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24th Birthday Celebration Crossword Puzzle
Theme: the number 24
Clues Across1. Toppers for Scottish laddies' noggins 5. Clarifying phrase 9. Chip off the old silicon block? (abbr) 13. Where to gamble on a Portuguese-Chinese fusion 14. Arctic circle's nomadic bunch 15. Spicy, but not for sensitive palates 16. Cut to the chase with motorized teeth? 18. Repeated cries for help, in brief 19. Salmon that's not quite ready for the big leagues 20. 2400 22. Sesamum indicum 24. Single-channel sound, or a nasty bug 25. It takes 24 of these to make 53 down pure 28. Holy shirt for the devoted dresser 30. Wound up like a clock's innards 33. sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash 34. Plural bubbles on ancient seals 36. Religious TV network 37. Geomteric objict with 24 square faces 39. Spinster's card game or cleaning tool 41. NWS uses this when tornados are nearby 42. Famous race that lasts 24 hours 44. How Pierre might answer le telephone 45. Shorthand expert's shortened moniker 47. Baby blocker placed inside 48. Probable king oif Denmark in 624. Kinsman of Beowulf 49. US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1924 51. Picture puzzle that's worth a thousand words 53. Burner that fuels the chef's fire (two words) 56. Shocked silly, like a specter 60. Free Willy's species 61. Peaceful tools from swords, biblically speaking 63. Faithful to a fault, in ye olde tongue 64. Doing nothing, like a car in neutral 65. Santa's little helpers or Keebler's cookie crew 66. Gentle touches or flatfish finds 67. Speaker of the US House of Representatives, 1824 68. Pig's dinner or sloppy joe filling Down1. Himalayan wild goat with a woolly coat 2. Berry trendy superfood 3. Postman's burden of communiqués 4. This happens once every 24 hours 5. Odds are this is a chancy group (abbr) 6. Lumber-cutting plant that's a real buzz 7. Free online number checker 8. An indepedent type of disease 9. Toxic gas that's no laughing matter 10. Civil parish in Funchai, Maediera 11. Sets bloody standards for WHO 12. Unwanted growth that's not quite assist 13. In short, one millionth of a gram 17. Japanese change or Thai coin 21. Observed or well-known, in short 23. Abbreviation for a mile when at sea 25. With "the," afflicted with an affected coyness 26. Where one dined 27. Potato affliction caused by a species of Streptomyces 29. Fair-haired fun, perhaps? 31. Motionless or moonshine maker 32. Phrase commonly paired with with "the road" or "my rope." 34. This counts backwards from when times became common. 35. Lou Gherig's Disease 38. Where farmers sometimes store hay 40. US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1824 43. Halo for a holy head 46. Nosey sounds in phonetics 48. Tycoon Howard, born on December 24, 1905 50. Subject matter at hand 52. Degrees earned by some non-scientists 53. It takes 24 of 25 across to make this pure 54. Space to fill or field of study 55. A kind of bad cholesterol (abbr) 57. UK aircraft manufacturer of the Lancaster and the Vulcan, for example 58. Slowly leak like a lazy faucet 59. abbr, killer of puppeteer Henson 62. Old English weight that's not far from way |