Answers Across 1. What happens after you consume an egregious amount of carbohydrates. 3. What goes inside of a turkey and Build-A-Bears. 6. The state of the tree canopies in winter. 7. This is a kind of edible mushroom, what stems from the ass of a turkey. 8. The color of the sky in November and of Donald Trump’s soul. 10. That one family member, who always says the most conservative thing at a family get together. Down 2. This makes up the composition of pork rinds, and also the nickname of a football. 4. History books lied and told...

By Jacob Dixon • November 19, 2025 • Funnies

Answers Across 4. A slang term for cocaine, and also what accumulates in the atmosphere via the process of precipitation and crystallization 5. ______ from old wealthy Mennonites are what keep this school afloat 6. Approximately how long it will take to dry your clothes in campus dryers 9. The connector bathroom emanates a stinky smell resembling _____ 11. The state of leadership in our country, rhymes with brambles Down 1. Riding a _____ to class in winter should be punishable by felony 2. Try not to let your car _____ on the ice and cause a 3000 car pileup...

By Jacob Dixon • November 12, 2025 • Funnies

Answers Across 3. What might happen to you if you eat too much Halloween candy 6. The cutest little sign of ‘bad luck’ 8. A witch’s vessel of choice for potion making 9. The essential garment for trick or treating 10. The catalyst for human to warewolf transformation Down 1. Deliciously waxy tri-colored treats 2. The product of a Halloween craft involving festive gourds 4. A friendly face that protects the corn fields 5. 8-legged creepy crawler 7. Common strong-smelling Vampire deterrent

By Rosemary Baer • October 22, 2025 • Funnies

Crossword anwers Across 7. Tiny hay-filled seat used once for decor and then lives in your garage forever. 8. Classic fall phrase muttered when stepping outside and immediately regretting your outfit choice. 9. What you pretend to love for likes but secretly think tastes Hobby Lobby. Down 1. That person who already has a Christmas playlist ready in October. 2. Emotion felt after carving a pumpkin for 2 hours and it rots in 3 days. 3. Obsessive fall decorator’s weapon of choice smells like cinnamon and mass consumerism. 4. What your car windshield is covered in at 8 a.m. nature’s glitter....

By Jacob Dixon • September 24, 2025 • Funnies

Crossword Answers Across 2. Campus event that’s coming up soon that’s essentially a talent show 3. The thing on the tracks that interrupts every class 6. What you are probably late to on Wednesdays at 10 AM 7. What professors expect you to do before class but you do during class 9. The thing you pay thousands for and then nap through Down 1. The sound of a classroom when the prof asks, “Any questions?” 4. Student-run coffee supplier, also known as life support 5. The thing you hope to get after four years of caffeine and debt 8. Mandatory...

By Jacob Dixon • September 17, 2025 • Funnies

ACROSS 1 Low voice 5 Jar tops 9 Knight clubs 14 Keister, in Leicester 15 Cleveland’s lake 16 Low-budget prefix 17 Withered 18 Dost possess 19 Law enforcer in the Harry Potter universe 20 Campfire story, perhaps 23 Chamber workers: Abbr. 24 Wrath 25 Gangster’s gun 28 Propagation by sowing 31 Tummy muscles 34 Came up; “Hallelujah, Christ _____.” 36 Poem of praise 37 Seed covering 38 Less than a lot 42 Brian ____: GC director of facilities 43 Prince Valiant’s son 44 “Say cheese!” 45 Experiencing little to no romantic attraction, for short 46 Boneless chicken option 49 GC’s...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • March 27, 2025 • Funnies Brenton Pham • March 27, 2025 • Funnies Carlos Lichty • March 27, 2025 • Funnies

ACROSS 1. Primitive weapon 6. _____ meenie miney mo 7.  Won (2 down) contest 8. Jet similar to a 747 9. Origins DOWN 1. Ships 2. Won second place in (2 down) contest 3. Cybermemo 4. Pointed 5. They hold your horses   Crossword answers Connections answers

By Phil Witmer-Rich • February 19, 2025 • Funnies Carlos Lichty • February 19, 2025 • Funnies

