Spoiler alert! Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle, Rural Coops, in the September 2016 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly:
Across
2. association of coops: nreca
5. original name of coops agency: rea
6. coop finance corp.: cfc
8. largest coop, in Texas: pedernales
12. main fuel of coop plants: coal
13. U.S. senator pushed to start coops: norris
14. fourth largest coop, in Florida: withlacoochee
16. in very many coop names: member
20. small Midwest state with eighty coops: iowa
24. most populous state with no coops: massachusetts
26. also in very many coop names: membership
Down
1. state with second most coops serving > 100,000 households: florida
3. third largest coop, in Florida: lee
4. public power agency helped start coops: tva
5. current name of coops agency: rus
6. first coop started in this Mississippi town: corinth
7. second largest coop, in Georgia: jackson
9. first NRECA head: ellis
10. U.S. representative pushed to start coops: rankin
11. first REA head: cooke
15. fifth largest coop, in Georgia: cobb
17. U.S. president started coops: roosevelt
18. coop with generation & transmission: gandt
19. state with most coops serving > 100,000 households: georgia
21. new NRECA head: matheson
22. fed department for coops: agriculture
23. percent of all U.S. households served by coops: thirteen
25. Wiredhand first name: willie
Each month’s issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly has a crossword puzzle. The September 2016 puzzle was called Rural Coops, with the answers above. The upcoming October 2016 puzzle is called Public Power. Last month, the August 2016 puzzle was Power’s History.
Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly
E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com
