Crossword Puzzle Number 6827 (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     101   

ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
9. The basic unit of money in China.
13. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
18. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
21. A wind instrument.
23. Imperial moths.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands.
29. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
30. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
33. A port city in southwestern Norway.
38. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
39. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
42. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
45. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
47. The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States.
49. Using speech rather than writing.
51. The mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it).
53. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
54. Derive or receive pleasure from.
55. The basic unit of money in Romania.
56. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
61. Local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism.
63. Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers.
70. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
72. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
73. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
75. Any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears.
80. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
83. (Greek) A benevolent spirit.
85. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
89. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
90. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
92. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
93. A proportion multiplied by 100.
94. Squash bugs.
95. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. (informal) Of the highest quality.
98. An affirmative.
99. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A federally chartered savings bank.
5. The process of forming leaves.
6. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
7. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
8. The habitation of wild animals.
9. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. American novelist (1909-1955).
12. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
13. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
14. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
15. A Nilotic language.
22. Foot pain.
24. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
26. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
28. Occurring at or dependent on a particular season.
31. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
34. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal.
35. Give retouches to.
36. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
37. English monk and scholar (672-735).
40. Of or resembling algae.
41. A Loloish language.
43. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
44. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies.
46. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
48. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
50. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
52. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
57. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
64. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
65. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
68. Any thick messy substance.
69. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
71. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
74. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
76. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
77. United States playwright (1906-1963).
78. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
79. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
80. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
81. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
82. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
84. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
86. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
87. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
88. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
91. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
96. A public promotion of some product or service.

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