Knitting crossword (by TECHKnitter)

Solvable knitting crossword

What's is this, you ask?  It's the answer-board for a knit-themed crossword!  

For April Fools, 2021, I've constructed you a crossword and knitted the board! (There's a conventional plain-background version, too, below the clues)

TO SOLVE...

• click here for a one-page plain-background printer-friendly grid (this is the grid reproduced below ▼ the clues).  Print selection, work from the clue lists below, then check your answers by clicking here for the on-line completed grid.

        OR

• click here for a four-page printer-ready google-drive PDF featuring plain (no background) grid, clue lists in larger type, + filled-in answer grid.

CLUES

ACROSS 1. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or corn 5.   The first thing you might knit to start an afghan, or a kind of 29-down 10. “___ Fi Fo Fum” 13. Madrid’s other 14. Not a soul, or Chaucer’s lunchtime 15. Sicknesses 16. St. John’s most iconic knitted garment 17. An unusual word for unusual 18. Joseph’s ____ of many colors 19. It’d be a good name for a gleaming harmonica, but it’s actually a knitting machine brand 21. Shallowest of the Great Lakes 22. Rage 23. A knitted shape between pencil and full-circle 24. An attachment for 19-across, or the Ravelry feature which scrolls FO’s 27. Ship’s emergency 30. Country of the Hunger Games, or “_____ et circenses” (bread and circuses, Latin) 31. Handy item for steam blocking 32. -ware or wall, it’s usually brown 34. Regard 35. What the knitter does who puts her work down for the night, or the wheels on the bus 36. Designed for two to play together 40. “Filato” is yarn and “maglieria” is knitting, in this langage of times new Roman 42. “____ Thin Air” (1997 Everest bestseller) 43.  The ball of yarn emoji is a _____-gram 46 A left leaning decrease 47. More slippery 48. Splice yarn ends together 49. Where cowboys often take to the air (inits.) 50. Interest, heart, currency exchange: they all have one 51. They start (or end) just above the heel, and end (or start) at the toe 58. 5-across + 29-down = this “tender” cut of beef 59. A different-looking juvenile 60. Kent State state 61. B&B’s 62. Broadcasting now 63. Laze 64. Two years old and never been shorn 65. Often a form of 51-across, you knit them with a separate toe 66. Drunks

DOWN 1. A woodsy stitch 2.  Queen Victoria probably stored her crochet hook in one 3. Pomegranate seed 4. Amazingly, 4500 pairs were hand-knit for a 2006 NATO conference in Riga 5. If you do this, you might need a CPAP machine 6. What a group of knitters may go on to get to Shetland 7.  Knitting by ____ (autopilot) 8. As to (Latin) 9.  Micturated 10. 2-shilling coin 11.  Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s most famous role 12.  Value highly 15. Lettlopi, plötulopi, bulky lopi…ALL the lopi’s 20. What you do before you frog 23. Gorilla or orangutan 24. “Get ___ of” (destash) 25. “You ___ here”  26. Anonymous Jane 27. A schooner has a suit of them 28. Fragrant iris root, a base for potpourri 29.  See 5-across and 58-across; you’d eat it at a 1-across 32. Anticipation of journey’s end (inits.) 33  QVC competitor 37. Where a Liverpudlian might head after upper sixth 38. Parisian summer 39. Rocky crag or underground network 41. You might Kitchener stitch this closed 43.  What you’d do to make a “backwards” garter stitch fabric 44. “__ _ ___ horse open sleigh” 45. Historians are doing it with their sources 47 “No ___, ands or buts” 49. “My _____, you are all certainly knitworthy!” 51. How much yarn you’d have if 24-down applied to you 52. Granny 53. Krusty ____ (an undersea dive) 54. 57 in times old Roman 55. Say it twice and you’re a train 56. Och aye, knitted hose sets this off 57. Martian days

PLAIN GRID (printer-friendly)

Select above image and print.  If you can't select, go to https://bit.ly/3roNzP6 for a printable version of the grid, or click here for four-page google-drive printable PDF with grid + clues (in larger type) + answers included.

 For more info on the creation of this project + comments re: some of the more obscure clues, go to the project page on Ravelry. That page also hosts alternative links to the board, clues, and answer grid, just in case the links in this post aren't working for you. 

Many thanks to ESA, ESA, EB, MM, CR + Anons, who "test knit:" straighted out numbering, improved clues, offered suggestions, explained the British educational system, and even caught a spelling error in the first version (oops!)

--TK

PS: It became a pillow with a hot pink back!  More info on the pillow-ing process at the Ravelry project page.