Homophones
Deep voice, or plate in baseball.
What is Bass/Base
It is the largest state in terms of land size west of the Mississippi.
What is Alaska
A synonym for labyrinth, it comes from the Old English word masian, meaning "'to confuse."
What is Maze
This weekly magazine takes the time to put newsmaking people on their covers.
What is Time/People
This synonym for "newspaper" is in the names of newspapers like Wall Street's.
What is Journal
Apple/coconut cream dessert, or 3.14.
What is Pie/Pi
They were the co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast.
Who is Lewis & Clark
A partial wig used to cover baldness, its name comes from Old French for "tuft of hair."
What is Toupee
In Weird Al Yankovic's song "Albuquerque" he mentions the name of this New Mexico city 34 times.
What is Albuquerque
In 2011 bell ringers for this charity started accepting digital donations to its red kettle.
What is Salvation Army
Nails you can press with a thumb, or what the IRS makes us all pay.
What is Tacks/Tax
This Idaho capital contains the oldest synagogue still in use west of the Mississippi.
What is Boise
Preservation technique whose name comes from the Greek words for "arrangement" & "skin."
What is Taxidermy
Noted for its long horns that can span 7 feet or more, this is the official state large mammal of Texas.
What is Longhorn
If you were to roll a dice, each opposite side would add up to this.
What is 7
Highway 66, or a part of a carrot.
What is Route/Root
The first newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette, published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808.
What is St. Louis
This word for an elephant or rhino comes from the Greek for "thick skin."
What is Pachyderm
Bordering Angola & Botswana, what is now Namibia was administered by this South African country until 1990.
What is South Africa
The suits in this deck of cards include wands, pentacles & cups.
What is Tarot Cards
To impose a tax, or an embankment built along a river.
What is Levy/Levee
5 U.S. states have 6-letter names; only these 2 west of the Mississippi River border each other.
What is Oregon & Nevada
This rodent's name comes from Middle French for "spiny pig."
What is Porcupine
"A Captain's Duty", a memoir by Richard Phillips, was the basis for this 2013 movie.
What is Captain Phillips
In 1991 the N.Y. Supreme Court ruled that a home buyer could void the sale as he hadn't known the house was this.
What is Haunted