crosswordpuzzle

ACROSS

1 ebb / subside 7 collect / assemble 13 uproar / craze 14 a person who shows people to their seats in the auditorium, the theater 16 pluralizing suffix 18 relieve / comfort 19 a line-up / set of players 20 each 21 jumbled letters to read ‘ate’ 23 (of wine) dry / seconds 24 brown skin color resulting from exposure to ultraviolet light / beige 25 large flightless Australian bird 26 a constitutional right to reject a legislative enactment 28 a cleared space from which a golf ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole 30 eagerly / expectantly 31 cupid 32 seize or assume a throne or power wrongfully 34 tardy / the departed 35 lower the dignity of / humiliate 37 boss / head of state 39 of or relating to a title / holder of an office without the corresponding functions or obligations 40 pill / notepad 44 greatly distressing / depressing 49 employ / enlist 50 coarse, bestial person / g-mail not ‘ _ _ _ _ _ ‘ 53 fierce or violent anger / fury 54 operatic solo 55 teaspoon 56 a furnace or an oven for burning, baking or drying, especially for firing pottery, etc. 57 each of the lower limbs on which a person or an animal walks and stands 58 make a note of / write briefly and hastily 60 marijuana / saucepan; cauldron 63 expressing negation 64 editor 65 a small sheltered bay or creek / sheltered recess 66 skip / leave out 68 whirlwind 69 keepsake / piece of stamped metal with a face value higher than its real value issued as a substitute for currency 70 sinew 72 rely 73 sufficient / adequate

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2 letter ‘F’ 3 hint / prompt 4 periods in history 5 amount of medicine or drug taken at one time 6 constructs / builds 7 a shallow trough along the eaves of a house or a channel at the side of a street to carry off rainwater 8 muddled / confused 9 introducing the second element in a comparison 10 the border of a piece of cloth especially a cut edge turned under and sewn down 11 Emergency Room 12 annoyed 15 a person or thing that gauges / a collector of excise taxes 17 a cubic meter 20 express feelings excessively 22 ion 25 softened or mild oath 27 suffix meaning ‘full of’ / ‘having the qualities of’ 29 castrated men in charge of an oriental harem 30 after the manner of 32 state of being one 33 Greek philosopher theorizing the practice of platonic love 36 dined 38 be mistaken 40 German silver coin 41 ventilated / broadcast; published 42 a two-masted squarerigged ship / a place (on the ship) for temporary confinement of offenders in the USA Navy 43 meadow / pasture 45 Noah’s huge boat in which his family and two of each creature stayed during and survived the flood 46 acquire; achieve / profit 47 an eskimo domedshaped dwelling built of snow 48 middle / pivot / converge 51 be present at 52 go against / resist 58 quip / jest 59 baking chamber 61 augury / foreboding 62 Yugoslavian communist leader and Prime Minister of the past 65 Police Officer 67 letter of the Greek alphabet / T-shaped cross 69 (chem) the element tellurium 71 ‘for example’