DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE
Being super-enthusiastic in your desire to get something done, like the proverbial beaver
EAGER
If your stack is short & you need to double up to stay in a game of hold 'em, it might be time to "go" these 2 words
all-in
Diabetes was a death sentence until Dr. Frederick Banting discovered how to use & extract this hormone to treat the disease
INSULIN
The rhyme goes, "Find" one of these, "pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck", but make sure it's heads up
A penny
This animal is ein schaf; an expression about an innocent exterior is "wolf im schafspelz"
Sheep
Get rid of the "E" in "E.T." & you have this adjective for the Earth
TERRESTRIAL
In Monopoly, buy heavily landed-on St. James Place, New York Avenue & Tennessee Avenue, the properties of this color
orange
To provide immunity from smallpox, in 1796 British physician Edward Jenner used cowpox to make the first of these, which is why the word comes from the Latin for "cow"
vaccine
An A-frame is one of these, & walking under one, well, we wouldn't suggest it
Ladder
This 3-letter critter is das schwein
Pig
Paranormal, or a TV show that aired its finale in 2020 after 15 years on the air
SUPERNATURAL
Playing this game issued by Milton Bradley in 1967? Don't place your ships touching each other
Battleship
In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a Finn Dorset sheep named this
Dolly
After this "crack'd from side to side; 'the curse is come, upon me' cried the Lady of Shalott"; take note
mirror
This large amphibious mammal is nilpferd
Hippo
This 14-letter adjective refers to the space between, say, Mars & Neptune
If you win, switch to whatever would've beaten you for the next round, says a 2014 study on the psychology of this game
Rock, Paper, Scissors
This property of elements, like uranium & thorium, was discovered in part by Marie Curie, who actually coined the word for it
radioactivity
Some attribute the number 13 as unlucky due to this biblical gathering described in Matthew 26
The last supper
Kavallerie is a German word for a group of these
Horse
With a prefix meaning "against", it describes an event that turns out to have much less drama than expected
anticlimactic
Take the small continents first & leave Asia for later in this "game of strategic conquest"
Risk
In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym
CRISPR
People mail back rocks taken from Hawaii, believing in bad luck caused by the so-called curse of this Hawaiian volcano goddess
Pele
It's ein löwe; it has eine mähne
Lion.