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Puzzle Solutions - page 21
Puzzle Choice
20. Test
21. Custodian
23. Unit of luminance
24. Ballet step
25. Tedious
29. Snares
31. Story
33. Usually follows neither
34. Fertile part of a desert
36. Minister
39. Visual misconception
42. Earnest
43. Benefactor
44. Not in
45. Intense or sharp
47. The lowest degree
51. Widen
54. Ancient Roman god
56. For each
57. Wine merchant
59. Prima donna
60. Candle
63. South African currency
64. Part of a woodwind
instrument
65. Alarm
66. Part of a church
67. Land measure
68. Trivial
69. Person of equal standing
in a group
70. Alcoholic beverage
11. Carry with difficulty
12. Type of tree
13. Moisture
39. Unit of time
40. Singing voice
41. Having no intelligible
meaning
62. Domesticated
Solution
PUZZ L E CHA L L ENGE
G i an t C r o s s wo r d
ACROSS
1. Comparative of little
5. Mantle
9. Rule made by local auth rity
14. Succulent
15. Symbol
16. Awaken
17. Excavation
18. Overwhelming defeat
19. Bound under moral obligation
20. Test
21. Custodian
23. Unit of luminance
24. Ballet step
25. Tedious
29. Snares
31. Story
33. Usually follows neither
34. Fertile part of a desert
36. Minister
39. Visual misconception
42. Earnest
43. Benefactor
44. Not in
45. Intense or sharp
47. The lowest degree
51. Widen
54. Ancient Roman god
56. For each
57. Wine merchant
59. Prima donna
60. Candle
63. South African currency
64. Part of a woodwind instrument
65. Alarm
66. Part of a church
67. Land measure
68. Trivial
69. Person of equal standing in a group
70. Alcoholic beverage
DOWN
1. Dirge
2. Potion
3. Musical composition
4. Appear
5. Approximately in or at
6. Physical science relating
to sound
7. Decant
8. Imply
9. Stream
10. Belonging to you
11. Carry with difficulty
12. Type of tree
13. Moisture
22. Surgical instrument
24. Sacred song
26. Upon
27. Natural satellite
(see photo for hint)
28. Make a mistake
30. Rod
32. Stage whisper
35. Submerged
37. Coral reef surrounding a lagoon
38. Father
39. Unit of time
40. Singing voice
41. Having no intelligible meaning
42. Weep
46. Ensnare
48. Each
49. Austere
50. Merchant
52. Deflect
53. Unclean
55. Command
58. Part of the neck
59. Dreary
60. Strike lightly
61. Brew
62. Domesticated animal