Pg 22 • August 2020 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. August 2020 Crossword! EVER-CHANGING GARDEN ACROSS


1. Sail supports 6. Trudge 10. Center


14. Part of a body of water 15. 71 in Roman numerals 16. Elliptical 17. A drunk 18. Affirm 19. Naked 20. An orange-yellow food dye


22. Stars and Stripes 23. Egg cells


24. Bright and pleasant 26. Acid neutralizer 30. Communion table 32. Hurt badly 33. Resist 35. Brusque 39. Not outer


41. What a knight is called 42. Hair net 43. Befuddle 44. Neighborhood 46. Coagulated milk 47. Publish 49. A poor densely populated city district


51. Reduce in rank 54. Also


55. Fragrance 56. Dark and misty and gloomy


63. Stiff hair 64. Lamented 65. Ringworm bush 66. Radiate 67. Sea eagle 68. Complete 69. Out of harm’s way 70. Makes lace 71. Muzzle


DOWN 1. Fog


2. Dwarf buffalo 3. Aspersion 4. Exam


5. Steroid alcohol 6. Public square 7. Sixty-six in Roman numerals


8. Beasts of burden 9. Lead


10. Meeting 11. Small egg


12. Detecting by radio waves 13. Mournful poem 21. Keen


25. Stetsons and derbies 26. Dogfish 27. Territory 28. Warm-hearted 29. Make better 30. In flames


31. Stringed instrument 34. Jacob’s brother 36. Defeat disastrously 37. Class 38. Cocoyam 40. Repose 45. All excited 48. Hush-hush 50. Lifts


51. Measured amounts of medication


52. Swelling under the skin 53. Recurring theme 54. The periodic rise and fall of the sea 57. Emanation 58. The period preceeding Easter


59. A gas found in some lights


60. Not deceived by 61. A Central American sloth 62. Sodium chloride


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leeks and onions, beets, and other root crops. Plant peas, carrots, spinach, corn salad and lettuce. Sow


Solution for June 2020 CROSSWORD continued from page 8


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