CROSSWORD 2140
ACROSS
1. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
4. Elder brother of Krishna.
12. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
17.The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
19. Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement.
20. The sacred city of Lamaism.
22. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
24. Using speech rather than writing.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26.The blood group whose red cells carry
both the A and B antigens.
27. A large number or amount. 29.Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
32. A white trivalent metallic element.
34. (Sumerian) Sun god.
35. A city in northwestern Turkey.
37. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
39. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
41. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
44. A mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
53. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
55. An Old World reptile family of Sauria. 56.The world's largest desert (3,500,000
square miles) in North Africa.
59. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
60. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
62. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
66. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
70. Used of mouth or eyes.
72. A port city in southwestern Iran.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
77. A worker whose job is to repair things.
79. Long and light rowing boat.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81.The capital and largest city of Nepal.
82. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Bar temporarily.
4. Unhappy in love.
5.Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6.The divine word of God.
7. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
8. Herbs, shrubs and trees.
9. Forming or set at an angle.
10. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
11. A city and port in northern Jutland.
12. Seed of a pea plant.
13. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
14. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
21. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
23. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (19001958).
28. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
30. An unwholesome atmosphere.
33. A genus of Caltha.
36.To fix or set securely or deeply.
38. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
40. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
42.The United Nations agency concerned
with atomic energy.
43.The work of caring for or attending to
someone or something.
45. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
46. An evil spirit.
50. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
51. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
52. A daughter of your brother or sister. 54.Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
57. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
58. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
61. Having had the bones removed.
63. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
64. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
65. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
67. Very dark black.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
71. A republic in western South America.
73. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
74. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
78. A heavy precious metallic element.