A NOUN & ALSO A VERB
Spring or summer, & to sprinkle your steak with salt & pepper
season
A female parent & an inconvenience
"The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology
The Brothers Grimm
In 1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay were on top of the world after reaching the summit of this mountain
Mount Everest
It's a place to find dumbbells
gym
A short viewable piece from a TV show or film, & to cut coupons
clip
To close & open the eyes; free from marks or writing
blink & blank
Scholars think John Hunter, an 18th c. London surgeon known as "The Knife Man", inspired this R.L. Stevenson guy
Dr. Jekyll
Well, that takes the cake! In 1793 this queen was put in solitary confinement at the Conciergerie
Marie Antoinette
It replaces "your" in the most Shakespearean dialogue
thy
A current of air, & to conscript into the army
draft
A tailed primate & a mule's father
monkey & donkey
The only surviving complete poem from 2,600 years ago by Sappho is an "Ode to" this Greek goddess of love
Aphrodite
In 1644 the Manchus ended this dynasty known for vases
Ming
British clergyman Charles Wesley was a notable writer of these
hymns
A light fencing sword, & to thwart a plan
foil
A surgical device that compresses objects & a compact mass of an item like dirt
clamp & clump
Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
go gentle into that good night
The 1970s Pres. of Equatorial this, Macías Nguema forced priests to recite, "There is no God other than Macías"
Guinea
It's a short-tailed feline of European forests
lynx
One's emotional state, & to make glass stronger by heating & then quickly cooling it
temper
Thomas Malory's 15th century work Le Morte D'Arthur chronicles the tales of this famed chivalrous group
The Knights of the Round Table
The future ruler was once an editor of this Bolshevik newspaper Pravda
Joseph Stalin
It's a fluid-filled sac under the skin
cyst