Crossword Puzzle Number 1172 (Small 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   

ACROSS

1. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
4. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
10. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. Crested screamers.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
17. A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
21. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
26. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
28. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
32. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
37. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
40. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
41. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
43. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. Avatar of Vishnu.
51. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
54. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.
58. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
59. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
62. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
63. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
64. Adorned by inlays.
66. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
67. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.

DOWN

1. God of wealth and love.
2. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
3. Before noon.
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. Large scissors with strong blades.
6. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
7. The goddess of the moon.
8. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
9. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
20. In bed.
22. A man who is a stupid fool.
25. Used of a single unit or thing.
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
29. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. God of love and erotic desire.
33. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
42. Take in solid food.
44. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
49. A genus of Platalea.
50. A state in New England.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
55. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
56. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
57. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
65. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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