CROSSWORD 1984
ACROSS
1. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
4. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried.
17. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
18. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
20. Type genus of the Nepidae.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. A group of southern Bantu languages.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A Loloish language.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. A son who has the same first name as his father.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
37. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
39. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
41. Deciduous shrub of North America.
42. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. Report or maintain.
47. Third month of the Revolutionary calendar (November and December).
49. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
51. (informal) Of the highest quality.
52. A town in central Belgium.
53. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
55. Elegant and stylish.
58. Not only so, but.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Stalk of a moss capsule.
63. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
70. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
71. Cosmopolitan herbs especially southern hemisphere.
75. A passage with access only at one end.
76. A member of a clan.
78. (informal) Roused to anger.
79. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
80. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion.
81. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
DOWN
1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A branch of the Tai languages.
3. Physically and mentally fatigued.
4. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
5. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
6. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
7. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
8. A festival featuring African-American culture.
9. Before noon.
10. The 2nd longest European river.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
21. North American bluebirds.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism.
28. The capital of Croatia.
30. Small free-swimming tunicates.
32. Father of the storm gods Marut.
35. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
36. A gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it).
38. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A wound made by cutting.
44. Beyond what is natural.
45. A partly sheltered anchorage.
48. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
50. Soft creamy white cheese.
54. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
56. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
57. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
59. The twelfth month of the civil year.
60. Moving quickly and lightly.
64. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
66. A city in southeastern Sweden.
67. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. An informal term for a father.
72. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
73. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
74. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
77. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.