CROSSWORD 1985
ACROSS
1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 4. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions. 12. Call upon in supplication. 15. (Irish) The sea personified. 16. Causing alarm or fear. 17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper. 18. The track on which trams or streetcars run. 20. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 21. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart. 22. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life. 23. American novelist (1909-1955). 26. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water. 27. Situated at an apex. 29. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean. 32. A member of an agricultural people of southern India. 34. Related on the father's side. 38. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac. 40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group. 43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series). 45. Associated with the priesthood or priests. 46. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table. 50. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. 51. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains. 52. Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues. 55. Having leadership guidance. 56. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). 57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 58. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia. 63. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals. 64. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America. 65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 73. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 74. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue. 78. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of. 79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off. 81. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. 82. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice. 83. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea. 84. A master's degree in library science.
DOWN
1. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm. 2. A thick sweet sticky liquid. 3. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood. 4. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain. 5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942). 6. Type genus of the Ranidae. 7. The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium. 8. Before noon. 9. The brightest star in Orion. 10. Either extremity of something that has length. 11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. 12. A small vessel for travel on water. 13. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea. 14. Mentally or physically infirm with age. 19. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea. 24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 25. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults. 28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research. 30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 31.A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea. 33. Acushion on a throne for a prince in India. 35. King of the Huns. 36. One who works strenuously. 37. Convert ordinary language into code. 39. French romantic writer (1766-1817). 41. 3 to 30 gigahertz. 42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest. 44. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia. 47. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 48. Jordan's port. 49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. 53. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element. 54. Soft creamy white cheese. 59. The male reproductive organ of a flower. 60. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa). 61. A small cake leavened with yeast. 62. Lower in esteem. 66. A town in north central Oklahoma. 67. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office. 68. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters. 70. The biblical name for ancient Syria. 71. A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance). 72. Type genus of the Anatidae. 75. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment. 76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters. 77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 80. Being nine more than ninety.