Across

1. It might perk twenty or more cups of coffee

4. Art's nephew Chris' wife and mother of Tevne.

8. Bucket

12. ___ Minor

13. ___Office, room where the U.S. president works

14. More competent

16. Transition point

17. Clothes that cover the upper body

18. Race with a baton

19. Poetic word for "before"

20. Art's relationship to John Charles Menu, Sr.

21. Choose not to participate, with "out"

23. Feminine pronoun

24. Bender

26. "All you have to do is ___"

28. Neon or oxygen

30. The "p" in m.p.g.

32. Island where Napoleon was exiled

36. Mexican food

39. Remove grammar and spelling mistakes, for example

41. Ten of these have passed since Alanna became the minister at Centennial United Church in Victoria.

42. A letter that also describes an architectural shape

43. Biggest state in the U.S. till Alaska joined

45. Ready, __ , fire!

46. You wil find two or more of these in every molecule

48. ___ list, things you would like to have

49. You might find a person like this at an exhibit of paintings or sculpture

50. Went by horse

51. Affirmative vote

52. "Round ___ virgin, mother and child..."

54. A gesture of agreement

56. A phrase that might puzzle someone who does not spreak your language

60. "They are like two peas in a ___"

63. Watch chain

65. "The be ___ and the end ___"

67. Catch a criminal

68. "Give me some men who are ___ - hearted men.."

70. Vegetable used in Cajun cuisine

72. A famous lioness about which a book was written

73. Make up for

74. "Puttin' on the ___"

75. Observes

76. "Turn back ___ ___, forswear thy foolish ways..." start of a song from Godspell. Godspell is a wonderful musical. The DVD can be bought from Amazon.

77. "At ___, soldier!"

78. More than one road (abbr.)

Down

1. Take over rulership by force

2. What people in the back row of a choir can stand on so that they may be seen

3. A brief sleep

4. Dorothy's dog

5. Stratford on ___

6. A form of popular music that is more poetry than music

7. In addition to

8. "A whole is greater than the sum of its ___"

9. Honest ___, former U.S. president.

10. Misfortunes

11. The elder of Jacob's two wives (Genesis 29)

12. Four of these will beat four kings

15. Grain from which Canadian whiskey is made

20. The ___ of Galilee

22. "___ for the course" -- what you would expect

25. A sense of self that can become inflated

27. Alanna has a bunch of these on a ring because there are so many locked doors at her workplace. Art has acquired a few himelf since he volunteered to become the treasurer for Centennial. In particular he needs one to get into the treasurer's office where money is kept from the previous Sunday's collection. Art has been retired since November of last year and is still getting used to not having a "real job". The treasurer's job has kept Art busier than he anticipated. A church -- especially a church that rents out some of its rooms -- is more complicated financially than one might think. Keep in mind that Alanna has done Art's and her taxes since they married, so that tells where Art is starting from. And a church that is challenged to balance its budget tends to make a treasurer anxious.

29. "He's ___ in his ways"

30. A kind of fairy

31. You want to know this when you're booking a flight (abbr.)

33. One of Shakespeare's more tragic kings

34. "Fish or cut ___"

35. What the word "host" in the bible often means

36. What one might shed in sadness

37. Female singing voice lower than soprano

38. A clump of earth

40. Wet, as morning grass

44. Children can be this with strangers

47. Males

49. "___ then what happened?"

51. "Much ___ About Nothing"

53. A major Albertan natural resource

55. Frequently

57. A small cove, for example

58. Green places in the desert

59. Degrees for budding entrepreneurs

60. These are often broadcast on radio for free (abbr.)

61. ___ von Bismark

62. ___ sayers have a bleak view of the future

64. To make a hole with a drill

65. Skillful means

66. Idle

69. Spanish word for "a"

71. Korean car manufacturer

72. A letter that also descirbes a kind of curve in the road