Crossword puzzle for March 27, 2000

ACROSS
1. Nuclear near reach weapon
5. Turkish title
9. Minute floating marine tunicate
13. Prevents harm to young
17. A tributary of the Mississippi River
18. Unattractive
19. Protects the chest
20. Membrane
21. Give up for a price or reward
22. Adventure story
23. A public declaration of intentions
25. A tract of level wasteland
27. Intend
29. Put within
30. tropical bird
32. Reptile genus
33. A fabric woven from goat and camel hair
34. One of four cards in a deck having a single spot
36. Protects from weather
37. Relative biological effectiveness, abbr.
38. Destroy a limb
39. Horseman, abbr. (Chess)
42. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
44. Plateaus
46. Parlous
48. Central Florida city
50. Thai
51. A thick flat pad used as a floor covering
52. City in Sweden
53. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef
55. Locomotives
58. Bono's ex wife
59. Exhausts
61. Usually has a lid
62. Used of beverages
64. Handle
67. About Freemason
70. Yeast
74. Cricket frogs
76. It shoots arrows
77. Not inclined to speak
79. Musical composition
80. Draughts
82. Deck for divination
84. Spanish city
85. Kilo yard, abbr.
86. Anger
87. The world of the dead
88. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
90. An artificial crown for a tooth
91. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
92. Nigerian people
93. Layers of rock
95. Carthaginian statesman
98. African wild swine with warty protuberances
100. Grandmothers
103. Likenings
105. Oxalis
107. Secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder
108. Chad
109. __ of Green Gables
110. Imprisons
111. British School
112. With fireplace residue
113. Constrictors
114. Millisecond
115. Anything that provides an inspiration for later work

DOWN

1. Somalian shilling
2. Syngman __, former Korean president
3. Symmetrical
4. Much (Italian)
5. Publicities
6. Changed smoothly
7. Slayer of Siegfried
8. Textiles
9. A Caucasian who speaks a Semitic language
10. Capital of Guam
11. Something long and thin and flexible
12. The 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
13. Italian opera set
14. Give clearance to
15. Obviously contrived to charm
16. Clabber
24. clotting agent
26. Expression of bafflement
28. Baths
31. Shaped rotating disk to convert circular into linear motion
33. Swiss river
34. Australians
35. Inca plant 37. Colored sky rings
38. Distributes
39. Ed __, former New York mayor
40. Bomb with an atomic bomb
41. Czar
43. Able to adjust readily to different conditions
45. Society of Automotive Engineers
46. Wide metal vessel used in cooking
47. Breastfeed
49. Doctors' group
51. The least possible
54. Inches per minute, abbr.
56. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
57. The god of the sun in ancient mythology
60. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade
63. An interest in land capable of being inherited
64. Significantly cut up a manuscript
65. __-Breaky Heart
66. __ Allen, American TV comic
68. Distress signal
69. An inferior dog or one of mixed breed 71. A hard nonresilient rubber
72. Icelandic poems
73. Tide
75. Go away!
78. Property loan
81. Before
82. Shelter
83. Where passengers ride up and down
87. Heroins
89. Principal ethnic group of China
91. Mount on a surface
92. Labor (Spanish)
93. Soul and calypso songs
94. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease
95. Biblical Hamath
96. Type tenus of the Anatidae
97. Ogden __, US humorist
98. Drunk (slang)
99. Island in a river (British)
101. Herb
102. Assign to a station
104. Talk
106. _ _ College (any of five)

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Crosswords for March 2000

ACROSS 1. Nuclear near reach weapon 5. Turkish title 9. Minute floating marine tunicate 13. Prevents harm to young 17. A tributary of the Mississippi River 18. Unattractive 19. Protects the chest 20. Membrane 21. Give up for a price or reward 22. Adventure story 23. A public declaration of intentions 25. A tract of level wasteland 27. Intend 29. Put within 30. tropical bird 32. Reptile genus 33. A fabric woven from goat and camel hair 34. One of four cards in a deck having a single spot 36. Protects from weather 37. Relative biological effectiveness, abbr. 38. Destroy a limb 39. Horseman, abbr. (Chess) 42. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel 44. Plateaus 46. Parlous 48. Central Florida city 50. Thai 51. A thick flat pad used as a floor covering 52. City in Sweden 53. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef 55. Locomotives 58. Bono's ex wife 59. Exhausts 61. Usually has a lid 62. Used of beverages 64. Handle 67. About Freemason 70. Yeast 74. Cricket frogs 76. It shoots arrows 77. Not inclined to speak 79. Musical composition 80. Draughts 82. Deck for divination 84. Spanish city 85. Kilo yard, abbr. 86. Anger 87. The world of the dead 88. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! 90. An artificial crown for a tooth 91. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms 92. Nigerian people 93. Layers of rock 95. Carthaginian statesman 98. African wild swine with warty protuberances 100. Grandmothers 103. Likenings 105. Oxalis 107. Secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder 108. Chad 109. __ of Green Gables 110. Imprisons 111. British School 112. With fireplace residue 113. Constrictors 114. Millisecond 115. Anything that provides an inspiration for later work
	DOWN
	1. Somalian shilling 2. Syngman __, former Korean president 3. Symmetrical 4. Much (Italian) 5. Publicities 6. Changed smoothly 7. Slayer of Siegfried 8. Textiles 9. A Caucasian who speaks a Semitic language 10. Capital of Guam 11. Something long and thin and flexible 12. The 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet 13. Italian opera set 14. Give clearance to 15. Obviously contrived to charm 16. Clabber 24. clotting agent 26. Expression of bafflement 28. Baths 31. Shaped rotating disk to convert circular into linear motion 33. Swiss river 34. Australians 35. Inca plant	37. Colored sky rings 38. Distributes 39. Ed __, former New York mayor 40. Bomb with an atomic bomb 41. Czar 43. Able to adjust readily to different conditions 45. Society of Automotive Engineers 46. Wide metal vessel used in cooking 47. Breastfeed 49. Doctors' group 51. The least possible 54. Inches per minute, abbr. 56. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries 57. The god of the sun in ancient mythology 60. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade 63. An interest in land capable of being inherited 64. Significantly cut up a manuscript 65. __-Breaky Heart 66. __ Allen, American TV comic 68. Distress signal 69. An inferior dog or one of mixed breed	71. A hard nonresilient rubber 72. Icelandic poems 73. Tide 75. Go away! 78. Property loan 81. Before 82. Shelter 83. Where passengers ride up and down 87. Heroins 89. Principal ethnic group of China 91. Mount on a surface 92. Labor (Spanish) 93. Soul and calypso songs 94. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease 95. Biblical Hamath 96. Type tenus of the Anatidae 97. Ogden __, US humorist 98. Drunk (slang) 99. Island in a river (British) 101. Herb 102. Assign to a station 104. Talk 106. _ _ College (any of five)