CROSSWORD 2411
ACROSS
1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Elder brother of Krishna.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.
20. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
22. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
24. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
28. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
30. A feeling of intense anger.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
35. Not widely known.
39. A hard gary-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite.
41. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
42. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
43. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
45. With eagerness.
47. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (19101997).
50. 16 ounces.
51. The force of workers available.
52. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
53. The highest level or degree attainable.
56. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
57. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
67. An order of Eutheria.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. Slanderous defamation.
75. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
76. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
80. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
81. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
82. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
83. A doctor's degree in education.
DOWN
1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.
7. Any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors.
8. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
9. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward.
10. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
11. State in northeastern India.
12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
13. The capital of Western Samoa.
14. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
21. A card game for 2 players.
23. Being or passing over or across the sea.
29. Draw in by breathing.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. Type genus of the Gerreidae.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Someone who operates an aircraft.
37. Give in, as to influence or pressure.
38. Any plant of the genus Eryngium.
40. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
49. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
54. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
55. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
60. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
63. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
65. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
66. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
68. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
69. A town in north central Oklahoma.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
74. The fatty flesh of eel.
77. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.