OLIVIA GENTILE, LIFE LIST — The closer you get to the equator, the birdier it gets:... tiny... Panama,... just north of the equator, has almost a thousand bird species, more than have been recorded in all of North America; Peru... has a whopping eighteen hundred.
| A. | Group to which grasshoppers and crickets belong | ORTHOPTERA |
| B. | Created an empty nest, say (2 wds.) | LEFTHOME |
| C. | Provide a good environment for developing | INCUBATE |
| D. | Went the way of the passenger pigeon | VANISHED |
| E. | High-albedo Antarctic feature (2 wds.) | ICESHEET |
| F. | New Agey; Ayn Rand or Ronald Reagan, by birth | AQUARIAN |
| G. | Forest in full foliage | GREENWOOD |
| H. | Spanish grass sometimes woven into sandals | ESPARTO |
| I. | Whippoorwill, for one | NIGHTJAR |
| J. | Femur | THIGHBONE |
| K. | Featherbrain, dodo | IGNORAMUS |
| L. | Business traveler's carry-on | LAPTOP |
| M. | Sky father's counterpart (2 wds.) | EARTHMOTHER |
| N. | Where fluffing and folding may be observed | LAUNDERETTE |
| O. | Line connecting points equal in temperature | ISOTHERM |
| P. | Had a notion of; took a shine to | FANCIED |
| Q. | Fungus hosted by a plant | ENDOPHYTE |
| R. | Ammo banned for waterfowl hunting since 1991 (2 wds.) | LEADSHOT |
| S. | Extinct marine giant | ICHTHYOSAUR |
| T. | Use up heedlessly | SQUANDER |
| U. | Easy riders down a stream; yams, cassavas, etc. | TUBERS |