| ACROSS
1. Same in identity.
5. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
10. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. A sudden very loud noise.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. God of fire.
17. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Loss of the ability to swallow.
36. Towards the side away from the wind.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. Being one more than one.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
54. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
57. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
58. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
59. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
62. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
63. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
64. In a drab manner.
65. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
|
DOWN
1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
4. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
8. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
9. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
10. The probability of a specified outcome.
11. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
29. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
30. Type genus of the Amiidae.
31. South African term for `boss'.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. Being nine more than ninety.
35. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. The residue that remains when something is burned.
47. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
48. A French abbot.
49. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
52. An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
55. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
|
