| ACROSS
1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. (British) Your grandmother.
17. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
22. Singing jazz.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
34. Made of fir or pine.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
42. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
44. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
|
DOWN
1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
5. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Before noon.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. A human female who does housework.
10. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
18. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
19. A person forced to flee from home or country.
21. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A city in central New York.
35. English essayist (1775-1834).
36. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
|
