COFFEE, NOW
One story says the inventor of this type of coffee was inspired by a shipment of beans accidentally soaked by seawater
decaf
It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set
Chicago
Fred MacMurray's "Professor" in a Disney film or Robin Williams in "Flubber"
absent-minded
Cleopatra is said to have used rejuvenating products from this saline body of water in which the Jordan ends
the Dead Sea
In many U.S. states one of these signs a marriage license; Soviets had 2, mostly a best man & maid of honor, often wearing red sashes
a witness
On the tree, coffee berries aren't called beans but these, rhyming with berries
cherries
Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister"
Crime and Punishment
It describes adobe bricks or some tomatoes
sun-dried
For disguise, try one in black silk; to refresh your skin, try one made from oatmeal or avocado
a face mask
No Russian wedding would be complete without a babushka, literally this relation
a grandmother
Jacques-Victor Delforge & Henri-Otto Mayer filed a patent for this type of plunger-based device in 1852
the French press
This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America"
The Call of the Wild
In other words, myopic, medically speaking
nearsighted
In a popular spa treatment, this marine algae is applied to the body, followed by a soothing thermal wrap
seaweed
Marriage registry took place at a ZAGS office, many fitted with a bust of this man
Lenin
Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind
roasting
In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam
Caleb
Ibsen spent 27 years away from Norway in this type of exile
self-imposed
National name for the procedure of giving yourself white-tipped fingernails
a French manicure (French tip)
Friends of Soviet grooms have been known to playfully make him "pay" one of these, something usually given to get a kidnap victim back
a ransom
These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability & labor standards
fair trade
This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award
The Corrections
Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah"
Hard Hearted
Oil from this shrub with a Spanish name makes a good moisturizer; it's similar to our natural skin oil
the jojoba
After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship"
the Bolsheviks (Reds)