Mathcross #19: Suitable for all STA math students
by Mr. Hansen, 5/1/2006

Across

1. Earth’s elliptical orbit about the sun has two of these points, and the sun is at one of them
5. Italian wine region
9. Numeric alternative to CD?
13. Large ins. and financ. serv. firm for military families
14. Something separated by + or - sign from others of its kind in an expression
15. Mathematician who discovered a polynomial-time algorithm for cracking RSA public-key cryptography
16. ___ plot: scatterplot that shows normally distributed data as a straight line
19. Fuel additive (abbr.)
20. One way to prove triangles congruent (abbr.)
21. Je vais . . .
22. Cow chow
23. Bethesda med. laboratories
24. Mr. Hansen’s abbr. for nonstandard notation
25. Short title for Kennedy or Clinton
26. PPO alt.
27. Parisian pal
28. Actress O’Neal, John McEnroe’s ex
30. Invent (words)
32. Comfortable shoe insert
33. Wife of Osiris
34. Long slippery fish
35. Took a load off
37. Dandruff home
39. Title of 44 Across (abbr.)
42. Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer
44. CIA head as of 5/1/2006
46. Lennon’s widow

48. Equipment
50. Type of payment card
51. Harper Valley org.
52. Match (against)
53. Dr. D. Bennett’s former employer (abbr.)
55. Rock-___ (jukebox)
56. Otherwise valid serve that touches the net
57. That (Sp.)
58. Where a 1970 GI would be “in country”
59. Low-tech toy
60. Three educational basics
61. Least-squares linear fit, e.g.
65. Every line of sheet music begins with one
66. Group with shared objective
67. Greek letters
68. Essential office furniture
69. Nickname for Eleanor
70. Order

Down

1. High school, supposedly
2. Dr_____ (fruit fly)
3. Auto
4. Something a naysayer might say
5. It feeds the Chesapeake
6. TI calculator list-making function
7. Tautology
8. Concern of p.r.
9. ORD time
10. Ostentatious
11. Row, transposed
12. Tenet set
17. Fool’s org., or killer without an “i”?
18. ___ word (a one-off)
19. Obstacle
29. Real-world arbiter of grammar rules

31. Over the hill
34. Delta follower
36. Self-referential 3-letter abbr.
38. Brain reduction surgery
40. Adjective applicable to any 3 points in space
41. Income listed on upper half of Schedule B
43. “Goodnight ___” (1950s hit)
45. Office Depot rival
47. Quick Quaker ___
48. Brazilian actress-supermodel Bündchen
49. Floors in France
50. Stereotypical person in distress
52. Way to compute music royalties
54. Tooth_____
62. DC stadium
63. Suffix for cran or fil
64. Simpson trial judge Lance


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