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LITERATURE
200
For an optimistic view of things take a look through these
Rose-colored glasses
200
Ahoy! It's a lookout perch atop a high mast
A Crow's Nest
200
Escape to Margaritaville:Him
Jimmy Buffett
200
I'm not a cook but I can sure toast up these Kellogg company breakfast treats with the best of them
Pop-Tarts
200
Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance
Wall Street
400
It's what's going on here
Comparing Apples & Oranges
400
The creature that provides the marquee ingredient of this Chinese delicacy is endangered
Bird's Nest Soup
400
"Beautiful":
This singer-songwriter
Carole King
400
I can't bake or mash a potato, so this alliterative Ore-Ida spud product that dates back to 1953 is a godsend to me
Tater Tots
400
In "Charlotte's Webb", Templeton is this creature
A Rat
600
Greenhouse gas emission due to human activity leaves behind this
A Carbon Footprint
600
Danny DeVito & Christopher Lloyd both had small parts as mental hospital inmates in this 1975 film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
600
"Movin' Out":
This keyboard guy
Billy Joel
600
I'm a wizard at breakfast with this cereal that now features a new marshmallow shaped like a magical unicorn
Lucky Charms
600
In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri
(Albert) Camus
800
If you have these, it means you're well-organized
Your Ducks in a Row
800
Made in a series of varying sizes to fit one inside each other, matryoshka are "nesting" these from Russia
Dolls
800
"Jersey Boys":
Them
The Four Seasons
800
I hum one of his country songs as I pop one of his protein-packed breakfast bowls into the microwave
Jimmy Dean
800
In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character
The Prophet
1000
Note the lovely weather; it means to take advantage of an opportunity
Make Hay While the Sun Shines
1000
Doesn't sound comfy, but several birds make nests in the giant saguaro cactus, including the Gila variety of this headbanger
A Woodpecker
1000
"Ain't Too Proud":
This Motown group
The Temptations
1000
You don't want vegetables cooked by me--have them raw, as this French-named appetizer
Crudites
1000
The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium
Magic Mountain