| ACROSS
1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
10. Of southern Europe.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954).
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
17. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. Time during which some action is awaited.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
45. Considerate and solicitous care.
46. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
61. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
65. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
67. On or toward the lee.
68. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
69. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
71. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
|
DOWN
1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
2. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A large fleet.
5. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
6. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
9. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
10. God of fire.
11. Singing jazz.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
20. A university in Connecticut.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
28. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
29. South African term for `boss'.
31. 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.
32. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. The cry made by sheep.
37. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
40. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
42. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
43. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
53. A kiln for drying hops.
54. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
55. River in eastern Asia.
56. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
57. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
63. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
66. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
|
