Enigmarch 2023: Day 2
Mar. 2nd, 2023 06:42 pmNope, I mean it, I'm really doing this: Enigmarch, Day 2. And since this one doesn't rely on layout like Day 1, here it is in text format:
Empty Nests
Enigmarch 2: Empty Nests
Inspired by the prompt NEST, I offer you twelve empty nests. Some clues below offer a sense of what they looked like when occupied; perhaps you can spot the occupants.Empty Nests
- Suitable for viewing by children (if a mom or a dad says so) (2)
- Soar through the air (3)
- Its birthstone is emerald (3)
- Hat for Charlie Chaplin, John Steed, or a René Magritte subject (6)
- Pleaded, as for money (6)
- 2016 movie in which animals perform the titular action under a koala's direction (4)
- Fifth Peter Gabriel studio album (and the first that wasn't self-titled) or fifth note of the major scale (in an uncommon variant spelling) (2)
- Double curve, as in a road (3)
- "Def" name that rapper Yasiin Bey left behind in 2011 (3)
- Nonsense or meaningless speech, abbreviated to be less vulgar (2)
- First Lady in the late 1940s (4)
- First man in the early 4000s BC (4)
- 1960s engineering project on the Nile (2 wds.) [1]
- Brand under a chafing dish [1]
- Courage, less commonly [1]
- Hogwash (var. spelling) [3]
- In a weak manner [3]
- Like some questions and some aliens [3]
- Porthos and Him and Her, among others [1]
- Some eastern Iroquois members [1]
- Stunned (2 wds) [1]
- Third parties hold them [1]
- What Rickey Henderson has rarely been caught doing, or what Jane's Addiction has [3]
- With outward-bent limbs (hyph.) [2]