"I don't feel like going into it", says Holden Caulfield on page 1 of this book; we're off to a great start
Catcher in the Rye
This doctor specializes in children & their diseases
a pediatrician
This nation sings, "Send her victorious, happy & glorious, long to reign over us"
the United Kingdom
The cardboard item around the coffee cup can be called a zarf, or this, like part of your jacket
a sleeve
MEN OF SCIENCE
The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium
This author makes me feel like I'm there, talking of a Hobbit-hole with "a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel"
Tolkien
Not the automated kind but the human kind, it's a clerk at a bank window
a teller
This huge country boasts, "From the southern seas to the polar realm, our forests & fields stretch"
Russia
This verb for breaking into a computer morphed into a noun for a clever solution to a tricky problem
a hack
The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium
Copernicus
Judy Blume's book about this whale of a nickname says a classroom is hot & stuffy & smells "like this afternoon"
"Blubber"
An actuary deals with this hazardous possibility, also the name of a world-conquering Hasbro game
risk
The anthem of this country says, "Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind, Gujarat & Maratha"
India
If you want a pal to tell the truth, you may use the abbreviation S.O.O.F., short for this
swear on our friendship
He began a book, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe"
(Ralph) Ellison
This type of officer doesn't work for the military but helps people get money for cars & mortgages at the bank
a loan officer
"Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll...make this commonwealth of ours renowned of all the lands"
Australia
This 6-letter mash-up word means that you're so in need of food you're cranky
hangry
Ponyboy says in the first few lines of this classic, "I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman"; don't we all, Ponyboy
The Outsiders
Despite the name, those in this job don't go door-to-door asking questions; they ascertain property boundaries
a surveyor
Andorra's anthem is about this ruler & says the country is "the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian Empire"
Charlemagne
Ariana Grande sang about eyebrows being "on" this, a synonym for "on point" or "flawless"
fleek