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FACTS AND FUNFACTS AND FUN

Mountain Views-News Saturday, April 13, 2024 


THEME: GRADUATION

ACROSS

1. Accumulate

6. Popular pickup

9. Johnny Depp’s 2001 biopic

13. Jousting pole

14. Mozart’s “L’____ del Cairo”

15. Figure of speech

16. Oak nut

17. Be off base

18. Less typical

19. *Graduating class

21. *S in BS

23. *Graduating NCAA player’s goal?

24. FedEx, verb

25. “I Want My ____,” television channel

28. Daytime drama

30. Online business

35. Fleur-de-lis

37. Dart

39. Planktonic tunicate

40. Not naughty

41. Break of day

43. Last row

44. Verdi’s opus

46. Lion’s do

47. D.E.A. agent

48. Sell again

50. Penny

52. To the ____ degree

53. Prep for certain potatoes

55. Metered ride

57. *Final reward

61. *Academic ____, a.k.a. Cap and Gown

65. Gibson garnish

66. Rocks, to a bartender

68. Angry

69. Lieu

70. Not solid or liquid

71. Post-it user

72. Of two minds

73. Bldg unit

74. Opposite of friend

DOWN

1. “Oh, woe!”

2. Riot spray

3. At another time, archaic

4. Substitute for tender

5. Misters in Spain

6. Fish eggs, pl.

7. Acronym, abbr.

8. Wet land

9. Highlands hillside

10. Forsaken

11. Oil org.

12. “The Way We ____”

15. *Finals at Cambridge University

20. Building toppers

22. El ____, Spain’s national hero

24. Popeye’s fuel

25. *Major’s partner

26. Beef ____, dim sum choice

27. Moral weaknesses

29. *Grad

31. Mountain lake

32. As a whistle?

33. 1960s abstractionism

34. *”Pomp and Circumstance,” e.g.

36. Dried up

38. Adjust the pitch, with “up”

42. Previous VP

45. Marcona nut

49. Skedaddle

51. Moroccan spiced stew

54. Eurasian antelope

56. Sacha Cohen’s middle name

57. Olden days “do”, second person singular

58. Sean Penn’s movie “____ the Wild”

59. Embarkation location

60. *Student aid

61. Catch one’s breath

62. Not on time

63. One on a list

64. Bald eagle’s nest

67. *Graduation garb topper

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