How'd you do? Here are the answers to the autumn 2025 issue of Arches!
ACROSS
1 Highly skilled
6 Town ___ Speaks! (Puget Sound theater festival of the 2010s)
11 “My dude!”
14 Academic ___ (feature of a Puget Sound education)
15 “Good Times” actress Esther
16 Serving of meat at a barbecue
17 Gently mock
18 For everyone to hear
19 Puget Sound club that focuses on environmental concerns
20 Broadway revival that won Kenneth Willman ‘82 his third Tony award
22 ___ Your Professor to Lunch (program offered by the Dean of Students)
23 Flying saucers, for short
24 Caught some morays
26 AMC show on which Darby Stanchfield ‘93 played Don Draper’s neighbor, Helen Bishop
29 Brand for PMS symptoms
63 Still in the competition
64 Green and Gold ___ (1968-99, for Puget Sound sports teams)
65 Rich cake
66 Military-school student
67 Unit of currency in Tokyo
68 Commit larceny
DOWN
1 The “A” in MA
2 God, in French
3 “A Visit From the Goon Squad” author Jennifer
4 North American marsupial
5 Rainforest plants with trunks and fronds
6 Some Tacoma Fish Peddler products
7 Turn in a game of Yahtzee
8 “That is awesome!”
9 Sidestepped
10 ___ alder (common Pacific Northwest tree)
11 Challah or ciabatta
12 ___ Tutor (aptly named former Puget Sound Theater Arts professor)
13 Reed instrument heard at Schneebeck Concert Hall
21 Physically ripped
22 Dishy memoir
25 Nostalgic music aesthetic, for short
26 ___ Gras
27 Keep from happening
28 “I need a favor! Please!”
29 Sister of Moses, in the Bible
32 Bygone Ford make, for short
34 Selection at Tacoma’s Parkway Tavern
30 Healthy fat source, for short
31 Send in a payment
33 Envelope parts
37 Note to self
39 Tacoma performance space built in 1918
40 Shift, sheath, or slip
41 “___ and shine!”
43 Starring role in a play
44 Way to add emphasis: Abbr.
45 ABC show on which Darby Stanchfield ‘93 played political fixer Abby Whelan
47 Puget Sound theater arts professor ___ Freeman ‘95
49 Not relevant
50 Make an inquiry
53 Texter’s “how it looks to me”
55 Lifesaving medical pro
57 Seattle Storm lover, perhaps
59 Odometer units
61 Classic 1990 holiday comedy in which Kate Johnson Spector ‘75 plays a police officer
35 School support group: Abbr.
36 Turf material
38 Actress Fisher
39 Overhauled
42 “Frosty the ___”
45 OpenAI CEO Altman
46 Chances at the plate
48 Start-over button
50 Prior to, poetically
51 Noted sleigh driver
52 Get ready to propose or pray
53 Apple desktop
54 Kunis of “Black Swan”
56 Gender-neutral pronoun
58 Often
60 New Year’s ___
62 Mineral-bearing rock