Arthur and Alanna’s 2003 Christmas Crossword
Across
1 Sudden and unexpected.
7 Whom this letter is from.
9 Bambi's mom.
12 Introduces an alternative.
14 Sash worn with kimono.
17 Sudden quick movement.
21 Last name of an often married actress.
22 Abbr. for Russia used on the internet.
23 Light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball.
25 Sign of assent.
26 Robert____ : American civil war general. (2 wds.)
27 Transmitters of sleeping sickness.
29 A coffin along with its stand.
31 What Alanna reeked of when she worked at the Kraemer's fiberglass shop in Guelph.
33 To measure.
34 Exists.
35 On account of.
36 First name of one of Art's colleagues who is the 150 down at Saanich Peninsula Hospital.
37 The wild variety of this bird, when it takes over a human recreational area, Art calls a "pooper," and would happily shoot them all.
38 Small turnover of Indian origin.
40 The process mentioned in 105 across begins with Alanna's meeting with a _______ from time to time over one year to discern together if she has a calling.
45 Pole, for example.
47 Woman's name.
49 Where good King Wenceslas would rather have been on that cold winter's night.
50 Abbr. for "pick up."
52 Not everyone is good at reading them.
53 What we had to buy in October because our old one started getting cranky in damp weather.
55 Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived.
59 The fastest kind of airliner.
60 Assists in a crime.
62 Socks and stockings and tights collectively.
63 If a medicine is effective against a disease, the medicine______. (2 wds.)
64 State of something that has been unused and neglected.
66 Chemical symbol for a deadly gas found in automobile exhaust.
67 Dorothy's dog.
69 Kind of white heron.
71 _____ Fitzpatrick, the oldest of Art's aunt Therese's sons, whom we had a nice visit with this September when we were in the Okanagan Valley visiting family.
72 Abbr. used for Canada on the internet.
73 Abbr. for the company that is buying B.C. Rail.
74 Alanna's late Dad's first name.
76 Cloth border doubled back and stitched down.
78 An over-the-counter remedy for upset stomach.
79 A poetic contraction for "even."
80 What angels bring.
84 What God has the right to say but dictators do not. (2 wds.)
87 Possess.
89 First name of popular Greek singer.
91 What Alanna calls Art lots of the time.
92 Little bit. (2 wds.)
93 Often the last movement of a sonata.
94 A company builds a ____type first, to see if it works before starting to manufacture it.
96 Abbr. for the hallucinogenic drug popularized by Timothy Leary.
97 Prefix indicating opposition.
99 Top of the head.
100 Very drunk.
102 Abbr. for a city we visited this August, visiting Alanna's sisters and catching two Jays games at the Skydome.
103 River in Asia flowing into Korea Bay.
105 Alanna has begun a process that may result in her being ______ in the United Church in two or three years.
106 French for a male friend.
108 Art's sister Pat makes a great Nanaimo ____.
109 Prefix indicating the earth.
110 They are made by Pontiac. We bought a used 2003 model from Budget in October: had been a rental car, 20,000 km on it, automatic transmission, 140 hp, and cost $10,900. We think it was a great buy but won't be sure until we ask Alanna's sister Colleen's husband, John Weatherseed, the family expert on all things automotive.
114 Canadian whiskeys.
116 What he who hesitates says.
117 Kind of personal computer that people carry around.
123 Relating to the spoken word.
124 Alanna and Art honeymooned in a campground beside this lake (and cold and wet it was!)
126 It is attached to a foot.
127 We have an _____ suite on the first floor of our home, so we are well able to accommodate guests (hint, hint!).
129 ____ Boyd, a woman guitarist of note.
130 A South Pacific locale popular with tourists.
132 An establishment that had no room for Mary and Joseph.
133 Male red deer.
135 He is right more often than most baseball fans think.
136 What a model does for an artist. (2 wds.)
137 Warning.
139 The colour of hair our friends Brian and Nancy Gray, who visited us this September, passed on to their two daughters.
140 Most of the residents of an extended care hospital are very ____ and require around-the-clock nursing care.
142 The name of the computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
144 Where 144 down always feels the Jays will go at the beginning of the baseball season.
145 Repeated, this one way Brits say goodbye.
146 One way God can answer a prayer.
147 "I think I ____": famous words of a little train.
