CARROT

• An intellectual ___! The mind boggles! (line from 1951's The Thing)

• Bugs Bunny snack

• Bugs' treat

• Bunny food

• Certain incentive

• Crudits ingredient

• Dangling incentive

• Donkey lure

• Figurative incentive

• Horse's lure, sometimes

• Incentive

• Incentive, metaphorically

• Incentive, so to speak

• Inducement

• Juice veggie

• Metaphorical incentive

• Nosh for Bugs

• Orange vegetable

• Orange veggie

• Prop for Bugs Bunny

• Rabbit's snack

• Rabbit's treat

• Root vegetable

• Snowman's nose, often

• Snowman's nose, perhaps

• Snowman's nose, typically

• Stereotypical inducement

• Stick alternative

• Stick's antithesis

• Subject of a myth about night vision

• Symbolic incentive

• Symbolic lure

• Tempting dangler

• Treat for Bugs

• V8 veggie

• Vegetable on a platter of hors d'oeuvres

• Veggie symbolizing incentive

• Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical deep-orange edible roots

• Temperate and tropical regions

• Orange root

• Important source of carotene

• Promise of reward as in