CROSSWORD 2022
ACROSS
1. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
4. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
11. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
15. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
16. The branch of medicine concerned with the ear.
17. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
18. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
19. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
21. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
23. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam.
28. God of war.
30. Ski downhill.
32. A state of northeastern India.
33. A professional cook.
34. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
40. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
42. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch.
44. Being nine more than ninety.
45. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
46. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
47. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
54. Noisy quarrel.
56. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
58. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
62. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. Foul with waste matter.
68. A native-born Israeli.
70. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pinktinged fruit.
73. In or of the present month.
74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. Of or relating to plants or botany.
77. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
78. A small piece of cloth.
79. Capital of Swaziland.
80. The sixth month of the civil year.
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1. One thousandth of a second.
2. A beautiful and graceful girl.
3. English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (17921871).
4. A flag that shows its nationality.
5. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
6. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
7. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
8. The capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
9. Advanced in years.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
12. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweetpulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
13. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
14. Father of the storm gods Marut.
20. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
22. Blow hard and loudly.
24. The residue that remains when something is burned.
27. A small island.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. Jordan's port.
37. (Roman mythology) God of love.
38. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
43. Be obedient to.
48. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
51. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
53. A motley assortment of things.
55. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
57. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
59. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
60. Follower of Rastafarianism.
61. Cause to change.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
65. Divulge information or secrets.
67. A genus of Mustelidae.
69. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
76. A Russian river.