Across 1. A soldier in the paratroops 5. A young salmon up to 2 years old (plural) 10. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case 16. Imitate uncritically and in every aspect 17. being in a vertical position 18. A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it 19. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body 21. A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. 22. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet 23. Rhymes with bee 24. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue 25. Consisting of many chambers 29. Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers 30. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue 31. An irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction 32. Female pronoun 35. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells 36. Type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; upper incisors have a square-notched tip 37. Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal 39. To an excessive degree 40. In addition 41. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining (plural) 42. Of or relating to the period preceding specific study for or practice of a profession 47. involving a 24-hour period that usually includes a day and the adjoining night 48. Kill intentionally and with premeditation 49. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore 50. one that expedites; specifically : one employed to ensure efficient movement of goods or supplies in a business 53. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male 54. (historical) a money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling 57. So as to pass a given point (plural) 58. The upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone 59. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters 60. Uncles (plural) 61. Shortness of breath 64. The ancient court music of Japan 67. The action of directing something at an object 68. Widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus 69. Line of defence consisting of a

barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy 70. The measurement of hearing 72. Make new 73. The territory occupied by a nation 74. A dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played 75. A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin (plural) 76. Anagram of speed 77. Run away quickly Down 1. Portuguese for platform 2. Apoapsis in orbit around the moon 3. To melt again (plural) 4. Take into one's family (plural) 5. (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course 6. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma (plural) 7. To say, state, or perform again 8. Hem again 9. The atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth 10. Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc 11. The part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum 12. To make a mistake or be incorrect 13. A white crystalline double sulphate of aluminium: the ammonium double sulphate of aluminium 14. Anagram of late 15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event (plural) 20. Rhymes with tee 26. The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore 27. Resembling the sound of a brass instrument 28. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999) 32. A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc 33. Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut 34. Pronunciation for the letter 's' 36. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors 37. The state of being free of suspicion 38. A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him 39. At a distance 40. Aimlessly drifting 42. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous 43. Informal abbreviation of 'representative' (plural) 44. (anatomy and zoology) an opening; a passage 45. A small island 46. A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves. Hard durable wood 47. A young woman making her debut into society 51. Stabbing with a dirk 52. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel 53. A Christian recluse 54. a fold of peritoneum connecting or supporting abdominal structures (as the viscera); also : a fold of peritoneum free at one end 55. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose 56. Analyse (chemical substances) (past tense) 59. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments 60. to make a serf of : deprive of liberty and personal rights 61. An implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race 62. A store filled with haute kitsch 63. A quantity obtained by addition 64. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth (plural) 65. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing 66. Anagram of 'a dig' 70. Cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death 71. Abbreviation for Order of the Eastern Star