Page A4 The Joan De Arc Crusader / Thursday, November 23, 2006

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Crusader Crossword

 

Across

1 Small, verdant Thanksgiving veggies

5 Firm

9 Bueker carver

13 Amoreena food

14 _____ Major

15 Jargon

16 One who says what just isn’t so

17 Stray

18 Voiced disapproval

19 Indulges in clothing free ‘70s fad

21 Standard links scores

23 Still

24 Stinger

25 Red potato

29 Super____

30 Use UPS, say

32 It’s usually pumpkin today

33 It’s usually cranberry today

36 Type of Thanksgiving potato

37 Naval rank (abbr.)

38 ____ School Road

39 Rude people

40 Tier

41 Difficulty

42 In Glendale, Scruggs

43 Alert

44 Molson for instance

45 Actor Alda

46 It’s on the walls at Wrigley

47 Bother

49 Kimono sash

50 Vacation option

53 Gab

55 See 66 Across

57 Giant in “Princess Bride”

60 Successor

62 Apollo team

63 Gathered the leaves

64 Needle case

65 Cease

66 With 55 Across,  spiced holiday hors d'oeuvres popular on Joan De Arc

67 Cass Elliot, for one

68 Routine medical procedure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JDA Turkey Day Trivia

Edited by J. Bueker

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November 23, 2006

 

Down

1 Paralysis

2 Favored

3 Elite

4 Hurting

5 Thanksgiving table centerpiece

6 Lost his lap

7 NATO member

8 Tap in lightly

9 Surly

10 Gone by

11 Seafood

12 Ford model popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s

15 Sudden

20 Apt

22 Ram sign

26 Rash

27 Variety of duck

28 Seduce

29 U.S. farm agency

30 Faint

31 German mister

33 Biblical woman

34 Bird thumb feathers

35 Burnt color

36 Protein rich bean

39 Light wood

40 ____ Stone, ‘70s music star

42 Type of Thanksgiving potato

43 Tel ____

46 European peninsula

48 Land parcels

49 Intense dislike

50 Layer rock

51 Chihuahua coins

52 Alter

54 No, not us

56 Finishing school (abbr.)

57 “You ____ There”

58 Annoy

59 Metric unit of mass (abbr.)

61 Airport abbr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

327th day of the year

     Sunrise: 7:07 AM

     Sunset: 5:22 PM

     Moonrise: 10:01 AM

     Moonset: 7:36 PM

On this day in JDA history:

On this day in 1967, Carl Bueker sat mostly in silence in front of his television set as the Los Angeles Rams embarrassed the Detroit Lions in the annual Thanksgiving Day football game in Detroit, 31-7.

  Today's birthdays:

   Harpo Marx (1888)

   Boris Karloff (1887)

   Billy the Kid (1859)

   Franklin Pierce (1804)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planets: Rise / Set

41a13  Mercury 5:31 am / 4:22 pm

41a07  Venus 7:43 am / 5:41 pm

4216a  Mars 6:22 am / 4:43 pm

1701  Jupiter 7:03 am / 5:14 pm

 

 

1712  Saturn 11:22 pm / 12:51 pm

4221  Uranus 1:27 pm / 12:49 am

0505  Neptune 12:19 pm / 10:51 pm

5427  Pluto 8:44 am / 7:13 pm

  

(Yes, the Crusader continues to classify Pluto as a planet. - Ed.)

 

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Quotable Quotables

 

“They’re just not our kind of people.”

– Barbara Bueker, 1972

 

“Hey, don’t diddle it to death!”

– Carl Bueker, 1973

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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