PLURALIZE IT!
Ox (4 letters, 4 legs)
oxen
Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and ___"
weary
The beach version of this has been an Olympic sport since 1996
volleyball
A poem by Robert Burns says that his love is like this red flower "that's newly sprung in June"
a rose
In 2016 this most famous French museum held the exhibition "Hubert Robert: A Visionary Painter"
the Louvre
Moose (4 legs, 5 letters)
moose
Nash: "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It ____"
quacks
The Brits put "gridiron" before this sport to refer to the American version
football
Wally the Green Monster is the mascot of this Major League Baseball team
the (Boston) Red Sox
Gustave Caillebotte specialized not in landscapes but these -scapes that showed street life in Paris
cityscapes
Cactus (5 letters)
cacti
Sandburg: "The fog comes on little ____ feet"
cat
You need just a ball & a wall to play this sport with a body part in its name
handball
If you're caught up in this sticky sounding stuff, you're in a bureaucratic mess
red tape
Francois Girardon provided sculptures such as "Apollo Tended by the Nymphs" for the grounds of this royal palace
Versailles
Stimulus (7 letters)
stimuli
Angelou: "You may cut me with your eyes, / You may kill me with your hatefulness, / But still, like air, I'll ____"
rise
The ITTF is the International Federation for this ball & racket sport-- that's the "TT"
table tennis
Stephen Crane was 25 when he wrote this novel, "An Episode of the Civil War"
The Red Badge of Courage
Pierre-Auguste was the given name of this painter; Jean was his filmmaker son
Renoir
Forum (4 letters)
fora
Frost: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less ____ ____"
traveled by
It was invented in the winter of 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts
basketball
In Russian, this Moscow area is known as Krasnaya Ploshchad
Red Square
Self-taught artists like Camille Bombois are called naive, or this term, like cavemen
primitive