Polska
Poland
A military rank & a corn seed
colonel & kernel
Remove "T" from a piece of dining room furniture & you get this word meaning competent
Able
A place of little rain & to abandon completely
de-SERT & DES-ert
It wasn't until 1976 that the first women cadets were admitted to the U.S. military academy here
Nippon
Japan
Time of dawn & time of sorrow
morning & mourning
Take "T" off a word meaning to cut & you get this edge of a crater
Rim
One who displays & a downpour of rain
a shower - SHO-er & SHAU-er
His name is synonymous with blue jeans; he founded the first company to manufacture them
Levi Strauss
Magyarorszag
Hungary
A way of behaving & a lord's estate
manner & manor
Remove "T" from a hiking path & you get this horizontal bar
Rail
Multiple female deer & a third person action verb conjugation
does
Home to the oldest University of California campus, in 2014 it became the first city in the U.S. to approve a soda tax
Berkeley
Hellas
Greece
To lift up & to tear down
raise & raze
Get rid of the "T" in the regular rises & falls of the oceans & you get this day in a Roman month
The Ides
Trash & to decline to accept something
re-FUSE and REF-use
This Standard Oil Company president was considered America's first billionaire
Rockefeller
Suomi
Finland
Gets ahead by the whole length of a track, or a slip-up in judgment
laps & lapse
Detach "T" from an edible fungus & you get this ornamental frill on a garment
Ruffle
Adjective for one from Gdansk & to make shiny by rubbing
Polish (POH-lish) and Polish (PAW-lish)
In 1954, in the first successful organ transplant, an identical twin gave up one of these to his brother
a Kidney