CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 hallowed or honored place because of its history 5 warm / damp / muggy (air or climate) 10 French for ‘friend’ 11 stupid person

13 ‘_ _ _ _ is where the heart is’ 14 ant 16 choose 17 musical note 18 ambience 19 shut-eye 21 Electrical Engineer 22 decrees / passes a bill

24 restyle / adjust

25 not in

26 ceremony

29 donkey

30 dined

31 father or mother 32 vigor

33 join or blend gradually 36 tranquil 43 hearing organ 44 speaks pompously 45 pluralizing suffix 47 pa’s mate

48 quagmire / marshland 49 letter of the Greek

alphabet

51 discharge / release

/ emit

54 suffix forming nouns 55 British for ‘thanks’ 56 alleviate / ease 58 jumbled letters to mean ‘strike or knock down’

60 promising young performer 61 short poem about rustic life

DOWN

1 musical note 2 notion 3 nominal 4 kind of tree 6 expression 7 cattle’s vocal sound 8 momentum / thrust 9 hates 10 pro / expert 12 belief / doctrine 15 ecru 17 foundation or wall made of broken stones thrown together irregularly or loosely

18 anguish

20 ma’s mate

23 cloak

24 meal that early Christians ate together / God’s love for man

27 thing / unit 28 American Indians’

cone-shaped tent 31 one who mechanically repeats the words and acts of others without full understanding 34 aries

35 loose mixture of pebbles and rock fragments mixed with clay (to cover a walk/driveway) 36 member of an Islamic pastoral people of Somalia

37 gradually eaten

away / gnawed at 38 infrequently

39 letter of the Greek

alphabet

40 cozy shelter

41 literary form 42 fortune-tellers 46 printer’s ‘Let it stand’ 50 in the manner of 52 night before a big

event

53 seine

57 Irish

59 floor