PD Games: Crossword Puzzle

Issue 7 Crossword puzzle

MYSTERY WORD
Successfully complete the crossword puzzle to discover the answer to the
seven-letter mystery word. Send your mystery word answer to
walt@progressivedairy.com by May 19th to be eligible for a $25 prize.
Winners will be drawn from correct answers. The winner will be announced
in the June 12th issue of Progressive Dairyman.

ACROSS
1. Dairy farms generally use up a lot of this
5. Unborn calf position
8. Impregnate
9. Stumbling expression
10. Male parent in a pedigree
12. Comparison quantity
14. Some deer
16. Secreting or production of milk
17. Sky direction
18. Stable boy, for example
20. Seating arrangement
22. A.I. need
23. Cooks outside, perhaps
25. Foot part
26. Known as
27. More than warm
29. DIM part
31. Roll call answer
32. Earlier suffix
34. Italian seaport
36. Extra wide shoe fitting
37. RHA part
38. “See ya!” when repeated
40. ___ milk, maternal milk counterpart
42. You, in Paris
44. Coordinated with a basic color
46. Signed
47. Young cow
49. Summon
51. Passports, for example
54. Exist
55. Milk discharger
56. Rescue squad
57. Specialized area on the dairy farm where milking is performed

DOWN
1. Animal’s period of heat
2. Calving ___, the tendency of a bull to sire calves that are born more easily than an average calf
3. Amount of milk that is produced
4. Milk contains this important nutritional ingredient
5. Able to give life
6. School helper
7. Basic organic molecules that combine to form proteins
11. Archipelago member
13. Breeding option
15. Pavarotti’s genre
19. Picnic pest
21. Cows need to drink plenty of this to stay healthy
23. Important unit in breeding
24. A rigid object that is used with an appropriate fulcrum
27. Fertility time
28. Either’s partner
29. Dairy production and herd management program that producers can use to better manage their dairy operation for increased efficiency
30. Tent-like dwelling
31. Santa’s saying, once
32. Mountain
33. Let go
34. Male or female
35. Bismarck locale
39. Enjoyed good food
41. Intel org.
43. Cow’s bag?
45. Tidal motions
46. Large Swedish furniture brand
47. Dairy farm amount
48. In good physical shape
50. Delectable mushroom
53. Vet, for example
54. A 10, first name

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