INTO THE WOODS
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
October, 2016
A.W. Sunsets (#1-10)

Each of the clues below leads to a name, title, or  familiar phrase that includes the name of a species of tree. For example, Sticks found in the checkout aisle would lead to CHEWING GUM.

1. Fruity Ben & Jerry's flavor
2. Well respected ex-pol like Jimmy Carter
3. Day after Mardi Gras, when Lent begins
4. Phrase before "the mouse ran up the clock"
5. Classic kids' tale starring Mole and Toad
6. Comb your hair and put on a clean shirt
7. Mississippi
8. "Peggy Sue" singer
9. Place for the not so ship-shape on a ship
10. Ultra conservative group of the 1960's
11. Nabisco classic cookie
12. Kitchen feature, perhaps

Answers:

1. Cherry Garcia
2. Elder statesman
3. Ash Wednesday
4. "Hickory, dickory, dock" 
5. The Wind in the Willows 
6. Spruce up
7. The Magnolia State
8. Buddy Holly
9. Sick bay
10. John Birch Society 
11. Fig Newton
12. Oak cabinets