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Section // The Puzzle Desk Daily Crossword · No. 17 Puzzle Desk

The 719 Crossword

Pick a square — the clue you’re answering shows here.
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Across

  1. 1Fort ___, the mountain post (6)
  2. 5Sister gold camp to Cripple Creek (6)
  3. 7The Springs' old chuckwagon ranch (7)
  4. 8The 'City Above the Clouds' town in the 719 (12)
  5. 10The old toll road up past Cascade (7)
  6. 12Pueblo's old CF&I trade (5)
  7. 13General who founded Colorado Springs, 1871 (6)
  8. 14___ City USA, per the training center (7)

Down

  1. 2The falls at the top of South Cheyenne Canyon (10)
  2. 3What Cripple Creek was dug for (4)
  3. 4___ Shrine of the Sun, above the zoo (10)
  4. 6Artus and Anne; the Springs pottery name (10)
  5. 9Steel City on the Arkansas (6)
  6. 11Command inside Cheyenne Mountain (5)

Every answer is the 719 history or geography. Wrong letters turn red on Check grid — tap a square twice to switch across/down. New grid at midnight; “deal another” sets a second board off today’s shoe.