Crossword puzzle for August 22, 2001 |
ACROSS 1. Oblique stroke 6. Attention (abbrev.) 10. First Lady ____ Truman 14. Large web-footed South American rodent 15. A mixture of white and black 16. A single thing 17. Affirms 18. Salon or chamber 19. "Tabula ____" = blank slate 20. Infatuated 22. Computer language named after a French mathematician 24. Hint 25. American manned spacecraft 26. One who tends a furnance 29. Sow the fields 30. Vein of ore 31. Briefly 37. 60s actress _____ Eckberg 39. Related to the moose 40. Linden or basswood tree 41. Resembling medieval folk music 44. Large swallow or mouthful 45. Paddles 46. Bowel flushes 48. Trigonometric functions 52. Food thickener 53. City in Taiwan 54. Charms or seduces 58. Germanic earth goddess 59. "____ contendre" = No contest (legal term) 61. Waterfall or rapid 62. Actor Sir ____ Guinness 63. Actress ____ Verdon 64. Coax or cajole (archaic) 65. Ancient Greek stringed instrument 66. Stitches 67. State in northeastern India |
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1. Forms on a sore 2. Profound affection 3. Affirmatives 4. Toothed wheels 5. Solicit (slang) 6. Consent 7. Stepped 8. Philippine Islands peasant 9. Sexually attractive young woman 10. Exploded 11. Put into practice or effect 12. Mexican agave |
13. Not fresh 21. Grass or sod 23. Detailed formal financial examination 25. Searches 26. Shut forcefully 27. Singer ____ Braxton 28. Chief Norse god 29. Vends 32. Looks lasciviously 33. Citizens of a certain oil-rich African country 34. Morose 35. German for "Purple" 36. Talks incessantly 38. Make amends |
42. What TV networks seek 43. Safecracker (slang) 47. Dizziness 48. Illegally take 49. Not late 50. Fermented apple juice 51. Swiftly 52. Long periods of time 54. What the wind did 55. Carries (slang) 56. Singer ____ Fitzgerald 57. A special kind of human cell 60. Is indebted to |
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