WORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1. Rope fiber 6. How old we are 10. Annul 14. Sporting venue 15. Alley 16. Found on a finger 17. Train engine 19. Prepare for action 20. Necessitate 21. Can 22. Anger 23. Venomous snake 25. Burdened 26. Secluded valley 30. Incongruous 32. Control surface on a

plane 35. A short novel 39. Attach 40. Resisted 41. Tense 43. Made less in size 44. Wound 46. Not more 47. Have second thoughts 50. Wooden box 53. "Oh my!" 54. What we sleep on 55. Overrun 60. Alone 61. Imprecise 63. Not us 64. Largest continent 65. Thorny flowers 66. Leisure 67. Transmit 68. Country of the Nile

DOWN

1. A period of discounted

prices 2. Weightlifters pump this 3. Religious offshoot 4. Dwarf buffalo 5. Female demon 6. Altitude (abbrev.) 7. Leg covering 8. Hem in 9. Observed 10. Clumsy 11. A nymph of lakes 12. Sad song 13. Bygone 18. Not young 24. Cacophony 25. Survived 26. Spike 27. Teller of untruths 28. If not 29. Causing irritation 31. Connecting point 33. Cite 34. Burden 36. Bloodsucking

insects 37. Dregs 38. Contributes 42. Permit 43. Ribonucleic acid 45. Enact 47. Garbage 48. Hello or goodbye 49. Valleys 51. ___-tac-toe 52. Habituate 54. Partiality 56. Tailless stout-bodied

amphibian 57. Not difficult 58. Stair 59. Exam 62. Knave