SEASONINGS GREETINGS
A garnish on deviled eggs, this colorful spice is made from dried & ground sweet red peppers
Paprika
This March holiday is traditionally celebrated with the "wearing of the green"
St. Patrick's Day
Latin for "poison", it's a submicroscopic agent infecting living organisms & causing disease
Virus
Pleasant music:
____ candy
Ear
This large retailer uses the slogan "Expect More. Pay Less."
Target
Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle
Coriander
Appropriately, National Humor Month begins with this day of practical jokes
April Fool's Day
In this "effect" people are given inert substances & seem to improve
Placebo
A total babe:
____ candy
Zorba was the original name of this retailer that started in Spain; it stuck with a "Z" name
Zara
It sounds like it's being pondered over, but it's just heated wine or cider with seasonings like star anise & cloves added to the mix
Mulled
This French national holiday, sometimes likened to the 4th of July, also falls in July
Bastille Day
Named for an American surgeon, McBurney's incision is a cut in the lower right abdomen used when removing this
Appendix
Hard effort:
____ grease
Elbow
A follow-up to "The Devil Wears Prada" is called "When Life Gives You" these yoga clothes
Lululemons
(Caroline's note: Nobody got this in real-life Jeopardy so I'll give points to anybody who answered leggings)
This geographic name for this seasoning is on shaky ground, as it actually comes from hills in Punjab
Himalayan (pink) salt
Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving on the second Monday of this month
October
The Weber hearing test is conducted by striking this instrument & placing it on the head
Tuning fork
A type of party:
____dig
Shin
Tadashi Yanai, the founder of this chain of Japanese clothing stores, is the richest person in Japan
Uniqlo
It can take thousands of crocus stigmas to make even a small amount of this golden seasoning used in paella
Saffron
In England the first weekday after Christmas is this holiday
Boxing Day
Your oil-secreting sebaceous glands can produce their own type of this, a 4-letter abdominal sac
Cyst
A little device to transfer data:
____ drive
Thumb
The home of the "Maxxinista" was founded in 1976
TJ MAXX