CROSSWORD 1784
ACROSS
1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Chop cut from a hog.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A house for storing ice.
17. A resource.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
20. Deciduous shrub of North America.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
24. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
28. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
31. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
35. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
42. Reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
49. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
51. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Chief port of Yemen.
56. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
59. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
60. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
64. God of wisdom or prophesy.
69. Feed excessively.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A commercial browser.
75. A master's degree in business.
76. A bachelor's degree in theology.
77. Presence of abnormally large amounts of uric acid in the urine.
78. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
79. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. A small suitcase.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. English essayist (1775-1834).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. God of wealth and love.
4. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
5. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
6. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
7. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
8. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
9. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
10. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
11. Of or relating to the feet.
12. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
13. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
23. Used of a single unit or thing.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
30. 32nd President of the United States.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. Big-eyed scad.
34. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
36. (in Indian English) The number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros.
37. A business whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state.
38. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
40. Greek mythology.
41. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
43. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
52. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
57. Any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers.
58. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
61. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. Offering safety.
68. A German man.
70. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
71. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
74. Standard temperature and pressure.