Appropriate for Miners
A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment
Diamonds
Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru
The Inca
Sunday nights on "60 Minutes" & New Year's Eve in Times Square are two places you might spot him
Anderson Cooper
You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)
Foot
In Holst's suite "The Planets", this part is "The Winged Messenger"
Mercury
First name of Mr. Strauss, who heard California needed sturdy pants & filled the gap for miners, making a fortune
Levi
Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico
The Rockies
Sean Hannity is on this channel every weeknight
Fox News
Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea
Knots
Johann Sebastian Bach's haunting suite was written specifically for this instrument, the slightly more petit relative of the upright bass
Cello
The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part
lung
This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport
Lacrosse
Last name of CNN's Chris; he says one person he wouldn't grill on politics is his brother, the New York governor
Cuomo
"The whole 9" these means all the way
Yards
Debussy was a master of nocturnes, music inspired by this, as the name suggests
Night
After 69 days deep in the Earth, in 2010 Florencio Avalos became the first of 33 miners rescued in this S. Amer. country
Chile
Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola
Haiti
She was a college journalism student, acted on "The Newsroom" & corresponded for "The Daily Show"
It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion
a second
This Wagner piece depicts these Norse maidens on a little ride
Flight of the Valkyrie
In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines
canaries
Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator
São Paulo
Jose Diaz-Balart is a fixture on this network whose name contains the Spanish word for "world"
Telemundo
The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern
meter
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a lasting piece about a czar's son being turned into one of these insects & his subsequent flight
Bumblebee