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Section // The Puzzle Desk Daily Crossword · No. 3 Puzzle Desk

The 718 Crossword

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Across

  1. 2Neighborhood at the Verrazzano's Brooklyn end (8)
  2. 4The 'The People's Playground' town in the 718 (11)
  3. 6___ Island, the People's Playground (5)
  4. 8The neighborhood that started the whole hipster thing (12)
  5. 9___ Street, downtown's shopping spine (6)
  6. 10Southeast shore neighborhood, named for the old tribe (8)
  7. 11Oldest Dutch farmhouse still standing, ca. 1652 (7)

Down

  1. 1The 'Eastern Parkway' town in the 718 (12)
  2. 2Roebling's 1883 crossing (6)
  3. 3___ Field, where Robinson broke the line (6)
  4. 5The team that left Flatbush for L.A. in '57 (7)
  5. 7Neighborhood of two Chinatowns and big views (10)

Every answer is the 718 history or geography. Wrong letters turn red on Check grid — tap a square twice to switch across/down. New grid at midnight; “deal another” sets a second board off today’s shoe.