change, it's AKA civil disobedience

passive resistance

STAGE NAME'S THE SAME Guitar whiz Lester Polfuss & (acting) meth whiz Aaron Sturtevant

paul

LINE CRAFT This man from Bern said, "Drawing is like taking a line for a walk", and here's one of his strolls

paul klee

WHOSE ALBUM? She had 4 No. 1 hits from "Forever Your Girl"

paula abdul

UNREAL MINISTRIES In "1984" war is handled in Oceania by Minipax, the ministry of this

peace

FOSSIL FUELS Fossil fuels include not only oil and coal, but also this partially carbonized moss found in bogs

peat

OF "ORDER" Originally observed in hens, it's the social hierarchy in animal groups

pecking order

CONTRONYMS A person of equal legal status, or a person of higher social status

peer

PENCIL IT IN Pencils have been around for centuries, but this aid wasn't patented until 1828, using "metal files set at 90°"

pencil sharpener

STATES BY COUNTIES Franklin, Allegheny, Lackawanna

pennsylvania

THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER Being one of these long-lived types that survive from season to season, like some species of aster

perennial

A GOOD BOOK Though written in German, a 1980s bestseller about a man with an incredible nose isn't called "Cologne" but this

perfume

THE HUMAN BODY The heart comes in its own pouch--this membranous sac

pericardium

SECURITY! The intruder wouldn't stop & now we have a breach of this, also a geometry term for a boundary line

perimeter

TYPES OF MOVIES This alliterative term can refer to any type of olden furniture as well as a movie set in olden times

period piece

BYE, PHOENICIA! ailing for this empire at the Battle of Salamis, Phoenician ships fared poorly & there was many a beheading

persian empire

LINE CRAFT Parallel lines in a painting converge in a single vanishing point in the system known as linear this

perspective

DOC TALK This other name for whooping cough is from the Latin for "coughing"

pertussis

BLANK "UM" It's what the "P" stands for in OPEC

petroleum

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! In war Spartan soldiers called hoplites used this closely linked formation, from the Greek for "line of battle"

phalanx

PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN Smoke used to calm bees prevents the alarm type of this chemical secretion from alarming others in the hive

phermones

THEIR CONCERT TOUR "No Jacket Required"; "Not Dead Yet"

phil collins

OLD TESTAMENT TRANSPORTATION In 1 Samuel, these "uneducated" enemies return the ark of the covenant to the Hebrews on a cart pulled by cattle

philistines

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD This portrait is one of many Velazquez did of the fourth Spanish king of this name

phillip

ROSE Rose of Lima is not only the patron saint of Latin America but of this Asian island nation as well

phillipines

4 O's 2-word term for where to go in the mall to get a strip of memories of the day

photo booth

6-LETTER WORDS It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's

piazza

WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES Accepting on behalf of the photo-sharing website Flickr: these "or it didn't happen"

pics

AROUND THE PACIFIC The flag of Norfolk Island features the Norfolk this, a conifer that's native to the island

pine

WHOSE ALBUM? Her "Beautiful Trauma" recently debuted at No. 1

pink

THINK PINK Syd Barrett was the founder & namer of this psychedelic British rock band

pink floyd

MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS Guests of this group whose name is a colorful cocktail include the von Trapps, Carol Channing & Mamie Van Doren

pink martini

THINK PINK The pinking type of these are not yet included on a Swiss army knife

pinking shears

GET "INN" HERE An apex or a very high peak, perhaps of one's career

pinnacle

NO MORE COVER-UP A 1977 article in Mother Jones magazine reported that Ford knew that this car had fuel tank problems in crashes

pinto

3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS Completely devoted, religiously

pious

BARBECUE Also a supervisor in a casino, it's the 2-word person presiding over the coals & grill to give you BBQ perfection

pit boss

11-LETTER WORDS It's the job of the player in the foreground

placekicker

LET'S GET ORGANIZED In the U.S. Army, a major general commands a division; colonels, lieutenant colonels & captains each have assigned units & a lieutenant heads up this group of 16 to 40 soldiers, also the title of a 1986 Oscar-winning movie

platoon

KNOTTY BY NATURE Caused by a fungus, black knot is a disease that occurs in both the Japanese & Damson types of this fruit

plums

VICTIM OF GRAVITY A 2017 Vogue story said Susan Sarandon's dress had this type of "neckline"

plunging

MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE Many Chinese could; the Tang dynasty has left us about 50,000 of these, in forms such as lushi & jueju

poems

EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY The Cambodian dictator died in a jungle hut in 1998 before he could stand trial for genocide

pol pot

DROP THE MIC From the end of a strong verbal or written attack to get this long stick

pole (For polemic)

EPONYMS The name of a mistress of Louis XV was given to this high hairdo

pompadour

THE CITY OF NICKNAMES The china-making city of Meissen, Germany is "The City of" this translucent ceramic

porcelain

THE 300+ Built starting in 1948, the 356 was this company's first production automobile

porche

KNOTTY BY NATURE The roots of a shrub called knotty rhatany were used to color this sweet red wine from the Douro Valley

port

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA The left side of the ship was usually alongside the quay when docked, so they called the left side this

port

OREGON Moonbrine Pickles is a location featured on this IFC TV show about offbeat Oregonians

portlandia

EUROPEAN HISTORY Following a military coup, in the mid-1970s this nation granted independence to all of its colonies except Macau

portugal

THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! Last name of cereal heiress Marjorie, one of the first women for whom a major corp. made room on its board

post

THE CITY OF NICKNAMES The rich architectural heritage of this Czech capital makes it "The City of 100 Spires"

prague

THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST A Nebraska city named for this Bohemian capital has "Beer Barrel Days" in August--everybody polka!

prague

VICTIM OF GRAVITY Clown down! This word sounds like the demise of "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor Chris

pratfall

NONSENSE & STUFF Foolish chatter can also be called this other double "T" word

prattle

SOME CHOICE WORDS 12-letter adjective for excellent "treatment"

preferential

THE BEST VOCABULARY A payment to an insurance company; as an adjective, it means "more expensive"

premium

PARTS OF SPEECH A haiku for you / Who amongst us has knowledge? / Now, we shall find out: amongst

preposition

I LIKE TO BE IN NUMERICAL ORDER Like presidential succession, with vice president 1, House speaker 2 & this Senate position 3

president pro tem of the Senate

"ICE" PACK Adjective meaning very valuable & impossible to replace

priceless

I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU Crude & unrefined, or characteristic of early ages of human development

primitive

OF THE TIGER The Jersey boys who play sports for this university are the Tigers

princeton

AFRICAN ISLANDS When Sao Tome & this neighbor 90 miles to the N.E. were discovered by the Portuguese in the 1470s, they were uninhabited

principe

FOR IT IS A FACT An HP engineer devised the modern delivery system for this, today said to be the world's costliest liquid

printer ink

RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN Bain Capital & Brookfield Asset Management are companies in this "non-public" field of investment

private investment (or private equity)

BRITISH CABINETRY The modern-day idea of an advisory cabinet derived from the "council" whose name comes from "private"

privy

ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY "The judicial procedure by which a testamentary document is established to be a valid will"

probate

-ISMS & -OLOGIES In April 2017 the G20 nations said they think this, intervention to defend a domestic industry, is damaging

protectionism

VOTE-CABULARY It's a vote cast on another's behalf at a shareholders' meeting

proxy

ONLY "U" For toddlers, they're also called training pants

pull ups

THE ATHLETE'S COLLEGE In the Midwest, Drew Brees

purdue

IN THE JUNGLE The Ituri forest in the Congo is home to a tribe of these people whose males grow no more than 60 inches

pygmies

PENINSULAS The peninsula on the much larger Arabian Peninsula, it's been fully independent since 1971

qatar

GAME OF DRONES Drone racing can reach speeds of 120 MPH with these copters named for their 4 propellers

quadcopters

WHAT A Q____T! A 90-degree arc

quadrant

RELIGION In 1650 a magistrate was told, "Tremble at the word of God" & this religious group's name was coined

quakers

MIND YOUR GRAMMAR A qualifier is an adjective that limits the meaning of a word; this is one that limits the amount or extent of one

quantifier

MORE THAN ONE MEANING A hunted animal, or a place from which stone is extracted

quarry

THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! There should be 5 people on the board & we only have 2! One more is needed to hit this Latin-named majority

quorum

MATH Favoring extreme political reforms, or the math sign that's an expression for a root

