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Across

1. Where the sun rises.
5. The act of flipping a coin
9. An informal term for a father
13. A former English silver coin worth four pennies
15. A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
16. Major divisions of geological time
17. Persons or things having the same functions or characteristics as others
20. State categorically
21. A quarrelsome grouch
22. One of two or more layers one atop another
24. U.S. poet and essayist Charles (1910-1970)
28. A reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work
33. not here
34. Any activities that are performed alone without assistance
35. A wing of an insect
36. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
37. A cute person
39. Cut short
40. Black tropical American cuckoo
41. Neither good nor bad
42. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
43. A soft red birthmark
47. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
48. Like an eel
49. On, to, or at the top
52. Metric units of length, each equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
56. Members of a clandestine subversive organization who try to help a potential invader
61. To come down and settle, as after flight
62. By bad luck
63. Administer or bestow, as in small portions
64. The lowest female singing voice
65. A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
66. Wet with dew

Down

1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

2. Advanced Research Projects Agency
3. Dips into liquid
4. An artist colony in northern New Mexico
5. A nervous restrained laugh
6. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
7. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
8. A disparaging remark
9. A small smooth rounded rock
10. 80s song "We ___ the World"
11. golf term
12. A pompous fool
14. Blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
18. Muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil
19. The Oceanic language spoken by the _____ people in New Zealand
23. Return to its original or usable and functioning condition
25. Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals
26. According to the clock
27. Less than average tides occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
28. A rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
29. Withdraw from active participation
30. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined
31. A personal enemy; "Friend or ___?"
32. A region of east-central England with extensive drained fens
33. Worthless material that is to be
disposed of
37. Stocky short-legged harness horse
38. A particular service
39. An accountant who has passed certain examinations
41. A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
42. A port city in western Turkey
44. A tropical American evergreen shrub or small tree, also called a lipstick tree
45. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
46. (cosmology, dated) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements
50. South American wood sorrels cultivated for their edible tubers
51. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
53. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
54. A small island
55. Fill by packing tightly
56. An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
57. Not in good physical or mental health
58. Physically and mentally sound or healthy
59. A member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand
60. A pen for swine

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