Puzzle 1

A proposer of the primordial soup theory, John __.

Conveys property by a will.

Country where Guinness stout is made.

Eric __, famed NHL player who grew up in Toronto.

Famous lamp maker.

Fastest land animal.

Important, noticeable.

Joker's question: Why so this?.

Keeping Up with the __.

Long-handled medieval ax-head and spike.

Manhattan neighborhood, film festival.

Member of Japan's warrior caste.

NYC-based audio engineer/composer Dana Wachs, aka.

Pet food: Tastes so good, cats ask for it by name.

Reindeer skin boots worn by the Inuit.

Toni Morrison book that starts: "124 was spiteful".