Crossfire

Test your local news knowledge with SFR's 2007 year-end crossword.

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Crossfire Crossword Puzzle Answers

Across

3. Exec. Dir. Steve Buck resigned from here in August

5. One name for the Adam Horowitz outdoor installation that was dismantled for the fourth time this year

8. University blocked from selling off two works of art by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

11. PRC commissioner who claimed his sexual harassment was only "Christian love"

12. Controversial reality show Sheriff Greg Solano had to investigate

13. Animals impeding the Rail Runner project

15. Six drummers took the stage with SFR

contributor Peter Breslin at this experimental music fest

17. Gov't employee pension org. that refuses to divest from Sudan

19. Underground hipster bar that opened in May

21. Inadequate number of snow plows in January

23. Workout actress who starred in Santa Fe's Vagina Monologues

25. Melissa whose jaw dropped when Richardson said being gay was a choice

26. Site of contentious development, Northwest ___

28. Before dropping out of the Senate race, Myr. Chavez hit Rep. Udall for cutting funding for this

29. Richardson appointed him to fill the late Justice Minzer's seat on the NM Supreme Court

32. Presidential candidate supported by Santa Fe's celebrity residents, the Wilsons

34. Eleven New Mexicans were killed here in 2007

35. Kiwanis fought to keep it off television this year

37. New Mexico starred as Arizona in 2007's 3:10 to ___

38. Pearce's main announced opponent in 2008

Down

1. NM was the 49th state to ban it

2. Richardson is usually right behind this candidate in presidential polls

4. Controversial Scientology-inspired prisoner rehabilitation center, Second ___, which received state money this year

6. Santa Fe River: Most ___ in the US

7. Albuquerque newspaper up for sale

9. City Council continues to battle it out over ___-___ rentals

10. Proposed Rail Runner stop in Santa Fe after the DOT headquarters

14. Local investment firm that took hard mortgage crisis hit

16. Substance of New Mexico's new Lynn Pierson Act?

18. This summer, Carter McClelland was the city's No. 1 user of this

20. Eight people were found guilty for clogging up this senator's elevator

22. Locally produced film about a Jesus apparition, Tortilla ___

24. The state let this prison health-care firm's contract expire in 2007 thanks to SFR's 2006 reporting

27. Courthouse scandal figure

28. Architecture in Helsinki was the lead act at the reopening of this local club

30. Controversial stars of New Mexico's latest tourism ad

31. Star Trek character whose ashes were launched into space from NM's Spaceport

32. City councilors postponed a sundown ___ at city parks until 2008

33. Domenici brain disease: Frontotemporal ___ Degeneration

36. City official who lost union no-confidence vote 2-1 in June

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