CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Kareem Abdul __ 7 Decorative needle

case

11 Part of a min. 14 Deity

15 Hurl

16 Fire remains

17 National capital 18 Platter

19 North American Indian

20 Designer Hilfiger 22 Island of southeast

Greece

24 Frump

27 Viper

28 Untruths

29 An expression 31 Friday (abbr.) 32 Remind 34 Northeast 35 Football league 37 Potage

38 North by west 41 French “yes”

43 Scale note after sol 44 Post office (abbr.) 45 Snake

46 Possessive pronoun 47 Bullets

49 Lodge

51 Silver (abbr.) 52 Compass point 53 Father

55 Engage

57 Hula __

60 Former president

of U.S.

61 Count

62 Land surrounded by

water 65 Asian country 69 Radiation dose 70 Suggest 72 American songbird 76 Stretch to make do 77 What Lipton makes 78 Marijuana cigarette 79 Degree of expertise

in karate 80 Southwest by south 81 Tighten

Down

1 Prod

2 Negros island 3 Fen

4 Soak up

5 Singing voice 6 Drift

7 Shedding off of an

outer coat 8 Thai

9 Russia

10 Annoying, like a bug

bite

11 __ Arabia

12 ___ Lauder

13 Rook’s game 21 Impair

23 Bullfight cheer 24 National capital 25 Native Americans 26 Georgia (abbr.) 30 Tin (abbr.)

31 Fire light source 32 Valentine’s day angel

33 On

36 Excess flesh 38 Note well

39 Piece of wood 40 Engaged in (war, for example) 42 State of being 48 Queerness 50 New Hampshire (abbr.) 52 Curative mineral spring

54 Is

56 Iowa (abbr.) 57 Leased

58 Japanese city 59 __ days (long ago) 63 Daft

64 Traced 66 Left-hand 67 Location

68 Place

71 Gossip

73 Often poetically 74 Downwind 75 European sea eagle