CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 gorge

5 eyesocket

10 greases

12 region; tract

13 (chem) the element

silver

15 a person with special duties on the diplomatic staff of an ambassador to another country 18 ‘Information Technology’

20 personal courage, especially in battle 22 plural of ‘os’

23 escape adroitly from a

danger, difficulty 25 friend

26 wealthy

27 writing tool 28 southeast

29 bone

30 South America 32 preposition

33 (post meridien) between noon and midnight

34 preposition

36 gives right of way to

other traffic

37 traders’ stands or booths in a market or outdoors

39 ‘for example’ 41 commercial

43 ‘_ _ _ _ and behold’ 45 air-conditioning 47 island

48 (chem) the element

aluminum

49 monkey

51 barbed spearlike missile with a rope attached for killing whales 54 Imelda is to the Philippines as she is to Argentina

55 brightly colored tropical freshwater fish, the aquarium species 56 environmental protection agency

57 a gentleman’s gentleman

58 (chem) the element tin 59 dream

62 anent

63 rim; border; brink 65 by mouth

68 aroma

69 a prank

DOWN

1 company

2 to call attention

3 warns; frightens; disturbs

4 supersonic transit 6 expression of encouragement, approval especially to a team or player

7 propagates

8 ‘that is to say’

9 British ‘thank you’ 11 one’s advancement through life especially in a profession

13 cease

14 any form of play; amusement; recreation; sport; frolic

16 unit of weight

17 low insular bank or reef

of coral

18 notion

19 portable shelters or dwellings of canvas, cloth supported by poles and stretched by cords attached to pegs driven into the ground 21 Chinese measure of

distance

24 not down

29 the end

31 book of maps

33 baked dish of fruits, meat, custard usually with a top and base of pastry

35 used

38 flat, broad, fairly thick, usually square pieces of solid material especially stone

40 a person whose actions, ideas, etc., are controlled by another 42 fine-grained, gray, green or bluish-purple rock easily split into flat small plates for roofing 44 uncovered

46 load or fill to capacity 47 reverse

48 claim

50 extraterrestrial 52 speed up the engine 53 a pole with a blade for

rowing

54 elevated railway 60 snakelike fish

61 atom

63 pluralizing suffix 64 decimeter 66 three-toed sloth 67 ‘Letter of Credit’