Activities & oddities.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ding, --!
4 27th U.S. President's
last name
* 8 A blue whale has a
baleen filter in its--
* 9 Photosynthesis
captures energy
from the--
10 Calcium (chemical
symbol)
* 13 Greenhouse gases
can cause--
temperatures to rise
* 15 Shrimplike plankton
* 18 Plankton are the base
of the--food web
20 Sandra (nickname)
22 Automobile
25 Harry Potter character
who shouldn't be
named! (initials)
26 Australian Television
Network (abbr.)
28 1,000 kilograms equals
one metric--
* 30 Crustaceans have
or more pairs of legs
31 Shrek is one
DOWN
* 1 Breaks down or--
2 Shaquille O'Neal was
born in this state
(postal code)
* 3 Carbon dioxide is a
type of greenhouse--
5 Arsenic (chemical
symbol)
* 6 Coal is a fossil--
7 Home state of
Knoxville (postal
code)
11 Artificial Intelligence
(abbr.)
12 A division of time in
Earth's history
14 Harry Potter's best
friend (first name)
15 An island in south
Florida:--West
16 Movie: Monsters,--
* 17 Immature forms:--
19 Centers for Disease
Control (abbr.)
21 Opposite of pro- (prefix)
23 NBC's weather
reporter:--Roker
* 24 Animals that drift
through the ocean:
--plankton
26 Air Force (abbr.)
27 Home state of Death
Valley (postal code)
29 One billionth of a
gram (abbr.)
* Starred clues relate to this issue's stories. EXPLAIN THIS! Why the giant nest? TEASE tease (tez) to pull apart gently with fine needles to permit microscopic examination. tease v. YOUR BRAIN Completing the pattern, can you replace the question mark with the number of apples that should be inside that sack? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Answer Explain This This May, artist Benjamin Verdonck hung out in a giant nest suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. 30 meters (98 feet) above ground. What's the stunt? Verdonck used his homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. nest as a stage to perform the play--The Great Swallow--at an arts festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. in Brussels Brussels (brŭ`səlz), Fr. Bruxelles, Du. Brussel, city and region (1995 pop. 948,122), 63 sq mi (162 sq km), capital of Belgium, central Belgium, on the Senne River and at the junction of the Charleroi-Brussels and Willebroek , Belgium Belgium (bĕl`jəm), Du. België, Fr. La Belgique, officially Kingdom of Belgium, constitutional kingdom (2005 est. pop. 10,364,000), 11,781 sq mi (30,513 sq km), NW Europe. . It took Verdonck three months to construct his nest out of mud and branches. Real barn swallows can assemble a nest out of mud, grass stems, and feathers feathers, outgrowths of the skin, constituting the plumage of birds. Feathers grow only along certain definite tracts (pterylae), which vary in different groups of birds. in two weeks. Brain Teaser This article is about the roller coaster. For the British game show, see BrainTeaser. Brain Teaser is a steel family roller coaster manufactured by Zierer of Germany. The coaster is currently located at Darien Lake in New York. 7 apples. There's more than one solution. Here's one: Double the number inside the preceding sack, and add one to it. (for instance, 3 + 3 = 6, 6 + 1 = 7). Crossword [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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