21.8.10

CrossWord Puzzle for Canucks

This is my first complete 15 x 15 crossword puzzle. I'm enjoying the process of creating them after having solved them for a couple decades.

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ACROSSDOWN

1. Scot family
5. Infants
10. Right away
14. 40 phons
15. Title character in The Hobbit
16. Chaney and Chaney Jr.
17. Choir voice
18. To sing a la Tony Bennett
19. Sword
20. Harsh
22. Facing opposite of WbS
23. Indian leader
24. ___ Haw
26. Locality
28. Similarity suffix
29. North Africans
33. Smoke
34. Farm sound
35. Horn noise
36. Kind of blue
38. Meli ___
40. Soviet leader Stalin
42. French river
44. Contagious
47. Actress Fisher
49. Born
51. ___ & Otis
52. Database language
54. Wedding vow
56. In reality
58. OS X or Windows
59. Fruit
61. Golden or black
62. What a clock does
64. A little lie
66. Noble gas
70. Jean Charest & Pauline Marois
71. Really Upset
73. Steak Sauce
74. A law in Honduras
75. City in Japan
76. NBA star "___ the Great"Thurmond
77. PM Chretien
78. Actress Sevigny
79. Fit a horse with shoes

1. Russian Emperor
2. Kinks Song
3. Queens of the colony
4. Rookies
5. Television and radio across the pond
6. River in Geneva
7. Puts spots of paint
8. Relating to African American language
9. Jr. to sr.
10. Sheltered side
11. Juvenile
12. Composer Felice
13. Sham
21. Positive vote
23. Israeli desert
25. Sub-Lt.
27. Hockey player Horton
29. Followed JFK
30. '69 Peace Prize winner
31. Southern Region of Italy
32. Fast forerunner of reggae
37. Yang's counterpart
39. Legumes
41. Cooks pancakes
43. Homer's neighbour
45. CTRL's neighbour
46. Toilet
48. Citrus Juice
50. Electric or moray
52. RCMP rank
53. Fifteen to Eduardo
55. Uncultured
57. Scanned doc
60. Foe
63. Historical village on Skeena and Bulkley Rivers
65. South African Steve
67. Shem and Ham's dad
68. Following the scent
69. Lack
71. Singer Tone ___
72. Korean conglomerate ___woo (part.)

1 comment:

Dan the Man said...

Done (with help). Not too easy, and I have a bone to pick with some of the clues!

A strong penchant for words ending in J, Z, C - I'm surprised ERSATZ didn't make it in there. =)

I'll scan it from work tomorrow to see if I got it right. The upper right corner needed lots of help.