The N.Y. Times counsels gardeners to wait until nights have reached 50 degrees to plant these vine-grown salad favorites
What are tomatoes?
"In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous"
What is Law and Order: SVU?
Adjective describing things that are exactly, precisely, completely the same
What is identical?
The name of a direct-to-consumer genetic info company includes this number, the total chromosome pairs in a typical human cell
What is 23
Got up from bed
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mother of Jesus
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this herb
What is rosemary?
In the fall, 6 weeks before the ground freezes, plant these bulbs & "tiptoe through" them in the spring
What are tulips?
One episode used "The following takes place between midnight & 1 A.M."
What is 24?
If you tailgate you might get cited for a moving this
What is a violation?
Here's some really hard science; the pink form of this igneous rock is prized for use in countertops & more
What is granite
Shakespeare wrote "All the world" is one
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a sports team leader
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this transport
What is stagecoach?
Use this organic or inorganic soil cover to reduce water loss & against extreme temps but don't pile it on stems; it'll rot 'em
From 1960:
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight & sound, but of mind"
What is The Twilight Zone?
It's how occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are expected to appear
What is presidential?
Latin for "hair" gives us the name of these blood vessels
What are capillaries
Type of corvid
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place where a mixologist works
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this prying tool
What is a crowbar?
Put some wide tape on the underside of your hand, sticky side out, & pat the leaves to help get rid of this insect
What are aphids?
"There are 2 kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people--psychopaths & mystery writers"
What is Castle
The M.I.T. School of this offers degrees in the biological, chemical & mechanical types
What is engineering?
Coral polyps excrete hard skeletons made of this, CaCO3; get enough of the little guys together & you get a reef
Cautionary golf yell
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dark image caused by the Sun
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this, something an author does
What is foreshadow?
From the Greek for "water work", this type of soilless gardening can be done indoors using nutrients in solution
What are hydroponics?
"The name:
Dr. Richard Kimble. the destination: Death row, state prison. The irony: Richard Kimble is innocent"
What is The Fugitive
The settlement of a dispute according to the judgment of an agreed-upon third party
What is arbitration
The 1930s added a zeroth law of this, saying 2 objects in thermal equilibrium with a 3rd are in equilibrium as well
What is thermodynamics
Soft bird plumage
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members of a play
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this, describing a look of dejection
What is downcast?