Ihave clued this crossword puzzle to be fully accessible to high schoolers. There are also many clues that elementary school students can figure out, so younger people should be able to feel fully involved in a joint solution effort.
Across
1 Baby’s first word, perhaps
5 One guarding the net
11 Tree fluid
14 Provide with the necessary tools
16 Beginnings (as of illnesses)
17 ___-de-sac (place for a house at the end of a street)
18 Quaker from Nantucket who said, “Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.” (2 words)
20 One day ___ time (2 words)
21 French Polynesian island that was the setting for many Gauguin paintings
22 Eat an evening meal
23 Piece of clothing to protect clothing
25 What Quakers allow the Spirit to do
27 Put your nose into the crook of one arm and raise your other arm
29 Philadelphia-based organization that, along with its British counterpart, accepted the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Quakers (Abbr.)
30 Like grass on many a morning
33 Short Line and the Reading, for example (Abbr.)
35 LA football team
37 Something to say after sticking out your tongue
38 Quaker from West Chester, Pa., who said, “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” (2 words)
43 Twelve ___ of Israel (descendants of the sons—but not the daughter—of Jacob and Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah)
45 Word that goes in both blanks of “let your ___ be ___” (Matthew 5:37, NKJV)
46 Reduce, ___, recycle
47 Take down the sail, remove the rudder, etc.
48 Result that is neither a win nor a loss
49 Home fit for a queen
50 Quaker of Swarthmoor Hall who said, “God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.” (2 words)
53 Very small amount
54 What Colin Kapernick took, in protest
55 Watery word before lion or horse
56 Makes less bright
57 Hawaiian island once known as IhikapalaumaewaÂ
60 Numbers on a basketball scoreboard (Abbr.)
62 Lovegood of Ravenclaw
64 Colorful candy-covered chocolate bit (3 “words”)
66 ___ the books (study)
68 Amount of medicine to take and how often to take it
72 Scanner that creates pictures of a patient’s organs and tissues
73 Quaker of Earlham Hall who wrote to a king, “When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.” (2 words)
76 Scooby-___
77 ___ Falls, N.Y. (site of an 1848 convention that 18-Across helped to organize)
78 Like a haunted house
79 Where the Samaritan took the injured stranger, and paid for his stayÂ
80 Encourages to do something foolish (2 words)
81 Goes bad
Down
1 “Seeing those adorable puppies makes my heart ___.”
2 Light greenish-blue
3 ___ Ado About Nothing
4 Lightly and gracefully
5 “There, but for the grace of God, ___.” (2 words)
6 Iroquois word for quill, which was the name the Lenape used for William Penn and is a Quaker camp in Ottsville, Pa.
7 Clear ___ (not at all clear, 2 words)
8 Spotted ones
9 Cousin of the Addams Family
10 “¿Cómo ___ usted?”
11 Winter neckwear
12 Cars
13 Third option in case the first two don’t work out (2 words)
15 Folk singer Seeger who wrote “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
19 Princess toppers
24 Goes by
26 Hang out on the clothesline
28 Chin-up apparatus
30 Bit of information which might be recorded in a tableÂ
31 ___ living (make money, 2 words)
32 Sound made by “The Marvelous Toy” when it stood still (2 words)
34 Put something into words
36 Big work of art painted on a wall
38 Started
39 Coral formations
40 ___ frutti
41 Religion with Five Pillars
42 Must-haves
44 Kindergartner, to a toddler (2 words)
48 Cause of drooling and swollen gums for a baby
49 Impressionist Monet
51 Abraham Lincoln’s political party (Abbr.)
52 Snakelike fish
56 One of Santa’s reindeer
57 3501, in ancient Rome
58 Moses’s brother, who was, importantly, a good speaker
59 A pair or group that have joined together as one
61 Small, medium, and large
63 Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, or ti
65 Italian for month and an anagram of “seem”
67 Mexican snack with a hard or soft shell
69 Popular hairstyle in the 1960s
70 Stuff to wash out of leafy greens from the garden
71 Keep your ___ peeled
74 Something to stand on
75 Prohibit
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