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Sept. 20, 2021

Game On!

How well do you know your alma mater? Celebrate the 90th anniversary of UT with a custom-made crossword, jumble, photo quiz and word search.

Crossword: Brendan Emmet Quigley

Editor’s Note: Congrats to the following winners of this contest who were sent UT swag: Francesca Lombardo ’12 (word search), Mike Toma (crossword) and Steve Rorrer ’83 (jumble). For correct answers to these puzzles, click here .

Photography by Jessica Leigh
Across
1.  Dirt
6.  Blah-blah-blah
9.  Elevator innovator Otis
15. 10Ks, e.g.
16. www.ut.___
17. Millionaire creator?
19. Plant Hall annual lease
21. UT’s state|
22. “Garfield” dog
23. Poetic feet
25. Port city in Yemen
26. Atop Plant Hall (singular)
28. UT’s first president
32. “Cheers” for the other team
34. Gillette safety razors
35. UT president and bookstore hub
39. “The ___” (Virgil work)
41. Dust remover
44. Credit transaction: Abbr.
45. Headgear with kilts
46. “Norma ___”
47. “Give it ___!”
48. Bucs and Bolts parade route
53. Kamoze of reggae
54. Long in the tooth
55. Bronx-born singer/actress, for short
56. “Father of Modern Philosophy” Descartes
57. Scoring figures
58. Get right to it
60. UT’s beloved mascot
62. Bean type
63. Queens tennis stadium honoree
65. UT president 1958-1971
69. One of UT’s dining halls
74. Tot’s boo-boo
75. Slalom contender
77. Blockhead
78. Palm to Palm in Plant Park
82. UT building, renamed this in 1966
84. Carpet store choice
85. Balloon filler
86. Whack, biblically
87. Recipients of gifts
88. Cannes article
89. Corn breads

Down
1.  “I do” sayer
2.  Amazing” magician
3.  Strand, in a way
4.  Euripides drama
5.  “___ Beso” (1962 hit)
6.  Cold dessert
7.  __ Smith Society: UT has a chapter
8.  City’s outskirts, for short
9.  UT’s Mr. JingleBoots is one
10. Online laugh
11. “What was ___ do?”
12. Some violins
13. Evan’s mom in “Dear Evan Hansen”
14. Warwickshire forest
18. 2020 candidate Andrew
20. Rest atop
24. Attention ___
27. 19th U.S. Pres.
29. At the back: Lat.
30. Dickens’s ___ Heep
31. Cargo handler
33. Coal-rich German region
35. Screening device
36. “I can take ___!”
37. Aptly named citrus fruits
38. Come together
40. Pictogram in a text
41. Critic, at times
42. Bond, for one
43. “The Doubtful Guest” author
45. As of yet
49. Uninterrupted
50. Coffee shop option
51. Fibula’s counterpart
52. Bank offering, for short
59. Hill people, for short
60. Bereft of locks
61. Pricing word
62. Simple Simon acquaintance
64. Bad-mouths
65. Capital of Qatar
66. The Louise Loy Hunter ___
67. Video-sharing site
68. “Yeah, right there, chief”
70. Bonehead
71. Actor Delon
72. “The Prince of Tides” star
73. Runs in neutral
76. Tennis Hall-of-Famer Nastase
79. Component of hard rock
80. Pool hall prop
81. Metric wt. measures
83. Cooking meas.

Jumble

Unscramble these words, and then use the letters in the circles to form the answer to the question.
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Illustration: Michael Witte


Photo Quiz

See if you can guess what spots these are on campus. Write your answers on the lines below.
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Photographs: Madison Schorle ’22 and Bob Thompson

Word Search

Search for the following 25 words horizontally, vertically and diagonally – and then circle each.
Tampa Bay Hotel
Sykes
Beach Volleyball
Morsani
Straz
Delo
Rat Rules
Matuszak
Fletcher
Smiley
Ferman
Palm Tree
Martinez
Boathouse
Riseman
Austin
McKay
Jenkins
Cass
Lowth
Dickey
Daly
Falk
Brevard
Barrymore
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