Weather watch

Flying Safety, July, 2004 by Tony Wickman

ACROSS

1. One of the three cloud forms; thin, wispy and composed of ice crystals

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6. USAF enlisted PME school

9. Distant

12. Actress Landry

13. Small cylindrical or tapered pin

15. Allow

16. Onassis, informally

17. Visible minute water droplets suspended in the atmosphere

18. DoD language school

19. Blimp

21. Guarantees

22. Glows

23. Perform

24. Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre

26. Back part of a ship

27. Organization concerned with individual rights

28. American air carrier

31. Aid, as in a felon

33. Pet food maker

34. With it?

35. __ Lakenheath or Mildenhall

36. Web address?

37. Wallet stuffers?

38. Neither's partner

39. Airport runway

42. Take cover

43. Type of benefit package for workers, in brief

44. Ewe sound

45. Brigades

47. Actress Moore

49. Type of landing system, in brief

50. Group of guys

51. Energy return of a radar signal after it has hit the target

53. Cookware

58. Propel

61. North American deer family member

DOWN

1. Bistro

2. Hungarian form of Helen

3. Outfits

4. Small scale current of air with vertical motion

5. Choose

6. Pie __ mode

7. Aloha gift

8. One of the three cloud forms; sheet like cloud with no characteristics

9. Temperature scale most commonly used in USA

10. Cantata

11. Tears

14. Drift

20. Big __; rugged, picturesque resort region along the Pacific

24. Florida city

25. German city

26. USAF deployment set

27. Body of air with uniform temperature and humidity

29. Air that flows in relation to the earth's surface, generally

62. The solid form of water

63. British explorer John ___ who charted Canadian Arctic coast

64. American sculptor and architect Maya Ying __

65. Regret

66. Average grade

67. Mistake

68. Low-power flat-panel display used in laptop computers

69. Rumsfeld office symbol

70. Compute

30. Part of a church

31. Begun

32 Instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure

36. Russian mountain range

37. Know __ enemy ...

38. Actor Beatty

40. Nonliving

41. One of the three cloud forms; develops in a vertical direction

46. Stiff-___; stubborn and arrogant or aloof

48. Specialized section of a hospital

52. Tunnel

54. Type of club on an USAF base

55. A printer's unit of type size, equal to 12 points

56. Perfected

57. Require

58. To exist

59. Auto

60. Terminate

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BY 1LT TONY WICKMAN

Alaskan Command Public Affairs