DOGS
With its keen sense of smell, this dog is reputed to be the best of all trackers
a bloodhound
Larry Hagman said, "I only had one mistress I didn't like" on this series, but he didn't name her
Dallas
Mark Twain wrote of this huge melon, "When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat"
a watermelon
"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up" this man
Jonah
This team, in a 2025 World Series Game 7 thriller over the Toronto Blue Jays
the Dodgers
Charlie Brown could tell you this hound is the supreme rabbit-hunting breed
the beagle
Scott Bakula leaped into the role of Mary Jo's ex on the pilot of this series about the Sugarbakers
Designing Women
The fond or heart of this thistle-like vegetable is covered by the choke
an artichoke
It's the city in which Lot lived
Sodom
Rafael Nadal, of this clay court event every year ever (OK, just 14 times from 2005 to 2022)
the French Open
The most valued of this smallest breed weigh less than 2 1/4 pounds
the Chihuahua
In 1984 Janet Jackson joined the cast of this series set at the High School for the Performing Arts
Fame
This vegetable is the main ingredient of baba ghanoush & ratatouille
eggplant
This Hittite was Bathsheba's first husband
Uriah
This K.C. guy, MVP of the 2020, 2023 & 2024 Super Bowls
Mahomes
Until some 40 years ago, this canine "athlete" was virtually unknown outside of Germany
the boxer
In the series based on this film, Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O'Neal an Oscar
Paper Moon
Italians call this "pomodoro", meaning golden apple
a tomato
This last Old Testament book concludes with a prophecy of the "great and dreadful day of the Lord"
Malachi
Secretariat, clinching a Triple Crown with a 31-length win in this 1973 race
the Belmont Stakes
The Dandie Dinmont terrier was named after a character in this author's "Guy Mannering"
Sir Walter Scott
You could say Fred Astaire "stole" the show as Robert Wagner's father on this series
It Takes a Thief
This "Belgian" vegetable is also called "witloof", meaning white leaf
endive
A verse from the Song of Solomon says, "I am" this rose, "and the lily of the valleys"
The rose of Sharon
This skier, birth name the not-as-fun Breanna, in the downhill for the USA's first gold at Milan Cortina 2026
(Breezy) Johnson