Crossword Puzzle Number 2220 (Medium 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    

ACROSS

1. Cut off from a whole.
4. Extremely hungry.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A state of dishonor.
17. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
18. A person who works at a specific job.
20. A genus of Siphonaptera.
21. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
22. A narrow pass (especially one between mountains).
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
26. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
28. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
29. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
31. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
34. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
42. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
43. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
44. (genetics) Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced.
46. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
47. Of or at or relating to an anode.
50. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
51. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
52. Being one more than fifty.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
68. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
69. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
72. Excessively fat.
73. A flexible container with a single opening.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
79. An inlaid furniture decoration.

DOWN

1. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
2. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
3. Layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream.
4. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
5. Be in accord.
6. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
7. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
8. A smoky fire to drive away insects.
9. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
10. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
11. God of the sky.
12. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
13. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
14. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
19. (of persons) Seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom.
25. Towards the shore from the water.
27. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
30. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. Jordan's port.
35. Obvious and dull.
36. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. An official who carries a mace of office.
39. A genus of Indriidae.
40. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
48. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
49. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
55. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. Of or relating to or involving an area.
61. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
62. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
63. A garment that covers the head and face.
65. A republic in western South America.
66. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
67. Heal or recover.
70. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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