ANAGRAMMED HOBBIES
Not just for grannies these days:
TINT KING
Knitting
We're neutral on the subject of 15,000'-foot Dufourspitze in the Pennine Alps, this nation's highest peak
Switzerland
A small stone, especially one made smooth by water
A pebble
Before these were tiny headphones, the term referred to little shoots of young corn
Earbuds
Calculations by Urbain Le Verrier were integral to the discovery of this ice giant that was observed in 1846
Neptune
Get behind the wheel:
TRY POET
Pottery
It has a total area of about 1,000 square miles; oh, you're in Grand Duchy now!
Luxembourg
A narrow band of inked material used in a typewriter
A ribbon
A 90-pack--that's 45 pairs!--of these from Bausch & Lomb should keep things clear for awhile
Contact lenses
This German discoverer of the 3 laws of planetary motion also invented a valveless gear pump
Kepler
Watch the fishies;
NON RISK GEL
Snorkeling
This nation reclaimed about 1/3 of its land from the sea by pumping out water, making new areas called polders
The Netherlands
The circle around the words said by people in a cartoon
A bubble
Before cellphones, every kid wanted a pair of these rhyming handheld communication devices
Walkie Talkies
British physicist Sir J.J. Thomson discovered this subatomic particle in 1897
Electron
Don't let Fluffy see what you're doing;
MY DIRT AXE
Taxidermy
A peninsula, 406 nearby islands & other possessions make up this nation
Denmark
Adjective to describe someone who thinks he's superior to others
Snobbish
Galileo made a table of probabilities based on a set of 3 of these, but today we more often see them in pairs
Dice
This Frenchman was practicing medicine without a license when he tried out his rabies vaccine on a boy in 1885
Pasteur
It's what you yeast expect:
GRIN WEB
Brewing
Outdoorsy vacationers enjoy the thinly populated Baltic Lakes region in the northern part of this nation
Poland
Someone who raises annoying petty objections to things
A quibbler
Up to 7 feet long, the traditional Alaskan type of these are great for walking on deep, dry powder in open country
Snowshoes
Astronomer Vera Rubin said, "In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light" this "is about a factor of 10"
Matter