Crossword puzzle for December 28, 2001

ACROSS
1. Plop
6. Chieftain
10. Animal friends
14. Sporting venue
15. South American country
16. Assemble or modify written material
17. Inclines against
18. Modern-day Persia
19. Castro's country
20. A white crystalline amino acid
22. Sharpshooter Annie ______ (1860-1926)
24. One who breaks into safes
25. Compensates
26. Found in ketchup
29. Present
30. Portent
31. Placed in again
37. Italian for "Hawk"
39. Member of the moose family
40. Unskillfully
41. Clothed inappropriately
44. Amount of medication
45. Licorice-flavored seed
46. German emperor
48. Name from the Latin for "Rose festival"
52. A people of the Central African Republic
53. Dislike or reluctance
54. Something that ties or binds
58. Was attired in
59. Sound of a bell
61. Sentences spoken by actors
62. Napoleon's island of exile
63. Title of nobility
64. Small amounts
65. Flag-maker Betsy ____
66. Russian (abbrev.)
67. Positive electrode

DOWN

1. Sodium chloride
2. Victim
3. Shakespearean king
4. Bother
5. Part of a suit of armor
6. Mimicking
7. Lake or pond
8. Individual Retirement Account
9. Overflows
10. Units of dry measure
11. Latin for "Edible"
12. Mountainous country claimed by China 13. Remains
21. Helicopter inventor ____ Sikorsky
23. Not before
25. Pig sounds
26. Vegetable cheese from soybeans
27. Sultanate
28. Merge
29. Name from the Greek meaning "Shieldbearer"
32. Strange or disconcerting
33. Emission of charged particles
34. 2 2 2 2
35. Consequence
36. Colorer of cloth
38. Verbal examinations 42. River in western Russia
43. Heroin (slang)
47. Genus of certain ornamental plants
48. Less cooked
49. A complex molding
50. People of eastern Europe
51. Regions
52. Parts of window frames
54. Ancient Roman household gods
55. Until
56. Absorb written material
57. Nature of being
60. French for "Water"

Crossword

Today's solution

Crosswords for December 2001

ACROSS 1. Plop 6. Chieftain 10. Animal friends 14. Sporting venue 15. South American country 16. Assemble or modify written material 17. Inclines against 18. Modern-day Persia 19. Castro's country 20. A white crystalline amino acid 22. Sharpshooter Annie ______ (1860-1926) 24. One who breaks into safes 25. Compensates 26. Found in ketchup 29. Present 30. Portent 31. Placed in again 37. Italian for "Hawk" 39. Member of the moose family 40. Unskillfully 41. Clothed inappropriately 44. Amount of medication 45. Licorice-flavored seed 46. German emperor 48. Name from the Latin for "Rose festival" 52. A people of the Central African Republic 53. Dislike or reluctance 54. Something that ties or binds 58. Was attired in 59. Sound of a bell 61. Sentences spoken by actors 62. Napoleon's island of exile 63. Title of nobility 64. Small amounts 65. Flag-maker Betsy ____ 66. Russian (abbrev.) 67. Positive electrode
	DOWN
	1. Sodium chloride 2. Victim 3. Shakespearean king 4. Bother 5. Part of a suit of armor 6. Mimicking 7. Lake or pond 8. Individual Retirement Account 9. Overflows 10. Units of dry measure 11. Latin for "Edible" 12. Mountainous country claimed by China	13. Remains 21. Helicopter inventor ____ Sikorsky 23. Not before 25. Pig sounds 26. Vegetable cheese from soybeans 27. Sultanate 28. Merge 29. Name from the Greek meaning "Shieldbearer" 32. Strange or disconcerting 33. Emission of charged particles 34. 2 2 2 2 35. Consequence 36. Colorer of cloth 38. Verbal examinations	42. River in western Russia 43. Heroin (slang) 47. Genus of certain ornamental plants 48. Less cooked 49. A complex molding 50. People of eastern Europe 51. Regions 52. Parts of window frames 54. Ancient Roman household gods 55. Until 56. Absorb written material 57. Nature of being 60. French for "Water"