CROSSWORD BY LLB

ACROSS

1 paradise / green

house 6 male performers;

entertainers 12 mend / damn 13 cue / suggest 15 Chinese measure

of distance 17 poem 19 hurt / damage 20 pa’s mate 21 ‘_ _ _ _ and behold’ 22 make dirty 24 indefinite article 25 kind of collar 28 pauses / delays 29 rod / baton 31 mason’s hammer for breaking off rough edges of stone 33 indicates a married woman’s maiden name 34 hard bread roll made of yeast dough cooked in simmering water then baked 35 state of eager anticipation, excitement, interest 37 dried up / withered 38 stolen goods 39 prevaricator 41 trial / essay 43 full grown male

deer 46 cost / expense 48 comedian 50 nose around 52 absorbed 53 mid-eastern dish of rice boiled in a seasoned liquid usually containing meat or fish 55 labor 56 bone 57 akin / kinsfolk 59 musical note 60 expression of won

der, surprise, fear 61 conjunction 62 native mineral 63 steamship 64 violent storm 66 South African plant of the lily family with fleshy and spiny along the edges, the juice of which is used as a bitter laxative 69 truthful / candid 70 seduces / ogles

DOWN

2 commercial 3 Egyptian sun god 4 let go of / steep

decline 5 give large gift 7 converses / talks 8 exhaust / weary 9 preposition 10 right 11 assert / claim 14 taper 16 small bit / atom 18 vivacity / dash 19 unable to speak 20 long thick human

hair 23 claim on another’s property as security for payment of a just debt 26 eggs 27 disregard 29 authorization 30 period of time 32 unconstrained 34 throbs / defeats 36 obtained / pos

sessed / acquired 37 sister 40 weed out / extract 41 hint / gratuity paid 42 rowdy / intense 44 anything sticky, as

glue 45 spattering 47 careless / impul

sive 48 air currents 49 rootcrop source of

Hawaiian food 51 lubricates / greases 53 yearns / aches 54 untamed / fero

cious / brutal 57 hardy cabbage 58 sandwich shop 64 depart / leave 65 indefinite article 67 completes ‘either’ 68 French for ‘and’