Crossword Puzzle Number 1304 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
4. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
11. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Having no parts resembling rays.
17. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
18. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
19. Carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes.
20. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. An unofficial association of people or groups.
25. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
26. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
28. An implement used to erase something.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
32. Someone who ascends.
36. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
46. Long and light rowing boat.
47. Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching).
49. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.
51. (informal) Very bad.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
56. The food served and eaten at one time.
58. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.
60. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
71. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
74. A state in midwestern United States.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
82. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
83. (British) Informal term for information.

DOWN

1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
3. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
4. A human limb.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
7. Isolated from others.
8. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
9. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
10. An honorary degree in science.
11. Type genus of the Sphyrnidae.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
14. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
22. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
27. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
29. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
30. 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.
33. Source of a tough elastic wood.
34. Capital of Armenia.
35. (combining form) Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler.
37. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
38. A form of Japanese poetry.
39. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
42. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
48. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
50. Any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
57. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. A visual display of information.
63. The mother of your father or mother.
64. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
65. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
66. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
68. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
69. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
70. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
72. The residue that remains when something is burned.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
79. Being one more than one.

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