APPROPRIATE FOR MINERS
A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment
Diamonds
Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru
The Inca
You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)
A Foot
While in Samoa, this author penned a sequel to "Kidnapped" called "David Balfour"
Robert Louis Stevenson
In Holst's suite "The Planets", this part is "The Winged Messenger"
Mercury
First name of Mr. Strauss, who heard California needed sturdy pants & filled the gap for miners, making a fortune
Levi
Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico
The Rockies
Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea
Knots
Nicole Diver in "Tender is the Night" is based in part on his wife Zelda
Fitzgerald
Johann Sebastian Bach's haunting suite was written specifically for this instrument
The Cello
The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part
Lung
This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport
Lacrosse
"The whole 9" these means all the way
Yards
Ironically, poet Hart Crane, whose father invented this ring-shaped hard candy, died after jumping overboard
A Life Saver
Debussy was a master of nocturnes, music inspired by this, as the name suggests
The Night
After 69 days deep in the Earth, in 2010 Florencio Avalos became the first of 33 miners rescued in this S. Amer. country
Chile
Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola
Haiti
It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion
A Second
This author's close relationship with the Davies family was the subject of the film "Finding Neverland"
James (J.M.) Barrie
This Wagner piece depicts these Norse maidens on a little ride
The Valkyries
In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines
Canaries
Jose Diaz-Balart is a fixture on this network whose name contains the Spanish word for "world"
Telemundo
The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern
Meter
Years after this alliterative poet wrote "Tintern Abbey", he was made poet laureate
Wordsworth
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a lasting piece about a czar's son being turned into one of these insects & his subsequent flight
A Bumblebee