CROSSWORD 2277
ACROSS
1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
11. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. In some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae.
17. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color. 18.The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Normal relaxed breathing.
21. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
23. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
25. A genus of Lamnidae.
27. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
29. Of or relating to a caduceus.
32. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
36. Having the same or similar characteristics.
37. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
39. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
40. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
43. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
45. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
49. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
50. Light teasing repartee.
53. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
57. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
68. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
70. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
71. An account describing incidents or events.
73. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
75. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
78. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
79. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
80. A native or inhabitant of Vietnam.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
DOWN
1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
5. An informal debt instrument.
6. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
7. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
8. A city in northwestern Syria.
9. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
10. An honorary degree in science.
11. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
14. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. A stroke of luck.
26. A state in New England.
28. Affectedly trendy.
30. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
31. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. A motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine.
34. An iconic mental representation.
35. A glancing rebound.
38. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
41. A neutral middle vowel.
42. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and healthrelated products.
44. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
52. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
54. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
58. Call upon in supplication.
60. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
61. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
62. English Romantic poet (1795-1821).
63. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
69. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
72. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
74. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. Before noon.