148 Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
150 A man's name that rhymes with Art's brother John's consuming passion.
153 In the direction of.
154 Burns with hot liquid.
157 When the ______ to leave a ship does so, the ship will soon sink. (2 wds.)
159 Good ____: someone who doesn't often miss.
161 ____-fold path: the way that leads to enlightenment in Buddhism.
163 Crone.
164 The outer region of the Earth's atmosphere.
166 Spoil.
167 Rescue.
168 Abbr. for that unit of time that grows shorter as we grow older.
169 Ma's man.
170 Not at home.
171 She laughed when God told her husband she would have a child.
173 The words of Isaiah or Jeremiah.
177 Vancouver Island ______ Authority, the regional body of which Art is an employee.
180 Many times.
183 Name of the Roman sun god still used to refer to the sun.
185 What you have to multiply the diameter of a circle by to get the circumference.
186 Abbr. for sodium.
187 What sail planes and eagles do.
188 A practical joke for which you need a match.
190 What Art called his late cousin Cecile's oldest daughter when they were kids (and still does).
191 Ensnared.
195 Gaelic language.
196 Go ____ : act crazy (you know who you are!).
197 What often is better left.
199 Abbr. for what store clerk may ask you to show if you pay by cheque.
201 If you think this puzzle _____ , you should try the one in the Sunday New York Times. (2 wds.)
202 Social insects.
203 On 22 April 2003 we celebrated for the 14th time the day on which we were ____ .
204 After the "doe(do), a deer, a female deer," of song, this is the "ray( ___ ) a drop of golden sun."
205 Low.
206 Abbr. for "number."
207 With the health care cutbacks in B.C., Art's working hours (and wages) have been cut _____ per cent since 2002.
Down
1 Place often used for storage.
2 Lowest adult male singing voice.
3 Cereal.
4 In or of the month preceding the present one. (Abbr.)
5 Opposite of neg.
6 You may get tricks if you don't provide them!
7 Where Abraham set out from according to Genesis.
8 What our landlord would like us to do with our first floor rooms, but we won't do for privacy's sake.
9 Prepare for consumption, as, for example, by stuffing a turkey.
10 Poetic contraction for "over."
11 "And," in French.
12 It's not hard to do a crossword puzzle once you catch ____ it. (2 wds.)
13 Beams of light.
14 There is ____ God: what Judaism, Christianity and Islam all agree on.
15 Japanese style dwarf ornamental tree or shrub.
16 Notion.
17 One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
18 Molson Export and Labatt 50.
19 Records again.
20 Starting place for each hole on a golf course.
24 The party _____. (2 wds.)
28 Abbr. for commercial supersonic transport aircraft.
30 Abbr. for "that is."
32 Restrain. (2 wds.)
37 Complete extent or range.
39 Dress that not every woman should wear.
41 Abbr. for "Madame."
42 Abbr. for a book that features three wise men.
43 _____ facto, meaning "by the fact itself" (Latin).
44 Prefix that environmentalists love to use.
46 What Ted Weber, for example, does with his hockey skates before playing. (2 wds.)
48 Abbr. for a banned substance in Canada.
51 Shoshonean Indian.
54 Someone who rules when the king or queen is too young to.
56 What Art hopes the articles he writes for The Journal deserve to be. (The Journal can be read online at www.corpuscanada.org. For a free subscription to the printed version contact Art. On this web site you will also find a link to Xristos Community Society, the registered charitable organization of which Art has been president and Alanna secretary-treasurer for many years.)
57 The TV, after you push the "power" button. (2 wds.)
58 Plural of a woman's name.
59 Of or relating to Carl Jung or his psychological theories.
60 They get cast.
61 Mistake, what Alanna tried to avoid in her role as secretary of Victoria Presbytery of the United Church (like a diocese in the Anglican or R.C. Churches) as well as secretary of the council of St. Paul's United Church in Sidney.
62 A tool with a flat blade and long handle.
65 Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
68 A word which, when it comes before a noun, directs one's attention to one thing in particular.
70 Letters that Art's sisters Marguerite and Irene could write after their names when they were professionally active.
72 The Ozanam _____ is the division of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Victoria in which Alanna is employed as a support worker in a day program for developmentally disabled adults.
