Crossword Puzzle Number 1294 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
5. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
12. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
15. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
16. French philosopher and theologian.
17. An associate degree in applied science.
18. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
19. Having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap.
20. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
29. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
32. Arousing or provoking laughter.
36. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
37. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Having the same or similar characteristics.
44. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
45. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
46. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A quantity of no importance.
51. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
59. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
62. Informal terms for a mother.
63. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
66. A fraudulent business scheme.
67. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
69. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
71. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
75. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
78. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
79. The force of workers available.
83. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
84. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
85. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
2. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
3. A thrusting blow with a knife.
4. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
5. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
6. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
7. The brightest star in Cygnus.
8. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
9. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
10. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. Informal terms for a mother.
14. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
22. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
30. (photography) "color film".
31. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
33. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
34. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
35. A nation in northern North America.
38. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
43. An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India.
47. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
49. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. A compact mass.
55. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
58. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
60. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
61. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
64. Lap at the front of a coat.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
70. Type genus of the Amiidae.
72. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
76. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
77. A licensed medical practitioner.
80. One million periods per second.
81. A New England state.
82. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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