CROSSWORD 1772
ACROSS
1. The time during which someone's life continues.
5. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
12. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
16. New World lizards.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
19. Born out of wedlock.
20. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
21. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
24. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
26. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. Food chopped into small bits.
38. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
41. A dealer in seeds.
43. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
44. Large elliptical brightly colored deepsea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
51. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
53. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
54. Being one more than one.
56. A coffin along with its stand.
57. Not out.
64. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
66. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
69. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
73. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
75. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
77. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
79. Having a mental age of three to seven years.
81. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
82. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
83. A person who commits larceny.
84. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
DOWN
1. Slow to learn or understand.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. Not only so, but.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A ribbon used as a decoration.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Joined together into a whole.
8. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
9. A genus of Nymphalidae.
10. Term of address for a man.
11. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
12. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
13. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (18951982).
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. The act of scanning.
25. In bed.
28. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
31. Unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey.
32. Jordan's port.
35. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
36. Pitching dangerously to one side.
37. The capital of Turkey.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
40. An inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret.
42. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
45. Type genus of the Amiidae.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (18281906).
55. An island in the Persian Gulf.
58. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
59. Standing posture.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
62. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
63. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
65. Voluntarily absent from home or country.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. One thousandth of a second.
70. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
72. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. (Irish) The sea personified.
80. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.