LA Times Crossword

November 17, 2024

Ricky J Sirois

 

The answers to the clues below will have something in common that is hinted at by the answer to the last clue. Can you figure out what it is?

 

1. Traditional Christmas building project for children

 

2. Area just before the back fence on a baseball field

 

3. Highly suspenseful and tense

 

4. Seven Dwarfs' song

 

5. Where Fernando Valenzuela stood

 

6. Legendary Venice, Italy sight

 

7. Phrase spoken at the beginning of the Olympics

 

Answer to Clue 7:

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

 

Answers to Clues 1-6:

 

1. GINGERBREAD HOUSE

2. WARNING TRACK

3. HEART-STOPPING

4. WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK

5. PITCHER'S MOUND

6. BRIDGE OF SIGHS 

 

Each clue answer begins with the name of a card game:

1. GINgerbread house

2. WARning track

3. HEART-Stopping

4. WHISTle While You Work

5. PITcher's mound

6. BRIDGE of Sighs