Crossword Clues "B"
Arm bauble (8)
a bracelet
One end of Route 66 is at Grant Park on the corner of Jackson & Michigan Avenues in this city
Chicago
In 1802 he described the humiliation he felt when someone next to him "heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing"
Beethoven
Worshippers at this Jerusalem holy site insert bits of paper containing written prayers into its cracks
The Wailing Wall
Bismarck,
Boise,
Baton Rouge
Bismark
Mom & dad's date night essential (10)
a babysitter
One of these theaters was opened in 1949 in Carthage, Missouri; occupying 9 acres, it's still in operation
a drive-in
His 1884 "Holberg Suite" was written to honor the bicentennial of the birth of Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg
(Edvard) Grieg
Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark
The Sphinx
Salt Lake City,
Sacramento,
Salem
Salem
Neighbor of a Guatemalan (8)
Belizian
The only major city on Route 66 in Texas' upper panhandle; its attractions include Taylor's Texaco station
Amarillo
A proud Czech, Smetana wrote of "Brandenburgers In" this region & a work depicting the region's "Meadows And Forests"
Bohemia
The pediment of his memorial contains a sculpture of the 5 members of the Declaration of Independence Drafting Committee
Tallahassee,
Austin,
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City
B.A. stretched to 13 letters (13)
baccalaureate
Part of this 1940 Henry Fonda movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on Route 66
The Grapes of Wrath
This Russian composer dipped into the heritage of neighboring lands with his "Scheherazade"
Rimsky-Korsakov
Sainte-Chappelle, with fabulous stained glass windows, stands near the more famous Notre-Dame Cathedral on this island
The Ile de la Cite (in Paris)
Boston,
Concord,
Hartford
Concord
What a madhouse (6)
bedlam
In 2009 the Route 66 Alliance designated this California city's pier as the "end of the trail"
Santa Monica
To become director of the Vienna court opera in 1897, this Austrian converted from Judaism to Catholicism
(Gustav) Mahler
The El Caracol structure at the ruins of this ancient Mayan city in Mexico served as a 10th century observatory
Chichen Itza
Denver,
Des Moines,
Nashville
Des Moines