September 2022

3. A verse formed of Italian origin, writtten in lines of 10 or 11 syllables, in which the middle line of each tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the following tercet
5. Also referred to as a headstone
6. (Computer) To arrange (strings of characters) in a chained list
7. (Philosophy) Wisdom in determing ends and the means of attaining them
9. A bedspread
12. (In Japan) A school, attended in addition to one's regular school, where students prepare for college entrance examinations
13. Yellow or yellow-orange
14. A pirate or privateer; especially along the Barbary Coast
17. A green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one more basic copper acetates
19. A nonexistant chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion
20. Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning
21. Seemingly; apparently but not really

1. Fear of long words
2. One who loves and roots for the underdogs (competitors at a disadvantage)
4. Known now as magnetic resonance imaging or MRI
8. A literary work or musical composition recast to adapt it to a change in the circumstances of the time
10. (Adjective) Serving as a substitute; synthetic; artifical
11. An irrational or disproportionate fear of chocolate
15. A make-up artists
16. (Botany) Transfer of pollen from one anther of one flower to a stigma of another flower on the same plant
18. Over again; anew