AALBC.com Crossword – December 20, 1998
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Puzzle #01122497 Copyright � 1997 by the African American Literature Book
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| 1 5th Day of Kwanzaa 4 Exclamation of surprise 7 Semitic people for the Arabian Peninsula 12 Tavern 13 Mineral spring 14 Strange and mysterious 15 Moses without the "n" 16 Akin 17 Swahili Lion 18 Greek goddess of strife 20 Hank with a bat 22 Staggers 24 P.E.'s or LL's output 25 The "Fat Boys" like to 28 Sponsorship 30 (1918-1996) The "First" Lady of Jazz 31 Created the department of agriculture at Tuskegee Institute 34 Principal writer during the Harlem Renaissance 36 First AA on a Davis Cup team 37 Author of "Vive Noir!" 39 Which person 40 For each 41 Duck with soft down 45 Radioactive gaseous element 47 Charles I. (1956-) 48 Ella Josephine (1903-1986) 51 Fairy queen 53 Ruthie Bolton 1994 54 More or less vertical 55 Black bird 56 Consumed 57 Harvests 58 Negative 59 Amiri's Poem "Calling black people" |
1 North of Nigeria 2 Accustom 3 "____ Allen" Brooks Pulitzer (1950) 4 "Free your mind and your ____ will follow" 5 Capital of Western Samoa 6 Swahili Greeting 7 Made "don't count your chickens before they hatch" popular 8 Restraint 9 Upper limb 10 Basketball great Hen. 11 Ocean 19 "I am the dream and the hope of the _______" 21 Bob Marley's "Dreadlock _____" 23 ___ See Rider 25 Tree 26 "Miller" 27 used with Feathers in this torture 29 1993 Poems by Ai 30 Reddish dye 31 Call of the crow 32 Powdery residue 33 Sigma Gamma 35 Public Enemy # 38 First black woman member of the Screen Writers Guild 40 Gordon and Rosa 42 Free from gas 43 Muse of lyric poetry 44 Esters 45 Countee Cullen: "We shall not always plant while others ___" 46 Swahili Eight 48 "The Shark ___" of NYC 49 Monkey 50 New Zealand parrot 52 Bank Hank |
Puzzle 01124097 and Solution Below
