First Names with Double letters
Drop a letter
Plants & Trees
Appropriate for Miners
Crossword Clues "N"
100
Actress Watson or Stone
Emma
100
Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food
Feast - e = Fast
100
It looks like these plants are ready for picking
Cotton
100
A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment
Diamonds
100
Pester
Nag
200
"Weeping" tree
Willow
200
Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign"
Quilt - L = quit
200
It's quicker to grow tulips from these usually rounded organs rather than from seeds
Tulips
200
First name of Mr. Strauss, who heard California needed sturdy pants & filled the gap for miners, making a fortune
Levi
200
Can't feel a thing
Numb
300
The spider in a famous children's book
Charlotte
300
Drop the "T" from intense fear to get this mistake
Terror - T = Error
300
Koalas spend a lot of time eating and sleeping in this type of tree
Eucalyptus
300
The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part
Lung
300
Jesus' boyhood home
Nazareth
400
Seasonal decoration with small red berries
Holly
400
A synonym for "vision" drops its "T" & becomes this sound of relief or weariness
Sight - T = Sigh
400
Some people drink the juice of this succulent for its health benefits & a gel is used to relieve sunburns
Aloe
400
After 69 days deep in the Earth, in 2010 Florencio Avalos became the first of 33 miners rescued in this S. Amer. country
Chile
400
Favoritism shown to family members in business or politics
Nepotism
500
The longest river on the Emerald Isle
Shannon
500
Drop the "F" from a word meaning very cold & it comes this, stiff or unyielding
Frigid - F = Rigid
500
Native to India and other parts of Asia, a single one of these unusual trees can resemble a small forest
Banyan trees
500
In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines
Canaries
500
Neither acidic nor basic
Neutral