Crossword Puzzle Number 1436 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. (informal) Very bad.
11. A special way of doing something.
15. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
16. National capital of Kiribati.
17. A genus of Mustelidae.
18. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
19. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
20. Not in action or at work.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
25. 16th President of the United States.
27. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
28. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
29. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
30. A Loloish language.
34. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway).
37. New Zealand conifer.
40. A Loloish language.
42. Of or involving the rectum.
44. Being one more than fifty.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
46. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
52. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
56. The head or top of a mast.
59. Sour or bitter in taste.
60. Before noon.
62. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
63. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
65. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
69. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
78. A container.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
82. (informal) Of the highest quality.
83. The academic world.
84. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.

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1. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
2. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
4. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
5. English writer (1672-1729).
6. Genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs.
7. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
8. Greek mythology.
9. A festival featuring African-American culture.
10. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
11. God of dawn and light.
12. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
13. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
14. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
24. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
26. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
31. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
32. An irritable petulant feeling.
33. Of surpassing excellence.
35. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
36. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
39. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
41. Make less active or intense.
43. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
51. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
55. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
57. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
58. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
61. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
67. A lyric poet.
68. On or toward the lee.
70. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
71. Declare untrue.
72. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
75. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Being one more than one.

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