Puzzle 1

Funniest part of a comedian's joke

Disintegrating like rusty metal

Trinkets for garden decoration

Percussion instrument hit by a brush or stick

Sign of surrender or truce when waved

Something that is unclear, not exact

Standardize, regulate, ensure the accuracy of

To be __; unfinished for now

Disease causing stiffness and pain in joints

Straps that attach parachutes to skydivers

To capture or arrest

Collections of signatures, in protest or objection

Animal that feeds on dead plant material

Inflexible, rigorous, strict

Free __; no charge for entering