Page A5 The Joan De Arc Crusader / Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Crusader Crossword

 

Across
1 See 8 Across

5 Sahuaro classroom competition

8 With 1 Across, Mattel’s “Major” Man in Space (page 504)

13 Coppertone goal

16 Winged

17 Copy

18 Star Trek episode “Who Mourns for _____?”

20 Shakespeare’s “before”

21 Column support

23 Mickey, for instance

24 Women’s _____

25 Early Stones hit

“_____ Fade Away”

26 Store whose catalog is this puzzle’s theme

28 Sea that is part of the Mediterranean

30 eBay activities

32 Carl Bueker’s nickname for brother-in-law Jerry

33 Flat piece of fabric

34 Probably not suitable for the young ones

35 Persona non _____

38 US dept. headed by Chao (abbr.)

41 See 71 Across

44 Lode yield

45 Arizona tribe

46 New Zealander

47 Have debt

48 Swedish pop group

50 Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Mr. _____"

51 Famous garden

52 Green Gables dweller

53 Light emitting _____

55 German day

56 Indicated the affirmative

58 Chauvinist

60 Lustrous

64 Do unto _____

68 For

71 With 41 Across, slide projector toy (page 462)

72 Pork units

75 Jodi Foster’s character in Taxi Driver

76 Interlocking construction toy (page 443)

78 Amoreena remark

79 Freudian concept

80 African river

81 Mr. Smith

82 “Live and Let _____”

83 Heal

85 Hair control substance

86 Challenged

87 Cogged wheel

88 Rowing device

90 Deity

91 Unfold

92 Serious bacterial disease

95 Capital of Belarus

97 Supply with weaponry

98 Romance

99 Arizona tribe “keen”

101 Popular oven toy – really works! (page 576)

106 Pussycat’s sidekick

107 Naval employee

108 “Before” prefix

109 Tub spread

110 Family Stone leader

111 Good ones are reasonable

112 It’s often iced in the summer

113 States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gift Ideas from the ’68 Sears “Wish Book”

 Edited by J. Bueker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Puzzle's Solution

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Down

1 Traveler’s aid

2 Molson specialty

3 Little bit

4 Currently the style

5 Sheet of matted cotton

6 Government envir. agency

7 Shocking fish?

8 Popular Latin percussion instrument (page 557)

9 Dote

10 Turfs

11 Small integer

12 One of Columbus’ ships

13 Jerry Lewis show

14 Opera solo

15 Northeast by north (abbr.)

19 Stanch

22 Hit for 48 Across

27 Supper activity

29 Carbon dioxide, for instance

30 Midge’s BFF – now talks! (page 600)

31 Fridge

34 All of them lead to Rome?

35 Military nerve center (abbr.)

36 Resounding defeat

37 Capital of Western Samoa

38 Marlowe’s “Queen of Carthage”

39 Unpaid

40 Paul’s first wife

42 Possess

43 Vey small indeed

46 Boy toy for 30 Down (page 601)

49 Spanish farewell

52 Speak off the cuff

54 Boston time zone

57 McCartney’s “Back to the _____”

59 See 63 Down

61 Dodger

62 In the air

63 With 59 Down, device for creating Creepy Crawlers (page 465)

65 Great Lake

66 Brook

67 Dir. From Joan De Arc Avenue to Metrocenter

68 Declares guilty or not

69 Raise, as children

70 Humanoid monster

72 Skirt edge

73 Grow older

74 Parker real estate classic – deluxe edition! (page 474)

77 Formerly young

84 Morse Code signal

86 Givers

87 Okra-based soups

89 Operates

90 America’s movable fighting man – now in space! (page 505)

91 Cook

92 Deuces

93 Forlorn cry

94 River in France and Germany

95 Grain used in 2 Down

96 Retained

97 Already departed from shore

100 By way of

102 Hendrix’s “_____ You Experienced?”

103 Latin for “wing”

104 Principal tonality of a musical composition

105 Goddess of the dawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2008

 

On this day in JDA history:

On this day in 1971, it rained on Joan De Arc Avenue, the first rainy Christmas Day in street history.

 

 

360th day of the year

Sunrise: 7:31 am

Sunset: 5:27 pm

Moonrise: 6:12 am

Moonset: 3:55 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planets: Rise / Set

41a13  Mercury 8:46 am / 6:36 pm

41a07  Venus 10:26 am / 9:02 pm

4216a Mars 7:11 am / 4:59 pm

1701  Jupiter 9:05 am / 7:11 pm

1712  Saturn 11:24 pm / 11:59 am

4221  Uranus 11:42 am / 11:18 pm

0505 Neptune 10:26 am / 9:11 pm

5427  Pluto 7:01 am / 5:27 pm

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Today's birthdays:

Ron Foos (1949)

Rod Serling (1924)

Humphrey Bogart (1899)

Sir Isaac Newton (1642)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quotable Quotables

 

“Kareem of wheat.”

– Chuck Bueker, upon hearing the news of Lew Alcindor’s name change, 1971

 

 “Santa’s helpers are dependent clauses.”

 – Anonymous

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