CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Star Trek

Automoton’s 5 Escudo

8 Nifty

12 Notion 13City in Nebraska 15Hit 16Pearls

17 Type of gun 18Pretentious 19Shade

21 Look

23 Dickens’ Tiny __ 24 Hoopla

28 Red pigment 30 Bounce

34 Sum

35 School subject 36 ‘Plasma’ variant 38 Football league 42 Vane direction 43 Thai

44 Court

46 Singer Paul 49 Sugar plant 50 Eastern Standard

Time

52 Piercing with

many holes 54 Grow

58 Imbue

59 Route 60 Christmas

63 Talk incessantly 65 Aegis

67 Unite

69 Band instrument 73 Cozy rooms 74 Large cats 75 Sentence part 76 Border 77Children’s game 78 Group of Indic

languages

DOWN

1 Large

2 Poem of praise 3 Rock group

4 Slash

5 Flightless bird 6 Droops

7 Applaud 8 Basketball

association 9 Planet

10 Bustling

11 Herb 13Bullfight cheer 14Be

20 University of San

Carlos

22 Modern 24 Weaponed 25 Goddess 26 Group of eight 27 Headquarters of

British India 29 Cebu university 31Ohio (abbr.) 32 Horsepower

(abbr.)

33 British thanks 34 Morning hours 37 Philosophic 39 Grave 40 Beautician

Serrano 41Feudal superior 45 Snakelike fish 46 Road (abbr.) 47 Man’s title 48 Neodymium

(abbr.)

49 Centiliter 51Cunning

53 Cell stuff 54 Swedish citizen 55 Engaged in (war,

for example) 56 Looking at 57 Native

Americans 61Ref

62 Writer Bombeck 63 Affirmation 64 Body of water 66 South southeast 68 Choke 70 Constrictor

snake 71 Possessive

pronoun

72 Last