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This week's theme: Geography

Geography Guide

Across

1. * Earth surface representation
4. Slendered-bodied-bee-like insect
8. * Mountain system in Europe, with "The"
12. France, once
13. * Visual image of a region
14. Semitic deity
15. Sweet Spire
16. Twins who starred on "Full House" (TV)
17. Against
18. * This geographic area in the Middle East was the cradle of many ancient civilizations: ___ Crescent
20. Self importance
22. Commotion of Noise
23. "Complac" Completer
24. * Wet spongy ground
26. * Layers of rock
29. Hebrew zither-like instrument
30. It'll turn "mph" into victory
31. Bank Bill
35. The "I" in IRA
38. Farewell in Frankfurt: ___ Wiedersehen
39. * Wooded areas
41. Rooster's Salute: Cock-a-doodle-___
42. Nostalgic fashion or music
44. Simplicity
45. Mild exclamation
46. * Grazing Grassland
48. * Courses of Water
50. * Mass of Ice
53. Eliza'a scream to a horse in "My Fair Lady" (1964): "Come on Dover! Move yer bloomin' ___!"
54. Camphor, for one
55. Gray the Botanist
56. * Geographic feature off the coast of Australia: Great ___ Reef
60. Look Longingly
62. Certain bacteria reported about in the News, commonly
64. Collection of Old Norse poems
65. "That was a close one!"
66. Make-a-Word! ___tly (Of late)
67. * Adriatic and Baltic and Caribbean
68. Eye infection (var. sp.)
69. Emperor of Russia
70. Scottish cap, commonly

Down

1. Person's Partner
2. Hungarian-born violinist renowned as a teacher: Leopold ___ (b.1845 - d.1930)
3. * Flat elevation
4. American aviator who made the first solo flight around the world, in 1933: ___ Post (b.1899 - d.1935)
5. Beast of Burden
6. * Like some mountains
7. * Ancient supercontinent (var. sp.)
8. Garment woven from goat and camel hair
9. * Man is believed to have traveled across one from Siberia to Alaska, in Prehistoric Times
10. Summertime terrace
11. Cast Cradler
12. Type of computer file
13. * Opening in the Earth's crust
19. Worldwide, weenily
21. * Sanctuary in the Sahara
25. * High rocky hill
26. * A guide for an early Explorer while navigating the Earth and its geography
27. Genuine
28. * Depression along the Earth's crust
32. Metal-bearing mineral
33. Break in Britain
34. Curvy letter
36. Hang glide
37. Brick carriers
39. * Leaflike Layers
40. * Area of ground
43. Finished basement: ___ Room
45. * The Earth's highest mountain peak
47. * Arid region
49. Locale of Tel Aviv, for short
50. Book by humorist Gelett Burgess (b.1866 - d.1951): "___ and How to Be Them" (1900)
51. Dark antonym
52. Certain Competitions
53. More competent
57. Thought
58. Dutch cheese
59. Like Felicity and Meghan on TV's "Felicity"
61. She Sheep
63. Perennial Plant