“Salem & The Witch Trials”: In a nod to the town's witchy past, the logo of Salem's police dept. depicts a witch riding one of these
broomstick;broom
Some blame the start of the witch hysteria on tales told by Tituba, a slave who came from an island in this sea
Caribbean
A newer theory lays partial blame on ergot, one of these organisms that grows on grain & causes hallucinations
fungus
Samuel Sewall was the only one of these officials who publicly admitted his guilt after the trials
judge
This man who refused to stand trial was pressed to death 3 days before his wife Martha Corey was hanged
Giles Corey;Corey
“-ist A Job”: One who grows medicinal plants or uses them to treat others
herbalist
A capologist helps a pro sports team stay under this
salary cap
Billy Sunday was a baseball player, but gained even greater fame in this occupation
evangelist
In medicine there are surgical & radiation types of this cancer specialist
oncologist
It may be a zoologist or a botanist; your child who collects specimens is a budding one
naturalist
“Islands”: As well as "the Big Island", it's also known as "the Orchid Isle"
Hawaii
The narrow Strait of Messina separates this large island from the "toe" of Italy
Sicily
Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier, covers nearly 3,200 square miles of this island country
Iceland
It's the second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands: Majorca is first
Minorca
This island to the east of Java is world famous for its dancing
Bali
“Seeing Red”: Color of a college "Tide" & a comic book Avenger
crimson
Ocean Spray now has a drink made from the white type of this bog fruit
cranberry
This shade comes equipped with hoses & ladders
fire engine red
Shade for a Pimpernel or an O'Hara
scarlet
Bugs Bunny's standard insult that fits the category
maroon
“2 ‘P’s”: Snow White's roommate who fits the category
Happy
"Laugh-In" popularized the phrase "You bet your" this
bippy
The Star of India is this gem variety of corundum
sapphire
The Blue Ridge, Catskills & Cumberland Mountains are all part of this range
Appalachians;Appalachian
This word for a ghostly counterpart of a living person is from the German for "double walker"
doppelganger
“CBS”: She played Laura Petrie in the '60s & Mary Richards in the '70s, both on CBS
Mary Tyler Moore;Moore
The 36th season of this CBS news magazine included stories on Internet piracy, Equatorial Guinea & "Jeopardy!"
60 Minutes
"CSI: Miami" is set in Miami; the original "CSI" is set in this city
Las Vegas
He hosts the longest-running game show in television history
Bob Barker;Barker
He hosts the longest-running game show in television history
Guiding Light
“Short Stories”: He wrote a story about a giant mole as well as one about a man changed into a giant insect
Kafka
In "The Most Dangerous Game", it's the title prey General Zaroff loves to hunt
man
Completes the title of Joyce Carol Oates' disturbing story "Where Are You Going,..."
Where Have You Been
In the title of a Hemingway classic, a late-night cafe is praised as being "A Clean" & this type of "Place"
Well-Lighted;Well Lighted
J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" includes "A Perfect Day for" these swimmers
bananafish
“Going Deep”: The "Chicago style" of this is deep-dish
pizza
"The stars at night are big and bright" here
deep in the heart of Texas;Texas
"I'd rather be rich than stupid" is one of these musings by Jack Handey of "SNL"
Deep Thoughts
When the Federation took over the Cardassians' Terok Nor, they renamed it this
Deep Space 9
In 1997 he went one-on-one with IBM's Deep Blue in a highly publicized match
Kasparov
“Scientists”: The subtitle of his landmark 1859 work is "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Darwin
This physicist is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking;Hawking
This X-ray discoverer conducted numerous other researches including on elasticity
Roentgen
In 1675 this Dutchman peered through his microscope & "discovered little creatures in rain"
Leeuwenhoek
This Swedish botanist was the first to use the Mars & Venus symbols to represent male & female
Linnaeus
“Dude, Where’s My ‘Car’”?: Heart doc
cardiologist
During the '60s this swinging street in Soho was a center of fashion
Carnaby
"Seize the day"
carpe diem
Isotope used to date archaeological specimens
carbon-14;carbon 14
Tuscan town typified by its famous marble
Carrara
“1990”: She worked hard choreographing the dancers for the 1990 Oscars; today she's a bit "Idol"
Paula Abdul;Abdul
He represented the U.S. at the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations
George H.W. Bush;Bush
In gardening news, a pink climber was named for this mystery author to celebrate her centenary
