Crossword 2
Across
- 3. president during the american civil war
- 5. movement of particles from high to low concentration
- 9. method of voice production used by male singers to sing high notes
- 14. historical period of cultural rebirth after the middle ages
- 16. world's largest island, located between the arctic and atlantic oceans
- 17. small, chewy balls made of tapioca starch used in milk tea
- 18. book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
- 20. 1215 document that limited the power of the english king (2)
- 24. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
- 25. organelle responsible for cellular respiration
- 26. mexican dish consisting of a folded tortilla filled with various ingredients
- 29. organic chemical that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells
- 31. long accompanied song for a solo voice, typically in an opera
- 34. very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest
- 35. thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived by the senses
- 37. substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction
- 38. 1972 political scandal that led to a presidential resignation
- 40. traditional japanese art of paper folding
- 42. nucleic acid acting as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA
- 43. soft candy made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream
- 44. traditional story concerning the early history of a people
- 45. long poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic figures
- 46. long, involved story, account, or series of incidents
- 48. joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
- 49. figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 50. sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault in equipment
- 51. threadlike structure of nucleic acids carrying genetic information
- 52. atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of electrons
- 56. minute area of illumination on a display screen
- 57. elaborate musical composition for a full orchestra
- 58. process by which organisms maintain a stable internal environment
- 60. sign placed at the start of a staff to indicate the pitch of the notes
- 62. person who writes books or articles on behalf of another person (2)
- 63. civil rights icon who refused to give up her bus seat (2)
- 65. man trained to fight with weapons against other men or wild animals
- 67. conversion of light energy into chemical energy
- 69. deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct something
- 71. sea connected to the atlantic ocean, enclosed by land
- 74. sauce of crushed garlic, pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, and hard cheese
- 75. obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another
- 76. performed with each note sharply detached or separated from the others
- 77. expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas
Down
- 1. biological catalyst made of protein
- 2. piece of music that is played or sung by a single performer
- 4. ancient queen of the ptolemaic kingdom of egypt
- 6. writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a wall
- 7. theatrical district located in new york city
- 8. carved stone grotesque designed to convey water from a roof
- 10. long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance
- 11. gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music
- 12. french emperor exiled to elba
- 13. surname of the pop star who created the eras tour
- 15. ancient roman city buried by mount vesuvius
- 19. large island nation off the southeast coast of africa
- 21. actress who starred in dune and euphoria
- 22. biological community of interacting organisms and their environment
- 23. molecule containing genetic instructions for development
- 24. founding father featured on the ten dollar bill
- 27. lizard with the ability to change color
- 28. japanese dish consisting of small balls or rolls of vinegar-flavored cold rice
- 30. large molecule composed of many repeated subunits
- 32. having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure
- 33. mountain range containing the world's highest peaks
- 36. figure of speech comparing two unrelated things without using like or as
- 39. statement that leads to a senseless or self-contradictory conclusion
- 41. open to more than one interpretation or having a double meaning
- 47. short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
- 48. numeric scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution
- 51. period of geopolitical tension between the us and ussr (2)
- 53. spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a membrane
- 54. highest point of something, especially when it forms a triangle
- 55. board game where players buy, sell, and trade properties
- 59. rapid flow of snow down a sloping surface
- 61. physicist who developed the theory of relativity
- 64. occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words
- 66. physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb
- 68. confusing and difficult problem or question
- 70. complicated irregular network of passages or paths
- 72. South American river with the largest discharge volume of water
- 73. site of a major 1986 nuclear accident in ukraine