Crossword Puzzle Number 2446 (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    80   81   82  83    
84    85        86    

ACROSS

1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base.
17. Being ten more than one hundred thirty.
18. A deep bow.
20. A rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand.
22. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
23. One of the common people.
26. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
27. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
29. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
32. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
33. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
36. The sign language used in the United States.
39. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
41. The basic unit of money in China.
43. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
51. A motorboat resembling a motor scooter.
54. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
56. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
61. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
62. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. German chemist (1818-1892).
68. A tributary of the Ohio River.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
72. Fallow deer.
75. A woman who is engaged to be married.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
79. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
80. Stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings.
83. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
84. Towards the side away from the wind.
85. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A genus of Laridae.
2. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
3. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
4. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
5. An animal such as a mule or burro or horse used to carry loads.
6. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A small island.
8. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
9. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
10. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
11. The wood of an African obeche tree.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. Being two more than sixty.
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
21. A soft whitish calcite.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
28. A quantity of no importance.
30. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
34. Pitching dangerously to one side.
35. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
37. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
38. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
40. Flavored with sour orange peel.
42. A unit of power equal to 1 joule per second.
44. The capital and largest city of Iran.
46. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
49. A son who has the same first name as his father.
50. Being on the left side.
52. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
53. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. Filled with fear or apprehension.
63. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
64. Lower in esteem.
66. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
67. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
76. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
81. The fifth day of the week.
82. A doctor's degree in religion.

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