I wasn't aware of the bongo until your comment. Although in all fairness, if I came up with a clue for "bong" it probably wouldn't have to do with a bell.
This quiz doesn't translate well across the pond for two reasons. first it contains a lot of dubious pronounciations ("puma"?) and secondly some words are just different - in UK, for example, a pig lives in a stye.
Indeed. I was surprised to see that apparently somewhere in the USA it is possible to pronounce both Bach and Bok using the same sounds. That just does my head in. I was also stumped by the pigsty/pigpen issue for a while.
I pronounce Bach and bok differently but I still figured it out. Similarly, I don't pronounce it "Crockett aisle" but the sounds were close enough. That's part of the fun, to me.
Yeah, I did exactly the same thing and assumed it was a US term I wasn't familiar with. I don't usually quibble much but I think the phrasing of that clue could definitely be improved.
So these (and all clues in my Word Puzzles series) are written in a manner similar to American crosswords. Short clues without prepositions or articles that may have a bit of ambiguity. I tried to be consistent with what I would find in a Sunday crossword.
Therefore, Dingo.