CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 comfort / consolation 7 worldwide 13 lightweight silk dress fabric 14 celebrate / be extravagantly festive 16 make believe / playact 18 a big imposing building 20 scatter 21 a period in history 23 any number from 0-9 / a finger, thumb or toe 24 a big name in the fashion world 25 elevate / bring up; nurture 27 adjective, adverb, conjunction or demonstrative pronoun 28 water 29 one part in every hundred 31 definite article 32 state clearly and positively 34 jumbled letters to read ‘listen’ 36 female horse 37 heap / stack 38 sixtieth (60th) part of an hour / tiny 42 feels / the six human faculties 46 fuss 47 jumbled letters to read ‘streams’ 50 long bench in church 51 inert gas used in lights and in illuminated advertisements 53 implements / devices 54 weary; fatigue / inflatable rubber covering that fits around a wheel rim 55 the part of the celestial sphere directly below an observer and opposite the zenith / abyss 57 route 58 give a false notion of 59 jumbled letters to read ‘appeals’ 61 a very small drop 63 the underside of a projecting roof 64 goblin / familiar spirit of Arabian folklore 65 useful or valuable qualities of a person or community / properties or possessions regarded as having value in meeting debts 66 jumbled letters to read ‘deemed’

DOWN

2 burdensome / causing or requiring trouble 3 a metric unit of capacity 4 again / in a different way 5 swindle / confidence trick 6 make beloved by 7 oil / smear or lubricate 8 guided / steered 9 oval shape 10 appropriate / suitable or fitting 11 descends from a vehicle / dismounts from a horse 12 jumbled letters to read ‘passed’ 15 small sofa with a back and arm and seats more than one person 17 jumbled letters to read ‘stair’ 19 jumbled letters to read ‘chain’ 22 an Asian staple 25 fall or go back / a period of seclusion for prayer and meditation 26 enrolls in the armed forces / volunteers 29 chatter / talk too much 30 thin slabs of concrete or baked clay used in series for covering floor, a roof, pavement 33 a large flightless Australian bird 35 decade 38 a person’s outward bearing, way of speaking, etc. 39 notions 40 pasta 41 run at a moderate pace withshort strides 43 poured out unintentionally / blabbed; tattled 44 frightening / mysterious 45 candy 48 an entangled / quagmire 49 a heavy sled drawn by draft animals 52 jumbled letters to read ‘pains’ 54 lukewarm 56 rant / talk wildly or furiously 58 any piece of hard tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates 60 favorite / tamed animal kept for pleasure or companionship 62 rapid eye movement