The Milton Crossword · No. 1
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Thirty-two clues, in a grid shaped like the thing itself. The white squares are the laces, so they are just for show.
Solve together
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Your friend sees this on the invite, and on the square you are working in. First name is plenty.
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Across
- 1 Soup container, or 'able to'
- 4 Four corners of a baseball diamond
- 6 Road you drive on (though you park in a driveway)
- 8 Boggy stretch of low ground, or a common surname
- 10 Where a red-tailed hawk raises its young
- 13 Stand-up performer
- 14 A single piece of information (the singular of 'data')
- 16 Up and kicking
- 17 Lying face down, or inclined to
- 18 Having to do with musical pitch
- 19 Small waterway off a bigger one
- 20 ___-Rooter (the drain people)
- 21 Look hard, or an equal
- 22 Getting married soon
- 26 Tool for boring post holes, handy on a fence line
- 27 What a soccer ball ends up in
Down
- 1 What idles in the Cambridge High pickup line
- 2 Milt is the one to ___
- 3 Brand ___
- 4 Spanish city with Gaudi's still-unfinished basilica
- 5 Shorebird that sprints away from the waves
- 6 Not public, or the lowest Army rank
- 7 Longed for
- 8 Autumn on Birmingham Highway brings a lot of it
- 9 ___ acid, a protein building block
- 11 Took without asking, or a shawl
- 12 Guitar player's little helper
- 13 Barn mouser
- 15 Ran into
- 23 Starter's ___ at a track meet
- 24 They say it is just a number
- 25 Understand, informally
More puzzles
More Milton games
- Milton ConnectionsSixteen words, four groups, one town. Find what belongs together.About 5 minutes
- Guess the PriceOne real Milton listing. Guess what it is asking, then see how close you were.Under a minute
- You Be the CouncilA real item from Monday's agenda. Cast your vote before the council casts theirs, then find out what they did.Two minutes

