CROSSWORD 1699

ACROSS

1. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing. 4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat

trimmed off. 12. The airforce of Great Britain. 15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary. 16. Any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers. 17. An extension at the end and at right angles to

the main building. 18. The boundary line or the area immediately

inside the boundary. 20. The act of swimming. 21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in

Turkey). 22. Be going to. 24. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its

own affairs. 26. The upper house of the parliament of the

Republic of Ireland. 28. Mediterranean germander having small hairy

leaves and reddish purple flowers. 30. An informal term for a father. 32. A small nail. 33. The basic unit of money in Albania. 36. A department of Greece in the central

Peloponnese. 40. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934). 42. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm. 43. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds

chiefly on insects. 44. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or

emotion. 47. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database. 48. A fee charged for exchanging currencies. 49. Of or relating to or resembling the eye. 51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 54. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face. 55. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar. 57. The cardinal number that is the sum of four

and one. 59. A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter. 61. A member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language. 65. Beads used in counting prayers (especially

Catholic rosary). 69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from

aba cloth. 70. A nation in northern North America. 73. Excluded from use or mention. 74. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes. 75. A speech that is open to the public. 77. Set lower. 78. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the

blood. 79. (trademark) A piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief. 80. Any of several related languages of the Celts

in Ireland and Scotland.

DOWN

1. Weapons considered collectively. 2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain. 3. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually

nonviable fetus. 4. United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964). 5. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment. 6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. 7. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and

intense devotion to a cause or idea. 8. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 9. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small

white flowers. 10. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid)

used to treat tuberculosis. 11. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by

worker bees and fed to larvae. 12. A domain in which something is dominant. 13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves. 14. An imperfection in a device or machine. 19. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn. 23. An informal term for a father. 25. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981). 27. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity

and lack of guile or worldly experience. 29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 31. Used especially in treating bruises. 34. Perennial plants resembling yucca. 35. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with

a covering. 37. (anatomy) A natural hollow or sinus within the

body. 38. A slight convexity (as of the surface of a road). 39. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages. 41. English physician who in retirement compiled

a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869). 45. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit. 46. An informal term for a father. 50. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520). 52. Someone who copies the words or behavior

of another. 53. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern

Africa. 56. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or

attitude. 58. Speak in a nasal voice. 60. Related on the mother's side. 62. In bed. 63. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that

do not form a head. 64. The clock time given by a clock carried on

board a spacecraft. 66. Little known Kamarupan languages. 67. United States pathologist who discovered

viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970). 68. The time that has elapsed. 71. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color. 72. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square

meters. 76. (combining form) Former.