Distinctly Montana Magazine

D I S T I N C T LY M O N TA N A M A G A Z I N E • S U M M E R 2 0 2 4 110 M O N TA N A M O N TA N A M U S I N G S M U S I N G S ACROSS 1 Montana city named after the capital of Serbia 10 Look to this crossword puzzle title for this answer 12 Even 13 Montana's Yogo sapphire is one of these 14 Explosive 17 3.14...etc. 18 Holter Lake passage named by Meriwether Lewis 21 Crystalized minerals in mine rock 22 John Bozeman is buried at this cemetary 25 Rocky Mountain flower: Glacier____ 26 Be 27 Montana University (abbrev.) 29 Pine trees and grizzly bears are part of the _______-of Montana 30 A unit of yarn 33 Choose 34 Hang 'em high with this 35 Mano a ______ 36 Prototype testing 38 Freud psychoanalytic theory includes this primitive impulse 39 Like 40 Witch group, usually numbering 13 42 Tick-borne red meat allergy (abbrev.) 43 Happy dog tail 44 Popular waterbottle brand in Montana 46 Unimpressive 47 Breeding stallion 49 You can hear these birds cry from two miles away 54 Assist 55 Cheat deceptively 56 Traditional way of identifying a woman by her "maiden" name 57 Montana's most famous "cowboy "artist" 61 Mend 62 That hurts! 64 Montana's limit is .08% (abbrev) 65 Mine leftovers 67 This city is called home by a U.S. Senator 69 Popular candy store in Philipsburg 72 Golden______ 73 Member of a fraternal order of a specific secret society DOWN 2 Federal government protection agency 3 Short for back muscle 4 Lakota name for the Little Big Horn River 5 Once upon a time, a long time____ 6 Settle down an argument or kerfuffle 7 Responder to a 911 (abbrev) 8 Hardcore punk rock 9 Head lice egg 10 Skirt popular in the '60's 11 Relating to horses 14 "Yellowstone" series favorite bad girl 15 Meditation chant 16 Rodeo fave event 17 Could be apple or blueberry 18 One of three rivers converging at Three Forks 19 Popular Glacier Park hike near Lake McDonald Lodge 20 Alpine, Berry and Pygmy are types of these Montana critters 23 #1 pooch in Montana 24 Major website improvement 27 Capone and his group 28 Informal word for how something is made 30 Fireplace tool or card game 31 Excited dog bark 32 Native American popular ceremony 35 Rutty road connecting Darby, Montana, to Elk City, Idaho________Corridor 37 Greed 41 Chicago subway for short 45 Born in Deer Lodge, one of the Top Ten Coaches in NBA history 46 Mississippi (abbrev.) 47 Billings Rimrocks are this kind of geologic formation 48 Bolo is one 50 Fishing guides use these 51 Neither, ____ 52 African wildebeest or jokingly What's ___ 53 Unscramble this word for a Montana critter 57 First name of Distinctly Montana publisher 58 Zodiac sign 59 Early 20th century labor group, also known as the "wobblies," and active in Montana (abbrev.) 60 River danger for floaters 63 Ready, willing and ____ 64 Smallest unit of computer memory 66 Small outbuilding or elk 68 ____ Dot, Montana was named after a cattle brand 70 "I think, therefore I___" 71 California (abbrev.) CROSSWORD ANSWER KEY IS ON PAGE 112 crossword by BILL MUHLENFELD

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