CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Garret

6 Tons

11 Sign language

14 Mars Ravelo character

15 Total (2 wds.)

16 Dessert

17 Chopping

18 Tranquility

19 Bullfight cheer

20 River (Spanish)

21 Flightless bird

23 Gape

25 Arkansas

26 North American

nation

27 Pock

28 Brim

30 Marketplace

33 See ya!

35 Force up a tree

36 French “yes”

38 Thulium (abbr.)

39 Rooster’s mate

40 Decigram (abbr.)

41 Tails

43 What Lipton makes

44 Road (abbr.)

46 Short-term memory

47 Ouch!

48 She

49 Raccoon-like animal

52 Duos

54 Questionable

55 Exhort

56 Air blower

57 Tibeto-Burman language

59 Fort (abbr. )

60 Swiss-like cheese

62 Door opener

63 School group

66 U.S. government worker

68 Unfasten the pins of

70 Regions

72 Freudian term

73 Do penitence

74 Midday meal

75 Degree of expertise in karate

76 Long spear

77 Grate

DOWN

1 6th month (Jewish calendar)

2 Cab

3 Three

4 Hotel

5 Where zoo animals are kept

6 Lapu-____

7 Poem

8 Musical term

9 Ticket

10 Gush out

11 Negros island

12 Fodder

13 Looked

22 McDonald’s “Big __”

24 Adjusts space

between characters

26 Utah (abbr.)

27 Short for Pamela

29 Delaware (abbr.)

30 Modern

31 August (abbr.)

32 Providence locale

34 Possessive pronoun

35 Eye liquid

37Negative (prefix)

39 Him

41 ___ Lauder

42 Decimeter

43 Pair

44 Game official

45 Sober

47Possess

48 High frequency

49 Struck

50 Nicaraguan revolutionary leader

51 Silver (abbr.)

52 Cotton plug

53 South by east

54 Roman two

56 Softdrink brand

58 Cebu mall

61 Plural

62 Joint

63 Pennsylvania (abbr.)

64 Mexican sandwich

65 Pallid 67Wear

69 Business title ending

71 Direct