Nursery Rhymes
Curds & whey are on the menu for this tuffet sitter
Little Miss Muffet
As well as a duck bill, this Aussie monotreme has a cloaca, an organ common in birds
a platypus
Mr. Mushnik gets gobbled up by a plant in his own store in this musical
Little Shop of Horrors
In sugar water, water is this, a substance that causes another to become part of it
solvent
A place to hoard your pennies:
_ _ G G _ _ _ N K
Piggy Bank
Her cupboard bare, she went to the baker's to buy her dog bread
Old Mother Hubbard
There may be more of these animals, including the Bengal type, kept as pets in the U.S. than living in the wild in Asia
tigers
Rizzo, Sandy, Danny Zuko
Grease
It's a structure made of DNA found in the cell nucleus; the hermit crab has 254, we have 46
chromosomes
Benjamin Franklin's certainties:
D _ _ _ _ _ _ D _ _ X _ S
Death and Taxes
"When" this transpires "the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all"
the bough breaks
The kinkajou is also known as this kind of "bear", for its favorite food
honey bear
From a 2022 Best Musical Tony nominee: "Ex-Wives" & "Don't Lose Ur Head"
Six
Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these
an equal and opposite reaction
Patience, especially at the racetrack:
H_ L _ Y _ _ R H _ R _ _ _
Hold your Horses
Mary, Mary who grows silver bells in her garden is quite this, opposite in position or character
contrary
The unusual blue blood of the horseshoe type of this is used to detect bacterial toxins & test drugs for purity
crab
This musical set in the Jewish village of Anatevka was inspired by stories of Tevye & his daughters
Fiddler on the Roof
This fourth state of matter occurs when atoms in a gas are ionized
Plasma
Superstitious rap:
K _ O _ K O _ _ O O D
Knock on Wood
The black sheep's not so bad; he's got 3 bags full of wool for these 3 recipients
the master, the dame & the little boy who lives down the lane
Aaargh! Pirata piraticus, one of these arachnids, has the startling ability to walk--& even run--on water
wolf spider
Yep, this haunting love story is still on Broadway, as it has been since its Jan. 26, 1988 opening night
Phantom of the Opera
The synthetic slippery resin polytetrafluoro-ethylene, or PTFE for short, has been trademarked under this name
Teflon
A friendship is born of common discomfort:
M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ V _ _ _ _ _ P _ _ Y
Misery Loves Company