CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Fend off 5 Colony insect 8 Soviet Union 12 Water (Spanish) 13 Brag 15 Melody 16 Queen City of the South 17 Goddess 18 Aegis

19 Scarf 21 Metric ton (abbr.) 22 Monkey 23 Sports official 25 Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbr.) 26 Horsepower (abbr.) Pother Rhode Island 29 Affirmation 31 Ball 32 Measure 34 Religious text 37 Questionable 41 Flightless bird 42 Sky 43 Seafood 44 Fades 46 Force up a tree 48 Permission to enter a foreign country

49 Poet Edgar Allen 50 Three 52 Strontium (abbr.) 53 Young Men’s Christian Association 56 Newfoundland (abbr.) 57 Spanish “one” 58 Rooster’s mate 59 Snakelike fish 60 Georgia (abbr.) 62 __ feeling 64 An expression 66 Horse sound 69 Diminish 73 Very large truck 74 Designer Hilfiger 75 Globes 76 Exam 77 Drunkard 78 Leave at once DOWN 1 Football conference 2 Maturity 3 Press 4 Smear 5 Boxer Muhammad 6 Prophet who built the ark 7 Beige 8 Southwestern Indian 9 Sweet stuff 10 Marsh bird 11 Start over 13 Polish city 14 Cotton plug 20 Poem of praise 23 Prodded 24 Florida City 27 Federal Bureau of Investigation 29 You

30 The Ram 33 Chewy stuff 35 Rowing tool

36 Be 38 Friday (abbr.) 39 Moat

40 Pine 45 Curative mineral spring 46 Renter

47 Dory 48 Roman six 51 Note of debt 53 Bread leavening 54 Trouble 55 Mollusks 61 Stretched car 63 Duos

65 Pose 67 Goddess 68 Time zone 70 Curve 71 Basketball association 72 Eastern Time