PV CROSSWORD
by David Tymoshchuk

ACROSS
1. dispatch boat (6)
6. topic (7)
13. if not taller, then this (5)
14. caress (8)
15. amber ___ (5)
16. West Indies (9)
17. Ukrainian, Russian, Polish (4)
18. large parts of poem (6)
19. upper, ___, lower (3)
20. vice president’s company (10)
22. different from different (4)
23. even more rude and abrupt (6)
24. oil from petals (5)
25. ___ of two evils (is still evil) (6)
26. musical instruments, good with ice cream (6)
27. a snake’s tongue (6)


28. crop to alternate with cotton (6)
29. geometric shape (6)
30. frames pictures in frames (6)
31. part of body (5)
32. plural of a pole (6)
33. to give out for awhile (4)
34. chart of ancestors (6,4)
38. female sheep (3)
39. butylene (6)
40. wife (and sister!) of Zeus (4)
41. arresting (9)
43. to give to (5)
44. right ___, punctual (2,3,3)
45. ___ house (5)
46. steric acid in commercial form (7)
47. between (5)

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DOWN
1. covered with water (5)
2. housing of rich or elite (5)
3. the best possible choice (5)
4. route often leads to enviromental
destruction (7,4)
5. leftover on plate (3)
6. tailor (6)
7. business ___, social ___ (5)
8. hairstyles, or popping head up and
down (4)
9. what a worker has (3)
10. edema-like (9)
11. one who files for claim (8)
12. bids for contracts (7)
14. easy gallop (6)
16. ___ off, hauled away (6)
18. doomed to bad luck (6)
 21. a shoe, or tragic acting (6)
22. close enough to hit with ball/
rock (6,5)
24. bane of political change (6)
25. rich lady’s handheld glasses (9)
26. enter a territory and build (6)
27. precede (8)
28. peeling (6)
29. cities or weigh scales (“no
springs”) (7)
30. spur of ___ (6)
32. a society of distinct people (6)
34. base of an organ, pl. (5)
35. to rob (5)
36. Henson’s ___ and Bert (5)
37. meal that was finished (5)
39. stand for a casket (4)
42. Aaaahhhaaaaaa! (3)
43. time in prime meridian (3)

LETTERS IN CIRCLES SPELL:
Eddie ___. enter into searchbar in wikipedia.org

Answers to the puzzle in our April 1-15 issue:
 Across:
1) coddler 8) micas 13) overawe 14) odorant 16) denoted 17) reverie
18) drawers 19) gristle 20) ears 21) are 22) oil 23) dried 25) rani 27) one
28) misogamist 31) Ned 32) reposer 33) sea 36) maple sugar 40) tag 41) reed
42) easel 44) ate 45) YCL 46) ride 47) lingual 49) Hosanna 52) endorse
53) elegies 54) stunted 55) license 56) tomes 57) possess
 Down:
1) codded 2) overarm 3) denarii 4) drowses 5) late 6) ewer 7) Reds
8) movie 9) ires 10) cartoon 11) aniline 12) steeled 14) organised
15) derrises 24) dorm 25) rappelled 26) amole 29) gear case 30) true
 33) stalest 34) eat into 35) agendum 37) garages 38) asinine 39) redness
43) leases 45) yurts 48) gone 49) help 50) olio 51) secs