"A" is for Autumn
An October festival for the harvest of these has been held for decades in Arendtsville, Pennsylvania
Apples
Short, disrespectful quiet laughs
Snickers
She joined the Supreme Court as its second female justice October 4, 1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
To soak fabric in cleaning solution before putting it in the washing machine
Pretreat
With this year for a book title, Charles C. Mann brings to life what civilization was like in the Americas before Columbus
1491
Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl"
Auburn
The diameter of this is about 100,000 light-years, but it doesn't have a malt-flavored nougat center
Milky Way
An international fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M. each October sees hundreds of these rise heavenward
Hot-air balloons
3 scores by one hockey player in one game
On a high stone pyramid, Aztec priests performed sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli, god of this heavenly body
The Sun
This period in the ecclesiastical year leading up to Christmas begins Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020
Advent
This 1844 novel is set during the time of Louis XIII
Three Musketeers
In October 1936 power from this massive project began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States
Hoover Dam
It can be a place offering privacy & quiet, or a military withdrawal of forces to a more favorable position
Road-building & irrigation--lots of infrastructure investment by this S. American people who ruled an empire of nearly 12 million
Inca
Though as zodiac signs they're in January, February, March & April, these 2 constellations are best viewed in fall in the N. Hemisphere
Aries & Aquarius
More than one elevated ground area for baseball pitchers
Mounds
Bringing the world to the brink of war, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during October of this year
1962
To give someone this is to show disapproval by deliberately not communicating with him
Silent treatment
This "green table" region of southwest Colorado was home to Pueblo cliff dwellers more than 7 centuries ago
Mesa Verde
Sometimes called "quaking", this tree brings glorious color to autumn in Colorado
Aspen
Born to Nathan & Celia Bader March 15, 1933
Babe Ruth
Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938
War of the Worlds
8-letter word meaning a written work dealing formally & systematically with a subject
Treatise
Existing from about 1200-400 B.C., this civilization of Mesoamerica is closely identified with giant stone heads
Olmecs