TITLE CHARACTERS
This Mark Twain character travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with Jim, an escaped slave.
Huckleberry Finn
Body art.
Tattoo
This other state capital is the one closest to Boston – about 49 miles away.
Providence, RI
These thin strips of salt-cured or brined salmon are sometimes smoked and often accompany bagels and cream cheese.
Lox (or gravlax)
Leaf
Flea
This Bram Stoker character has the unusual ability to transform himself into a bat.
Count Dracula
To tell secrets or inform on one another, especially by children; to snitch.
Tattle
This tourist pathway is 2.5 miles long, starting at the Boston Common and ending at the Bunker Hill Monument.
The Freedom Trail
The main ingredients in this French cream soup are leeks and potatoes … and it is meant to be served chilled.
Vichyssoise (VISH-ee-shwahz)
Paws
Wasp
This Miguel de Cervantes character’s loyal squire was Sancho Panza, who was actually a simple farm laborer.
Don Quixote
Tried.
Attempted
The 2015 Academy Award-winning film Spotlight told the story of this newspaper’s investigation into the coverup of child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
The Boston Globe
This dish consists of raw ground (minced) beef topped with a raw egg yolk.
Steak tartare
Prides
Spider
This Charlotte Brontë character became governess to the children of Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.
Jane Eyre
Egg based Italian dish, similar to an omelet or crustless quiche.
Frittata
To honor this 1941 classic children’s book by Robert McCloskey, bronze statues of Mrs. Mallard and her eight little ones (Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack) were installed in the Boston Public Garden in the 1980s.
Make Way for Ducklings
This cold, blended, tomato and vegetable soup comes from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and is often enjoyed in the summer.
Gazpacho
Emitter
This Joanna Spyri character was taken to the high Swiss Alps to live with her reclusive grandfather.
Heidi
A formal law passed by a legislative body.
Statute
This major thoroughfare is 16 miles long, starting in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, running through Roxbury, Back Bay, crossing the Charles River into Cambridge, then through Arlington and ending in Lexington. Paul Revere raced through a section of it in his famous ride.
Massachusetts Avenue
Shrimp served this way is not so much cooked as cured in citrus juice, such as lemon or lime.
Ceviche
Throne
Hornet