STARS & CONSTELLATIONS
Appropriately, there's a constellation named for this instrument, which you can use to observe it
telescope
This alliterative phrase means to make an exceptional effort to please someone
bend over backwards
What we usually call the gray & white matter is the nerve tissue of the spinal cord & this organ
brain
Types of this animal include appaloosas, palominos & pintos
horses
Time, Newsweek or Playboy
magazines
A cluster of stars called the Hyades formes the face of this constellation, & that's no bull!
Taurus
You have to be quite a contortionist to bend under the low bar in this dance from Trinidad
the limbo
The uterine tubes known as oviducts are also called these, after the man who discovered them
fallopean tubes
Of fruit, leaves, or insects, it's the one that makes up most of an orangutan's diet
fruit
If you're at a disadvantage, you're "over" one of these
a barrel
This familiar figure forms almost the entire constellation of Ursa Minor, the Lesser Bear
little dipper
This position used by yogis and Buddha is also called the Padmasana
the lotus
Too much insulin in the body can cause this condition in which there's too little sugar in the blood
hypoglychemia
Histah was Tarzan's word for this kind of reptile, though hisstah would be more appropriate
snake
The Beatles' Maxwell had a silver one
hammer
Alphabetically, it's the last constellation of the Zodiac
Virgo
It's a position of the legs, not bananas, stretched out at right angles to the trunk
a Split
These oil glands that keep your skin & hair lubricated are especially plentiful on your face & scalp
sebaceous glands
Peppy, this type of bird, was created as the symbol of Wise potato chips
owl
Goosey, Goosey Gander wandered into his lady's
chamber
Sharing its name with an old Chevy model, this brightest star of Lyra will one day become the North Star
Vega
The Ultimate Back Store says a stretcher doing a shoulder squeeze may try to touch these joint behind his back
elbows
It's the -ology that studies the structure, function & diseases of the bones
osteology
This six-letter word for this rare alligator comes from the Latin for "white"
albino
Act that normally ends a wrestling match
pin