Chapter 1: Completing the Grid: How to Solve a Crossword 13
Sample Puzzle: “How Grueling!”
With the information from the preceding sections in mind, consider how you
would begin to tackle the following puzzle:Across
- Type of lap dog once
owned by Minnie Mouse - Road shoulder
- K-9 attack command
- Place for an iris
- Mountains bordering
China - As a friend, in French
- They go with studs
- “Care for ___ of tea?’’
- Jumble of spilled letters?
- “A votre ___!’’
- Scot’s “not’’
- Member of a team that
visits once per year - Historic Dead Sea
fortress - Old phone user
- Saint ___ Fire
- Presley’s costar in
Love Me Tender - He can make you safe at
home - 440-yard-long path
- Huey and Howie
- Hosp. aides
- Battle of nations
- One of the “Hi ho, hi
ho’’ septet - Lead guitarist’s output
- It may be defended by a
scholar
43. Flying off the shelves
44. Reply to a knock
46. Org. that gets you out
of a rut?
47. Area of South Africa
48. “Perfect!’’
54. “Not ___ in the world”
55. Klingons or Vulcans,
for example
56. Most unsatisfactory
57. Lease length, often
58. Expressions of puppy
love?
59. Cosmologist Lauder
60. D.C. group
61. Honeymoon interrupter
Down
- “___ sock in it!’’
- Witch’s eye
- Live up to your
promises - A pop
- Cote cry
- Elmer’s contented cow
- Thoroughly involved
- Femme fatale of The
Muppets - Oceanic flavoring
- Zonkers
- Early morning favorite
- Play act
- Bishop’s headdress
18. Domain
24. Explorer John and
others
25. Calico’s comment
26. Thomas-Edison link
27. A good breakfast for a
genius?
28. “You’ve got mail’’ co.
29. Borge and Andersen,
for example
31. Self-centered
chatterboxes
33. Hammerhead kin
34. “Hey you!’’
36. “Rikki Don’t That
Number’’
37. “Get of it!’’
39. Empty out
40. Make good use of class
time
42. Suffering from
phonasthenia
43. Some Consumer
Reports employees
44. Wide-eyed with wonder
45. Fiesta fare
46. Strain of flu
49. Peter Fonda’s
beekeeping role
50. Nest eggs, briefly
51. John Irving title
protagonist
52. Medicare org.
53. Microphone word