Winter Sports Crossword
About the Puzzle
This puzzle is from the winter issue of 2015. It's 6 years later and we're still waiting for the answer to 26-A to begin construction. So it goes in the world of big science.
Honestly, this one probably tries too hard to have a clever theme and the result is a clumsy grid. Oh well!
The answers to the starred clues (*) contain a hidden winter sports word.
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Across
- 1 They hang out in the belfry
- 5 Ratio word
- 8 Superhero attire
- 12 To be adjacent to
- 13 College athlete in Salt Lake City
- 14 Animals on the Oregon Trail
- 15 Org. that listens for aliens
- 16 Type of TV screen
- 17 Rocker Simmons
- 18 Relative of the trumpet*
- 21 ____ jongg
- 22 Half of California Dreaming quartet
- 26 The world's largest radio observatory, to be built in AUS and RSA*
- 30 Infraction related to BAC
- 31 Competed in a track meet
- 32 Alternative to Windows 8
- 33 Name of Mauritius when it was ruled by Napoleon*
- 38 Shade of purple
- 39 Spanish interjection
- 40 With great expertise*
- 46 Yarn
- 49 A guy's date
- 50 Scarlett's home
- 51 Actor Richard who played Jaws
- 52 U2 hit
- 53 Ghostbuster played by Harold
- 54 Vegas numbers
- 55 Johnny Bench, for one
- 56 Foul, as an odor
Down
- 1 They make a lot of the products you buy better
- 2 Famous murder victim
- 3 Ballerina attire
- 4 A set of negative beliefs
- 5 Common phrase on packaging
- 6 ____-a-Sketch
- 7 Try again
- 8 Region of France famous for its brandy
- 9 Primitive tool
- 10 Write
- 11 Direction from Frankfort to Traverse City
- 19 Dine
- 20 Letters that precede Titanic
- 23 Style of free, Web-based learning (for short)
- 24 Feature at the front of many churches
- 25 It's determined by X and Y
- 26 Actress Carol Ann who voiced Mrs. Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory
- 27 What the Bride wants to do to Bill
- 28 Pre-scandal name of Livestrong org.
- 29 Signed up for classes
- 30 Tommy Pickles' baby brother in Rugrats
- 34 They hold canvases
- 35 2007 Buckethead album
- 36 Gordon Shumway's Nickname
- 37 Bob Barker wants you to do this to your pet
- 41 Former Red Wing Larionov
- 42 It can end an address
- 43 Former Tigers first baseman Mike, famous in St. Louis for hitting a foul ball out of Busch Stadium
- 44 Science fiction author Hubbard
- 45 Pull hard
- 46 Boxing abbreviation
- 47 Help
- 48 Type of TV screen