CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS 1 Suffer
6 Slash
10 Brass 14 Computer characters 15 Shaft
16 After awhile 17 Florida city 18 Element 19 Benign 20 Before, poetically 21 Pester
23 Fitly
24 Bug 25 Subway 27 Southwest by west
30 New England
state (abbr.) 32 Neodymium (abbr.) 35 Tramps 36 Former U.S. president 38 Compass point 40 Illinois (abbr.) 43 Short for hour 44 Football league 46 Designer Hilfiger 48 Oldest street in
the Philippines 50 Vermont (abbr.) 52 Okay
54 Cereal plant 55 Torment 58 Snakelike fish 60 Type of glue 63 Tinge
64 Vapor
67 Elide
68 Women’s magazine 70 Farm 72 Grandfather 73 Ku Klux ___ 74 Potato state 75 National capital 76 See
77 __ Lauder DOWN 1 Satiate 2 Tyrant 3 Vertex 4 Snip 5 Goddess 6 Group of criminals 7 Wood chopper 8 Slant 9 Rooster’s mate 10 Cotton plug 11 Dimension 12 Seed pod 13 Comedian Griffith 22 April (abbr.) 23 Arkansas 24 Duos
26 Ride a horse 27 Lustrous
28 Wild dog
29 Air gun pellet 31 Fashionable 33 Delaware (abbr.) 34 Adjusts space between characters 37 Large computer co.
39 What a doctor gives 41 Candy brand 42 Chump 45 Roman 55 47 Hey!
49 Scale note after sol
51 Body art
53 Lock’s partner 56 Appliance brand 57 Voids
59 Strange
60 Field game 61 Prophet 62 Window part 63 Refuse to believe 64 Annoying insect 65 Prick
66 Footwear 68 Stretch to make do
69 Drink 71 Advertisements