Homophones
A military rank & a corn seed
Colonel & Kernel
Florida's Streamline Hotel is the birthplace of this auto racing organization
NASCAR
Remove "T" from a piece of dining room furniture & you get this word meaning competent
Able
In 2000 Ralph Nader received nearly 3 million presidential votes for this colorful party
The Green Party
A neutron has approximately the same mass as this other type of subatomic particle
A Proton
Time of dawn & time of sorrow
Morning & Mourning
On April 22, 1954 the NBA changed forever with the adoption of a shot clock with a time limit of this many seconds
24
Take "T" off a word meaning to cut & you get this edge of a crater
Rim
Historians paired this word with "Republican" in the name of an 18th & 19th century American party
Democratic
Of the 3 basic states of matter, this one has particles with the least kinetic energy
Solid
A way of behaving and a lord's estate
Manner & Manor
This tournament was first contested in 1930 & won by host nation Uruguay, 4-2 over Argentina
The World Cup
Remove "T" from a hiking path & you get this horizontal bar
Rail
Due to the participation of Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt, this incumbent president finished third in 1912
William Howard Taft
The main products of the alcoholic fermentation of sugar are ethanol & this gas
Carbon Dioxide
To lift up & to tear down
Raise & Raze
It took 11 hours & 5 minutes over 3 days at this grand slam tennis venue in 2010 for John Isner to defeat Nicolas Mahut
Wimbledon
Get rid of the "T" in the regular rises & falls of the oceans & you get this day in a Roman month
The Ides
In 2016 this party got Gary Johnson on ballots in all 50 states, the first time for a third party since 1996
Libertarian
In a flame test, this element--atomic number 11--burns yellow; it's also often the basis of the yellow color in fireworks
Sodium
Gets ahead by the whole length of a track, or a slip-up in judgment.
Laps and Lapse
In the 1971 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast to score a perfect score. What country was she representing?
Romania
Detach "T" from an edible fungus & you get this ornamental frill on a garment
The Objectivist Party seeks to promote the political philosophy of this female novelist who died in 1982
Ayn Rand
Known to early chemists as "oil of vitriol", this corrosive, colorless acid is found in car batteries
Sulfuric