Complete Clue List
Across
1. A particular item of prepared food
5. The place, position, or function properly or customarily occupied by another
10. Name of a political party in nineteenth century Britain or US
14. Much ___ About Nothing, a play written by Shakespeare (original spelling)
15. Antonym of "better"
16. Deceptive trick, maneuver
17. Scorch, singe, extremely hot
18. Incompetent
19. "Island" in Spanish
20. Agreement, peace, compatibility
22. Biblical character, queen of King Ahasuerus, saved Jews in Persia from massacre
24. Solidified CO2 is also called dry ___
25. Waltz is a type of ___
27. Automatically guided machine able to do tasks on its own (Think Isaac Asimov and his three laws)
30. Owls are mostly active during the night, so they are ___
34. Port city in Yemen, also the name of the gulf surrounding the city
35. Quicker, swifter
36. "Wave" in Spanish
37. Trigonometric ratio, whose reciprocal is cosecant
38. Group of emerging countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India and China
39. A bird native to New Zealand, also the Chinese goddess of happiness, joy and water
40. An agreement or concurrence of opinion
43. Advanced Specialty Gas Equipment (abbr)
44. People suffering from memory loss
46. Mix, fuse
47. Prefix for many compounds containing Nitrogen
48. American boxer, born Cassius Clay, nicknamed "The Greatest"
49. (In Greek mythology) The muse of comedy
52. Compound found in DNA, along with Thyamine, Cytosine and Guanine
56. One-half of a sphere is called ___-sphere
57. 2nd king of the Israelites, also a famous sculpture by Michelangelo
60. Famous British public school, along with Harrow
61. Greek God of love
62. Become ground down or deteriorate
63. Ethnically belonging to Central or Eastern Europe
64. Structure in which animals, especially birds, lay eggs
65. A rigid bar pivoted across a fulcrum
66. Pertaining to elm trees
Down
1. Run quickly, also a punctuation mark
2. A personal view, thought
3. Rise rapidly
4. ___ Granger, Harry Potter's smart friend
5. Pig
6. Award given for excellence in Broadway plays
7. Archaic word meaning "before", also used in the palindrome - "Able was I __ I saw Elba"
8. Poisonous snake, Cleopatra's killer
9. The easing of tensions or strained relations
10. Charles Dickens was a ___.
11. Become quiet or still; fall silent
12. A small island
13. An equipment used in vehicles to provide torque to the axle
21. Tenth month of the year (abbr)
23. A distorted horn of a goat, sheep or cow
25. An operating system, predecessor of Windows
26. People who perform in dramatic productions like film or theater (plural)
27. A follower of the Rastafari movement
28. Hate coupled with disgust
29. West African country, capital Porto Novo
30. Organization governing auto racing sports events
31. Of or related to Scandinavia or its people or cultures
32. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
33. Tainted with something, especially a drug
38. Pertaining to an Indonesian island
40. Nomadic tribe responsible for the downfall of the state of Bactria in 2nd century BC
41. A stronghold used as shelter during battle, a bastion
42. "Hollow" in Portuguese
45. To join the military
46. "Wheat" in French
48. The Black ___, British historical sitcom; also a type of snake
49. Subsequently or soon afterwards
50. The present location, this place
51. Biblical prophet; "Harry Potter" character (father of Cedric)
52. (Military) officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one
53. Contraction of "it will", without the apostrophe
54. ___ Chomsky, American linguist
55. Jealousy
58. Plural form of "is", also a unit of area comprising of 100 sq. metres
59. A type of Italian eggnog