ACROSS 1. Folk wisdom 5. Confident way to solve crosswords 7.  Starbucks size 8. Artist’s stand 9. Forsaken DOWN 1 .Not prerecorded 2. Shaquille of the N.B.A. 3. Classic detergent brand 4. Keypad key 6. Pottery oven Crossword answers 02/06 Connections answers 02/06

By Phil Witmer-Rich • February 5, 2025 • Funnies

ACROSS 1 Heels 5  Broadway star McDonald. 6  Students at GC really need one. 7  Mild flavored seaweed in Japanese cuisine. 8  Supermodel Banks DOWN 1 Maple Indian dish. 2  Would you be _____ and help me?” 3  Serious play 4  “For Pete’s ____!” 5  Blind as _ ____.   Crossword answers 11/19   Connections answers 11/19

By Phil Witmer-Rich • November 20, 2024 • Funnies Carlos Lichty • November 20, 2024 • Funnies

Connections answers 11/14 ACROSS 1 Group of whales. 4 Tender spots. 6  Make amends. 7  Cornu-____, at Thanksgiving or Chroma-_____, Tyler the Creator album. 8  Rep’s counterpart in D.C. DOWN 1 Reliable options. 2  Soap on _ ____. 3  “___ __ black,” with Will Smith. 4  Cul-de-___. 5  Neptune’s realm. Crossword answers 11/4

By Phil Witmer-Rich • November 13, 2024 • Funnies Carlos Lichty • November 13, 2024 • Funnies

Across    1- Sixth and seventh solfege scale degrees 5- Apache advocate who presented at convocation. 6- All good things must come to it. 7- Senate spots 8- Mackenzie’s section Down 1- The quiet type 2- “Save me _ __,” perhaps at an event. 3- Shades 4- Common newspaper section; classic __. 5- Hidden figures org.   Week 6-Solution

By Phil Witmer-Rich • October 23, 2024 • Funnies

Across 1. Meghan Trainor is all about it. 5. “Como __?” 7. Muse of Poetry. 8. Aired again. 9. Mao’s successor, or a longtime Bulls forward. Down 1. New GC specialty. 2. Comparable to a beet. 3. Gawk. 4. “Not today, __!” 5. Carol, e.g.   Crossword Solution Week 5 Connections week 5

By Carlos Lichty • October 9, 2024 • Funnies Phil Witmer-Rich • October 9, 2024 • Funnies

ACROSS 1 Not uneven. 6 There is no; singular: There ___ __; plural. 7 Barbie minus a T. 8 Useful skill. 9 Feature used by many who were “too mature” for Tik Tok. DOWN 1 Future super bowl performer. 2 Expunge 3 “Please open your hymnal to number 606. We will be singing _____s 1, 3 and 4.” 4 ____bert Humperdink 5 Plural pirate treasures.   Week 2-Solution

By Phil Witmer-Rich • September 11, 2024 • Funnies

ACROSS 1. “I’m everywhere I’m so Julia,” or a naughty kid. 5. The first number that neither prime nor semiprime. 7. “It’s so confusing sometimes to be _ ____.” “I’m just _ ____.” 8. Goshen’s student section is often “_____” up. 9. “___” in the headlights.   DOWN 1. Popular sitcom, “The ____,” or a dating alternative to men. 2. Inflexible 3. Able to move quickly and easily. 4. Number of goals scored by Tebello Ntene against Concordia. 6. Reddit lingo for a summary. Week 1-Solution

By Phil Witmer-Rich • September 4, 2024 • Funnies

I made a version of this crossword for a scholarship a couple of years ago, and revised it for publication here as my final crossword in The Record. The theme seems fitting here. Thank you all for a wonderful four years of crosswords; it’s been such a joy to make them. ACROSS 1.Going-out-of-business event 5. Sch. in Amherst 10. Popular game with virtual people, with “The” 14. Out of the office 15. 0° 16. Letter-shaped fastener 17. Journalistic opener that’s out of place? 19. ___ Mode, character in “The Incredibles” 20. Accompanying 21. Responding to a wedding invitation, for example...

By Caleb Shenk • April 11, 2024 • Funnies