Age Milestones
A teen's "sweet" age
16
In 1968, an Alabama politician made the first test call on this emergency services telephone number
911
t's a prefix meaning "former" but it's also used alone to describe a former spouse
Ex
Advances in braking technology have all but eliminated this traditional last car on a freight train
Caboose
It's said that more than 50 ships & 20 planes have disappeared in this eerie region of the North Atlantic
Bermuda triangle
A girl having a quinceañera is celebrating this birthday
15
Her real name turns out to be Jane Ives, & she developed powers due to involvement in the government's MK-Ultra program
Eleven (Stranger Things)
In the metric system this prefix means "thousand"
Kilo
This adjective can describe a bus or a sandwich having one level above another
Double-decker
You'd have to hold your breath to visit this legendary island described by Plato
Atlantis
Hebrew for "daughter of commandment" , this rite celebrates the transition of 12-year-old Jewish girls into adulthood
Blink-182: "That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're ___"
23
Meaning "many", this prefix is found in front of -amorous or -hedron
Robin! To this iconic TV vehicle, a modified Lincoln Futura
The Batmobile
In 1952 the U.S. Air Intelligence Center received 1,000 reports of these; 20% went unexplained
UFO sightings
Guys, when you turn 18, you'll have to register for this, for potential enlistment into the armed forces
Draft, or, Selective Service
You don't need perfect vision to ask this trucker-inspired version of the question "Where are you?"
What's your 20?
With a prefix meaning "against", it describes an event that turns out to have much less drama than expected
Anticlimatic
Miami has the USA's largest cruise terminal, serving this cruise line named for a nearby sea
Royal Caribbean
In the Southwest there've been reports of livestock being killed by this cryptid creature, Spanish for "goat sucker"
La chupacabra
Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S.
21st
Kathy Reichs came up with this many "Bones", typically the amount found in adult humans
206 bones
This word starts with a prefix meaning "between" & John Mulaney had a "Star-Studded" one
Intervention
A plane flying faster than the speed of sound creates a percussive wave called a Mach cone. Wherever the cone passes, observers on the ground encounter this window-rattling phenomenon
Sonic boom
Cosmologist Sir Martin Rees wrote, "Countless other universes may exist" & for that idea he uses this 10-letter word
Multiverse