CROSSWORD 2374
ACROSS
1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
5. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
12. Top part of an apron.
15. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
16. Small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Type genus of the family Aplysiidae.
20. A doctor's degree in religion.
21. God of wealth and love.
23. United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (born in 1904).
25. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
26. Having unnatural mannerisms.
28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
30. An informal term for a father.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
36. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
39. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
41. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
42. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
46. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
51.Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
55. Lower in esteem.
56. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
57. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
59. A set of clothing (with accessories).
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. A light touch or stroke.
63. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
65. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
70. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 77.The United Nations agency concerned
with the interests of labor.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79.The act of taking something back.
80. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
81. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
82. An investigation of the component parts of a whole.
83. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
DOWN
1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
2. First in order of importance.
3. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
4. A port city in western Turkey.
5. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
6. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
7. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
8. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
9. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. 1 species.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. A small hard fruit.
22. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
24. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
33. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
34. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
35. Serving to set in motion.
37. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
38. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
40. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
43. An informal conversation.
44. 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.
45. The month following January and preceding March.
49. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
50. Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function.
52. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. A resource.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
64. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. A primeval personification of air and breath.
68. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
69. Wasting time.
71. Wearing or provided with clothing.
72. An aggressive and violent young criminal.
74. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
75. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
76. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.