By Jeremy Paine, CCA Treasurer
This moderately challenging crossword puzzle is from page 19 of the April 2022 issue of Carson O Piñon. Clues are below the puzzle; answers are on the next page (click on the link below the clues).
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ACROSS 1 Area or Morse 5 Rim 9 O Piñon publisher 12 Track shape, frequently 13 Roswell crash victim, perhaps 14 Worn-out cloth 15 Restaurant offerings 16 Guides the wheel 17 Bauxite or hematite, for example 18 Born and raised 19 Owner-occupied apartment, briefly 20 Raced 21 Cause of a deadly outbreak in Africa 23 Org. with Nuggets 25 Rock concert necessity 28 Piercing tool 29 Daughters 31 Add oomph to 33 Certain Polynesians 35 Major thoroughfare to Carson Post Office 39 Quality needed by a marathoner 40 Persian King of Babylon 41 Begin 42 ___ Caliente 44 Many a building addition 45 …and so on 46 Cache of cash? 48 They’re encountered often on 35 Across 51 Made calls at a ball game 53 They fly silently 57 One ___ time (single file) 58 Appeal 59 Rind 60 Coltrane’s horn 61 Capital on the Nile 62 Roof overhang 63 ___ Beta Kappa (academic honor society) 64 Environmental activist Brockovich 65 Lose traction |
DOWN 1 Stylist’s tool 2 ___ and out (sign off) 3 “Great” dog 4 Avoid capture 5 Supreme Court Justice Kagan 6 Quit running 7 Famed Apache leader 8 USCG officer 9 What a farmer grows 10 Hunger-fighting grp. 11 Like cheese or bourbon 13 Bikini, for one 16 Barge-like boat 20 Regular earned income 22 Rug by a tub 24 Denver ball club 25 “Six-pack” muscles 26 Cows’ comments 27 Mopes 29 Oxygen at room temperature 30 Sleep soundly? 32 What stars on the flag represent 33 Mexican Mrs. 34 “Better Call ___” (TV drama) 36 Useful kind of saw, useless kind of logic 37 Hill worker? 38 Phone-based broadband (inits) 42 Alamogordo’s county 43 Semi-precious green stone 46 Reject with contempt 47 Aspirations 48 Coarse file 49 It borders New Mexico at one point 50 Good luck catching one on 35 Across 52 1,052 in ancient Rome 54 Feeble 55 Clothier Strauss 56 Winter vehicle 58 Rio Grande Hardware, for one |
Download and print a PDF copy of the crossword puzzle that appeared on page 19 of the April 2022 issue of Carson O Piñon. Check the answers on page 2 (click the link below).