Crossword Puzzle Number 2388 (Large Grid)

  10 11 12  13 14 15 
16    17      18     19   
20   21     22       23   
24      25 26   27    28    
  29   30  31     32      
33 34     35     36       
37     38   39 40 41      42 43 
44  45     46    47   48 49   
50     51 52    53   54     
55   56  57    58      59   
60        61    62  63    
64     65 66 67       68    
69    70  71       72     
   73  74     75 76 77      
78 79 80       81     82 83 84 85 
86    87   88 89  90   91  92   
93    94      95     96   
97    98      99     100   

ACROSS

1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. State in northeastern India.
9. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
13. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. Chief port of Yemen.
19. (Babylonian) The sky god.
20. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
22. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
23. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
24. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. Pertaining to a simple method of cell division.
29. A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
31. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
32. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
33. Pearl oysters.
36. Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks.
37. Before noon.
38. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
44. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
46. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. How long something has existed.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
55. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
57. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
59. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
60. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
61. Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh.
64. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
65. Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters.
68. The habitation of wild animals.
69. American Revolutionary patriot.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
78. A wicked or evil person.
81. God of love and erotic desire.
82. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
87. An angular shape made by folding.
90. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
92. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
93. Being one more than two.
94. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
95. A state in the western United States.
96. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
97. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
98. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
99. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
100. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Type genus of the Majidae.
2. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
3. Wish harm upon.
4. (psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
5. An enclosed space.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
9. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. Related on the mother's side.
13. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
14. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
15. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
21. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
26. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
28. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
30. A member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia.
34. Not based on fact.
35. A Mid-Atlantic state.
39. (trademark) A thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc..
40. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
42. Any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers.
43. French philosopher and theologian.
45. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
47. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
52. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. Depressing in character or appearance.
58. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
62. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. United States comic actor in silent films.
66. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
67. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
70. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
71. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
72. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
74. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
75. (anatomy) A natural hollow or sinus within the body.
76. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
77. (botany) Especially of leaves.
79. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
80. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
84. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
85. A city in northern India.
88. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
89. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
91. A doctor's degree in theology.

Feel free to print out this crossword puzzle for your personal use. You may also link to it. However, this web page and puzzle are copyrighted and may not be distributed without prior written consent.

Navigation
Home Page
Printer Friendly
View Solution
Previous Puzzle
Next Crossword

© Clockwatchers, Inc. 2003