| ACROSS
1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. Capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast.
12. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
15. Gone by.
16. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
17. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
18. Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes.
20. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
21. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
30. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
32. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
33. Any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns.
38. A wind from the north.
42. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
49. Formerly two short sleds coupled together.
52. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
55. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
58. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
60. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
63. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
65. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
67. Robber flies.
71. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
73. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
74. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
75. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
77. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
|
DOWN
1. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
4. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
5. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
6. Minor or subordinate.
7. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
8. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
9. A sign of something about to happen.
10. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
13. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
14. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
19. Small tropical flea.
23. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
24. Something that is remembered.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
34. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. British composer (1857-1934).
40. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
41. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
46. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
50. Someone who skis.
51. A person forced to flee from home or country.
53. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
54. A beautiful and graceful girl.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
59. Soft blue-gray mineral.
61. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
62. The ending of a series or sequence.
64. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
66. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. A Spanish river.
72. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
|
