Randomly Generated Crossword (18 x 18)
Across
- 1. the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)
- 5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of _____'s Razor (1285-1349)
- 10. the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- 14. chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit
- 15. wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
- 16. a small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables
- 18. a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast
- 19. a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia
- 20. a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
- 22. an agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts
- 24. fill to satisfaction
- 25. a member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico
- 26. light teasing repartee
- 27. an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria)
- 29. United States writer; brother of Stephen Vincent _____ (1886-1950)
- 30. South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
- 32. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- 34. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- 38. relating to or containing the ___ radical
- 39. a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database
- 41. a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
- 43. the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in ___mization
- 44. a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
- 50. a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald
- 51. a river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine
- 52. long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America
- 53. a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari
- 54. radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland
- 55. United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929)
- 56. a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high)
- 58. considerate and solicitous care
- 59. a young child
- 60. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- 62. resinlike substance secreted by certain ___ insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
- 63. the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
- 64. any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum
- 69. Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981)
- 71. a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries
- 72. dance the _____
- 75. guinea fowl
- 80. a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees
- 82. shout loudly and without restraint
- 83. a test of the suitability of a performer
- 84. troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority
- 85. a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- 87. informal terms for a human head
- 88. coarse edible red seaweed
- 89. man with strong sexual desires
- 90. relating to or having the characteristics of bees
- 91. a stiff hair or bristle
- 92. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
- 93. free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
Down
- 1. any plant of the genus _____ having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers
- 2. a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons
- 3. that is to say; in other words
- 4. bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism
- 5. European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves
- 6. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- 7. an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973)
- 8. Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684)
- 9. a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)
- 10. a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
- 11. melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
- 12. constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches
- 13. in or into an inferior position
- 14. coat with plaster
- 17. nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
- 21. the relative speed of progress or change
- 23. chief deity of Zoroastrianism; source of light and embodiment of good
- 28. an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
- 31. a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel
- 33. the compass point midway between west and southwest
- 34. an item of factual information derived from measurement or research
- 35. squash bugs
- 36. a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia
- 37. a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia
- 39. of or pertaining to the _____ style of architecture
- 40. cheese containing a blue mold
- 42. fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed
- 43. a river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River
- 45. a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- 46. full of trivial conversation
- 47. United States poet (1885-1928)
- 48. a particular environment or walk of life
- 49. the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
- 51. showily imitative of art or artists
- 55. void of thought or knowledge
- 57. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
- 59. having undesirable or negative qualities
- 61. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
- 62. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
- 64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
- 65. long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family
- 66. of or relating to the uvea of the eye
- 67. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- 68. take up mentally
- 69. a large collection of African townships to the southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa; inhabited solely by Black Africans
- 70. a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- 73. a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the _____ virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
- 74. (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
- 76. a person with myopia; a nearsighted person
- 77. region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient Greeks
- 78. formerly a gold coin of various European countries
- 79. the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
- 81. a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
- 86. the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979