Puzzle 18

Assembling food on crockery in a restaurant.

Sound of closing a bag or doing up jeans.

Short, spiky beard growth, like a harvested field.

Southern US city that burned in Gone With the Wind.

City __, an urban sophisticate.

Lively, noisy participant.

Rock for Muppets.

Friendly correspondents who exchange letters.

Origin of the universe according to science.

Rugs of flowers, rice and pine __ adorn streets.

Queen Victoria's immediate predecessor: __ IV.

What Aretha Franklin wants.