Crossword.April 2005 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Across 1. Big fund manager 7. Light luncheon-for the man who made a killing from the sale of Gillette? 11. French gold 12. Call for 14. Illinois is ___ of Oklahoma 15. Bullish remark? 19. Persistent creditor demands 20. Repeat prefix The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. "To prefix" at the beginning is the opposite of "to append" characters at the end. See prepend. 1. 21. Growing account 25. Swallowed up 26. Company abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, 27. Over-50 group 29. "Perfectly log__cal," says Spock 30. Actress Long 33. Usual 35. Cheerful about 38. One affected with, suffix suf·fix n. An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits. tr.v. 40. Pipe bend 42. Illusion 43. Outlays 45. Snake-like fish 47. Amsterdam flower 48. Arrange hair 49. Board room smokes? 51. Fragrant fra·grant adj. Having a pleasant odor. [Middle English, from Latin fr  gr hair dressing 53. Wise adviser 56. Biblical city 58. ____ trust 60. __ Cid 61. Decree ___ 63. Inside prefix 64. Decrease money supply below goods supply 68. Reduces the desirability of stock, for example 69. __ the increase Down Down 1. HP casualty 2. Economic decline 3. Delete from a computer 4. Eventually 5. Indian commodity 6. Asian nation Noun 1. Asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian country country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" currency 8. Not a lot 9. Energy fiasco 10. Kennedy or Nugent 13. Religious expert, abbr 16. Monastic figure 17. Energy metal of the future? 18. Calculated individually 22. Radium radium (rā`dēəm) [Lat. radius=ray], radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol Ra; at. no. 88; at. wt. 226.0254; m.p. 700°C;; b.p. 1,140°C;; sp. gr. about 6.0; valence +2. Radium is a lustrous white radioactive metal. , abbr. 23. Securities rule-makers 24. Business number 28. Stock holdings 31. Stamp 32. Move 34. Ocean's number? 36. European political hub 37. Elderly report? 38. Banking product 39. Talk romantically 41. Describing a top company 44. Little drink 46. Hollywood locale (programming) locale - A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc. Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation. 49. Tax ___ 50. "CE ___," per Capital One ad 52. Henry Ford was born in this state 54. __ ___ carte 55. Smooth 57. Newport location 59. Guaranteed deposit account (abbr) 62. Pierre locale 65. Ralph's bus driver pal 66. Iron, for short 67. Loyal __ a man See www.fei.org/mag/4-2005_crossword.cfm for the solution to this month's puzzle. |
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