1: This time of year

6: Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; chemicals can be ______ unless you know what you're doing.

8: Small vessels for travel on water.

11: Describes the extreme physical changes that insects go through during the stages of their life.

14: They're fit for a king

18: California and Tennessee cities merge?

21: Eau

25: Like neon or argon

26: Loud and sustained; shrill and piercing.

29: 'I'm not the only one to blame!'

2: A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity.

3: Eroded, with 'away'

4: Weather woe

5: Plural form of 'rose.'

7: It may be about sin (abbr.)

9: Sounds of understanding

10: Highlighter?

12: You have this many digits on your hands.

13: Part of a guffaw

15: A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.

16: Delivery docs, for short

17: A subdivision of an act of a play.

19: Balls, e.g.

20: Cauldron

21: A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface.

22: 'Norma __'

23: Solution: Abbr.

24: The least favorable outcome; 'What's the ______ that could happen?'

27: Play a role or part.

28: Charged particle