CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 a woman’s shapely leg 4 prefix meaning: before in time, earlier than, prior to 7 sulks 9 school association of parents and teachers 12 the main artery giving rise to the arterial network through which oxygenated blood is supplied to the body from the heart 14 notions 16 Indian women’s garment 17 the definite article 19 vow 20 rupees 21 substantiate 22 right 23 mouth; opening 25 anger 27 (Archaic) you 29 completes ‘either’ 30 Imelda is to the Philippines as she is to Argentina 32 curative mineral spring 34 new testament 36 stubbornly resolute 37 furnish / equip 38 (chem) the element iron 39 avail of 41 metric unit of measure 42 ‘overdose’ 43 anent 45 veteran 47 exclamation of protest, dislike, disgust 48 Chinese measure of distance 50 aped 51 ‘for example’ 52 feminine name 54 afflict 55 preposition 57 claim 59 a dramatic work set to music for singers and instrumentalists 60 decade 61 crew; personnel 64 dine 65 plural of ‘OS’

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1 leave 2 writers 3 mountain 4 step in dancing, especially in classical ballet 5 howls 6 miscalculates 7 ma’s mate 8 musical note 9 yellowish or brownish green fleshy fruit tapering toward the stalk 10 tattered, worn and shabby 11 the powdery residue left after the burning of any substance 13 musical note 15 to perform 17 three times 18 the night before a big event 23 command 24 (naut) stop 26 a fair or generous person 28 bequeath 29 a stupid person 30 a large Australian flightless bird 31 (Scot) ‘one’ 32 (Spain) ‘Mrs.’ 33 ‘hail’ 35 turn over and spread out grass, hay, straw to dry 40 conference 44 liven up 45 by way of 46 telephone 47 marketplace 49 Persia was its old name 51 a sharp-pointed dueling sword used in fencing 52 supersonic transport 53 preposition 55 not down 56 native 58 pluralizing suffix 59 preposition 62 preposition 63 musical note