Interactive Crossword Puzzle - Feb.  2006

Seeing Red

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Across

1. The red dye, carmine, found in lipstick, colas, etc; is made by drying and crushing these.
2. Clara Barton founded this society to aid Americans during times of disaster and national calamity.
4. In Chinese symbolism, red is the color of _____.
5. If found in the act of committing a crime, it is said you are caught ______.
6. What is a red mullet?
7. A name given to any fast train, bus or truck running fast and given priority.
8. This term for stock characters, has origins back to Star Trek.
10. "Seeing red" usually means you are _____.
16. When men behave in stereotypically male ways, it is said he is red _______.
17. An artillery soldier in the army.
19. An overnight flight named for the look of the sleepless passengers.
20. When someone is withholding money, they say "I'm not giving you one red _____".
21. What is a red admiral?
22. Snoopy's nemesis was this "ace of aces" German pilot.
23. There are _______ red stripes on the US flag.
24. Red blood cells carry this to the tissues.

Down

1. The Red Army was the ______ army of the Russian revolution.
3. A term used to describe a suspicious feeling of something.
9. The area closest to the defender's goal line in football.
11. I need to cut through this 'complicated bureaucratic routine'.
12. A very special day is sometimes called a _____ _____ day.
13. In the game of bridge, red means _____.
14. The Great Red Spot can be found here.
15. Another term for a diversion from the truth is called a red ______.
17. In "A Christmas Story" Ralphie Parker desperately wanted this gun for Christmas.
18. When a business is "in the red", it is in _____.
20. This one time Red Sox pitcher was the only pitcher in the first 100 years of baseball to win 500 games.

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