Puzzle 1

Home Thoughts, from __, Robert Browning poem

Protective inflatable hung over the side of a boat

The objects of coulrophobia fear

Dennis __, US America's Cup skipper

Country with a fish delicacy called surstromming

__ poker, plant with flaming flowers on spikes

Exerts, maintains, e.g. power

The R in NASCAR

South or North, two states in America

Opera by Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's __