LITERARY HODGEPODGE
In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening
A Nightingale
The small depressions on a golf ball are called these; smile & show yours
Dimples
Are you Tolkien to me? I'm the "eye" in your sky! But you have to give me & my Black Riders a ring to win my love!
Sauron
You can fly by this of your pants, or earn this in Congress
Seat
This prime minister who led Britain through WWII was a prolific & talented painter as well
Winston Churchill
You know this Lewis Carroll classic by a shortened name; its full title includes the word "Adventures"
Alice in Wonderland
A polyglot, one who speaks many languages, can also be called multi-this, from the Latin for "tongue"
Lingual
Turn-ons: Type O-positive personalities; turn-offs: Dutch metaphysicians who try to kill me
Dracula
There's a 120-mm gun on this armored warfare vehicle
Tank
Postage stamp glue is one of the more than 100 products this African American developed from sweet potatoes
George Washington Carver
Part I of this 1995 Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is called "Munchkinlanders"
Wicked
Lupine means "like a wolf"; porcine means like this animal
Pig
Back on market after a bad breakup with my ex-GF, Nancy; okay, I killed her, but she betrayed Fagin!
Bill Sykes
An estuary is where the salt & fresh types of this are mixed
Water
In 1913 he invented a counter for detecting atomic particles
Geiger
"A Separate Peace" tells of 2 preppies at the Devon School in this "Granite State"
New Hampshire
Someone who's described as patroclinous would most resemble this person
Your father
"Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me", especially when I'm enjoying having people for dinner
Hannibal Lecter
A sudden rise of emotion, as in one "of anger"; in cards, it can be royal
Flush
This heart surgeon who saved millions of lives with the procedures he developed passed away in 2008 at 99
Dr. Micheal DeBakey
"The Amber Spyglass" is the third book in the trilogy called "His Dark" these
Materials
Adjective meaning like the author of "The Prince", or like the cunning policies set forth in the book
Machiavellian
I'm a brilliant academic but I tend to leave the deerstalker caps & hard drugs to a certain arch-nemesis
Moriarty
Poet Keats or jurist Marshall
John's
For his 1755 "Dictionary of the English Language", he wrote definitions for more than 40,000 words
Samuel Johnson