CROSSWORD JUNIOR HIGH

ACROSS

1 Hinged part of the skull

4 Chem or bio ( Abbr.)

7 Stone in some

Chinese art

11 Bug that flies into

lights

12 ___ Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

13 Skin care company whose name sounds like an exclamation

14 ___ mater

15 Line on a graph

16 Stories passed

down by ancestors

17 Sketch show since

’ 75 18 Inc. alternative

20 “Business in the front, party in the back” hairstyle

22 Many moons ___

23 “Yikes!”

24 Ruse

25 “Wow, that’s rough”

26 Mix

28 Filipino omelets

32 Prefix for “lingual”

34 Pirates’ domains

36 Women’s History

Month

37 Come up

39 Distressed jeans

have many

41 Pleasant

42 Info- gathering

mission

43 Capital near a fjord

44 Key below Shift

45 Senses

46 Drop of sweat

47 Get better

48 German

automaker

50 Story that might be

“tall”

52 Future full- time

employee, perhaps

54 Colorful part of an

eye

57 Available 58 Thank you, in Swahili

62 Sticky tree stuff

64 Automated social

media accounts

65 “We’re all set

without that”

66 ___ Grande

67 Social connections

68 Hardly a mystery

69 Opposite of remove

DOWN

1 Food central to a

“war” between Ghana and Nigeria

2 Device in a convenience store

3 Sea creatures that “sing”

4 Boston Red ___

5 Type of ape

6 Diss

7 Fruit- flavored hard candy

8 Boba tea add- in

9 Projectile thrown in a pub

10 Hole in a needle

11 Plant that bears tropical fruit

12 Winner of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year award

17 ___ Paolo, Brazil

19 “___ do it!”

21 Weaving machine

27 Elevate

29 Unoriginal

30 Ghana’s capital

31 Hermit crab’s protection

33 Keeps apart from others

35 Sound of a wet impact

37 Sound after a “Speak!” command

38 Happen afterward

40 Beverage in a float

49 Took a gulp, say

51 Didn’t tell the truth

52 De- wrinkle

53 They hang from basketball rims

55 Environmental

activist Hirsi

56 Uttered

57 Govt. intelligence

agency

59 “It’s ___ from me”

60 Never- been- used

61 Number of pins knocked down in a strike

63 Pea holder

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