Crossword Puzzle for May 6, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. A car that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity 5. Anagram of bimc 9. Pouches 13. A way to look 17. Not very intelligent or interested in culture 18. Valley 19. Old World buffalo 20. An organized group of workmen 21. Largest known toad species 22. Beside one another in a row or rank 23. Spread made chiefly from vegetable oils 25. Reddish-brown Old World raccoonlike carnivore 27. Overwhelming joy 29. Edible lily bulbs 30. In a way, negates 32. Macaws 33. Herb 34. A fabric woven from goat and camel hair 36. Demand payment 37. A nucleic acid shaped like a double helix 38. Causing sorrow 39. Dekagram 42. Hideouts 44. Stable populations (Ecology) 46. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains 48. Yards 50. Arrived extinct 51. Airborne, abbr. 52. A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back 53. Preliminary drawing for later elaboration 55. Remnant 58. Father 59. Life stories 61. Round globular seed 62. German car 64. Biblical Hamath 67. Meeting the requirements of e.g. a task 70. In a way, turned 74. City on Mohawk river 76. Local area network 77. Crunches federal numbers 79. Long and narrow strip of water 80. Insolvent 82. Slams 84. A Russian river 85. California think tank 86. South American wood sorrel 87. John __, English statesman (1584-1643) 88. The side of something that is sheltered from the wind 90. Airtight sealed metal container 91. In the capacity of 92. The creation of beautiful or significant things 93. In a way, went against 95. Haircuts 98. A way of tracking down 100. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed 103. A state of extreme poverty or destitution 105. River in South Africa 107. Egyptian sun god 108. Linear unit 109. Herb 110. Outside 111. Chalcedony 112. Requests 113. Repair 114. Supports the rudderpost 115. Ancient Olympic Site |
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1. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned 2. Fold, crease 3. Plenty 4. George Gordon __, Union general 5. Potato state, abbr. 6. Reeled 7. Coalitions 8. Seagulls 9. Winged fruit 10. Arthropod genus 11. __ Flintoff, journalist 12. A way to drop 13. Plant part 14. Lively person 15. Tonight's host 16. Kwas 24. Digressions 26. Not or 28. Light browns 31. Birth control means 33. The (prehensile) distal extremity of the superior limb 34. A system of one or more computers |
35. Horny projecting jaws of a bird 37. Lacking expression 38. Some genera often classified as members of the genus Cassia 39. Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad 40. Older or seasoned 41. East German town 43. Reversal 45. Cow sound 46. The compass point that is one point east of due south 47. Two or more atoms bound together as a single unit 49. __ fi (slang) 51. A combination or blend of diverse things 54. Ad __ 56. Adult female 57. A large open container for holding or storing liquids 60. Minute floating marine tunicate 63. Month 64. Centres 65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers 66. Short 68. Exactly suited to the occasion 69. ___ of corn |
71. About an account 72. Supernatural force 73. Ardor 75. Cause to become awake 78. Legally or morally bind 81. Fiddler crabs 82. A sequence of bits (6 or 8) processed as a single unit of information 83. Monetary unit 87. Medical school 89. The compass point midway between northeast and east 91. Letters 92. Malicious burning to destroy property 93. A light informal meal 94. Wipe out magnetically recorded information 95. National capital 96. Winnows 97. A collection of objects in the same location 98. A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing 99. Charles __, atonal composer 101. Anagram of soir 102. Goals 104. Run 106. The exponent required to produce a given number |
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