Crossword Puzzle Number 4487 (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    

ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana.
12. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
15. The basic unit of money in Albania.
16. By religion.
17. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
20. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
25. Given or having a specified name.
26. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
28. The compass point midway between south and west.
30. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
32. Large open car seating four with folding top.
36. United States feminist (born in 1934).
40. A motley assortment of things.
42. Mentally healthy.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
47. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
50. A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts.
52. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
53. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
55. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
57. A deep bow.
63. Fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade.
66. Relating to or derived from a glacier.
67. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
68. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
71. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
72. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
76. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
77. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
78. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
79. A state of agitated irritation.

DOWN

1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
5. A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
6. Acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan).
7. A thick and heavy shoe.
8. Spiritually reborn or converted.
9. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A gray or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form.
12. A line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle.
13. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
14. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
21. Characteristic of a baby.
23. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar.
29. A seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales.
31. 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.
33. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
34. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
37. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
38. (prefix) Within.
39. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
41. State in northeastern India.
46. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
48. Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment.
49. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
51. A Russian river.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. A state of abeyance or suspended business.
58. A grant made by a law court.
59. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
60. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
61. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
62. Very attentive or observant.
64. Make anew.
65. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
70. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
74. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
75. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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