Set the Table
On your next cruise, you may be lucky enough to get an invitation to dine at the table of this officer, who will be in uniform
The Captain
In a 2019 memoir Carly Simon wrote about her friendship with this first lady, whom she first met on Martha's Vineyard
Jacqueline Kennedy
A 2012 headline asked if this kind of voter would "tip the election against Obama", but we haven't made up our minds on that yet
undecided
Your pen pal knows it's an exchange of letters between 2 people
correspondence
Cremona is known as the home of this instrument craftsman who died there in his 90s in 1737
Stradivarius
Lord Byron wrote about this emperor after he died, "whose stakes were thrones, whose table earth--whose dice were human bones"
Napoleon
Her first husband John Todd & their youngest son died during a 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
Dolley Madison
Separated or isolated, like the garage next to a house
detached
A book about this demographic & economic shift seen "From the Ground Up" is titled "There Goes the 'Hood"
gentrification
Now it's a "confusing spread of ruins"; during Rome's golden age, this open area bustled with shoppers & lawyers
The Forum
The 23rd Psalm says, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of" these people
my enemies
This future first lady made her society debut in 1902 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fair-minded, like this word, is a 10-letter adjective, includes a body part & means not favoring one or another
evenhanded
In 597 B.C. this king II deported King Jehoiachin to Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
The name of 34 x 7-mile Lake Maggiore means this, in relation to nearby lakes
Largest (it's bigger than they are)
Playwright George S. Kaufman was a core member of this witty literary group whose name includes the hotel it met at
From a prominent & wealthy Ohio family, she was known as the "Belle of Canton"
Ida McKinley
"Black's Law Dictionary" said it's a "term used for... fair and unprejudiced"; a good juror should be that way
impartial
In philosophy, it prioritizes free will; as a political philosophy, it prioritizes individual freedom
libertarianism
It's the Italian name for the city of Dante & Machiavelli
Firenze
If you head to this country, take a peek at its Table Mountain, which overlooks Table Bay
South Africa
Reputed to have had quasi presidential powers for a while, she lived into the 1960s
Edith Wilson
As an adjective, it means to be clear on facts, with no personal feelings; as a noun, it refers to the goal of a task
an objective
Self-hypnosis may make use of this, the planting of your own ideas into your subconscious
autosuggestion
Here's Sforza Castle, a 15th century fortification commissioned by the family that ruled over this city for nearly a century
Milan