COLORS
It's a creamy white color, or what white piano keys were once widely made of
Ivory
The Bacardi factory in Puerto Rico can make 100,000 gallons of this liquor a day
rum
A big hug (7)
embrace
A single unit of language & a sharp weapon with a long blade
word sword
These sidewalk fixtures allow firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply
hydrants
Appropriate shade of blue to wear at 12 A.M.
Midnight blue
Oyster plant, a root vegetable is also known as this biblical baby "-on-a-raft" or "-in-the-bulrushes"
Moses
Social dos & don'ts (9)
etiquette
A fashion show runway walker & to sing in a style that fluctuates between falsetto & normal
model yodel
You can draw the pattern for hopscotch with Crayola's rhymingly named sidewalk this
chalk
This Indian name for corn also refers to the color of corn
Maize
A twilled fabric often used to cover pillows, or what a clock is doing when it's working properly
ticking
2 - 2 = 0 (8)
equation
An unrecognized person & fury
stranger & anger
Head outdoors for this 3-word game, also the object of the board game Stratego
capture the flag
The 2 shades of red named for January's & July's birthstones
Garnet & Ruby
In 1996 this "vampire" cereal from General Mills added swirled ghost marshmallows
Count Chocula
Dry up (9)
evaporate
Your immortal part & a ball out of play
soul & foul
Go lie in one of these hanging beds made of canvas or netted cord & strung between 2 trees
hammock
This fruity shade of orange shares its name with the Chinese officials who wore robes of that color
Mandarins
Lenox makes a set of thimbles shaped like these structures, including the one at Cape Hatteras
lighthouses
Historic period (5)
epoch
A large carnivorous feline of Asia & a landlocked desert nation of West Africa
tiger Niger
It's an outdoor structure used for a newsstand or Redbox rentals
kiosk