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Crusader Crossword

 

Christmas Eve Party Attendees, 1966
Edited by J. Bueker

 

ACROSS

  1  Grandma
 
5  Date
  8  Bashful
  11  Serve wine
  15  Upon
  16  Molson specialty
  17  Digit
  18  Simple
  19  Scored 100%
  20  Sports league
  21  Airport abbr.
  22  Phoenix Blvd.
  23  Ask for legally
  25  Slide
  27  Grieve
  28  Positive vote
  30  Electrode
  32  Barb's husband
 
36  Nail
  38  Famous Italian scientist
  43  Absent
  44  Fish
  46  Grandpa
 
47  JDA neighbor Harris
  48  Second oldest Bueker kid
 
50  Drugged
  51  Torah table
  52  Kill
  54  National emblem
  58  Monty _____
  60  Mr. Womderful
 
64  Animal families
  66  Won every game in the  
        series
  67  Lotion ingredient
  68  In the middle of
  70  Vane direction
  71  Author of "The Republic"
  72  Partner of effect
  74  Dab
  76  Bueker boy
 
80  Major _____ Mason
  82  Sweet-talk
  87  Ethereal
  88  The feds
  89  Tree
  91  Mind
  92  Ongoing tale
  93  Thief’s hideout
  94  Mongrel dog
  95  Tube
  96  Barbara from '60s TV
  97  Craft
  98  Ball holder
  99  Famous loch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

























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December 24, 2016

DOWN

1  Burden
2  Fairy tale opener
3  Detail
4  Vernor's, for instance
5  John's wife
6  Fairy
7  Snaky fish
8  Gertrude
9  Zeppelin tune (2 wds)
10  Affirmative vote
11  Mexican money
12  Island
13  Drug doer
14  _____-Evans
24  Opposite for 10 Down
26  Bueker hibatchi fare
27  Music
29  Settle in
31  Dit's partner
32  Uneven cut
33  Female sheep
34  Manned
35  Seed bread
37  Ranges
39  The other half of Jima
40  Swish
41  Before, poetically
42  Unusual
44  Compass point
45  Kitchen need
49  Ran away and married
51  Decorate
53  Colony insect
54  Move away
55  Exist
56  Obtained
57  Down
59  Twitter message
60  _____ Worthington
61  Wing
62  Molder
63  Zodiac constellation
65  Ocean
69  Eight, for example
71  School group
73  New Orleans player in 20 across
75  Yellow pigment
76  Court suit
77  Hair holder
78  Goad
79  Greenish-blue color
81  Sensitivity
83  Brother of 76 Across
84  Band instrument
85  Not as much
86  Looks over
88  Food law enforcers (abbr.)
90  The "cool" Bueker kid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

359th day of the year:
Sunrise: 7:30 am
Sunset: 5:26 pm
Moonrise: 3:18 am
Moonset: 2:38 pm

On this day in JDA history:
On this day in 1965, Jerry Swaggerty gifted the famous GE clock to the Buekers at the Christmas Eve family gathering. The storied timepiece would reside at 3219 for the next quarter century.

 

Today's birthdays:
Ava Gardner (1922)
Howard Hughes (1905)
Matthew Arnold (1922)
King John of England (1167)

 

 

 

 

Quotable Quotables

“Charlie Hank, money in the bank, Bueker, that's me!

-- Chuck Bueker’s proposed campaign jingle for a possible school treasurer candidacy, 1971.
He ultimately decided against running for the office.

 

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