Crossword puzzle for April 1, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. __ College, Bangor, Maine 5. Rigs 9. Privation 13. Database management system 17. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin 18. A female domestic 19. Research labs 20. Song 21. In a way, begins hostilities with 22. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates 23. The quality of being deadly 25. Slang for famous person 27. In a way, caters 29. Edible lily bulbs 30. A handsome youth loved by Aphrodite 32. Hill (Celtic) 33. Former OSS 34. Black tropical American cuckoo 36. Political action committee 37. The list includes informal terms for "mouth" 38. Spanish soldier 39. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet 42. Central African river 44. Founded Mongol empire 46. Base hits 48. Details 50. Special interest group 51. Chum 52. Bones 53. Bug of temperate regions that infests beds 55. Indemnity 58. Be afraid or scared of 59. Complex quantities 61. Yuppie status symbol 62. Irrelevant pamphlet (British) 64. Icelandic poems 67. Prominent or conspicuous 70. Italian Renaissance paintings 74. Touts 76. A way to create from raw stuff 77. 007's creator 79. Look at with fixed eyes 80. Set free as from prison or duty 82. Open 84. Afresh 85. Be obliged to repay 86. Radioactivity unit 87. Liquefied natural gas 88. Talk 90. A fluid state of matter 91. Mythological bird 92. A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric 93. With many branches 95. (Scottish) island 98. Aureoles 100. Moses' elder brother (Bible) 103. Boastfulness 105. Cloths 107. China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand inhabitant 108. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds 109. Abba __, former Israeli politician 110. Small short-eared burrowing mammal 111. Punt 112. A band of material around the waist 113. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia 114. Arab king 115. The dried leaves of the hemp plant |
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1. Greenish-yellow variety 2. A Great Lake 3. Applauded 4. Emitted coherent radiation 5. A tight-fitting covering for the head 6. United States 7. Youngsters 8. A way to dance 9. Roll about in the mud 10. The former ruler of Afghanistan 11. Game equipments 12. A pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland 13. Indigo bush 14. Two-masted vessel square-rigged on both masts 15. Myth (Spanish) 16. Avers 24. Digressions 26. Sock 28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers 31. Tag the base runner to get him out 33. Cost, insurance and freight, abbr. 34. Apron 35. A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound |
37. Million 1s and 0s 38. Hebrew leader 39. Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses 40. The queen of the gods in ancient mythology 41. Narrow ridges (Swedish) 43. Offence taken 45. At sales or auctions 46. A way to drop down 47. Fine lustrous silk 49. Institute legal proceedings against 51. A way of checking 54. World data organization, abbr. 56. Woman (French) 57. Dine 60. Dulled by surfeit 63. Wrong 64. A Spanish river 65. Sopped up 66. Valley 68. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) 69. The bill in a restaurant 71. Deep orange mandarin |
72. The extended location of something 73. In a way, fastens 75. Anagram of snaogr 78. Urban center 81. A baglike structure in a plant or animal 82. Remarkably 83. Force 87. Cartilaginous structure 89. Any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs 91. Farm 92. Units of metrical time 93. Islamic calendar month 94. Languages of Sulu islands 95. Birds 96. __ Nui, Easter Island 97. Jacob __, American journalist 98. Irvin __, American humorist 99. Sleeps 101. Annual grass of Europe and N Africa 102. No No No 104. Coronal 106. Causing sorrow |
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