radical

SECURITY! The RFID system, short for this "identification", is not working & we need to let people in

radio frequency identification

ANIMAL GROUPINGS Sea otters separate by sex & float together in large groups called this--no inflation necessary

rafts

JUST A SITAR The "sympathetic" strings beneath a sitar's neck are tuned to the notes of this 4-letter melodic pattern of Indian music

raga

MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE A chap named Peter got his name on this tallest mountain in Washington state

rainier

WEATHER IDIOMS Stated otherwise, this metaphor might be "pouring down Manx & Affenpinschers"

raining cats and dogs

SPOT CHECK In the British pudding known as spotted dick, the sultana type of this dried fruit is often used for the "spots"

raisins

FOLKLORE Folklore from the eastern part of India tells of a jackal who outwits this type of Indian king

raja

CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN In the perennial favorite "A Christmas Story", Peter Billingsley plays this boy who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun

ralphie

LOGAN Seen here, the Loganberry is believed to be a cross between a blackberry and this other berry

raspberry

CONGRESSIONAL POWERS Congress declares war & takes this action regarding treaties that might follow one

ratifies

WHAT IN TARNATION? This stringy material from the stems of certain palms is used to make mats, ropes, baskets & other items

rattan

RHYME TIME To unsettle cows

rattle cattle

OREGON Oregon's only venomous indigenous reptile is the western this

rattle snake

"LIGHT" MUSIC Madonna went electronica in this 1998 album

ray of light

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES "Dutch"

reagan

THE TV DEVIL Sam Oliver worked as a bounty hunter who captures fugitive souls for the devil on this "grim" show

reaper

14-LETTER WORDS It's observing a potential military opponent to assess his position & strengths

reconnaissance

AMERICAN HISTORY This period in the South can be divided into presidential (1865-1867) & Congressional or Radical (1867-1877)

reconstruction

IT'S ALL FUN & GAMES This game with a colorful 2-word name turns clotheslining other people into family fun

red rover

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS 1929: "The pause that" does this

refreshes

IT'S RAINING "MEN" A regulated course of action, like that of a diet

regimen

THE ZONE Tracts of land with no real boundaries; "nether" ones can refer to the Underworld

regions

14-LETTER WORDS This restoration to health is the specialty of the V.A.'s polytrauma centers

rehabilitation

ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS A swift retort, or a conversation marked by an exchange of witty replies

repartee

I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU A written order for supplies, or the form used to do it

requisition

FOSSIL FUELS Crude oil is found in underground areas called these, just like water stored in large artificial lakes

reservoirs

FITNESS Weightlifting isn't futile; it's a form of this training that builds strength by contracting muscles against an opposing force

resistance

MIDDLE "P" Force out, such as air from the lungs

respire

ANATOMY? ANATO-YOU! Sharp central vision in your eye comes from the macula, a circular area at the center of this

retina

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA This literary character from Charleston tells Scarlett he may go back to his hometown because he misses "the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks"

rhett butler

RHYME TIME Telecommunication device in a river flowing from Switzerland to the Mediterranean

rhone phone

HODGEPODGE It was the "conservative" starting position played by the NHL's Brett Hull & Gordie Howe

right wing

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE n 2016 Las Vegas paved paradise (this casino named for the southern coast of France) & put up a parking lot

riviera

DROP THE MIC Drop the "mic" from the start of a teeny organism to get this long garment

robe

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE In an early role, this actor played Mr. Death, sent to collect an old lady who refuses to face the end

robert redford

SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE Frank Stallone as a timekeeper, Frank Stallone Jr. as a streetcorner singer, Butkus Stallone as a dog

rocky

THEIR CONCERT TOUR "Licks"; "50 and Counting"

rolling stones

AIRPORT CODES RMG, REO & FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon & Italy

rome

FOE PA In this Emma Donoghue book, "Old Nick" is the father to young Jack, who thinks the title domicile is the whole world

room

LIFE IN 1977 Families were glued to this miniseries that told the story of a family from slavery to after the Civil War

roots

ROSE The pinkish hue of the precious metal with this name is achieved by increasing the copper-colored alloys in the mix

rose gold

NONSENSE & STUFF Per the City of London, "Residential waste shall mean garbage and" this

rubbish

LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS Known for his portraits of full-figured ladies, this 17th c. Flemish artist painted 20+ large pictures of Marie de Medicis

rubens

MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC In 1973 singer Loudon Wainwright III didn't name his son Loudon IV but this

rufus

THE NFLer's MAIN POSITION Thurman Thomas & Curtis Martin

running back

DASH Police corruption is one reason why this country of 140 million has so many dash cams (just check YouTube)

russia

MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN Last name of Susan Eloise, who in "Tex" created McCormick brothers Tex & Mason

s.e. hinton

CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Tenured teacher's paid leave (10)

sabbatical

I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU Adjective for something surrendered in return for a gain, like this "lamb"

sacrificial

ALLITERATION ALL AROUND These painful spots can arise on the horse or the horseman after a long ride

saddle soars

ETYMOLOGY This type of seasoned sausage usually eaten cold & in slices takes its name from the Latin for "salt"

salami

THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? At the Oscars: "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"

sally field

"SALT" Seen here, it's used to make sure animals get their vitamins & minerals

salt lick

"SALT" From Italian for "jump into the mouth", it's a specialty with sliced veal & prosciutto

saltimbocca

"SALT" That rotten egg smell just south of Coachella, California is probably this body of water

salton sea

"SALT" The first Chinese propellants used sulfur, charcoal & this, potassium nitrate

saltpeter

THE 19th CENTURY In 1859 he became the only U.S. state governor who had previously been a foreign head of state

sam houston

SHORT STORIES Dashiell Hammett also wrote stories bout this detective, including "Too Many Have Lived"

sam spade

LIVE IN TEXAS You'll fit in with all the friendly people living in this big city named for a man buried in Padua, Italy

san antonio

ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS Tiny, sharp teeth give this plant its name, also an elite Florida golf course

sawgrass

ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES The ex-Mrs. Butler rekindles her romance with Rhett

scarlett

BOOK SMARTS This Thomas Keneally bestseller was originally published with "Ark" as the 2nd word in the title

schindlers list

A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN Depending on the city, the "S" in S-Bahn can stand for Stadt ("city") or for this German word for "fast"

schnell

PHILIP K. DICK Dick was a giant of this literary genre he said must have "a fictitious world ...predicated on our known society"

science fiction

MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C

scribes

LITERARY CHARACTERS In a Herman Melville short story, it's Bartleby's title profession

scrivener

WORKING WOMEN When she quietly refused to give up her bus seat, Rosa Parks was on her way home from her job as one of these

seamstress

THE ZONE Geometry term also used to denote a prime part of a country's economy, like the housing one

sector

BOOK SMARTS This popular genre is the title of an 1859 book by Samuel Smiles with chapters on "Perseverance" & "Character"

self help

PLUMBING FOR CLUES Usually, it's an in-ground container used to hold wastes & allow decomposition & settling of solids

septic tank

"S"CIENCE It's the fluid remaining after the solid portion of blood is removed

serum

JOY TO THE WORLD This group of guarantees went into force as a single unit on Dec. 15, 1791

sextant

TAKE ME "DOWN" A blackmail scheme, or a Grateful Dead "Street"

shakedown

FOSSIL FUELS A type of natural gas is named for this 5-letter rock, one of the most common types of sedimentary rock

shale

ASIAN RIVERS We've hijacked a view of this huge seaport from its Garden Bridge over Suzhou Creek

shanghai

THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! If you want to join the board of directors, we need to put your name in for a vote by these people

shareholders

RECENT KIDS' BOOKS This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren

she persisted

LETHAL WEAPON Depending on who's wielding it, this item here can be either a nifty Irish walking stick or a cudgel

shillelagh

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES "A Rather Haunted Life" is the subtitle of a book about this "Hill House" novelist

shirley jackson

CHARGING BULL In Hinduism, a bull named Nandi is often the transport of choice of this god and his consort Parvati

shiva

EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY In 1192 Japan's emperor gave this title to Yoritomo, the head of the military government

shogun

CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Swipe from a store (8)

shoplift

OF "ORDER" The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not include fast food cooks among these other quick cooks

short order cooks

____ING ON POETRY "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of ____, a palace and a prison on each hand"

sighs

PRISONS It was a this New York prison that Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953

