Crossword puzzle for May 12, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. A person who lacks good judgment 4. Fringe-toed lizard 7. Extinct Caucasian language 12. Obeah 13. Having a grainy texture 14. A woody climbing plant 15. Indistinct 17. Not at all 18. New location, abbr. 19. Opening 21. Be obliged to repay 22. Greek portico 24. Relative biological effectiveness, abbr. 25. Adhesiveness 26. Leader 27. Burn with anger 29. Sweltering 31. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid 35. Copyread 37. Vietnamese offensive 38. Tai Long 41. Temporary living quarters 42. Rodent 43. Two-year-old sheep 44. Radioactivity unit 45. Chum 46. "1836 siege" of U.S. 48. Poisonous plant 52. Goddesses 53. Former Brazilian capital 54. Cycles/second 55. Samoyedic 56. Swiss river 57. A baglike structure in a plant or animal |
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1. Small coin (French) 2. Airborne, abbr. 3. Flute 4. The chief solid component of mammalian urine 5. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand 6. Organism 7. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm 8. Word element meaning life 9. A brute 10. Recalled 11. Hemmed and __ |
16. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano 20. Tied anew 22. Seaport, abbr. 23. Hill (Celtic) 24. Direction 25. Plot 27. __ Caesar, comedian 28. Mortar trough 30. An enclosure for confining livestock 32. Slanted typefaces 33. Month 34. Letter of the Greek alphabet |
36. __ Karsavina, Nijinski's partner 38. Corny 39. Of Troy, who launched 1000 ships 40. Calcedony 42. Mammal genus 44. Diana __, singer 45. Financially disadvantaged 47. Witty remark 49. Former OSS 50. Yearly tonnage, abbr. 51. Monetary unit |
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