POETRY TIME
Carol Ann Duffy's "Hour" says, "Time hates love, wants love poor / But love spins gold, gold, gold from" this, like Rumpelstiltskin
straw
Popularized in the 1990s, it's to bestow a present on someone else that was originally bestowed upon you
regift
This university town in North Carolina was founded in 1793 & named for the location of a Church of England building
Chapel Hill
Genetics is the study of this, a word centuries older for all characteristics passed down via the bloodline
heredity
In 2015 Steve Martin & Pete Seeger were inducted into the Hall of Fame for this instrument
banjo
Shelley wrote of the "Ocean of time, whose waters of deep woe / Are brackish with the salt of human" these
tears
Used both positively & negatively, this Yiddish word means a lot of nerve or gall
chutzpah
You'll find this 2-word city with a state in its name in the Hampton Roads area
Virginia Beach
The polymer cellulose is called a polysaccharide, meaning it is composed of molecules of these
sugars
It must have been magic; a platinum one of these woodwinds with silver keys sold for $187,000 in 1986
flute
Shakespeare wrote one of these poems that begins, "Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws"
sonnets
From Sanskrit, this synonym for expert is used of political commentators like George Will & Jessica Tarlov
This Westchester County city abuts Wakefield in the Bronx--both are plantation names associated with George Washington
Mount Vernon
Humans are mammals that have this 12-letter structure, with all the bones on the inside
an endoskeleton
“Pipedreams” is a public radio program devoted to this keyboard instrument
the organ
His "Four Quartets" begins, "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future"; I like the ones about cats
T.S. Eliot
It's the word for a work of art in 3 sections or panels & often used as an altarpiece
triptych
The name of this state capital likely comes from a word used by the Seminoles to mean "old town"
Tallahassee
Iodine is this type of element & is used as the filler gas in the same type of lamp
a halogen
This instrument used for military calls has no valves or keys; tones are made by changing the tension of the lips
bugle
"'Be happy, happy, happy, / And seize the day of pleasure'", says a poem titled this Latin phrase about living for now
carpe diem
From Greek for "to teach", it describes something intended to teach or inform, but can also mean preachy or moralizing
didactic
This once-booming town at the confluence of the Mississippi & Ohio is in an area of Illinois known as "Little Egypt"
Cairo
In winter, chipmunks enter this not-quite-hibernating state, from the Latin for "numbness"
torpor
Alisa Weilerstein & Mstislav Rostropovich are famed players of this stringed instrument
cello