| ACROSS
1. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Very dark black.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. With no effort to conceal.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. God of wealth and love.
19. A resource.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
24. The airforce of Great Britain.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Lower in esteem.
34. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
48. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
51. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
52. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
|
DOWN
1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Among the largest bony fish.
7. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Half the width of an em.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
36. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
43. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
|
