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Mountain Views-News Saturday, March 23, 2024 


THEME: 

EUROPEAN CAPITALS

ACROSS

1. Parting words

6. Broadcasting acronym

9. Taj Mahal city

13. Ernest, to mommy

14. “Fat chance!”

15. Fits of shivering

16. Rundown

17. Historical period

18. “____ its weight in gold”

19. *Namesake of famous pact signed in 1955

21. *”The City of a Hundred Spires”

23. Financial assistance

24. Bird’s groomer

25. Pod nugget

28. Fountain order

30. Duck dish a certain way

35. Picture on a coat

37. Feline vibration

39. Stocking fiber

40. Stink to high heaven

41. Cocoyam, pl.

43. Pelvic bones

44. Frost over (2 words)

46. Stew bean

47. Sleeveless garment

48. Predicament

50. Snakelike fish

52. Hi-____ monitor

53. Toothy wheel

55. *Street, in capital city in #38 Down

57. *On the Danube

60. *On the Thames

63. Virtue, in Italian

64. *Street, in capital city in #25 Down

66. Dashboard instruments

68. Beside, archaic

69. Geological Society of America

70. Type of heron

71. Parks or Luxemburg

72. Pecking mother

73. Like oboe’s sound

DOWN

1. “____ the land of the free ...”

2. Cold one

3. Peruvian Empire

4. Miss America topper

5. Blood infection

6. Prepare to swallow

7. *Dublin’s cultural quarter neighborhood, 
“Temple ____”.

8. Parallelogram, e.g.

9. All excited

10. Spiritual leader

11. Network of nerves

12. Certain something in a tray

15. Rouse

20. Take puppy from a pound

22. “Hamilton: An American Musical” 
singing style

24. Great ____ Reef

25. *On the Seine

26. Not slouching

27. Arabian chieftain

29. Like Roman god Janus

31. *Also the most populous city in Ukraine

32. More ill

33. Neil Diamond’s “Beautiful ____”

34. Annoying tiny biters

36. Arctic jaeger

38. *Located in boot-shaped country

42. Sound of artillery

45. Kind of hickory nut

49. Jack’s inferior

51. Like a Grammy nominee

54. Frustration, in print

56. “A bird in hand is worth two in the 
bush,” e.g.

57. Source of veritas

58. Wraths

59. Volcano in Sicily

60. Ground beef description

61. Fairytale giant

62. “All You ____ Is Love”

63. Variable, abbr.

65. Put to work

67. Hog heaven

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