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

DOWN
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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