PV CROSSWORD
 by David Tymoshchuk : April 1-16
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Across:
1. one who pampers (7)
8. aluminum silicate mineral (pl.) (5)
13. control or subdue with awe
(riot cops, army) (7)
14. what a skunk may put under
“its arms” (7)
16. indicated, marked (7)
17. lost in daydream (7)
18. holds your socks (7)
19. cartilage in cheap meat (7)
20. on each side of brain (4)
21. aaarrrrhh you a pirate? (3)
22. fought-over commodity (3)
23. how dates are made (5)
25. wife of a rajah (4)
27. the loneliest number (3)
28. person who hates marriage (10)
31. ___ Flanders (3)
 32. one who rests but not lazy (7)
 33. serpent, salt, weed, shell (3)
36. from a tree, not a cane (5,5)
40. spray paint your mark (3)
41. in woodwinds, not brass (4)
42. canvas perches on this (5)
44. eight (3)
45. youth are the future, join the
___ (acronym) (3)
46. ___ public transit (4)
47. about the tongue or languages (7)
49. play by Michel Tremblay (7)
52. to support a candidate (7)
53. sad songs, funeral song (7)
54. growth stopped (7)
55. entitles one to drive (7)
56. Marx’s works (5)
57. to own or hold (7)

DOWN
1. Code indicating court-ordered
deduction (abbr.) (6)
2. hardball pitch (7)
3. silver coin of Rome (7)
4. sleeps on the spot (7)
5. past due (4)
6. sewer without an s (4)
7. communists or progressives (4)
8. photoplay (5)
9. things that annoy (4)
10. comic strip (7)
11. ____ dye (7)
12. hardened or braced in anticipation (7)
14. a union shop is ___ (9)
15. plants whose roots are source
of rotenone (8)
24. student quarters (4)
25. Spiderman’s method of building (9)
26. plant, Mexican agaves (5)
29. AKA a transmission (4,4)
30. ___ crime stories (4)
33. least fresh (7)
34. a worm bores into an apple to
___ ___ it (3,4)
35. list of meeting tasks (singular) (7)
37. places to fix or store automobiles (7)
38. ass-like (7)
39. sign of sore (7)
43. more familiar to the poor
than mortgages (6)
45. tents of central Asia (5)
48. there is no more (4)
49. to assist (4)
50. potpourri, dish of many ingredients (4)
51. seconds (4)

LETTERS IN CIRCLES: make up words - type the words in the search bar on Wikipedia website (en.wikipedia.org)
Answers to the puzzle in our March 16-31 issue:
 Across: 1) planetarium 9) eel  10) awn  11) so  12) NDP  13) tog 14) wad 
 15) ageless  17) age  18) Lenin  19) totem  21) he  22) me 23) Scout  26) fires 
 29) car  30) epithet  32) run  33) Mrs.  34) ore 35) us  36) pet  37) lie 
 38) beauty sleep
 Down: 1) penal  2) ledge  3) Alpenhorn  4) eaten  5) twos  6) angst 7) usage 
 8) modem  14) water hole  16) lieu  20) omit  23) scrub 24) cause  25) tempt 
 26) fists  27) eerie  28) steep  31) prey