A expensive, comfortable car with its own driver
a limousine
Head of the FBI after Robert Mueller:
J.C.
(James) Comey
The Asian tiger type of this insect found throughout the U.S. can transmit diseases like the Zika & West Nile viruses
the mosquito
As this Chekhov play ends, trees on the Ranevskaya estate are being cut down to build a housing development
The Cherry Orchard
This 5-letter word for anything bad also means to be infested with parasitic insects
lousy
Adjective for a body that's capable of moving or bending easily
limber
Following Fay Vincent as MLB commish:
B.S.
Bud Selig
Able to grow to more than 20 feet in length, the Burmese type of this snake is now widespread in Florida's wetlands
a python
He had some revolutionary ideas in his 1902 tract, "What Is To Be Done?"
Lenin
This 10-letter word for evil schemes means belonging to or involving the devil
diabolical
Complex neural brain system that controls the basic emotions like fear & anger
the limbic system
Soviet leader after Khruschchev:
L.B.
(Leonid) Brezhnev
This variety of fruit fly invaded California in the 1980s & led to U.S. quarantine laws
the Mediterranean fruit fly
His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead"
Dostoevsky
This word for "hateful" is related to the present-day French word "haine", meaning "hatred"
heinous
They're seen here in their usual positions on rocks
limpets
Following Alan Greenspan at the Fed:
B.B.
Ben Bernanke
This predator with a feline name has expanded from the Pacific to coastal areas of the Atlantic & Caribbean as well
the lionfish
Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls"
Nikolai Gogol
If someone calls you this, it can mean you are inadequate (or you arouse compassion)
pitiful
For much of its 1,100-mile length, it forms South Africa's border with Botswana & Zimbabwe
the Limpopo
After Roman emperor Antoninus Pius:
M.A.
Marcus Aurelius
Apis mellifera scutellata is best known by this scary name & came from Africa to Brazil to the United States
killer bees
Not "were" but this 4-letter word for dreadful comes before the name of an extinct wolf
dire