Thanksgiving Day Riddler 
No Visual Clues
You may answer the riddles by filling in the right word. 

I am a bird but never flew
I love to gobble but would not eat you. 
___________________?

I once used my bow hunting buffalo
and slept in a tee pee with Geronimo !
  __________________?

I am a vegetable with yellow bits inside,
kernels on the cob but green stalks outside.
   __________________?

The pilgrims landed here and called it home
a stone in my name and a mouth my own. 
   __________________?

I am played with kicks and tackles 
passes, hits and downs.
Quarterbacks and Tacklers know my name.
I am a game won with touchdowns!
______________________?

I am a horn of plenty
but have another name 
filled with food like fruits and vegetables, 
nuts and breads and grains.
___________________?

I am very solemn and I dress in black, 
wearing  buckled shoes and bonnets 
or wide brimmed buckled hats. 
I came to America struggling to be free 
to practice religion as I felt it should be.
____________________?

I am a day of the week you see 
between Wednesday and Friday and begin with T.
____________________?

I was the boat the Pilgrims sailed on. 
A month in my name and the rest, 
well a rose is one. 

____________________? 

I was never human, just a straw man hung
dressed in humans clothes to frighten some.
Like the black birds circling over head
waiting to peck at my gardens and be fed .
_________________?

I come one thankful day a year,
on the fourth Thursday in November 
is this day of prayer.
   __________________? 

Now, the riddling finished. 
It has all been done.
Happy Thanksgiving Day
 To Every One!

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