A heavy scarf
(against cold, not noise)
Muffler
It's the northernmost and smallest of the 3 Baltic nations
Estonia
Before winning the world heavyweight title, he said he wasn't "the greatest; I'm the double greatest"
Muhammad Ali
During the war of 1812, this Rip Van Winkle author wrote biographies of naval commanders
Washington Irving
Won
(One)
To grow weary
Tire
Get all your shots before you canoe down this small Congo river with the same name as a deadly hemorrhagic virus
Ebola River
Of baseball, this Yankees hall of fame catcher remarked "Ninety per cent of the game is half mental"
Yogi Berra
His father was also a count: his mother was Princess Volkonskaya
Leo Tolstoy
Completes the title of Jeffrey Steingarten's book It Must Have Been Something I..."
Ate
(eight)
Clothing or equipment; it follows "L.A." in the name of an athletics supply company
Gear
Napoleon could tell you it's the largest island in Italy's Tuscan archipelago
Elba
This Chicago Bears Defensive tackle nicknamed "Refrigerator" said that "Even when I was little, I was big"
William Perry
At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
A negative, in Neuburg
Nein
(nine)
The inedible, fuzzy inner part of the item seen here
Choke
In the 9th and 10th centuries, Danish Norsemen controlled a region called the Danelaw in this country
England
Asked about his golf game after leaving the White House, this 34th president said that "A lot more people beat me now."
Dwight D Eisenhower
In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of The Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India
Rudyard Kipling
It means toward the bow, you landlubber
Fore
(four)
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that _____ and frets his hour upon the stage"
Struts
Cast in a battle scene in "Lord of the Rings", New Zealand's army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province
East Timor
Vince Lombardi declared that "winning isn't everything, it's..."
The only thing
This author of The Outcasts of Poker Flat served a US consul in Germany and Scotland between 1878 and 1885
Bret Harte
Unleashes a dog to attack
Sics
(six)