Crossword Puzzle for Buddhaphiles

Apr 12

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The Shambhala Times is pleased to present the first crossword puzzle for Buddhaphiles, composed by Ravenna Michalsen. Can you name the birthplace of the Buddha, the seed syllable of Amitabha, or a misunderstanding of emptiness? Try your hand at this crossword by printing out the puzzle and clues. Answers to be posted next week.

ACROSS

1. Birthplace of the Buddha
8. “It’s alright”, abbr.
10. Radioactive decay, abbr.
12. ______-Ekiti, Nigeria
13. Take off (one’s hat), Victorian style
15. __-Za Gabor
16. Country code for Romanian domain names
17. To be made aware of, with “I’m_____ you”
18. Kipling poem
19. “To gusto”, musically
21. The first major teaching of the Buddha
24. One who consistently ‘laughs out loud’ (slang)
25. Opposite of open
26. ‘Lotus’, in Sanskrit
30. Opposite of ‘yang’
31. One of the current First Daughters
33. Capital city of Samoa
37. Engaged in a small fight
38. The Hindu elephant deity
40. Professor Snape actor Rickman
41. What you might drink at a diner
43. Ocean
45. Food is usually eaten off of this
46. The underground subjects of Nagarjuna
51. Chemical messengers that travel in and out of the nucleus
54. ‘Chenrezig’ in Sanskrit
58. The lowest point
59. Nova Scotia, abbr.
60. Bridge expert Sharif
61. Much mourned British Princess ___
62. If the son is a Jr., the father is a…
63. Mediterranean sandwich
66. Self-proclamation ending in a noun
67. Father Bundy in 1990’s sitcom
68. Pennington of home renovations
69. “______ of the ten directions and the three times”

DOWN

1. Hard shower sponge
2. Possible answer to an unwelcome question
3. Soccer Star Adrian
4. Rude, disrespectful person
5. North Dakota, abbr.
6. Zeus’s lover changed into a cow
7. Items placed on a shrine, see 32-down
8. A rainbow landing in the Emerald City
9. Capital of Afghanistan
10. Seed syllable of Amitabha (plural)
11. If one’s corset is too tight, make it ______!
14. Young female horse
20. Rent-to-Own, abbr.
22. Common misspelling of ‘Hola”
23. Unpleasant scent from one’s corps, abbr.
26. ‘Hard’ or ‘rock’ in Barcelona
27. Persian goddess of love and charisma
28. ____ von Teese
29. Middletown, CT. has the largest street of its kind
31. ‘Meditation Instructor’, abbr.
32. What is given during mandala practice, see 7-down
33. Persnickety
34. ‘Lotus’ in Tibetan
35. “So, what did you do during retreat?”
36. “Right, right…” in Tibetan
39. Placement
42. The Buddha’s erstwhile cousin / companion
44. Nervous, jumpy
45. Second post-script, abbr.
47. To make use of
48. Bop around, with ‘about’
49. Mipham Rinpoche, in the Tibetan Buddhist world, is definitely this!
50. Repentant
52. Initials of the heroine of Persuasion
53. Possible term for retreat obstacles
55. A misunderstanding of emptiness, with ‘the’ (noun)
56. Nanny figure in Hindi
57. Husband of Sita and subject of the Ramayana
64. Along with ‘G’ the additive color model name
65. ‘Where?’ en Paris