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Welcome to the inaugural Cross Reference, the JSTOR Daily crossword puzzle! Every month, we’ll share a new entertaining and educational puzzle written by puzzle constructor Matthew Stock. Need a bit of help with one of those clues? Click on the Learn More link on select clues to read the related research on JSTOR. All linked articles are free to read and download!

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The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world
By: Michel Poulain, Anne Herm, and Gianni Pes
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 11, Special issue on Determinants of unusual and differential longevity (2013), pp. 87–108
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
From Buckskin to Gore-Tex
By: RACHEL GROSS
Enterprise & Society, Vol. 19, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2018), pp. 826–835
Cambridge University Press
Tennis Slang
By: Michael J. Mikos, Lewis R. Shea
American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 292-295
Duke University Press
Acrobats, Contortionists, and Cute Children: The Promise and Perversity of U.S. Women's Gymnastics
By: Ann Chisholm
Signs, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter 2002), pp. 415–450
The University of Chicago Press
Hair and the Artifice of Roman Female Adornment
By: Elizabeth Bartman
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 1-25
The University of Chicago Press
Latin-English Hybrids
By: J. D. Sadler
The Classical Journal, Vol. 67, No. 3 (February–March 1972), pp. 258–262
The Johns Hopkins University Press