Crossword puzzle for August 1, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. South American wood sorrel 4. Corporate executive officer 7. Ancient country 12. Uses water as a coolant and moderator 13. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes 14. Makes reefs 15. Visualize 17. A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece 18. Round globular seed 19. Take hold of 21. Drunkard 22. Wings 24. __ student, learns healing 25. Monetary unit 26. Japanese classical theater 27. A ceremonial procession including people marching 29. Line of equal barometric pressure 31. Incited, esp. deliberately, to anger 35. Natives of the Arabian peninsula 37. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet 38. Dressed 41. Chief information officer 42. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped 43. Paddle 44. The cry made by sheep 45. Travelling towards the southeast 46. Sacred objective position 48. Sunday 52. Type genus of the Irenidae 53. __ Lilly, drug company 54. Sargeant major (abbrev.) 55. Political plot 56. A baglike structure 57. Adam's wife |
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1. Obeah 2. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain 3. Algonquian 4. Blue flowered plant 5. The longest division of geological time 6. The first event in a series 7. Take the place of work of someone on strike 8. Domestic swine 9. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed 10. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank 11. Alar |
16. 7th letter 20. Opus 22. Black tropical American cuckoo 23. __ Angeles 24. Castanets 25. A very large body of water 27. Score 28. Medical man 30. Having negative qualities 32. Die 33. Ethiopia (abbrev.) 34. Taoism |
36. Diagonals 38. Arousing or provoking laughter 39. __ Dern, actress 40. Cubic measure 42. The outward flow of the tide 44. Semitic fertility god 45. Invests in little enterprises 47. Registered Nursing Assistant 49. Flower petals 50. The widely studied virus that causes tobacco mosaic 51. Own (Scottish) |
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