CROSSWORD 1708
ACROSS
1. A hazy or indistinct representation. 5. A children's game played with little balls made
of a hard substance (as glass). 12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west. 15. Not widely known. 16. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota. 17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of
an organism. 18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC). 19. Elk or moose. 20. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area. 22. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners. 24. An unfledged or nestling hawk. 25. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava)
that is given orally. 26. The ermine in its brown summer coat with
black-tipped tail. 28. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo. 30. A state in northwestern North America. 32. A doctor's degree in education. 34. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae. 38. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. 43. A company emblem or device. 44. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. 46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp. 47. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in
the intestines of premature infants. 48. Mediterranean germander having small hairy
leaves and reddish purple flowers. 49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers. 51. A meson produced as the result of high-energy particle collision. 53. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hardshelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory. 55. English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893). 59. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the
Old World. 60. A large fleet. 63. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities. 66. 100 thebe equal 1 pula. 67. (Greek mythology) God of love. 68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism. 72. Vietnamese New Year. 73. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet
of the Aegean Sea. 77. Someone who is morally reprehensible. 78. Being one more than two. 79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat
trimmed off. 80. A master's degree in fine arts. 81. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system
consisting of the brain and spinal cord. 82. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia. 83. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
DOWN
1. (informal) Exceptionally good. 2. A Loloish language. 3. A mountain range in western Russia extending
from the arctic to the Caspian Sea. 4. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid. 5. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand. 6. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a
shoelace or ribbon. 7. Full of zest or vigor. 8. Offering little or no hope. 9. The sacred city of Lamaism. 10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). 11. A deep bow. 12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central
America. 13. Speaking a Slavic language. 14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa. 21. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall. 23. Expletives used informally as intensifiers. 27. A public promotion of some product or service. 29. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square
miles) in North Africa. 31. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in
southeastern Asia. 33. A sharp blow. 35. Ruffed grouse. 36. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people. 37. Type genus of the Noctuidae. 39. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants. 40. Lower in esteem. 41. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body. 42. Someone who works (or provides workers)
during a strike. 45. A historical region on northwestern India and
northern Pakistan. 50. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll
with hard crust. 52. A group of African language in the NigerCongo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria. 54. A decree that prohibits something. 56. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm
of the Black Sea. 57. A well-substantiated explanation of some
aspect of the natural world. 58. United States slave and insurrectionist who in
1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia. 61. A major European river carrying more traffic
than any other river in the world. 62. (Canadian) A half-breed of white and Indian
parentage. 64. Of silk fabric. 65. (computer science) American Standard Code
for Information Interchange. 69. The highest level or degree attainable. 70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake
Chad. 71. The sixth month of the civil year. 74. The month following March and preceding
May. 75. The act of slowing down or falling behind. 76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from