9-Letter Words
Created by changing the thickness of paper in 1282, it was the invention of the dandy roll that revolutionized this.
What is a watermark?
John Hancock, Calvin Coolidge, & currently, Maura Healey.
Who are governors of Mass.
With north at 0º, the degree number to which west would correspond.
What is 270?
To betray.
What is double cross?
These grow in marshes & on feline posteriors.
What are cat tails?
Without it, a Shirley Temple just wouldn't be a Shirley Temple.
What is grenadine?
1½ story house with deeply slanting roof named for easternmost part of Massachusetts.
What is a Cape Cod?
Sash worn with Japanese kimono, it sounds like an off-Broadway award.
What is an obi?
This most common form of the condition doctors call strabismus occurs in far-sighted children.
What is cross eyed?
This tiny bird can have a bill up to 5" long, adapted to feed from flowers.
What is a hummingbird?
Oedipus unwittingly committed this when he killed his father.
What is patricide?
These 2 Mass. patriots & founding fathers were 2nd cousins sharing the same last name.
Who are John & Samuel Adams?
1 of 2 names given chickens raised only for their meat.
What is a fryer (or broiler)?
In needlework, it forms an "X".
What is the cross stitch?
The longest-lived crustacean, after several hundred years it has quite a "tail" to tell.
What is lobster?
&.
What is an ampersand?
Site of annual summer music festival held in the Berkshires.
What is Tanglewood?
Landing in Venezuela in 1498, Christopher Columbus thought he was near this Biblical paradise.
What is the Garden of Eden?
Panama is often called this.
What is the crossroads of the world?
As of Sept. 2024, 218 of these were in captivity & only 343 left in the wild.
What is the California Condor?
French for "petticoat", Southern belles wore them to this kind of dance.
What is a cotillion?
Mass. abolitionist who also worked for women's rights & wrote "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic".
Who is Julia Ward Howe?
Besides the U.S. Treasury, the only other agency that can legally issue U.S. currency.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
Series of plays in bridge in which player trumps suits by alternating lead to the dummy.
What is a cross ruff?
This shrub is cultivated for a waxy oil very similar to that from a sperm whale.
What is the jojoba?