How'd you do? Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle in the Autumn 2026 issue of Arches!
ACROSS
1 Impulsive desire
5 Said “guilty” or “not guilty”
9 U.S. President who spoke at Puget Sound’s 1963 convocation, for short
12 Use an oven
13 Wrapped garment a bride might wear
15 Purple yam
16 They were planted on Puget Sound’s campus in 1940 by the Japanese Students’ Club
19 Trent Reznor’s band, for short
20 Bike security device
21 Certain gender identity
23 Guiding motto of Puget Sound
27 Planet demoted in 2006
29 Not noticing anything
31 Unit of illumination
32 Kingdom
35 Fly high
36 Exist
37 The ___ (student newspaper since 1910)
39 Network where Rachel Martin ‘96, Hon.’14 hosted Morning Edition
40 Homer Simpson’s neighbor
41 Revolutionary Guevara
42 Garment worn in ancient Rome
45 Iconic Pierce County fair slogan created by Dennis Hinton ‘66
50 “Slow Hands” singer Niall
51 Bunk-bed option
53 Twistable cookie
55 Amount of medication
58 Popular Logger Store purchase
59 National service honor society established on campus in 1925
60 First building on Puget Sound’s current campus
62 See 11-Down
63 Old Peruvian empire
64 Furniture chain with a store in Renton
65 Condition that might be treated with stimulants: Abbr.
66 “This doesn’t ___ right”
67 “Ideas worth spreading” program
DOWN
1 Pugilists’ organization: Abbr.
2 “Shyeah right!”
3 Nickname of the U.S. President who visited Puget Sound in 1956
4 Red wine variety produced in the Columbia Valley
5 Popular Puget Sound major, for short
6 Carb-y Hanukkah treat
7 Screw up
8 Cube at a casino
9 Railway crossing
10 Department of Justice arm: Abbr.
11 With 62-Across, author of the Pacific Northwest novel Sometimes a Great Notion
14 Pre-finals rounds
17 Part of a helicopter
18 Herb in stuffing
22 “I’ll have what __ having”
23 Suit rented for a formal dance
24 Dance at a lu`au
25 Feeling between enemies
26 Break sharply
27 Syllabus, for example
28 Enticed
30 Guard dog’s sound
33 The heavens
34 Griddled corncake
38 Mauna ___ (Big Island volcano)
41 Picky and particular
43 Adhesive liquids
44 The Matterhorn, for example
46 “___ be no problem with that”
47 Not finished
48 Quick on the ___
49 Removed the rind from
52 “Chill out!”
53 Opinion piece, for short
54 Recruitment period for a fraternity or sorority
56 A single time
57 Object to avoid stepping on in Benefactors Plaza
59 Reggae predecessor
60 Brand of peanut butter
61 Successful at-bat