Winter Sports Crossword

About the Puzzle

This puzzle is from the winter issue of 2015. It's 6 years later and we're still waiting for the answer to 26-A to begin construction. So it goes in the world of big science.

Honestly, this one probably tries too hard to have a clever theme and the result is a clumsy grid. Oh well!

The answers to the starred clues (*) contain a hidden winter sports word.

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  • 1 They hang out in the belfry
  • 5 Ratio word
  • 8 Superhero attire
  • 12 To be adjacent to
  • 13 College athlete in Salt Lake City
  • 14 Animals on the Oregon Trail
  • 15 Org. that listens for aliens
  • 16 Type of TV screen
  • 17 Rocker Simmons
  • 18 Relative of the trumpet*
  • 21 ____ jongg
  • 22 Half of California Dreaming quartet
  • 26 The world's largest radio observatory, to be built in AUS and RSA*
  • 30 Infraction related to BAC
  • 31 Competed in a track meet
  • 32 Alternative to Windows 8
  • 33 Name of Mauritius when it was ruled by Napoleon*
  • 38 Shade of purple
  • 39 Spanish interjection
  • 40 With great expertise*
  • 46 Yarn
  • 49 A guy's date
  • 50 Scarlett's home
  • 51 Actor Richard who played Jaws
  • 52 U2 hit
  • 53 Ghostbuster played by Harold
  • 54 Vegas numbers
  • 55 Johnny Bench, for one
  • 56 Foul, as an odor
  • 1 They make a lot of the products you buy better
  • 2 Famous murder victim
  • 3 Ballerina attire
  • 4 A set of negative beliefs
  • 5 Common phrase on packaging
  • 6 ____-a-Sketch
  • 7 Try again
  • 8 Region of France famous for its brandy
  • 9 Primitive tool
  • 10 Write
  • 11 Direction from Frankfort to Traverse City
  • 19 Dine
  • 20 Letters that precede Titanic
  • 23 Style of free, Web-based learning (for short)
  • 24 Feature at the front of many churches
  • 25 It's determined by X and Y
  • 26 Actress Carol Ann who voiced Mrs. Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory
  • 27 What the Bride wants to do to Bill
  • 28 Pre-scandal name of Livestrong org.
  • 29 Signed up for classes
  • 30 Tommy Pickles' baby brother in Rugrats
  • 34 They hold canvases
  • 35 2007 Buckethead album
  • 36 Gordon Shumway's Nickname
  • 37 Bob Barker wants you to do this to your pet
  • 41 Former Red Wing Larionov
  • 42 It can end an address
  • 43 Former Tigers first baseman Mike, famous in St. Louis for hitting a foul ball out of Busch Stadium
  • 44 Science fiction author Hubbard
  • 45 Pull hard
  • 46 Boxing abbreviation
  • 47 Help
  • 48 Type of TV screen