CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 a loud sustained outcry 6 to feel a sudden brief darting pain or pang 12 mine entrance 14 from the outside to the inside 16 carat / cent 18 claw 21 in the manner shown, expressed 22 small folding bed / small shelter 23 reparation / (in the RC and Orthodox church) a sacrament including confession of and absolution for sin 25 remote / distant 26 printer's measure 27 sharp or acid taste / pastry 28 snakelike fish 30 Egyptian sun god 31 to become gradually smaller, weaker then cease and disappear 33 a farm tool with a free-swinging stick tied to the end of a long handle used to tresh grain by hand 35 printer's measure 36 pluralizing suffix 38 musical note 40 preposition 41 reveal / make known 42 a tapering, pointed, hanging piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping or falling water 44 Physical Education 45 northeast 46 anent 47 the soul, in ancient Egyptian religion 49 entrance / recording of an item, note in a list, a journal 52 trials / experiments 54 musical note 55 dried up / withered 58 a kind of hard, heavy, dark durable wood native to tropical Africa, Asia used for furniture and decorative woodwork 60 mouth, opening / bone 61 sediment 62 gradually decreased in breadth or thickness toward one end 64 native mineral 65 editor 67 ten-cent coins of Canada and the USA 69 Emergency Room 70 a jot / a very small amount 72 to leave a place / an actor's departure from the stage 75 a flight of steps 76 doorposts

DOWN

2 musical note 3 fuss 4 musical note 5 flesh-eating aquatic mammal related to the weasel, with webbed feet and slightly usually with a grimace as in pain, embarrassment 8 preposition 9 to an indefinite degree or power / to an extreme 10 leave / depart 11 to receive / to take what is offered or given 13 after the manner of 15 esprit de corps 17 condition of the body / pitch; volume / color 19 emmet 20 a unit 21 Indian women's attire 23 average / norm 24 fairy 27 assuages / abates 29 to reduce the intensity or severity of 32 entice / lure 34 book of maps 36 sea eagle 37 French title given a female saint 38 cone-bearing pine tree 39 ‘hole-in-one' / combat pilot 43 skilled or learned in a specific subject 48 stand up for / uphold 50 require 51 up to now / at some future time 52 (Scot) a fox 53 ripped / rent 56 radio detecting and ranging system 57 prefix meaning: on, upon, over, on the outside 58 before 59 harass / attack from all sides 63 large flightless Australian bird 66 snake that crush its prey in its coils / woman's long scarf worn around the neck 68 wire measure 70 ‘Information Technology' 71 musical note 73 letter of the Greek alphabet 74 (chem) the element tellurium