| ACROSS
1. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
4. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
13. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
14. A stock or supply of foods.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. Imprudently incurring risk.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
21. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
24. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
26. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
30. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
34. Belonging to or limited to a vicinity.
37. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
44. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
45. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
47. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
50. An informal term for a father.
56. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
59. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
63. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
64. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
|
DOWN
1. Become ground down or deteriorate.
2. Wood of a sumac.
3. Having been read.
4. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
5. Being one more than one.
6. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
7. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
9. The residue that remains when something is burned.
10. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
17. One of the 7 gods of happiness.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
25. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
27. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
28. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
29. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
31. Any of various small biting flies.
32. Remaining after all deductions.
33. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
35. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
36. In bed.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
46. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
47. Type genus of the Anatidae.
48. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
49. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
51. Fallow deer.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. An accountant certified by the state.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
|
