If you're a little crazy or foolish, you're "off your" this piece of furniture

Many artistic hobbyists set up an easel outdoors to create this type of painting depicting natural scenery like mountains or trees

This word for a rope used to tie up a horse is also the name of a sleeveless top that has straps around the neck that leave the back bare

Why'd you do that? "Just..." this 5-letter contraction

This 1818 novel has been adapted as a ballet with an experimentalist named Victor & the discovery of galvanism

On road it's 666km from Edinburgh to London. But it's only 534 via this bird idiom

Assemblage art is sort of the 3-D version of this art of gluing paper or other materials to a background

A type of lace named after the French town where it originated, also a type of sweetened cream

The American Heritage Dictionary calls it "perhaps the single most famous feature of southern United States dialects"

Wagner wrote an opera about this pair of legendary lovers, King Mark's nephew & King Mark's intended bride

To view something with skepticism is to "take it with" this bit of sodium chloride

Keep mentally fit by learning a new one of these, perhaps with an app such as Babbel

A musical instrument with bellows gives its name to this style of pleats

A contraction of "would rather"; having these would mean you'd get your way

A courtesan named Violetta is the title fallen woman of this Verdi opera

In job training or language learning one method is to let the newbie loose to do one of this opposite watery pair

Using the 3 main ingredients, baking soda, Epsom salts & citric acid, you too can make these "explosive" tub additions

A royal house gives its name to this style for a necktie; it has a more complicated knot than a four-in-hand

There is a contraction in this French phrase for "please"; it's literally "if it pleases you"

You'll find the Queen of Night in this, Mozart's last opera

This 2-word cooler-sounding way to say second job is the title of a book subtitled From Idea to Income in 27 Days

At the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Des Newton would delight kids by showing how to make these impossible-seeming models

This traditional peasant costume seen here is still worn in the Austrian and Bavarian Alps

The poem "Home, Sweet Home" doesn't begin, "'Mong pleasures & palaces though we may roam"; the first word is this contraction

This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second