JUST TAKE THE L
Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect
Bowing and Bowling
If you're ichthyophagous, your meals consist of these
Fish
Airtight, like an alibi, or an old armor-plated warship
Ironclad
Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal"
Hope
The town in which our adventure started
Nutmeg Falls
Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease
Curling and Curing
Those that are galactophagous get their sustenance via this liquid
Milk
It can be a simple remedy for a difficult problem, or what's needed to kill a werewolf
Silver Bullet
Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot
Westminster Abbey
You fought this aquatic terror in Vormin Starpocket's Lab. In French, it is known as the Sentinelle d'eau
Water Weird
The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible
Label and Abel
If you're apivorous, you get by dining on these
Bees
This term for Northerners opposed to the Civil War likened them to a snake in the grass
Copperheads
"Higher Laws" & "The Pond in Winter" are 2 of the 18 essays in this collection by Thoreau
Walden
While playing the part of a servant, Dolomite forcefully wooed this Gnomish nobleman archer
Triwyn Twinflow
Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way
Carousel and Carouse
Mycophagists are people who eat these in the wild, avoiding the autumn skullcap
Mushrooms
Fashion model Derek Zoolander gave this name to his trademark look; others include Ferrari & Le Tigre
Blue Steel
This 1929 essay says a woman must have a dedicated personal space in order to become a fiction writer
A Room of One's Own
Samathin outsmarted the dungeon designer when he used this item to hold down a 2nd lever in the laser beam hallway
Immovable Rod
A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete
Clement and Cement
Saurophagous is a description for those that eat these, tails & all
Lizards
A song in "Guys & Dolls" is called "Fugue For" these, slang for gamblers with more flash than cash
Tinhorns
The word "essay" came into English in a 1597 work by this Sir Francis, last name not Drake
Bacon
These quiet individuals who assisted Vormin Starpocket in construction of his vault were described by him as "maniac time-jockeys"
Chrono-monks