CROSSWORD 2023
ACROSS
1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943).
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. Term of address for a man.
16. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees.
17. A pass between mountain peaks.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
19. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
20. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
22. Excessive spending.
26. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
29. Of or relating to stonemasons or masonry.
32. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
37. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
40. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
43.The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of. 49.Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
51. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
52. A city in central New York.
54. In operation or operational.
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. The amount a salary is increased.
60. Any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose.
64. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
68. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
69. A boy or man.
70. Situated at an apex.
73. Cause to lose courage.
74. Used of a single unit or thing. 75.Travel by boat on a boat propelled by
wind or by other means.
77. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
78. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
79. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
80.The month following March and preceding May.
DOWN
1. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
2. Being three more than fifty.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good. 4.Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
5. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
6. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
7. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
10. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form. 11.The square of a body of any size of
type.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. A disreputable vagrant.
14. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
21. A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire.
23. Leafless East Indian vine.
24. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
25. Injured by bites or stings.
27. A colorless liquid aldehyde.
28. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
30. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
31. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.
34. Containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions.
35. Squash bugs.
38.The elementary stages of any subject
(usually plural).
39. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
45. A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles.
46. A French abbot.
47.White grape grown especially in the
Loire Valley in France.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
53. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
56. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
58. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. 59.Yellow-fever mosquitos.
61. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
62.The first light of day.
63. Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
66. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
67. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
71. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
72. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
76. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.