Dewey Crossword Puzzle #1—Answers
The clues are
repeated below, with the intended DDC notation for each clue given in square
brackets; the relationship between the clue and the notation is also given. Built numbers are explained further below.
ACROSS
1
Superconductivity [621.35; caption]
2 General classification
schemes [025.43; caption: General classification systems]
3 Sami [494.55;
Relative Index: Sami language; built number]
4 Initiation of
business enterprises devoted to literature [806.81; built number]
5 Crossword
puzzles (abridged) [793.73; Including . . . crossword puzzles . . .]
DOWN
1 People with
physical disabilities in technology [604.87; built number]
2 Geography,
history, chronology, persons in the Apocrypha [229.09; built number]
3 Dreams
[154.63; caption]
4 Criminal law
of Venezuela [345.87; built number]
5 Mechanical
wave theory [535.13; caption]
494.55 Sami is built from 494 Uralic languages plus 55 from T6—9455 Sami, following the instructions at 494.
806.81 Initiation of business
enterprises devoted to literature
is built from 8 Literature (i.e.,
800, minus its final placeholder zeros, which disappear when further notation
is added) plus T1—0681
Organization and financial management (“including
. . . initiation of business enterprises”).
604.87 People with physical disabilities
in technology is built
from 604.8 History and description with
respect to kinds of persons, a displaced standard subdivision T1—08 (displaced from 608, as indicated by
the note “Do not use for history and description of technology with respect to
kinds of persons; class in 604.8”), plus 7
from T1—087 Persons
with disabilities and illnesses (“Class here persons with physical
disabilities”), following the instructions at 604.8.
229.09 Geography, history, chronology, persons in the Apocrypha is built from 229 Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, intertestamental works plus 09 Geography, history, chronology, persons from the add table under 221-229 Specific parts of Bible, Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, intertestamental works, as instructed at 229, where the instruction is given that subdivisions can be added for Apocrypha alone.
345.87 Criminal law of Venezuela is built from 345 Criminal law plus T2—87 Venezuela, following the instructions at 345.3–345.9 Specific jurisdictions and areas.

(Racine Public Library), whose committee service will end in December 2006. Jessica (pictured left) joined the committee in January 2001, and will be succeeded as ALA representative by Migell Acosta (County of Los Angeles Public Library), who attended Meeting 126 as a guest. Jessica’s citation from the committee reads in part: Whereas Jessica MacPhail ably served as the official ALA representative to EPC 2001-2006 and reported regularly to the Subject Analysis Committee of the Cataloging and Classification Section of ALCTS; . . . represented the needs of ALA members in the development of Edition 22 (2003) and Abridged Edition 14 (2004) of the Dewey Decimal Classification, and in the publication of ongoing updates in WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey; . . . participated in the EPC planning retreat, “The Future of the Dewey Decimal Classification,” March 15-18, 2004, at OCLC; . . . moved for acceptance the exhibit on 150 Psychology (EPC 116-11) at her very first meeting and also moved for acceptance portions of the exhibit on 150 Psychology (EPC 126-15) at her last face-to-face meeting; . . . enlivened many earnest exhibit discussions with her gentle humor (“just raising the question” for consideration by the committee prior to a vote); . . . brought commitment to committee membership to a new level by participating in a committee teleconference by cell phone from a campground; . . . shared openly her deep affection for notation 782.421660922 when applied to the Rolling Stones, and even skipped a concert in T2—77311 to attend an EPC meeting; . . . contributed the wonderful phrase “Dewey on Dewey” to the training discussion at Meeting 126 as a popular title for training modules, thereby leaving the committee with a flourish, just as she had joined it; Be it resolved that the members of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee, the DDC editors, and staff at the Library of Congress Decimal Classification Division and OCLC express to Jessica MacPhail their deep gratitude and appreciation for her service and commitment to the Committee and the Classification, their regret that she will no longer be one of their number, and their wishes for her continued success and happiness now that she has retired from the Committee.
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