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| Starbucks uses it to describe a drink such as Frappuccino; in families, it describes one with stepsiblings living together |
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| In 1693 this physicist & lifelong bachelor said friend John Locke "endeavored to embroil me with women" |
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| He tested his killed polio virus vaccine on himself, but never patented the vaccine or earned any money from its discovery |
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| Gory horror movies are not for these people who are easily nauseated |
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| In the names of Iowa cities, this tree precedes Falls & Rapids |
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| "A verray parfit gentil knight" describes one of a cast of characters created by this poet |
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| Under the Affordable Care Act, dependent children are covered by mom or dad's health insurance until they reach this age |
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| When fiancee Ann Coleman died soon after breaking off their engagement in 1819, this man returned to politics & never married |
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| Getting an M.D. at 17, he later joined the Army Medical Corps, where he figured out the cause of yellow fever |
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| To add fake details to a real story to make it sound better |
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| This Florida coastal town incorporated in 1911 says its name comes from coconuts retrieved from the wreck of the Providencia |
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| "Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?" is this knight's first line of dialogue |
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| In world news, this policy whose end was announced in 2015 is estimated to have prevented 400 million births |
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| This man was a bachelor during his 3 terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 |
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| Le bon docteur René Laënnec invented a monaural version of this instrument, long a staple of the medical kit |
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| In a chemical reaction, sulfur combines with silver to create this dark coating |
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| The fabulous skiing of Snowmass is about 10 miles west of this city |
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| "Where is Becket, the traitor to the king?" say the knights in this 1935 verse play |
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| Among 18- to 34-year-olds, 2/3 of Italians live here, as opposed to 1/3 of Germans & Brits |
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| This unwed artist called his paintings his children & had more than 1,000 with him when he died near Oslo in 1944 |
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| In the 1790s this English physician figured out that giving people cowpox would protect them against smallpox |
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| Estuaries & swamps have this type of water not quite as briny as the ocean |
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| A 3-letter tree is in the name of this Oregon city known for a Shakespeare festival |
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| This knight "blew upon the war-horn in dolor and in pain/ and all the Frenchmen hearkened and the Emperor Charlemagne" |
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| In U.S. marriages with husband & wife working, this is now the case for 29% of wives, up from 18% in the 1980s |
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| The invisible hand of Cupid did not strike this 18th c. Scot who lived with his mother Margaret for much of his life |
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| A vizier to Djoser, this Egyptian was one of the few mortals to be completely deified & was worshipped as the god of medicine |
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| This, another word for a fanfare, means the king has arrived |
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| Poplar Bluff is in Missouri; this tree Bluff is in Arkansas |
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| The Red Cross Knight is "pricking on the plaine" in Book 1 of this long, long 1590 poem ("pricking" meant spurring a horse) |
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