Crossword Puzzle for May 5, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. A local and habitual twitching 4. Calendar month 7. Wits 12. Fiddler crabs 13. Having a grainy texture 14. Frogs, toads, tree toads 15. Galaxies 17. Ardently or impatiently desirous 18. _Tan 19. A browning of the skin 21. Back 22. __ Turner, rock singer 24. Adult female 25. A broad horizontal band across a shield 26. Spain 27. Having yellowish rind 29. Determine the court costs of 31. Holy places 35. Repeated 37. Experienced 38. Currently fashionable 41. Doctor of Education 42. Filberts 43. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano 44. Denotes three 45. Angiospermous tree 46. Conductance unit 48. Egg-shaped terra-cotta instrument 52. Small room on a ship where people sleep 53. Ultrahigh frequency 54. Tag the base runner to get him out 55. Rumples 56. Female sibling 57. Something highly prized for its beauty or perfection |
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1. Hogshead 2. Decorate a cake with frosting 3. Collapsible shelters 4. Paris airport 5. New location, abbr. 6. Endocrine gland 7. Herb __, San Francisco columnist 8. A collection of anecdotes about a person or place 9. Wrinkles 10. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid 11. Gulf of, in the Aegean |
16. Fringe-toed lizard 20. Humiliated 22. Yearly tonnage, abbr. 23. Belonging to a thing 24. One who sprints 25. Strike out a batter, in baseball 27. Reciprocal of a sine 28. Having negative qualities 30. Old world, new 32. Gagging 33. The bill in a restaurant |
34. Publicities 36. Unequivocally detestable 38. Characteristic of hens 39. Russell __, author 40. Metrical units 42. Adapted to the rails of railroad 44. Mass 45. Stumblebums 47. Come into sudden contact with 49. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet 50. No (Scottish) 51. Defensive nuclear weapon |
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