crossword puzzle
ACROSS 1 emanation / ambience 5 small poisonous snakes 9 talon 10 Chinese beverages 11 behold! 12 at first / originally 13 curve / crescent 16 electrical engineer 18 preposition 19 stump of tree / timber / record 22 emperor / czar / tool for measuring 24 long wooden pole with a broad thin blade at one end used in rowing or steering a boat 26 a saying popularly accepted as a truth 28 ‘as soon as possible’ 29 deduce / arrive at 31 always / at all times 32 darkens / obscures 34 think highly of /
regard 36 salt 37 constrictor snake 38 house for royalty / estate house 41 prepared for printing 45 egg-shaped / elliptical 46 magical aura / incantation 50 California’s wineproducing valley 51 bar used as a pry / handle or projection to operate something 53 doctrine / principle 54 in excited activity / out of bed 55 before 56 symbol of silver 58 senior 59 legislative document / part of a performance 60 in bed 62 steals / deprives 64 evergreen tree / long for 65 move along briskly
/ scamper 66 Adam and Eve
were driven of this 67 dried up / withered DOWN 1 expert / first rate 2 abscess / open sore on the skin 3 ethnic group / speed in competition, event 4 amazement / reverence 5 dined 6 plural of serum 7 Italian noodle 8 supersonic transport 13 an Arabian native / a bedouin / any of a breed of swift graceful horses 14 trick / deception 15 clothed / attired 17 lout / a clumsy fellow 19 bathe or wash 20 S-shaped molding 21 seed / diseasecausing bacteria / origin 23 long, formal instructive letter 24 preposition 25 anent 27 arrests / apprehends / nabs 29 small islands 30 insurgent / guerrilla / refuse to obey 33 prefix meaning bad / wrong/ /ill 35 surface of the ground / turf 38 cabbage 39 state / declare 40 rescue / set aside money for later use 42 British for ‘goodbye’ 43 saga / heroic poem 44 small pointed missile for throwing or shooting 47 any jumble or mixture / letter of the Greek alphabet 48 extrasensory perception 49 lunar module / lord mayor 52 mad-dog / maniacal 54 tree / shaft /axle 57 unit of heredity composed of DNA forming part of a chromosome 58 painful / angry 60 monkey / mimic 61 wild animal’s lair 62 rights 63 French title given a female saint