Egg Hunt

-1. Jokes, messages or features hidden in software
-2. Well-cured Chinese ingredient
-3. To fail, especially in a public performance
-4. Embarrassment, humiliation
-5. Encourage or incite to action
-6. Nursery wall color
-7. Retirement savings
-8. Ingredient covered with sausage and bread crumbs and then fried
-9. Spoil something by trying too hard to improve it
-10. Ingredient that was stolen?
-11. An aludel
-12. Bay on New Jersey coast
-13. Russian-crafted works of art
-14. Sulfuric odor
-15. Risk everything on a single venture
-16. 1968 Doris Day/Brian Keith movie
-17. Christmas drink
-18. Intellectually gifted person
-19. Popular relay race leg
-20. A big fat zero

18. egghead

1. Easter eggs

Bernie

7. nest egg

5, Egg on

17.Eggnog

3. lay an egg

9. Kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

4. egg in the face

20. goose egg

14. smells like rotten egg
15. put all your eggs in one basket

13. Faberge egg

16. With Six You Get Eggroll

Eggscellent solves! I've got something different for #9.

9. over egg the pudding (I think this is a British term?)

12. Little Egg Inlet

12. Little Egg Harbor (It's about 35 miles south of me.)

8. eggplant

6. eggshell

6. robin's egg blue

Way to go, Cue. Eggshell is when you don't know the sex
Back when I had my 3 sons, we didn't know the sex, hence the nursery was painted
eggshell

Sorry, Joan. I didn't see that you'd posted for this clue. Eggshell is a nice color and could be what Pandora likes too.

2. 100 year old egg (or century egg)

More eggcellent answers and alternates! I've got something different for #8.

8.Scotch eggs

Yummy!

19. Egg and spoon race

11. Philosopher's Egg

10. poached egg

Eggsactly right!