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
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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
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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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