April
On April 3, 1945, an all-black platoon called the Dusty Devastators saw action for the first time in this country
Germany
You can be "guilty as" this, or guilty of this 3-letter word
Sin
The tapir
Mammal
Examples include the two-tailed pasha & the zebra swallowtail
Butterflies
In 1672 Giovanni Cassini determined the distance from the Earth to this, creating a new measuring unit, the Au
The sun
This Green-friendly day is observed nationally in the U.S. on the last Friday in April
Arbor Day
The familiar "as old as" these appears in "David Copperfield"
The hills
The lamprey
Fish
These gothic architectural supports can be "clasping" or "flying"
Buttresses
In 1679 Danish astronomer Ole Romer was the first to figure out the speed of this
Light
This seaway that enables ocean vessels to reach inland ports on the Great Lakes opened to shipping April 25, 1959
The St. Lawrence Seaway
After a bad night, change the meaning of this common simile by adding "I woke up every hour crying"
I slept like a baby
The coelacanth
Fish
He was Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon & Ford
Earl Butz
Term for the astronomical event that heralds the beginning of summer
The solstice
In a predawn raid on April 22, 2000, federal agents in Miami swooped in & seized this boy
(Elian) Gonzalez
Many writers have used Shakespeare's simile "bestride the narrow world like" this
A colossus
The ptarmigan
Bird
Of the genus Ranunculus, this grassland wild plant has large yellow flowers
A buttercup
To an astronomer UMa is an abbreviation for this constellation
Ursa Major
On April 3, 1964 he gave his famous "Ballot or the Bullet" speech in Cleveland, Ohio
Malcolm X
This 3-word simile is also the title of a Joseph Heller novel; the hero's first name is Bruce
Good as gold
The colobus
Mammal
Romeo's 2-word interjection when Juliet appears at her window
But soft
A large crater on Saturn’s moon Mimas is named for the British astronomer who discovered the moon in 1789
William Herschel