Randomly Generated Crossword(11 x 11)
Across
- 1. a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- 6. spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law
- 11. the longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean
- 12. having services engaged for a fee
- 13. consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree
- 14. join or combine
- 15. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
- 17. a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- 18. the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings
- 19. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- 20. (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying
- 22. strip the skin off
- 25. become excited about
- 29. a rapid escape (as by criminals)
- 30. extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
- 31. 20 _____s equal 1 kurus in Turkey
- 33. a city in northwestern Switzerland
- 34. hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce
- 35. a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Pisces and Taurus
- 36. a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release
- 37. the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq
Down
- 1. laugh at with contempt and derision
- 2. any of various perennial South American plants of the genus _____ having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers
- 3. United States writer (1889-1973)
- 4. prelates collectively
- 5. a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario
- 6. deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)
- 7. belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
- 8. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
- 9. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with _____ nut (seed of the _____ palm) by southeast Asians
- 10. that is to say; in other words
- 16. a medieval oboe
- 19. an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles
- 21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
- 22. footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)
- 23. the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
- 24. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
- 26. type genus of the family Mysidae
- 27. a worker who lays tile
- 28. a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea
- 30. an examination conducted by spoken communication
- 32. your consciousness of your own identity