January 2023 Crossword

By Jeremy Paine, CCA Treasurer

This moderately challenging crossword puzzle is from page 19 of the January 2023 issue of Carson O Piñon. Clues are below the puzzle; answers are on the next page (click on the link below the clues).

ACROSS

1. Agts.

5. Southeasternmost NM city

8. Some UNM degrees

11. Sky City pueblo

13. Former QB Manning

14. Apple assistant

15. Edible mushroom

16. Gov’t. property owner near Carson

17. Protective atmospheric layer

19. Domesticated carnivores (Felis catus)

21. Motel

23. Bad prefix?

24. Secondary railroad track

26. Hopping herbivore (Sylvilagus sp.)

30. Frequently-replaced joint

31. Ripped

32. Functional prefix

33. Single prefix

34. Cause (havoc)

36. Drillers’ org.

39. Perfect score in gymnastics

40. Artist Yoko

41. Belonging to that woman

44. Part of EU

46. Understand

48. Musical exercise

50. School address ending

51. Low power light source

54. Acceptable

55. ___-Tin-Tin (Old TV dog)

56. Hare (Lepus sp.)

60. Pollutant not found in Carson

61. “Long, long ___ …”

62. Type of whiskey

63. Hello? Hello? Hello?

65. Common gambling game

67. ___ Alamos

70. Rains really hard

73. Lascivious look

74. Backtalk

75. Like tools left outside, perhaps

76. About 112 degrees, on a compass

77. Foxy

78. Prepared a golf ball

DOWN

1. Ewe’s mate

2. Green prefix

3. Second largest North American rodent (Erethizon dorsatum)

4. Blur

5. A Bush

6. Everything

7. Ceiling

8. Show ___

9. Scent

10. Egyptian peninsula

12. PC key next to the space bar

14. Bono or Liston

18. 90 degree pipe fitting

20. Show contempt

22. Silent assent

24. Close

25. Turpentine source

27. Black and white snacks

28. Oolong, for one

29. Airport grp.

31. Only even prime

35. Uniform fabric

37. Potential hantavirus host (Peromyscus maniculatus)

38. Sound

42. Make very happy

43. King of Spain

45. Ladder component

47. Large deer (Cervus canadensis)

49. Corn core

52. Poor play in baseball

53. 24 hours and 37 minutes, on Mars

56. Vaccination

57. Flexible

58. They’re found under 25 Down

59. They jingle on sleighs

60. Yell

64. EMT’s procedure

66. Golly

68. Lubricant

69. Bond, for one

71. Numbered hwy.

72. Barrett of Pink Floyd

Download and print a PDF copy of the crossword puzzle that appeared on page 19 of the January 2023 issue of Carson O Piñon. Check the answers on page 2 (click the link below). 

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