Randomly Generated Crossword(11 x 11)

Across

  • 1. money extracted as a penalty
  • 6. an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
  • 11. a genus of Indriidae
  • 12. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  • 13. agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail
  • 14. (of liquids) available by turning a tap
  • 15. subject to laughter or ridicule
  • 17. (Roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of Saturn; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor
  • 18. midwife toads
  • 19. showily imitative of art or artists
  • 20. Celtic deity who was the lord of Annwfn (the other world or the land of fairies)
  • 22. a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary; stimulates ovulation in female mammals and stimulates androgen release in male mammals
  • 25. Elector of Hanover and the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 (1660-1727)
  • 29. a gentle blow
  • 30. any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
  • 31. a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam)
  • 33. a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
  • 34. a person born in the United States of parents who emigrated from Japan
  • 35. intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources)
  • 36. a port city in western Turkey
  • 37. United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965)

Down

  • 1. molten rock in the earth's crust
  • 2. of or relating to the uvea of the eye
  • 3. tall and thin and having long slender limbs
  • 4. long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
  • 5. a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: `tit for tat' rhymes with `hat')
  • 6. an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
  • 7. according to need (physicians use ___ in writing prescriptions)
  • 8. the revolving bar of a distributor
  • 9. not elegant or graceful in expression
  • 10. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
  • 16. accepted or habitual practice
  • 19. genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants; includes several pests of cultivated grasses
  • 21. United States writer (1890-1945)
  • 22. a native or inhabitant of Iran
  • 23. an ancient port city in southwestern Spain
  • 24. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
  • 26. a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon
  • 27. in full operation
  • 28. related on the mother's side
  • 30. lacking exceptional quality or ability
  • 32. United States architect (born in China in 1917)
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