CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Cincinnati baseball team

5 An expression 9 Bundle of yarn 14 Continent

15 Zero

16 Damply

17 Red deer 18 Education (abbr.) 19 Electric spark 20 Punitive 22 Manganese 23 West by north 24 Congressional vote 25 Dickens’ Tiny __ 27 British thanks 28 Talk back 32 Central daylight time 33 Halloween mo. 35 Accountant 36 Rice wine 39 Welkin

42 Big Apple 44 Utah (abbr.) 45 Cebu town (southern part) 47 Shekel 49 Designer Hilfiger 51 Roman six 52 Ouch! 53 Modest 55 Drug doer 56 Snakelike fish 58 Basketball association 61 April (abbr.) 63 Invitation abbreviation 65 Former spouse 66 Curative mineral spring 67 Clever 70 Bullfight cheer 72 Tennessee (abbr.) 73 Star Trek Dr. 76 Lager 77 Southwest 79 Mined metals 80 Wireless

82 Eat quickly 84 Business note 85 Malicious burning 86 Football league 87 Association (abbr.)

DOWN

1 Harsh

2 ___ Lauder 3 Goddess 4 Adventure story 5 Picnic visitor 6 Scale note after sol 7 City in Yemen 8 Blue

9 Wash with a mop 10 Adjusts space between characters 11 And so forth 12 Illinois (abbr.)

13 Big Apple (abbr.) 21 Limited (abbr.) 22 Millimeter 23 Football conference 26 Possessive pronoun 27 Toward

29 Air conditioner, for short

30 Froth

31 Half man, half goat 32 See ya! 34 Trinitrotoluene 36 Redeemer

37 The Ram 38 Kilogram 40 Kentucky (abbr.) 41 Okay 43 Possessive form of ‘you’ 46 Possess

48 New Hampshire (abbr.) 50 Mississippi (abbr.) 54 Talk incessantly 57 Roman 55

59 Honey maker 60 Hatchet

62 Short for Pamela 64 Crippling disease

66 Tin (abbr.)

67 Land

68 Rhyming verses 69 Boxer

71 ___ Kilat

72 Duos 74 Unconsciousness 75 Time period 76 Advertisements 77 Southwestern University 78 Football league 81 Arkansas

83 Low frequency (abbr.)