Crossword Clues "P"
Fuzzy freestone fruit
Peach
A person with training or experience that makes them an expert in a particular field
Specialist
Tintenfisch, or "ink fish", is this creature
A Squid
A 2006 landmark at the gate of Chicago's Union Stockyards honors the 100th anniversary of this Upton Sinclair novel
The Jungle
Joanne is her first name; she has no middle name but Kathleen was added for literary purposes in honor of her grandmother
J.K. Rowling
South American cloak
Poncho
Someone who fights with their fists for a sport
Pugilist
Words for "shield" & "toad" combine to make the German name for this reptile
A Turtle
Landmarks in this city at the very bottom of Florida include homes of Robert Frost, John Hersey & Wallace Stevens
The Key West
Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names
Thoreau; Justin
Square, rectangle, or rhombus
Parrellelogram
A member of an ancient people of the Middle East, or a person with no interest in intellectual pursuits
A Philistine
This bug's German name, stechmucke, translates to "stabbing gnat"
A mosquito
Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death
All Quiet on the Western Front
This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name
Faulkner, Paige
Stolen, like the "Letter" in an Edgar Allen Poe story
Purloined
From the Greek for "'beauty" & "strength", it's basic exercises for fitness with little use of special equipment
Calisthenics
Nacktschnecke, the German word for this gastropod, translates as "naked snail"
The birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a landmark at 481 Laurel Avenue in this midwestern state capital
St. Paul
Marguerite Johnson was a singer when she took this stage name & used it when she wrote poems like "Still I Rise"
Maya Angelou
Social outcast
Pariah
If you're an expert on this, you help police detectives solve crimes by linking bullets to guns & their owners
Ballistics
From the way they stand up, these African mongoose relatives are called "little earth men" in German
A meerkat
Nineteen of this man's monologues, including "Morning, Noon, and Night", were written at his home in Sag Harbor, New York
Spalding Gray
New Yorker Nathan Weinstein fittingly changed his name to this & eventually moved out to Hollywood
Nathanael West