Crossword Puzzle for May 9, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. Narrow runners used for gliding over snow 5. Humanistic discipline 9. For storing grain or animal feed 13. Any piece of work 17. A quantity of no importance 18. East German town 19. Abba __, former Israeli politician 20. Quick tempo, abbr. 21. Coagulation 22. River in England 23. Daring person 25. Slang for famous person 27. Repeat 29. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World 30. Digressions 32. Chinese 33. God of sky (Scandinavian) 34. Scatter 36. Shoot a marble 37. The bill in a restaurant 38. Belongs to him 39. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano 42. Figure skating jump 44. Taegus 46. Platyhelminth 48. Chemical solution 50. Obstruct 51. Sorrowful 52. Dark brownish black 53. Unfasten 55. Four-sided stone pillar 58. Playthings 59. Any of various small biting flies 61. Relative biological effectiveness, abbr. 62. A long thin piece of cloth or paper that is used for binding or fastening 64. Aboriginal race 67. Can't move 70. Sing by changing register 74. Used to decorate clothes or curtains 76. Sickness 77. Don't know when yet 79. A printing telegraph that operates like a typewriter 80. Whorehouse 82. William __, American naturalist 84. Begetter 85. Finish 86. French river 87. Small amount 88. Confederate soldier 90. Mayan language 91. Gorilla 92. Robert 93. Show respect 95. Cause to be embarrassed 98. Capital of Venezuela 100. Italian aviator 103. Exact copy 105. Off-Broadway theater award 107. Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad 108. The extended location of something 109. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers 110. Boxing champ ____ Spinks 111. Narrow ridges (Swedish) 112. Clear 113. Monetary unit 114. Thomas __, British composer, 1700 115. Purposes |
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1. Civil rights college organization 2. Coarse curly-leafed greens 3. Infidels 4. Satiates 5. Honorable title (Turkish) 6. Overseen 7. Jogs 8. Mentally healthy 9. Spread over 10. A way to lessen 11. Scarce 12. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast 13. City 14. Spanish general 1508-82 15. Very thin in gauge 16. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing caffeine 24. Platforms 26. A small amount of solid food 28. Shag rugs 31. A digital tape recording of sound 33. The top point of a mountain or hill 34. Irish mother of gods |
35. Domesticated bovine animals 37. Can be tilted to empty contents without handling 38. Had I known 39. Wolf (Spanish) 40. Paris airport 41. Research labs 43. Lacking vigor 45. Oversees federal operations 46. A citizen of Thailand 47. Irrigated 49. Local area network 51. Precipitated ice 54. The small projection of a mammary gland 56. Travel one unit east and one unit south 57. Samuel Haya__a, US Senator 60. Afrikaans 63. Having superficial plausibility 64. A French abbot 65. Flat metal base is heated and used to smooth cloth 66. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity 68. The former capital of Brazil 69. Travel one unit south and one unit east |
71. Guiltless 72. Queen of Sparta 73. Questioning to evaluate skill or knowledge 75. City of Ancient Greece 78. Scraped area 81. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide 82. A spongelike cake leavened with yeast 83. Fatty-fleshed fish that migrates between salt and fresh water 87. Matador 89. Guy (slang) 91. Haffez al-__, Syrian president 92. Red mineral 93. A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back 94. About three feet long exclusive of tail 95. From a distance 96. Naked 97. Breezed through 98. Advance evidence for 99. Lage genus of African trees bearing kola nuts 101. Hillside 102. Paddles 104. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it) 106. The compass point midway between northeast and east |
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