1. ad hoc (as in "an ad hoc committee")
2. Adams' presidency started in 1797 and ended in 1801.
3. Ethiopia
4. the throat
5. "O Come All Ye Faithful"
6. a loyal follower of a religion or a political party
7. obese
8. New York
9. "serious" and "hard"
10. Adonis
11. the kidneys
12. the Adriatic Sea
13. the four weeks before Christmas
14. "slowly," "ever," and "near"
15. Walt Whitman
16. affirmative action
17. Afghanistan
18. Cleopatra
19. Richard Nixon
20. Captain Ahab
21. Aida
22. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
23. Yorick was a jester (or fool) at the court when Hamlet was a boy.
24. petroleum
25. the Book of Job