CROSSWORD 2447
ACROSS
1.The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date.
4. A movable protective covering that provided protection from above. 11.The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
15. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
16. A person who dribbles.
17. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
18. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
20. Not ever.
21. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
22. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
25. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
27. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
29. The strength of a electrical current measured in amperes.
32. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
36. Favoring one person or side over another. 38.The compass point midway between
south and southwest.
39. (Babylonian) The sky god.
40.The United Nations agency concerned
with atomic energy.
42. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia.
46.The money risked on a gamble.
49. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
50. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
56. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
57. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
60. A state in New England.
61. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
65. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
68. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
69. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
72. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
73. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
74. Orient once again, after a disorientation.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
77. A person who participates in a meeting.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
DOWN
1. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
2. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. United States writer (born in 1933).
7. Tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads.
8. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
9. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
10. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
11. A deep bow.
12. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
13. Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
19. Elk or moose.
23. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and healthrelated products.
26. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
28. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
30. Tropical Asian starlings.
31. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
33. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
35. A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade.
37. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
41. Squash bugs.
43. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
45. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
47. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
48. Measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths.
54. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
55. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
58. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
59. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
62. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
66. Characteristic of false pride.
67. United States poet and critic (18991979).
70. (often followed by `of') A large number or
71. A strong emotion.