Crossword puzzle for October 5, 2000



ACROSS
1. Made initial wager
6. Kills (slang)
10. Hard central part of some fruit
14. Large beaver-like rodent
15. Coagulated mass
16. Semi-precious gem
17. Nocturnal South American hoofed animal with a flexible snout
18. Arizona native tribe
19. Tribe of priests
20. Store operator
22. Coupled
24. Listen
25. Closely woven cotton fabric
26. "Father of the military academy" Sylvanus ______ (1785-1872)
29. Loud noise
30. Atoms with an electrical charge
31. Early prospectors
37. Lowest point
39. Vigor
40. Group of boy scouts
41. Disease causing fever and skin inflammation
44. ____ fide: sincere
45. Folded
46. Exchanges
48. Human waste recepticle seats
52. Ancient Chinese capital (221-206 BC)
53. St. Francis of ______
54. Pertaining to the cervix
58. Thousandths
59. Woodwind
61. Make up for
62. Partly carbonized vegetable matter
63. Flaccid
64. Gentlemen
65. Limbs
66. Declines
67. Essences or beings

DOWN
1. Protrays
2. Built an ark
3. Keyboarding mistake
4. Pineal body
5. Spice and sauce company (Founded in 1850)
6. Pale brownish-yellow color
7. Failure
8. A vain, affected man
9. Payment
10. Paroxysmal pain in the abdomen
11. Classical musical theatre
12. Bolero composer
13. Omit in pronunciation
21. Hearing organs
23. Jargon or idiom
25. City in Italy
26. Prong
27. Grey or white
28. Actor ____ Griffith
29. Constructed
32. Baking appliances
33. City dwellers
34. Not bad
35. Sharpen
36. Resorts
38. Flowering shrub bearing gooseberries
42. Joins a leaf to a stem
43. Mix
47. Plunder
48. City in Florida
49. Willow used for basketwork
50. One of the major religions
51. Written memory aids
52. Leaks
54. Hair brush
55. Arguments against
56. In front of
57. Not more
60. Apron


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