sing sing

HODGEPODGE In 2017 Changi airport in this southeast Asian city-state was named the world's best airport for a 5th straight year

singapore

SIKH In the 17th century Gobind, the 10th leader, asked all Sikh men to add this word meaning "lion" to their names

singh

CEREMONIES The Dogon people of Mali have a ceremony every 60 years called Sigui, when this dog star appears between 2 mountain peaks

sirius

PAINTERS ON FILM As Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Charlton Heston initially resists the pope's orders to paint this room

sistine chapel

ONLY "U" With varying markings, there are more than 10 species of this mammal, including the hooded one

skunk

MISCELLANY Launched in 1973, this first U.S. space station fell from orbit & broke apart 6 years later

skylab

LIFE IN 1977 The American Cancer Society organized the first "Great American" one of these

smokeout

THIRSTY Also a type of medical emergency, it's equal parts lager & cider

snakebite

A PERCUSSION DISCUSSION In the U.S. Army's Fife & Drum Corps, they're the drums held upright & played with drumsticks

snare drums

WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES Achoo by Kleenex, wining for Advertising & Media: "It's nothing to ____ ____"

sneeze at

MIDDLE "P" You stand on it when speaking passionately about your opinions

soapbox

DASH Carli Lloyd is a star on the Houston Dash, a professional women's team in this sport

soccer

"SOCIAL" Entomological personality who flits from one public gathering to another

social butterfly

"SOCIAL" According to this 2-word -ism, civilization is subject to the same laws of natural selection as animals

social darwinism

"SOCIAL" Before literary fame, Alice Walker had this job with the New York City Welfare Department

social worker

ANCIENT TIMES Though we have no writings of his, this Greek who died in 399 B.C. invented a little thing called moral philosophy

socrates

MYCOLOGY & MYTHOLOGY Long before "Brave New World", this 4-letter liquid of Hindu mythology might have come from mushrooms

soma

CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Beverly Sills or Maria Callas (7)

soprano

FITNESS Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice created this indoor bike workout that's done in dark, candlelit rooms

soulcycle

EPONYMS This helicon was named for America's "March King"

sousaphone

STATE OF THE COLLEGE The Citadel, Furman

south carolina

STATE BY COUNTIES Time to give you a Hand (County): we'll throw in Walworth & Yankton

south dakota

LOGAN Joshua Logan shared a Pulitzer with Rodgers & Hammerstein for this musical set on an island during World War II

south pacific

GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD The government of this African country was established by the terms of its 2011 transitional constitution

south sudan

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA The 1941 Boston Globe story about pitcher Lefty Grove's 300th win called him "the gaunt" this directional word

southpaw

MOVIE SPOILERS This colorful food in the title of a 1973 Charlton Heston film is really people, not fish

soylent green

WOMEN'S FIRSTS Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot & later command one of these

spaceshuttle

BEFORE THE EURO Pre-Euro purchases in this nation required pesetas

spain

PRISONS This Berlin prison was demolished after the death of its last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess

spandau

HISTORY TIME Orator Dolores Ibarruri coined the Republican battle cry "No pasaran" ("They shall not pass") during this war

spanish civil war

REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man!

spartacus

WET SCIENCE A halocline occurs when fresh water sits on top of salt water, the separation caused by the difference in this

specific gravity (or density)

"S"CIENCE The visible one is the wavelengths from about 400 to 700 nanometers

spectrum

TAKE ME "DOWN" Term for when a spacecraft lands successfully in the sea

splashdown

11-LETTER WORDS Saponaceous means "soapy"; this word means "impulsive"

spontaneous

DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES Residents of this fictional town tell their story from the grave in Edgar Lee Masters' "Anthology"

spoon river

EPONYMS These slips of the tongue that bear a man's name include "It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride"

spoonerism

'TIS THE SEASON Graceful gazelle of the Kalahari noted for its leaping ability

springbok

PUT A "LID" ON IT It describes filthy living conditions due to neglect or poverty

squalid

3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS A pig's typical exclamation

squeal

MAMMAL PLANET An NSA deputy director said that the "no. 1. threat" to the U.S. electrical grid is from these climbing rodents

squirrel

GETTING POSSESSIVE This NYC church is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York; let's have a parade!

st patrick

NEW TO THE OED The acronym SUP, for this type of paddleboarding

standup

POPCORN Popcorn is mostly this type of carbohydrate that provides energy & also stiffens shirt collars

starch

19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS This person specialized in selling books as well as paper, pens, ink & other writing essentials

stationer

SHORT STORIES He wrote about a "Red Badge" & switched colors for the story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"

stephen crane

FOLKLORE Wicked ones are a staple of folktales; even Japan has them, like the one in "The Mirror of Matsuyama"

stepmothers

VINYL RESTING PLACE In the '50s the Dukes of Dixieland were one of the first to record their albums with this new dual audio process

stereo

LOOKS LIKE WE MADE IT Hats off to the 10X Rincon Vent Straw Cowboy Hat from this brand

stetson

DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS It's slang for a police informant

stoolie

"S"CIENCE A fundamental elementary particle, this flavor of quark is the third lightest

strange

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR The Bearcat, introduced in 1912

stutz

BOATY McBOATFACE Boaty isn't a submarine, or boat, for that matter, but this type of sub that's remotely operated and used to explore

submersible

DETECTIVE FICTION She's won several Shamus Awards for her Alphabet mysteries, including "G is for Gumshoe"

sue grafton

QE II's PMs 1950s PM Anthony Eden resigned following the nationalization of this Egyptian facility & loss of U.K. control there

suez canal

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS 1989: "The official soft drink of" this season

summer

IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... The seeds of this big yellow flower of the Helianthus genus are much fewer if it self-pollinates

sunflower

FAUX PAS Church etiquette isn't hard & fast, but you probably shouldn't chew gum or wear your Oakley or Persol these there

sunglasses

DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS It's another name for a solarium

sunroom

TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR On "The Adventures of" this guy, he could change the show to color & leap tall buildings in a single bound

superman

THE TV DEVIL Mark Pellegrino has a devil of a time playing a lord of hell on this CW show

supernatural

SHARKS & JETS The Concorde sported the designation SST, which stood for this

supersonic transport

IT'S A LIVING In 1968 a U.S. craft with this name, also George Washington's pre-military occupation, landed on the moon

surveyor

HISTORIC OBJECTS The helmet is part of the Anglo-Saxon trove from this oddly-named site--a "hoo" is a little hill

sutton hoo

NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta's first name means "freedom" in this language of Africa

swahili

PUBLIC ANEMONE Very tricky, clown fish; you & the sea anemone protect each other in this arrangement, from the Greek for "live together"

symbiotic

AFRICAN ISLANDS Tunisia's Djerba Island has mosques, a cathedral & the El Ghriba this house of worship, said to be Africa's oldest

synagogue

ALL "IZE" ON YOU Magic seemingly happens when a helicopter's rotor blades and a video camera's frame rate become this, from the Greek for "at the same time"

synchronized

BYE, PHOENICIA! In 64 B.C. Phoenicia was absorbed into this province just north of Judea

syria

CHIEF JUSTICES This man who led 2 branches of govt. in one way or another resigned in 1930 due to ill health & was dead a month later

taft

FITNESS To improve balance, try this ancient exercise with a Chinese name that means "supreme ultimate fist"

tai chi

BEASTLY GLOSSARY "Caudal" refers to this part of an animal

tail

THE BOOK OF PALMS The beginning of this Michener collection mentions the "coconut palms nodding gracefully"

tales of the south pacific

IN THE DICTIONARY This type of amulet gets its name from the late Greek for "perform a rite"

talisman

NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE This Asian language is official in India & also spoken by about 1/5 of the people of Sri Lanka

tamil

HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS When this swinelike mammal needs extra money, he turns into a slender candle

tapir

WHAT IN TARNATION? It's Scarlett O'Hara's beloved plantation

tarnation

STATE SEALS 8 leaves of this poi-producing plant are on Hawaii's seal

taro

REGULAR WORD & ACRONYM Regular: a waterproof protector sheet; acronym: a subprime fiasco protector program

tarp

LITERARY CHARACTERS In a Moliere play this title character poses as a pious man but is really an impostor & crook

tartuffe

OF THE TIGER The largest carnivorous marsupial of modern times was the now-extinct thylacine, also known as this alliterative tiger

tasmanian

19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS This person didn't drive trucks but rather horses or oxen hauling cargo

