IT'S RAINING "MN"
Catch the flue here, where fire goes up in smoke
Chimney
The name of this language, in the language itself, is "Igpay Atinlay"
Pig latin
The Santa Claus melon is so named because its peak season is in this month
December
This game equipment has 64 squares of 2 alternating colors, in 8 horizontal & 8 vertical rows
Checkerboard
It pulls a train or individual railroad cars
Locomotive
If you're sleepless in Seattle you're suffering from this malady
Insomnia
Some clay, a very sharp pencil & a horseshoe magnet will make a simple one of these devices--you don't even need a needle
Compass
Jalapeno, habanero & bell are types of these
Peppers
Old Mother Hubbard knows it's a closet with shelves for dishes
Cupboard
A citation or comment at the bottom of a page
Footnote
'Tis this season (of the year)
Autumn
Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of "National Geographic"
Yellow
Alphabetically, veggies run from acorn squash to this cucumber lookalike
Zucchini
One who lacks courage, or last name of a certain British playwright
Coward
Staying up too late studying for "Jeopardy!" can give you these reddened eyes
Bloodshot
6-letter word meaning mirthless, sober, or grave
Solemn
Using this object, symbolic of a solar wheel & originally a sun shade, when there was no sun was sacrilegious
Umbrella
The name of this peachlike fruit comes from that of the mythological drink of the gods
Nectarine
To communicate by exchange of letters
Correspond
It's the equality of ratios; "don't blow things out of" it
Proportion
Please don't forget this word, from the Greek for "oblivion"
Amnesia
14-letter word for cooperation between 2 partners, leading to smoother political sailing
Bipartisanship
This member of the parsley family has an edible orange root
Carrot
In math: raised to the third power
Cubed
In humans, any of the threadlike bodies that carry the genes in a linear order
Chromosomes