Home Library Puzzle 1
Across
- 1. pioneer of quantum mechanics
- 4. Sri Lanka has two capitals, one official, one this
- 7. Earth's most precious resource
- 8. author of book about red vowel
- 12. 1850 semi-autobiographical novel by author considered the greatest Victorian era novelist (2 words, no space)
- 13. largest member of cat family native to the Americas
- 14. country with longest coastline
- 15. more than this percent of Earth's surface is covered by water
- 19. country with rich deposits of bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is made
- 22. name of street where the purloiner of texts lives
- 24. Last name of family in story about a plant developing where Jay-Z grew up
- 28. sea north of Iran
- 29. long, skinny country in South America
- 30. gulf that borders Latvia and part of Estonia
- 31. the Plain of _______ in northern Laos, archeologists believe Bronze Age people used them to hold the cremated remains of their dead
- 33. the mage's sister's son's name (reminds of HP character)
- 37. capital of China
- 38. indigenous people of Northern Europe, reindeer farmers
- 41. "to die" in French
- 42. l'épée
- 43. capital of Belize
- 45. Brazil's national music
- 46. she is the purloiner of texts
- 48. narrow piece of land connecting two larger pieces of land
- 51. "Killers of the _______ Moon"
- 53. a large area that drains into a particular river or lake, human activity puts great stress on these
- 56. le somme
- 58. "_________ equation": a relativistic equation describing the behavior of fermions, such as electrons
- 59. predator of capybaras in Venezuela
- 62. Newton's first law, "Law of __________"
- 63. Chile produces 28% of the world's supply of this metal
- 65. "to flee" in French
- 66. "to conquer" in French
- 68. picture book about the real story behind A.A. Milne's beloved main character (2 words, no space)
- 74. this country's life expectancy is 83 years (2019 data)
- 75. largest sea by area
- 76. this period of travel in China is considered the world's largest annual human migration
- 78. title character's birthplace, 1850 semi-autobiographical novel
- 80. the only planet that would float
- 82. number of species of penguins that live in South America
- 83. la pendule
- 85. "to read" in French
- 86. third in a witchy series: "A ______ Among Men"
Down
- 2. capital of Cuba
- 3. the oldest of all of the major monotheistic religions
- 5. Grann writes about their murders in the 1920s
- 6. capital of Canada
- 9. sea between the UK, Denmark, and Norway
- 10. capital of Uruguay
- 11. when two plates grind past each other, creating large cracks
- 16. capital of Greenland
- 17. the kind of home they occupy in Dickens' retelling
- 18. le haricot
- 20. this ferry in Africa will soon be replaced by a bridge due to heavy migration at that site (the bridge was actually completed in 2021)
- 21. born in 19th-century Germany, he created a constant that laid the foundation for quantum theory
- 23. this animal is the reason the Caribbean has white sand beaches
- 25. "cowboys" in Argentina
- 26. le couteau
- 27. the United Nations projects the the world population will increase to more than this many billion by 2050
- 29. this sea borders Central America
- 32. famous type of clock built in 1410 in Prague, Czechia keeps track of more than time
- 34. l'arc-en-ciel
- 35. phenomenon first described correctly by Leonardo da Vinci
- 36. le chou-fleur
- 39. the moon appears this way in the Southern Hemisphere compared to the view from the Northern Hemisphere (2 words, no space or hyphen)
- 40. mine in Uzbekistan said to hold more gold reserves than any other mine in the world
- 41. "to die" in French conjugated with the subject "Elle"
- 42. when an oceanic plate dives under a continental plate
- 44. this powerful empire dominated much of Mexico and Central America from 1427-1521
- 47. Wicked author
- 49. dangerous board game, there was a movie of the same name
- 50. Merlin's planet
- 52. Main character of Towles' Russia-set tale
- 54. home of the Count in Towles' Russia-set tale
- 55. "_________ Effect": the splitting of spectral lines in an atom due to the presence of a magnetic field
- 57. most populous country (as of 2019 estimates)
- 60. Earth's this will one day cool completely, no more hot springs
- 61. most densely populated country (as of 2019 estimates)
- 64. one of the two mountain ranges that marks the western edge of North and South America
- 67. protagonist in Dickens' retelling
- 69. first chapter, book about the son of a mage's sister, "The ________ Door"
- 70. main character, has to wear a red vowel
- 71. this bird is only found on the island of Dominica
- 72. the "G" in GNI stands for this
- 73. capital of Ecuador
- 77. the southern tip of South America, Cape ______
- 79. "to flee" in French conjugated with the subject "Nous"
- 81. groupings of islands
- 84. this strait separates Africa and Spain