This song from "The Sound of Music" mentions "brown paper packages tied up with strings"
My Favorite Things
You'll find these 2 states on Colorado's eastern border
Kansas & Nebraska
Bananas are rich in this element that controls the body's fluid balance, providing more than almost any other fruit
Potassium
This constellation depicts the creature that fatally stung Orion
Scorpio
Blemish (3)
Zit
Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film
Dear Evan Hansen
Of the "Four Corners" states, this is the southwestern one
Arizona
The breakfast fruit comes in three different flesh colors: red, pink, & white (which is actually yellow)
Grapefruit
Leo is a lion--& not just any lion, but the Nemean one slain by this hero
Hercules
African mammal of the genus Equus (5)
Zebra
Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham
The Book of Mormon
You probably know what's on North Dakota's Souther border; on its western border is this state
Montana
Named for a city in Morocco, it's the most common type of Mandarin orange in the U.S.
Tangerine
As a constellation & as a sign of the zodiac, Virgo is associated with this daughter of Demeter
Persephone
Colloquial name for Coordinated Universal Time (4)
Zulu
Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing
Phantom of the Opera
Delaware's southern border is with this state
Maryland
Up to 88% of this green-skinned fruit's calories are fat
Avacado
Carina--the keel, Puppis--the stern, & Vela--the sails--once sailed the sky as part of a larger constellation named for this ship
Part of the East African republic of Tanzania (8)
Zanzibar
He played silent film star Don Lockwood, who liked the glorious feelin' of "Singin' in the Rain"
Gene Kelly
It's the number of states that border the Gulf of Mexico
Five
The name of this peach-like fruit comes from that of the mythological drink of the gods
Nectarine
5 stars form a "W" in this constellation named for a mythic queen of Ethiopia
Cassiopeia
General trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time (9)
Zeitgeist