CROSSWORD CLUES "N"
Pester
(3)
nag
The giant species of this South American insectivore has no teeth & an up to 2-foot-long tongue
anteater
These quantities often represented by x & y are constantly changing, but Al can't live without 'em
variables
It's Kellogg's brand of toaster pastries
Poptarts
Seism is an old-timey word for this geological event
eartquake
Can't feel a thing
(4)
numb
Some of these mammals give birth hanging upside down, with the mothers catching the baby in their wings as it drops
bat
ax2 + bx + c = 0 is the general form of this type of equation
quadratic
A store only open for a limited time, or a new window that is unexpectedly opened in your browser
This word starting with "re" also means "revolution" & it's one letter shorter
rebellion
Jesus' boyhood home
(8)
Nazareth
Animals react to winter weather in different ways; monarch butterflies set off on this type of journey
a migration
Al knows that this word for the 3 in 83 can also mean a person who advocates an idea
exponent
This college coach lent his name to a youth football league
Pop Warner
This synonym for a news reporter & a person who keeps a diary comes to us partly from the French
journalist
Favoritism shown to family members in business or politics
(8)
nepotism
Lobsters & tarantulas both have these hard outer bodies that must be periodically molted
exoskeletons
Al loves to play with these expressions from a word for "many", like 3x3 + 7y2 - 4z
polynomials
To propose marriage
Instead of "global", you can use this more cosmic word for something that applies everywhere
universal
Neither acidic nor basic
(7)
neutral
One of the largest structures made by rodents or any animal, a 2,800' long one is found in a Canadian national park
dam
Al knows he can make many a tough expression easier to work with by "completing" this
the square
Nonsense! (Like an old man might say)
poppycock
This is a synonym for a great circle of longitude on the Earth, especially when it is "prime"
meridian