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Suburban Dream

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A few of the words

LEVITTOWN
William Levitt's first mass-produced suburb on Long Island was completed in 1951, housing more than 17,000 families on land that had been farmland just years before.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CRABGRASS
The suburban lawn became a near-obsession in the 1950s — so much so that the first edition of a famous lawn-care manual was devoted almost entirely to defeating crabgrass.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CARPORT
The open-sided carport — cheaper and breezier than a full garage — became a signature feature of the low-slung ranch houses that spread across the Sunbelt through the 1950s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHROME
Chrome was everywhere in the 1950s home: on kitchen appliance handles, dinette chair legs, and of course on the sweeping tail-fin bumpers of the family car parked out front.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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1950s suburban dream — free & large-print. New-laid lawns, the smell of barbecue smoke, and a gleaming station wagon in every driveway.

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After the Second World War, American families moved outward in their millions — out of the cities and into freshly bulldozed subdivisions where the streets smelled of new timber and wet concrete. Developers like William Levitt turned potato fields into instant neighbourhoods almost overnight, offering young families a patch of lawn, a modern kitchen, and a mortgage they could actually afford. It was a world of pastel refrigerators, rotary lawnmowers on Saturday mornings, and the particular pride of a freshly painted picket fence standing white and straight in the summer sun.

How to play

  1. 1
    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
  2. 2
    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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