CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 small skin blisters 6 prize 11 bless 12 sofa 14 worldly 15 newly graduated MD’s doing hospital apprenticeship as assistant residents 17 ‘friend’ in French 18 indicates a married woman’s maiden name 19 noun-forming suffix to mean quality/ condition 20 attention 21 bargain 23 outcast 24 new hampshire 25 weary 26 rogue 28 in code, a signal of distress 30 skirmish 31 staid 33 stoat 34 musical note 35 preposition 36 madhouse 42 jumbled letters to mean prattle/ chatter 48 Muslim ruler 49 speck or mark 51 jumbled letters to mean lave or wash oneself 52 raced 53 verb 54 right 56 makes mistakes 57 clue 58 ___ Vegas, Nevada (USA) 59 expression 61 cereal plant 62 hermit/recluse 64 porch 66 captivate 67 to surface 68 expended 69 drips

DOWN

1 a barangay in Cebu City 2 Doctor of Laws 3 dash 4 studied hurriedly/ crammed 5 tidies up 6 filipinos 7 prostitute 8 lawyer’s clipped title 9 route 10 goes off the rail/ strays 11 kind 13 meal’s main course 14 disguises 16 harden 22 ___ Peron of Argentina 25 Chinese beverage 27 French for ‘and’ 29 preposition 30 pronoun 32 kind of tree 33 great sorrow 36 sew with long, loose stitches/tack 37 dominion 38 makes depth greater 39 guided 40 arrival 41 money order 43 not left 44 letter ‘T’ 46 excoriate 47 Italian noodle 49 Sahara is one 50 journey 53 a conductor’s stick 55 recurring, unifying subject 58 a green citrus fruit 60 region 63 chart/plat 65 chest/coffer