75 The last name of Rosalie and Joseph, with whom we have spent the past serveral Christmas Days, and have invited to spend Christmas Day with us this year.
77 In woodworking, fastening by inserting a tenon.
79 Make certain of.
80 A detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject.
81 Abbr. for the southernmost country in Africa.
82 Feminine suffix.
83 In Jesus' parable some fell on rocky ground.
85 Abbr. for what may be gained or lost on every North American football play.
86 Stooge.
88 Court.
90 A person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies.
91 It is to laugh.
95 Traditional Jewish exclamation.
98 What the Ten Commandments say you should not worship.
101 Challenge.
104 In a foreign country.
107 White sheep originating in Spain.
110 Slammin' Sammy ____ of baseball's Cubs.
111 Mountain range between Europe and Asia.
112 What churches should ask people to wear at coffee time after worship. (2 wds.)
113 Like a flower.
115 Spanish for "yes."
116 Kind of tree.
118 He thought he was the greatest and maybe he was.
119 Art's brother Ed and his wife, Carolyn, have two; Art's brother John and his wife Penny have one; the rest of Art's and Alanna's brothers and sisters have none.
120 Elegantly dressed man.
121 What a witness is when testifying in court. (2 wds.)
122 Bird often mentioned in jokes.
125 Half the width of an em.
126 _____ degree: a very great degree. (2 wds.)
128 A naturalistic lifestyle that Alanna would have no problem practising.
131 Word indicating position.
134 Move unsteadily.
136 In ____-pitch softball you are not allowed to steal a base.
138 ____ far as: to the extent that. (2 wds.)
139 A coarse file.
141 ____ and behold, a clue!
143 A rabid Blue Jays fan, 95% of his TV watching time is taken up by Jays' games. His favourite expression: "They'll be better next year."
147 What is in the thousands in big Hollywood epics. (2 wds.)
148 _____ wrap. Have you heard the joke about the wife who wanted to surprise her husband, so she wrapped herself in nothing but this to answer the door when he got home from work, only to find that he had brought his boss home for supper? We met a woman who said this actually happened to her!
149 The position (nondenominational) that Art holds, with responsibility for pastoral/spiritual care at four extended care hospitals in greater Victoria.
151 In the Bible, the mother of Jacob's son, Judah.
152 Fifty-____: Alanna's age as of 31 January 2003.
154 The way many kids are with strangers.
155 What drivers use to give a warning. 2 wds.)
156 Part of a watch.
157 _____ Gehrig, a model of what a professional baseball player should be.
158 What someone does when the computer freezes up on them.
160 If Art were picking a hockey team from all who ever played, this would be his first pick.
162 ____ it: the reaction Art would like you to have to one of his puns.
165 St. Paul: "But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have ______ ." (2 wds.)
167 St. Ignatius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises gives guidelines to help us discern whether we are being influenced by a good or evil _____ . For a good introduction to the Spiritual Exercises visit www.sentex.net/~jveltri/ the web site maintained by our dear friend John Veltri, S.J., whom we visited at the Jesuit infirmary in Pickering this August.
169 Peels.
172 Do______ : something you might say when teaching by example. (3 wds.)
174 Choose, and we have chosen to be active in both the Roman Catholic and United Churches, attending R.C. mass on Saturday evenings and UC worship on Sunday mornings.
175 Needs a push to get moving.
176 Carry golf clubs for someone.
178 Where the sun rises.
179 What we rarely experience in Victoria.
181 Art turned fifty-_____ on 1 December 2003.
182 Quality of sound.
184 In operation.
187 Big body of water.
189 Alanna's sister Brigid's partner in life and work.
190 Spanish for "uncle."
192 What some Christians put on their foreheads at the beginning of Lent as a sign of repentence.
193 Greek letter.
194 A mediocre score for Tiger Woods.
198 "I ___ ." What God said when Moses asked Him what His name was.
200 Party, and we had a good one when we attended the 65th wedding anniversary of Art's uncle Omer and aunt Margaret in Winnipeg this July. We stayed with Art's cousin Shirley and her husband Marcel, who made us feel completely at home.