ACROSS 1. Rules 5. Brightest star in Virgo 10. Wanes 14. Winged 15. Malicious setting of fires 16. Any wingless blood-sucking insect 17. In a compassionate manner 19. Soft greasy substances 20. P 21. Yield 22. Barely detectable amounts 24. A digestive fluid 25. Not thinly 26. Traffic in ecclesiastical offices 29. Gleams 30. Amidst 31. Hurl 32. Coffee cup 35. Anagram of "Aged" 36. Anagram of "Pangs" 37. Linoleum (abbrev.) 38. Scottish for "Uncle" 39. A type of lizard 40. Relative magnitudes of two quantities 41. Governing 43. Quarrels 44. A four-stringed lute 46. A young woman 47. In the same place (used in citing a reference) 48. Be similar or consistent 49. A large New Zealand parrot 52. Snooze 53. Wanderers 56. Affirm 57. Cut off from a whole 58. Beep 59. Soap-frame bar 60. Pays attention to 61. Arabic sleeveless garments |
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1. Lantern 2. To the windward side 3. Hard____ or soft____ 4. Second (abbrev.) 5. Carefully 6. Puritan 7. Small island 8. A pass between mountain peaks 9. No particular thing 10. Erase 11. Metalworker 12. An Asian pepper plant 13. Saucy |
18. Frosting 23. Wedding band 24. Part of a skeleton 25. Ponder 26. Wise 27. Muslim prayer leader 28. Brings up to date 29. Jargon 31. Backbone 33. An assemblage regarded as a single entity 34. Thick messy substances 36. Minor fight 37. Falls behind |
39. Fruit of the blackthorn bush 40. Vertical part of a stair 42. Bovine mammary glands 43. Threads or filaments 44. Could turn things into gold (Greek mythology) 45. Higher up 46. Extracted from the earth 48. Swing music 49. A round handle 50. Sicilian volcano 51. Requests 54. Golf-ball support 55. An expression of surprise |
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