CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS 1 noisy quarrel or fight 6 river flood / deluge 11 pulp of vegetables or
fruits reduced to a smooth, creamy substance 12 gazelle
13 British for ‘thank you’ 15 strip or band of leather or other material worn around the waist to hold clothing up / sing loudly or lustily with a driving rhythm 16 grant another the temporary use of a thing / loan 17 three-toed sloth 19 annoy / irritate 21 a woman’s long garment like a scarf worn around the shoulders / a priest’s strip of silk vestment worn over the shoulders 23 a powerful h allucinogenic drug 24 fuss 25 large wading bird with long legs and long S-shaped neck 26 baked dish of fruit, meat or custard with a top and base of pastry 27 rotates / trundles along 30 uncooked / inexperienced / sore 31 large bear-like mammal native to China and Tibet with the characteristic black and white markings 33 on all sides / in a circle
/ nearly 35 same as handsel, a present for good luck as at a New Year or on the launching of a business 36 require 37 great mass of ice broken off from a glacier and floating in the sea 38 goal or aim / object of verbal attack, criticism, ridicule 42 looked closely and searchingly 46 change / modify 47 edge / border 49 cut through with a knife / part or portion 50 caviar 51 criminal 53 wrote ‘The Raven’ 54 carrier of genetic information 55 worship / idolize 56 kind of tree 57 archaic of ‘you’ 58 expose / nude 60 assert / declare 63 pluralizing suffix 64 cost / value
65 ‘ social outcast’ / person shunned 67 combined device for modulation and demodulation 68 obliterate / rub out
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1 blood pressure 2 massage 3 metric unit of measure 4 evade an obligation 5 missive / epistle 6 sickly yellow or pale brown 7 spruce up or doll up 8 Scottish for ‘own’ 9 spread or scatter newly
cut grass for drying 10 elevated railway 13 coronet 14 zeal 17 with the exception of /
apart from 18 paragon / epitome 20 Serbian folk dance performed by a group
in circle 22 by mouth 23 licensed practical nurses 28 thrust / jab 29 derisive smile or remark 31 peels / lessens 32 heavenly messenger 34 detail / detachment 35 drill sergeant’s shout marking time for marching troops 38 late 39 by oneself 40 jumbled letters to read
‘tear’ 41 kilogram / kilometer 43 mature / prepared 44 French for ‘school’ 45 considers / regards 47 buy back / reclaim 48 esprit de corps 51 mockery / broadly comic dramatic work based on ludicrously improbable events 52 not ever 58 brother 59 environmental protection agency 62 thing / object / matter 64 between noon and midnight 66 anent