With this special arts edition, Steamboat Magazine is proud to introduce a new crossword puzzle section, which will be recurring in upcoming editions of the magazine. Tips for solving some of the clues in this Steamboat-themed puzzle are found within the contents of the magazine. Solvers: insert magazine page numbers in six clues. 

For more about Victor Fleming, whose puzzles have appeared in notable publications such as the New York Times, please see Contributors, page 16 of Steamboat Magazine Outdoors Edition 2022, Vol. 44, No. 3.

Across 

1. Hold firmly 

5. ___ B’rith 

9. Insect’s feeler 

13. Word of agreement 

14. Feels poorly 

15. With “slipper,” certain orchid 

16. “Bud Werner” structure where “Mandala on the Yampa” returns (p. __) 

19. Hamilton’s bill 

20. Big party 

21. Late musician Ocasek 

22. José with a dance company (p. __) 

25. Where Gusti Buerger trains horses (p. __) 

27. “Altar”-cation reply 

28. Ajar, say 

30. 9-digit ID 

31. Came across 

32. Slicker, as roads in winter 

34. 24-hr. $ dispensers 

38. With 40-Across, what this puzzle is in 

40. See 38-Across 

43. Alphabetize, e.g. 

44. Banjo sound 

46. Hamm or Farrow 

47. 1-1 score, e.g. 

Down 

1. Body shop? 

2. Mr. ___ (board game similar to Clue) 

3. ___ Not Spock and ___ Spock (memoirs by Leonard Nimoy) 

4. Album unit 

5. Barbara or Conrad of acting 

6. Boiler Room costar Long 

7. “None left,” to a tot 

8. Mosque religion 

9. What Haymaker players try to break 

10. Gives ___ (cares) 

11. Song part 

12. Intimidate, with “out” 

15. Angle irons 

17. A Girl with a Watering Can painter 

18. Dots in la mer 

22. “Things to do” and others 

23. Source of many a spud 

24. Lawn tool 

25. Bank robber’s job 

26. Gray area (abbr.) 

29. Agt.’s take 

33. Show shock, perhaps 

35. Big name in watchmaking 

36. Kelly who played Hetty Kelly and Oona O’Neill in Chaplin 

37. Bumps in the road 

39. Boy or girl leader? 

41. Biden’s grp. 

42. “___ Get Outta Here” (last track on Alice Cooper’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare album) 

45. Unconvincing argument, metaphorically 

48. Suffuse, as with color 

49. Dark color of poems 

52. L.A.’s locale 

53. Casual bridge bid 

54. St. ___ Fire (1985 Brat Pack flick) 

55. Shuttle gasket 

57. Ahead of time 

60. City on the Ganges 

62. Night Shift V.I.P.s 

63. Red Sox Hall-of-Famer Carl, familiarly 

64. Distaff rabbit 

65. Right-angle bend 

66. Siesta, north of the border