The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Another name for Dixie 

2. The name of our Galaxy

3. Messenger from Noah's Ark

4. Metaphorical academic retreat

5. Metaphor for the entrance to Heaven

6. What you might have to walk on at times

7. What the mother of the groom should wear

8. Largest Indian reservation in the United States

9. Alcoholic beverage associated with celebrations

10. Artificial sound of rain or ocean waves to help you sleep and a hint to what the answers have in common

 

Answers:

 

1. Land of Cotton

2. Milky Way 

3. Dove

4. Ivory tower

5. Pearly Gates

6. Eggshells

7. Beige dress

8. Navajo Nation

9. Champagne 

10. White noise - - - Each answer contains the name of a shade of white paint