HOLIDAY WISHES

Each year I put together a crossword puzzle to include with our Christmas cards. For those that have the time and inclination, you can print out and solve this year’s edition below. The answers are here.

crossword

Across

1    Card game
6    Garner
10   Buggy
14   Period period
15   Shells
16   Heir to Iranian throne
17   Tidepool treasures
18   Arab sultanate
19   Annoys
20   With 37a and 51a, holiday greeting
23   Fam. member
24   Mr. Els
25   Disentangled, perhaps
29   Subject of bio “In Black & White”
32   French cleric
33   Social order
34   Priestly vestment
37   See 20 across
41   Greek letter
42   Part of ET
43   Enthralled
44   Animal with 18″ jowls
45   Route
47   Gelded male chicken
50   Negative conjunction
51   See 20 across
58   Flintstones’ pet
59   Test
60   “He’s ____ nowhere man” (Lennon/McCartney)
62   Ages
63   _____ breve (twice as fast as normal, in music)
64   Coldly, in a detached manner
65   Canadian channel or watercourse
66   Oboe or bassoon
67   Shopping centres

Down

1    Windows suffix for music
2    Bilbo actor Ian
3    Actress Swenson
4    Four Seasons hit
5    Third person plural contraction
6    “Eating _____” (’82 cult film)
7    Ms. Bovary
8    Start of palindrome about Panama
9    Anaheim arena, for short
10   Residence run by 32 across
11   Lucy and Linus’ little brother
12   Iraqi neighbour
13   Last Canadian Conservative Defence Minister Marcel
21   Famous Brit. ref. work
22   Neighbour of 18 across
25   Coffee house
26   Last word on someone?
27   World’s largest independent credit card issuer
28   Flower plot
29   ______- Coeur (famous basilica)
30   ____ Brown Boveri (ABB)
31   NYC subway operator
33   Broadway musical based on Eliot poems
34   Half closed
35   Pollards a tree
36   Eight bits, usually
38   Showy red/pink/white perennial
39   Prefix meaning outside
40   ____ Hill, “World Order” R&B band
44   Gloomy
45   Fast Company mag.’s online chapters
46   “…Be satisfied with what we have ______ higher” (Foster)
47   Gives up
48   Concorde, in France
49   _____ arcade
50   Leading MP3 player maker
52   Expensive
53   Wheel shaft
54   University founded 1701
55   Endangered sea mammal
56   Coup d’_____ (quick glance)
57   Part of musketeer creed
61   French lily

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2 Responses to HOLIDAY WISHES

  1. Heath Row says:

    What program do you use to make the puzzles? Crossword Weaver?

  2. Dave Pollard says:

    CrosswordPlus — I downloaded it as freeware a couple of years ago. I’m not sure it even exists anymore — it’s not at the old site. If you want the program in a zip file let me know — it’s quite small.

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