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Village Craftsmen

170 Howard Street

PO Box 248
Ocracoke Island, NC
252-928-5541
info@villagecraftsmen.com

Ocracoke Newsletter

February 15, 2008

Welcome to Village Craftsmen's first ever island crossword puzzle.

I created this puzzle myself. I'd never done anything like this before. I didn't realize that it would be as difficult as it was. But I think it turned out fairly well. There are eleven entries that have obvious Ocracoke connections. I used one foreign word, several abbreviations, a nickname, a few rather obscure references, and a couple of oddities. But, unlike "crossword puzzles" that I remember from fourth grade worksheets, I made this one symetrical, just like professionally created crossword puzzles. It may not be quite as sophisticated as the puzzle in your daily paper (even they frequently use odd combinations of letters, abbreviations, and abstruse words), but I think most people will find it fun to tackle.

From February 15, 2008 until February 23, 2008 we ran a crossword puzzle contest. From among the correct solutions to this puzzle that were sent to us we chose, at random, a lucky winner. And that winner was Lynn from South Boston, Virginia. Congratulations, Lynn! Your prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to the Village Craftsmen.

You can still try your hand at the puzzle, just for fun. If you need the solution you can click here. But don't peek until you've exhausted all your patience!

Click here for a more printer friendy version.

Have fun!

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17					18						19
20				21				22		23
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26	27	28				29				30		31	32	33
34					35				36
37				38				39				40
41			42				43				44
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			48		49				50
51	52	53						54				55	56	57
58					59 N	A	60 S	A	U		61
62					63						64
65					66						67

I spelled "Nassau" wrong, so everyone gets 59 across free. Sorry about that!

Across	41 Lge diving seabird	Down	33 Opposite of finish in New Yawk
1 File	43 19th letter	1 Bombastic speech	35 ___luk boots
5 With 5 Down, Ocracoke's most famous pirate	44 Desire	2 38th Gov of Calif	36 Common contraction
10 __ __ far as	45 Positive or negative terminal	3 A true "S" corp?	38 See 25 Across
14 Solo melody	46 Investment	4 Underwear	39 Equals
15 Work	47 With 50 Down, Ocracoke's 1832 landmark	5 See 5 Across	42 Beginnings
16 Tailless leaping amphibian	48 Sometimes they are varicose	6 Listening devices	44 What you want to do in Vegas
17 4 14s of 26	50 Term of endearment	7 Basketball org (1967-1976)	46 "There's a saint ___ ___ of us"
18 Ancestors of Ocracoke's Wahabs?	51 See 25 Across	8 ___ ___ Sundae, owners of Ocracoke's Windfall	47 Not high
19 Flower	54 Members of one of Ocracoke's original families	9 Physicians' Road, abbr	49 ___ fatuus, a mysterious light
20 Breath mints	58 Level	10 Statement about a helium balloon	50 See 47 Across
22 Swiss mountain dweller	59 Bahamian capital	11 It's often high in old westerns	51 Make over
24 Black as ___	61 Princess of Alderaan	12 Something to enclose with a letter, abbr	52 Always
25 With 38 Down, & 51 Across, Blackbeard's flagship	62 Ding	13 Czech river	53 Opening
26 Hawk	63 Depictions	21 Something a two year old often needs to hear	54 Ghost, var
29 Conjunction	64 Usually there are more of these in wallets	23 Coin	55 His theory provided the basis for the calculus
30 Settles down	65 Scraps	25 They're often found on Ocracoke's beach, especially in the fall	56 Expires
34 "Dock of the Bay" singer	66 Sloping channel, var.	26 WWF's Ludvig	57 Impudent speech
35 Ocracoke's "Mad ___ Howard"	67 Eldest daughter of the Durbeyfields	27 Not always a legal driving maneuver	60 5-centime piece
36 Newspaper addition		28 Throw a bowline around
37 Regret		29 Drivers' org
38 Not quantity		31 Happy or blessed, in Deutschland
40 Southern Calif. Artists Group? abbr		32 Garbage