“Never let me go. You have made my life complete, and I love you so”
"Love Me Tender"
It’s commonly known as laughing gas.
Nitrous Oxide
The red type of this marsupial can leap over barriers as high as 6 feet.
Kangaroo
Delaware or Virginia in the 1760s (6)
A colony
In 1937 an explosion of this, unodorized, killed 300 people in a New London, Texas school.
Natural Gas
“The warden said, “Hey, buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair”
"Jailhouse Rock"
This term for an object of ridicule sounds like shares bought in a comedy club
Laughing stock
Amphibians are divided into 3 groups: caecilians, salamanders & this pair of hoppers.
Frogs & Toads
Hooded cape for a monk (4)
Cowl
The Sequoyah 1 nuclear reactor near Chattanooga is operated by this agency established in 1933.
The TVA
“If you can’t come around, at least please telephone”
"Don't Be Cruel"
In an Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem, they’re the 7 words that precede “weep and you weep alone”
Laugh and the world laughs with you
The Belgian hare is not actually a hare but this type of hopper.
Rabbit
A reddish-brown horse (8)
Chestnut
Itaipu, a project using this type of power, supplies about a quarter of all of Brazil’s electricity needs.
Hydroelectric power
“Ooh, ooh, ooh, I feel my temperature rising, help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine”
"Burning Love"
Named for its call, this Australian bird is also known as a laughing jackass.
Kookaburra
An ant shares the billing with one of these insects in the title of an Aesop fable.
Grasshopper
Slide Mountain’s range (9)
Catskills
Electricity can be produced by CSP, short for “concentrating” this--& it’s done with mirrors.
Solar Power
“No such number, no such zone”
"Return to Sender"
“Jolly” name of this 1624 work.
The Laughing Cavalier
This tiny insect pest, Pulex irritans, can leap more than 130 times its own height.
Flea
The muse of history (4)
Clio
Abbreviated SPR, it’s the emergency store of oil created by the U.S. government in 1977.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve