We Are in Kansas, Anymore
At the dizzying height of 4,039 feet above sea level, this ignominious "mountain" is Kansas's highest point.
Mt. Sunflower
Childish or immature (8)
juvenile
Ice cream with chocolate, marshmallows & nuts that's a journey, perhaps along Route 66
Rocky Road trip
The presence of this letter chromosome determines that a zygote will develop into a male
Y
Legend says that a mummy case with a curse on it once haunted this great London museum on Great Russell Street
the British Museum
Though he founded the sport while working in faraway New England, this Kansas man later became the University of Kansas's first ever basketball coach, kicking off a tradition of basketball excellence for the school.
James Naismith
Medea's man (5)
Jason
Synonym for E.S.P. that's also a healthy ability to appreciate a joke
sixth sense of humor
Early studies focused on finding the structure not of carbs & fat but of this compound, collagen being one example
protein
The hotel is haunted by a lady in blue, who's been seen walking into one of these, even though the doors weren't open
an elevator
This military installation, located in the Kansas county of the same name, houses the US Military's only maximum security prison.
Fort Leavenworth
Panthera onca (6)
jaguar
Harry Potter novel involving Arizona's NBA squad
Order of the Phoenix Suns
These one-celled organisms that may cause disease also produce the "snipping" enzymes that create recombinant DNA
bacteria
Once prosperous, St. Elmo is one of the best-preserved (& some say, most haunted) of these places in Colorado
ghost towns
This man's "Raiders" sacked Lawrence, KS in 1863, killing around 150 men and boys, and setting much of the down aflame.
William Quantrill
A real vein in the neck (7)
jugular
Folk trio behind "Puff The Magic Dragon" who worked with Lou Grant & Ted Baxter on TV
Peter, Paul, and Mary Tyler Moore
This process is benign when it replicates DNA segments, but makes people nervous when it replicates mammals
cloning
The original "Ghosts of Williamsburg" candlelight tour is spooky good fun in this state
Virginia
In the early 20th century this town was best known for its ties to organized crime and socialist organizing. Nowadays, its annual "Little Balkans Days" festival is all that remains of these sordid roots.
Pittsburg
Supporter of James II or his Stuart descendants (8)
a Jacobite
Office supply item that was a World War II TV miniseries about the U.S. Army's Easy Company
rubber Band of Brothers
Linus Pauling used X-ray crystallography to study the patterns of keratin in this body part
hair
This synonym for ghost comes from the Latin for "to look"
specter