BLACK HISTORY MONTH - The New York Times

[Pages:1]BLACK HISTORY MONTH

by Frank Longo | ? 2014, The New York Times

ACROSS 1 Civil rights

heroine Parks 5 Droops 9 Cooling device 12 Milky white gem 13 Horse's pace 14 "The Color

Purple" author Walker 16 He played Cliff Huxtable in the 1980s: 2 wds. 18 Insects that eat clothes 19 "On your mark, get ___, go!" 20 Missing, like a soldier 21 Causes to say "Wow!" 22 "Fame" star ___ Cara 23 Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to this, in 1968: Abbr. 24 ___ the Grouch 27 Sight in the night sky 29 What 1-Across refused to give up 32 Relating to sound 34 Hit with a sci-fi gun 36 ___ de Janeiro, Brazil

37 Competed like Jesse Owens

38 Important time period

40 Suffix with Japan or Vietnam

41 Popular place for a tattoo

42 Dog's bark

43 The "D" of CD or D.J.

45 ___ Renaissance (period of black literary renewal)

47 Give careful attention to

49 Hit the mall 51 ___ bear

(stuffed animal) 52 Do, ___, fa, sol,

la, ti, do: 2 wds. 54 "Rudolph the

Red-___ Reindeer" 56 Musical dramas 58 Identical brother or sister 59 Foot part 62 Hopeless one 63 Slave who was the subject of a 19th-century Supreme Court case: 2 wds. 65 45-Across leader Alain ___ 66 Acting part, as for Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington 67 Textbook division 68 Before, in poetry 69 With 9-Down, jazz singer known as the "Queen of Scat" 70 Leaning Tower of ___

DOWN 1 Burglarizes 2 Boy in "The

Andy Griffith Show" 3 ___-N-Pepa (rap group)

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4 "Saving ___ My Love for You" (Whitney Houston #1 hit)

5 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" author Harriet Beecher ___

6 Crimes involving fire

7 Fancy drinking glasses

8 Pig's place

9 See 69-Across

10 Stomach discomfort

11 Loch ___ Monster

14 Bullets and BBs

15 Bank offerings

17 Lugged

21 Had ___ on (was very fond of): 2 wds.

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22 Author Fleming or actor McKellen

24 Talk-show queen Winfrey

25 Not be stingy with

26 Southern Christian Leadership ___ (Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization)

28 Had breakfast, say

30 Showed on television

31 "Men in Black" star ___ Lee Jones

33 Emergency situation

35 Tidies up 39 Bonfire remnant 44 Remote ___ (TV

accessory)

46 Fire engine's color

48 Jeter of the Yankees

50 Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin ___

53 Female horse

55 Part of a record containing the hit song, usually: 2 wds.

56 Make eyes at

57 Penniless

59 "Beloved" novelist Morrison

60 "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" singer Redding

61 Soul singer ___ James

63 Rapper Dr. ___

64 Half a pint

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