crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Enact 4 School group 7 Tender loving care 10 Run down house 13 Possessive pro

noun 14 Tie down 16 Not strictly 17 Tulle 18 Vacations 19 River (Spanish) 20 Education (abbr.) 21 System interna

tional (abbr.) 23 Note of debt 24 Greenwich Mean

Time 26 Dickens’ Tiny __ 28 Plod 31 Halloween mo. 33 University of San

Carlos 34 Noah’s boat 37 Foreign 39 Snakelike fish 41 ___ Lauder 43 Oceans 44 Creative work 45 Change position 46 Changed the ra

dio station 48 Automobile 49 Condescend 50 Terminal abbr. 51 Fire remains 53 April (abbr.) 55 Nervous system 56 Explosive 57 Sailor’s yes 59 Pull 61 Manganese 63 Illinois (abbr.) 64 Talk 67 Singer Paul 69 Often poetically 71 Pours forth 73 ‘Plasma’ variant 74 Be 75 Perfect 76 Shekel 77 That man 78 Pigpen

DOWN

1 Sign language 2 Blacken 3 Cab 4 Body of water 5 Day of the wk. 6 Branch of learning 7 Three 8 Lapu-____ 9 Cycles per second 11 Obstruct 12 Kentucky (abbr.) 14 Street (abbr.) 15 Thin 20 And so forth 22 Possessive pro

noun 25 After Sun. 27 Winter hazard 28 Type of glue 29 Native Americans 30 Goddess 32 Drill 33 Extreme 34 Top level 35 Rule over 36 Adjusts space

between characters 38 East southeast 40 Time period 42 Compass point 47 Degree of expertise in

karate 49 Arid 52 Short-term memory 54 Crony 56 Duos 58 Leered 59 Roof covering 60 Asian nation 62 Prophet who built the ark 63 Object 65 Brews 66 Small ground plot 67 Mole 68 New Mexico (abbr.) 70 Friday (abbr.) 71 Wisconsin (abbr.) 72 Slick