Randomly Generated Crossword(11 x 11)

Across

  • 1. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
  • 6. a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet)
  • 11. 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
  • 12. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
  • 13. a fast car that competes in races
  • 14. Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684)
  • 15. a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed
  • 17. the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
  • 18. wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder
  • 19. street names for marijuana
  • 20. British writer (born in Hungary) (1865-1947)
  • 22. two items of the same kind
  • 25. a periodic count of the population
  • 29. the medieval ___sian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev
  • 30. strangle with an iron collar
  • 31. a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
  • 33. of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
  • 34. coils of worsted yarn
  • 35. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  • 36. Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)
  • 37. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

Down

  • 1. one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills
  • 2. make less active or intense
  • 3. a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
  • 4. one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming
  • 5. a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road
  • 6. Babylonian god of storms and wind
  • 7. a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
  • 8. affect with wonder
  • 9. the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur
  • 10. twining perennial North American plants
  • 16. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves
  • 19. viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc.
  • 21. preceding even the first
  • 22. worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
  • 23. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  • 24. made of wood of the ash tree
  • 26. rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940)
  • 27. express in speech
  • 28. shabby and untidy
  • 30. (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
  • 32. gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
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