Dave’s Christmas Crossword 2005: A Message from Gaia

by Dave Pollard, November 2005
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The four-part, 21-word message is a tiny play on words.
If you just want to print out the blank grid for solving, find it here.
If you get stumped, the answers are here.

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ACROSS:
1   Most e-mail these days
5   Decayed organic matter
10 Mal de ____
13 River through Florence
14 Discharge or excrete
15 Machete or tie
16 Message part 1
19 Excellent
20 Latin for ënothingí
21 Cut off (branches)
22 Inferno writer
24 Message part 2
30 Mists of Avalon director Edel
31 Peter Krauseís character on Six Feet Under, and others
32 Construction beam
33 Soccerís world cup organizer (abbr.)
35 Videotape format
36 Home for chickadees
37 Summers in Paris
38 Revealing skirts
40 Maker of Italian 2500 GT sports car
41 Message part 3
45 Mr. Tís group
46 OJ Simpson trial judge
47 Iraqi city of two million
49 Seizes
54 Message part 4
57 Pennsylvania town whose name means ëvalleyí
58 Just the ___ day
59 Fourth biggest Great Lake
60 Place ___ Arts, home to Montreal symphony
61 Northern Britons
62 On your right, when walking North

DOWN:
1   Cutting tools or adages
2   Private secondary school
3   ___-retentive
4   Beach town on St. Peterís Bay, PEI
5   Pin closest to you, in bowling
6   Tangerine-grapefruit hybrid
7   Present your cards, in pinochle
8   Bush country, for now (abbr.)
9   Oil additive, from Clorox
10 Cubís parent
11 Post-human race in The Time Machine
12 Even more amused than LOL
15 UK
17 Organic compound
18 ___ of Green Gables
22 ìEasy _____î
23 Response to a ques.
24 Bushís latest Supreme Court nominee
25 ì___ by us as waves out to seaî
26 Anemia caused by allergic reaction to beans
27 Prefix meaning racial or cultural
28 Delicious
29 Estrogen treatments at menopause (abbr.)
30 Four-day tests for prospective CAís
34 Rare option in a car, these days
38 Actress Kirschner who plays Jenny on The L-Word
39 Thieves
42 2005, for example
43 2003 and 2004 Grammy winner James
44 Wig
47 MS Windows horror (abbr.)
48 Mayo & mustard seafood sauce
49 Type of salmon
50 Assist in a crime
51 ___ avis (unusual person)
52 Greek goddess of discord
53 Nullify a deletion or correction
55 John ___ Passos, American writer
56 ëThe better wayí, in T.O.

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