| ACROSS
1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
11. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
15. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
17. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
18. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
20. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
21. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
23. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
25. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A person given to excessive complaints and crying.
29. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
35. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
40. (of a bodily tube or passageway) Open.
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
43. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
46. Impaired by diminution.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
58. A native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century).
62. The sensation caused by heat energy.
64. An associate degree in applied science.
65. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
66. Made by hand or a hand process.
68. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
69. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
70. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
71. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
|
DOWN
1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
2. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
7. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
8. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. Hours or days of work in a calendar week.
11. Deprive of freedom.
12. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
13. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
14. A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
19. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
22. A Loloish language.
24. Remorse for your past conduct.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
31. Small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae.
32. Channel into a new direction.
33. Speaking a Slavic language.
36. A genus of Ploceidae.
37. Being three more than ninety.
38. Metal shackles.
39. A region marking a boundary.
42. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
44. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
45. Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers.
47. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.
48. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
49. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
52. A stringed instrument usually having six strings.
53. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.
54. The act of swimming.
55. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
57. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
59. An enclosed armored military vehicle.
60. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
61. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
63. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
67. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
|
