Ben's Birthday Bash
Across
- 4. Glacier cruise refreshment
- 6. Super Bowl contribution
- 7. The favorite of five parks
- 8. Currently fermenting
- 9. Game that kept the Smigielski siblings rallying into lightening bug hour
- 12. Filmed for Candace and Lindsay
- 16. Number of marathons ran
- 17. Favorite color for a favorite team
- 19. First brew
- 21. Vacation that ended in an endurance test
- 23. Larger than life celebrity airport sighting
- 25. Who he rooted for in his first World Cup Game
- 26. Nighttime ritual
- 28. Chicago sight-seeing took an unexpected turn when Ben and Kathryn ducked a staged Tommy-gun drive-by on this surprisingly immersive bus tour
- 30. Ben’s favorite mitten
- 34. He arrived and never left
- 36. Term of endearment
- 37. Daddy’s best dish
- 38. Street fest favorite
- 40. Three times to top
- 42. Anchorage mom
- 43. Stolen desert transport
- 44. Saint’s favorite green
Down
- 1. A longer than expected trail that doubles as a brewery
- 2. Birthday confection
- 3. Helen’s favorite European culinary destination
- 5. Bitchy puffin’s home
- 10. 8-person pub crawl
- 11. Common summer refrain
- 12. Wedding gift for him
- 13. How Auto greeted the group every day
- 14. Geothermal spa town
- 15. Self-appointed title at every cookout
- 18. Destination for Ben’s single send off
- 19. Date night favorite doubles as aroma enhancement
- 20. Street fest favorite
- 21. First date
- 22. His best investment in his wife’s social life
- 24. Candace’s prime Vegas location
- 27. Answering call for “Go Green!”
- 29. A first career at-bat Cub home run hitter
- 31. Lager’s source
- 32. Preceded Patron by poor and uneducated students
- 33. Collaborative project with your wife
- 35. Late-night 90s radio singalong featuring a tiny country anthem
- 38. Ate there 7 times in two trips
- 39. Stolen from Chris by a runaway
- 41. He likes them hazy