Since April 18 is International Day for Monuments and Sites, we thought we’d reach out to puzzle-master extraordinaire Myles Mellor to craft a Westchester-themed brain teaser in observance of the occasion. So, sharpen your pencils and clear your mind, because WM’s first-ever, custom-made crossword puzzle is now yours for the solving. Good luck!
Across
1. Madam who first occupied Villa Lewaro
4. Home to the Rockefellers for four
generations
9. Band who sang “Take on Me”
11. Historic B’nai Israel, e.g.
13. Westchester portrait photographer
15. Try a cocktail
16. Roughly, as a suffix
17. Toaster’s glass
19. Tiffany illumination
22. Compass point
24. Grotesque face: City College of
New York has many of them
26. This is one
28. Total (3 words)
29. You may have a glass of this at the holidays
31. Yellowfin tuna
32.
First name of singer whose “mob photo” was taken at
the Westchester Premier Theater
34. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead just played this theater in March
39. Historic gardens in Yonkers
40. “Nights in White ___” (1972 Moody Blues hit)
43. First name of a famous artist and architect who had a
recent exhibition at the Hudson River Museum
44. Nurse (abbr.)
45. Site of “The Rising” memorial to 9/11
Down
1. Westchester was no stranger to his Revolutionary army
2. Gothic Revival country house in Tarrytown
3. Emil Praeger, the designer of 7 Down, was one (abbr.)
5.
First name of the author, senior producer for the TV show Extra,
and Yonkers resident who wrote Something Beautiful Happened
6. This makes deliveries from a historic building on
Westchester Ave. in Port Chester
7. Historic span that recently went for a dip
8. First US Chief Justice, who lived at Bedford House
10. Printer maker
12. Miss at a rodeo
14. Basis for the Rockefellers’ wealth
18. Milk for all its worth
20. Westchester artist Anne de Villemejane’s husband
21. Revolutionary War major who has a memorial at the
Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow border
23. Female eponym of a Westchester highway
25. Westchester’s “Leatherman’s ___”
27. Quarropas in White Plains is one (abbr.)
30. Successful show
31. US news wire
33. Descriptive for a posh hotel in White Plains, perhaps
35. Melody
36. Hawaiian welcome wreath
37. One of the Marianas
38. Hero in Clancy novels
41. Angle or athlete prefix
42. “New” beginning
Spoiler Alert! Answers below:
