1983
Spring-Cleaning
February 1983


“Spring-Cleaning,” Friend, Feb. 1983, 33

Spring-Cleaning

When Rory Raccoon got ready to do his spring-cleaning, he was amazed at how many things he’d collected during the year. To find out how many things he’d collected, fill in the correct numbers. (Just one digit per square.)

Crossword puzzle

Down

  1. 55 glass and 7 clay marbles

  2. One less than 3 times 8 pieces of yarn

  3. 8 washcloths and 8 towels

  4. 2/5 of 25 acorns

  5. 135 forks, 52 knives, and 168 spoons

  6. 200 more than 176 ripe red raspberries

  7. 11 dozen parts for model airplanes plus a tube of glue

  8. 3 cartons, each with 7 small boxes in them

  9. 30 nickels in each of five piggy banks

  10. 79 fewer than 1,000 broken crayon pieces

  11. 2 pictures of each state in the United Stated and 1 of Washington D.C.

  12. 6 piles of 9 colored streamers

  13. 5 sets of tricycle wheels

Across

  1. 32 1/2 pairs of green socks

  2. 15 striped, 8 polka-dot, and 6 plain ties

  3. 7 buttons and 5 snaps

  4. 4 pairs of tennis shoes, 2 pairs of house slippers, and the old shoe that Mussy Muskrat brought over

  5. 3 dozen handkerchiefs

  6. Enough pennies to equal 3 dimes

  7. 7 T-shirts with designs and 4 plain ones

  8. 7 crickets and 10 each of 7 kinds of beetles

  9. 9 apple cores, 6 orange peels, and 28 broken crackers

  10. Half of 104 peanuts

  11. 31 old and 30 new sweaters

  12. 20 toy frogs and 12 tin crickets

  13. 8 old valentines and 11 bows

  14. 5 Halloween party favors, 2 pirate hats, and 44 ears of corn

  15. 1/4 of 100,000 weed seeds plus 1 thistle

  16. 7 posters and 7 pennants

  17. 4 pillows, 5 blankets, and 6 sheets

Answers:

  • Across—(A) 65, (B) 29, (C) 12, (D) 13, (E) 36, (F) 30, (G) 11, (H) 77, (I) 43, (J) 52, (L) 61, (N) 32, (O) 19, (Q) 51, (S) 25,001, (V) 14, (W) 15. Down—(A) 62, (B) 23, (C) 16, (D) 10, (E) 355, (F) 376, (G) 133, (K) 21, (M) 150, (P) 921, (R) 101, (T) 54, (U) 15.