| ACROSS
1. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. Filled with fear or apprehension.
10. The bill in a restaurant.
13. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
14. The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
18. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
19. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
22. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The state of owing money.
27. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
29. A long brightly colored shawl.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
40. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
42. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
44. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
49. A port city in southwestern Iran.
52. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
59. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
63. A victory (as in a race or other competition).
64. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
66. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
67. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
68. By a small margin.
69. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
|
DOWN
1. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
2. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
3. Fill with revolutionary ideas.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
5. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
9. A notable achievement.
10. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. Lower in esteem.
20. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
21. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. In bed.
32. Type genus of the Amiidae.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. A Mid-Atlantic state.
39. Lively and spirited.
41. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
43. A light touch or stroke.
45. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
48. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
50. Make less active or intense.
51. Greek mythology.
53. The capital of Western Samoa.
54. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
55. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
58. Tag the base runner to get him out.
59. An honorary degree in science.
60. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
61. Something that remunerates.
62. Noisy talk.
65. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
|
