Randomly Generated Crossword(18 x 18)
Across
- 1. a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
- 5. a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments
- 10. a quarrel about petty points
- 14. brilliant or conspicuous success or effect
- 15. sing by changing register; sing by _____ing
- 16. a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
- 18. the area within view
- 19. quietly in concealment
- 20. (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron
- 22. the capital and largest city of Dominica
- 24. (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
- 25. the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss
- 26. toward or in the upper part of town
- 27. covered or furnished with tiles
- 29. of a very dark black
- 30. an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby
- 32. group of islands in the central Philippines
- 34. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
- 38. the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- 39. a mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad
- 41. make less subtle or refined
- 43. express in words
- 44. a genus of fish in the family Caproidae
- 50. an adjective used as a noun
- 51. earn on some commercial or business transaction; ____ as salary or wages
- 52. payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment
- 53. the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman)
- 54. in or of the next month after the present
- 55. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
- 56. a public square with room for pedestrians
- 58. ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons
- 59. fool's parsley
- 60. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
- 62. urge to attack someone
- 63. the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars
- 64. United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-)
- 69. the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
- 71. having characteristics not shared by others
- 72. a Dravidian language spoken by the Kota
- 75. hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves
- 80. (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- 82. rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; ____ is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
- 83. indistinct or hazy in outline
- 84. a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness
- 85. a person with myopia; a nearsighted person
- 87. someone who bakes commercially
- 88. a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)
- 89. become active and spew forth lava and rocks
- 90. (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
- 91. a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies)
- 92. genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China
- 93. of or related to the anus
Down
- 1. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
- 2. (geology) a constituent fragment of a _____ic rock
- 3. a path set aside for walking
- 4. a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal
- 5. English dramatist (1558-1594)
- 6. any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood
- 7. push one's way into (a space)
- 8. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- 9. isolated from others
- 10. a knife used as a weapon
- 11. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- 12. naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion
- 13. a loudspeaker
- 14. a very light brown
- 17. any of various plants of the genus _____ having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally
- 21. the time during which someone's life continues
- 23. not observed
- 28. (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
- 31. become pale and sickly
- 33. being nine more than eighty
- 34. one who is playfully mischievous
- 35. the traditional dress of Vietnamese women consisting of a tunic with long sleeves and panels front and back; the tunic is worn over trousers
- 36. the mother of your father or mother
- 37. 100 _____y equal 1 zloty in Poland
- 39. United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)
- 40. wrynecks
- 42. a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of ____ and at the southern end of the ____ Canal
- 43. a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
- 45. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- 46. the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
- 47. tear into shreds
- 48. excessively fat
- 49. a tranquilizing drug (trade name _____) used to treat anxiety and insomnia and alcohol withdrawal
- 51. an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel
- 55. lean in a comfortable resting position
- 57. a civilian reserve component of the United States Air Force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies
- 59. a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- 61. black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas
- 62. full of fighting spirit
- 64. a master's degree in library science
- 65. large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus
- 66. shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats
- 67. travel upon or across
- 68. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- 69. the taste experience when a ______y condiment is taken into the mouth
- 70. the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos
- 73. a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
- 74. long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America
- 76. desire strongly or persistently
- 77. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
- 78. of or relating to or involving an area
- 79. fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
- 81. a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos
- 86. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees