Crossword puzzle for October 4, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. Units of electrical resistance 5. Rushed 10. Plan 14. Plate 15. Wait patiently 16. Burden 17. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits 18. Plate for Eucharist 19. Inside 20. Subspecies 22. More than nine 23. Thomas ____, former Secretary of State 24. Tree protectors 27. Spanish for "Saint" 30. __ Angeles 31. Swiss river 32. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs 35. Cause to become awake 37. One fourth (abbrev.) 38. Iranian 39. Volcanic craters 40. Having a grainy texture 41. A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back 42. Type genus of the family Arcidae 43. Distilled from fermented molasses 44. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together 45. Separate (abbrev.) 46. Lowered area in front of a stage 47. Careless 48. Potato state (abbrev.) 49. Divides 52. National capital 55. Used to hit baseballs 56. ____ and Venzetti 60. Apron 61. Cyprinid fishes 63. A way to sound 64. Monetary unit 65. S shaped curves in moldings 66. New Zealand parrot 67. Remain as is 68. French river 69. Plant stalk |
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1. Smell 2. Fissures 3. Millisecond 4. Allied H.Q. 5. Blame 6. In a way, lessens 7. Summons 8. Primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth 9. Lair 10. Supplications 11. Phoned 12. Icelandic poems 13. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work 21. Flatfishes 23. Stray |
25. Actor/director ___ Howard 26. Auricle 27. Languages of Sulu islands 28. Cognizant 29. Civil Rights group 32. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation 33. Strayed 34. Mary mourning Jesus 36. Malaysian Isthmus 37. Iranian city 38. Pat lightly 40. Plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root 41. Single-reed instruments 43. Tear |
44. Rodent 46. A domesticated animal 47. Used esp. in the Mediterranean 49. Usually with wooden soles 50. Slender fast-moving N American snakes 51. In football, tackles behind scrimmage 52. Knocks 53. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing 54. A dry cold north wind in SE France 57. Chew the fat 58. Cucumber (slang) 59. Old Irish alphabet 61. Noun suffix denoting territory 62. The compass point midway between south and southeast |
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