ADD A LETTER
Stuff another letter into a verb meaning to study hastily for a test & you get this dairy product
What is cream (from cram)?
Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous that are "wider than a mile" in a song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
What is phases of the "Moon River"?
To assault with multiple rounds of bullets
What is pepper?
Light pollution causes hatchlings of these, like the hawksbill, to turn inland to danger rather than out to sea & safety
What are (sea) turtles?
It's a whim or personal inclination, maybe to try something (and also a company that promises "the next gen of notes & docs")
What is a notion?
Add a letter to the beginning of a word meaning "to speak" & you get this word meaning to speak indistinctly
What is mutter (from utter)?
Fish eats plankton & is eaten by another & still another fish, then by man who's part of a group of convicts working outside
What is food chain gang?
One known for wisdom
What is a sage?
Not all pollution is manmade; Hawaii's Big Island is often afflicted with vog, a noxious mix of gases released by one of these
What is a volcano?
In biology, it's a system for giving names to organisms
What is nomenclature?
Add an R to an old-timey word for a thicket of trees to get this word for a dead body
What is corpse (from copse)?
Norman Mailer's first novel that leads nowhere, like a cul-de-sac
The Naked and the Dead end
The capital of French Guiana or a Porsche SUV
What is Cayenne?
The sometimes deadly "pea soup" fogs of this city, like a 1952 one that killed 12,000, were largely caused by the burning of coal
What is London?
A peripatetic person, or a member of a peripatetic people
What is a nomad?
Tack a letter onto the name of a hotel chain & get this Muslim month
What is Ramadan (from Ramada)?
Fruity dessert created at Brennan's in New Orleans that had the 2011 hit song "Pumped Up Kicks"
What is Bananas Foster the People?
The first name of George Clooney's singer aunt
What is Rosemary?
In April 2014 this Michigan city began getting its drinking water from the same-named river, & legions of health issues ensued
What is Flint?
There's a business specialty in this popular translation of the Latin saying "de gustibus non est disputandum"
What is "there's no accounting for taste"?
Add a letter to the last name of the longest-running 'Weekend Update' host on SNL to get this word for a medieval sports contest
What is joust (from Jost)?
Washington, D.C. concert venue home to D.A.R. conventions that had 1980s No. 1 hits with "Maneater" & "Kiss On My List"
What is Constitution Hall & Oates?
"Up" often follows this rhizome when it's used to mean to make lively
What is ginger?
This heroically named program created to clean up sites like Love Canal is paid for by taxes on polluting industries
What is Superfund?
A fungus that makes some grapes perfect for winemaking goes by this distinguished name
What is noble rot?