Weather: The Impossible Cross Word by Thecla Shubert

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