the presidents & first ladies crossword

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  • 52 challenging crossword puzzles
  • Over 1,500 clues and answers about presidents & first ladies
  • Includes over 150 quotes

“Voting is the first duty of democracy.”—Lyndon B. Johnson

Do you know...

  • The First Lady who regularly inhaled turpentine
  • Which president restored Jefferson Davis’s citizenship
  • The president who enjoyed a career in the circus
  • Which president also served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • The age at which Lincoln built his first log cabin
  • Which "first son" served as assistant to General Sherman
  • The rock star who named Chelsea Clinton
  • How FDR and Churchill are related by blood
  • The name of Teddy Roosevelt’s son killed in WWI
  • The country in which Mary Lincoln spent her last years
  • The magazine in which Patti Davis posed nude
  • Which First Lady was nicknamed "Yum-Yum"
  • Which "first dog" understood French
  • The president who sold auto club memberships before running for office

Test your knowledge! Try this sample puzzle!


ACROSS
8. Biblical you
9. Habit
10. Afresh
11. Jackson introduced this controversial hiring system
12. As it made the transition to a free market, Bush forgave most of this country's debt to the US
13. Done to the A-bomb button
15. What the Marshall Plan rebuilt
17. Martha called George this in public
19. Mrs Coolidge attended this state university
22. Mrs. Piggy's boyfriend, Teddy Roosevelt's son
24. Eleanor was no doubt the most prolific, Hillary is close behind
26. Nobel-winning dog trainer
28. This future president won a case desegretating NYC public transportation in 1855
30. Leslie Lynch King's married last name
31. Dukakis' Willie
32. Clinton allergy

 DOWN
1. Mrs Cleveland introduced Saturday receptions so these working "girls" could attend
2. Fillmore signed this slave bill, despite his wife's protests
3. Before he was president, Buchanan negotiated the first US trade treaty with this country
4. All of Tyler's, save Daniel Webster, resigned in 1841
5. Reagan inauguration to some (2)
6. This President's daughter married Jefferson Davis
7. State requiring the fewest petition signatures to put a 3rd party candidate on the ballot (abbr)
14. Lucretia Garfield's nickname
16. What some say Clinton can't keep on
18. Spirit of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency
20. Laws organized by Madison court appointee Joseph Storey
21. This Maine college was Pierce's alma mater
23. "Hail to the Chief's" based on an old Celtic one
25. Pipeline approved by Nixon Inerior Secretary Rogers CB Morton
27. THE bomb
29. Cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine