SOUP TALK
MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET
WHERE IT AILS YOU
SIBLINGS OF SONG
PENGUINS
200
'The classic French soup vichyssoise is traditionally made with leeks & these tubers'
potatoes
200
'...this anti-slavery author; her Hartford home was next door to Twain's'
(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
200
'Tinnitus'
the ear
200
'Last name of Mark & Donnie; their family is a funky bunch'
Wahlberg
200
'(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) The recent increase in gentoo penguin numbers may be due to decreased sea ice coverage caused by this phenomenon of rising average air temperatures'
global warming
400
'In 1897 Campbell's introduced this flavor of soup, condensed in a can'
tomato
400
'...this young British author who was traveling from India to England via the U.S. in 1889'
(Rudyard) Kipling
400
'Plantar fasciitis'
the foot
400
'Tattooed twins Benji & Joel Madden front this band'
Good Charlotte
400
'(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Because the chicks of this largest penguin take so long to mature, females lay their eggs in winter so that the chicks can be independent by summer'
the emperor penguin
600
'Don't send it back: this soup from the Andalusian region of Spain is supposed to be cold'
gazpacho
600
'...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee"'
Tennyson
600
'Coccydynia'
the tailbone
600
'Last name of Jimmie, who taught his younger brother Stevie Ray how to play guitar'
Vaughan
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This 7-letter term for a breeding place for penguins comes from the name of a colony of another black bird'
a rookery
800
'The name of the Italian soup pasta e fagioli means "pasta &" these'
beans
800
'...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous'
(Henry Morgan) Stanley
800
'Acromioclavicular joint separation--the joint'
the shoulder
800
'Rich & Chris Robinson didn't fly as solo acts, so they reformed this group'
The Black Crowes
800
'(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This species of small penguin is distinguished by a narrow black band that runs across its throat & seems to be holding a black cap upon its head'
the chinstrap penguin
1000
'Tamil gives us the name of this soup that's flavored with curry'
mulligatawny
1000
'...this newspaper publisher, when Twain was chased out of his office at the New York tribune'
Horace Greeley
1000
'Medial cruciate ligament sprain'
the knee
1000
'Last name of brothers Eddie & Alex, who lent that name to a hard rock band in 1974'
Van Halen
1000
'(Underwater specialist Lisa Trotter delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Though efficient swimmers, penguins must come up for air, & do so in a method called this, after the way a certain cetacean leaps in and out of the water'
porpoising
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