12-LETTER WORDS
Place to get a knish or a bagel (the whole word, please)
What is a delicatessen?
The brave can sleep well knowing that the word courage comes from this body part
What is the heart?
Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic
What is fish?
The formal act of adding territory to a nation, it happened to Hawaii in 1898
What is an annexation?
Norway spruces are a prominent feature of this area that covers 2,300 square miles of southwest Germany
What is the Black Forest?
Hen night is Brit speak for this party for a bride prior to her wedding
What is a bachelorette?
Supercilious is derived from these facial features; a contemptuous comment might raise them
What are (eye)brows?
Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one
What is a pig?
A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness"
What is an exorcism?
Washington's Whidbey Island forms part of the northern boundary of this inlet
What is the Puget Sound?
Here's a puppy of this hybrid type--what a cutie
What is a goldendoodle?
A list of terms with definitions, it comes from the Greek for tongue
What is a glossary?
You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it
What is a frog?
It's the natural color & appearance of your face
What is complexion?
This largest Caribbean island is known as "The Pearl of the Antilles"
What is Cuba?
It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger?
Sometimes found before "knowledge", this sensual 6-letter word is derived from "flesh"
What is carnal?
New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year
It means "tense" & "uneasy" but everyone except language fussbudgets also uses it to mean "eager"
What is anxious?
Venice & Trieste are important ports on this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean
What is the Adriatic?
It's not an operation on a tiny area, it's one using a magnifying instrument
What is microsurgery?
This word for one who always worries that they're sick is derived from a word for the abdomen
What is a hypochondriac?
This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon
Tennessee
This employee, who handles the care & upkeep of a church, sometimes has the specific responsibility seen here
What is the sexton?
Afrikaner Gert Alberts was the leader of a famous crossing of this desert in the 1870s
What is the Kalahari Desert?