Front Runners
■ · Por M Forest · Publicado 2022-03-14T11:00:49.061Z
Constructor's Note
There's no trick to the shaded squares - just emphasizing the theme!
Hope you enjoyed learning about these amazing women who had a major impact on the sport of running! This was part of the March 2022 midi contest (broad theme was "women").
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Horizontales
- 1ASmall nail
- 5AMaker of large printers that is an anagram of "choir"
- 10AReady to eat
- 11ALarge joint, slangily
- 12AiPhone downloads
- 13AAthlete Tyus, the first person ever to defend 100m gold at the Olympics (1964, 1968)
- 14AAthlete Brisco, the first person ever to win Olympic gold in both the 200m and 400m in the same year (1984)
- 16ATit ___ tat
- 17AConsumed only uncooked food
- 18APuts on
- 19A"Racer's edge" co.
- 20AHot stuff in a big balloon
- 21AMeme reactions, maybe
- 23AKeg attachment
- 26APen to prevent anaphylaxis
- 27AAthlete Kathrine, the first woman ever to run in the Boston Marathon (1967)
- 28AAthlete Mary, the only person to simultaneously hold every U.S. record from 800m to 10k (1983)
- 30ACarry
- 31ALike any deep fried food
- 32AQuaint lodgings
- 33AThird rock from the sun
- 34ATwo share a pod in a common idiom
Verticales
- 1DCheer for a diva
- 2DClaw rapaciously
- 3DKitchen tool for coring and segmenting
- 4DGobi and Mojave, for two
- 5DComic Martha nicknamed "The Big Mouth" (rhymes with "weigh")
- 6D"How was ___ know?"
- 7DSafe space one might step out of from time to time
- 8DFundamental vegetable in many recipes
- 9DListens to
- 11D"Not sure how helpful this will be, but anyway..." (abbr.)
- 15DGenre for Kendrick Lamar
- 18DBit of nutritional advice
- 20DBoxer Laila
- 21DCliff protrusion
- 22DVerdi work
- 23DOut of whack
- 24DHealth insurance giant based in Connecticut
- 25DType of junket or gym maneuver
- 27DBand jam, informally
- 29DKit ___ bar