teamster

11-LETTER WORDS Someone who loves computers & thinks the machines are the solution to everything

technophile

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES "The Trust Buster"

teddy roosevelt

NEW TO THE OED his verb meaning to have a phone meeting with multiple people at different locations

teleconference

TIME FOR SECONDS When the first transcontinental RR was completed in 1869, so was the second transcontinental one of these lines

telegraph

BUILDING, ROMAN Later used for other things, the Maison Carrée in Nimes was first this type of building

temple

TO THE SALT LAKE CITY Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagulls perch on a monument in this square named for a building

temple square

TITLES FROM POETRY F. Scott Fitzgerald's last complete novel; its 4-word title is taken from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keatsv

tender is the night

DOC TALK Humeral epicondylitis is doc talk for this sports-influenced condition

tennis elbow

BUGS MEANIE It's not hooray for hollow wood! A pest control co. says this insect causes $5 billion in damages & repair costs annually

termite

BILL'S BILL OF RIGHTS RIGHTS According to the fifth amendment, Bill can't be compelled to do this on the witness stand

testify against himself

COUNTRY NICKNAMES "The Land of the White Elephant", AKA "The Land of Smiles"

thailand

NATIONAL DAYS Small Business Saturday is 2 days after this holiday

thanksgiving

DOWN HOME TALK This 4-word phrase for "bad plan" could literally mean "your collie will not sniff out a quail"

that dog don't (or won't) hunt

MAIN STREAM MEDIA This Strauss waltz, Opus 314, was originally a choral piece

the "Blue Danube"

NHL LOGOS A musical note outlined in yellow & navy has served as their logo since 1998

the (St. Louis) Blues

CRIME TIME The Black Dahlia murder: this decade

the 1940s

CHAPELS SHOW The ends of pews in a chapel at the Academy of this armed service represent World War I propellers

the Air Force

MILLENNIALS This Icelandic parliament considered Christianity around 999 A.D. & then made it the state religion

the Althing

IT'S HYPHENATED The Venerable Bede said they were descendants of 3 different Germanic peoples--the Jutes & the 2 in their name

the Anglo-Saxons

CHANGING CHANGE In 2015 New Zealand issued its first-ever colored coin to commemorate the centenary of the corps known by this acronym

the Anzacs

POST "AP"OCALYPSE It begins, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven & Earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son"

the Apostle's Creed

STATELY BODIES OF WATER Cities located on its banks include Fort Smith & Little Rock

the Arkansas River

CHANGING CHANGE In 2016 a 50p coin commemorating the 950th anniversary of this battle showed Harold with an arrow in his eye

the Battle of Hastings

ON BOXING DAY On Dec. 26, 1944 Patton's Third Army relieved Bastogne during this battle

the Battle of the Bulge

RELIGION Omni & 1 Nephi are part of this foundational text

the Book of Mormon

THE BOSTON TANGLER In 2007 this group's conductor paused the music when a fight broke out at Symphony Hall; orchestra crowds can get so rough!

the Boston Pops

HALLS OF FAME James Norman Hall from the Midwest moved to Tahiti & co-wrote the book about this British ship that sailed to Tahiti

the Bounty

FEELING YOUR OATHS "On my honor" this oath says to "help other people at all times"

the Boy Scout Oath

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE A magical player piano turns a bully into a weakling when this song of childhood is played

the Brahms "Lullaby"

GOOD CAUSES J. Robert Atkinson, blinded in an accident, founded this inst. after transcribing books for his own library

the Braille Institute

ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $28 million in purses is available during the 13 thoroughbred races that make up this championship "Cup"

the Breeders' Cup

NHL LOGOS In 2010 they brought back crossed swords to their bison logo

the Buffalo Sabres

GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD In Germany the 2 houses of government are the Bundesrat & this similarly named lower chamber

the Bundestag

STATE FLAGS The Maryland flag displays the symbols of 2 families: the Crosslands & this one

the Calverts

IN THEIR LEAGUE The BC Lions

the Canadian Football League (or CFL)

TEAM MASCOTS After the Expos left town, this NHL squad inherited Youppi!

the Canadiens

ARRIBA ARUBA! The red star on Aruba's flag represents the island & the white outline, its sand beaches; the blue represents this body of water

the Caribbean

GOOD CAUSES Sister Donna Markham is the president of these Charities USA, which helps millions of poor people a year

the Catholic Charities

ANCIENT TIMES Chariot races were held in this largest Roman stadium for almost a thousand years, the last being in 549 A.D.

the Circus Maximus

HALLS OF FAME In 1976 Gus Hall, General Secretary of the CPUSA, this party, got nearly 60,000 votes for president

the Communist Party

SAVED BY THE BELA On Dec. 20, 1918 Bela Kun, a disciple of Lenin, founded this party in Hungary

the Communist Party

19th CENTURY EUROPE This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment"

the Congress of Vienna

KEEP IT DOWN Roger Maltbie's hushed golf commentary voice earned him the punning nickname this "Whisperer"

the Course Whisperer

BAND STANDS MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer played protests at 2 of these--in Chicago in 1968 & Denver in 2008

the Democratic National Convention

"DIS" IS IT The medal seen here--it's awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement in aerial combat

the Distinguished Flying Cross

THEY'RE IN THE BAND Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez preceded "Mighty Max" Weinberg on drums for this Springsteen ensemble

the E Street Band

NOW GET OUT! The Huguenots fled France after the Edict of this was revoked in 1685

the Edict of Nantes

IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT With big hopes, Ford put $250 mil. in development into this model that debuted in 1957 (the hopes & the model were gone by '59)

the Edsel

CONGRESSIONAL POWERS Every fourth January, Congress counts & certifies these in joint session

the Electoral College votes

FRENCH HISTORY In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly a plane over this European waterway

the English Channel

DOCUMENTS Collective name for the essays published in New York newspapers in 1787-88 supporting ratification of the Constitution

the Federalist Papers

PAINT THE TOWN RED The walls seen here line this taboo imperial palace complex in Beijing

the Forbidden City

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK This pastoral place is the setting for most of "As You Like It"

the Forest of Arden

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! This program named for a senator sends U.S. students abroad to foster international goodwill

the Fulbright

THE MEH DECADE The 1710s in the American colonies must have been sleepy, because in 1720 came the religious revival called this

the Great Awakening

"GREAT" STUFF "I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night", wrote Linus to this entity on an animated TV special

the Great Pumpkin

FOE PA Fighter pilot Bull Meecham gets this title nickname in a Pat Conroy novel; his 4 kids might pick another moniker

the Great Santini

"GREAT" STUFF You can see it on the back of the $1 bill, but the Department of State keeps possession of the real one

the Great Seal of the U.S.

WAR IS OVER George H.W. Bush calls a halt on February 28, 1991

the Gulf War

PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS Derisive nickname for the Hoa Loa prisoner of war camp in the capital of North Vietnam where John McCain was held

the Hanoi Hilton

FEELING YOUR OATHS This oath involves swearing to "Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea & all the gods & goddesses"

the Hippocratic Oath

WAR IS OVER Bordeaux falls to the French, 1453

the Hundred Years' War

THEY MADE THE CABINET Coloradans Ken Salazar & Gale Norton are recent Secretaries of this

the Interior

TO THE SALT LAKE CITY Just like the one in the Middle East, this Salt Lake City river empties into a very saline lake

the Jordan River

DESERTS The southern portion of the Namib desert merges with this much larger desert to the northeast

the Kalahari desert

PENINSULAS This large Siberian peninsula is home to more than 125 volcanoes as well as numerous geysers & hot springs

the Kamchatka Peninsula

GRIDIRON GREATS Len Dawson led this red-&-white-clad tribe to victory in Super Bowl IV

the Kansas City Chiefs

PAINT THE TOWN RED Ruddy Spasskaya Tower adorns this Moscow fortress that has come to represent Russia's executive branch

the Kremlin

A TRIP TO ITALY Lists of the great builders of history leave out Giovanni di Simone, chief engineer of this structure in the 1270s

the Leaning Tower of Pisa

OLD TESTAMENT TRANSPORTATION In Numbers 7 this priestly tribe is given 6 covered wagons to transport the tabernacle & its furnishings

the Levites

LET'S GET ORGANIZED catalog.loc.gov organizes the more than 17 million items in its collections into searchable form

the Library of Congress

DOCUMENTS One of the less earthshaking parts of this 13th c. document calls for the removal of fish weirs from the Thames

