Crossword puzzle for April 15, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. Overtake 5. Dada 9. Any of several carangid fishes 13. Young salmon 17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else 18. The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion 19. Military disguise 20. Phil __, former CIA head 21. Carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts 22. Dish 23. Got rid of 25. Calendar month 27. Wipe out 29. Cause friction 30. Terminates 32. Take in solid food 33. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions 34. Hawaiian dish of taro root 36. Obstruct 37. Often for medication 38. Spanish for "Saint" 39. Spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan 42. Employee stock ownership plan 44. Acknowledges 46. Uncommunicative 48. Skidded 50. A passage with access only at one end 51. Annual grass of Europe and N Africa 52. Political plot 53. Even chance 55. Denouncements 58. William __, Buffalo Bill 59. Old English letters 61. Russian commune 62. Used esp. of meats 64. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns 67. Crooks 70. National capital 74. Airs 76. A way to create from raw stuff 77. Wife 79. White (French) 80. Portended 82. National capital 84. A Great Lake 85. The (prehensile) distal extremity of the superior limb 86. Father 87. A small object used in playing certain board games 88. __ Angeles 90. Provide with a top 91. Blackguard 92. Take by force 93. TV program 95. Languages of Sulu islands 98. To emit 100. White person, Hawaiian slang 103. Conductor 105. A well-defined track or path 107. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins 108. Lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness 109. Cloths 110. Basics 111. Inside 112. Spreads leaves for drying 113. Improperly forward or bold 114. 1 115. "__ the Man" Musial, baseball player |
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1. Large burrowing rodent of S and C America 2. __ and Andy, radio and TV show 3. Indecently erotic 4. A portion of something owned or contributed by a person or group 5. Time of the 120th meridian, used in far western states of the U.S. 6. Works at a college or university 7. Steps 8. Australians 9. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians 10. Henry __ Lodge, former American politician 11. Min dialect 12. Pain unit 13. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt 14. Turkish title 15. Reduce 16. Give advice, explain 24. Likes picture 26. Delivered 28. Shrubs 31. A baglike structure in a plant or animal 33. Political action committee 34. A persistently annoying person 35. National capital 37. Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something |
38. Satiates 39. Bird genus 40. Rumanian city 41. Inwardly 43. Monetary units 45. Ancient Egyptian King 46. Small amount 47. Capable of being touched or felt 49. An explosion fails to occur 51. Rower 54. Philemon, abbr. (Biblical) 56. The former capital 57. Posed 60. Dulled by surfeit 63. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research 64. Joseph __, choreographer 65. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint 66. The team of men manning a racing shell 68. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal 69. Shape into a sphere 71. Supreme |
72. __ Blyton, children's author 73. Frosted 75. Someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others 78. Prominence 81. Talk 82. Isodor __, American Nobel physicist 83. A young child 87. Free from ostentation, pomp or affectation 89. Austria 91. Subspecies 92. Measuring instrument 93. Knifes 94. Green regions of desert 95. People descended from a common ancestor 96. Wings 97. Fuse 98. Long flowing outer garment used for official or ceremonial occasions 99. __ Ladd, actor 101. Queen of Sparta 102. British School 104. Knock 106. Monetary unit |
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