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

DOWN
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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