the Magna Carta

BOOKS & AUTHORITIES Violent sexuality in this man's life & works before & during the French Revolution led to him being jailed for many years

the Marquis de Sade

HISTORICAL FICTION "Flight of the Sparrow" recounts the real tale of a Puritan woman from this colony captured by Indians in 1676

the Massachusetts Bay Colony

BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS A 1947 Short Subject Oscar went to "Climbing" this mountain on the border of Switzerland & Italy

the Matterhorn

THEY SAY IT KEEPS YOU SHARP Studies show less mental decline in followers of the diet named for this body of water fish, fruits, whole grains & olive oil

the Mediterranean diet

FORBES WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN THE U.S. The Carnegie family didn't make the list, but this other Pennsylvania family did, landing at No. 22 with $11.5 billion

the Mellon family

UNREAL MINISTRIES According to a Monty Python sketch, the British government only allocated 348 million pounds to this ministry

the Ministry of Silly Walks

BILL'S BILL OF RIGHTS RIGHTS The fifth & sixth amendments were cited in the creation of this warning in 1966, but we know Bill can't remain silent

the Miranda rights

POLICE YOUR AREA This police force was established during the first term of Canada's first PM, John A. MacDonald

the Mounties (the RCMP)

PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS Capturing as many as 200,000 enemy troops, the Brits built one of the 1st P.O.W. camps in 1796 at Peterborough during these wars

the Napoleonic Wars

NEW ENGLAND Until the 1600s this tribe lived & fished on the bay that bears their name with no idea they were in Rhode Island

the Narragansett

FRENCH HISTORY Founded in 1972 as a neo-fascist party, it's been led for most of its history by the Le Pens, father & daughter

the National Front

IN THEIR LEAGUE The St. Louis Cardinals

the National League

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES This country's last 3 queens abdicated in favor of their children

the Netherlands

FLAGS These 2 of the 3 Benelux countries have similar red, white & blue flags

the Netherlands and Luxembourg

TREATIES This 1963 deal abbreviated NTBT says no trying out atomic weapons in the atmosphere, underwater or in space

the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

FEELING YOUR OATHS In 1920 those taking this oath vowed "a spirit of chivalry for the honor of our country & for the glory of sport"

the Olympic Oath

BOATY McBOATFACE Boaty measured Antarctic currents near the southern island group that shares its name with an archipelago off northern Scotland called this

the Orkney Islands

THEY PLAYED JFK In 1963 Cliff Robertson was Jack-ed up & took to the seas in this title transport

the PT-109

IN THEIR LEAGUE The Stanford Cardinal (in this case, a conference)

the Pac-12

THAT ISLAND IS OURS! Mindanao

the Philippines

LIFE IN 1977 This glass & metal cultural centre named for a French president opened in the Beaubourg area of Paris

the Pompidou Centre

FORBES WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN THE U.S. Hyatt Hotels has been good for this Chicago family, No. 7 with $29 billion

the Pritzker family

CHARGING BULL Old Spec (1979) & Bodacious (1999) are bull inductees in this Hall of Fame

the Rodeo Hall of Fame

THEY MADE THE CABINET In 2017 Betsy DeVos became the 11th holder of this job

the Secretary of Education

FOLKLORE In a darker Swiss tale, this septet is killed & their cottage burned to the ground

the Seven Dwarfs

AUTHORS AT WAR The Marquis de Sade served as an officer during this 1756-1763 war

the Seven Years' War

DOGS IN HATS Like the Lhasa Apso, this lion dog with a 2-word name is originally from Tibet

the Shih Tzu

AROUND THE WORLD This 14-foot -long holy relic has been housed in Italy's Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista since 1578

the Shroud of Turin

DESERTS This desert seen here, North America's hottest, gets its name from a Mexican state

the Sonoran

DIETS The doctor who created this diet wrote, "Because I live in Florida, the best fruit example I can think of is the orange"

the South Beach Diet

ROSE It was called the Battle of Flowers when it was first held on January 1, 1890

the Tournament of Roses Parade

HALLS OF FAME Jacks, stick

the Toy Hall of Fame

GDANSK Hitler demanded the cession of Gdansk and its shipyards, but it was a free city due to this treaty named for a French locale; Poland refused, and the Nazis attacked, precipitating World War II

the Treaty of Versailles

THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST You can get authentic fare at Old Lviv restaurant in Chicago's this nationality "Village"

the Ukraine

THE STATE UNIVERSITY IN...Urbana-Champaign

the University of Illinois

THE STATE UNIVERSITY IN...Lawrence

the University of Kansas

THE ATHLETE'S COLLEGE Then in the Pac-8, Steve Prefontaine

the University of Oregon

THE STATE UNIVERSITY IN...Vermillion

the University of South Dakota

THE STATE UNIVERSITY IN... Burlington

the University of Vermont

TRUUUE Chapter 5 of David McCullough's 2015 biography of them is titled "December 17, 1903"

the Wright brothers

MAPPING OUT ASIA Among the principal tributaries of this river are the Xiang, the Han & the Yalung

the Yangtze

I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU You like the Jason Bourne films, while I prefer classics like this one with Humphrey Bogart as a riverboat captain

the african queen

PUBLISHING A pubisher's previously issued titles & current titles are these 2 "lists" with opposite names

the backlist and frontlist

SPORTS RECORD HOLDERS Eddie Arcaro & Jim McLaughlin are tied at 6 in jockey wins of this, the third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown

the belmont

GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION The pigment carotenoid, from the fish they consume, is the source of the blue on the feet of these birds--the brighter the blue, the healthier they appear to potential mates

the blue-footed booby

FAUX PAS When the bride & groom blindly toss these 2 items over their shoulders, aggression in trying to catch them is frowned on

the bouquet and the garter

KNOTTY BY NATURE Horticulturist Rudolph turned this blackberry offshoot over to Walter Knott, but it isn't the knottberry

the boysenberry

TV MOVIES Farrah Fawcett starred in this 1980s TV movie as a woman who ends years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband

the burning bed

WEATHER IDIOMS Standing in the relative peace of the beach, you'd experience this idiom of impending turmoil

the calm before the storm

CAMERAS For centuries this "camera" was just a box with a pinhole, but in the early 1800s it began to record images

the camera obscura

THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! We need another body on this alliterative committee to figure out who much to pay the CEO

the compensation committee

TIME FOR SECONDS Larger than Alaska, the second-largest rainforest is this one, named for the river that runs through it

the congo

RECENT KIDS' BOOKS The play "Harry Potter and" this young person comes in a rehearsal script edition

the cursed child

WRITERS & WRITING The title of a work by Aldous Huxley inspired the name of this 1960s L.A. rock band

the doors

BEFORE THE EURO Also the name of a silver coin in ancient times, this former Greek currency was broken down into lepta

the drachma

CHAPELS SHOW Built into the mountainsides, St. Gilda's Chapel in Brittany is on a spot where this Celtic priestly class would meet

the druids

ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS Hitch planned every detail in advance; asked what work there was for this professional, he said, "None"

the editor

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST Ernest Shackleton led the expedition in which this ship drifted for 10 months before being crushed in pack ice

the endurance

WORLD THEATER This Ibsen drama is the story of a medical inspector who refuses to be silenced

the enemy of the people

ELECTRIC Around 1908 William Coolidge improved upon this tungsten wire thread, making it bendable & the modern light bulb was born

the filament

9-LETTER WORDS According to Genesis, on the second day God created this, which he called heaven

the firmament

WAIT WATCHERS On Dec. 5, 2015 throngs began lining up for this J.J. Abrams "Star Wars" flick, 12 days before it opened

the force awakens

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE Literature about this Pampas cowboy helped get Montevideo recognized

the gaucho

ORIGINAL LINEUPS Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Margot Olaverra, Elissa Bello

the go gos

TV SETTINGS The prestigious African-American-owned law firm of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad in Chicago

the good fight

"GREAT" STUFF With more than 30 species, this "hazy" U.S. mountain range is called the "Salamander Capital of the World"

the great smoky mountains

"GREAT" STUFF Edward Bulwer-Lytton coined this phrase for the masses, contrasting them with a guy who bathes

the great unwashed

MUSIC DOC SUBJECTS The 4-hour "Long Strange Trip"

the greatful dead

SIKH Sikhs refer to their religion as Gurmat, or "the way of" this type of teacher/leader

