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Crossword puzzle answer grid for the spring 2026 Rochester Review magazine's crossword puzzle.
Puzzle by Stella Zawistowski

Across

1. Sunrise over the Genesee River
DAWN

5. Odometer unit
MILE

9. Part of a process
STEP

13. 6.7 million square feet, for the River Campus
AREA

14. Stopwatch, for example
TIMER

15. Prefix with “dynamic”
AERO

16. Kitchen analogy for the glymphatic system, which “scrubs” the brain during sleep
DISHWASHER

18. Hand, in Spanish
MANO

19. Exam that’s optional when applying to URochester
SAT

20. Singer in the Eastman Chorale
ALTO

21. Bit of gossip
RUMOR

22. Norse god of thunder
THOR

23. Set back to active, as a security system
REARM

25. The Raptors’ league: Abbr.
NBA

27. URochester professor Maiken who has made important discoveries about the purpose of sleep
NEDERGAARD

31. Sound made during sleep
SNORE

33. Paid assistant
AIDE

34. Possible answer to “You need Lasik surgery”
I SEE

35. Semesters at URochester, for example
TERMS

36. Pub fixture
TAP

37. Is able to
CAN

38. Think up a new invention, say
IDEATE

40. Game of Thrones patriarch
NED

42. Points of convergence
FOCI

43. “Internal clock” that doesn’t fully settle until around age 25
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

46.___ Peterson (nickname of the contemporary art curator at MAG)
TIM

47. Yes, to Yves
OUI

48. What spiders spin
COBWEBS

52. Popular Christmas tree
FIR

53. Spelling competition
BEE

56. Completely unadorned
BARE

57. Term for an episode of self-awareness during a nighttime vision
LUCID DREAM

60. “Look out! It’s a___ !”
TRAP

61. Peterson who wrote “While You Were Sleeping”
ERIN

62. Absolute minimum
LEAST

63. “Well,___ that special?”
ISN’T

64. Come to a close
END

65. TV awards won five times by Jeff Beal ’85E
EMMYS

Down

1. Fathers
DADS

2. Eastman Opera Theatre song
ARIA

3. Direction from 
Mount Hope Cemetery to the River Campus
WEST

4. Casual denial
NAH

5. Handle roughly
MISTREAT

6. Texter’s “I think…”
IMHO

7. Oscar-winning director Ang
LEE

8. Make a mistake
ERR

9. Warrior of feudal Japan
SAMURAI

10. Rocky the Yellowjacket, to URochester
TEAM MASCOT

11. Composer Dohnányi
ERNO

12. Low-quality
POOR

14. Eagle’s claw
TALON

17. Baby’s cry
WAH

21. Use for an old T-shirt
RAG

22. Surface at Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport
TARMAC

23. Old-school editing tool
RED PEN

24. Poetic “before”
ERE

25. Sci-fi writer Okafor
NNEDI

26. Insect that eats
holes in wood
BORER

28. Subject of the 2021 biopic Spencer
DIANA

29. Get to
REACH

30. Jeans material
DENIM

31. Clic ___ (Bic pen)
STIC

32. What the George Eastman Museum once was
ESTATE

39. Fit to be consumed
EDIBLE

41. Star Wars robot
DROID

42. Abbreviation at the start of a memo
FYI

44. “You’re not kidding”
I’M SURE

45. Obstacle at Fauver Stadium
HURDLE

48. Way to treat sleeplessness: Abbr.
CBT-I

49. Tools used by rowers at Genesee Valley Park
OARS

50. Muffin ingredient
BRAN

51. Showed sorrow,
in a way
WEPT

52. Locate
FIND

53. Light seen in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
BEAM

54. Not hard at all
EASY

55. Some first responders: Abbr.
EMTS

58. The NFL’s Bengals, on scoreboards
CIN

59. Phase of sleep: Abbr.
REM

The original puzzle appears in the spring 2026 print issue of Rochester Review, the magazine of the University of Rochester.