Across
- 4. Highly celebrated and famously impressive
- 6. Lacking resources, truly poor and in need
- 9. Water the crops and make the desert bloom
- 11. A can of soup, a roll of quarters, or where a car engine's pistons pump
- 13. Moved along like a train or drank thirstily
- 14. Protested weakly or ran like an engine out of gas
- 15. Official who gives a place a thorough look-see
- 16. Captured on film, now forever in the frame
- 18. Techy trinkets and ingenious inventions for the tinkerer
- 19. Where you go to see a play or hear a speaker boom
Down
- 1. Inventor's legal "Keep Out" signs protecting brilliant ideas
- 2. Train's powerful "iron horses" that huff and puff
- 3. A box office bomb or a total failure that lands with a thud
- 5. To look up to with awe, deeply respect and honor
- 7. Award or school that's top-tier and highly admired
- 8. To rise above the usual limits and go beyond
- 10. How a brilliant idea or a hot light bulb might be described
- 12. To truly stand out and be the very best
- 17. Great-grandpa's Spotify: a machine for spinning vintage tunes