the guru

HAMMER Legend says this sport originated when Celtic hero Cu Chulainn swung a chariot over his head & let it go

the hammer throw

SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL This 2009 comedy about a Vegas bachelor party was not the sequel to the Tom Cruise film "Cocktail"

the hangover

JOBFUSCATION Your I.T. guy has to figure out if the problem is with the chips or the salsa--these 2 words that end in the same 4 letters

the hardware or the software

NEW TO THE OED Da kine, a conversational filler from these islands

the hawaiian islands

HOLIDAY SONGS "Hark!" these beings "Sing" in a 1739 carol

the herald angels

BROTHERS On "Game of Thrones", Gregor Clegane is "The Mountain" & his brother Sandor is known as this

the hound

BRITISH CABINETRY The leader of this chamber has traditionally been a full cabinet member & there were howls in 2014 when that changed

the house of lords

A MIGHTY LONG-NAMED RIVER The Acquacheta river & its thunderous falls are described in Canto 16 of this medieval poem

the inferno

SPOT CHECK This classic quartet's biggest hit was "If I Didn't Care"

the ink spots

"JACK" In a thriller by Frederick Forsyth, an assassin has this nickname

the jackal

BUGS MEANIE The book of Joel says, "That which" this bug left "hath the cankerworm eaten" & what was still left, hath the caterpillar eaten

the locust

I'M AMEN-ABLE TO THAT Different versions of this prayer appear in Matthew 6 & Luke 11

the lords prayer

THE EYE Sometimes when we get older, this part of the retina "degenerates" & causes blurriness in our field of vision

the macula

MOVIE SPOILERS The "bird" sought by Kasper Gutman & others in this Bogart film turns out to be a fake

the maltese falcon

5 EXES Best-known nickname of ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci

the mooch

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Canceled in 2010, the Constellation program planned to return humans here by 2020 after a nearly 20-year absence

the moon

"MORE" THAN A CATEGORY This cliche is sometimes followed by "the fewer, the better fare"

the more the merrier

THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS It's what Emma Lazarus called the Statue of Liberty in her poem for it

the mother of exiles

A 1- THROUGH 5-STAR RATING 4 stars for BNP Paribas, one of Europe's major banks; Paribas is short for Paris et des Pays-Bas, Paris & this country

the netherlands

EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY Lake Ladoga is connected with the Gulf of Finland and the rest of the Baltic Sea by this commercially important river that flows through St. Petersburg

the neva

DIETS "The Right Carbs in the Right Amounts" is a chapter in "The New" this diet "For a New You"

the new atkins

BUILDING, ROMAN Victor Emmanuel II & Raphael are at rest in this Roman structure; Paris has its own

the pantheon

BLANK "UM" Pit's partner in a Poe title

the pendulum

"P" IN PHYSICS In 1880 it was found that if you compress a crystal like quartz, you can produce this effec

the piezoelectric effect

KEEP IT DOWN On "Seinfeld" Jerry is compelled to wear one of these after an encounter with a "low talker"

the puffy shirt

ANIMALS IN COMPETITION In 2017 Smooshie & Doobert of Team Ruff took on Slippers & Buttons of team Fluff in the XIIIth "playing" of this event

the puppy bowl

THE AGE OF TREASON The last man hanged for treason in England was "Lord Haw Haw", who used this as his "weapon" to help the Nazis

the radio

THE ZONE 5-letter word for a royally ruled region; if you're in the House of Lords, you're a "peer of" it

the realm

A GOOD BOOK In a Stendhal novel, Julien must choose between joining the army or the church, symbolized by these 2 colors

the red and the black

FOR IT IS A FACT The Cassini space probe found massive icy clumps make up these features

the rings of Saturn

BEFORE THE EURO This former currency of Austria sounds like a coin once used in the United Kingdom

the schilling

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY The 2003 winner, covering Lyndon Johnson from 1949 to 1960, was "Master of" this political body

the senate

MUSIC DOC SUBJECTS "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" & "The Filth & the Fury": the same punks

the sex pistols

COLORING BOOKS A chapter of "Hans Brinker, or" these is "What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam"... OK, slow down, it's a kids' book!

the silver skates

THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! If you're the vice president or chief justice, there's a spot for you on this D.C. institution's Board of Regents

the smithsonian

HISTORICAL FICTION This Philipp Meyer novel about the Texas frontier came to AMC with Pierce Brosnan as the powerful Eli McCullough

the son

LIFE IN 1977 Life in New York City got scarier during the killing spree of David Berkowitz, known by this nickname

the son of sam

ORIGINAL LINEUPS Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard

the supremes

BUILDING, ROMAN Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river

the tagus

THEY'RE IN THE BAND Just give in to these Motowners, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin & Otis Williams

the temptations

LAX LUTHER Luther mocked a friend who could only drink down to the top ring in a special wine mug, representing this, AKA the Decalogue

the ten commandments

AM I BLUE? Patrick Warburton went blue as this hero on TV--then Amazon gave Peter Serafinowicz a shot

the tick

NO MORE COVER-UP In "The Insider", Russell Crowe played a real-life whistleblower for this industry

the tobacco industry

TRANSPORTATION In London the subway is frequently referred to by this 4-letter name

the tube

TREES The yellow poplar is also known as this flower tree, for obvious tree

the tulip tree

GHOSTING A governess is convinced that the 2 children in her care see ghosts in this novella by Henry James

the turn of the screw

MOVIE SPOILERS "Verbal" Kint is Keyser Soze in this Bryan Singer film

the usual suspects

LAX LUTHER Luther wanted the Bible to be for all, not just the hoity-toity, so he translated it into this 10-letter "native" style

the vernacular

ONE-HIT WONDERS Their "I Know What Boys Like" hit in 1982

the waitresses

PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN The Vatican says potassium chlorate, lactose & pine rosin create this after 2/3 of the votes for a new pope come in

the white smoke

SHARKS & JETS Mako sharks don't have a swim bladder, so this is true of them & is often also said of very busy people

they can't stop moving

FIRST-TIME EMMY NOMINEES 2017 Years after he was "Major Dad" & one of the Simons, Gerald McRaney got a nomination as an OB/GYN on this NBC show

this is us

SERIAL KILLERS In the May 1, 1886 issue of Graphic, this author killed off Lucetta & her unborn child in "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

thomas hardy

AMERICAN HISTORY In 1915 the 1st transcontinental telephone call was made when A.G. Bell called this former assistant in San Francisco

thomas watson

GIRAFFES These sharp protective items on acacia trees are no match for giraffe molars

thorns

TV WATERING HOLES The Regal Beagle on this sitcom was almost a second home to Jack Tripper, Janet & Chrissy

threes company

RECENT KIDS' BOOKS The 2016 edition of "Disney Bedtime Favorites" includes a story starring this long-eared friend of Bambi

thumper

THE BODY HUMAN It's the larger weight-bearing bone of the lower leg

tibia

ASIAN RIVERS From its source in Turkey's Lake Hazar, it travels south to Al Qurna, Iraq where it becomes part of the Shatt al Arab

tigris

ONOMATOPOEIA He's the clockwork man of the land of Oz

tik-tok

CHEESY NAME ORIGINS This yellow cheddar: the Oregon county where it is produced

tillamook

THRILLERS & MYSTERIES The 4-word "occupational" title of this John le Carre thriller was adapted from an English nursery rhyme

tinker tailor soldier spy

ONOMATOPOEIA It's done by a little bell or by a little child (hopefully) before a car ride

tinkle

QE II's PMs In 1963 when Sir Alec Douglas-Home began his 1-year stint, he dropped his hereditary one of these

title (or peerage)

THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING To provide for one's needs, or specifically food for a wedding

to cater

WEATHER IDIOMS To take attention from another; it literally happened to a guy who came up with a stage audio effect

to steal one's thunder

THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING Pandering lackey that's a froggy relative

toady

WORLD FACTS This 4-letter African country has a short coastline along the Bight of Benin

togo

THEY MADE THE CABINET This Obama Labor Secretary became head of the DNC in 2017

tom perez

A PERCUSSION DISCUSSION Modern Drummer's "Evolution of" this double-named drum went from "Chinese noisemaker to essential instrument"

tom tom

I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE Memorable roles of the late Powers Boothe included Vice President Noah Daniels on "24" and Curly Bill Brocius in this 1993 western

tombstone

OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS This singer signs his paintings Benedetto; that's Anthony Benedetto

tony bennett

THE BEST VOCABULARY Your social standing could be described as this, the uppermost part of the cabinet or dresser

top shelf (or top drawer)

