ATLANTIS RISING PUZZLE
• BY CARLY SVAMVOUR ACROSS
‘COMETS, ASTEROIDS, & OTHER SKYFALLS’
1, 2 & 5) The movie ‘2012' is based on the 'real story' of this—Calleman—AR #80—3 wds.
8) A South American wood sorrel cultivated for its ed- ible tubers
9) Indian currency 10) Term used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born
12) An Afghanistan town also known as Obwi or Obeh 13) Broad flat muscle on either side of the back—abbr. 14) A device allowing electrical current to pass around a point in a circuit
18) Male pronoun 19) That thing 20) A tract of land used for burials 21) Occurring every day 22) Mix 23) Large Australian flightless bird similar to the os- trich but smaller
25) Anabove-street-level railway 26) Univ. of Oklahoma—abbr. 27) Fifth letter of the alphabet 30) The longest division of geological time 31) Term used on stones in 20 across—abbr. 33 & 35) Danish theory has it that these may effect cloud cover—Martinez—AR #65—2 wds.
36) A hot fragment left glowing or smoldering 39) Mount Rushmore's state—abbr. 40) South African River 42) Sense organ 43) Small sofa 46) Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace 50) The LRO is what enables us to take these of the moon—Early Rays—AR #79
52) Brags 53) An arab political movement—abbr. 56) Allow 57) Nickname for Galveston, Texas—abbr. 59) Formal expression of praise 61) Cyclones that read at least 12 on the Beaufort scale 64) Old French coin 65) Denotes female—suff. 67) Informal term for mother 68) He was known as the King of Rock n' Roll—init. 69) Atomic number 73 71) Came together 72) Small cobras used by the Pharaohs as a symbol 75) Zahi Hawass, the poster boy, welcomed him to the Giza Plateau in June, 2009—Coppens—AR #80
76) As witnessed by decreases in this; skyfalls, conti- nent formation—Martinez—AR #65
79) Pelican State—abbr. 80) Everybody's favorite alien 82) This baktun cycle was the peak of the Mayan civilization
83) Any one of the 15 known crystalline phases ofwater 84) And so on 85) Again; anew - pref. 86) Atomic number 29 87) West Africans in the tropical forest of southern Nigeria
88, 89 & 90) These will descend when 1 across comes to an end in 2012—Calleman—AR #80
DOWN 1) Roared; moved noisily 2) Moving or capable of moving 3) Ethanoyl group 4) Affirmative response 5) Brain enclosures 6) This missed us by 450,000 miles in March 1989— Jochmans—AR #6
7) Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove 10) Used to express surprise 11) Exposed and ridiculed 13) Any collection in its entirety 14) More free from danger or the risk of harm 15) 60 minutes—abbr. 16) Place for first class passengers on a ship—abbr. 17) An eastern Canadian province—abbr. 20) A university degree—abbr. 23) Fearful; strange and frightening 24) ‘Show Me’ state—abbr. 28) Per 29) Atoms of the same chemical element 32) Eliminate urine 33) Sometimes used instead of 10 across
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34) Introduces an alternative 37) Hibiscus elatus 38) Inhale and exhale 41) He was a very good friend of Marconi’s—Hatcher Childress - AR #13
43) Hush 44) A river in northwestern Spain 45) Ameasure of time defined by Earth’s orbital motion 47) To the same degree 48) Opp of left—abbr. 49) 1000 kilogram units—abbr. 51) Month in which some believe the comet is to collide with earth—Calleman—AR #80
52) Make a strident sound 54) Single 55) Another close call in 1992—Jochmans—AR #11 57) The worst kinds of places for asteroids and comets to strike—Jochmans—AR #6
58) A wide variety of tropical pepper plants 59) The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 60) Atomic number 33 62) Space enclosed by walls and ceiling—abbr. 63) Cattle/Horse farm 69) An industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie
70) He who causes something to be less aggravating/ intense
73) The Basque left 74) Atomic number 62 76) Internet code for Venezuela 77) Prefix meaning ‘not’ 78) Internet code for Lithuania 81) Seventh note of the scale 82) 2000 pounds 87) One of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands—init.
Number 85 • ATLANTIS RISING 57
CRYPTOGRAM
"NBBOA HCF DPF NFFA JPGKP KHCCE DPF LMGKOFRGRS VBIIFR WCBQ BRF DB HRBDPFC QGRU."
Answer to CRYPTOGRAM from #84 Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. Wallace Black Elk (1863-1950)
Answer: UNDER THE SUN, #84
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