Crossword Puzzle Number 1609 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
12. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
15. An affirmative.
16. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
20. Relieve from military service.
21. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Capable of being denied or contradicted.
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. The square of a body of any size of type.
31. God of the sky.
32. Before noon.
34. Humorously vulgar.
36. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
41. A sharp sound made by small birds or insects v 1.
45. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
49. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
50. First in order of birth.
52. Type genus of the Anatidae.
53. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
54. City in Sudan.
55. A city in Tuscany.
56. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
57. Sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae.
59. A bachelor's degree in science.
61. A large fleet.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. Being of the age 13 through 19.
74. Type genus of the Amiidae.
75. The cry made by sheep.
78. An organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water.
79. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
82. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
83. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
84. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
85. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Having the head uncovered.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
9. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
10. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
11. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
12. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
13. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
14. Look at with amorous intentions.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
26. Of or relating to the process of hearing.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. General term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments.
33. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
35. Make keen or more acute.
37. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
42. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
43. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
44. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
46. A loose cloak with a hood.
48. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
51. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
58. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails.
60. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
62. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
63. Of silk fabric.
66. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
71. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
72. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
73. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
80. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
81. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.

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