NATIONAL PARKS
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1 Famous gorge formed by the Colorado River, 2 words
7 Color
9 Iconic landscape photographer
10 Half Dome’s home
11 Effigy Mounds National Monument’s state, abbr.
12 Outcropping
14 _____ Cave, South Dakota, where you can see bison herds
18 Part of Leonardo’s last name
19 Fox’s home
20 Unusual
22 ______ Cave, part of world’s longest known cave system
24 Compass point
25 Container
26 National bird
27 National park that includes part of the Blue Ridge Mountains
29 Mount Rainier’s state, abbr.
31 Florida’s iconic national park
33 _____ Capitan
34 _____ Gang
35 Famed Utah national park
37 Spanish explorer of the Pacific
38 Coloring liquid
39 Lacking feeling
40 It’s before beauty
41 Bond opponent
42 _____ Lake, national park in Oregon with an immense blue lake
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1 Montana national park that is home to grizzly bears, lynx and 700 lakes 2 From a distance 3 Mojave or Great Basin 4 Vanderbilt of etiquette fame
5 Not no
6 Propose for
7 Ancient dwellings 8 Former partner 13 Wyoming national park named after towering mountain, 2 words
15 Wedding words
16 The first national park, formed in 1872 17 Beech or birch
21 Tall spreading tree
22 What a boy grows up to be
23 Hee _____, TV show
25 Cod or Hatteras
27 Tranquil national park with some of the oldest and tallest trees in the world
28 Summer mo.
30 Mesa ______, where you can see cliff dwellings in Colorado
32 Airline, competitor to American
35 Meditative school of Buddhism
36 Squirrel’s find
37 U.K. broadcaster, abbr.