Randomly Generated Crossword(9 x 9)
Across
- 1. fine leather from the skin of a ____
- 5. a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum
- 8. fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed
- 9. evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
- 11. the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner
- 13. any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles
- 14. with the order reversed
- 17. an implement used to erase something
- 18. a sulfonamide (trade name _________) used to treat infections of the urinary tract
- 22. small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns
- 23. an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain
- 24. an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community
- 25. the direction corresponding to the ____ward cardinal compass point
Down
- 1. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
- 2. a unit of surface ___a equal to 100 square meters
- 3. set afire or burning
- 4. a red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes
- 5. make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- 6. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- 7. one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills
- 10. a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
- 12. a flat metal tumbler in a _____ lock
- 14. prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635)
- 15. a native or inhabitant of Iran
- 16. a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- 19. an independent government agency responsible for the Social Security system
- 20. the bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections
- 21. a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source