CROSSWORD 2139
ACROSS
1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. Reflects weight of sound argument or evidence.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
20. Flat rectangular plate (a piece of glass) on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.
21. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
22. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
25. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
27. Jordan's port.
31. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
32. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
39. Land received by fee tail v 1.
42. An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
48. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
50. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
52. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
54. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
59. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
61. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
63. Of or relating to near the ear. 65.Toward the mouth or oral region.
68. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus. 70.Workplace where skins and hides are
tanned.
72. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
73. Something transitory.
76. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
77. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
78. Someone who travels by raft.
79. A slight amount or degree of difference.
DOWN
1. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. A vigorous blow.
4. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
8. A flag that shows its nationality.
9. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. A French abbot.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
26.The blood group whose red cells carry
both the A and B antigens.
28. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
29. Ludicrously odd.
30. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 33.The capital and largest city of
Bangladesh.
34. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
35. Chew the fat.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. Either extremity of something that has length.
41. Being three more than fifty.
44. Type genus of the Amiidae.
45. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.
46. Any of various long-legged carrioneating hawks of South and Central America.
49. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
51. A city in northeastern Ohio.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934). 58.Typical geese.
60. Upright in position or posture.
62. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
64. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
66. An elaborate song for solo voice. 67.Two items of the same kind.
69. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
71. (British) Your grandmother.
74. An informal term for a father.
75. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.