OIC solar eclipse crossword

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  1. 4. Type of solar eclipse Washington state will get on 4/8/24
  2. 8. Singer of the #1 hit "You're So Vain", which references the 1972 total solar eclipse in Nova Scotia
  3. 10. Washington town with an observatory
  4. 12. Famous waterfall site that will experience a total solar eclipse on 4/8/24
  5. 14. Federal agency with a particular interest in eclipses
  6. 15. Oregon city that experienced a total solar eclipse in 2017
  7. 17. Washington city that drew total solar eclipse viewers in 1979
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  1. 1. Important equipment for viewing solar eclipses
  2. 2. Singer of the #1 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
  3. 3. Their boundaries become unusually sharp and clear when only a sliver of the sun is uncovered
  4. 5. Type of solar eclipse in which the sun appears as a narrow ring around the moon (the U.S. had one in Oct. 2023)
  5. 6. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Total Eclipse, an account of her experience seeing the 1979 total solar eclipse in Washington
  6. 7. Part of the sun not ordinarily visible except during a total solar eclipse
  7. 9. Major eclipse type
  8. 11. Largest U.S. city that will experience a total solar eclipse on 4/8/24
  9. 13. Term for when the moon covers 100% of the sun
  10. 16. The state in which the next U.S. solar eclipse (in 2044) will be concentrated