CROSSWORD 1783
ACROSS
1. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
4. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve.
12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
19. Bring order and organization to.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
21. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
23. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
25. A Russian river.
26. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
27. Type genus of the Sillaginidae.
29. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
32. A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning.
34. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
36. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
37. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
40. Wearing or provided with clothing.
41. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
45. Russian country house.
47. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
49. Morally bad or wrong.
51. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A program for a race meeting.
56. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
60. Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976).
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
65. A white trivalent metallic element.
66. (Welsh myth) The other world.
69. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
71. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
75. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
76. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
79. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. Having much flesh (especially fat).
83. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
84. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
85. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
DOWN
1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. The provincial capital and largest city of Saskatchewan.
7. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
8. A vigorous blow.
9. Serving no useful purpose.
10. Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system.
13. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
22. A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin.
24. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
28. Not treated with lead.
30. Of a pale purple color.
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. A foot traveler.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
39. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
42. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
44. Rounded like an egg.
46. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
48. One million periods per second.
50. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
55. Of or like a cecum.
57. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
59. An Asian temple.
62. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
64. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
67. A quantity of no importance.
68. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
70. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
72. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
73. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
74. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
77. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. Before noon.