At Last A Pencil Puzzle (1/22)

I've accidently skipped the last couple of Sunday pencil puzzles, so I'm finally back on track. Here's a modified Alphabet Soup puzzle with the following condition:

Each response to the clues will consist of exactly one word, consisting of at least three adjacent letters from the 26-letter string. If you think an answer has two words or more, choose a single word which is best associated with the clue (like in crosswords).

As always, the answers to all the clues will use all the letters of the alphabet. Any amount of extra letters and rearrangements of letters are permitted. The last letter of the string of letters wraps around to the first, as though it were a circle. You may not skip over letters.

For those new to Alphabet Soup puzzles, here is a quick example. Let's say you had the string of letters as follows:

Q A Z W S X E D C R F V T G B Y H N U J M I K O L P.

Perhaps one of the clues is "literary character." You may respond with "GATSBY" using the string "TGBY"; you may not cross out A or S because they are not adjacent. Note that the letters may be rearranged and that outside letters may be used to complete your answer, though they may not be crossed off from the string of letters. A correct answer in turn gives you the boundaries of other answers. However, if your answer is not the right one, you will soon find yourself out of possibilities.

Think you can hack it? Here goes!

Q O H M A B R N I Z E U S P Y G W D F C T K L V J X

1) Olympic tool
2) Southern vacation spot
3) Knightly literary character
4) Long-running sitcom
5) Big airport
6) U.S. state
7) Masked crime fighter
8) Jingling wanderer

Note: one answer is an abbreviation.


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