Crossword puzzle for December 29, 2000



ACROSS
1. Husk or pod
6. Protects animals
10. Catholic ceremony
14. Civil or military authority in Turkey
15. Crustaceon
16. "Inter-____"
17. Heightened awareness
18. Decays
19. Maize
20. Marked with grooves
22. Horn
24. Frozen crystalline precipitation
25. Sliced sandwich meat
26. Triangular alluvial deposits
29. Sell
30. Muslim prayer leader
31. Burning with little smoke and no flame
37. City in Jordan
39. Petroleum
40. A lapel on women's garments
41. Periods of weariness
44. Hole in a mountain
45. Naval Ordinance Test Station
46. US Socialist convicted of murder in 1916, Tom ______
48. Shakespearean Scottish king
52. Placard
53. Lawfully detain
54. Turn on or start up
58. Composer ____ Stravinsky
59. Actress ____ Lanchester
61. Pertaining to the soft palate
62. Fraud victim
63. Preciptation
64. Muse of lyric poetry
65. Stiff hair or bristle
66. Done to flies
67. Pig pens

DOWN
1. Resorts
2. Stop
3. Utilizer
4. December holiday
5. Single-edged samurai sword
6. Fastener
7. Poke or incite
8. Feline
9. Steal and run
10. As a prefix, indicates largeness
11. Beside or with
12. Police car noisemaker
13. St. Nick
21. Throw
23. More aged
25. _____ of the ball
26. Rotary phone device
27. Actress ____ Thompson
28. Wallops
29. Renders invalid
32. Speech comes from this
33. Switch back
34. ____ the Terrible
35. Actress ____ Campbell
36. Earl ____ tea
38. Dressed to the _____
42. Walks unsteadily
43. Smear or strike (archaic)
47. Pointed arches
48. Household cleaning ladies
49. Debate or fight
50. Cropped (poetic)
51. City in Biblical Macedonia
52. Slight
54. Largest continent
55. Jai ____, sport
56. Vertical fist (karate)
57. Greek god of love
60. Rule


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