| ACROSS
1. An operating system that is on a disk.
4. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. The sound made by a gentle blow.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Very dark black.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
21. Of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor.
23. Of or relating to the aorta.
25. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
35. A doctor's degree in optometry.
40. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
48. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
49. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
51. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
52. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
53. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
55. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
56. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
59. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
60. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
61. Any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals.
62. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
64. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
68. A hereditary ruler.
70. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
71. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
72. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
74. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).
78. An encroachment or intrusion.
81. The act of scanning.
83. Ground snakes.
85. A weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
89. Small wooden bat with a flat surface.
91. Lose blood from one's body.
92. An informal term for a father.
93. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
94. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
96. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
99. Of inferior or mixed breed.
100. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
101. With no effort to conceal.
102. An unforeseen obstacle.
103. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
|
DOWN
1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. Preserve of crushed fruit.
5. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
6. The British system of withholding tax.
7. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
8. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
9. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
12. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
13. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
14. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
24. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
26. Of or relating to or produced by the glottis.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
34. Protective stockings worn with or in place of boots.
36. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
37. Climbing salamanders.
38. (trademark) An alloy based on tungsten with cobalt or nickel as a binder.
39. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
41. A mountain peak in central Washington.
42. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
43. Used of mouth or eyes.
44. Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant.
45. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
50. A public building for gambling and entertainment.
57. Reveal in private.
58. Being nine more than ninety.
63. Having or involving the use of hands.
65. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
66. The fatty flesh of eel.
67. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
69. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
75. An awkward stupid person.
76. A genus of Pyralidae.
77. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
79. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
80. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
82. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
84. (Welsh) A warrior god.
86. Any competition.
87. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
90. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
95. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
97. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
98. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
|
