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

DOWN
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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