Weather: The Impossible Cross Word by Thecla Shubert
Across
- 2. an intense storm of snow
- 4. In addition to being a weather term it is also a period of maturity or incipient decline
- 5. The quartet revolved in one of these, changing, dying and emerging in life once again. Forever it continued in and endless circle, throughout our life
- 7. An ultimate source especially of action or motion
- 9. An influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt
- 13. covers the world in whiteness
- 14. Deals especially with the troposphere and the lower stratosphere
- 16. A prolonged or chronic shortage or lack of something expected or desired
- 18. Complexion
- 20. A chemical reaction involving union between molecules often with elimination of a simple molecule (as water) to form a new more complex compound of often greater molecular weight.
- 21. The prevailing set of conditions
- 23. the act of drying or shriveling with or as it with intense heat
- 27. Can mean year
- 28. a state or vicissitude of life or fortune
Down
- 1. A word first used in 1502, that is synonyms with haste, hurry and rush
- 3. Cause of 36 deaths on Groundhog Day, 2011, along the east coast of Canada (two words, no space)
- 6. comes from the Middle High German word, Slōz, and was first used in the 13th century
- 7. Has possible origins from Middle English, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, and Sanskrit. Comes from the Sanskrit word “samā”
- 8. A photochemical haze caused by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on atmosphere polluted with hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.
- 10. a suspension of a finely separated liquid in a gas
- 11. A state of confusion or bewilderment
- 12. Not heated
- 15. In addition to being a weather term, it also means to use sublimation to deposit a metal in the form of a film
- 17. Origin; the Latin god Zephyrus
- 19. Odorless gases; nothingness
- 22. the descent of aquatic fluids
- 24. Can be spelled with the letters orofnlcdt (two words, no space)
- 25. A natural movement of air
- 26. an overflowing of water onto land
- 29. In addition to other meanings, it is also a dullness of wooden finish