Crossword Puzzle: September 2010
Across 1. Getaway-car driver’s Ford 4. GMC vehicles 9. Specific ____, 8-Down device reading 10. OPEC-oil description 11. Stereo’s CD-retrieval button 12. Tachometer’s warning mark 13. Precision measuring instruments 18. Automatic-transmission action 20. Wheel-nut description, perhaps 22. "Not Street ____," racing-parts description 23. "If I Had a Million Dollars" car 24. 2010 Mazda RX-8 engine
Crossword Puzzle: August 2010
Across 1. Items once found in tires 4. Auto-racer’s ride, hopefully (4,3) 8. Maintenance type in owner’s manual 9. The United Auto Workers, for example 10. Vehicle velocity 11. Add air to a tire 12. Coolant passages around engine block (5,6) 17. Post-1977 tire-sizing system (1,6) 19. Component in disc-brake system 21. Streets, boulevards, etc.
Crossword Puzzle: May 2010
Across 1. Camshaft protrusions 4. Structure on cop-car front, sometimes (4,3) 8. Windshield post (1,6) 9. See 6-Down clue 10. Coin substitute at tool booth 11. Unwanted car-radio noise 13. Accelerates, in other words (5,2,3,3) 16. Car-appraisal criteria, ____ wear and tear 18. An intersection accident, slangily (1,4) 21. Fiat 500’s name in Pixar’s "Cars"
Crossword Puzzle: April 2010
Across 1. Fix-all material (4,4) 5. Dual-overhead-camshaft code (1,1,1,1) 9. Leaf spring and axle connector (1,4) 10. Yoke-and-spider assemblies, briefly (1,6) 11. Unexpectedly stopped the engine 12. Dynamometer’s torque-display shape 13. Relationships between gears 15. Grooved tire surfaces 18. Chopper output, some say 20. Stopwatch-timed race-track interval (3,4) 23. Gas-pump units 24. Tool for driving
Crossword Puzzle: March 2010
Across 1. Bendix-gear location (7,5) 8. Former Mazda slogan, "_____, be moved" (3,2) 9. Three-point seatbelt predecessor (3,4) 10. Mesh, e.g. gears 11. Pedal to the ____, a.k.a. full throttle 13. Final-cruise car 15. Engine-manifold adjective 18. Driver ____, common accident cause 20. NASCAR drivers 23. Motoring synonym 24. Windshield-wiper component 25. Emission-control system component
Crossword Puzzle: February 2010
Across 1. Certain engine seals 5. Air intake on engine hood 8. New-car-deal factor, frequently 9. Flexible driveshaft components (1,6) 10. Key-activated engine adjunct 11. Brake booster, in other words 12. Wiper- and HVAC-system components 14. Structures in non-unibody cars 17. Retread synonym 19. With 20-Down, windshield crack-repair substance 22. Rust, in other words 23.