SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL
Worst tropical island vacation ever; this little Piggy should have stayed home; British schoolboys won't be British schoolboys
Lord of the Flies
Cornelius Vanderbilt, long-time owner of the ferry service named for this borough, rests in an elegant mausoleum there
Staten Island
It's a state of diminished consciousness, especially under hypnosis
Trance
Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet
Oregon
In 1717 the first "Grand Lodge" of this secret society was founded
The Masons
No bull from Finch; a Jem of a story; Boo!
To Kill a Mockingbird
Quarantined on an island nearby from 1915 on, she was buried in the Bronx when she died in 1938
Typhoid Mary
The simple habit of the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth is a brown tunic tied with a cord, from which this string of beads hangs
A rosary
You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation
Micronesia
In 1783 she annexed the Crimean Peninsula & it became Russian territory
Catherine the Great
Gotta fly; Major Major Major Major problems; war is Heller
Catch-22
This 1980s NYC mayor said, "The idea of leaving Manhattan permanently irritates me", so he rests near 153rd & Amsterdam
(Ed) Koch
It's a candy-filled party animal
A piñata
Sweden, Denmark & Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name
A
In 1732 James Oglethorpe secured a royal charter to establish what became this colony
Georgia
Here comes the Barnes; where there's a will, there's a Hemingway; Romero the torero
The Sun Also Rises
In 2002 mobster John Gotti was given an elaborate send-off in this borough whose Howard Beach neighborhood he called home
Queens
Used to indicate whether a substance is acidic or basic, this compound is obtained from lichens
Litmus
This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name
Y
This Alpine German-speaking principality was created in 1719 & is still here today
Liechtenstein
Utopia (not!); I ain't goin' nowhere; the Butler did it (in 1872)
Erewhon
Unlike the Dodgers, this man for whom their ballpark was named is a permanent resident of Brooklyn
Ebbets
A common character flaw in ancient Greek tragedy was this, meaning excessive pride
Hubris
Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu
Hokkaido
In 1789 this Scotsman left from Lake Athabasca to explore the 1,100 miles of the Canadian river named for him
the Mackenzie