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Crusader Crossword

 

Wallace & Co.

Edited by J. Bueker

Across

1  See 5 across

5  With 1 across, Wallace's friend from Senior City

 9  Wallace's best pal

14  Winter precipitation

15  In addition

16  Large body of water

17  Metric weight unit

18  Billy or nanny

19  One of Sprout's Beaver brothers

20  Terminal abbr.

21  Compass point

22  Government agency

24  "_____ Time at All," early Beatles effort

25  Go back on a promise

27  Variety of brew

29  Rotating mechanism

32  Wallace's spoiled brat friend

36  Have

38  Sprout singer Dean

40  Affirm

41  Hubbub

42  Kimono sash

43  Climbing vine

44  Wallace's deadbeat cowboy actor friend Marshall _____

46  Cut of beef

48  Pressure unit

49  Substitute

51  Writings

53  Undergarment

54  Ingestion

58  Eldest Bueker kid

61  Internal Revenue Service

63 Mountain time

64  _____ Monte

65  Take by force

67  "No _____," Sartre work

69  Solid

70  Risk

71  Simile word

72  Single

73  Eat away

74  Fibbed

75  Cold War participant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous puzzle:

 

 

 

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 Down

1  Questioner

2  Unify

3  Current last name of  

      58 across

4  Deuce

5  Professor X’s nemesis

6  Healing plant

7  See 75 across

8  Adore

9  Locus

10  Unreturned serve

11  Factor of ten

12  Principal

13  Simply

21  Pride

23  Famous guitarist Jimmy

26  European sea eagle

28  Epoch

30  Wallace's original clown friend

31  Asimov's "I, _____"

33  Hertz rival

34  Jacob's son

35  Wine characteristic

36  Scent

37  Courts

39  Largest digit

41  Maturity

45  Swab

46  Russian ruler

47  Was

48  Calif. time

50  Extra-base hit

52  Explosive

55  Au revoir

56  Popular juice brand

57  Wallace's caveman inventor friend Blisco

58 Wallace’s comic book hero friend, familiarly

59  Computer operator

60  EU currency

62  Vend

63  Wallace's friend and musical director Condello

66  Free of

68  Caesar's twelve

69  Common malady

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 25, 2014

 

On this day in JDA history:

On this day 50 years ago, the Bueker boys received the new G.I. Joe action figure for Christmas despite the misgivings of their father Carl, who wasn’t at all sure that boys should be playing with dolls.

 

359th day of the year:

Sunrise: 7:31 am

Sunset: 5:26 pm

Moonrise: 10:17 am

Moonset: 9:53 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planets: Rise / Set

  

41a13  Mercury 8:20 am / 6:05 pm

41a07  Venus 8:38 am / 6:32 pm

4216a Mars 10:12 am / 8:43 pm

1701  Jupiter 9:06 pm / 10:35 am

1712  Saturn 4:54 am / 3:17 pm

4221  Uranus 12:44 pm / 1:15 am

0505 Neptune 10:06 am / 10:14 pm

5427  Pluto 8:03 am / 6:11 pm

 

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Today's birthdays:

Robert Ripley (1890)

Humphrey Bogart (1899)

Rod Serling (1924)

Ken Stabler (1945)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quotable Quotables

 

“What do you call a small urban feline?

An itty bitty city kitty.”

 – Carl Bueker, 1974.

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