FROM S TO T
NATIONAL PARKS
WELL, THEY SOUND THE SAME...
JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE HIS MUSIC
THE SPACE RACE
400
Taking this is one way to move up the standings in a marathon, but not for long
a shortcut
400
The national park named for these "Great" mountains is shared by North Carolina & Tennessee
the Great Smoky Mountains
400
A unit of gold's purity, or Bugs Bunny's preferred diet
carrot/karat
400
"In 2011 at Madison Square Garden, I performed "Fire And Rain" & "Fifteen" with this young singer-songwriter whom, I'm honored to say, is named after me"
Taylor Swift
400
On Sept. 12, 1962 he proclaimed, "We shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away...a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall
John F. Kennedy
800
Similar to caulk, this type of product that fills cracks is usually made of silicone
a sealant
800
For decades, Firefall at this California national park was an annual pouring of bonfire remnants over Glacier Point
Yosemite
800
A group of young ladies, or one married one
misses/missus
800
"In 1971, I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King"
"You've Got A Friend"
800
At the Kremlin you can see the Cosmos oak, planted by this Soviet space hero on April 14, 1961
Yuri Gagarin
1200
From the French for "to know", it's a scholarly person
a savant
1200
You'll see plenty of stalactites & stalagmites at this site, a national park in Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
1200
An emotional state, or what the cow did
mood/mooed
1200
"In my new audio memoir "Break Shot" I talk about my early days, including my time in London in the '60s & my association with The Beatles; in fact, my song "Something In The Way She Moves" inspired this Beatle to write his own song that begins with the same line"
George Harrison
1200
A primary goal of this U.S. program that followed Mercury was to land a capsule on dry land--didn't happen
Gemini
1600
A key to the early success of Apple was VisiCalc, the first electronic this
a spreadsheet
1600
Francis Marion could tell you this wet type of terrain was once in the name of what's now Congaree National Park
a swamp
1600
A legal claim, or with little adipose tissue
lien/lean
1600
The first instrument I learned to play wasn't the guitar but the cello & in 2016 I had the pleasure of performing with this cello virtuoso at Carnegie Hall's 
Yo-Yo Ma
1600
In 1967 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov perished during re-entry aboard this spacecraft 1
Soyuz 1
2000
Medieval knights wore this outer tunic over their metal armor
a surcoat
2000
This drainage line runs northwest-southeast through Rocky Mountain National Park
the Continental Divide
2000
Any channel to walk down, or Guernsey in the English Channel
aisle/isle
2000
"In 2020 I released a new album, "American Standard", putting my take on some of the songs & show tunes I grew up listening to like "Ol' Man River" from this musical"
Show Boat
2000
This commander on his 1970 flight: "Our mission was a failure but I like to think it was a successful failure"
James Lovell