CROSSWORD 2021
ACROSS
1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor.
11. Not in good physical or mental health.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand. 16.The branch of medicine concerned with
the ear.
17. Moderate to inferior in quality.
18. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
19. A kind of percoid fish.
21. The simplest ketone.
23. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
25. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
26. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
31. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
34. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
36. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
39. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
40. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
48. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
50.Thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia.
53. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
55. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
56. In bed.
58. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
59. (of music or art) New and of general appeal (especially among young people).
60. A light touch or stroke.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A port city in southwestern Iran.
71. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
72. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
73. Genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods.
75. A doctor's degree in education.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
78. An informal term for a father.
DOWN
1. Lessen the intensity of.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line. 4.The outermost region of the sun's
atmosphere.
5. A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College.
6. Any loose flowing garment.
7.The United Nations agency concerned
with the interests of labor.
8. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
9. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
12. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
13. Music composed for dancing the conga.
14. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
20. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances. 22.Wasting of the body during a chronic
disease.
24. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
27. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
28. A vigorous blow.
32. A large stringed instrument.
33. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
35. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
37. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
38. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
41. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
42. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
43.The elementary stages of any subject
(usually plural).
46. A colorless liquid aldehyde.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. Having an illustrious reputation.
51. Moderately warm.
52.Thick heavy expensive material with a
raised pattern.
54. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
57.The agent to whom property involved
in a bailment is delivered.
61. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
63. Very dark black.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. Being three more than fifty.
66. A quantity of no importance.
67. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
69. A case for containing a set of articles. 70.The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
74. A state in the eastern United States.