Crossword puzzle for December 23, 2002 |
ACROSS 1. Phone 5. Preen 10. Heroin substitute 14. A slender woodwind instrument 15. Distinctive intangible qualities surrounding people 16. The pokeweed tree 17. In a way, what this is 19. Wading bird 20. Altitude (abbrev.) 21. Picnic insects 22. Christmas songs 24. Stylisticly creative 25. Wearily 26. Former monetary units of France 29. Gambian monetary unit 30. Fools 31. Tropical Asian shrubby vine producing spicy berrylike fruit 32. Encountered 35. Small island 36. Ecclesiastical council 37. Yield 38. Chief Executive Officer 39. A rotary duplicator 40. Dance done in a line 41. Cetaceans 43. Finger or toe 44. Articles 46. Select 47. Australian tree producing sweet translucent-fleshed fruit 48. Sodium chloride 49. In the past 52. A single time 53. Ran for office 56. Views 57. What active volcanoes do 58. Mildew 59. Former 60. Bind again 61. Makes lacework by knotting |
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1. Closing section of a musical composition 2. Cain's brother 3. Attic 4. Garland 5. Colored liquids applied to walls 6. Full of ruts 7. Colored part of an eye 8. Chinese revolutionary leader 9. Written with a pencil 10. Wavy surface patterns 11. Representation 12. Treasury bill 13. Vixen |
18. Narcotics officers 23. A Semitic people 24. Initial wager 25. Forbidden subject or thing 26. Insures bank deposits 27. Thorny flower 28. Children's weekly money 29. Sand hills 31. Clusters of flowers 33. Nervous 34. A bluish green color 36. Used to reduce the noise of a gunshot 37. Rooster |
39. Cornmeal 40. Spiny succulent plants 42. Largest 43. Become wider 44. Shut 45. A person who avoids the company of others 46. Thistledowns 48. Pornography (slang) 49. Dwarf buffalo 50. Money (slang) 51. Probabilities 54. Metric unit of area 55. Greenwich Mean Time |
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