CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Beverage

7 Traveler’s aid

10 Picnic visitor

13 Barry Manilow song 14 Department (abbr.) 15 Tell a tall tale 16 Teaspoon (abbr.) 17 Silver (abbr.)

18 Nimbus

19 Wood chopper 20 Chooses

22 Singer Paul

24 Short for ‘Peter’

27 East southeast

28 Award for theater performance

29 U.S. president’s office 30 Cebu university 31 University of San Carlos 33 VI 34 Measure for fresh herrings

35 City in Pakistan 38 Neuter pronoun 39 Canoe propeller 40 Halloween mo.

41 Nine

42 Cotton plug

44 Linden

45 Concord e.g. 46 Bullfight cheer 47 Atmosphere

48 Station

49 Chinese precious stone 52 For

53 __ Minor (Little Dipper) 54 Gentry

56 Snub

59 Ocean

60 Prong

62 Artificial intelligence (abbr.)

63 Football player Montana 66 Star

67 Bird

68 City in Kansas

70 Airport abbr. 71 Barbarian

72 Declares

DOWN

1 Eastern Time

2 Car fuel

3 Gross national product (abbr.)

4 Neodymium (abbr.) 5 Spoken

6 Measure

7 River

8 April (abbr.)

9 Parent groups 10 Remember the __ 11 Former U.S.

president 12 Tiny

14 Nissan’s former

name 20 Snakelike fish 21 Wood 23 Scratch 24 Suggest 25 1997 Madonna

movie

26 IRS demand 30 Heavy

machinery 31 Stomach sore 32 Satiate

34 Neat

36 Gets out of bed 37 Small movie

part 40 Constellation 43 Author 44 Drogue

45 Title of respect 48 Day of the wk. 49 Outlaw James 50 Native

Americans 51 Goddess

52 Pine tree nut 55 Engrave 57 Cereal plant 58 Mob activity 61 Note of debt 63 Fast plane 64 Lyric poem 65 Goddess 69 Scale note after

sol