Crossword Puzzle Number 4886 (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   
80    81         82   

ACROSS

1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Light teasing repartee.
12. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
35. Before noon.
36. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
39. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
43. (grammar) Of or relating to the aorist tense.
45. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
46. (Greek mythology) Queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.
48. Noisy talk.
49. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
51. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
53. A farewell remark.
55. An implement used to erase something.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
69. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
71. Of or like a cecum.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
75. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
76. A white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
80. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
81. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
82. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.

DOWN

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. An oil port in southern Iraq.
5. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
6. 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.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
9. Used of physical heat.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled.
12. A formal expression of praise.
13. A notice of someone's death.
14. Something causes misery or death.
22. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
23. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
25. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. Capital and largest city of Colombia.
27. By bad luck.
29. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
31. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
33. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
34. Invests in a theatrical production.
37. A former province of western France in the Loire valley.
38. Speak in a nasal voice.
40. Asian rat snakes.
42. United States baseball player (born 1925).
44. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
47. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
50. Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
54. A Protestant layman who assists the minister.
56. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
57. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
58. A genus of Platalea.
61. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
62. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
65. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
68. In bed.
70. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
72. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
73. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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