A New Leaf - Puzzles #288

CROSSWORD: CHANGE OF THE SEASONS

By Julia Emery and Iris Hubbard

ACROSS 1. What homeowners’ may do in spring? 6. Basks in the sun 10. “Sure...” 14. Hold, in Hamburg 15. Plant used on burns 16. Backtalk 17. Online business, for short 18. Cat sound 19. Up to the task 20. Time to wear green at Molly’s 23. Finger of the foot 24. Norwich School abbr. 25. Set of eight 28. Saint, without vowels 29. Nike slogan ending 32. December 24th, for example 33. Yellow Spring blooms 37. Blood flow system 38. Head motion to greet a friend 39. Vietnamese dress 40. Norwegian village 41. Baking meas. 42. Cotswolds’ horse race 44. Largest travel company in the world 45. Homes for cubs 46. Sailor’s “yes” 47. Disney-owned broadcast network 49. Measurement of your time on Earth 50. A-flat minor 53. Time to play a prank 58. Mallorca, for ex. 60. Tower in chess 61. “Word on the street is” 62. Guinea’s neighbor 63. Mamma Mia group 64. Van Gogh trait 65. Bastard of Corlys Velaryon 66. In everyone’s buisness 67. You are here

DOWN 1. Treasure holder 2. Milk prefix 3. Run off to wed 4. Razor brand 5. Roman god of the sea 6. 90’s ‘So Into You’ artist 7. Famous Baldwin 8. Cranny precursor 9. Constructs with fabric 10. Newton’s first name 11. Tooth fairy’s currency 12. Non-native speaker in UK 13. When repeated, a fly 21. Follow your steps 22. Dash counterpart 26. Seattle Storm’s Westbrook 27. Morning hour 28. One reason for safe sex 29. Surfer guys 30. October birthstone 31. “Are we still on?” 33. Extra pay 34. Criminal Minds villain 35. Concerning a subject 36. New York prosecutor, Roy 37. Weather indicator 43. Within view 45. Old-school movie recording 48. ‘Buy U a Drank’ rapper 49. All good 50. “A doe, ______,” from ‘The Sound of Music’ 51. How a sheep may refer to a cricket stick 52. Biblical gift 54. Modern Persia 55. Wolf en español 56. Key type 57. Hebrew word for destruction 58. “____ Barbie girl”, popular Aqua lyric 59. Local landlord grp.

SUDOKU

By Alex Le Sage

WORD SEARCH

By Iris Hubbard

SPRINGCLEANING	RECYCLE	ORGANIZE
DECLUTTER	REFRESH	TIDY
DUST	REVITALIZE	POLISH
FRESHEN	SCRUB	VACUUM
NEATEN	SWEEP	REARRANGE

SPELLING BEE

By Alex Le Sage

Nice - 66  

Great - 106  

Amazing - 132

Genius - 185  

Perfect! - 263

ANAGRAMS: Flowers

By Julia Emery

AHITNYCH

BBLELEUL

LITHEST

ZEALAA

AGAINDRE

ALIGNMAO

SYAPN

PLITU

OWLILW

NYOPE

SIIR

EHARTEH

EVITOL

AMIJENS

ERISROPM

ADOMLRGI

CONNECTIONS

By Greta Shope

Forward	Return	Groove	Back
Beat	Keeper	Roll	Rock
Break	Start	Escape	Onion
Attack	Jam	Wing	Shift