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The 719 Crossword

Thursday, October 1, 2026 · the 719 history edition · Colorado
Pick a square — the clue you’re answering shows here.
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Across

  1. 1'America's Mountain' (9)
  2. 4Sister gold camp to Cripple Creek (6)
  3. 7Command inside Cheyenne Mountain (5)
  4. 8What Cripple Creek was dug for (4)
  5. 9The 'City Above the Clouds' town in the 719 (12)
  6. 12The old toll road up past Cascade (7)
  7. 14Down-river town below Buena Vista (6)
  8. 15Pueblo's old CF&I trade (5)
  9. 16___ Creek, the gold camp behind the peak (7)

Down

  1. 2The falls at the top of South Cheyenne Canyon (10)
  2. 3___ Shrine of the Sun, above the zoo (10)
  3. 5Fort ___, the mountain post (6)
  4. 6Artus and Anne; the Springs pottery name (10)
  5. 10Broadmoor builder; the hospital's namesake (7)
  6. 11Steel City on the Arkansas (6)
  7. 13Inventor who ran a lab in the Springs in 1899 (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.

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