In dat number: Prove your Saints fandom with our black-and-gold crossword
 

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Quick: What's an eight-letter word for "Alvin Kamara's sideline snack of choice"?

If you said “Airheads” -- which is, indeed, correct -- you’re exactly who we were thinking of when we developed our New Orleans Saints-themed crossword puzzle, dreamed up by staff writer, word nerd and devout Saints fan Mike Scott. You’ll find it below (click the image for a printable version, suitable for tailgating), or you can click here.

It's a traditional newspaper-style crossword puzzle -- complete with puns, trivia and a few intentionally tricky clues -- but with a black-and-gold theme, just to help you pass the time before kickoff of the Saints' high-stakes dust-up against the Philadelphia Eagles.

(For the record: Kickoff is scheduled for 3:40 p.m. Sunday on Fox. But if you didn't already know that, maybe this isn't the right puzzle for you.)

And don't worry if you're not a veteran cruciverbalist. ("What is an excessively nerdy, 14-letter word for 'crossword puzzle fan'?") We tried to make it moderately challenging but far from impossible.

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