Reinventing the Wheel - American Road® Magazine

“Reinventing the Wheel”
ACROSS
1. Rounds of a racetrack
5. Neanderthal garage
9. Moment
13. Thin rope
17. Against
18. Give up
20. Greek poem about a large
wheeled horse
22. Extent of space
23. Edge of a tire that sits on the
wheel
24. Formula of belief
25. Intervening
26. Without
27. Robert Woolsey’s rolling
partner Bert
29. Wheel game show host
31. Second great battle of the
American Civil War
33. Undesirable plant
34. The son of Abraham and Sarah
35. Spinning toy: ___wheel
36. Enclosed automobile
39. Sleep images
40. Tire company that manufactures the Tiger Paw
45. Frozen rain
46. Rage
48. Bristly
50. Seventh letter of the Greek
alphabet
51. Wheel stuntman Knievel
52. Ebony
53. Periodic movement of the sea
54. Swill
55. Wager
56. Perch
58. Hybrid
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SPRING 2011
59. Tugs
60. Donkey
61. Snare
62. Digging tool
64. Bother
65. Postpone
66. Dough
67. City in Minnesota
68. Breeches
71. Famous physicist Marie
72. 2006 Pixar automotive epic
73. Illustrative craft
76. Greek goddesses of the seasons
77. Old cloth measures
78. Sudden convulsion
80. In place of
81. Sixth month of the Jewish
calendar
82. Sight organs
83. Stringed instrument
84. Pouting grimace
85. Open mesh fabric
86. Angel of death
88. Prophet who led the Exodus
89. Very small quantity
90. Tire company famed for its
blimp
92. Deliver an oration
94. Behaved
95. Tree of the genus Quercus
96. Awkward boors
97. Great in quantity
99. Ostentatious
102. Contraction of has not
103. Clay-making wheel
106. City of central California
107. To wear away
109. Make into an act
111. Third gospel
113. Brother of Cain
114. Unit of luminous flux
115. Supple
116. Notion
117. Cupola
118. Clan
119. Inventor of the wheel, according to B.C. cartoonist Johnny Hart
120. Salamander
39. Sag
40. Useful
41. Protuberance
42. Shouts
43. Coral island
44. Pass into disuse
46. Carnival wheel
47. German submarine
49. Musical study piece
54. Ruined city in west Iran
57. Former Russian rulers
58. Ships’ officers
59. Motor oil catchers
61. Grasp
63. Pounds per square inch
64. Greek owner of tire company’s winged sandal
65. Damage by regular use
66. Sphygmus
67. Moisten the turkey
68. Cannabis
69. Cowboy display
70. Muse of lyric poetry
71. Pellucid
72. Bring about
73. Astir
74. “(Get Your Kicks on) ___ 66”
75. The part of a wheel that contacts the road
77. Jaguarundi
79. Schemes
82. Wheel prophet
84. Tire company known for its mascot, Bibendum
86. Indian nursemaid
87. Untightens lug nuts
88. Hot Wheels® manufacturer
91. Tractable
93. Flee
94. Statute
96. Burdened
97. Religious fanatic, Spanish
98. Speak
99. Dressed
100. Tramp
101. As previously given
102. Household
103. Trodden track
104. Uncouth
105. Slanting
108. Floor covering
110. Louse egg
112. Consume
DOWN
1. Laboratory
2. Once more
3. Egyptian deity
4. White surface of a tire
5. Two-wheeler
6. Ventilated
7. Change direction
8. Antiquity
9. Jitters
10. Pertaining to the ileum
11. Tire company that created the
little yawning tire boy
12. Devoted follower
13. Place for a roulette wheel
14. Spoken
15. City in Nevada
16. Morse element
19. Pannier
21. Scorn
28. Even (poet.)
30. Automobile Association
of America
32. Rent
34. Golf clubs
36. An ancient kingdom of
Arabia, famous for its queen
37. Roof overhang
38. Eats to a plan
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