The newness of springtime
Spring is all about renewal: Flower buds bloom and the grass grows green again. Let's celebrate this season's newness. Every answer to the clues below ends with the sound or spelling of "new."
1. Wide street
2. Bill of fare
3. President Richard Nixon's vice president
4. Income
5. Welcome in Québec
6. Investigator's query
7. French phrase that means "in strict confidence"
8. Make one's way by oneself (aphorism)
9. Knee (in anatomy)
10. Scene of a crime, for example
11. Common greeting for a friend or family member
12. Nickname for William Henry Harrison
13. Simple and unsophisticated person
14. Exhortation to subscribers
15. Someone new to wealth or power
16. A celebrity's crowd
ANSWERS: (1) Avenue; (2) Menu; (3) Spiro Agnew; (4) Revenue; (5) "Bienvenue"; (6) Who knew? (7) Entre nous; (8) Paddle one's own canoe; (9) Genu; (10) Venue; (11) What's new? (12) Tippecanoe (Harrison is best remembered for his campaign slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." He received the nickname after defeating the Shawnee Indians in 1811 at Tippecanoe River in Indiana.) (13) Ingenue; (14) Renew! (15) Parvenu; (16) Retinue.