Mark’s Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Started his first career NFL game in Week 1 against the Denver Broncos and he scored 42 points over 13 games in his first NFL regular season.
  2. 7. Referring to an aggressive wasp relative.
  3. 8. A colorless, odorless gas being represented by atomic number 2, often used in balloons.
  4. 10. Referring to a baseball stat that measures a pitcher’s effectiveness originally devised by Exeter, England native Henry Chadwick, whom was often called the “Father of Baseball”.
  5. 12. Referring to an outdoor seating area.
  6. 15. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he is one of America’s first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
  7. 17. A 6x NBA All-Star guard and the 2018 Slam Dunk contest Champion.
  8. 18. Otherwise known as a primate or mimic.
  9. 19. A hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor being represented by atomic number 14.
Down
  1. 1. A 1x MVP and a 3x Pro Bowl quarterback whom attended Reedley College.
  2. 2. A monotheistic religion that traces its origins to the ancient Hebrews and is based on the belief of one God, rooted in the teachings of the Torah, which is considered this religion’s foundational text, along with later writings such as the Talmud.
  3. 3. A statistically favorable collision between ball and bat as Neil deGrasse Tyson would say.
  4. 4. A 3x NBA All-Star whom made it to 2020-2021’s NBA All-Rookie First Team with LaMelo Ball, Tyrese Haliburton, Saddiq Bey, Jae’Sean Tate, Immanuel Quickly, Desmond Bane, Isaiah Stewart, Issac Okoro, and Patrick Williams.
  5. 5. This NBA player averaged 16.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 6.4 assists per game in his first 10 career NBA games and he averaged 16.5 points,
  6. 6. A 2x Super Bowl Champion quarterback whom in The Big Game defeated the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals and was the NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 2004.
  7. 9. The sixth note of the solfège scale, often associated with ‘a’ in ‘fa-la-la’.
  8. 11. A smartphone designed and manufactured by Apple Inc. that combines a touchscreen interface with advanced computing, communication, and multimedia capabilities, it runs on iOS, Apple’s proprietary operating system, and supports features such as calling, messaging, internet browsing, app usage, photography, and facial recognition.
  9. 13. A 6x Pro Bowl wide receiver and the NFC’s solo leader in receiving touchdowns and tied for the league lead with Tyreek Hill in the 2023-2024 regular season.
  10. 14. A nomadic group of central Asian people gaining control of a large part of Central and Eastern Europe under Attila about 450 AD.
  11. 16. The Spanish word for wolf in plural form.