Celebrate the Big Red on the big ice with this custom puzzle, created by the legendary Fred Piscop ’70!
(And check out our story on the Red Hot Hockey tradition!)
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Editor’s note: Cornellians is thrilled to feature occasional puzzles by a giant in the cruciverbalist world: the great Fred Piscop ’70, a longtime contributor to the New York Times, Newsday, and more!
‘Hockey Season’ • By Fred Piscop ’70
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Reveal Letter
Solution
Across
1. El __, Texas
5. Part of a train track
9. Enjoy a cigar
14. Roman poet who wrote "Metamorphoses"
15. Walk on a nature trail
16. Elton John's instrument
17. 1960s Big Red goalie, and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
19. Ohio rubber city
20. The Disco __ (the '70s)
21. Letters on an ambulance
22. Takes into custody
24. Suppress, as a yawn
26. Gives the thumbs-up to
27. Bacon servings
31. Horse's hoof sound
35. Brass or bronze
38. Nobelist Wiesel
39. Keep out of view
40. Author Junot (Cornell MFA alum)
41. Native Czechs and Poles
42. Home to most of Russia
43. First name of one-third of Henry VIII's wives
44. __ out (apportion)
45. Fairy tale closer
46. Downright nasty
47. On a single occasion
49. Toward the stern
51. Give orders to
55. Knocks over
59. ROTC relative
60. Indy 500 month
61. Run away to wed
62. Where the Big Red play hockey
65. Supermarket path
66. __-friendly (easy to operate)
67. Natural soother
68. Joints with caps
69. Tickled pink
70. Shirts at merch tables
Down
1. Jabs with an elbow
2. Keep from happening
3. Mount __ (NYC hospital)
4. Like a sock without a mate
5. Mother Goose poems
6. Lends a hand to
7. President between Harry and Jack
8. Horne who sang "Stormy Weather"
9. Fire starter
10. Big Red hockey coach since 1995
11. Dinghy propellers
12. Board imperfection
13. Incredibly long times
18. Track race with batons
23. Blooms often in dozens
25. Big Red hockey event in Madison Square Garden in even-numbered years
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