Agatha Christie;Christie
Colorado voters legalized a limited form of this in Black Hawk, Central City & Cripple Creek
gambling
This son of Japanese immigrants beat novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to become president of Peru
Alberto Fujimori;Fujimori
“Pop Quiz”: According to the Beatles hit, it's when "love was such an easy game to play"
yesterday
The jester borrows James Dean's coat in this Don McLean classic
American Pie
In the Janis Joplin hit "Me And Bobby McGee", this is "just another word for nothin' left to lose"
freedom
Little Jackie Paper is friends with this magical beastie
Puff the Magic Dragon
John Brown is the title lawman who gets gunned down in this Bob Marley song
I Shot The Sheriff
“Weights & Measures”: John Brown is the title lawman who gets gunned down in this Bob Marley song
Celsius
A bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is appropriately called this
finger
In 1593 this English queen changed the length of a mile from 5,000 feet to the current 5,280 feet
Elizabeth I
A "long" one of these is 2,240 pounds
ton
In common practice electrical power is billed in terms of this hyphenated term, equal to 3.6 million joules
kilowatt-hour
“’E’ Male”: This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious"
Einstein
The works "Far East Suite" & "Liberian Suite" were created by this jazz composer 
Duke Ellington;Ellington 
This Super Bowl MVP quarterback who retired in 1999 played his college football at Stanford
John Elway;Elway
In the Bible he traded away his birthright for a bowl of soup
Esau
This prince of Wales was also known as the Black Prince
Edward
“Camping”: To rough it in comfort, supplement your sleeping bag with a inflatable one of these
mattress
Boy Scouts know it's easy to build one of these using structures called pyramid, tepee or cross-ditch
campfire
Hanging food between trees to keep it from a certain animal is called this alliterative "bagging"
bear bagging;bear
Mary, let John attach this from the side of the tent to a stake--"it's a" this "thing"
guy
Like some antiseptics, water purification products like Potable Aqua are based on this element
iodine
“20th Century Countries”: The leader of' this former Soviet republic renamed April for his mom & January Turkmenbashi (his official name)
Turkmenistan
Until Independence Guyana was spelled Guiana & had this adjective before its name
British
Botswana is one of the 32 African countries that gained independence in this decade
1960s;1960’s;60’s;60s
“Small Screen Vampires”: The over 240-year-old vampire known as angel first appeared on this TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
He's the number-happy Muppet version of Dracula who lives on "Sesame Street"
Count
On the wacky 1960s comedy "The Munsters" it's the one-word familial name of Al Lewis' 350-year-old vampire
Grandpa
“Technology”: Machine for which Glenn Curtiss produced the aileron
airplane
Reportedly, the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time
golfing
In 1654 a famous demonstration had 2 horses trying to pull apart halves of a sphere with this inside it
vacuum
The Sony display unit used at Air Canada Centre & around the world has this suitably colossal name
JumboTron
Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work
AC;alternating current;alternating
“Similar Titles”: 417 years after Machiavelli, Antonio Gramsci wrote "The Modern" this
Prince
Hemingway knocked out "A Farewell to Arms" & he punched out "Farewell, My Lovely"
Chandler
Christopher Isherwood wrote "I Am A Camera" & he wrote "Decameron"
Bocaccio
Leopoldo Lugones gave us "Twilights in the Garden"; John Berendt, this time "in the Garden of Good and Evil"
Midnight
Machado de Assis did "Philosopher or" this; Dylan Thomas, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young" this
Dog
“Crossword Clues ‘C’”: Bubbly booze (9 letters)
champagne
Beany's seasick sea serpent (5 letters)
Cecil
English field game, or field insect (7 letters)
cricket
Aid's treasonous partner (7 letters)
comfort
Language of Sequoyah's syllabary (8 letters)
Cherokee
“Fast Food Nation” (name the restaurant): Whopper Jr.
Burger King
Sourdough Jack
Jack in the Box
Classic Triple with Cheese
Wendy’s
Ultimate Deep Dish Pizza & Cinna Stix
Domino’s
The Big N' Tasty
McDonald’s
“Lesser Known Names”: Sadly, Army nurse Clara Maass died in 1901 after she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying this
yellow fever
It was the profession of Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, teacher & father-in-law of Jan Steen
artist/painter;artist;painter
In 1930 former Standard Oil president Henry Folger founded one of these in Washington, D.C.
