Complete Clue List
Across
1. Mexican money (pl)
6. Unfair contestant
10. Official name of the contest
12. What Balthazar's weapons are made of?
14. Rock group or US state
17. Definite article
18. Singer Fitzgerald
19. Samoan rugby player: Ole__
20. A contestant, not an ancient manuscript
21. Colour worn by the guides
22. Gold
23. Beg
25. First contestant eliminated
26. Lighter brand: one of Stephen's 'weapons'
30. Put on clothes
32. Roman helmet, possibly worn by Earth's first representative
33. The contestants must do this in order to leave
35. Name given to contest arena
37. Cartoon cat
38. Fabled author
39. You win the contest after everyone does this
40. Nickname of astronaut Virgil Grissom
42. First contestant Stephen meets
43. Contest decree
46. Showy spring flower
48. Hydrocarbon: __ nitrate
49. Fro's mate
50. What 6A does
53. Creatures brought illegally into contest by 6A
54. Wins affection
Down
1. Holiday mailing
2. Pace needed in the contest
3. Mineral rock
4. Our protagonist's guide
5. What the contestants must do to win
6. Contestant saved by Stephen
7. Last Queen of Spain
8. The contestants cannot do this once admitted to the arena
9. Our protagonist: Stephen __
11. Postal abbreviation for Iowa
13. You (archaic)
15. Flying fox
16. Moi
21. Us
23. Ginseng genus
24. Leave
25. Balthazar's weapon of choice
27. Large pelvic bones
28. Pierce
29. Taps
31. Ouch
32. Cerebral ridge
34. Snuggled
35. Site of the contest
36. Stephen's daughter, inadvertently brought into the contest
39. The contest is a fight to the __
40. Pertaining to a vegetable mould
41. Number of contestants
44. Hesitant sound
45. Not quite the oak trees in the story
47. Menagerie
51. Him
52. A brief television interruption