AVOID FLOWERS WITH YELLOW COLORS, AS THEY REPRESENT A BREAK-UP OF A RELATIONSHIP OR DECEIT

___ your time: BIDE
Covers outdoor objects and people: TARP
Synonym of concrete (adjective): SUBSTANTIVE
What other than oxygen and heat are needed for a fire?: FUEL
Not including other people: SOLO
Another term for a cowboy is a ___: COWPUNCHER
What instrument looks like a U-shaped harp?: LYRE
Something that is very expressive: PITHY
My goal served as the ___, making the score 2-1: TIEBREAKER
Small lizards similar to geckos: ANOLE
What term do British use for studying hard? (3rd person): SWOTS
Someone who studies traditions: FOLKLORIST
This ___ room looks like it can be fun: ESCAPE
Opposite of greater: LESSER
She ___ reads to the point of not doing anything else: VORACIOUSLY

EVERYONE EATS SOMETHING PROVIDED BY SOMEONE ELSE, FOSTERING COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND COHESION

Her hair was tied back at the ___ of her neck: NAPE
Icons (anagram): SCION
The denser the medium is, the smaller the angle of ___ is: REFRACTION
Extract money from someone by fraud: MULCT
Gigantic, colossal: GARGANTUAN
Oh-so-dramatic: HAMMY
We gotta read all this stuff? Ugh, it’s too boring and __: PROSY
Lenses to enlarge an image of an object (plural): MAGNIFIERS
Title is larger and __ to get your attention (comparative): BOLDER
This person is involved in the trade of humans: SLAVER
___ or case law: PRECEDENTIAL
Shakespeare’s Ariel: SPRITE
What plant is a predator?: FLYTRAP
Mostly figurative language for expressing feelings: PSYCHOBABBLE

WHEN THEY HARVEST HONEY FROM HIGH IN THE TREES, THE SOLIGA PEOPLE LEAVE SOME NEAR THE GROUND FOR TIGERS

Kind of milk: OAT
Hundreds of drones can live in a __ at the same time: HIVE
Small gray opossum that eats insects: SHREWMOUSE
Very poor and filthy part of a city: SLUM
Four ___ of cocoa, please (plural): MUGS
The ___ sets the correct moisture level for this old book: HUMIDIFIER
__ breathing is what makes living underwater possible: GILL
Synonym for bro: DUDE
Separation resulting from hostility: ALIENATION
In the medieval period, practicing _ was banned for Christians: USURY
A plant cultivated as a source of syrup: SORGO
An out resulting from a fielding play: PUTOUT
The ability to take over different forms or shapes: POLYMORPHISM
Synonym for fur: PELAGE
In a commanding manner: IMPERATIVELY

MAASAI PEOPLE FROM EAST AFRICA WERE FOUND TO HAVE A SIMILAR LIFE SATISFACTION RATING TO THOSE ON THE FORBES 400

The victory was announced by a ___ of bells: PEAL
___ theory of disease: GERM
Hands are the main tool of this doctor (plural): OSTEOPATHS
Wait, are those supposed to be snake ___ marks?: FANG
Old vessel with an open hold: SCOW
It’s a ___ to support hospices across France: FUNDRAISER
This ___ is drained and cranberries no longer grow here: SWAMP
In Britain they call a gearshift a gear ___: LEVER
The most powerful and armored ship in the 20th century: BATTLEWAGON
Genealogical scroll: STEMMA
Why should a ___ on my nose ruin my self-confidence?: PIMPLE
West Virginia’s State Flower: RHODODENDRON
George Washington hat: TRICORN
Drive-sharing group: CARPOOL
The undergraduate curriculum includes some ___ requirements: DISTRIBUTIONAL

HUNTER-GATHERER TRIBES SPEND FAR LESS TIME WORKING THAN WE DO

The birds build the nests in ___ beds along the river: REED
Olympic contest for women that has 7 events: HEPTATHLON
Property right: LIEN
The blood ___ revealed malaria: SMEAR
Mini-elevator for dishes: DUMBWAITER
Colors will seem bright, with a slightly green ___: TINGE
Very venomous Australian snake: TAIPAN
I don’t have the __ to continue this big project: WHEREWITHAL
Antonym for decent: SINFUL
The medicine provides 12 hours of pain ___: RELIEF
A person in charge of a sales area: FLOORWALKER
Any ornamental plant in a flowerbed: BEDDER
A persnickety person: FUSSPOT
Some events seem insignificant, but turn out to be ___: EARTHSHAKING

