CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spank

5 Start to develop 8 Ornament

12 Remove dirt 13 National capital 15 U.S. Department of

Agriculture 16 California university 17 Cebu town (southern

part)

18 Plant trunk 19 Computer makers 21 Aborts 23Vane direction 24Pouch

27 Dessert 29Tennessee (abbr.) 30 Softdrink 33 Degree of

expertise in karate 34 Ancient Indian 36 Large iron pot 38 Caps 42Place

43 Cover

44 Lopsided

45 ___ Kilat

46 Blot

48 Possessive form of

‘you’

49 Picnic visitor 51 Closes with a key 53 Plutonium (abbr.) 55Wooden sheet 57 Representative 58 Time period 60 Queen City of the

South

63 Possessive

pronoun 65 Medicine amount 67Solitudinarian 69 Asian nation 73Singing voice 74 Praise 75Lapu-____ 76Opp. of yeses 77 Large weight unit 78Bode

DOWN

1 Southwestern University 2 Western Athletic Conference 3 American sign language

4 Thailand citizen 5 Lawyer’s test

6 Exhort

7 Goddess

8 Transport

9 ___ Lauder 10City in Yemen 11 Ladies

13 Short for Pamela 14 Sward

20 Constrictor 22Curative mineral

spring

24Not moving 25Orphan __ 26Leg extension 28Set in wood strips 30 Relating to animals 31 Neodymium (abbr.) 32Axile 33 Delaware (abbr.) 35 Corporate top dog 37 Dummy 39 The other half of

Jima 40 Peach or plum 41 Pancake need 46 Road (abbr.) 47North Carolina (abbr.) 50 Big Apple (abbr.) 52Candy bar brand

___kat 54 Type of car 55Type of glue 56 Around 59 Candy brand 61 Antlered animal 62Unmake

63 Internal Revenue

Service

64 Granary 66 Aurora

68 Billion years 70 Cram

71 Copy

72 Abbess