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Section // The Puzzle Desk Daily Crossword · No. 30 Puzzle Desk

The 719 Crossword

Monday, October 5, 2026 · the 719 history edition · Colorado
Pick a square — the clue you’re answering shows here.
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Across

  1. 2The old toll road up past Cascade (7)
  2. 5What Cripple Creek was dug for (4)
  3. 6Sister gold camp to Cripple Creek (6)
  4. 7Artus and Anne; the Springs pottery name (10)
  5. 10The 'City Above the Clouds' town in the 719 (12)
  6. 11___ Shrine of the Sun, above the zoo (10)
  7. 13Broadmoor builder; the hospital's namesake (7)
  8. 14Mineral-springs town at the peak's foot (7)

Down

  1. 1Inventor who ran a lab in the Springs in 1899 (5)
  2. 3The falls at the top of South Cheyenne Canyon (10)
  3. 4General who founded Colorado Springs, 1871 (6)
  4. 8___ of the Gods, the free red-rock park (6)
  5. 9Town on the creek south of the Springs (8)
  6. 12Pueblo's old CF&I trade (5)

Every answer is the 719 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.

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