| ACROSS
1. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
5. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
15. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
16. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
17. The month following March and preceding May.
18. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
19. A genus of Acrididae.
20. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
21. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
23. A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. Armor plate that protects the thigh.
31. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
37. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
41. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
43. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
45. Sottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
48. The month following February and preceding April.
49. Be obedient to.
50. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
54. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
57. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
59. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
60. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
64. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
66. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
67. Regarded with aversion.
69. Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
73. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
75. American novelist (1909-1955).
76. Attain success or reach a goal.
79. A decree that prohibits something.
80. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
81. (of pitches) Made with the arm moving parallel to the ground.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
|
DOWN
1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. A means of serving.
3. A genus of Laridae.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of Mali or its people.
6. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
7. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
8. (Babylonian) The sky god.
9. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
10. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
11. Wild ginger.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
14. A cycle with three wheels.
22. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
24. Cause to ripen.
27. A fellow female member of a youth gang.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
30. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
33. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
34. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. Male red deer.
40. Suggestive of the supernatural.
42. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
44. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
46. A colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor.
47. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
53. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
55. Common black European thrush.
56. The superior of a group of nuns.
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
61. Jordan's port.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
68. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
70. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
71. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
72. An honorary degree in science.
77. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
78. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
|
