For each puzzle, solve all of the clues, and the first letter of each solution will spell out another word. All of the words will be related to the theme in the title. (Answers for this section begin on page 297.)

Example:

Outside the Lines

• Harvard nickname

• Citrus

• The Hill Mob

• Mediterranean oil tree

• A communist

The answers are:

• C rimson

• O range

• L avender

• O live

• R ed

The first letter of each answer spells out “COLOR.”

Reservations

• Illegal parking note

• It was less traveled

• Flight business

• Paid rest

• A short journey

• Sometimes lost on the way

May Flowers

• To add salt and herbs

• To place for growth

• It pours

• A creepy crawly

• Never seen before

• Vegetable plot

The Final Frontier

• Found on Hollywood Boulevard

• Mercury

• Rocks in space

• Halley's

• UFO traveler

Beginning to Look a Lot Like

• Roasting

• Decked

• Present decoration

• Winter spike

• Hung to be filled

• Gift for the kids

• Not even stirring

• Heard on high

• White dream

Earth Plot

• Increase in size naturally

• Edible tender young shoots

• Pungent root vegetable

• Move earth

• Third planet from the sun

• Mother

Baby

• Not guilty

• Brief sleep

• Nourishment

• We are not

• Recent

• Young child

Knowledge

• A unit of instruction

• Process of gaining knowledge

• Reading, Writing, and

• Book activity

• Written records from class

Athletics

• Spectator place

• Makes perfect

• Racket stroke

• Competition for speed

• A running course

• A performance number

Summer Fun

• Area behind house

• Before dust to dust

• To ridicule harshly

• Meat

• To consume

• Meal cooked and eaten outdoors

• Dinner tools

• A glowing coal