Expect the Spanish
The name of this Spanish gold coin comes from the Latin for "double"; it was worth 16 silver dollars
Doubloon
To reduce to ashes via flames
Incinerate
Louse (the bug)
Lice
Remove "T" from a piece of dining room furniture & you get this word meaning competent
Able
A tittle is that little dot you place over these 2 lowercase letters
i & j
Can you hear the drums, Fernando? Or is it Hernando? Either way, he founded the first Spanish settlement in Mexico
Hernándo Cortés
Not allowable in court, evidence-wise
Inadmissable
Nucleus
Nuclei
Take "T" off a word meaning to cut & you get this edge of a crater
Rim
Equitation is the art of riding this
A horse
After the Spanish-American War, Spain gave up control of this island where the Rough Riders came to fame
Cuba
This 2010 movie title means the beginning of something
Inception
Daily Double!!
That
Remove "T" from a hiking path & you get this horizontal bar
Rail
Daily Double!!
Drupe, the term for a fleshy fruit with a single pit, like a cherry, comes from Latin for this small, oily Mediterranean fruit
Pre-dictatorship, he distinguished himself serving in Spanish Morocco & was made a general at age 33
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
L.A.'s beloved four-level one, where the 101 meets the 110, opened in 1953
Interchange
Matrix
Matrices
Get rid of the "T" in the regular rises & falls of the oceans & you get this day in a Roman month
Ides
It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead
Zomboid
In 1713 Spain was signing a whole bunch of treaties as part of the Peace of Utrecht, ending this war over the throne
the War of Spanish Succession
From the Latin for "inborn", it can be used to describe a talent
Innate
Opus
Opera
Detach "T" from an edible fungus & you get this ornamental frill on a garment
Ruffle
A vestige of something; when pluralized it's the sediment left over in wine or coffee
A Dreg