Four-letter words are used to fill the yellow and white squares of the unnumbered crossword puzzle below. Each word occupies three white and one yellow square. Upon completion, the crossed yellow squares will spell out a two-word phrase, each word having seven letters. Ignore the blue blocks.

The clues are:

Across:

• Lena of Chocolat
• Flower part
• Gas company with collectible toy trucks
• "Resistance is futile" Star Trek collective
• Canary's home
• Davenport's state

Down:

• Baseball's Felipe
• Baseball's Ty
• Act the loving grandparent
• Has debts
• Young lady
• Old slang for shapely legs

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From Page-a-Day Calendar 2016: Amazing Mind Benders, by Puzzability (Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein and Robert Leighton), Workman Publishing, NY; puzzle for November 19-20.

CAGE
OLIN
BORG
BULLDOG
   IOWA
   STEM
   HESS

The phrase is ENGLISH BULLDOG

Posted by Steve Herman on 2016-12-12 08:55:54