March 2012 Crossword Puzzle & Answers

CLUES ACROSS
1. Bay Area Transit Auth. (abbr.)
5. Pull apart by force
9. Ancient Egyptian King
12. Missing soldiers
13. Capital of Japan
14. Diamond month (abbr.)
15. Spheres
16. Surpassing good
17. British thermal unit
18. Philippine island & seaport
19. Legally argued
20. Belonging to singer Fitzgerald
22. Bowler hats
24. Has a strong odor
25. Doyens
26. London Gallery
27. Rural delivery
28. Rods
31. Stonhenge plain
33. Withdraw from membership
34. Execute or perform
35. Central or Yellowstone
36. Municipality in Norway
39. Bay of NW Rep. of Ireland
40. Skin designs
42. Son of Jephunneh
43. Baseball’s Ruth
44. Clare Booth __, Am. writer
46. Black tropical American cuckoo
47. Filled with fear or apprehension
49. 6th Jewish month
50. Wide metal vessel used in cooking
51. Make by pouring into a cast
52. Colombian city
53. Heat unit
54. Carpenter, red and army
55. Adam and Eve’s garden
CLUES
1. Big man on campus
2. Made public by radio or television
3. Labelled
4. Inform positively
5. Drinks habitually
6. Supplemented with difficulty
7. SW Scottish river & port
8. American poet 1874-1963
9. Pads
10. Ingestion or intake
11. Tie up a bird before cooking
13. Bulrushes of the genus Scirpus
16. Turned rod on a spinning wheel
21. Having or covered with leaves
23. The 44th U.S. President
28. Midway between S and SE
29. Tuberculosis (abbr.)
30. Inspected accounting procedures
31. A twilled woolen fabric
32. Potato state
33. The work of a sailor
35. Involving 2 dimensions
36. Fanatical or overzealous
37. Consolation
38. Wild sheep of northern Africa
39. Erect leafless flower-bearing stalk
40. Afrikaans
41. Weighing device
43. Very dry champagne
45. Emerald Isle
48. A resident of Benin
SOLUTIONS ACROSS
1.
5. Tear
9. Tut
12. s
13. Tokyo
14. Apr.
15. Orbs
16. Superb
17.
18. Cebu
19. Pled
20. Ellas
22. Derbies
24. Reeks
25. Deans
26. Tate
27. RD
28. Staffs
31. Salisbury
33. Secede
34. Do
35. Park
36. Rissa
39. Sligo
40. Tattoos
42. Caleb
43. Babe
44. Luce
46. Ani
47. Afraid
49. Adar
50. Pan
51. Mould
52. Cali
53.
54. Ants
55. Eden
SOLUTIONS
1.
2. Aired
3. Tabbed
4. Assure
5. Topes
6. Eked
7. Ayr
8. Robert Frost
9. Tablets
10. Uptake
11. Truss
13. Tules
16. Spindle
21. Leafy
23. Barack Obama
28.
29. TB
30. Auditetd
31. Serge
32. ID
33. Sailing
35. Planar
36. Rabid
37. Solace
38. Aoudad
39. Scape
40. Tals
41. Scale
43. Brut
45. Erin
48. Fon

Updated 03-02-2012
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