the southern crossword

Al Dixon | Compiler

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  • 52 challenging crossword puzzles
  • Over 1,500 clues and answers about golf
  • Includes over 150 quotes

“The North isn't just a place, it's just a direction out of the South.”—Roy Blount Jr.

Do you know...

  • The name of New Orleans' famous red-light district
  • Who was put on trial in 1925 for teaching evolution
  • Reese Witherspoon's hometown
  • Who signed the Civil Rights Act into law
  • James Dickey's role in the screen version of Deliverance
  • The birthplace of Hank Williams
  • The best-selling Southern writer of all time
  • Louisiana State University's most famous basketball alum
  • The city home to the soccer finals of the 1996 Olympics
  • How to make succotash
  • How many slaves were required to constitute a plantation
  • The common name for a Scarlet Globe
  • The site of Martin Luther King's assassination
  • How many ounces are in a Bootlegger's pint

Test your knowledge!Try this sample puzzle!


ACROSS
1. A burlap bag initially containing fertilizer and later used for such tasks as cotton picking (2)
5. ___ Riders; confronted segregation at bus terminals
9. Freshwater game fish common in the South
10. Four ___; basketball offensive style developed by UNC coach Dean Smith
11. Purrer
12. Georgia Writer's Project study,"___ and Shadows"
13. African dance spreading to the South from the West Indies
14. Southerners who moved west during the Dust Bowl migration
16. St ___, Florida; oldest city in the US
19. First ethnic Protestants to come South
20. Leftover
22. "___-Herald"; Dallas's newspaper
24. Bluff___, South Carolina; lowcountry town
27. Put ___; annoyed
28. Soul music pioneer Ray ___
30. Spanish dialect influenced by Cajun French, still spoken by some in Louisiana
31. A tad more than a mite
32. Integral aspect of Savannah, Georgia, as planned by James Oglethorpe

DOWN
1. Erskine Caldwell's road
2. Goldberg, who attended the Universtiy of Georgia, is a pro in this sport
3. Ready for battle
4. "Where ___ grows"; a definition of the South
5. What to do before you snap a picture
6. Bend someone's ___; make someone listen to you
7. "We Southerners are a mythological people, created half out of ___ and half out of slander" -Jonathan Daniels
8. Error
13. ___ Jackson; left the University of Illinois for North Carolina AT&T, a black college, because they'd let him play quarterback there
15. Removed by a cotton gin
16. Long time ___
17. Fillin' station product
18. What a good Southerner should do to guests that don't know each other
19. New Traditionalist country musicians such as George Strait, Randy Travis and Garth Brooks, to some (2)
21. Alabama-born Tallulah Bankhead's career
23. Dolphins' city
24. The Atchafalaya ___ Swamp; in south Louisiana
25. Putting to work
26. The useful part of cotton
29. Sculpture by Hank Waddell; "Bumps on a ___"