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• ___ squash

• ___ squash (orange vegetable)

• Babe in the oakwoods

• Babe in the woods

• Big tree-to-be

• Brown color

• Capped nut

• Castoff from an oak tree

• Cheek pouch morsel

• Chickaree's morsel

• Chicken Little bonker

• Chicken Little's 'fallen sky'

• Chicken Little's bit of falling sky, actually

• Chicken Little's sky

• Chipmunk snack

• Chipmunk's tidbit

• Color also called meadowlark

• Cupped fruit

• Cupule contents

• Embryonic oak

• Eventual oak

• Fall fall

• Faller on Chicken little

• Find under an oak

• Fruit of the oak

• Furniture finial

• Furniture finial, sometimes

• Future nut tree

• Future oak

• Future oak tree

• Future part of a stand, maybe

• Hard nut to crack?

• Hard-shell seed

• Incipient oak

• It drops from an oak tree

• It falls in the fall

• It has a cupule

• It has a cupule at its base

• It may be squirreled away

• It's a tough nut to crack

• It's often squirreled away

• It's put away for winter

• It's squirreled-away for the winter

• Item buried in a lawn

• Item in a cheek pouch

• Item in a cheek pouch, sometimes

• Item in a fall stash

• Item in a squirrel's cache

• Item in a squirrel's stash

• Item to squirrel away

• Kind of squash

• Mighty oak maker

• Nosh for a squirrel

• Nut

• Nut for a nut weevil

• Nut for a squirrel

• Nut in a cupule

• NUT IN A HAT

• Nut that gets squirreled away

• Nut that's squirreled away

• Nut with a cap

• Nut with a cupule

• Nut with bitter tannin

• Oak beginning

• Oak dropping

• Oak fruit

• Oak in a nutshell

• Oak in the embryonic stage

• Oak nut

• Oak of the future

• Oak producer

• Oak seed

• Oak source

• Oak start

• Oak tree fruit

• Oak tree genesis

• Oak tree-to-be

• Oak-leaf cluster feature

• Oak-oak link

• Oak-to-be

• Oak, once

• Oak's offspring

• Oak's origin

• Once and future oak

• One fell on Chicken Little's head

• One struck Chicken Little

• Org. indicted in Nevada for alleged election fraud

• Part of a squirrel stash

• Part of a winter stash

• Part of a winter stash, maybe

• Part of a woodlands stash

• Part of some deer diets

• Piece of the sky, to Chicken Little

• Pony nosh

• Potential oak

• Potential oak tree

• Potential tree

• Proverbial start of great things

• Q: What did the ___ say when it grew up? A: Gee, I'm a tree! (bad math joke)

• Scrat's prize in Ice Age

• Seed of a sort

• Seed with real potential

• Snack for a blue jay

• Snack for a squirrel

• Snack for Chip or Dale

• Some kind of a nut

• Something a jay stores

• Something squirreled away

• Something to squirrel away

• Squash selection

• Squash type

• Squash variety

• Squash variety named for its shape

• Squirrel food

• Squirrel jackpot

• Squirrel meal

• Squirrel snack

• Squirrel staple

• Squirrel stash

• Squirrel treat

• Squirrel's acquisition

• Squirrel's cache

• Squirrel's find

• Squirrel's lunch

• Squirrel's morsel

• Squirrel's nugget

• Squirrel's prize

• Squirrel's tidbit

• Squirreled-away item

• Start of something big?

• Symbol marking England's National Trails

• Symbol of potential

• Symbol used to mark England's National Trails

• Tannin source

• Tannin-rich nut

• Tough nut to crack

• Treat for Chip and Dale

• Treat for Chip or Dale

• Tree nut

• Tree seed

• Tree to be

• Type of squash

• Variety of squash

• Voter reg. grp. in the news

• Voter registration grp. founded in 1970

• What Chicken Little mistook for the sky

• Whence grows a mighty oak

• Whence the mighty oak

• Winter squash

• Would-be oak

• Fruit of the oak tree a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base