April 2024

5. To pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
7. A tightrope walker
9. Any of several salamanders that inhabit lakes and ponds of Mexico and remain in the larval stage as sexually mature adults
10. Offset the effect of (something) by countering it with something of equal force
11. Also called a ghost rainbow
12. Coined by U.S. physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963
13. An early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd
15. To apply cosmetics to (the face)
16. (Verb) To splash, as things in water, or as water does
17. Sufficiently thin or airy as to be translucent
18. The labor involved in maintaining and enhancing family ties, including organizing social occasions, remembering birthdays, sending gifts, etc.
19. Grayish white
20. Proceeding by inquiry or investigation

1. Difficult to understand; obscure
2. Meat that has been cooked slowly on low heat, especially over an open fire or in a below-ground pit.
3. (Especially of a book or periodical) So interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading
4. To write poetry
6. A general mixture; a miscellaneous collection
8. An outstanding example of particular type of person or thing
11. A small wooden barrel or covered vessel
14. The state of being no longer used or practiced
16. A forceful blow