Crossword puzzle for December 16, 2000



ACROSS
1. Napped
6. Monster
10. Weapons
14. Card game
15. Undue self-preoccupation
16. Skin of an apple
17. Very pale
18. Completes
19. X-Men actress ____ Paquin
20. Visiting stores to make purchases
22. Most kind or appealing
24. Haughty manner
25. Means of access
26. British writer of "Tristram Shandy" Laurence ______
29. Confident
30. A flexible tube
31. Month (plural)
37. Food thickeners
39. Human works of beauty
40. South Pacific volcanic islands
41. Subdue or tame
44. Mischievous elves
45. Sea eagle
46. Calms or pacifies
48. Erodes or chafes
52. Jai ____, sport
53. Author ______ May Alcott
54. Journalist and editor Rufus Wilmot _______ (1815-1857)
58. Pattern of crisscrossed lines
59. Native of Siam
61. Middle-Eastern desert
62. Queen Elizabeth's daughter
63. Stop
64. Happen
65. Not more
66. Ruled Iran
67. Trap shooting

DOWN
1. Oceans
2. Opulent
3. Reflected sound waves
4. People who make things ready
5. Form of bowling
6. Baking appliances
7. Group of people
8. Dispose
9. Trap
10. Swiftly
11. Restore
12. A southern constellation
13. Resembling slate
21. Angers
23. Distinct articles
25. Latin for "Drop"
26. Persian for "Monarch"
27. African country
28. Jacob's brother (Bible)
29. Unrestrained overindulgence
32. Gains for service or labor
33. Office of a bailiff
34. Actress ____ Thompson
35. Resembling a rope
36. Back talk
38. Sows
42. Respirations
43. Hindu goddess of death
47. Lariots
48. Relating to certain kelp-like organisms
49. Carried or supported
50. Remains after destruction
51. Assistants
52. _____metic
54. Celebration
55. ____ upon a time
56. Norwegian for the carp-like "Bleak" fish
57. Soil
60. Expresses surprise


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