February 2010: TERMINAL CONFUSION

Puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

The grid below contains six-letter words whose terminals (first and last letters) are missing. Definitions for the full words are given in random order. Using them as guides, determine the terminal letters. The circled ones, in order from top to bottom, spell an appropriate two-word phrase—the answer to this month's puzzle.

1. First, as a voyage
2. What a globe-trotter circles
3. Inn for wayfarers
4. On a ship or locomotive
5. Tributary of the Congo River
6. Cottage in the Swiss Alps
7. Town named for a midnight rider
8. Where Kigali is capital
9. Manager of a cattle herd
10. Inuit or Yupik language

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