“Fifteen Candles”
ACROSS
1. Oil company with torch logo
6. Lamp fuel
9. German submarine
14. Bay
18. Toil
19. African antelope
20. Distant dwarf planet
21. Roman poet
22. Enhance
23. Cheese in red coat
24. Brightest lighthouse on the
Oregon coast
26. The edge of woven fabric
28. Celtic tongue
30. New Jersey Park where Edison
turned on the lights
31. English public school
32. Back portions of feet
33. Pitcher
35. Moved over ice
38. Marine growth
39. New York lady with a torch
43. The Orient
44. Candlestick-maker’s tub friend
45. Collection of Hindu aphorisms
47. Part of verb to be
48. Trick
49. Advise
50. Indian soldier in British service
51. The first man
52. Wrath
53. Grieved
54. Radioactive gaseous element
55. Clamp
56. Automotive company with logo
of pajama-clad, candle-carrying boy
58. Candle for caesar
59. Where rabbits breed
60. Depend
61. African republic
62. US space agency
63. Reside in
66. Confronts
67. Nevada neon cowboy
71. Army unit
72. Man with a burning bush
73. Original
74. Period of history
75. Snare
76. More delicate
77. Inspires dread
78. Soon
79. Abstract being
80. Repairs
81. Person who skis
83. Football kick
84. Madame with wax attractions
around the US
86. Beg
87. Showy
89. Seed containers
90. Melt and mold metal
91. Damage by regular use
92. Tree of the birch family
95. Extraterrestrial
96. Place in position
100. Hot Black Rock City gathering
103. Having eyes
106. Unit of radioactivity
107. Mild oath
108. Inactive
109. Surrealist famed for flaming
giraffes
110. Constellation: the ram
111. Limbs
112. Fits of madness
113. Tenth Hebrew letter
114. Guides
49. Turbulent
50. Greek island in the east Aegean
51. A rich tapestry
53. Paces
54. Garments
55. Basic
57. German manufacturer of armaments
58. One who races
59. Earnings
61. Tenuous substances
62. Not ever
63. Eight singers
64. Horn-shaped bone
65. Gross
66. Affectionate
67. Promised
68. The evening star
69. Golf clubs
70. Cheerful
72. Tends
73. Nymph presiding over rivers
76. Land held in fee
78. f/1.4 for candlelight
80. New Zealand aboriginal
81. Swing around
82. President buried under an eternal flame
85. Uses money
86. George H. W. Bush: “…a thousand ___ of light….”
87. Lair
88. Mischievous person
90. Roadside candle
91. Wireless display (abbr.)
92. Cain’s brother
93. Sled
94. Haul
95. So be it
97. Melody
98. Told an untruth
99. To a smaller extent
101. Naught
102. Oxlike African antelope
104. Legendary emperor of China
105. Antiquity
DOWN
1. Exclamation to express sorrow
2. Created
3. Ancient Greek coin
4. Route 66 car
5. Elaborately adorned
6. Musical instrument
7. Highest mountain in Crete
8. Candle in Beauty and the Beast
9. Upward
10. Consecrate
11. Ornamental brooch
12. Consumed
13. Small child
14. Hold fast
15. Baking chamber
16. Phial
17. Root of the taro
19. Sharp
25. One-celled protozoa
27. Deity
29. The back of
32. Mawkish
33. John who sang “Candle
in the Wind”
34. Lean and sinewy
35. Letter cross-line
36. New Zealand evergreen
tree
37. Donkeys
38. Nucleus of a regiment
40. Radio location system
41. Vestige
42. South Arabia republic
44. Small pulpy fruit
45. Enclosed automobile
46. Atop
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SPRING 2017