CLUES ACROSS 1. Former CIA 4. Fluid in a plant 7. Power of Attorney

(abbr.)10. Small mound

or clump12. Ship’s workers14. Alternate unit of

measure15. Margarines17. Swiss river18. A place ____ itself19. Exterior arch

support22. Repents23. Luxuriant dark

brown fur24. Chinese dynasty

960 - 127925. Fishing lure26. Atomic #6327. Canadian province

28. Plays Stokes on“C SI”

30. Sonnet author32. Roman numeral 1533. Indicates position34. Porgy36. Quantitative fact39. Slang for

famous person41. Swiss house43. Bedroom bureau46. Acts as military

assistant47. Scottish hillside48. Chilean pianist

Claudio50. Put into service51. Without (French)52. Fire iron 53. Confined condition

(abbr.)54. Make lacework55. Bravo! Bravo!

Bravo!

CLUES DOWN 1. Word element

meaning ear 2. Antibacterial drugs 3. Melts or fuses 4. Borderland’s

dog-like monster 5. Saudi man 6. South American

country 7. A member of

a panel 8. Beginning point

in time 9. “____ and Andy”11. Peludo13. Moistens16. Committed a moral

transgression18. Svelte and refined20. Wine and hot water

with sugar, lemon juice and nutmeg

21. The bill in a restaurant

28. Went beyond29. Forcibly tear away30. Turkish title for civil

officers31. Canadian capital34. Megascopically

crystaline rock35. An animal

companion37. Warning signal of

danger38. Intense fear40. Curtsies41. Center of a

cambered road42. Ethiopian lake43. Fetal head covering44. Male undergraduate

sociall club (abbr.)45. “State Fair” actor

Andrews49. Exclamation: yuck!

4 6 5 3

2

5 7 4 1

8 3 4 6 7 2

9 6

6 7 2 9 3 8

9 6 3 5

4

3 8 6 7

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crypt-o-gram each letter represents another to form a quote-worthy statement.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: “ The fi rst of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) was born – two months prematurely – under Halley’s Comet on Nov. 30, 1835 in Missouri. While on a riverboat ride Clemens fi rst heard the expression “mark twain” (a boating term meaning two fathoms), which he adopted as his pen name, fi rst affi xing it to a humorous travel letter in 1863. Despite his unfortunate fi nal years, when personal tragedy plagued him causing a darker tone to color his writing, he was bzeloved, feted and frequently consulted on issues of the day. Clemens predicted in 1909 that he would die when the famous comet would come back, and when he died in Connecticut in 1910, Halley’s Comet was once again blazing in the heavens.—DW