BIBLE STUDY Used to refer to the first 5 books of the Bible, this Hebrew word is usually translated as "law"

torah

WHAT IN TARNATION? Legally speaking, it's a wrongdoing for which someone may take civil action

tort

MATH The 6 functions of this branch of math are each defined by the ratio of 2 sides in a right-angled triangle

trigonometry

NONSENSE & STUFF As food, it comes in a honeycomb type; as an opinion, it's nonsense

tripe

WHAT IN TARNATION? This stringy material from the stems of certain palms is used to make mats, ropes, baskets & other items

triton

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES

truman

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet

AND THE GIRLS ARE PRETTY "It was glamorous to look sickly" Susan Sontag wrote of the 19th c. cult of thinness through this lung disease

tuberculosis

PUBLIC ANEMONE Above ground anemone blanda makes fields of pretty flowers; below, it produces these growths, like potatoes

tubers

TOTALLY '80s WORDS! This word for "fantastic" describes a hollow cresting wave

tubular

VICTIM OF GRAVITY As well as to fall, it can mean to be tossed around to get dry

tumble

"LIGHT" MUSIC Turn on this Neil Diamond song inspired by the movie "E.T."

turn on your heartlight

NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS A fossilized one of these reptiles was named for Terry Pratchett--his "Discworld" rides on the back of one

turtle

SOUP Good news: a reptile is not the main ingredient in mock this soup; bad news: it's a calf's head cooked in water

turtle

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

twain

TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS David Lynch's 2017 revival of this bizarre series also brought back murdered character Laura Palmer

twin peaks

HOW MANY IN YOUR PARTY? A battery (in baseball)

two

THE 300+ Whether his lifetime batting average was .367 or .366, it's still the all-time record

ty cobb

REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE Who? Wat! When? 1381! Where? England! Why? Wat, with this last name, died leading a rebellion vs. forced labor

tyler

"U" LOVE MUSIC This '80s reggae group took their name from a British unemployment form & now you got them, babe

ub40

COLLEGE HOOPS In 2014 both the men's & women's teams from this university located in the small town of Storrs won basketball titles

uconn

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS Differentiating vowel sounds, this double-dot diacritic is big in German

umlaut

SAY UNCLE! Wednesday & Pugsley

uncle fester

SAY UNCLE! Dorothy Gale

uncle henry

SERIAL KILLERS In a March 1852 serial chapter in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe killed off this title character

uncle tom

LET'S GET ORGANIZED The NLRB says employees can't be fired, threatened or disciplined for organizing one of these

union

ONLY "U" Someone who deserves more fame than he gets is this kind of "hero"

unsung

RHYME TIME FASHION A wrapped headdress for Muslim men, designed to be worn in the city

urban turban

IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT In 1954 Senator McCarthy turned his anti-Red drive on this institution (but in confronting Joe Welch, he made a huge mistake)

us army

THAT ISLAND IS OURS! Jupiter, Marco & Sanibel Islands

usa

"U" LOVE MUSIC Made for the category, this R&B singer gave us "U Remind Me", "U Got It Bad" & "U Don't Have To Call"

usher

POE FOLKS Things are not going well when we meet Edgar Allan Poe's Roderick, proprietor of "the house of" this

usher

SILVER & GOLD Gymnast Viktor Lisitsky won 5 silver medals for this country, but no gold or bronze

ussr

ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES 1516 Thomas More work about a place governed by reason

utopia

TITANIC The single highest grossing day for "Titanic" was this holiday, a Saturday 58 days after the film's December opening

valentines day

MONSTER MASH Luis Suarez, who bit a player in the 2014 World Cup, inspired one of these undead in a kids' book

vampire

HOME SWEET HOME In 1889 a member of this family began building a little country home in N.C., the 250-room Biltmore House

vanderbilts

HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH This magazine that pretty much owns the nude pregnant celebrity cover showcased Serena Williams in August 2017

vanity fair

DOWN HOME TALK The word vermin got altered to this word for a troublesome wild animal

varmint

PICK A PLANET The Babylonians associated it with the goddess Ishtar

venus

TV NICKNAMES On "WKRP in Cincinnati", Tim Reid played the DJ with this nickname, also a certain plant

venus flytrap

ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS After Vera Miles' pregnancy, Hitch lost interest in her; Kim Novak got the lead in this film instead

vertigo

ON THE "GO" It's a general term for dizziness

vertigo

POLICE YOUR AREA The Scotland Yard "squad" named for this, meaning an immoral habit, has been boringly renamed Serious Crime Directorate 9

vice

SOUP The full name of this French soup includes the words "crème" and "glacée", telling you it's an iced cream (but not ice cream) soup NOTE: FINISHED HALFWAY THROUGH Show #7681 - Monday, January 22, 2018

vichyssoise

THE END OF TIME This 64-year British era ended for a very specific reason in 1901

victorian

A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN U-Bahn stations in this city include Neue Donau, Stephansplatz & Schönbrunn

vienna

ASIAN CULTURE Depicting stories of daily life & from folklore, water puppetry in this country began in the Red River delta in the 11th century

vietnam

WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS Vigor's proverbial partner

vim

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF Its name sounds redundant, but the state flower of New Jersey is the purple this

violet

TITLES FROM POETRY The first line of this ancient poet's "Aeneid" inspired George Bernard Shaw's play title "Arms and the Man"

virgil

I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU Ananias Dare's daughter

virginia

STATES BY COUNTIES Alleghany, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania

virginia

THIRSTY Diddy has been known to shill for Cîroc, a French type of this liquor that's all the rage

vodka

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN Bison grass from the Bialowiez region of Poland is used to flavor Zubrowka, a type of this spirit

vodka

FINANCIAL GOBBLEDYGOOK In the VIX index, "V" is for this measure of how much an investment's value fluctuates

volatility

WET SCIENCE The lake in the center of the Kawah Ijen this in Indonesia has a pH of less than 1

volcano

"HAND" IT OVER This blues composer born in Alabama in 1873 lived to be 84

w.c. handy

A DEDICATED COMPOSER Bruckner laid it on thick in a dedication to this German "world famous noble master of poetry & music"

wagner

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS "What's Inside" & "What Baking Can Do"

waitress

BIBLE STUDY In the book of Matthew, to calm his disciples who are on a boat during a storm, Jesus does this

walk on water

____ING ON POETRY "Something there is that doesn't love a ____"

wall

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer

walter mitty

DETECTIVE FICTION In his novel "Devil in a Blue Dress", he introduced Easy Rawlins, an African-American detective in 1940s Los Angeles

walter mosley

I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY French commander Bougainville blew up talks with the Iroquois when he kicked a friendship belt of these money beads

wampum

EARLY AMERICA The Hartford Convention was a meeting of those peeved at losing trade with Britain & opposed to this war

war of 1812

PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN Early in the 20th c. the original "smoke-filled room" in a Chicago hotel chose him as the GOP nominee & soon, the pres.

warren harding

TREATIES A Communist answer to NATO, it was agreed to in 1955 & lasted until 1991

warsaw pact

A MANIA FOR MANIAS Pontius Pilate probably had ablutomania, an obsessive need to do this

wash hands

U.S. LANDMARKS The Point of Arches on Shi Shi Beach in Olympic National Park in this state makes quite the postcard

washington

AM I BLUE? Movie audiences saw a lot of blue as Billy Crudup played Dr. Manhattan in this 2009 film

watchmen

21st CENTURY FICTION People magazine called this 2006 Sara Gruen novel a "surprising portrayal of life in a traveling circus in the '30s"

water for elephants

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES The Wicked Witch of the West experiences mortal terror when viewing this Kevin Costner movie from 1995

waterworld

CAPITALS IN OCEANIA This capital is located on Cook Strait at the extreme southwestern tip of North Island

wellington

"WEST" SIDE STORY The Allenby Bridge takes travelers into this territory

west bank

"WEST" SIDE STORY They include Anguilla & Aruba

west indies

"WEST" SIDE STORY This Indiana city is home to Purdue University

west lafayette

AUTHORS AT WAR Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw"

west point

STATE OF THE COLLEGE Marshall, Appalachian Bible College

west virginia

ROBERTS' RULES In "Game of Thrones", Robert's Rebellion allowed Robert Baratheon to be king of the 7 kingdoms of this place

