CROSSWORD 1786
ACROSS
1. Not reflecting light.
4. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
11. Containing or filled with salt.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Relying on another for support.
17. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
18. 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).
19. A genus of Caltha.
21. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
24. An informal term for a father.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. Take in solid food.
30. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
35. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
38. Type genus of the Canidae.
41. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
42. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
46. The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
47. (Greek mythology) A Titaness and sea goddess.
50. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
51. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
52. Far away from home or one's usual surroundings.
53. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
54. The habitation of wild animals.
55. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
59. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
60. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. Done under pressure.
71. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
72. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
74. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
75. Make attractive or lovable.
78. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
79. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
80. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
81. The sixth month of the civil year.
DOWN
1. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
2. A city in northern India.
3. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
4. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
5. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
6. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
7. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
8. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
9. Complacently or inanely foolish.
10. A New England state.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
20. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Of or relating to or shaped like a toroid.
31. Lessen the density or solidity (of a substance).
32. Related on the mother's side.
34. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
36. The third month of the civil year.
37. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
39. United States space station.
40. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
43. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
44. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988).
49. A state in north central United States.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
58. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
61. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
62. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. A Loloish language.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
70. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
73. A boy or man.
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.