library
Only one British prime minister, Spencer Perceval in 1812, left office due to this; 4 U.S. presidents did
assassination
In 1969 university professors Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize for this
Economics
“Animal Words & Phrases”: It's said that you can lead this animal to water, but you cannot make it drink
horse
If you're doing very well, you're living high off this creature
hog
Simian container that's a standard for hilarity
barrel of monkeys
Something very, very rare is "as scarce as" these chicken parts
hen’s teeth;teeth
Release a Russian blue or reveal a secret
letting the cat out of the bag
“18th Birthdays”: Leo is a sign for leaders, like this actor, director & Sundance Institute founder born Aug. 18
Robert Redford;Redford
The day he was born, Feb. 18, 1964, his mom could have watched the "Gunsmoke" marshal of the same name on TV
Matt Dillon;Dillon
March 18 babies include Grover Cleveland & Rudolf Diesel, who rose to this, & Irene Cara, who sang about it
fame
This Chicago Bears tight end & coaching legend may want to up his dose of Levitra every Oct. 18 birthday
Mike Ditka
This female Motown vocalist was born in Alabama one July 18, maybe during a "heat wave"
Martha Reeves;Reeves
“Time To Vote!”: Think your vote doesn't count? An 1882 congressional race was won 10,505 votes to this
10,504;10504;10 504
A 1965 act says, "No voting qualification... shall be imposed" so as to deny anyone a vote based on this
race
North Dakota is the only state that doesn't require voters to do this; rural folks know who's qualified
register
The 19th century ballot pre-printed by political parties was called this, as in "voting the straight" one
ticket
“World Cities”: Egypt's most populous city, it lies near the head of the Nile delta
Cairo
Venezuela's second-largest city, it lies on the shore of a lake with which it shares its name
Maracaibo
Now home to over a million, Munich or Munchen began as a settlement of these people, hence the city's name
monks;monk
Mount Wellington is not in New Zealand but lies just miles west of this Tasmanian port
Hobart
A castle keep in this French city is known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc
Rouen
“A Few ‘Bar’s of Music”: Have a shave & a haircut before seeing this Rossini opera that debuted in 1816
Barber of Seville
If you moon over Monteverdi & swoon over Scarlatti, we assume that you "go for" this musical style
baroque
Hey, suckers, Marianne Tatum played Jenny Lind in this Tony-winning musical
Barnum
Venetian gondoliers are famous for singing this kind of boat song
barcarolle
This great 20th century Hungarian composer wrote the music for the ballet "The Wooden Prince"
Bartok
“Proper Names”: A short haircut for women, or what you do "for apples" on Halloween
bob
If you need to change a tire, you'd better have one of these in your trunk
jack
This cooking spray first made its way into kitchens over 45 years ago
Pam
A female donkey, or an early spinning machine
jenny
“Quotations”: In song these "go together like a horse and carriage"
love and marriage
In 1971 the New York Times quoted this future Secretary of State as saying, "Power is the great aphrodisiac"
Kissinger
"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done" is from this Shakespeare play
Macbeth
In this ode Keats commands, "Away! Away! For I will fly to thee"
Ode to a Nightingale
“Latin Class”: Ante means before, as in ante partum, the period before childbirth; this word means after
post
Exempli gratia, abbreviated e.g. in English, means this
for example
The verb "to be" has est as third person singular & this as first person singular
sum
Accusative (for direct objects of verbs) & dative (for indirect) are 2 of Latin's several of these
cases
Latin for "mountain", it follows Olympus & Pavonis in the names of Martian volcanoes
Mons
“Inventions”: The first touch-tone one of these was placed in service in 1963
telephone;phone
Gymnast George Nissen invented the first modern one of these in 1936; some called it a bouncing net
trampoline
Not named when it steamed up the Hudson river in 1807, it was later named for the estate of Fulton's backer
Clermont
In 1824 British bricklayer Joseph Aspdin invented the Portland type of this
cement
In 1868 Christopher Sholes & 2 others patented the typewriter; in 1873 this gunmaker got the contract to market it
Remington
“Let’s Run It Up The Flagpole”: The stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points
5;five
Color of the left hand stripe on the flag of Italy; it's not a color in Neapolitan ice cream
green
Richard III had a white boar on his flag; Louis XII, a porcupine; & Louis XIV, a radiating one of these
sun
After Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag
elephants;elephant
“’G’ Whiz”: The first success for the theater of the Absurd, a 1952 Samuel Beckett play is about this title figure
Godot
The first snorkels were used by submarine crews of this nation to get air to their engines without surfacing
Germany
Excluding noncopyrighted works, this book first published in 1955 is the bestselling book in the world
Guinness Book of World Records
The 2-man capsules of this program were propelled into orbit by Titan II rockets
Gemini
The 1983 invasion of this country inspired the plot of the film "Heartbreak Ridge"
Grenada
“Bodies Of Water”: According to Hindu myth, this sacred river emanated from the toe of Vishnu
Ganges
Ding dong! This river calling from Northamptonshire, England, flowing southwest to the Severn
Avon
This lake is the chief source of the Nile River
Victoria
The Lake of Neuchatel is the largest lake entirely within this country
Switzerland
This bay noted for its high tides separates New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
Bay of Fundy
“Bill Clinton’s Favourite Books”: Making the list was the recent memoir by this current female senator
Hillary Clinton;Clinton;Hillary
We must confess, William Styron's "The Confessions of" this man shows up
Nat Turner
The "Collected Poems" of this Irish poet & 1923 Nobel Prize winner gained Bill's admiration enough to be listed
Yeats
“The Solar System”: On Jan. 2, 2004 the Stardust probe collected dust samples from Wild 2, one of these, & is returning them to Earth
comet
Mercury is believed to have one of the densest in the solar system, made of iron & nickel
core
Moving at 2.9 miles per second, this planet (well, no longer a planet) has the slowest orbital speed of any planet in our solar system
Pluto
This 17th century German astronomer's ist law states that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun
Kepler
“’Tude’ Ranch”: A synonym for elevation
altitude
The state or quality of being alone or remote from others
solitude
The condition of thankfulness
gratitude
In law, imprisonment with hard labor is "penal" this
servitude
A musical composition for the development of a specific technique
etude
“The Internet”: Among 2-letter country codes in Internet addresses, "de" is Germany, "kh" is Cambodia & "es" is this country
Spain