CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 small game bird resembling a partridge 4 stories 8 ringlet 10 zone / region 12 large wading birds with very legs and neck and straight bill / machines for lifting or moving heavy weights 14 requires / demands and gets by force or authority 16 hearing organs 17 ardent / avid 20 pack or store away in an orderly way 21 amount 22 segment of a bulb / East Indian pungent and fragrant spice 23 poetic for ‘open’ 24 a place where wild animals are kept for public showing 27 a collection of anecdotes 28 remote / distant 30 large receptacle for storage of things or garbage 32 thick, obscuring mist 33 antenna 34 a pupil who stays away from school without permission 36 visualize 38 emmet 40 a furniture to sleep on 41 a large mooselike deer 43 a nationally-celebrated Vietnamese New Year 45 respiratory or intestinal infections caused by a virus 47 soars 49 rooms

51 ‘at, over, from, or to a distance’

53 ‘the end’ 54 lure, entice, tempt / food put on a hook or trap to lure fish or animals 55 white, metallic chemical element extremely ductile and malleable, a conductor of heat and electricity and used in the manufacture of coins, jewelry 57 a group of words containing a subject and finite verb / provision in a formal or legal document 59 appear / look like 60 tenets / doctrines 61 to skewer or bind the wings of a fowl before cooking / an appliance for giving support in case of rupture or hernia

62 ‘the beginning’

DOWN

1 brilliant semi-precious stone 2 footed vases 3 beer / lager 5 not strict / loose 6 periods in history 7 segment / distinct part of society or of an economy 8 compress, pack full / review for an exam in a hurried, intense way 9 ‘get out’ / ‘go away’ 11 on top of 12 stop / halt 13 second 14 before 15 sugary 18 after the manner of 19 Imelda is to the Philippines as she is to Argentina 25 corpulent 26 lubricated 28 fountain / spring 29 hard semi-precious stone 31 indicates a married woman’s maiden name 32 title given an Italian friar or monk 35 carries or propels objects, sounds, odors lightly through the air or over the water

37 ‘et’s’ / strangers or foreigners 39 glue 40 small cone-shaped missile of lead or metal alloy to be shot form a firearm 41 a kind of shade tree 42 small barrel 44 painful emotional experience often producing a lasting psychic effect or neurosis

46 Hawaiian wreaths of flowers and leaves worn around the neck 47 preposition 48 pouchlike part in an animal or plant filled with fluid 50 fail to meet, reach or attain / title given an unmarried woman 52 eternal / always 54 smash / strike with a violent blow 56 flightless Australian bird 58 rim / either of the two fleshy folds forming the edges of the mouth