CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 hallowed or honored place because of its history 5 warm / damp / muggy (air or climate) 10 French for ‘friend’ 11 stupid person 13 ‘_ _ _ _ is where the heart is’ 14 ant 16 choose 17 musical note 18 ambience 19 shut-eye 21 Electrical Engineer 22 decrees / passes a bill 24 restyle / adjust 25 not in 26 ceremony 29 donkey 30 dined 31 father or mother 32 vigor 33 join or blend gradually 36 tranquil 43 hearing organ 44 speaks pompously 45 pluralizing suffix 47 pa’s mate 48 quagmire / marshland 49 letter of the Greek alphabet 51 discharge / release / emit 54 suffix forming nouns 55 British for ‘thanks’ 56 alleviate / ease 58 jumbled letters to mean ‘strike or knock down’ 60 promising young performer 61 short poem about rustic life

DOWN

1 musical note 2 notion 3 nominal 4 kind of tree 6 expression 7 cattle’s vocal sound 8 momentum / thrust 9 hates 10 pro / expert 12 belief / doctrine 15 ecru 17 foundation or wall made of broken stones thrown together irregularly or loosely 18 anguish 20 ma’s mate 23 cloak 24 meal that early Christians ate together / God’s love for man 27 thing / unit 28 American Indians’ cone-shaped tent 31 one who mechanically repeats the words and acts of others without full understanding 34 aries 35 loose mixture of pebbles and rock fragments mixed with clay (to cover a walk/driveway) 36 member of an Islamic pastoral people of Somalia 37 gradually eaten away / gnawed at 38 infrequently 39 letter of the Greek alphabet 40 cozy shelter 41 literary form 42 fortune-tellers 46 printer’s ‘Let it stand’ 50 in the manner of 52 night before a big event 53 seine 57 Irish 59 floor