Crossword Puzzle Number 1440 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An informal term for a father.
4. A polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium.
12. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Make lighter or brighter.
17. Used of a single unit or thing.
18. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
20. Small and light boat.
21. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
23. The seed of flax used as a source of oil.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Capital and largest city of Italy.
30. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
31. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
34. Inability to urinate.
35. Full of ruts.
37. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
38. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. Of or in or relating to the nose.
45. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
46. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
49. Covered with frost.
51. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
52. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
54. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
60. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
62. A piece of soft material that protects an injured part of the body v 1.
65. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
66. A yearning for something or to do something.
68. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
69. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
73. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
75. A region of central Spain.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
80. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
81. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
82. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
83. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
84. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
5. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.
6. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
7. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
9. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
10. Not out.
11. Type genus of the Nepidae.
12. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
13. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
14. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
19. Praise, glorify, or honor.
22. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
24. Same in identity.
25. In a hearty manner.
28. Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers.
29. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
32. The first light of day.
33. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
36. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
39. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
40. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
41. State in northeastern India.
44. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
47. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
48. A wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white.
50. A farewell remark.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
58. 1 species.
61. Type genus of the Caviidae.
63. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
64. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
67. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
70. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
71. In bed.
72. A quantity of no importance.
74. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
76. Term of address for a man.
77. Being two more than fifty.

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