CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 small crown / circlet of precious materials worn as a woman’s headdress 7 confidential / personal 14 wears away / pares down 16 trailed / hunted down 17 jumbled letters to read ‘snare’
18 append / sum up 20 introduction
21 dined
22 evident / glaring
25 sea eagle
26 a tax / levy
28 a shallow dish used for the bread at the celebration of the Eucharist 29 smell / aroma
30 ‘lethal dose’ 31 Emergency Room 33 doctrine / tenet 34 air-conditioning 35 road 36 twist / entangle 38 endures / survives 41 rush / speed 42 extra / rescue from 44 postpones / lingers 46 the end 48 printer’s measure 50 preposition 51 long white vestment worn by some Christian priests at church ceremonies 53 negative 54 indefinite article
55 ‘_ _ _ _ and the splendor that was _ _ _ _ _ _’ 57 stranger / et 59 foolish, uninteresting person 61 anger 62 of the first class / of acknowledged excellence 64 fuss 65 a mental view of a long succession of remem bered and anticipated events 67 jumbled letters to read ‘led’ 68 a device that generates an intense beam of radiation by a stimulated emission of photons 70 red fluorescent dyestuff used as stain in optical microscopy 72 symbols / markers 73 jumbled letters to read ‘destiny’ 74 jumbled letters to read ‘related’
DOWN
1 (New Testament) the up per room where Jesus and his disciples had the last supper 2 spoke pompously 3 attar is from the petals of these flowers 4 poem 5 fiddled while Rome was ablaze 6 pluralizing suffix 8 right
9 (Greek myth) the goddess of the rainbow 10 a closed truck or wagon for carry ing freight or people 11 behaved 12 intense fear 13 jumbled letters to read ‘adorned’ 15 prepares for publication 18 use 19 jumbled letters to read ‘model’ 23 blood pressure
24 New York City-based (USA) international organization of nations pledged to promote world peace and security 27 having the power of physical sensation 29 plane figure with (8) angles and sides 32 a fixed relation in degree, number, etc. between two similar things 34 poplar tree 36 visualized / a cutting tool 37 dampen or soak flax, hemp, straw in water to separate the fibers from wood tissue 39 ‘air-to-surface missile’ 40 ‘Mrs.’ 43 deduced / received from a source 45 cold dish usually of raw or sometimes cooked vege tables or fruits in various combinations served with a dressing 46 fat / corpulent 47 give approval or support 49 a variety of quartz, dark brown or black 52 fine, hard, extra-strong cotton thread 54 zealous / passionate 56 untidy / dirty 57 (chem) the element aluminum
58 (chem) the element nickel 60 artist’s upright frame or tripod 62 walking stick 63 lump of earth 66 (contr) ‘it is’ 69 alias / also known as 71 extraterrestrial 72 (chem) the element tellurium