CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Short for Pamela 3 Rake 7 Cotton plug 13 Education (abbr.) 14 Reserve Officers

Training Corps 15 Hazardous 16 Cebu airport abbr. 18 Sports car 19 Gnarled 22 Rapid eye movement 23 New Hampshire

(abbr.) 24 An expression 26 Perch 29 Marketplace 32 Brainpower 34 Absent 36 The other half of

Jima 38 Candy brand 40 Idiot 42 Beef cattle 44 Switzerland city 46 Possessive pronoun 48 Degree of expertise

in karate 49 British thermal unit 50 Fallen 52 Goddess 55 Splendor 58 Fort (abbr. ) 60 0.0254 mm 62 Introductory part 65 Gasp for air 67 Business 68 Hawaiian ‘hello’ 70 Stale 73 Grand Canyon state 74 Region in the air 75 Travel guides 76 Collection of

animals

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1 Smacks 2 City in Yemen 3 Jr.’s Dad 4 Asian nation 5 Neuter pronoun 6 Metric weight unit 8 The Ram 9 Florida City 10 Clock time 11 All right 12 Big Apple (abbr.) 17 __ fide 18 France (abbr.) 20 Flung 21 Deciliter 25 Boxer Muhammad 27 Duos 28 On top 30 Day of the wk. 31 Body of water 33 Illinois (abbr.) 35 Clip 37 Seattle locale 38 Drain (2 wds.) 39 Tides 40 Factual 41 Plutonium (abbr.) 43 Miss 45 Movie alien 47 River (Spanish) 51 Prod 53 City in Nebraska 54 Moses’ mountain 56 Military policeman

(abbr.) 57 Preen 59 Soprano 61 Mil. rank 63 See ya! 64 Marmalade 65 Pea holder 66 Tree 69 Roman 51 71 Iowa (abbr.) 72 Letter afterward