Crossword puzzle for June 5, 2000

ACROSS
1. Pat
4. Most excellent
8. A way to surface
12. Macaws
13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
14. S American armadillo
15. Candy
17. A Russian river
18. African antelopes
19. Wish harm upon
21. Cause cell destruction
23. Sheets
26. Request of God
29. Having a sharp cutting edge
31. An edible tuberous root
32. Rounds of duty
33. Born of
34. Flowers
36. A way to snap
37. Kings
38. Branches
40. Asian nation (variant spelling)
42. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps
46. A contest of speed
48. A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
50. Opaque gem
51. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos
52. Shock treatment
53. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia
54. An unfledged or nestling hawk
55. River in NE Scotland

DOWN

1. Abnormal breathing
2. Plant part
3. Large burrowing rodent of S and C America
4. Not at the expected or usual time
5. Disregard
6. Political action committee
7. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
8. Canary island
9. Italian mountain range
10. Passenger truck 11. A major division of geological time
16. Sole
20. Type genus of the Apidae
22. Register formally
24. No variation
25. Used primarily as seasoning
26. Monetary units
27. Aristocrat
28. A citizen of the United States
30. Womaniser 32. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs
35. Just
36. Aged
39. Gnawing animals
41. Variety of cabbage
43. Chopped
44. Infestation
45. A fellow member of a team
46. Mythological bird
47. Military mailbox
49. Negative

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Crosswords for June 2000

ACROSS 1. Pat 4. Most excellent 8. A way to surface 12. Macaws 13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else 14. S American armadillo 15. Candy 17. A Russian river 18. African antelopes 19. Wish harm upon 21. Cause cell destruction 23. Sheets 26. Request of God 29. Having a sharp cutting edge 31. An edible tuberous root 32. Rounds of duty 33. Born of 34. Flowers 36. A way to snap 37. Kings 38. Branches 40. Asian nation (variant spelling) 42. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps 46. A contest of speed 48. A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite 50. Opaque gem 51. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos 52. Shock treatment 53. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia 54. An unfledged or nestling hawk 55. River in NE Scotland
	DOWN
	1. Abnormal breathing 2. Plant part 3. Large burrowing rodent of S and C America 4. Not at the expected or usual time 5. Disregard 6. Political action committee 7. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers 8. Canary island 9. Italian mountain range 10. Passenger truck	11. A major division of geological time 16. Sole 20. Type genus of the Apidae 22. Register formally 24. No variation 25. Used primarily as seasoning 26. Monetary units 27. Aristocrat 28. A citizen of the United States 30. Womaniser	32. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs 35. Just 36. Aged 39. Gnawing animals 41. Variety of cabbage 43. Chopped 44. Infestation 45. A fellow member of a team 46. Mythological bird 47. Military mailbox 49. Negative