CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 stick, mentally or physically / follow the rules exactly 7 facial expressions

that bridge people 13 one who loans 14 mental and / or physical pain / woe / tribulation 15 sausages 16 belonging to Elmer 17 small poisonous

snake 18 ufo 19 you and I 20 decay / corrode 21 color / tint 25 referee 27 mouth / an opening 28 pa’s mate 29 small grain-like

particle 32 cubic meter 33 edition of publication / point in question / emit 35 speech given before a formal gathering / place of residence or business 38 silver 40 company 41 in favor of 43 hearing organ 44 sphere / globe 46 three-toed sloth 48 preposition 50 rod / blockage / es- tablishment serving alcohol 51 censure / harangue 53 opposing / antag

onistic 55 salutations when drinking alcohol / grills or browns with heat 56 progression / sequel / order or succession 57 moving or directing

ahead 58 genuflects

DOWN

1 forever 2 drench / extinguish

with liquid 3 large, upright roughly triangular stringed musical instrument / talk repeatedly and tediously 4 printer’s measures 5 network of plexus, as

of blood vessels 6 at first / originally 7 kind of small duck 8 unit of linear meas

ure 9 doctrine / theory /

system 10 ogle / stare 11 mistake / wrong 12 method / frame of

reference 21 man’s ‘best friend’ 22 one who moves to a foreign place / alien 23 benign skin tumor 24 ironed / pressed 26 remote / distant 30 primary color 31 Chinese measures

of distance 34 beret / brimless hat 36 speed up the en

gine 37 crag / high rocky

hill 39 cave / hollow 40 touch lovingly /

hug 42 brilliant constel

lation 43 painter’s tripod /

stand 45 finely dressed / ex

cellent 46 jumbled letters to

read ‘dart’ 47 jumbled letters to

read ‘side’ 48 assigned chore or

job / undertaking 49 baking chamber 50 French ripened soft

white cheese 52 aspirin 54 before