CROSSWORD 2350
ACROSS
1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) It is sincerely the case that.
12. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
15. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
16. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
20. German composer of operas (17141787).
21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
22. Having hair on the cheeks and chin. 24.The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
26. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
28. Suggestive of the supernatural.
30. (biology) Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli.
33. Imperial moths.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
40. A state in New England.
41. Perform on a stage or theater.
43. Someone whose business is advertising.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
48. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A Hindu prince or king in India.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
57. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
60. (informal) Exceptionally good.
63. Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.
65. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
69. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
72. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS.
74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
75. (Babylonian) The sky god.
76. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
78. A loud harsh or strident noise.
79. The cry made by sheep.
80. Arrange or order by classes or categories.
81. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
DOWN
1. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. A three-tone Chadic language.
4. A clap of the hands to indicate approval.
5. A severe or trying experience.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
8. A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.
9. Having a dusky brownish gray color.
10. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
11. Noisy talk.
12. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
13. Baby bed with high sides.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
19. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
23. Any of numerous low-growing cushionforming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
25. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
27. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving).
29. Avatar of Vishnu.
31. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
32. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. Of or relating to or forming a limbus.
35. Render capable or able for some task.
36. Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues.
39. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
42. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
46. A slight amount or degree of difference.
47. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
50. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
52. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
54. A heavy precious metallic element.
55. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
58. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
59. New Zealand conifer.
61. Type genus of the Ranidae.
62. Largest known toad species.
64. A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.
66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
67. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
68. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
70. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
71. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. A column of light (as from a beacon).
77. Informal terms for a mother.