CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Suffer

6 Slash

10 Brass 14 Computer characters 15 Shaft

16 After awhile 17 Florida city 18 Element 19 Benign 20 Before, poetically 21 Pester

23 Fitly

24 Bug 25 Subway 27 Southwest by west

30 New England

state (abbr.) 32 Neodymium (abbr.) 35 Tramps 36 Former U.S. president 38 Compass point 40 Illinois (abbr.) 43 Short for hour 44 Football league 46 Designer Hilfiger 48 Oldest street in

the Philippines 50 Vermont (abbr.) 52 Okay

54 Cereal plant 55 Torment 58 Snakelike fish 60 Type of glue 63 Tinge

64 Vapor

67 Elide

68 Women’s magazine 70 Farm 72 Grandfather 73 Ku Klux ___ 74 Potato state 75 National capital 76 See

77 __ Lauder DOWN 1 Satiate 2 Tyrant 3 Vertex 4 Snip 5 Goddess 6 Group of criminals 7 Wood chopper 8 Slant 9 Rooster’s mate 10 Cotton plug 11 Dimension 12 Seed pod 13 Comedian Griffith 22 April (abbr.) 23 Arkansas 24 Duos

26 Ride a horse 27 Lustrous

28 Wild dog

29 Air gun pellet 31 Fashionable 33 Delaware (abbr.) 34 Adjusts space between characters 37 Large computer co.

39 What a doctor gives 41 Candy brand 42 Chump 45 Roman 55 47 Hey!

49 Scale note after sol

51 Body art

53 Lock’s partner 56 Appliance brand 57 Voids

59 Strange

60 Field game 61 Prophet 62 Window part 63 Refuse to believe 64 Annoying insect 65 Prick

66 Footwear 68 Stretch to make do

69 Drink 71 Advertisements