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Presidential Puzzle, Part 2		Rated: 13+
Interesting trivia about each American president from Grover Cleveland to George W. Bush.
by: Krakenovember	Avg Rating: (21)

How much do you really know about the first 42 men to occupy the highest political office in United States? Have you even heard of some of these guys? The following crossword contains 21 facts: one devoted to each president from Grover Cleveland to George Walker Bush. They range from humorous to bizarre to ironic to little-known to just sort of interesting. However, like the presidents themselves, some of these tidbits are more memorable than others.

My source for this particular puzzle is the following book:

ASIN: 1931686572

Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents
Product Type: Book

Amazon's Price: $ 16.95

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I recommend it to anyone who’s interested in reading entertaining biographies and learning largely obscure facts about the presidents; even the presidents who were pretty obscure themselves. The book has no agenda other than showing that presidents are just as human as anyone else. There is more interesting information about some of these presidents than what I share, but in that case, it didn’t work as well in a crossword puzzle. Speaking of which, you should try to solve the puzzle before looking at the page on Amazon, since some of the answers are listed there.

Below are the names of the second group of 21 presidents in the order they served, although Benjamin Harrison’s presidency was actually sandwiched between Grover Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms. The underlined portions of each name are what you should enter into the puzzle if a name is called for. Not all answers will be names, however, as some clues name a president and seek other information. In either case, don’t use spaces in your answer. For example, enter Theodore Roosevelt as TROOSEVELT.

Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt William Taft Woodrow Wilson

Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower

John Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan

George Herbert Walker Bush Bill Clinton George Walker Bush

Two Harrisons and two Johnsons have served as president, but the first president to bear each of those names can be found in "Presidential Puzzle, Part 1"

[13+] along with the rest of the first 21 chief executives.

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Across:
	2	Air Force One once held up traffic at LAX while he got a $200 haircut.
	3	He and his family once shared an apartment bathroom with a mother-daughter duo of prostitutes.
	5	Ironically, his parents were strict pacifists.
	7	Jimmy Carter is the only president to have reported seeing one of these.
	9	In college, he and two friends broke into the dean's office to see their grades. It was a sign of things to come.
	10	He slept between ten and fourteen hours a day and was not much more active during his waking hours.
	11	This heaviest of presidents weighed 325 pounds. His valet had to tie his shoes, and he often had to be helped out of the White House bathtub until he had a new, much larger one installed.
	13	He once asked the Brazilian president, "Do you have blacks too?"
	14	Benjamin Harrison was the last president to sport this physical feature.
	16	His first book, which was poorly written and poorly researched, still sold well because his father bought 30,000 copies of it.
	17	When first asked to be his predecessor's running mate, this future president said to the messenger, "Tell him to go to hell."
	20	In his younger days, Gerald Ford worked as a model and appeared on the cover of this magazine. What a dreamboat.

Down:
	1	This archliberal was also a white supremacist who loved the movie The Birth of a Nation, which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan.
	2	This president was legal guardian of the little girl he later married. (To answer your question, Woody Allen was never president.)
	4	During Prohibition, he drank whiskey while he played poker. That could explain why he bet and lost priceless White House china.
	6	The last elected post he held before becoming president was class treasurer at Stanford University.
	8	He had two mistresses while president...and his wife likely had a mistress of her own.
	12	This rough and tumble president was blind in his left eye, courtesy of a punch from heavyweight champion boxer John Sullivan.
	15	Under this president, Air Force One take-off and landing times were dictated by an astrologer, often to the second.
	18	It's said that his epileptic wife had no more seizures after his assassination.
	19	He once intentionally urinated on a Secret Serviceman's leg.

		At any point within the puzzle, submit your answers to add any correct words into the crossword puzzle.

		If you'd like to clear your stored answers for this puzzle, click the "Reset" button to the left.

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