VACATION!
FOOD, FAST & SLOW
SHOP CLASS
CRY
IT'S A PLANET
200

On the interstate when there's not a lot of traffic, Dad uses this alliterative speed management system

cruise control

200

Martha Stewart's quick way to make these eggs is to remove them from the water just as it starts to boil

soft-boiled eggs

200

Shop class has gone high-tech with skills like using these semiconductor devices that work like tiny bulbs

LEDs

200

Aesop knows that one who raises a false alarm is said to "cry" this creature

wolf

200

Our closest neighbor, it has a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead

Venus

400

If you want to pitch your tent in a national park, Yosemite has 13 of these areas; Alaska's Gates of the Arctic, 0

campgrounds

400

As a noun, it's a burger garnish; as a verb, it's to preserve, say, pigs' feet through a long, briny process

pickle

400

Woodshop is safer with Stephen Gass' device that can stop a spinning one of these in 3/1,000 of a second

saw

400

In a text message, "FCOL" is short for this exasperated phrase

For Crying Out Loud

400

Its most prominent feature, the Great Red Spot, is more than twice as wide as the Earth

Jupiter

600

Before "Over Georgia" or "Great America", this name means fun until you drop

Six Flags

600

This "pudgy" turkey company's website says a stuffed 25-pound bird can take more than 6 hours to cook

Butterball

600

Ordinary scissors won't cut metal; you need snips, also known by this "sh" word

shears

600

If you've given up, "cry" this generic relative

uncle

600

Its frozen dry ice polar caps recede & advance with the planet's seasons

Mars

800

This "Royal" company's Allure of the Seas is 3 football fields long

Royal Caribbean

800

A couple of minutes in the microwavable sleeve makes these Nestle meat & cheese sandwiches

Hot Pocket

800

The protective helmet shown here is named for this task of fusing metal together 

 

welding

800

Justin Timberlake sang "Cry me" one of these, perhaps the Irrawaddy

a river

800

Named for the first ruler of the universe in Greek mythology, it was the first to be discovered by telescope

Uranus

1000

Everybody into the motorhome, also called by this 2-letter term (& it's not "MH")

RV

1000

In the morning, you can have instant this from Quaker or the slow-cooked steel-cut kind

oatmeal

1000

Appropriately, this retailer opened its first store on the 21st of April, 1984--oops, that's for shopping class, not shop class

Forever 21

1000

"Cry" this "and let slip the dogs of war"

havoc

1000

Methane clouds in its atmosphere give it a distinctive look

 

Neptune