Beyond the Blackboard

Where teachers become astronauts and authors
Crossword about teachers, education, and learning beyond the classroom. Features famous educators like Christa McAuliffe and Frank McCourt.
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Across

  • 1A
    Teacher McAuliffe who reached for the stars
  • 7A
    ___ Rica (ticos' land)
  • 8A
    Frank who graded papers before winning a Pulitzer
  • 9A
    Supersized, in fast-food speak
  • 11A
    Figures that aren't doing math?
  • 14A
    Potter's skill, perhaps
  • 15A
    One burning the midnight oil?
  • 16A
    What tailors do
  • 17A
    Put up, as a monument

Down

  • 2D
    One breaking through firewalls
  • 3D
    Rodin's forte
  • 4D
    Synagogue scripture
  • 5D
    McAuliffe's prefix?
  • 6D
    Hollywood do-overs
  • 10D
    Rural meeting hall
  • 11D
    Claude of the Harlem Renaissance
  • 12D
    Sommelier's sense
  • 13D
    What the hounds are, to the fox