CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Loft

6 Leave at once 10 Greenwich Mean Time

13 False report 15 Fancy

16 Yes

17 Extension (abbr.) 18 Okay

19 California university 20 Short for Pamela 21 Measure

23 State of being 25 Doc

26 Journey 28 Switzerland city 30 But (Filipino) 32 Put in a mail box 33 Candy brand 34 Enlarge 35 Halloween mo. 36 Berth 37Snakelike fish 38 Catnap

40 Big Apple 41 Platinum (abbr.) 42 Lapu-____ 46 Compass point 48 Truth

49 Dab

50 Stadium

53 Slash

54 DNA component 55 Skirt 56 Marketplace 57 Stripe 58 Tennessee (abbr.) 59 Intelligence score 61 Duke 63 Spanish “one” 65 African country 68 Scale note after sol

69 Degree of expertise in karate 72 Fresh

73 Belief

74 Innate 76 White-tailed sea eagle 77 Rodent 78 Tendon

DOWN

1 Expert

2 IRS demand 3 Explosive 4 Iowa (abbr.) 5 Frog sound 6 Southwestern University 7 Roman statesman 8 American sign language 9 Thailand citizen 10 Con

11 Scarce 12 Cotton plug 14 Dekagram (abbr.) 21 Harden

22 Type of wood 24 Flow over 26 Mexican sandwich 27 Ostentatious display 29 Deer relative 31 Education (abbr.) 32 Modern 33 Ancient German character

34 Us 37 Engrave 39 Doldrums 41 Type of glue 43 City in Yemen 44 Body of water 45 North American Indian 47 Barium (abbr.) 48 Remote 50 Adjust 51 Track participant 52 Movie alien 53 Measuring devices

54 Miss

57 Cereal ingredients 60 Brand of cottontipped swab 62 Boxer Muhammad 64 Possess

66 Lyric poem 67 Grain

69 Put on

70 Be 71 Compass point 75 Two