Randomly Generated Crossword(15 x 15)
Across
- 1. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- 4. a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; ____ was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years
- 8. a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)
- 12. a bachelor's degree in music
- 13. a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards
- 14. arm again
- 16. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
- 17. utter with force; utter vehemently
- 18. a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine (trade names _____ and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an antipyretic
- 19. a reptile genus of Iguanidae
- 20. system of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds
- 21. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
- 23. (Greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of Hyperion; identified with Roman Aurora
- 24. cause to appear in a new form
- 26. an honorary degree in science
- 28. goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- 30. an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution
- 32. affected manners intended to impress others
- 36. small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
- 39. soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
- 41. a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains
- 42. a port in southwestern Scotland
- 43. bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit
- 45. a nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions
- 46. emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- 48. fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves
- 49. advance slowly, as if by ____es
- 50. an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States
- 51. a pen for swine
- 52. a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives
- 54. a club drug available in liquid or powder form is taken orally (frequently combined with alcohol); used to incapacitate individuals for the commission of sexual assault and rape
- 56. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- 60. a disparaging term for a British person
- 63. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- 65. a smart bomb that seeks the laser light reflected off of the target and uses it to correct its descent
- 67. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- 68. (Norse mythology) god of poetry and music; son of Odin
- 70. a fee charged for exchanging currencies
- 72. enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space
- 73. large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
- 74. suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- 75. chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil; found in India and Malaya
- 76. a large city of central Poland
- 77. goddess of fate: a giantess who personified the past
- 78. remove the ___s from
Down
- 1. affect suddenly with deep feeling
- 2. a city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait; the chief port and second largest city
- 3. of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder
- 4. a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli
- 5. type genus
- 6. the sea personified; father of Manannan; corresponds to Welsh Llyr
- 7. an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- 8. the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes
- 9. an explosive device that is improvised
- 10. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- 11. a musical composition for three performers
- 12. become glassy; lose clear vision
- 15. a master's degree in library science
- 20. a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- 22. an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service
- 25. take in food; used of animals only
- 27. a digital tape recording of sound
- 29. flow back or recede
- 30. so thin as to transmit light
- 31. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943)
- 33. a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; ____ was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil
- 34. a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
- 35. a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
- 36. Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools
- 37. opinion or judgment
- 38. arrange or or coil around
- 40. take part in a ____; disturb the public peace by engaging in a ____
- 44. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
- 47. white crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in Chinese cooking
- 49. automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system
- 51. the compass point that is one point east of due south
- 53. the amount that a ___ will hold
- 55. United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
- 57. a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
- 58. start to burn or burst into flames
- 59. a city in southeastern South Korea
- 60. a solution containing a phosphate buffer
- 61. a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression
- 62. black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct
- 64. a Loloish language
- 65. cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
- 66. Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)
- 69. an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
- 71. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
- 72. (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; ___s are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species