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Themed 15x15 Freeform Crossword - Compiled By tim534
Date: 19 Sep 2013
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1. Margaret Sanger popularized this term for contraception and, in 1923, opened the nation’s first legal birth control clinic on West 16th Street. (12)
6. A 1916 epidemic of this disease made surveillance a public affair as a means of communal protection. (5)
8. A movement to improve the purity of this nutritious white liquid organized in the early decades of the 20th Century. (4)
9. Castle Garden in this park on the southern end of Manhattan was designated as landing depot for immigrants in 1885, making it the first official immigration station in the U.S. (11)
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2. The country’s first motor vehicle fatality was recorded in 1899. The victim, Henry H. Bliss, was struck by this kind of vehicle-for-hire. (4)
3. Mary Mallon (1869-1938) is better known for this nickname, which describes the disease she carried. (11)
4. In 2001, Manhattan Borough President C. Virigina Fields funded a safe house in Washington Heights for children and families poisoned by this heavy metal. (4)
5. In 1969, this Puerto Rican nationalist group “liberated” a mobile tuberculosis screening van in order to service areas they saw as having a greater need. (10)
7. This advocacy organization successfully pressured the Metropolitan Transit Organization to convert its diesel-burning buses to cleaner alternatives. (5)