| ACROSS
1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. Informing by words.
12. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
19. Suitable for use as food.
20. Elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862).
22. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
24. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
30. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
31. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
38. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
43. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. A state in New England.
46. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
53. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
55. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
56. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
57. Tag the base runner to get him out.
58. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
59. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
62. The basic unit of money in Zaire.
64. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
66. Either extremity of something that has length.
67. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
74. North American bluebirds.
77. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. Consistent with fact or reality.
79. A folded section placed between the leaves of another publication.
80. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
81. God of the Underworld.
82. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
|
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. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
4. American novelist (1909-1955).
5. A genus of Ploceidae.
6. A unit of pressure.
7. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
8. Not in good physical or mental health.
9. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Of an instrument of certain death.
12. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
13. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
14. God of death.
21. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
23. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
25. Before noon.
28. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
36. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
39. Drawn into the lungs.
40. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
41. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
42. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
47. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
50. A genus of Chinchillidae.
51. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
52. (of e.g. speech and writing) Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
54. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
60. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
61. Ruffed grouse.
63. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
68. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
69. Not reflecting light.
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
71. A French abbot.
73. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
75. The residue that remains when something is burned.
76. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
|
