Crossword Puzzle Number 1086 (Medium Grid)

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1. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
5. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
12. Injured by bites or stings.
15. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
16. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
17. Black tropical American cuckoo.
18. Break the seal of.
20. An extreme bellicose nationalist.
21. Not in good physical or mental health.
22. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
24. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
26. The academic world.
27. A member of a legation.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. Be compatible or in accordance with.
33. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
54. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
55. A populous province in northeastern China.
56. Not yet payable.
58. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
60. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
72. The act of scanning.
74. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
76. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
80. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
81. An act of deliberate betrayal.
82. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

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1. (music) A curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato.
2. Any cone-shaped artifact.
3. The sacred city of Lamaism.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
5. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
8. Equipped with long sharp-pointed projections especially along the top of a wall or fence.
9. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
10. Worry unnecessarily of excessively.
11. Someone who guards prisoners.
12. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
13. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
14. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. Advanced in years.
29. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
32. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
35. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
36. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
38. Jordan's port.
39. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
40. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
42. In bed.
44. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
45. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
49. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
51. Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music.
52. Spread or daub over.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
64. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
65. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
66. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
67. A European river.
69. Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.
70. A quantity of no importance.
71. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
73. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
75. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
77. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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