CROSSWORD 1483

ACROSS

1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. 5. Make or become coarse or coarser. 12. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill. 15. The biblical name for ancient Syria. 16. A collection of resources. 17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. 18. Light informal conversation for social occasions. 20. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin. 21. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart. 22. Squash bugs. 25. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 26. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation. 27. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built. 29. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns. 31. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata. 32. Report or maintain. 36. A genus of Vespertilionidae. 39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 41. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur. 42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers. 44. A soft lightweight fabric (usually printed). 46. Being one more than two. 48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary. 50. Store in a silo, as of fodder. 51. An archaic name for Easter or Passover. 53. A very light brown. 55. The habitation of wild animals. 56. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic. 59. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known. 60. A state in northwestern North America. 64. The fourth month of the civil year. 67. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits. 69. A branch of the Tai languages. 70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 71. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong. 75. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. 76. United States general who commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I (1860-1948). 78. A light touch or stroke. 79. The residue that remains when something is burned. 80. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. 81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Mentally or physically infirm with age. 2. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia. 3. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children. 4. The square of a body of any size of type. 5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits. 6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific. 7. An Asian river between China and Russia. 8. A vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension. 9. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril). 10. Any plant of the genus Eryngium. 11. A Mid-Atlantic state. 12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 13. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea. 14. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma. 19. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research. 23. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River. 24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 28. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll. 30. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. 33. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force. 34. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 35. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon. 37. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it. 38. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera. 40. Of or relating to the hands. 43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 45. Of or relating to herbs. 47. An antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies. 49. Something or someone that causes anxiety. 52. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand. 54. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances. 57. Expel from a community or group. 58. Serving as or forming a base. 61. The main city of ancient Phoenicia. 62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 63. Jordan's port. 65. Armor plate that protects the chest. 66. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750). 68. Goddess of fertility. 72. Being one more than nine. 73. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women. 74. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds. 77. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.