Across Clues Answers 1 Soybeans or rice CROP 5 Bit of gossip RUMOR 7 South American flatbread made of ground maize AREPA 8 ___ 8 Ball MAGIC 9 Something a pirate might make you walk PLANK DOWN Clues Answers 1 Sudden muscle tightness CRAMP 2 Like the areas beyond suburbia RURAL 3 Luxury Swiss watch

Across Clues Answers 1 “Jersey Shore” channel MTV 4 “___ Knows” (rhyming ad slogan) LOWES 6 Second-best-selling female musician of all time, behind Taylor Swift MADONNA 8 Whiskey grain RYE 9 Dreaded workday: Abbr. MON 10 Backfiring blunder, in modern lingo SELFOWN 12 Lengthy sheet for a complicated board game, perhaps RULES 13 Subtle “Yes”

Across Clues Answers 1a Political party that competed with Democrats during the 1830s-?50s WHIGS 6a Four Seasons, e.g. HOTEL 7a Dinosaur in the Mario games YOSHI 8a Blizzard or hurricane STORM 9a We all look up to it SKY DOWN Clues Answers 1d “Oh yeah, ___ that?” WHYS 2d Says “who”? HOOTS 3d “No worries”