Organ Circus
This organ breaks down ingested nutrients into small particles & mixes them with gastric juices to make chyme
Stomach
"Death in ____" &
"The Merchant of ____"
Venice
Horse-riding style without a saddle
Bareback
The 4 standard divisions of singers in a choir are soprano, alto, tenor & this one
Bass
Having a fixed or lifeless expression
Glazed
The trigone is a triangular area of this organ between the opening of the urethra & the 2 ureters
Bladder
"Shogun:
A Novel of ____ "
Japan
It describes Shakespeare's pentameter
Iambic
Of the 4 seasons, the one when you'll most likely find an animal in its hibernaculum
Winter
A light drizzle
Sprinkle
The diencephalon, part of this organ, includes the thalamus
Brain
JFK's thesis, then bestseller:
"Why ____ Slept"
England
It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late
Fabricate
For Christmas cards & bills alike, these got their new +4 format in 1983
Zip Codes
Someone intimidating is said to "reduce you to" this
Jelly
The epicardium is its outer layer
Heart
"Karma's Embrace: A Novel of ____ " & "A Passage to ____ "
India
The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish
Jabberwocky
For UFO fans, a close encounter of the 3rd kind is meeting aliens; this is one of the 4th kind
Abduction
No longer in vogue
Old-Fashioned
Each of these organs has a visceral pleura & a parietal pleura
Lungs
Michener's one-word 1959 Polynesian title, "____"
Hawaii
This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth
Diamondback
Four patterns of Greek letter-named brain waves are beta, alpha, delta & θ from 4 to 8 hertz that allows access to the unconscious
Theta Waves
Surname of a late 1830s Dickens title character
Twist