Crossword Puzzle Number 1556 (Medium Grid)

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1. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. An expressway in a German-speaking country.
12. The month following February and preceding April.
15. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
16. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
19. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
20. The seventh month of the civil year.
21. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
25. Offering fun and gaiety.
27. Small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. Top part of an apron.
34. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
37. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
42. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
45. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
48. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
49. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
50. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
53. A Loloish language.
54. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
55. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
56. Not openly expressed.
58. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
60. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
62. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
66. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
70. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
73. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
74. Dyed with henna.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. City in central Iran.
80. A master's degree in business.
81. A bachelor's degree in theology.
82. Bearing numerous leaves.
83. A decree that prohibits something.
84. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
85. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
2. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. Apoapsis in solar orbit.
5. The act of using.
6. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
7. Toward the mouth or oral region.
8. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
9. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
11. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
12. Wine from muscat grapes.
13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
14. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Seed of a pea plant.
29. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
31. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
33. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
35. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
36. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
38. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
41. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
43. A large fleet.
44. The bill in a restaurant.
46. Any plant of the genus Inula.
47. An argument opposed to a proposal.
51. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
52. French composer of operas (1842-1912).
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
59. A bottle with a stopper.
61. Order by virtue of superior authority.
65. God of wealth and love.
67. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
75. A quantity of no importance.
78. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
79. An audiotape recording of sound.

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