The alimentary & the Kiel are very different types of these
canals
This plain in southeast Mexico is hot, like the pepper & sauce of the same name
Tabasco
Hurry up! This adverb meaning with haste is worth a big 25 points in Scrabble
quickly
Earth Day
spring
Having these items "on the ground" means soldiers have been deployed to a hostile environment
boots
Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River
Green Bay
A public disgrace, with or without TV President Fitzgerald Grant
into a tree
The Kanto Plain, Japan's biggest, occupies more than 6,000 square miles of this island
Honshu
Not at any time, not now, not in the past, not in the future, not under any condition
never
Daylight saving time ends
autumn
Getting in trouble is called "catching" this, a type of anti-aircraft gun
flak
A Southern California city & a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name
Orange
To pour that Cabernet oh-so-gently into another container
DD decant
Steve Jobs liked to say Apple products were this "crazy" kind of great, also the title of a book about the Macintosh
insanely
National Hangover Day (think about it a half-sec, you'll get it)
winter
Referring to a clock position, if a soldier says he's "got your" this number, he's watching your back
six
Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation
Baton Rouge
Mother-of-pearl! It's AKA mother-of-pearl!
nacre
The Colombian Abyssal Plain underlies the south-central part of this sea
the Caribbean
Specifically taking place every 8,760 hours
annually (yearly)
Burning Man
summer
Meaning a choice to use atomic weapons, it was applied by Trent Lott to a drastic change in Senate rules
DD a nuclear option
This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros
Brownsville
Duck! This French term also means a baseless & derogatory rumor
canard
The Russian Plain extends from the country's western border to these mountains that run 1,550 miles from north to south
DD the Urals
From the Greek for "angle to angle", it means in the direction of a slanting straight line
diagonally
Ash Wednesday
winter
By tradition, you can fool an enemy ship with a fake flag until battle begins--then you have to "show your" these
(true) colors
This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital
DD Golden