crossword puzzle
ACROSS
1 wanderer / hobo / itinerant 6 feminine name 11 stunned / astonished
/ surprised 13 lent / borrowed 14 Spanish for ‘sirs’ 16 praise loudly with emphasis on the essence of the gospel 17 ‘in the manner of’ 18 entertainment held
in the daytime 20 edge / brink / backtalk 21 appendage used for support / lower limbs / stumps 23 confronts / veneers /
fronts of something 24 lease / torn / ripped 25 abound / ‘bursts at
the seams’ swarm 27 word of command to a horse / letter ‘G’ / exclamation of surprise; wonder 28 contemptibly dull
person 29 watery mud / slosh 31 islets 32 before 33 school organization for parents and teachers 34 jumbled letters to read ‘cads’ 35 travel / journey / blunder / lose balance 37 jumbled letters to read ‘salt’ 38 levee / hindrance / hold back 41 by oneself / nothing but / merely 43 routes 44 more certain / definite / firmer 46 fortune teller 48 letter ‘S’ 49 accuses / attacks / pays with credit card 51 beer / lager 52 elegant; fashionable / affectedly refined; polite 54 St. Peter is one of the ‘12’ of the followers of Jesus Christ 56 away from home / off the right path / astray 57 blended, sieved and smoothened pulp of fruits and / or vegetables 58 of or from one’s birth 59 rice field
DOWN
1 of, for, or relating to the nose 2 dish of beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan served plain or with filling 3 runs / operates / takes charge or control / gets by 4 pertaining to or containing nitrogen 5 suffix meaning ‘skin’ 6 ‘at the heart of it’ / foundation / pivot 7 secular / non-clerical / prepare / bring forth 8 persons who schemes and uses tricks to get something / saltwater fish that feeds on other fish 9 bring to mind / jog one’s memory / recall 10 adjust / acclimate / habituate 12 unable to hear / oblivious / strongwilled 13 dregs / sediments 15 adult male deer / social gathering for men only 16 the joint between the thigh and the lower part of the human leg 19 frozen water 22 opts / chooses 24 keeps / holds on to physically and / or mentally / absorbs 26 ethical; honest / lesson; meaning 28 designating compounds containing nitrogen 30 foot or footlike structure 31 lodging / inclined / likely 34 jumbled letters to read ‘sainted’ 36 folded or creased, especially a flattened fold in cloth doubled upon itself 37 jumbled letters to read ‘feasts’ 38 two fold / having or composed of two parts 39 arrival 40 combining form to mean ‘large’; ‘great’; powerful 42 shouted / screamed 43 the younger of King Lear’s (2) cruel daughters 44 cast off / small, rough building for shelter 45 jumbled letters to read ‘prep’ 47 made of or full of reeds 49 smallest living beng; germ / dungeon / lock-up 50 liquid food with or without solid particles / (slang) heavy fog 53 Chinese beverage 55 Spanish for ‘Mrs.’