Sailing
The officer ranking just below the captain, like Gilligan on TV.
The first mate
The shells of the Maine type of this crustacean turn bright red only after cooking.
lobster
After baking, syrup is poured over this multilayered paper-thin Turkish & Greek pastry
Baklava
In the equation y=2x+3, 2 & 3 are called constants & the x & y are called this because they can change
variables
Doctorate document
dissertation
This word for a fancy private sailing ship comes from the Dutch for "to hunt"
a yacht
It was a rags to wood pulp to riches story, as Maine became at one time the USA's leading producer of this
paper
The Italian bread known as focaccia is liberally drizzled with this oil before baking
olive oil
A triangle with 3 equal sides is equilateral; 2 equal sides, isosceles; no two equal sides, this
scalene
The word for this type of test you may run on your computer comes from the Greek for "to know"
diagnostic
Lateen sails, which are better for sailing into the wind, are always of this shape.
triangles
Maine's state flower is actually a cone from this tree
Gold Medal flour products include self-rising, unbleached & this one that sounds good for any type of baking
all-purpose
In a Fibonacci sequence like: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, each number from the third on is this
the sum of the two previous numbers
"Wise fool" is an example of this 8-letter figure of speech
oxymoron
This country's Corinth canal shortens the sailing distance from the Adriatic to the port of Piraeus by 200 miles.
Greece
On Maine's flag this type of deer sits quietly under a tree
a moose
This food movement considers baking & broiling to be vitamin-destroying madness
the raw food movement
The formula for its volume is V equals pi r²h
a cylinder
A "working" this proposition is a tentative explanation of facts
hypothesis
For centuries this ghostly ship has been seen sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.
Ask me for a hint ;)
the Flying Dutchman
A Maine-stay in the clothing business, he said, "Outdoor recreation, such as hunting & camping, has added years to my life" of 94 years
L.L. Bean
The difference between baking soda & baking powder is that baking powder contains an acid like cream of this
tartar
7-letter word for a formula in mathematics deduced from other propositions
theorem
To observe or investigate the enemy's military encampment
reconnaissance