HOUSE-ING AROUND

Each clue below is a word, phrase, or name containing the word HOUSE:

1. Strong hand in poker
2. Confined by law to a certain area
3. The US during the Civil War
4. Free
5. Poe's House
6. Hawthorne's House
7. Prison
8. Symbol of the Executive Branch of the US government
9. One-time doctors' tradition
10. Receive wild and enthusiastic applause

11. Energetic and enthusiastic
12. Dad and Mom, usually
13. Abattoir
14. Code of conduct
15. Get physical
16. Ibsen's House
17. Laura Ingalls Wilder's House
18. Arrange one's affairs
19. Congressional leader
20. Repetitive nursery rhyme

Answers:

1. Full house
2. House arrest
3. A house divided
4. On the house
5. House of Usher
6. House of the Seven Gables
7. Big House
8. White House
9. House call
10. Bring down the house
11. House on fire
12. Man/lady of the house
13. Slaughterhouse
14. House rules
15. Roughhouse
16. A Doll's House
17. Little House on the Prairie

18. Put one's house in order19. Speaker of the House
20. The House That Jack Built