"C" IN COOKING
To make dill pickles, start by soaking this member of the gourd family
a cucumber
Sailing through the strait that bears his name, this European was the first to reach Chile
Magellan
This copyrighted game played with five dice is based on & named for the game of "Yacht"
Yahtzee
Benny, Bunker,
Breed's
hills
Both NYC & Philadelphia claim the oldest of these in the U.S.
This light, delicate pie doesn't contain the light, delicate fabric of the same name
chiffon
In 1494 the pope drew a line dividing Latin America between these 2 European countries
Spain & Portugal
In craps a "come-out" roll of either of these two numbers wins
7 or 11
Rubber, green,
postage
stamps
In the old standard song, "The strings of my heart" went this way
zing
The razor type of these bivalves resembles an old-fashioned straight razor folded up
a clam
After Evita died, she became Juan Peron's wife & later, the first woman president in the Americas
Isabel Peron
In charades it's how you indicate that a word or syllable "sounds like another"
by tugging on your ear
Umbrella,
circus, pup
tents
Johnston McCulley's novel "The Curse of Capistrano" gave us this character a.k.a. Don Diego
zorro
These small tomatoes with a fruity name can be stuffed & served as hors d'oeuvres
a cherry
This general, who took the Alamo, was made president of Mexico 11 times between 1833 & 1855
Santa Anna
For this game you need a deck of cards, a noddy board & some pegs to mark your points
cribbage
Building,
alphabet,
writer's
blocks
The Tom Wilson comic character who has his own line of greeting cards
ziggy
From the French meaning little rib, it's a small slice of meat , cut from the leg or ribs
a cutlet
Columbus discovered gold on this island now shared by Haiti & the Dominican Republic
Hispaniola
In Hong Kong the shuffling of the tiles in this game is known as "the twittering of the sparrows"
mahjong
Bachelor,
liberal, house
a party
Ahura Mazda is not a model of car, but the 1 true god of this religion
Zoroastrianism