HOLIDAY FOODS
A festive dish for Easter dinner is a crown roast of this
lamb
Not guilty
innocent
Information directly from the person involved comes "straight from" here
the horse's mouth
Sodium chloride, which you know better as "table" this
salt
P.G. Wodehouse wrote, "I am all alone here and rather" this color traditionally used to describe sadness
blue
For Kwanzaa you might serve groundnut stew or this Jamaican dish of chicken seasoned with allspice & peppers
jerk chicken
Satisfied with what one has
content
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't" do this
make him (them) drink
Don't chuckle--nitrous oxide also goes by this name
laughing gas
Word for one whose cardiac organ got busted, metaphorically
heartbroken
BBC Good Food says that every Christmas table should have this fruity dessert & we won't go until we get some!
figgy pudding
A pointy part of a pitchfork
a tine
Someone super ready & eager is said to be exhibiting this bridle-based activity
chomping at the bit
Chimney sweeps may find this 4-letter form of amorphous carbon coating their workplace
soot
"M" is for mood, & a gloomy one at that; "Come to me" in a 1912 song, "My" this "Baby"
melancholy
Cinco de Mayo favorites include guacamole & this Mexican dish whose name translates to "stuffed peppers"
chiles rellenos
A medicine, or the key note of a musical composition
a tonic
It's too late; you've done this "after the horse is gone"
close the barn door
Sodium bicarbonate, used in ovens & refrigerators alike, is known by this common 2-word name
baking soda
U is the only vowel in this 4-letter adjective that means dull or sullen
glum
Let's all thank Dorcas Reilly, who invented this Thanksgiving dish while working at Campbell's Soup
green bean casserole
It's number 50 on the periodic table
tin
Oops, we've done this--arranging our 2 necessities, but in the wrong sequence
put the cart before the horse
"G" is for this, hydrated calcium sulfate, used in drywall
gypsum
Insert an M into a word meaning abstinent from alcohol & you have this adjective meaning grave in mood
somber