CROSSWORD 1759
ACROSS
1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
11. Not agitated.
15. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
16. A person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land.
17. Type genus of the Amiidae.
18. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
20. (Babylonian) God of fire.
21. The habitation of wild animals.
22. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
25. One thousand periods per second.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Specified in advance.
32. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
36. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
39. A bachelor's degree in science.
40. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
42. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
44. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Great merriment.
48. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
52. Toward the mouth or oral region.
53. A bowl-shaped vessel.
54. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
55. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
56. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
59. Not out.
60. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
61. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
63. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. The sixth day of the week.
77. Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694).
78. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
79. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
80. Of or relating to or formed by trees.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
DOWN
1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. In addition.
3. Offering little or no hope.
4. The template for protein synthesis.
5. 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.
6. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. Use explosives on.
9. United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881).
10. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
11. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. Being three more than fifty.
14. God of death.
19. Elk or moose.
24. Squash bugs.
26. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
27. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
28. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
30. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.
33. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
34. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
35. A port city in southwestern Iran.
37. Of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures.
38. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (18791968).
43. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
45. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
47. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
49. A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea.
50. Informal terms for money.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
58. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. A city in northern India.
65. Set down according to a plan.
66. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
67. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
74. (Irish) The sea personified.