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By Evelyn Johnson - www.qets.com

USA

ACROSS

1 Crazed 5 Truths

10 Air (prefix) 14 Large standing body of

fresh water 15 American state 16 Snip 17 Whirr 18 Quick 19 Clean 20 Defamer 22 Not inner 23 Disconsolate 24 Structure that holds back

water 26 Time period 27 Hotel 30 Shoshonean 33 Legume 35 Band instrument 37 Direction and control

exercised politically over a group of people

42 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

43 Cooking fat

44 Margarine 45 Aquatic plant 49 Salad 50 Salt water covering most of

the earth 51 Salty water masses 53 European sea eagle 54 __ Francisco 57 Estimated time of arrival 59 Insult 61 Opp. of natural 63 Jolly 69 Dunking cookies 70 Marsh bird 71 Wise man 72 Costa __ 73 Goodbye 74 Against 75 Title 76 Identicals 77 Cincinnati baseball team

USA

DOWN

1 Swiss mountains 2 Disfigure 3 Vegetable 4 Soft drink brand 5 Fireman’s pet (2 wds.) 6 Jewish calendar month 7 Mantle 8 After second 9 Turf

10 American Civil Liberties Union (abbr.)

11 Excite 12 Large natural stream of

water 13 Musical production 21 Morse code dash 22 Bode 25 Rainy mo. 27 Load 28 Insect in a cocoon 29 To incite 31 Destitute 32 Crawling vines 34 Famous cookies 36 Experts 38 Otherwise

39 Women's magazine 40 Not far 41 Center of population that is

larger than a village but smaller than a city

46 Swamp plant 47 Lion 48 Woe 52 Attack 54 Weapon 55 Eagle's nest 56 Sibling's daughter 58 Root beer brand (3 wds.) 60 Sweet stuff 62 Paved surface made for

the passage of vehicles 64 Eight 65 On top 66 Toboggan 67 Dry 68 Jogs 70 Stood opposite

USA

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