crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 supple / flexible 6 wane / become less severe 11 audibly 12 kingly / royal 13 printer’s measure 15 an unhewn piece of a felled tree / record 17 provide with or obtain information 18 depart / leave 20 converged / encountered 22 soft murmuring sound like that of a dove 24 food scraps left from a meal 25 forehead 26 pal 27 run at a moderate pace with short strides 28 the self 30 makes honey from the collected nectar and pollen 32 the night of a big event 33 anent 34 hint / clue 36 right this minute 38 Emergency Room 39 scorch / make black by burning 40 over again 41 street 43 ‘hail!’ 44 writing material / an enclosure 45 preposition 47 atom 49 cushion / an apartment 52 an expert / a single spot on a playing card 53 ornamental small case, i.e. for needles 54 a man’s personal manservant / hotel employee who does personal services for guests 55 shortly / soon 56 obtain / achieve / understood 58 rapid eye movement 60 metric unit of measure 61 pluralizing suffix 62 apron-like cloth or plastic napkin tied under the child’s chin at meals 64 ‘ belongs to him’ 66 New Testament 67 hardy variety of cabbage with wrinkled leaves 69 glue 71 phase / platform / theater 72 wan / pale

DOWN

1 musical note 2 not well 3 instrument / device 4 embrace 5 editor 6 letter ‘R’ 7 panhandle / entreat 8 matured / ripened 9 brown skin coloring from exposure to the sun / method of converting raw hide into leather 10 elevated railway 13 piece of glowing coal in a dying fire 14 join or blend gradually 16 portend 18 thicket / small wood or group of trees 19 aquatic fisheating mammals with strong claws and webbed feet 21 also 22 the young of fox, bear, lion, etc. 23 poem 24 native mineral 29 debonair / urbane 31 sharpens / whets 34 British slang for ‘tea’ 35 before 36 siesta 37 benign skin tumor, especially of the scalp 41 blockade 42 large opentopped bags of cloth or straw 45 fruit of the oak tree 46 principle / doctrine 48 ‘ food for the brain’ 49 standard; norm / equal status or footing 50 toward the sheltered side 51 Hilary Clinton’s (of the USA) political party 52 a collection of anecdotes 57 an opera singer 59 hope / aspire 62 wooden implement with a handle used for hitting balls in games / mouselike nocturnal mammal 63 swamp / wet spongy ground 64 owns / in possession of 65 French title given a female saint 67 steamship 68 (archaic) you 69 ma’s mate 70 printer’s measure