Across
- 2. Texas region that surprises newcomers
- 3. — Where much of Houston inconveniently sits
- 6. The city’s slow, sinking problem
- 7. Texas scale, applied to religion
- 9. Law that surprises drivers
- 11. Houston survival technology
- 12. Post-storm solution: raise the city
- 15. Post-storm solution: raise the city
- 16. Coastal architecture born of experience
- 20. Texas myth, history, and branding
- 21. How Houston pretends distance is manageable
- 22. Galveston’s unofficial operating speed
- 24. — Houston nickname locals actually use
- 26. Texas geography that confuses outsiders
- 27. National holiday that began here
- 28. Power operator everyone learns about eventually
- 29. Warm, brown, and misunderstood
- 33. — How most Texas facts begin
- 34. Massive underground flood-control tanks
Down
- 1. State flower people stop traffic to photograph
- 4. — Man-made waterway that made Houston a port
- 5. Texas system that stands alone
- 8. Beautiful, fragile geography
- 10. Built after catastrophe
- 13. Houston’s most visible construction material
- 14. Houston’s famous planning oddity
- 16. Man-made waterway that made Houston a port
- 17. — Houston growth pattern, lovingly criticized
- 18. Texas concept combining food, fuel, and distance
- 19. The 1900 hurricane that changed history
- 23. Texas power grid operator everyone learns about eventually
- 25. Galveston landmark rebuilt more than once
- 30. What summer actually feels like
- 31. Earned nickname
- 32. What Galveston dramatically changed after 1900
- 33. Not rivers, not streams, very Houston