Crossword Puzzle for May 6, 2000



ACROSS
1. A car that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
5. Anagram of bimc
9. Pouches
13. A way to look
17. Not very intelligent or interested in culture
18. Valley
19. Old World buffalo
20. An organized group of workmen
21. Largest known toad species
22. Beside one another in a row or rank
23. Spread made chiefly from vegetable oils
25. Reddish-brown Old World raccoonlike carnivore
27. Overwhelming joy
29. Edible lily bulbs
30. In a way, negates
32. Macaws
33. Herb
34. A fabric woven from goat and camel hair
36. Demand payment
37. A nucleic acid shaped like a double helix
38. Causing sorrow
39. Dekagram
42. Hideouts
44. Stable populations (Ecology)
46. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
48. Yards
50. Arrived extinct
51. Airborne, abbr.
52. A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
53. Preliminary drawing for later elaboration
55. Remnant
58. Father
59. Life stories
61. Round globular seed
62. German car
64. Biblical Hamath
67. Meeting the requirements of e.g. a task
70. In a way, turned
74. City on Mohawk river
76. Local area network
77. Crunches federal numbers
79. Long and narrow strip of water
80. Insolvent
82. Slams
84. A Russian river
85. California think tank
86. South American wood sorrel
87. John __, English statesman (1584-1643)
88. The side of something that is sheltered from the wind
90. Airtight sealed metal container
91. In the capacity of
92. The creation of beautiful or significant things
93. In a way, went against
95. Haircuts
98. A way of tracking down
100. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
103. A state of extreme poverty or destitution
105. River in South Africa
107. Egyptian sun god
108. Linear unit
109. Herb
110. Outside
111. Chalcedony
112. Requests
113. Repair
114. Supports the rudderpost
115. Ancient Olympic Site

DOWN
1. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
2. Fold, crease
3. Plenty
4. George Gordon __, Union general
5. Potato state, abbr.
6. Reeled
7. Coalitions
8. Seagulls
9. Winged fruit
10. Arthropod genus
11. __ Flintoff, journalist
12. A way to drop
13. Plant part
14. Lively person
15. Tonight's host
16. Kwas
24. Digressions
26. Not or
28. Light browns
31. Birth control means
33. The (prehensile) distal extremity of the superior limb
34. A system of one or more computers
35. Horny projecting jaws of a bird
37. Lacking expression
38. Some genera often classified as members of the genus Cassia
39. Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad
40. Older or seasoned
41. East German town
43. Reversal
45. Cow sound
46. The compass point that is one point east of due south
47. Two or more atoms bound together as a single unit
49. __ fi (slang)
51. A combination or blend of diverse things

54. Ad __
56. Adult female
57. A large open container for holding or storing liquids
60. Minute floating marine tunicate
63. Month
64. Centres
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers
66. Short
68. Exactly suited to the occasion
69. ___ of corn
71. About an account
72. Supernatural force
73. Ardor
75. Cause to become awake
78. Legally or morally bind
81. Fiddler crabs
82. A sequence of bits (6 or 8) processed as a single unit of information
83. Monetary unit
87. Medical school
89. The compass point midway between northeast and east
91. Letters
92. Malicious burning to destroy property
93. A light informal meal
94. Wipe out magnetically recorded information
95. National capital
96. Winnows
97. A collection of objects in the same location
98. A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
99. Charles __, atonal composer
101. Anagram of soir
102. Goals
104. Run
106. The exponent required to produce a given number


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