| ACROSS
1. In or of the present month.
5. A small island.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Any competition.
17. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
18. A person of French descent.
19. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
21. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.
22. A suburb of Paris.
23. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. Used of the language of the deaf.
32. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
35. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A region and ancient country in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea.
43. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
50. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
52. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
54. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
55. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
57. Any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
58. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
59. Military barracks in a garrison town.
60. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
62. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
63. Closed with a lace.
64. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
65. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
70. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
71. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
74. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
77. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
79. Swedish theologian (1688-1772).
83. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
84. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
85. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
88. A primeval personification of air and breath.
91. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
93. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
94. One thousand grams.
95. A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape.
97. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
98. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
99. Uninhibited United States actress (1903-1968).
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
|
DOWN
1. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
2. The back side of the neck.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
5. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
7. Praise, glorify, or honor.
8. Place in a grave or tomb.
9. Gone by.
10. Having the head uncovered.
11. Includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia.
12. Marked by skill in deception.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
25. Top part of an apron.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. Relating to or having or lying within a scrotum.
31. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
33. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
34. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
36. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
37. Based on racial intolerance.
40. Situated at an apex.
41. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
42. Fix firmly or securely.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
47. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
48. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
51. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
53. 1 species.
56. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
61. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
67. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey.
68. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
69. Large mackerel with long pointed snout.
70. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
71. German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896).
73. A Mid-Atlantic state.
75. Make certain of.
76. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
78. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
80. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
81. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
82. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
83. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
86. Building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating.
87. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
92. A person's brother or sister.
96. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
97. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
|
