Criss Cross

Intermediate
Puzzle by Tex Jernigan
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Across

1.Christen
3.Cease
4.Tums or Rolaids, e.g.
7.Acquire for cash
8.Women's tennis org.
9.Plague-spreading rodents
10.Timid sort
12.Rest (on)
14.Wild-eyed madman
15.Pale purple shade
17.Elected local official
18.Words of tribute at a wake
20.Dip a toe into, casually
22.Draining of all funds
23.Plant that yields linen fiber
24.Rap contest of freestyle verses
28.Mixed feelings
30.Patron
31.Troubles
32.Most favorable, as a scenario
34.Risk it
35.Fertile land given to Jacob's clan
36.Blair's spouse, née Booth
37.Simple and no more
38.'Edward Scissorhands' director

Down

1.Straight ahead, on a ship
2.Traditional Navajo home
5.Watered-down brew of the 1920s
6.Tennyson piece about country life
7.Sudden memory lapse?
9.Trail the whole group
11.Gripe
13.Self-image
16.Arthurian knight married to Enid
19.Ceramic coating
20.Barely illuminated
21.Bar fight
22.Giant's climbing route, in a fairy tale
25.Khan of 'I Feel for You'
26.Errand list header
27.Blemish
29.Pale hue often seen in a nursery
30.Worsted yarn for needlework
31.Telegraph line
33.Aide
35.Banded rock formed by heat and pressure
36.Cake bit
37.Puddle sludge
38.Thanksgiving bird, if male
Constructor's Notes

This was just a test to see how the criss-cross style puzzles work on here.

— Tex Jernigan

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