Crossword Clues "J"
“It’s alive!” - 5
What is Jello?
The Harvest Festival in Germany is often one part of this longer and more famous yearly festival.
What is Oktoberfest?
This phrase literally means “coffee in the milk”, not coffee with milk as many assume; thus explaining the more milk to coffee ratio.
What is café au lait?
“I can’t feel my face when I’m with you, but I love it”
Who is The Weekend?
This oldest university in the US is named after its first benefactor.
What is Harvard University?
Choice of choosey moms - 3
What is Jif?
Similar to Thanksgiving, the harvest festival of Pongal is celebrated in the southern part of this country as well as Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
What is India?
This phrase means “fashionable” in French, but in English it is used to describe a dessert dressed up with ice cream.
What is à la mode?
“They tried to make me go to rehab”
Who is Amy Winehouse?
Benjamin Franklin founded this university in 1740 and was at one point called the College of Philadelphia.
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
Flotsam and ____ - 6
What is jetsam?
In this country, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
What is Canada?
This word literally means “left” in French, but in English signifies something uncouth or unsophisticated, but then again doesn’t that describe the political left?
What is gauche?
“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small”
Who is Jefferson Airplane?
This third oldest university in the US was named the Collegiate School at its founding and is the last on the list of Ivy League schools alphabetically.
What is Yale University?
Gin berry - 7
What is juniper?
Other than the US, this country celebrates Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of November.
What is Brazil?
Meaning literally “put in place”, this term is used in cooking to refer to having all of your ingredients prepped and in one place.
What is mise en place?
“A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
Who are The Beatles?
This institution is the furthest south geographically of all the Ivy League schools and was founded in 1746.
What is Princeton University?
Legal first name of your beloved host - 4
What is John?
In this West African country, the Thanksgiving tradition is rooted in the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by free people of color from the United States.
What is Liberia?
This phrase is often used in contracts to refer to an unforeseeable event that might nullify an agreement.
What is a force majeure?
“Rock on gold dust woman / Take your silver spoon / Dig your grave”
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
The last of the Ivy League schools to be founded, this university’s founder held the unconventional belief at the time that, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
What is Cornell University?