Crossword Puzzle Number 1181 (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   

ACROSS

1. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
5. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
9. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
13. Informal terms for money.
14. An Eskimo hut.
15. Belonging to some prior time.
16. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
18. Serving as or forming a base.
19. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
21. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
29. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
34. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
37. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
38. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
39. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
41. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
43. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
44. 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.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
50. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
62. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
63. Being one more than ninety.
64. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

DOWN

1. Jordan's port.
2. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
3. Wearing or provided with clothing.
4. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
5. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. English essayist (1775-1834).
8. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
9. Small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
12. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
20. Founder of Buddhism.
22. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
27. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
28. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
30. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
31. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. Baby bed with high sides.
33. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
35. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts.
40. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. The act of scanning.
46. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Paxil).
49. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
51. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
58. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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