| ACROSS
1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
16. A human limb.
17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A light touch or stroke.
21. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
26. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
30. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
33. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
34. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
36. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. By bad luck.
48. The habitation of wild animals.
50. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
53. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
54. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
55. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. An associate degree in applied science.
|
DOWN
1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. An associate degree in applied science.
4. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
7. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. Wild ginger.
22. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A branch of the Tai languages.
29. The handle of a weapon or tool.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
37. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
44. Baby bed with high sides.
46. Gone by.
47. An informal term for a father.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
|
