CHINESE NEW YEAR

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By Evelyn Johnson - www.qets.com

CHINESE NEW YEAR

ACROSS

1 Slide on snow 4 Sweet baked food 9 Madagascar franc (abbr.)

12 Ancient Indian 14 Practiced 15 Hello! 16 Working implement 17 Determined by moon's

revolution around the earth 18 Corridor 19 Out of nothing (2 wds.) 21 Unified 23 Often poetically 24 Not max 25 Hard, translucent green

mineral 28 Tree gum 31 Baby sheep 34 Prejudice 36 Edge 38 Time period 40 Throb 41 End of Greek alphabet 43 Heavenly light 44 Also 45 November (abbr.)

46 Begin to grow 48 All 51 Net 53 Large carnivorous member

of the cat family 54 _____ envelope 56 Gone by 58 Ancient paper (plr.) 61 Blurring 66 Beers 67 Mud brick 69 Spoken 70 Sheep-like animal 71 Taboos 72 In _____ 73 Snake like fish 74 Kellogg's waffles 75 This time

CHINESE NEW YEAR

DOWN

1 Location 2 "money" fort 3 Computer picture button 4 Head of Islam 5 Grown-ups 6 Game of chance 7 Government agency 8 Play a guitar 9 Arbitrary order

10 Masculine 11 Precious yellow metal 13 Boxer Muhammad 15 Large Asian country 20 Garden tools 22 Nothing 25 Rachel's husband 26 Sound of a sneeze 27 Demise 29 Tylenol's competitor 30 Hog 32 Ditto (2 wds.) 33 Strength 34 Long-tailed rodent 35 After sun. 37 Pop (plr.) 39 Artist's creation

42 Cut grass 43 __ Lanka 47 Walk slowly 49 Lover's meeting 50 Possessive pronoun 52 Tropical grass that grows

to height of a tree 55 Girl's name 57 Speculate 58 Part of a book 59 Healing plant 60 Ring, like bells 61 Anthem 62 Received 63 Press 64 North Atlantic Treaty

Organization 65 Beam 68 Four-legged furry mammal

related to the wolf

CHINESE NEW YEAR

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