Barbara: A Puzzle
Across
- 5. Head-spinning way to break your wrist
- 9. One of two instruments not worth stealing from a car
- 15. Its recipe is a family secret
- 17. Absolute minimum amount of time that must pass between taking medication and eating food
- 18. Playable by hand or foot, but not mouth
- 19. She lives in this country, but you won’t find it on her passport
- 20. Campground that Josh and Alex are *definitely* going to make it to someday
- 24. Alma mater shared with RBG, Bernie Sanders, and Chuck Schumer
- 25. One of three choreographed dances
- 27. Bayside teaching locale
- 28. DC-area high school featuring gun-twirling pep rallies
- 29. Foreign land visited on the concert circuit
- 30. Is it seismic or is it Samsung?
- 31. Upsetting sour soup
- 35. Actor with whom she shared a sandwich at Binghamton
- 36. “Critical” dc-area middle school
- 37. Dance choreographed as an homage to Monty Python
- 41. Edible artist’s medium
Down
- 1. One of two instruments not worth stealing from a car
- 2. One of three choreographed dances
- 3. Finally an answer to “What if her favorite instruments had a baby?”
- 4. Foreign land visited on the dance circuit
- 6. One of two lead-ins to “orchestra,” confusingly referred to solely as “orchestra” in conversation
- 7. Congregation of “tomorrow” where she was the bandleader
- 8. An axe that isn’t an axe, but could cut a tree
- 10. Balalaika’s cousin
- 11. Deliverer of least favorite Wizard of Oz line
- 12. Accordionist and parody songwriter who she claims “not to follow”
- 13. “Can I call you back, I’m ______.”
- 14. Former dance squad
- 16. Ancient past-time or grandpa celebrating at a wedding
- 21. Her favorite way to cross words
- 22. Treat you won’t want to pass over
- 23. Current dance squad
- 26. Pre-vegetarian dish where the secret ingredient is raspberry seltzer
- 27. 100% of her alcohol expenses go into this dessert
- 32. Many a birthday gift
- 33. Acronym that helps you transition from the first five minutes of a story into the back fifteen
- 34. One of two lead-ins to “orchestra,” confusingly referred to solely as “orchestra” in conversation
- 38. DC-area high school or a way to secretly include someone
- 39. Perhaps the loudest word game that isn’t Boggle
- 40. Foreign land visited on the college roommate circuit