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

DOWN
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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