Driver's Lounge
94 TrucKers News March 2009 Drivers' louNge Puzzles & More ACROSS 1 Rainy month 4 Mechanical services 9 Not at sea (2 wds.) 14 San Antonio trucking company 15 Hayes who plays Chef on 16 Terra _____ (type of clay) 17 Klutz 18 Small, bright fish 19 Dump or pickup 20 Big-rig operator 22 Truck or boat records 24 Women's fashion magazine 25 Regretted 27 Oil cartel, for short 31 Guinea money 32 High strung 33 Type of partnership 34 Indian Jones holy find 36 Utopian 38 Last stop on a snowy mountain pass (3 wds.) 41 Author Fitzgerald's middle name 43 Like a new bill 44 _____ radio 45 Inquired 47 The basics 51 Returning tides 53 Potato chip favorite 54 Hard to find 55 Panang or Kung Pao 57 Elude the highway patrol 59 Sneeze sound 62 Money borrowed to buy a new truck 65 Tell a tall tale 66 Leaks slowly 67 1/16 of a pound 68 Computer key 69 Unit of truck engine power 70 _____ of passage 71 Affirmative DOWN 1 Dwellings 2 Like your teeth, hopefully 3 Get more gas 4 Diet word 5 Computer operator 6 Cave dweller 7 Corn serving 8 Weigh station devices 9 Playing a part (abbr.) 10 Mid-section 11 Propane unit 12 Aircraft control, briefly 13 Talk 21 You coulda had one! (hyph.) 23 Poem of praise 25 Stable gear 26 Like a driver who shouldn't stop in Las Vegas 28 Guilty or not guilty 29 Delivery statistic 30 Truck driver's need 32 Half an island drink 35 Tattle tale 36 Government money managers 37 Leave on a delivery 38 Tend to one's hair 39 Obama, for short 40 First _____ kit 41 How to refer to a truck or boat 42 Where the driver sits 45 Chicken _____ king 46 Popeye or Sinbad 48 Brew master's need 49 Vacation at sea 50 Northeast American Indian people 52 Red street signs 56 Fireman's tool 57 Fairy tale opener 58 Functions 59 BBQ leftover 60 Corporate big wig 61 Not him 63 Yes, Pierre 64 Picnic pest CROSSWORD solution on page 90