westeros

HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS This big marine mammal has been known to emit a plaintive cry when times are tough

whale

4-LETTER WORDS A popular type of protein powder is made from this watery byproduct of cheesemaking

whey

SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL 2005's "Crash" did not result in this with drummer Miles Teller learning from the formidable J.K. Simmons

whiplash

RHYMING PHRASES A heroic defender, specifically of a company facing a hostile takeover

white knight

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN "Wild" this grain isn't this grain at all but the seed of an aquatic grass

wild rice

TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS The revival of this sitcom has original stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes & Megan Mullally

will and grace

MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER A Black Eyed Peas man meets up with a Shakespearean style of writing

will.i.ambic pentameter

OF THE TIGER "Tyger tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night", begins a poem in his 1794 collection "Songs of Experience"

william blake

THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT Architecturally speaking, something that's fenestrated has these

windows

THE CITY OF NICKNAMES I'll put a spell on you if you don't know that Escazu, Costa Rica is "The City of" these, AKA brujas

witches

JANUARY The Anglo-Saxons named January this month, after predators that came into villages during winter in search of food

wolf month

NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS In this Michael Chabon novel that became a Michael Douglas film, Grady Tripp struggles to finish a novel

wonder boys

ANCIENT SYMBOLS Taiji, the Great Ultimate, is the source of this pair that's represented by the colors orange & azure respectively

yin and yang

I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU I wear a suit at work; you go to the office in clothes for this activity on which Lululemon was built

yoga

DOWN HOME TALK In song it's "wild blue"; down home, it means over there or at a distance

yonder

EUROPEAN HISTORY England had 3 kings in 1483: Edward IV, Edward V & Richard III, all members of this dynastic house

york

MOTOWN LYRICS "I need love, love to ease my mind, I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said" these 4 words

you cant hurry love

MOTOWN LYRICS "Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now, my mama told me" this

you'd better shop around

IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD In Russia if you're kidding me, you're hanging noodles from my ears; we use this idiom related to a lower paired body part

you're pulling my leg

WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS Doing this type of "duty" includes basic stuff like paying taxes & voting

your civic duty

THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT One of the 2 body parts also called simply the minimus

your little finger or your baby toe

NOW GET OUT! Asked to leave, you may get your marching orders or these blanking blanks

your walking papers

IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD The Cheyenne ask, "are you still riding the goat?" to see if you are still on the outs with this person

your wife

THERMODYNAMICS There's a law that comes before the First Law of Thermodynamics; physicist Ralph Fowler gave it this 6-letter name

zeroth

RELIGION The Iranian prophet Zarathustra is perhaps better known by this, his Greek name

zoroaster

ONLY "U" Unkulunkulu is the creator god of this people of South Africa

zulu

GULP FICTION While interviewed, Louis tells the story of how this vampire slashed a rat's neck & drank the blood from a glass

Lestat

HISTORIC NAMES In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor

Maréchal Philippe Petain

GULP FICTION In a Rabelais work, this son of Gargantua & his posse drink 237 casks of wine in a sitting

Pantagruel

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES The most viewed "qu"estions on this website include Is Bitcoin a good idea? & Why do some people hate Gandhi?

Quora

LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around & desert you"

Rick Astley

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES In Amish culture it's the time when teenagers may experiment with activities the culture normally frowns on

Rumspringa

LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS "This tainted love you given, I give you all a boy could give you, take my tears & that's not nearly all...tainted love"

Soft Cell

FROM A TO Y Bounty paper towels invites you to test them for this quality

absorbency

FROM A TO Y In Britain it's one of the 5 main grounds for divorce

adultery

LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS "Making love out of nothing at all...out of nothing at all...out of nothing at all...out of nothing at all"

air supply

STATE BY COUNTIES Houston (not that state!), Dallas (really, no!), Tuscaloosa (there you go)

alabama

CARD GAMES This game similar to Go Fish was originally played with special cards featuring pictures of famous writers

authors

FROM A TO Y A women's group working with a men's club or fraternal order is a "ladies" one

auxiliary

PICK A POPE Was in the Hitler Youth

benedict

CARD GAMES You have to bid and take all 13 tricks to make a grand slam in this game

bridge

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A russet harlequin has collapsed

brown clown down

CHEESY NAME ORIGINS This one similar to cheddar: the town in Wisconsin where the Steinwand family created it

colby cheese

COMPOUND WORDS It meant a dumpling before it meant an American infantryman, especially in World War I

doughboy

GIRAFFES If a human baby has done this, he's positioned for birth; if a giraffe baby has done it, 6' to the ground, he's been born

dropped

WORKING WOMEN In 2017, this wife of Mitch McConnell became Secretary of Transportation

elaine chao

TRIPLE RHYME TIME Getting back your unholy cotton pests

evil weevil retrieval

THE JOY OF SLUGS Slugs eat plants & members of this kingdom of plantlike organisms lacking chlorophyll

fungi

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Pat Metheny

guitar

BOOK SMARTS The 8 books recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson for smart people include the Bible & this book about Yahoos

gullivers travels

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES "The Hermit Author of Palo Alto"

herbert hoover

STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" Hyphenated term that's used to describe all the latest cutting-edge electronic devices

high tech

RECENT TV EPISODES "Better Call Saul" & "Our Man in Damascus"

homeland

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI On film this alumna has hunted Jason Bourne & played the pious Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible"

joan allen

PICK A POPE Worked in a factory to avoid arrest by the NazisWorked in a factory to avoid arrest by the Nazis

john paul II

PLACE "MAT"S Olive you should know that this capital of the Greek department of Messenia is a major fruit market

kalamata

STATE SYMBOLS The Catahoula Leopard dog, bred to find livestock in swamps, is its state dog

lousiana

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI Before he stalked the president in the film "In the Line of Fire", this actor stalked the Steppenwolf stage

malkovich

STATE SYMBOLS Created at its Toll House Restaurant, the chocolate chip cookie is this state's official state cookie

massachusetts

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A happy 10K for women in habits

nun fun run

PICK A POPE Died around 64 A.D.

peter

A TRIANGLE SCHEME The reciprocal of cosine, it's the ratio of line AC to line AB in the triangle here

secant

GULP FICTION Rex Pickett, author of this 2004 novel, really did once take a swig of wine from the spit bucket

sideways

COMPOUND WORDS As a lad Paul Revere was apprenticed to one of these

silversmith

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY From the Brits: "Life isn't all beer &" this game (not candy)

skittles

THE JOY OF SLUGS A slug leaves behind a trail of this substance produced by a mucous gland

slime

RECENT TV EPISODES "The Upside Down" & "The Vanishing of Will Byers"

stranger things

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A sensitive but minor car accident

tender fender bender

THE JOY OF SLUGS Slug heads have 2 of this sensory organs similar to antennae, on the top for sight & on the bottom for smell & touch

tentacles

BALTIC BELIEFS This movement from Germany reached Estonia in the 1520s and made Lutheranism the dominant religion here and in most of Scandinavia

the Protestant Reformation

A TRIANGLE SCHEME The regulation of sweatshops got heavier after the 1911 fire at this factor named for the blouses it made

the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

RECENT TV EPISODES "Travel Agents" & "The Rat"

the americans

WORKING WOMEN Ding dong, it's one of these salespeople calling; the first began soliciting friends & neighbors in 1886

the avon lady

STATE SYMBOLS The official state Christmas tree for North Carolina is the Fraser type of this tree, not the Douglas

the fir

RECENT TV EPISODES "The Race of His Life" & "Attack on Central City"

the flash

INVENTIONS When Time Magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty & touchy-feely

the iPhone

BALTIC BELIEFS Of the few round churches in northern Europe, four are here, on Denmark's island of Bornholm, leading some to theorize a visit from this religious order of knights, whose churches were all round

the templars

BOOK SMARTS Told that this influential book was too long, Harriet Beecher Stowe said she didn't write it, it wrote itself

uncle toms cabin

PICK A POPE Died 230 A.D. in the "big city" of Rome

urban I

BALTIC BELIEFS Hundreds of these picture stones, dating as far back as the 5th century, have been found on Gotland; the Tjangvide stone seems to show a ship bearing a warrior's body to this dwelling place of the god Odin

valhalla

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Joshua Bell

violin

COMPOUND WORDS They're found on stationery; digital ones can be added to images to help with copyright protection

watermark