Randomly Generated Crossword(18 x 18)
Across
- 1. a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a ____ping sound
- 5. transient cessation of respiration
- 10. an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca
- 14. the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon
- 15. a discrete unit of living matter
- 16. a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
- 18. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
- 19. any of several plants of the genus _____sia; North and South America
- 20. large stinging paper wasp
- 22. administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
- 24. a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
- 25. of girls or women who are eligible to marry
- 26. the capital of the Bahamas
- 27. (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
- 29. the present occasion
- 30. the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 32. an eight-sided polygon
- 34. a professional cook
- 38. fiddler crabs
- 39. a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
- 41. with honesty
- 43. a member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India
- 44. explicit notice
- 50. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- 51. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- 52. United States sculptor (born in 1924)
- 53. 6th President of the United States; son of John _____ (1767-1848)
- 54. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
- 55. covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
- 56. tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
- 58. (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
- 59. Italian pope from 1800 to 1823 who was humiliated by Napoleon and taken prisoner in 1809; he concluded a concordat with Napoleon and crowned him emperor of France; he returned to Rome in 1814 (1740-1823)
- 60. an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions
- 62. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- 63. the longest division of geological time
- 64. large strong hand (as of a fighter)
- 69. informal terms for a (young) woman
- 71. relating to or near the ulna
- 72. fearful expectation or anticipation
- 75. a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
- 80. a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
- 82. the basic unit of money in Peru
- 83. a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
- 84. a person's partner in marriage
- 85. type genus of the Vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets
- 87. the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
- 88. one of the 7 gods of happiness
- 89. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- 90. an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
- 91. prepare or cook with ____
- 92. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit
- 93. rise up
Down
- 1. a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe
- 2. an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- 3. any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers
- 4. any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns
- 5. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- 6. a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys
- 7. not now
- 8. related on the mother's side
- 9. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- 10. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968)
- 11. the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
- 12. mouselike jumping rodent
- 13. (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- 14. work natural fibers into a thread
- 17. a public utility that provides telephone service
- 21. being of the age 13 through 19
- 23. violent agitation
- 28. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- 31. covered with or containing or consisting of ice
- 33. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning
- 34. a squeaking sound
- 35. of or relating to or supporting _____ism
- 36. moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons
- 37. a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
- 39. French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
- 40. the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- 42. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- 43. cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
- 45. (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage
- 46. a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
- 47. tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
- 48. the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- 49. United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960)
- 51. the young of various fishes
- 55. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium
- 57. 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
- 59. a humorous play on words
- 61. a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- 62. (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
- 64. make messy or untidy
- 65. the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- 66. (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
- 67. a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected
- 68. an implement used to erase something
- 69. United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)
- 70. loud and confused and empty talk
- 73. be equal to in quality or ability
- 74. an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
- 76. fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs
- 77. a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
- 78. a theatrical performer
- 79. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
- 81. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)
- 86. macaws