| ACROSS
1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
5. (botany) Especially of leaves.
10. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. Flat crusty-bottomed onion roll.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Render verbally, "recite a poem".
17. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
19. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
21. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
29. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Speak in a nasal voice.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
39. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
60. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
61. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
62. The capital of Turkey.
64. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
65. A doctor's degree in education.
66. French novelist.
67. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
|
DOWN
1. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. The principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull.
4. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
5. Any of various units of capacity.
6. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
20. A festival featuring African-American culture.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
32. Cut off the testicles.
34. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
37. Jordan's port.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
48. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
49. In bed.
50. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
52. Highly excited.
53. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
54. The sixth month of the civil year.
56. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
|
