CROSSWORD 1449

ACROSS

1. Mentally or physically infirm with age. 5. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose. 12. An enclosed space. 15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match. 16. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya. 17. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus. 18. The habitation of wild animals. 19. Of heavy boots. 20. The cry made by sheep. 21. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine. 22. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building. 24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily. 25. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery. 27. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually. 29. Minor or subordinate. 31. The distinctive form in which a thing is made. 32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born. 35. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona. 41. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. 42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group. 43. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. 46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 47. An informal term for a father. 49. A river in eastern France. 52. Owed and payable immediately or on demand. 53. Short and fat. 54. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male. 55. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538). 57. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River. 59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element. 60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively. 62. (botany) Especially of leaves. 66. A sharply directional antenna. 69. An inactive volcano in Sicily. 72. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores. 74. The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes. 76. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves. 77. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement. 78. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech). 80. A worthless lazy fellow. 81. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue. 82. Read or interpret wrongly. 83. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.

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1. Informal terms for money. 2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 3. Of or relating to neuroglia. 4. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft. 5. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar. 6. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene. 7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential). 8. Relating to the pineal body. 9. An official language of the Republic of South Africa. 10. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 11. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters. 12. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo. 13. The sixth month of the civil year. 14. A boy or man. 23. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion. 26. A low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay. 28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 30. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981). 33. A brief description given for purposes of identification. 34. Bottle that has a narrow neck. 36. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973). 37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 38. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it. 39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light. 40. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand. 44. Type genus of the Anatidae. 45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 48. (of tempo) Leisurely n. 50. Sports that involve bodies of water. 51. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. 56. Unknown god. 58. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high). 61. Located inward. 63. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor. 64. A colorless and odorless inert gas. 65. A woody climbing usually tropical plant. 67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 68. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water. 70. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin. 71. Employed in accomplishing something. 73. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus. 75. Fiddler crabs. 79. Being one more than one.