CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 gorge
5 eyesocket
10 greases
12 region; tract
13 (chem) the element
silver
15 a person with special duties on the diplomatic staff of an ambassador to another country 18 ‘Information Technology’
20 personal courage, especially in battle 22 plural of ‘os’
23 escape adroitly from a
danger, difficulty 25 friend
26 wealthy
27 writing tool 28 southeast
29 bone
30 South America 32 preposition
33 (post meridien) between noon and midnight
34 preposition
36 gives right of way to
other traffic
37 traders’ stands or booths in a market or outdoors
39 ‘for example’ 41 commercial
43 ‘_ _ _ _ and behold’ 45 air-conditioning 47 island
48 (chem) the element
aluminum
49 monkey
51 barbed spearlike missile with a rope attached for killing whales 54 Imelda is to the Philippines as she is to Argentina
55 brightly colored tropical freshwater fish, the aquarium species 56 environmental protection agency
57 a gentleman’s gentleman
58 (chem) the element tin 59 dream
62 anent
63 rim; border; brink 65 by mouth
68 aroma
69 a prank
DOWN
1 company
2 to call attention
3 warns; frightens; disturbs
4 supersonic transit 6 expression of encouragement, approval especially to a team or player
7 propagates
8 ‘that is to say’
9 British ‘thank you’ 11 one’s advancement through life especially in a profession
13 cease
14 any form of play; amusement; recreation; sport; frolic
16 unit of weight
17 low insular bank or reef
of coral
18 notion
19 portable shelters or dwellings of canvas, cloth supported by poles and stretched by cords attached to pegs driven into the ground 21 Chinese measure of
distance
24 not down
29 the end
31 book of maps
33 baked dish of fruits, meat, custard usually with a top and base of pastry
35 used
38 flat, broad, fairly thick, usually square pieces of solid material especially stone
40 a person whose actions, ideas, etc., are controlled by another 42 fine-grained, gray, green or bluish-purple rock easily split into flat small plates for roofing 44 uncovered
46 load or fill to capacity 47 reverse
48 claim
50 extraterrestrial 52 speed up the engine 53 a pole with a blade for
rowing
54 elevated railway 60 snakelike fish
61 atom
63 pluralizing suffix 64 decimeter 66 three-toed sloth 67 ‘Letter of Credit’