Across
- 3. : a hand implement consisting of a row of teeth set in a headpiece attached to a long shaft and used for gathering hay, straw, leaves, etc., or for smoothing loose earth
- 4. : to increase in height or level
- 6. : worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
- 8. passage : fishway
- 9. : a vessel, usually flat-bottomed and with or without its own power, used for transporting freight, esp. on canals
- 11. : a measure of the amount of moisture in the air
- 14. station : Pumping station, lifting station
- 18. : any device that converts another form of energy into mechanical energy to produce motion
- 20. : a long tube of metal, plastic, etc., used to convey water, oil, gas, etc.
- 21. : to keep in proper or good condition
- 22. : anything, such as a photoelectric cell, that receives a signal or stimulus and responds to it
- 24. : a river, canal, or other navigable channel used as a means of travel or transport
- 25. : Endless screw,
- 26. : (of liquids) to move or be conveyed as in a stream
- 27. : useless or unwanted matter or objects
- 28. autorities
- 29. : garbage, rubbish, or trash
- 30. : a round container open and wide at the top with sides sloping inwards towards the bottom or base, esp. one in which liquids are mixed or stored
- 34. : to draw off or remove (liquid) from
- 35. : a section of a canal or river that may be closed off by gates to control the water level and the raising and lowering of vessels that pass through it
- 37. : the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp. a river
- 40. : a stretch of land reclaimed from the sea or a lake, esp. in the Netherlands
- 41. : an interconnected group or system
- 43. : water or other liquid diffused as vapour or condensed on or in objects
- 44. : the cyclic rise and fall of sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. There are usually two high tides and two low tides in each lunar day
- 47. : (of a substance) not allowing the passage of a fluid through interstices; not permeable
- 48. : a device consisting of a container with a mesh or perforated bottom through which the material is shaken or poured
- 50. : (of an act or process) performed by such automatic equipment
- 51. : lacking moisture; not damp or wet
- 53. : a mound or ridge of drifted sand, occurring on the sea coast and in deserts
- 54. : the long-term prevalent weather conditions of an area, determined by latitude, position relative to oceans or continents, altitude, etc.
- 56. : a prolonged shortage
- 57. : abandonment, clearance, departure, exodus, flight, leaving, pulling out, removal, vacation, withdrawal
Down
- 1. : a specified vertical position; altitude
- 2. : the cultivation of plants, esp. by scientific methods designed to improve stock or to produce new ones
- 5. : a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region
- 7. : the vehicles coming and going in a street, town, etc.
- 10. : a toothed device of metal, plastic, wood, etc., used for arranging hair
- 11. : one hundred ares. 1 hectare is equivalent to 10000 square metres or 2.471 acres.
- 12. : marsh, permanently waterlogged ground that is usually overgrown and sometimes partly forested
- 13. : any device for compressing, driving, raising, or reducing the pressure of a fluid, esp. by means of a piston or set of rotating impellers
- 14. : a series of actions that produce a change or development
- 15. : rainy, foggy, misty, or humid
- 16. : dike, dam
- 17. : an artificial waterway constructed for navigation, irrigation, water power, etc.
- 19. : (of air and water) free movement within an area or volume
- 23. : not salted water
- 26. pass : fishway
- 27. : to carry or cause to go from one place to another, esp. over some distance
- 31. : a building in which grain is crushed and ground to make flour
- 32. : of or characteristic of Europe, excluding the British Isles
- 33. : something done, made, etc., as a result of effort or exertion
- 36. : a container for litter, rubbish, etc
- 38. : aridity, aridness, dehumidification, dehydration, drought, thirst, thirstiness
- 39. : a male member of a religious community bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- 42. : the act of expanding or the state of being expanded
- 43. : to check (the technical quality of) (a radio or television broadcast)
- 45. : fish ladder
- 46. level : the level of the surface of the sea with respect to the land, taken to be the mean level between high and low tide, and used as a standard base for measuring heights and depths
- 49. : the magnitude of the three-dimensional space enclosed within or occupied by an object, geometric solid, etc.
- 52. : the process or a method of draining
- 55. : to rise or cause to rise upwards from the ground or another support to a higher place