| ACROSS
1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. An strong upward air current.
11. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
15. A city in northwestern Iran.
16. Susceptible to being led or directed.
17. God of fire.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Emptying accomplished by draining.
26. Depending on free oxygen or air.
28. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
29. Goddess of fate.
33. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
37. Reason by deduction.
39. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
40. A soft silvery metallic element.
42. During the intervening time.
45. True firs.
47. Sour or bitter in taste.
48. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
49. A periodic paperback publication.
50. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
51. A person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses.
54. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
56. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
58. Offensive or even (of persons) malicious.
59. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
61. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
63. A fellow female member of a youth gang.
67. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
71. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
72. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
76. English essayist (1775-1834).
78. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
79. The food served and eaten at one time.
80. Wool of the alpaca.
81. Type genus of the Anatidae.
|
DOWN
1. Jordan's port.
2. Informal terms for money.
3. Slanderous defamation.
4. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
5. In a quiet and tranquil manner.
6. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. In bed.
9. Having a gradual increase in width.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. Disinclined to work or exertion.
12. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
13. An unforeseen obstacle.
14. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
20. A complex polymer.
22. The basic unit of money in Haiti.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
30. The highest level or degree attainable.
31. Free from mist.
32. Pleasing by delicacy or grace.
34. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
35. Type genus of the Triglidae.
38. The temporal end.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. Become ground down or deteriorate.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
52. Beyond what is natural.
53. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
55. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
57. A small measure (usually of food).
60. Being one more than one hundred.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Look at with amorous intentions.
65. Type genus of the Majidae.
66. The basic unit of money in Iran.
68. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
75. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
|
