CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Game with pins 5 Chute

10 Coin 14 Dunking cookies 15 Fertile desert area 16 Fresh 17 Window ledge 18 Light purple flower 19 Within 20 Oldest street in the Philippines 22 Fox hole

24 Ship initials 25 Nova Scotia (abbr.)

26 Okay 28 Computer code for characters 30 Loon-like seabird 33 Mil. rank 34 Miss lang

36 Apex

39 Cram 40 Nuisance 42 Central Intelligence Agency 43 Cold

45 Wok

46 Bother 49 Dickens’ Tiny __ 50 Lovers

51 Hey!

52 Plutonium (abbr.) 53 Gossip 55 Unpermissive 57 Tin (abbr.) 58 Compass point 60 Friday (abbr.) 62 Sick

65 Designer Hilfiger 68 Capital of Italy 70 Axile 72 Costa __ 73 Lotion ingredient 74 Tiny black seed 75 Puffed 76 Chinese secret society 77 Prove

78 Was looked at

DOWN

1 Pear type 2 Constellation 3 Pours forth 4 Grandfather 5 Sun’s name 6 Put down 7 Island 8 Goddess 9 Escudo 10 Computerassisted instruction 11 Doldrums 12 Meshes 13 Duos 21 Neither’s partner 23 California university 27 Adjusts space between characters 29 Possessive pronoun 30 Appliance brand 31 Tibeto-Burman

language 32 Nothing inside 34 Ku Klux ___ 35 Cozy rooms 36 Sore

37 See ya! 38 Damage 40 Religious songs 41 Curative mineral spring 44 Dessert 47 Inclined 48 Canal name 50 Scale note 54 Trinitrotoluene 55 Singer Paul 56 Former U.S. president 58 Smirk

59 Host

60 Lodge

61 Candy brand 63 Mouth parts 64 Lapu-____ 66 Globes

67 Show boredom 69 Electroencephalograph (abbr.) 70 Imitate 71 Caustic substance