{"id":16246,"date":"2021-04-19T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=16246"},"modified":"2021-04-21T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:20:42","slug":"17-year-cicada-cross-word-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/17-year-cicada-cross-word-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year cicada cross word puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to try a 17-year cicada crossword puzzle? It isn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CicadaManiaCrossWord.jpg\">Download a large version of the image with the hints<\/a>. Or use the one on this page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CicadaCrossWordPuzzle.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada Cross Word Puzzle\" width=\"763\" height=\"898\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CicadaCrossWordPuzzle.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CicadaCrossWordPuzzle-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ACROSS<br \/>\n2. Two of them are&#8230;<br \/>\n7. Mistaken identity<br \/>\n8. Soil temperature sampler<br \/>\n10. Insect Singers site<br \/>\n11. The cicada&#8217;s old outfit<br \/>\n13. Where you&#8217;ll find the arches.<br \/>\n15. Keep a lid on it.<br \/>\n17. Longest lifecycle.<br \/>\n22. Ohio expert<br \/>\n24. Five.<br \/>\n27. Never on time.<br \/>\n28. A delicious drink.<br \/>\n29. I&#8217;m seeing red.<br \/>\n30. Grill.<br \/>\n31. 5 steps.<br \/>\n33. Final form.<br \/>\n35. Seven is the smallest.<\/p>\n<p>DOWN<br \/>\n1. Un-popped collar.<br \/>\n3. Four to get off the Floor.<br \/>\n4. A &#8220;cool&#8221; cicada expert.<br \/>\n5. Three of Five.<br \/>\n6. Youngsters.<br \/>\n9. Plates<br \/>\n12. A rare color.<br \/>\n14. Nest knife.<br \/>\n16. Pitch shifter<br \/>\n18. Left Connecticut forever<br \/>\n19. Drum kit.<br \/>\n20. Amphetamine fungus.<br \/>\n21. Cicada banners.<br \/>\n23. Keep hanging on.<br \/>\n25. Mr. Softy.<br \/>\n26. Just six of these.<br \/>\n32. Beak.<br \/>\n34. Connecticut lab leader<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-crossword-answers\/\">Answers are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used <a href=\"https:\/\/puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com\/criss-cross\">the Discovery Education Puzzlemaker<\/a> to create this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to try a 17-year cicada crossword puzzle? It isn&#8217;t easy. Download a large version of the image with the hints. Or use the one on this page: ACROSS 2. Two of them are&#8230; 7. Mistaken identity 8. Soil temperature sampler 10. Insect Singers site 11. The cicada&#8217;s old outfit 13. Where you&#8217;ll find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magicicada","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}