INDIAN CORN
NY Times Crossword
February 22, 1998
Fred Piscop (adapted)

The answer to each clue will contain the name of an American Indian tribe. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Inexpensive lodging for young travelers
2. What you might say after taking out a loan
3. Sounds in a supposedly haunted house
4. Spotty early morning weather, perhaps
5. Response to someone making a big fuss
6. What you might say after taking a test
7. What a homesick Londoner might say
8. Early human group

Answers:

1. Ute hostel
2. Iowa bundle
3. Erie noises
4. Apache fog
5. Sioux me
6. Hopi passed 
7. Otoe be in England
8. Crow-Magnon man