Hear Her Roar: Crossword Honors 50 Years of Undergraduate Coeducation

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Courtesy Stella Zawistowski ’00

Stella Daily Zawistowski ’00 is a trivia writer and crossword constructor in Brooklyn, New York. A competitive solver, she placed fourth in the 2019 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. This puzzle honors 50 years of undergraduate coeducation. READ Zawistowski’s essay on gender disparity in crossword puzzle constructing.

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Across

 1. Mass of gum or money

 4. “Silent Spring” pesticide

 7. H-bomb, e.g.

 10. Held the helm

 13. Before, poetically

 14. Gun, as an engine 

 15. Look over 

 16. Rocks at a bar?

 17. *86 alumna who was once head of the EPA

20. “ Roars” (2018 Princeton women’s conference) 

 21. Tiger’s dwelling (no, not a dorm!)

 22. Couldn’t go any lower 

 24. Jewish ascetic of old 

 27. Word skipped when alphabetizing 

 28. ’91 alumna and bestselling author of Mrs. Everything 

 33. Princeton Chapel caretaker 

 34. Molecule studied in MOL 214/ EEB 214

 35. Clownfish of film

 36. Ctrl- -Del

 37. Gumshoe

39. The class of ’21, currently

 41. Two-bagger (abbr.)

 42. Talking too smoothly 

 44. “Huh?!” 

 46. Sprint subsidiary, in telecoms 

 48. ’76 alumna and Supreme Court justice 

 51. O-5 rank, in the Navy 

 52. Stone’s co-star, in Battle of the Sexes 

 53. Irish crystal city 

 56. Coin that may display the Vitruvian Man 

60. Baby Cobra comic Wong 

 61. ’02 alumna and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star

 64. Excessively

 65. Inspiration for Debussy

66. Don’t feel so hot

 67. Jam (record label)

 68. Number of Canadian provinces

 69. Bit of body art, in slang

 70. Escape attempt

 71. Not at work

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Down

 1. “Where does a mansplainer get water?” “ , actually ...” 

 2. Soprano’s spotlight moment 

 3. Of South Asian descent 

 4. Julius Winfield Erving III, to fans 

 5. Breaking Bad org. 

 6. Rachael Ray or Carla Hall, familiarly 

 7. Many John Ford films 

 8. Acronym for snoops

 9. Be a sign of 

 10. Heard out

 11. Alexa’s device 

 12. Regard as

 18. Fail to be 

 19. Hall-of-Fame outfielder Ralph 

 23. Watery, as a sauce 

 25. Kid with attitude

 26. Source of strength, metaphorically

 28. Jiggly brand

 29. Fate of wild Caspian tigers 

 30. “I’d like to know about it in advance”

 31. Part of a dying fire

 32. Maki, at a sushi bar

 33. Succumbs to gravity

38. “Sweet” Juliette Binoche film of 2000

 40. Clapper at a circus

 43. Wait a while 

45. “Breakout” company 

 47. Water-transporting tissue in plants

 49. Put in cuffs 

 50. Hellish experience 

 53. Joule per second 

 54. Trendy smoothie additive

 55. Pet owner’s bane 

 57. Prom hairstyle 

 58. Under-the-water ridge

 59. Carmina Burana composer Carl 

 62. Creator of Souls? 

 63. Tree with serrated leaves

Solution to the puzzle