CROSSWORD 1773
ACROSS
1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A device that controls amount of light admitted.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
19. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
20. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
21. Sink below the surface.
24. A genus of Bothidae.
26. A person who rests.
28. The act of pursuing.
30. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. Of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles).
36. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
39. Brass that looks like gold.
40. English essayist (1775-1834).
41. The event of dying or departure from life.
44. A magician or sorcerer of ancient times.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
49. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
50. Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (17341815).
53. The way in which someone or something is composed.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
61. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
62. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
63. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
64. A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea.
68. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
73. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
74. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
76. Fiddler crabs.
77. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
82. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
83. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
84. The fatty flesh of eel.
DOWN
1. Informal terms for a meal.
2. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
3. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
4. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
5. Remote and separate physically or socially.
6. Formed or united into a whole.
7. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc..
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
9. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
10. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
11. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
12. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
13. Singing jazz.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
23. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. Ground snakes.
32. A human limb.
33. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
34. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
35. A surface coating for ceramics or porcelain.
37. The sixth month of the civil year.
38. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
42. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
43. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
46. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
48. A woman sahib.
51. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
52. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
54. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
57. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
59. Advance evidence for.
65. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
66. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
67. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
71. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
75. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
78. A bachelor's degree in religion.
80. A state in New England.