Across
- 6. Main theme of mother-daughter stories
- 7. Almost the same but not quite
- 11. Rose's mother who shares the scar story
- 14. Matchmaker describes young Lindo as this
- 15. Lindo's childhood fate
- 18. Between Chinese traditions and American ways
- 23. American home of the Joy Luck Club
- 28. Title of Lena's story
- 30. Waverly's other brother
- 32. Group formed to create joy in hard times
- 35. Theme of mothers giving up for children
- 39. Caused Suyuan to flee Kweilin
- 41. Game played weekly by the four mothers
- 43. Suyuan's American-born daughter
- 44. If lips are gone teeth are cold proverb
- 46. Generational Chinese vs American values
- 48. Symbol of Lindo's arranged marriage
- 50. June travels to meet them in China
- 54. Lindo's critical mother-in-law
- 56. Founder of the Joy Luck Club who abandoned her twins
- 58. Positions at the mahjong table
- 60. Central tension in the novel
- 63. Suyuan teaches lesson about best quality
- 66. Story An-mei heard about crying
- 67. Chess term Waverly masters
- 68. Suyuan's daughters left in China
- 69. Lena's mother who feels like a ghost
- 70. Chinese city of the original Joy Luck Club
- 71. Event where young Ying-ying got lost
Down
- 1. Lindo's strategy for success
- 2. Man who made An-mei's mother a concubine
- 3. June volunteers for the worst crab
- 4. Position An-mei's mother was forced into
- 5. Talent mothers pushed daughters toward
- 8. Lena's accountant husband
- 9. Daughter facing marital problems
- 10. Lena places the vase on one
- 12. San Francisco neighborhood of the club
- 13. One of Suyuan's twin daughters
- 16. Not the same at all
- 17. Used in the mothers' game
- 19. Carriage used in Lindo's wedding
- 20. City Suyuan hoped to reach
- 21. An-mei's traditional grandmother
- 22. Dark and unclear state of mind
- 24. Rose's brother who drowned in the ocean
- 25. Suyuan gives this as life's importance
- 26. How Bing died
- 27. Suyuan's phrase for the jade pendant
- 29. Prologue symbol of mother's hope
- 31. Chinese word for confused
- 33. Daughter unhappy in her marriage to Harold
- 34. Ying-ying's devoted nursemaid
- 36. Symbol from a thousand li away
- 37. An-mei's reminder of her mother's sacrifice
- 38. Waverly's mother who uses invisible strength
- 40. June receives the jade one
- 42. How An-mei's mother ended her life
- 45. Ying-ying's zodiac animal
- 47. Lena's marriage symbol that breaks
- 49. What Lindo wore on her wedding day
- 51. One of Waverly's brothers
- 52. Chess champion daughter
- 53. Ying-ying's childhood festival tale
- 55. Lindo's first arranged husband
- 57. Suyuan tried to make June a prodigy on this
- 59. June's father
- 60. Alternative spelling for Kweilin
- 61. Life force Ying-ying lost after trauma
- 62. Rose's husband
- 63. Other twin daughter of Suyuan
- 64. What the mothers call one another
- 65. Replaces her mother at the mahjong table