CROSSWORD 1538

ACROSS

1. A large number or amount. 5. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied. 11. A secret society of white Southerners to

resist Black emancipation. 15. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra

plant. 16. Open again or anew. 17. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature

or appearance. 18. Not only so, but. 19. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position. 21. Designed for defense against armored

vehicles. 24. Payment made to a person in a position of

trust to corrupt his judgment. 26. A city in the European part of Russia. 29. Any culture medium that uses agar as the

gelling agent. 30. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and

earth. 34. Causing great physical or mental suffering. 36. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. 38. Large burrowing rodent of South and

Central America. 39. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as

true without proof. 41. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes. 43. The quantity that can be held in a mug. 44. Locked in by ice. 46. A small flute. 48. Any of numerous trees of the family

Cupressaceae that resemble cedars. 49. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication. 50. A passageway between buildings or giving

access to a basement. 51. A very poisonous metallic element that has

three allotropic forms. 54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 56. Cut off the testicles. 57. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors. 59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made

from aba cloth. 64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC). 67. (heraldry) Looking forward. 69. Consider as ideal. 71. A person who possesses great material

wealth. 72. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer

than an era). 74. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum. 75. By bad luck. 76. British actress and mistress of of the prince

who later became Edward VII (1853-1929). 77. The federal agency that insures residential

mortgages.

DOWN

1. Spanish painter best known for his portraits

(1746-1828). 2. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (17791851). 3. A very troublesome child. 4. Formerly a term of respect for important

white Europeans in colonial India. 5. Call before a court to answer an indictment. 6. A small cloth bag filled with dried beans. 7. A storage compartment for clothes and

valuables. 8. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the

public. 9. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and

Indonesia and Cambodia. 10. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic. 11. A small flat triangular bone in front of the

knee that protects the knee joint. 12. A German art song of the 19th century for

voice and piano. 13. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in

English-speaking countries. 14. A condition requiring relief. 20. A notable achievement. 22. Someone who betrays his country by committing treason. 23. A radioactive transuranic metallic element. 25. (British) A paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them. 27. Solid excretory product evacuated from

the bowels. 28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin. 31. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968). 32. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly. 33. An industrial city in central Japan on southern Honshu. 35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a

skewer usually with vegetables. 37. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in

Africa. 40. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ). 42. The place where some action occurs. 45. Proboscis worms. 47. Of or like a cecum. 52. Pertaining to or associated with agony

(especially death agonies). 53. Having no employment. 55. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose. 58. Most important element. 60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 61. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. 62. Make editorial changes (in a text). 63. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion. 65. United States writer (born in Poland) who

wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). 66. Area around the altar of a church for the

clergy and choir. 68. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in

feed for livestock and poultry. 70. One or some or every or all without specification. 73. In operation or operational.