Test your park and recreation knowledge and download NRPA's monthly crossword puzzle!
After completing the puzzle, click here to check the answers to the crossword. The winners will be randomly selected and notified May 31, 2019.
Across
1 Type of plastic that is unrecyclable and clogging up the oceans
3 Raised barrier used as a protection from future flooding
6 Encourage and motivate
9 Goal
11 Parks can help transform this often neglected urban area, 2 words
12 ___ and about
14 “___ a small world...”
15 Great Lake
17 One of NRPA’s three strategic pillars
19 Scandinavian airlines abbr.
21 Unusual amounts of surface water due to heavy rains
24 Sundial number
26 Great solution for recycling organic materials
28 Trucker’s radio
31 Digging tool, used to plant a tree
32 Skating venue, 2 words
33 Perched
34 Baby bird’s bed
35 Stately trees
Down
1 Dramatic increases in these are making recycling in its current form impossible to sustain
2 Sport often available in large parks
3 Sound from a dog park
4 Increase
5 Cambridge univ.
7 Safeguards
8 Decompose
10 First word of ‘America’
13 Navy ship intro.
14 Popular
16 Numerical relationship
18 Polite address to a customer
20 State where you can visit Zion National Park abbr.
21 Small drink
22 Keeps
23 Awe at a beautiful sight
25 Effect
26 Instances
27 Large area of water, threatened environmentally due to trash being dumped in it
29 Two-wheelers
30 Incline