Can You Ace This Westchester County Crossword Puzzle?

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Think you’re a true Westchesterite? Put your local knowledge to the test with this cryptic crossword on the county.

By Nick Brandi & Myles Mellor

Across

1. Longtime home of IBM’s headquarters
7. He was known as the “Greenburgh Guide” in the Revolutionary War
9. ___ Acres Park, in New Rochelle
10. Half of a menu choice at Benjamin’s Steak House in White Plains
11. Milky gem
13. Port ____, where the Lifesavers Candy company used to operate a factory
15. Rye jewelers
16. Popular Bronxville beauty boutique
17. ___ Hill at Stone Barns, world-class restaurant
19. Electrifying annual Westchester event: The Great Jack O’Lantern ____
22. Lifestyle guru with a house in Bedford
24. Thomas ___ Cottage Museum
25. Yonkers Station is a __ classical building
27. One of Grimm’s seven
28. Diamond trove in Scarsdale and Mount Kisco
31. Famous Westchester horseman
33. Somers Park and Arboretum
34. Fish that swim off Westchester shores
35. You might find one at any of Westchester’s 17 hospitals
36. ___ Moor Golf course in White Plains
38. Onetime Scarsdale Beatle spouse
39. Sound you could hear at the Pure Salon of Westchester in Yorktown Heights
41. Westchester-based NBA Development League team
42. Presidential residence in Westchester, ____ Springs
43. Full collection

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Down

2. Eponym of a Westchester bridge (2 words)
3. Mount ___
4. General Howe’s subordinate during the Revolutionary War, ___ Perry
5. This American Gigolo star landed a real-life second role, as a Bedford innkeeper
6. You might play them at the Empire City: ____s
8. Westchester County town named after its trees
9. Exciting things are said to have this factor
12. Exercise class, for short
13. Site of a perennial summer music festival
14. What many patrons do from the rooftop of Irvington’s Red Hat on the River
17. Moderne ____, where you
can enjoy Black Angus burgers
in Armonk
18. White Plains Avenue where a Revolutionary conflict occurred
20. First letter of the town where the Larchmont Historical Society is located
21. Hipster Mexican restaurant in Tarrytown, The __ Project
23. Westchester village
24. Rockefeller family estate is in ___ Hills
26. Chappaqua is __ of Briarcliff Manor (compass point)
27. Nickname of a beloved British royal
29. Subject of a Steinbeck novella and an erstwhile wine bar in Rye
30. Colorful nickname for bellicose Brits of yore
31. First-name eponym of a popular Bronxville boutique
32. You might come across an evil one in The Haunt at Rocky Ledge
34. ___ County Parkway
37. Auto group with many Westchester County locations
40. Exists

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