Hub
Naturally, this airline's 3 main hubs are Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver
Air Canada
Disease-spreading rats & mice & cockroaches, oh my!
Vermin
A natural lefty, but less so on the court, he'll become the first man to hoop in a 23rd season when the NBA opens play on October 21, 2025
Lebron James
Muslims are required to pray 5 times a day while facing this holy city
Mecca
Conflagration
Fire
Alaska Airlines' main hub is Sea-Tac, but the company does have a hub at Ted Stevens Intl. serving this city, of course
Anchorage
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
Viscous
The 1990s only saw lefties in the White House as these 2 consecutive presidents were southpaws
Bush and Clinton
In the 200s B.C. Indian emperor Ashoka converted to this religion that had been founded about 300 years earlier
Buddhism
Loam
Earth
Alaska Airlines' main hub is Sea-Tac, but the company does have a hub at Ted Stevens Intl. serving this city, of course
Delta
Insert 2 letters into a word meaning to disappear to get this term meaning to defeat in battle
Vanquish
This Supreme Court justice & equal rights advocate used her left hand to make her mark in lead opinions like U.S. v. Virginia
Ginsburg
The name of the divine mother goddess Durga in this religion is Sanskrit for "invincible"
Hinduism
Flashover
Fire
This United hub in the Northeast has the code EWR, which has 3 of the city's 6 letters
Newark
It's a 9-letter word for the entryway in a church where literature & bulletin boards are found
Vestibule
One theory as to why this artist & polymath may have used mirror writing: to prevent his left hand from smearing the ink as he wrote
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mambos & houngans are priests & priestesses in this Haitian religion
Voodoo
Mistral
Wind
Frontier Airlines gains even more altitude leaving this hub city just east of the Front Range
Denver
This type of drug is used to treat high blood pressure by opening the blood vessels.
Vasodilator
This bank-robbing lefty & pal of Baby Face Nelson was betrayed by the "Woman in Red" & met his demise outside a movie theater
John Dillinger
Each year on the Jewish festival Simchat Torah, or "Torah rejoicing", the last part of this book of the Bible is read
Deuteronomy
Aridisol
Earth