Cross At Bush Words: A Crosswords Puzzle for Irregular Times
Without a doubt, the policies of George W. Bush are profoundly puzzling. When we sat down one night to try to understand what Bush has done to America, we became so puzzled that the only apt description of Bush's mess we could come up with occurred to us in the form of a puzzle: not a crosswords puzzle, but a Cross At Bush Words Puzzle.
The cross words in this puzzle are taken straight from the highly irregular events of Bush's term in office. They represent a small sample of the great awfulness that has made America eager to vote for anyone but Bush in 2004.
We realize that it's pretty hard to keep track of all the perfidy going around the Bush White House these days, but fear not! Every question that we ask has its answers in the articles written for Irregular Times. Print this puzzle out for your Bush-leaning friends. By the time they're through, they may just change their minds.
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1. warned White House about Niger
4. bore who got more
6. "man on dog" Senator
8. EPA term for putting sewage in
drinking water
14. preceded Paul Bremer in occupation
15. animal detractors compare Bush to
17. agency ordered by Bush
administration to conceal hazards
in New York City
21. gov't agency with underfunded investigators
22. what is it good for?
23. battle scene obscured by curtain
for Powell interviews
24. another gov't agency with underfunded investigators
26. Republican who said America would
have been better off with Strom
Thurmond as President
28. International organization bugged
by the Bush's National Security Agency
29. amount of evidence that Saddam
Hussein was reconstituting his
nuclear program in recent years
30. prisoner of war in the Bush years,
minus rights
34. columnist and co-author of
Bushwhacked
36. Iraqi resource controlled by
Halliburton in no-bid contract
37. one Bush business gone bust
38. ______ Islands, member of Bush's "coalition of the willing"
Down
2. for sending 70 soldiers to Iraq,
won one of 30 "coalition of
the willing" spots
3. Bush lied, people ____
4. one Bush believes wanted him to be
President
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5. legal status of Bush decision to hold citizens without trial
7. jingoistic
9. Bush's hubris leads him between this and a hard place
10. family planning organization
receiving federal funds must place
this on an employee who wants to
talk about abortion
11. who falsely stated the following:
"no one in our circles knew
that there were doubts and
suspicions that this might be a
forgery."
12. appelation Bush gives to $2,000.00-
a-plate donors in his speeches at
exclusive fundraisers
13. the "poodle" of Downing
Street
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16. aspect of Bush critics commonly called into quesion
18. inspector whose ability was called
into question by Bush
administration for not finding the
weapons of mass destruction, and
then ignored after the Bush
administration couldn't find them on their own.
19. bay in Cuba where children are
being indefinitely detained
20. gambling moral guardian of the
right
23. in Bush's world, one of two possible conditions
25. natural resource used in
facilities the Bush Administration
allows to circumvent the Clean Air
Act
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27. Republican Congressman who
referred to the Iraq war as "one of the most misguided
assumptions in the history of
United States strategic
thinking"
30. Hopelessly corrupt energy company
contributing disproportionate
amounts of friendship and campaign
contributions to George W. Bush.
You're right, too many possibilities. What if we say "Kenny Boy?"
31. the sort of doers that make up Al
Qaeda
32. United Nations bulwark for
multilateralism
33. Bush administration operation for
amateur domestic spies
35. government organization reporting
record Bush deficits (abr.)
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Shameless plug: if this Cross at Bush Words crossword puzzle got a rise out of you, you might enjoy The Bush Bathroom Reader, a book of short pieces and puzzles designed for the can from which this puzzle was excerpted. Or, if you've got a friend who likes this sort of thing, send 'em a Cross-at-Bush Words greeting card with a puzzle like this right on the front.
