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March/April 2024 Issue Crossword Puzzle Answers

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March/April issue Crossword Puzzle AnswersIllustration by Chris Philpot - Car and Driver

From the March/April issue of Car and Driver.

A major goal with the printed Car and Driver is to create an engrossing and immersive experience. In other words, we're here to help you waste time. And what better time waster is there than an automotive crossword puzzle with a C/D slant?

ACROSS

2 A C/D original: the old cars in challenges: BEATERS
4 Top-speed driveway owner: ORCUTT
10 We tried to cook eggs on its doorsill: VIPER
12 Premature ignition: KNOCK
13 Endurance racing series for $500 cars: LEMONS
16 Pearley wrote an epic poem to this Nissan convertible: CROSSCABRIO
17 Backfires buddy: ED
18 The DK in PDK: DOPPELKUPPLUNGSGETRIEBE
20 Test-equipment staple: VBOX
22 Baja comparison casualty: COW
25 C/D editor at Indy: BEDARD
26 Née Datsun: NISSAN
28 Cannonball's daddy: YATES
33 Cadillac that flew on Boeing 747s: ALLANTE
34 Western state with room enough for John Phillips: MONTANA
35 This Sargent's last was O’Rourke’s C/D first: DYNAFLO
36 Italian city, Mercury: MILAN
38 Rollout distance: ONEFOOT
39 Unlikely Ferrari 348ts beater: SYCLONE
40 Diesel: RUDOLF
41 C/D presidential candidate: GURNEY
42 Sports car we took to the Yukon twice: CORVETTE

DOWN

1 The R in RX-7: ROTARY
3 Ford's folly, also Henry's son: EDSEL
5 De Lorean press-junket transport: CONCORDE
6 Brock Yates's Grosse Pointe callout: MYOPIANS
7 Annual award of 10: BEST
8 Cannonball terminus: PORTOFINO
9 Spanish city, Ford: GRANADA
11
Cannonball starting point: REDBALL
14 1980s test-box artifact: FIFTHWHEEL
15 Cannonball inspiration: BAKER
16 C/D editor at Daytona: CEPPOS
19 Continuous improvement: KAIZEN
21 Previous Yankee owner of Jaguar and Land Rover: FORD
23 Old California test site: AVENUEA
24
Lightning Lap home track (abbr.): VIR
25 Reader correspondence: BACKFIRES
27 Father of the rotary engine: WANKEL
29 Jaguar's current owner: TATA
30 What goes between C and D, also Guns N' Roses guitarist: SLASH
31 Spanish city, Cadillac: SEVILLE
32 Aussie for El Camino: UTE
34 Window-sticker senator: MONRONEY
35 Long-awaited Mercury Grand Marquis option: DESADE
37 Former editor-in-chief whose surname sounds like a cheese: CSERE

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