What do you call an exceptionally intelligent Easter egg that spends all of spring studying in the university library?
An egghead
'Egghead' is an established informal term used to describe an intellectual or studious person. Because the word contains the literal name of the oval food, it serves as a direct description of a smart Easter egg reading books. The solver must connect academic smarts with this existing compound word.
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