CROSSWORD 1771
ACROSS
1. Having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.
5. A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
12. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
15. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
16. Any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants.
17. An accountant certified by the state.
18. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
19. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
21. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
22. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
24. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
27. (British) Common sense.
29. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
31. The back side of the neck.
32. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
36. A human limb.
38. The month following July and preceding September.
40. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
41. Of or relating to Laos or its people.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Very dark black.
48. Of or relating to the diaphragm.
49. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
51. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. Make amendments to.
53. Marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots.
55. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Water frozen in the solid state.
60. Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste.
63. The act of scanning.
66. Goods or money obtained illegally.
69. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
72. An accidental happening.
75. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
77. A derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians).
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. How long something has existed.
81. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
2. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
3. The fourth or lowest deck.
4. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
5. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
6. Before noon.
7. Large Indian antelope.
8. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
9. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
10. British choreographer (1906-1988).
11. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
25. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
26. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance.
28. Fiddler crabs.
30. The Creator.
33. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation.
35. Lay bare.
37. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
39. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
42. One of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling.
43. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
46. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
50. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
54. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
56. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
57. Show submission or fear.
61. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. 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.
65. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
67. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
68. A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. God of love and erotic desire.
73. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
74. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.