| ACROSS
1. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
4. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
12. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
15. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
16. One who anoints as a religious ceremony.
17. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
18. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
19. Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells.
20. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
22. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
24. French philosopher and theologian.
26. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
29. Before noon.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
37. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes.
39. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
45. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
48. (often followed by `with' or used in combination) Troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers.
51. In a softened tone.
53. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
54. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
56. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
68. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
72. The cry made by sheep.
73. A prehistoric megalith typically having two upright stones and a capstone.
75. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. (informal) Of very poor quality.
77. Characterized or produced by addition.
79. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
80. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
|
DOWN
1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
2. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
3. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
4. Resembling a berry.
5. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
6. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
7. A cage in which a bird is kept.
8. Black tropical American cuckoo.
9. An advantageous purchase.
10. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
11. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
13. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
14. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
21. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
23. At full speed.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Established irrevocably.
28. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
30. A low continuous indistinct sound.
34. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
35. Common house and field crickets.
36. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips.
38. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
40. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
43. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
44. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
47. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
49. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
50. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
59. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
60. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
61. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
65. Pulled or drawn tight.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
69. In bed.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
78. A state in the eastern United States.
|
