MARIA SHRIVER, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, A ND
PRESENT
MARIA SHRIVER, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, A ND
CROSSWORDS
100 STRESS-RELIEVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES TO SHARPEN YOUR MIND
Copyright © 2024 Maria Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and MOSH
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Crosswords created by Aimee Lucido, Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, and Francis Heaney
Certain crosswords in this book were edited and adapted from versions that previously ran on www.avxwords.com.
ISBN 9781963183337
Printed in Colombia 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
HI THERE,
We’re so glad you have this book in your hands. Your brain is going to thank you for engaging it and caring about it!
Your brain is your #1 tool. You use it for every single thing you do, 24/7. That’s why it’s so important to exercise your mind just as you would your body.
Sudoku puzzles are one great way to sharpen your mind. By taking just a few minutes each day to do puzzles like the ones in this book, you can reduce stress, improve cognitive function, and enhance your problem-solving skills. You’ll also have fun!
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This series of puzzle books was born out of our commitment to help others incorporate more brain-healthy activities into their daily lives. We hope you find these puzzles mind-blowing and cognitively stimulating.
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Maria & Patrick
CROSSWORDS
CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 Netlike Halloween decorations
5 Hawaiian instruments, informally
9 Action film climax, often
14 “Out of Africa” novelist Dinesen
15 Spanish “nothing”
16 “The West Wing” creator Sorkin
17 Expand one’s horizons, or warm up before 57-Across
20 “Keep the fun going!”
21 Nutrition fig.
22 -Magnon
23 Throw in
25 Plumber’s challenge
29 Say a nonverbal no, or warm up before 57-Across
32 Pig’s place
33 Board VIP
34 Michelangelo sculpture in St. Peter’s Basilica
35 Vietnamese soup
36 Summer hrs. in L.A.
37 FWIW part
39 Question of motive
40 Give a leg up
42 Capital of Norway
44 Batteries for a Wii Remote
45 Serve as a reminder, or warm up before 57-Across
48 Thorny part of a rose
49 What shares on X used to be called, for short r
50 Make a choice
51 Samosa vegetable
53 Likes better
57 Brain games, and what you will find throughout this book
62 Black-and-white cookies
63 Jared of “Dallas Buyers Club”
64 Reclined
65 Message on a cake in “Alice in Wonderland”
66 “You don’t need to show me again”
67 Hr. fractions
DOWN
1 Swirl of smoke
2 This, in Spanish
3 Attorney general before Garland
4 Not to be trusted
5 Like hard pasta
6 Madeline of “Blazing Saddles”
7 Ice cream maker Joseph
8 Paulo, Brazil
9 Part of a hand
10 Japanese amberjack often served in sushi
11 Singer Grande, to fans
12 Like father, like
13 Conclude
14 Banks who hosted “America’s Next Top Model”
19 Pakistani language
23 Anagram of “yea” that means the same thing
24 Easily tamed
26 Wiggle room
27 Formal promises
28 Aussie greeting
29 Curly of slapstick, for example
30 Gain by blackmail
31 Rotation meas.
32 “Dang it!”
35 Easy sammies
01 8
36 Salaried employee’s vacation time, for short
38 When a procrastinator will finally clean their closet
41 Sign that you have something
43 Texting protocol letters
44 Movie often made on a modest budget
46 River to the Caspian
47 Oil group acronym
52 Simplicity
on page 207
53 Anti-fur gp.
54 “Ozark” actor Morales
55 Rider’s strap
56 Tax form figs.
57 “The Simpsons” bartender
58 Historic period
59 Pickleball need
60 One of the Manning brothers
61 Crosses (out)
9
Aimee Lucido
Answers
ACROSS
1 Difficulties to work through
6 Son, in Spain
10 Soapy buildup in the shower
14 Ice Cube’s first name
15 Outback birds
16 Otherwise
17 Endangered Amazon area
19 Turn unexpectedly
20 Nuke, as leftovers
21 Disreputable
22 JFK’s predecessor
24 Aerodynamics research tool
26 Third letter in an alphabet song
27 Good, in Grenoble
28 Published remembrance, for short
29 Torah language
31 Flowering plant that lent its name to a lane on “Desperate Housewives”
35 Baseball flub
36 Filming locale
37 Applies high heat to
38 One wearing a matching jersey
40 Stuck it out
41 Special glow
42 Mushy food for babies
43 Ambient music pioneer Brian
44 City in Ontario, Canada that’s the namesake of a 1953 film
48 Pompous jerk
49 Major artery
50 Muscle/bone connector
52 Drawn-out story
53 Idea-generation session, or what you might create by solving the clues at 17-, 24-, and 44-Across
57 Ocho menos cinco
58 Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls
59 Dye popular in Morocco
60 Whirling water
61 Musician Turner and actor Barinholtz
62 Decorate
DOWN
1 Frat.’s counterpart
2 Secretive govt. org.
3 Yellowfin tuna
4 Rock, rap, or reggae
5 Out of harm’s way
6 Found on this page
7 “To clarify ... ”
8 Nike slogan
9 East, in Austria
10 Magazine for young women
11 G-rated
12 “I’m here to help”
13 “Mamma Mia!” star Streep
18 “That’s impressive!”
21 Gets in gear for the game
22 Name on much farm equipment
23 Actress Messing
25 “American Dad!” network
26 Nickname hidden in “archetype”
27 Triangle
30 Portmanteau book categorization for “Fourth Wing” and others
31 Minute
32 Blows wildly
33 De-wrinkles
34 “It came surprise”
36 Sci-fi TV show with many spin-offs
39 “Who do you think you ?”
