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The Pinecone
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Puzzle Solutions - page 21
Puzzle Choice
22. Den
23. Concentrate
24. Detection device
26. Inform
28. Drama set to music
31. Hard-shelled seed
32. Fish-eating diving bird
35. Birdcall
37. Whiskers
41. Possess
42. Height
44. Twenty-four hours
45. Harvest
47. Ascend
48. Catch with a lasso
49. Owed
51. Pursue
53. Bushy
56. Test for acid or alkali
60. Fake
61. Artifice
64. Copy of a movie on film
65. Molten rock
66. Enthusiastic approval
68. Not in favor of
69. Kitchen appliance
70. Frighten
71. Metal money
72. Moved away
73. Fur of the marten
74. Long and difficult trip
13. Leg joint
21. Cut off
25. Remainder
46. Intransigent
48. Recant
50. Emerge
67. Golf peg
Solution
PUZZ L E CHA L L ENGE
G i an t C r o s s wo r d
ACROSS
1. The most outstanding or excellent
5. Fastener
10. Rib section of veal or pork
14. Report or maintain
15. Large artery
16. Eagerness
17. Rescue
18. Sound of a sheep
19. Painful
20. Paragon
22. Den
23. Concentrate
24. Detection device
26. Inform
28. Drama set to music
31. Hard-shelled seed
32. Fish-eating diving bird
35. Birdcall
37. Whiskers (see photo for hint)
41. Possess
42. Height
44. Twenty-four hours
45. Harvest
47. Ascend
48. Catch with a lasso
49. Owed
51. Pursue
53. Bushy
56. Test for acid or alkali
60. Fake
61. Artifice
64. Copy of a movie on film
65. Molten rock
66. Enthusiastic approval
68. Not in favor of
69. Kitchen appliance
70. Frighten
71. Metal money
72. Moved away
73. Fur of the marten
74. Long and difficult trip
DOWN
1. Foundation
2. Elude
3. Square root of forty-nine
4. Subversiveness
5. Taxi
6. Be lazy or idle
7. Length by width
8. Tarnish
9. A regular customer
10. Reprieve
11. Remote in manner
12. Transport
13. Leg joint
21. Cut off
25. Remainder
27. Hollow cylindrical shape
29. Bellow
30. Caper
32. Captain’s journal
33. Nocturnal bird
34. Single
36. Sudden rapid flow
38. Fuss
39. Blame
40. Used for staining
42. Cosy
43. Actual
46. Intransigent
48. Recant
50. Emerge
52. Small drink
53. Cut closely
54. Shelter
55. Evergreen plant
57. Not of legal age
58. Unfasten
59. Stench
60. Decelerate
62. Block
63. British peer ranking below a
marquess and above a viscount
67. Golf peg
66. Ancient Roman sun god
68. Pole