| ACROSS
1. British informal term.
4. A native American tent.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
12. Stem of plants of the Gramineae.
16. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
17. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
20. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
21. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
23. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
25. Slanderous defamation.
27. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
28. Squash bugs.
29. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
30. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
32. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
35. Take by theft.
39. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
42. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
46. United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996).
47. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
48. Admitting of bail.
51. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
52. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
53. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
55. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
57. Something causes misery or death.
58. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
60. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
61. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
66. A Russian river.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. The process of forming and relating ideas.
71. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
72. Most important element.
73. The amount a salary is increased.
74. Of or relating to apnea.
76. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
78. The capital of Western Samoa.
81. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
87. Refresh one's memory.
90. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
93. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
94. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. A light touch or stroke.
98. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
99. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
|
DOWN
1. A Russian unit of length (1.067 km).
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
4. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
5. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
6. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
7. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
8. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
9. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. Coins collectively.
13. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
14. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
15. Type genus of the Majidae.
22. A stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum.
24. The first month of the year.
26. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
31. A person forced to flee from home or country.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
36. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
37. Mountain goats.
38. An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea.
40. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
41. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
43. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
44. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
45. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
49. Closed with a lace.
50. Related on the mother's side.
54. Found off the West Indies and Florida.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
62. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
63. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
64. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
65. Being one more than two.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
69. A handsaw stiffened by metal along upper edge.
70. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
77. Type genus of the Percidae.
79. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
80. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
82. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
83. A French abbot.
84. An informal term for a father.
85. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
86. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
88. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
89. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
|