| ACROSS
1. The sound made by corvine birds.
4. Herbs of temperate regions.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. (Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
17. Flat and uninspiring.
18. Cover with drops, as with dew.
19. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
20. English essayist (1775-1834).
21. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
22. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
24. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
26. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
28. A person of unquestioning obedience.
30. Not out.
32. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
34. Of or relating to alleles.
38. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
40. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
42. Any plant of the genus Inula.
43. A festival featuring African-American culture.
45. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
47. The month following January and preceding March.
48. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence.
49. Being one more than fifty.
51. Having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.
53. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
54. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
56. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
60. (of stone especially) Not given a finished form by or as if by hewing.
64. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
68. Poorly stated or described.
72. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
73. Beyond what is natural.
76. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
77. A bachelor's degree in music.
80. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
81. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
82. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
|
DOWN
1. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. The extent of something from side to side.
4. Any of numerous long-tailed American finches.
5. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
6. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
7. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
9. Seed of a pea plant.
10. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
11. American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794).
12. A telephone connection.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
23. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
27. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
29. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
31. The largest city in New Jersey.
33. The face of a timepiece.
35. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
36. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
37. A telegram sent abroad.
39. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. Type genus of the Zoarcidae.
46. A small roofed building affording shade and rest.
50. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
52. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
55. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
59. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
61. The capital and largest city of Poland.
62. A wound made by cutting.
63. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
65. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
69. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
70. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
71. Highly offensive.
74. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
75. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
|
