A pale brown color
Beige
Masticate:
This 4-letter action
Chew
It's the most populous city on Lake Michigan
Chicago
"The handwriting is on the ____"
wall
This bird's group names include a muster of them & an ostentation
Peacocks
From the Arabic for "old man", it's a tribal or village leader in parts of the Middle East
Sheik
Cudgel:
A short, heavy one of these
Club
The second-largest city in Tanzania is the port of Mwanza on this African lake
Victoria
"Don't have too many irons in the ____"
fire
Look quickly--it's called a coalition of these fastest felines
Cheetahs
A organic compound composed of one or more chains of amino acids
Protein
Nubilous:
Literally, this
Cloudy
This spa town, a big name in bottled water, is on the French shore of Lake Geneva
Evian
"Loose ____ sink ships"
lips
A group of gorillas can be a troop or one of these; who's on bass?
Band
The French national anthem gets its name from this port city
Marseille
Ectothermic
Cold
Abu Simbel is on the shore of this body of water that didn't exist before 1970
Lake Nasser
"Don't put the ____ before the horse"
cart
It's a murder of crows & an unkindness of these related birds
Ravens
Clearly, you're under this type of close observation
Surveillance
Parturition:
This 10-letter word
Childbirth
Come visit Goryachinsk, located on the shore of this oldest & deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
"____ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul"
hope
A group of owls is a wisdom or one of these legislatures
Parliament