Crossing Words in the Silver State: Nevada Day

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Across
  1. 3. Desert bird that inspired both poetry and state symbolism.
  2. 6. Nevada’s enduring moniker born from lode and legend.
  3. 9. Both flora and metaphor — and the name of Nevada’s first literary movement.
  4. 10. Mining town famed for its ghostly glow and Jim Butler’s discovery.
  5. 11. Sacred waters of the Numu (Paiute) people.
  6. 15. Monument to modern engineering and Depression-era ambition.
  7. 16. Eastern outpost between the mountains and the myth.
  8. 17. The legendary lode that birthed boomtowns and bankruptcies.
  9. 18. From the Spanish word for “snow-covered.”
Down
  1. 1. Where Mark Twain cut his literary teeth at The Territorial Enterprise.
  2. 2. A phrase forged from Civil War-era statehood.
  3. 4. The capital where policy meets high desert air.
  4. 5. The vast inland region with no outlet to the sea.
  5. 7. Granted on October 31, 1864 — a Civil War telegram rushed by Morse code.
  6. 8. Desert home to Joshua trees and mirage-making light.
  7. 12. Sandstone cathedral of the Mojave, carved by wind and time.
  8. 13. The laborers who carved wealth — and inequity — from stone.
  9. 14. “The Biggest Little City,” once the nation’s divorce capital.