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