| ACROSS
1. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
4. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
9. The highest level or degree attainable.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
15. A sudden short attack.
16. Call upon in supplication.
17. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
18. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
22. A port city in southwestern Iran.
24. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
26. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
28. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
40. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
50. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
51. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
53. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
55. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
56. United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821).
60. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
63. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
64. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
65. Wood of a sumac.
68. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
69. Free from liquid or moisture.
70. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
|
DOWN
1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A motley assortment of things.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
8. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
9. Of or relating to or involving an area.
10. Of or relating to the heart.
11. Tropical Asian starlings.
12. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
27. Being nine more than ninety.
29. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A French abbot.
36. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
42. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
45. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
46. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
49. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
52. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. A flexible container with a single opening.
57. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. A quantity of no importance.
61. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
62. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
63. Unknown god.
66. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
|
