Bolivia
Spanish
He's the mythical youth depicted here in a painting.

Cupid
The adventures of this J.M. Barrie title character have appeared with the subtitle "The Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up"
Peter Pan
It can mean to rise into the air like an airplane or to take the throne
Ascend
His questionable election as President got him dubbed "Rutherfraud"
Rutherford B. Hayes
Brazil
Portuguese
This adjective describes a very cold climate or a cold response.
Frigid
You're going on an adventure with dwarves & dragons if you're reading this book subtitled "There and Back Again"
The Hobbit
Can I be this with you?--very honest & straightforward
Candid
Famous for his hair & tackles, he was "the claymaker" of the Green Bay Packers
Clay Matthews
Kuwait
Arabic
In ancient Rome it wasn't the 15th of March but also of May, July, and October.
Ides
Charles Dickens novel subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"
Oliver Twist
A mathematician's 9-year-old nephew came up with this word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
Googol
This Queen who died in 1603 was known as "Gloriana"
Elizabeth I
Haiti
French
Unless you went to the market, "Bring home the bacon" is this kind of phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says
Idiom
This Alex Haley book is subtitled "The Saga of an American Family"
Roots
It's the proper 6-letter name for the offspring seen here

Cygnet
Friends shunning you? You've been "treated like" this disease-carrying early 20th c. woman
Typhoid Mary
Liberia
English
Strokes are often caused by a narrowing of these arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain
Carotid
Earth is a scary place in this recent Max Brooks novel subtitled "An Oral History of the Zombie War"
World War Z
By definition, this verb form operates as a noun & ends in -ing
Gerund
Life was a circus for this "Prince of Showmen" aka "Prince of Humbugs"
P.T. Barnum