MIDDLE "D"
HELP A POET OUT
STAMP OF APPROVAL
LET'S GO TUBING!
DD!!
200

Author James or
acting's Alec

Baldwin

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As if a candle were going out, Dylan Thomas wrote, "Rage, rage against the dying of" this

(the) light

200

The critters featured in the Baby Wild Animals stamp set include owls, a deer & a kit, the word for the young of this sly canine

fox

200

The Columbia River sounds like a great ride, but we should jump out before it empties into this ocean, as it could be dangerous

the Pacific Ocean

200

The Ancient Mariner in Coleridge's famous poem shot this seabird & "about my neck" it "was hung"; curses!

an albatross

400

It's never a fun day when you find out the IRS wants to conduct this type of review of your tax returns

an audit

400

Lewis Carroll had a walrus talk of many things: "of shoes--& ships--& sealing-wax--of cabbages--&" these rulers

kings

400

The Bluegrass stamp depicts a guitar, mandolin, fiddle & this stringed instrument with a 5-letter name

banjo

400

Can't decide whether to pump up the tubes & head down the Blue or the White branches of this long African river

the Nile

600

These 3 letters follow the dot in Stanford's URL

edu

600

She wrote the immortal "Because I could not stop for Death--He kindly stopped for me"

Emily Dickinson

600

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, a recent stamp set depicts a midnight rider & this city's Old North Church

Boston

600

The Amazon River has these razor-toothed fishies, but most are scavengers or plant-eaters & won't bother us tubers

piranhas

800

To lead the orchestra

conduct

800

Daily Double!!

The Ancient Mariner in Coleridge's famous poem shot this seabird & "about my neck" it "was hung"; curses!

800

A Love stamp, with radiating black lines & simple outlined figures, is by this graffiti artist, gone too soon aged 31 in 1990

Keith Haring

800

Let's tube through this Dutch city on the Amstel river, the source of the city's name

Amsterdam

1000

The red elm & blue beech are this type of tree that sheds leaves seasonally

deciduous

1000

Perhaps feeling merciful, Alexander Pope wrote, "to err is human, to forgive," this

divine

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Honored with a 2023 stamp, this civil rights leader & U.S. congressman was committed to making "good trouble"

John Lewis

1000

Don't spill your cerveza waving at both Texas & Mexico while tubing down this 5th-longest North American river

the Rio Grande