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| In 1918 Columbia U. student Minna Lewinson became the first woman to win this journalism award |
the Pulitzer
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| Oh well, whatever, name this 1991 Nirvana album that includes "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
Nevermind
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| Pisciform means shaped like one of these creatures |
a fish
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| Long sought by explorers, it stretches from Baffin Bay to the Bering Sea |
the Northwest Passage
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| Hunters don't want to be accused of getting their quarry this illegal way, also a method of cooking an egg |
poaching
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| Scott Brown replaced Ted Kennedy in 2010 but was sent home from the Senate by her in the 2012 election |
Elizabeth Warren
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| She wrote the screenplay to 7 of the 8 films she directed, including "You've Got Mail" & "Julie & Julia" |
Nora Ephron
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| The hive buzzed when this self-titled album was digitally released without warning in December 2013 |
Beyoncé
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| Alveated means having the shape of one of these insect dwellings, be it vaulted or honeycombed |
a (bee) hive
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| If you are lost in Yonkers, you have found yourself in this upscale N.Y. county |
Westchester
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| In Utah you need a basic hunting license, but for certain animals like bears, you need this 6-letter document |
a permit
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| When it came to U.S. senators, this state decided to take a gamble on Jacky Rosen in 2018 as Dean Heller came up snake eyes |
Nevada
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| "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| "Smile", which stalled out as a Beach Boys album in the '60s, finally came out in 2004 as a solo release from him |
Brian Wilson
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| Describing a type of mirror, this 6-letter word means having a surface curved outward |
convex
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| This London borough calls itself a city, but the queen does live there... |
Westminster
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| The family business of the men seen here was originally based on selling these hunting items |
duck calls
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| Last name of Charles, dad of NFL commissioner Roger, who lost his Sen. race after his anti-war stance angered Nixon |
(Evan: Who is Goodall?)
Goodell
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| This Ayn Rand book ends with the line "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark" |
(Evan: What is Atlas Shrugged?)
The Fountainhead
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| A 2018 50th anniversary reissue of "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother and the Holding Company showcases this legendary singer |
Janis Joplin
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| An object is campanulate if it's in the shape of one of these noisemakers |
a bell
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| Perth is the capital of this foreign state |
Western Australia
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| In 2002 Scotland put limits on this, which Oscar Wilde called "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" |
fox hunting
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| In 2018 Claire McCaskill lost her Missouri Senate seat, the one once held by this president |
Harry Truman
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| An auction of this poet's possessions included her copy of "Joy of Cooking" with "Ted likes this" next to a veal recipe |
(Alex: And her husband was Ted Hughes.)
Sylvia Plath
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| It's often said that not many bought this "Underground" group's self-titled debut in 1967 but that everyone who did started a band |
The Velvet Underground
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| It means rounded & maybe swollen, or relating to certain flowers, like the tulip |
bulbous
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| This historical region of Germany is now paired with "North Rhine" in a state |
Westphalia
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| This covered hunting structure, seen here, seems to increase the area of the hunter's vision, though the name sounds otherwise |
a blind
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| In 2002 this sen. paired with McCain in a big campaign finance law; 8 years later, he lost his race in Wisconsin |
(Russ) Feingold
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