CROSSWORD 1492

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1. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities. 4. A cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed. 12. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures. 15. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather. 16. Indicative of or announcing something to come. 17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper. 18. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing. 19. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders. 20. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles. 22. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills. 24. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk. 25. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools. 26. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church. 28. A nation in Asia. 31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape. 32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. 33. On or toward the lee. 37. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant. 41. A depression in an otherwise level surface. 46. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building. 47. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means. 49. A particular environment or walk of life. 51. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America. 52. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo. 53. A city of central China. 54. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes. 56. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms. 58. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits. 60. Capital and largest city of Iraq. 68. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography). 69. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas. 72. Made of fir or pine. 73. Singing jazz. 74. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water. 75. An elaborate song for solo voice. 76. Mentally healthy. 77. Capital of Armenia. 78. An unfledged or nestling hawk.

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1. A soft whitish calcite. 2. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja. 3. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers. 4. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another. 5. (Irish) The sea personified. 6. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America. 7. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck. 8. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something. 9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. 10. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth. 11. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors. 12. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced. 13. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question. 14. A city in Veneto. 21. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns. 23. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior. 27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 29. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover. 30. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. 34. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path. 35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 36. A genus of Mustelidae. 38. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). 39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves. 40. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics. 42. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress. 43. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically. 44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 45. Type genus of the Anatidae. 48. A salt or ester of vanadic acid. 50. Hard ticks. 55. Sell or offer for sale from place to place. 57. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. 59. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon. 61. Type genus of the family Arcidae. 62. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting. 63. Being six more than forty. 64. Mentally or physically infirm with age. 65. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality. 66. Type genus of the Majidae. 67. By bad luck. 70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 71. A room equipped with toilet facilities.