Crossword Clues "J"
International Thanksgiving
French in English
Who's Singing High
The Ivy League
100

“It’s alive!” - 5

What is Jello?

100

The Harvest Festival in Germany is often one part of this longer and more famous yearly festival.

What is Oktoberfest?

100

This phrase literally means “coffee in the milk”, not coffee with milk as many assume; thus explaining the more milk to coffee ratio.

What is café au lait?

100

“I can’t feel my face when I’m with you, but I love it”

Who is The Weekend?

100

This oldest university in the US is named after its first benefactor.

What is Harvard University?

200

Choice of choosey moms - 3

What is Jif?

200

Similar to Thanksgiving, the harvest festival of Pongal is celebrated in the southern part of this country as well as Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

What is India?

200

This phrase means “fashionable” in French, but in English it is used to describe a dessert dressed up with ice cream.

What is à la mode?

200

“They tried to make me go to rehab”

Who is Amy Winehouse?

200

Benjamin Franklin founded this university in 1740 and was at one point called the College of Philadelphia.

What is the University of Pennsylvania?

300

Flotsam and ____ - 6

What is jetsam?

300

In this country, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

What is Canada?

300

This word literally means “left” in French, but in English signifies something uncouth or unsophisticated, but then again doesn’t that describe the political left?

What is gauche?

300

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small”

Who is Jefferson Airplane?

300

This third oldest university in the US was named the Collegiate School at its founding and is the last on the list of Ivy League schools alphabetically.

What is Yale University?

400

Gin berry - 7

What is juniper?

400

Other than the US, this country celebrates Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of November.

What is Brazil?

400

Meaning literally “put in place”, this term is used in cooking to refer to having all of your ingredients prepped and in one place.

What is mise en place?

400

“A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”

Who are The Beatles?

400

This institution is the furthest south geographically of all the Ivy League schools and was founded in 1746.

What is Princeton University?

500

Legal first name of your beloved host - 4

What is John?

500

In this West African country, the Thanksgiving tradition is rooted in the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by free people of color from the United States.

What is Liberia?

500

This phrase is often used in contracts to refer to an unforeseeable event that might nullify an agreement.

What is a force majeure?

500

“Rock on gold dust woman / Take your silver spoon / Dig your grave”

Who is Fleetwood Mac?

500

The last of the Ivy League schools to be founded, this university’s founder held the unconventional belief at the time that, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

What is Cornell University?