THERE ARE ABOUT 35,000 YANOMAMI INDIANS LIVING TODAY IN SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLES

Lip softener: BALM
At first, I have to lay the baby down into a ___: CRIB
A classification into three parts or subclasses: TRICHOTOMY
Relating to the ear: OTIC
Extremely small: TINY
Medical term for toothache: ODONTALGIA
It sits on bushes or hides in the grass: BERRY
To comfort (synonym): SALVE
Spend all the money without a second thought (adverb): UNADVISEDLY
Regional: AREAL
The earthquake reduced the whole building to ___: RUBBLE
A person in charge of a town: BURGOMASTER
I have to ___ myself with glucose: INJECT
Chain of hills: SIERRA
One of the electoral systems: MAJORITARIAN

THE BABY MOP IS A ONESIE WITH SOFT MOP HEADS FOR SCRUBBING ACTION

Cooling device: FAN
___ von Bismarck: OTTO
Summary of the principles of Christian faith: CATECHISM
Useless printed material, toilet paper: BUMF
Defensive ditch filled with water: MOAT
Rascal (archaic): SCAPEGRACE
Hunky-___: DORY
Association of companies: CONSORTIUM
Elegance, finesse: GRACE
The great chain of ___ was a medieval hierarchy: BEING
Tradescantia, a climbing or trailing wildflower: SPIDERWORT
Administrative unit of a government: AGENCY
Production of text for marketing purposes: COPYWRITING

THE JAPANESE CREATED A BITESCAN — A SPECIAL DEVICE THAT MEASURES YOUR CHEWING STROKES

Nickname (verb): DUB
To hit baseball lightly without swinging the bat: BUNT
Land covered with forest: TIMBERLAND
Umbrella (informal): GAMP
Bird native to New Zealand: KIWI
Multicolored: VARIEGATED
Paving block often seen in Europe: SETT
Fishes don’t give birth, they ___: SPAWN
Calcium sulfate barely mixes with water, it has low ___: SOLUBILITY
Metal spike with a hole used in climbing: PITON
Relating to dog days (adj.): CANICULAR
Arranged according to levels of importance: HIERARCHICAL
It can be acute, it can be obtuse: ANGLE
Derogatory, disparaging, contemptuous: PEJORATIVE

IF WORK IS DRIVING YOU TO THE BOTTLE, A FLASK HIDDEN IN YOUR TIE CAN BE USEFUL

When unsure, follow your ___: GUT
Marine fish in the Carangidae family: SCAD
Structure formed early in the mammal embryo development: BLASTOCYST
Connection point: NODE
Impose a tax (verb): LEVY
Disembowel: EVISCERATE
Sudden thrust forward: LUNGE
Edge, margin, rim: VERGE
Armored herbivorous dinosaur: ANKYLOSAUR
Landing and takeoff strip: RUNWAY
Middle American rodent that looks like a large guinea pig: AGOUTI
Divided in two, forked: BIFURCATED
To approach and speak aggressively: ACCOST
Maize flour used as a thickener: CORNSTARCH

A HUMANLIKE MOTORIZED HAND IS MADE FOR PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT A HAND TO HOLD

Hard dry biscuit: RUSK
Sew up the eyelids of a falcon or hawk to render tame: SEEL
Arrangement of gears in a machine (noun): WHEELWORK
Darkness, reduced visibility: MURK
Mammal endemic only to Madagascar: LEMUR
Demarcate: DELIMITATE
Blackbird: OUZEL
Symbolic gesture or pose in Hinduism and Buddhism: MUDRA
What device measures wind speed and direction?: ANEMOMETER
Person of mixed blood: METIS
Sea parrot: PUFFIN
Quadrilateral with two parallel sides (adj.): TRAPEZOIDAL
Female flower organs: PISTIL
Correction to achieve a desired result: READJUSTMENT