CROSSWORD 1720
ACROSS
1. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid. 4. Having hair on the cheeks and chin. 11. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range. 15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. 16. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi. 17. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display. 18. Having undesirable or negative qualities. 19. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying). 20. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust. 21. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another. 23. A book of the New Testament. 24. Speak in a nasal voice. 26. French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954). 28. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers. 30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database. 31. An orderly arrangement. 32. Jordan's port. 36. 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. 37. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex. 41. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats). 45. Step on it. 46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 47. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca. 48. God of wealth and love. 50. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery. 53. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. 54. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes. 55. A port city in southwestern Iran. 57. Being one more than fifty. 59. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1. 60. A room equipped with toilet facilities. 61. Collect or gather. 64. A Chemakuan language spoken by the Chemakum people. 69. Yellow-fever mosquitos. 73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 74. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals. 76. The basic unit of money in Nigeria. 77. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back. 78. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates. 80. Horny projecting mouth of a bird. 81. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities. 82. A great raja. 83. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
DOWN
1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo. 2. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs. 3. Of or relating to or near the pudendum. 4. The cry made by sheep. 5. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc. 6. Show a response or a reaction to something. 7. The act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat. 8. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies. 9. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply. 10. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap. 11. Genus of North American spring wildflowers. 12. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation. 13. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge. 14. Type genus of the Soleidae. 22. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation. 25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma. 27. A benevolent aspect of Devi. 29. Conducive to peace. 33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 34. By bad luck. 35. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. 38. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania. 39. A fierce or audacious person. 40. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing. 42. The protruding part of the lower jaw. 43. A genus of Platalea. 44. A master's degree in business. 49. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs. 51. The capital of Sicily. 52. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 56. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning. 58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group. 62. Type genus of the Meliaceae. 63. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 65. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds. 66. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea. 67. A state in the western United States. 68. Type genus of the Musaceae. 70. A couple who both have careers and no children. 71. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York. 72. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano. 75. The month following March and preceding May. 79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.