Crossword Puzzle Number 4043 (Extra Small Grid)

  10 
11    12     13   
14    15     16   
17   18    19     
     20 21   22   
23     24   25    
   26 27    28 29   
30 31 32      33    
34   35  36    37 38 39 
40        41    
42     43 44 45  46   
47     48    49   

ACROSS

1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
11. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
12. An informal term for a father.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. A Spanish river.
16. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
17. Having three dimensions.
19. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
30. God of the earth.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
37. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
40. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
41. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
43. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. Not in action or at work.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A republic in western South America.
3. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
4. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. The month following March and preceding May.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
20. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
21. Indras's thunderbolt.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
31. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
32. Obvious and dull.
35. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
36. Fallow deer.
37. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
38. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
39. An informal term for a father.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

Feel free to print out this crossword puzzle for your personal use. You may also link to it. However, this web page and puzzle are copyrighted and may not be distributed without prior written consent.

Navigation
Home Page
Printer Friendly
View Solution
Previous Puzzle
Next Crossword

© Clockwatchers, Inc. 2003