FAMILY TIME CROSSWORD
The (K) Clues Are for Kids
ACROSS
1. The personnel department offers them
5. (K) Not outgoing at all
8. (K) Bar on a sink
12. (K) Length x width
13. Golfer’s driving aid
14. (K) Heavy weight measurements
15. Busybodies
17. Makes a choice
18. Music staff note after fa
19. Airline’s best guess
20. (K) About to burst into tears
21. (K) IV - I
23. Any Loch Lomond girl
25. (K) Isn’t said incorrectly?
27. (K) Rim
28. (K) Need for the wheels on the bus to go ’round and ’round
31. Questioning word with “everybody?”
33. Chaperone
35. (K) Our closest star
36. Difficult responsibility or burden
38. Snail-paced and plodding
39. (K) Ugly duckling, in time
40. (K) Male parent
41. Shows impatience, in a way
44. (K) Shark feature
46. (K) Is, in the past tense
49. (K) Car part between wheels
50. Sandwich ingredient, sometimes (2 words)
52. Gather a ripe crop
53. Ruffle feathers
54. Miscellany
55. Egyptian cobras
56. Tissue layer
57. (K) Happy
DOWN
1. (K) Traffic slow-downs
2. (K) Black-and-white cookie sandwich
3. Sheets, covers and pillowcases (2 words)
4. (K) Dejected
5. “Don’t change it” to editors
6. Boston newspaper
7. (K) One of two common replies
8. (K) Quits
9. (K) “I dropped it!”
10. Initial poker payment
11. “Want to hear a secret?”
16. (K) Ring of Hawaiian flowers
20. (K) Doesn’t let go to waste
22. (K) “___ time for a hot bath”
24. Quite a long, long time
25. (K) What commercials are
26. Debt letters, in poker
27. Active Italian volcano
28. Kindness, generosity and compassion
29. Biblical watercraft
30. (K) Place for a pig’s roots
32. “___ as good a time as any”
34. Accountant, briefly
37. Roll out, as a flag
39. Oozes
40. (K) Identical twins share it
41. Prefix for “legal” or “trooper”
42. (K) Tree choppers
43. (K) Make a “Bravo!” sound
45. A Pac-Man character
47. (K) Massive continent
48. Wearing shoes
50. Reward for a bellhop
51. (K) Low-hanging clouds produce it
Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle?
Historic word?