CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Water (Spanish) 5 Foster 8 Mud brick 13 Of this kind 14 Possessive pronoun 15 Harshness 16 Annex 17 Slash 19 Girl’s name 20 An expression 22 Canadian prov. 23 Georgia (abbr.) 25 Earns 26 River (Spanish) 28 Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbr.) 29 Southwest 31 Mrs.’s companion 32 Compass point 34 Total 37 Slough 39 Rock 41 Set 42 Type of glue 43 Aye 44 Bird that brings babies 46 Tree 47 Light purple flower 49 Cut of beef 50 Modest 51 Free of 52 Delaware (abbr.) 53 Scale note 54 Basketball association 55 Tiny 57 Queen City of the South 60 New Hampshire (abbr.) 62 __ Joe (TV cartoon) 63 Duos 67 Toothbrush brand 69 Boast 71 Escudo 72 Holy Writ 73 Good grief! 74 Joyful 75 Creature 76 Root vegetable 77 Smirch
DOWN
1 Afloat 2 Sea bird 3 California university I see Italian courtesy title 6 Parent groups 7 Ship initials 8 Spark 9 Goddess 10 Giant 11 Run 12 Long time periods 18 Mercury (abbr.) 21 Jr.’s Dad 24 City in Yemen 27 Propel 29 Rush of seawater 30 Watery 32 One’s place 33 Pear type 34 Distant 35 Mars Ravelo character 36 Dam 37 Curative springs 38 Montana (abbr.) 39 GS 40 ___ Lauder 45 Terbium (abbr.) 48 Iraq’s neighbor 52 Mr. Eisenhower 54 Voids 56 Movie alien 57 Baseball player Ty 58 Canal 59 Baby’s “ball” 61 No. 2 pencil 62 A challenge to fight 64 Welt 65 Capital of Norway 66 Leave at once 68 Stake 70 Fear 74 Computer memory unit