Puzzle 9

Baked good normally with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg

Develops unhurriedly; slow bloomer, tardy guest

Early kingdom capital in northern Thailand

Pu on the periodic table

Ancient Greek writer of Oedipus the King

Study or discussion of trivialities

Annual faller

Penned The Grapes of Wrath

Salesman, for one

The __ Flood, documentary about South Fork Dam

A farthingale, to the Tudors