Iodine gas is this color associated with royalty & with a dinosaur who loves you
Purple
This word comes before duchy, canyon & slam
Grand
In a rhyming phrase, it means to move with the prevailing trend
With the flow
This 1803 territorial acquisition from France doubled the area of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Completes the proverb "Better safe than..."
Sorry
When you see starlight, star bright, know it's from the star burning this gas, whose symbol is H
Hydrogen
Of a person who bowls, a small barrel or a noodle dish, what a kegler does
A person who bowls
Make more effort than required, like by walking 1,760 more yards
The extra mile
On July 24, 1847 this Mormon leader & his party of 143 reached the Great Salt Lake Valley
Brigham Young
By definition, something 3-dimensional has width, height, & this
Depth
The air that we breathe is mostly not oxygen but this gas, N
Nitrogen
It sounds like an illness, but it's the pipe through which smoke passes in a chimney
Floo
To expire like a bankrupt business or a dead fish
Belly up
On October 22, 1819 the first boat travelled on this canal, from Rome to Utica, New York
Erie Canal
This company's name is short of Integrated Electronics
Intel
Indium is an element in the family of this popular wrap metal
Aluminum
It can mean disgusting, or 12 dozen
A gross
A synonym for "get lost"; you might tell Ben Franklin to do it
Fly a kite
At noon on April 22, 1889 settlers rushed to claim land in this new territory: many entered "sooner" than noon
Oklahoma
In Thailand 95 percent of the people are of this religion
Buddhism
You're very busy if you have too many bars of this element, Fe, in the fire
Irons
Containing all 5 vowels, this 8-letter word means a feeling of well-being or elation
Euphoria
In a wrestling metaphor, to fight fiercely
To the mat
The 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee in this state was the last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops
South Dakota
In mythology he's Neptune's Greek equivalent
Jupiter