| ACROSS
1. In bed.
5. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
12. Inquire about.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. A university town in southeast Wyoming.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
19. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
23. Give over.
28. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
35. Constitution of the human body.
36. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
37. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.
42. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
43. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
48. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
49. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
57. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
60. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
61. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
64. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
68. Relating to the Urdu language.
69. A fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns.
72. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
73. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
74. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
76. A strong emotion.
77. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
78. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
79. The longest division of geological time.
|
DOWN
1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
4. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
5. An architectural support or base (as for a column or statue).
6. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
7. Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs.
8. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
9. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
10. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
11. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Be or do something to a greater degree.
24. The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.
25. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
26. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
27. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
29. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
30. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
31. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
32. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
52. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
54. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
55. A histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
59. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
62. Using speech rather than writing.
63. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
65. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
66. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
67. Chief port of Yemen.
70. A toilet in England.
71. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
|