"M"ENAGERIE
As adults, these insects are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes
Moths
A Biblical dish was locust & this sweetener
honey
C.O.D. stamped on a package stands for this
Cash (or collect) on delivery
In a message that's appended to a letter after the writer's signature
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S
(forgot to tell you)
These McDonald's staples introduced in 1983 come in bell, bone, ball & boot shapes
Chicken nuggets
It's the part of a movie ticket you keep as a receipt, or it can mean to strike your toe
Stub
Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur
a marmoset
The Greek dish soupa avgolemono features eggs & this citrus fruit
lemon
Keeping the "bells" comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes
an hourglass
In a rating that suggests some material in a movie may not be suited for children
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PG
Dining on this cephalopod dish inspired Philippe Starck to create an iconic lemon squeezer
Calamari (Octopus)
It can mean of the mouth, or something spoken
oral
It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them
a moray eel
Kate & Sydney is this kind of pie that a cockney might have for Lilley & Skinner, dinner
Steak and Kidney Pie
Number of months that do not have 31 days
5
In the postal code of a U.S. commonwealth in the Caribbean
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PR
(San Juan)
Henry Dreyfuss had 2 daughters, maybe helping him design the Princess model of this in the 1950s
a telephone
It's what the R stands for in LASER & MASER
radiation
Not the musk ox or musk turtle, but this musk animal secretes the musk used in perfume
musk deer
Careful! If you drink alcohol after eating ink caps, a type of these, you'll become very sick
mushrooms
This expression comes from medieval custom of placing lips on signature after signing a document
sealed with a kiss
To indicate the chemical symbol for lead
P
Pb
(maybe used on a sandwich)
In 1997, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art chose the mixer made by this company as an icon of American design
KitchenAid
Equine means horselike, feline is catlike & this is wolflike
lupine
These sled dogs were named for these eskimos who, it's said, first bred them
malamutes
These fish are caught by hand & deep fried after they run onto West Coast beaches to spawn
grunion
Starting in the '20s and ending in the '90s, this device was meant to protect sterility when opening a Band-aid
red tear string
In the name of the store on a military base
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PX
(Post Exchange or “PX”)
You can scramble the colors on the boxy lamp named for this Hungarian sculptor & toy creator
Rubix
From the Greek for "self-acting", it's another term for a robot
automaton