02 10
40 Dedicatee of six Mozart string quartets
42 Freaks out
44 Stylistic sense
45 Amass a mass
46 Encouraged
47 “If Street Could Talk”
48 Paid to play poker
51 Workplace watchdog, for short
53 Stat. whose correlation with health is often misunderstood
54 Musician Yoko
55 Mil. time off
56 “Gosh!”
11 Answers on page 207
Aimee Lucido
ACROSS
1 Shrill bark
4 On the (fleeing)
7 Expenses
12 “Thanksgiving” director Roth
13 “Eureka!”
14 “As I was saying ...”
16 Thrush or finch
19 Overhauled
20 “I feel the same way”
21 Swiss Miss drink
23 Furry friend
24 B&O and Short Line: Abbr.
26 “Um... that’s not right”
28 Opinion columns
30 Mets and Marlins div.
31 Avocado and canola, for two
34 “Brain” of a PC
35 Question response
37 Agitated state
38 “Mad Men” character Olson
40 Sedan, for example
41 Held in reserve
42 Geometry calculation
43 Words that accompany a gift
45 Prior to, in poetry
46 Challenges for srs.
47 Inc.’s U.K. cousin
48 Houston baseballer
50 Conceal from view
52 Tue. plus two
53 Bay Area airport hub
55 Fiery felony
57 Tattoo worker
61 Many college donors
63 Another name for a chickpea
65 Brainiac
66 Vegetable soup bit
67 British pop singer Rita
68 Become acclimatized, say
69 Madam’s counterpart
70 “Full Metal Jacket” subject
DOWN
1 Quaint reply to a woman
2 Balm ingredient
3 Blood donation unit
4 Symbolic end of summer holiday
5 Poke bowl protein
6 Designer Jacobs
7 Spreader of Christmas cheer
8 Surname on Shaq’s jerseyl
9 Pink Floyd co-founder Barrett
10 Common basket in basketball
11 Reasonable
15 Despite that
17 Gratuitous feature of a horror flick
18 Yoga pose depicted literally four times in this puzzle
22 Bloody Mary stirrer
25 Nine-digit ID
27 Scent detector
28 Show at La Scala
29 Washington waterway
32 .fm (audiobook app)
33 Eye irritation
34 Tax pros
36 High-ranking justices’ grp.
39 Deep cut
41 Where you might order nigiri or maki
03 12
43 Wedding planner’s contact for centerpieces
44 Cereal grain
49 Fish that’s often canned
51 Accumulated, as a tab
53 Droop
54 Tiny pest
56 Catches a few Zs
58 Be familiar with
59 Poet Pound
60 Howl with laughter
62 Soccer star Hamm
64 Camping gear co-op
13 Answers on page 207
Aimee Lucido
ACROSS
1 Volume control for some music players
6 Give the axe
9 “Get lost!”
14 Distract from the crushing realities of life for a few precious moments, say
15 Word dropped when renaming a certain streaming service to “Max,” for some reason
16 -3 fatty acids
17 Queen on “Elena of Avalor”
18 Port letters
19 Cheated at the Tour de France, say
20 Putt that even I could sink
22 Over
24 Good at picking things up
26 Turkey’s capital
28 Hullabaloo
29 Cause
31 It waves to show pride
34 Big (David Ortiz, familiarly)
35 Boris’s partner in espionage
37 Be vulnerable to Freddy Krueger, perhaps
39 Yourself, in Ypres
40 George Wendt, to Jason Sudeikis
44 Saucy maid in “Cosi fan tutte”
47 Sans slack
48 Don Herbert’s classic TV alias
51 Intelligence, slangily
53 “... in time, mais , we may” (Sondheim lyric)
54 Snapple alternative
56 She befriends Finn in “The Force Awakens”
57 There are three broken ones in this puzzle
60 What’s fallen out of the broken 57-Across
62 “A Wrinkle in Time” author Madeleine L’
63 She might help you knit a sweater
65 Copes
68 Stoop (to)
69 Zip on the football field
70 Messy scrap
71 Some Spanish titles: Abbr.
72 Before
73 Bug-on-the-windshield noise
DOWN
1 Bud
2 Creature on Australia’s coat of arms
3 Roll for many a cheap fix
4 “Never get involved in a land war in ” (advice in “The Princess Bride”)
5 Take enthusiastically, as an opportunity
6 Bit in the stew
7 Lego Batman claims to have a 9-pack of them
8 A rotten deal
9 It’s usually soft
10 “Be serious!”
11 Undo, as a law
12 Homophobes can’t stop imagining a gay one
13 Englishman’s counterpart, in song
21 Privy to
23 I always have too many of these open in Safari
24 Range across Europe
25 Ring out
27 Mmm, minty!
30 “The deaths ye have watched beside ...”: Kipling
32 Day before one can say “TGIF”
33 Brand owned by Coca-Cola
04 14
Francis Heaney
36 Currently
38 Mmm, chalky! (I guess some people like these?)
41 Tote
42 Minstrel’s instrument
43 Website with some suspiciously low prices for things that are purportedly handmade and not, say, from a factory overseas
45 “Mens in corpore sano”
46 In a shipping lane
48 Vehicles seen in “Quadrophenia”
49 Picnic (crossword clue for ANT)
on page 207
50 Start making a speech without having rehearsed, say
52 Mmm, chocolatey!
55 Tiny part of the immune system
58 It’s Latin for “seaweed”
59 They can be used to pay for “Hamilton” lottery seats
61 Inspiring a “whoa,” say
64 Super Mario Galaxy system
66 Pastoral expanse
67 Good to go
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