CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Madagascar franc (abbr.) 4 Lark 9 ___ Lauder 14 Manta 15 Extreme 16 Fern seed 17 Poisonous snake 18 ‘Plasma’ variant 19 Electrical device 20 You 21 Pops 22 Bowler’s target 24 Writer Bombeck 26 Scotsman 28 Travel guides 32 Obligation 33 Forest plant life 34 Downwind 35 Horse race 37 Lessen 39 Sub 41 Type of gasoline 43 Capital of Japan 44 Point 45 April (abbr.) 46 City in Nebraska 48 Persia 52 Slant 54 Lapu-____ 55 Regal Films mother 56 Object 58 Pressure unit 60 Kilobyte 61 Remember the __ 64 Hardy 67 Scientist’s office 68 Former U.S. president 69 Foreign 70 Peaked 71 Little 72 Light purple flower 73 Dessert

Down

1 Tattered 2 Capital of Lesotho 3 Cheat 4 Insect in a cocoon 5 Evils 6 School group 7 Internal Revenue Service 8 Cotton plug 9 Sports channel 10 Cramp 11 2,000 pounds 12 Bard’s before 13 Snakelike fish 21 Day one is paid 23 Possessive pronoun 25 Metric ton (abbr.) 26 Compass point 27 Sob 29 Actor Alda 30 Short for ‘Peter’ 31 Visit 33 Friday (abbr.) 36 Freudian term 37 Snacked 38 Cebu town 39 North American Indian 40 Vegetable 41 Island 42 Accountant 43 Charges 44 Bug 46 Bullfight cheer 47 Animal 49 Rhode Island

(abbr.) 50 Strong chemical

base 51 Half a byte 53 Singer Paul 57 Award for theater

performance 58 Guilty or not 59 In __ (together) 61 Colony insect 62 Tell a tall tale 63 Cutting tool 65 Boxer Muhammad 66 Zero