D.C.’s Creative Playground Crossword: August 2023

From adventures in the DMV and beyond to the style, flair and celebration of D.C. Pride, try your hand at all things camp. 

This month’s theme is the double entendre of our dreams: all things camp. Make your way through this crossword that interprets our theme in many ways, from adventures in the DMV and beyond to the style, flair and celebration of D.C. Pride. Let’s get this show on the road. See the answer key.

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ACROSS

1 Touring of the premises and facilities for new teachers and students

7 Suitable

8 Had a snack

9 Indoor plant homes

10 Cultivate, as plants

12 Making them is fun, and they are useful for birthdays

15 Fishing lure

18 Business promotion

19 Email address intro

20 Assuming the responsibilities of a fully grown-up and developed individual

21 Award to a kid

24 Company abbreviation

25 Raise

26 Balance between one’s work activities and leisure, relating to family, friends and hobbies, etc.

28 “Cinderella Man” director, Howard

29 Reading materials

30 Small tale

32 Prefix meaning environment

33 Wedding response, two words

34 People who start new businesses and/or run their own businesses

DOWN

1 Eye related

2 Road with a number, abbr.

3 Journeys with a purpose organized for kids

4 Student getting one-on-one help

5 Teacher’s assistant, abbr.

6 Rowing equipment

7 Airline abbreviation

10 Gossip

11 Paints in a certain style

13 Graduate

14 Fall slightly

16 Middle East nation

17 Having high worth

22 Do up a shoelace

23 Award to commend a student

26 Chinese frying pan

27 Beverage made from fermented milk

28 Origin

31 Suffix with chlor-

32 College website ending

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