CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Burn with hot liquid

6 Bread

10 City in Yemen 14Light purple flower 15On top

16De __ (anew) 17 Western state 18Bachelor of Music 19Man’s title 20 Illinois (abbr.) 21 Job hunter’s need 23 Americium

(abbr.)

25 Airport abbr. 26 Island territory

of the U.S.A. 28 Mexican peninsula

31 Dirt

34 Big Apple (abbr.) 36 Price sticker 37 Whiz

38 Orb

40 Hearing part 43 Philosopher 44 Baboon 45 Hippopotamus’

nickname

46 __ Francisco 47 Gargle

49 Three

50 North by east 52 Medical practitioner

53 California (abbr.) 54 Swaggering

show of courage 58 Candy brand 61French “yes” 62 Plutonium (abbr.) 63 Cotton plug 67 Hectometer

(abbr.)

69 Arkansas

70 Fort (abbr. )

71 Air (prefix) 72 Double-reed instrument

74 Duo

76 Applaud 77Grass

78 Thailand citizen 79 Rebound

DOWN

1 Speak indistinctly 2 Adduce 3 An expression 4 Cebu City barangay

5 White House locale 6 Short for Pamela 7 Neuter pronoun 8 Designer Hilfiger 9 April (abbr.) 10 Some

11 Last scale note 121997 Madonna

movie 13American baseball

player

18 Lotto

22 Greek “M” 24 Scorch

25 Movie alien 27 Shiny balloon

material

29 Utah (abbr.) 30 Silver (abbr.) 31Travel guides 32 California university

33 College head 35 Valentine’s day

angel

38 City in India

39 Pit ____!

40 Heroic 41Capital of Western

Samoa

42 Churn

48 Francis __ Key 50 Nevada (abbr.) 51Education (abbr.) 54 Chocolate Hills

place

55 Cuban dance 56 Artificial intelligence (abbr.) 57 Ms. Winfrey 59 Scale note after

sol

60 City in Nebraska 64 Look at

65 Brand of sandwich cookie 66 Criterion 68 Rooster’s mate 69 Clever

70 Friday (abbr.) 73 Ouch!

75 Iowa (abbr.) 76 Cubic centimeter