Vocabulary Building Blocks: (1 Across) chap NOUN 1. (usu. plural) Leather leggings without a seat, oftening having flared outer flaps, worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs. 2. A crack in a lip caused usually by cold. 3. A boy or man. Synonyms: blighter, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad. 4. A long narrow depression in a surface. Synonyms: crack, cranny, crevice, fissure. VERB Crack due to dehydration, as in "This constant wind chaps my lips." Derived from Middle English: chappen.

Did You Know? (64 Across) Alice Walker is an American poet and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, (1982). The novel was made into a movie in 1985 and adapted into a Broadway musical in 2005. The 1985 motion picture was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg as Celie. Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey also play significant roles in the award winning film.

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